Lord of the Rings - Rings of Power

[BigRedChief]

Premieres Sept. 2nd

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by Graystoke

1st episode in and I fell fast asleep.
Better then a gummy.

Episode 2 was a bit better, and 3 was nearly good.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

Episode 2 was a bit better, and 3 was nearly good.

The problem is, we're 3 epsidoes in and I just don't find myself giving a single **** about any of the characters.

I have a hard time seeing that changing, but I'll reserve judgment until after the halfway mark.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

The problem is, we're 3 epsidoes in and I just don't find myself giving a single **** about any of the characters.

I have a hard time seeing that changing, but I'll reserve judgment until after the halfway mark.

I liked Elendil.

[DCTwister]

I am 10 minutes into episode 4 and they are talking about ****ing politics. This series better be going somewhere.

[KC_Connection]

Nothing much happened in E4 unfortunately. Show continues to be much too slow for being halfway through the season.

[Just Passin' By]

"This show blows. I'm only going to give it 3-5 more years to stop sucking. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to quit watching it."

"That last episode had a scene that was really great! I'm going to give this show 5 more years of my time."


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[Fishpicker]

I watched the first 10 or 15 minutes. after the first scene of Galadriel and her bro, it was all action. and it was pretty boring. I've seen video game cut scenes that had more weight to them. gravity seems to come and go in Middle Earth. there's no tension anywhere.

[louie aguiar]

I cannot even begin to describe everything that's wrong with this scene.

This is embarrassingly awful. pic.twitter.com/Pg9yoViR5w

— Cynical Reviews (@Cynical_CJ) September 16, 2022

[Bump]

Originally Posted by louie aguiar

I cannot even begin to describe everything that's wrong with this scene.

This is embarrassingly awful. pic.twitter.com/Pg9yoViR5w

— Cynical Reviews (@Cynical_CJ) September 16, 2022

if it was elf or something it would be fine (if she used some magic) but that's just a human woman right?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Bump

if it was elf or something it would be fine (if she used some magic) but that's just a human woman right?

That's Galadrial, an elf (and apparently a pretty serious warrior in this show judging by the first episode). Still though, I'm pretty sure elves in LOTR aren't supposed to have super strength. She was throwing those guys around like she was a Vulcan. It did take me briefly out of the episode.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

That's Galadrial, an elf (and apparently a pretty serious warrior in this show judging by the first episode). Still though, I'm pretty sure elves in LOTR aren't supposed to have super strength. She was throwing those guys around like she was a Vulcan. It did take me briefly out of the episode.

ah, I haven't watched.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Bump

ah, I haven't watched.

You've just been given an excellent reason to keep it that way.

[Eleazar]

Watched the first one. I found it to be dull, the dialog was silly and overly flowery to the point of being corny at times. I don't find the actors playing Galadriel or Elrond convincing at all, so far.

Hopefully the pacing improves and it generates some sort of... interest. Nothing really happened in the episode.

[Bowser]

I've not read The Silmarillion nor am I a massive diehard fan of Tolkien's worldbuilding or his works. That said, this seems to be an awful telling of his world and vision of it (so far), but if you can remove your point of view from feeling like the show SHOULD be that, it's a pretty good fantasy show.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by louie aguiar

I cannot even begin to describe everything that's wrong with this scene.

This is embarrassingly awful. pic.twitter.com/Pg9yoViR5w

— Cynical Reviews (@Cynical_CJ) September 16, 2022

I was actually coming in to post about this very scene as an example of just how ridiculously terrible this character is. The fact she takes out four men is bad enough but then they can’t even be bothered to show how she did it because even they know how implausible it is and would just come off as even worst if they tried to show it.