Judging by a couple of blog posts I’ve seen on it, it fucking sucks, especially if you actually care about Tolkien’s Middle Earth setting. Also has a lot of battles that usually make no fucking sense.
I watched the first season and it made me lose IQ points. Do you like a show with lots of references to things that you know while it acts like there’s some suspense over what this new magical metal they discovered is, the identity of this wizard that’s hanging around with some hobbits, etc? That’s Rings of Power.
It’s the most boring origins story of everything from the movies while they seem to expect people to have their minds blown by the reveals like “OMG! that’s mithril! Wow! that’s Gandalf!” They were too busy trying to make very obvious things out to be big reveals it got in the way of there being interesting characters or a good story. The place where a lot of story takes place becomes a volcano land in single a day just so they can make a big reveal that it’s Mordor… it’s that ridiculous.
That sounds horrible. That’s probably my biggest issue with modern media. It’s all too scared to stand on its own, so it has to reference, or tie into, existing media. “Nostalgia bait.”
It didn’t start with the MCU, but it was definitely made worse by it. They had the post-credit scene where it referenced something else, then they just start having references in the movie. Now all media it seems is 80% references, and we’re supposed to be excited about it. It drives me crazy.
Judging by a couple of blog posts I’ve seen on it, it fucking sucks, especially if you actually care about Tolkien’s Middle Earth setting. Also has a lot of battles that usually make no fucking sense.
Yeah, I was interested before it released, but everything I heard about it after made me not bother.
I watched the first season and it made me lose IQ points. Do you like a show with lots of references to things that you know while it acts like there’s some suspense over what this new magical metal they discovered is, the identity of this wizard that’s hanging around with some hobbits, etc? That’s Rings of Power.
It’s the most boring origins story of everything from the movies while they seem to expect people to have their minds blown by the reveals like “OMG! that’s mithril! Wow! that’s Gandalf!” They were too busy trying to make very obvious things out to be big reveals it got in the way of there being interesting characters or a good story. The place where a lot of story takes place becomes a volcano land in single a day just so they can make a big reveal that it’s Mordor… it’s that ridiculous.
That sounds horrible. That’s probably my biggest issue with modern media. It’s all too scared to stand on its own, so it has to reference, or tie into, existing media. “Nostalgia bait.”
It didn’t start with the MCU, but it was definitely made worse by it. They had the post-credit scene where it referenced something else, then they just start having references in the movie. Now all media it seems is 80% references, and we’re supposed to be excited about it. It drives me crazy.