Rings of Power: Season 2. Where are you?

Hopefully it's in an Amazon back-alley dumpster....and the dumpster is on fire....and it's floating down a flooded street....

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I know some on here are part of the 37% who watched every fantastic and amazing episode and can't wait for the series to return.




Please, enlighten us all on the latest updates. Do tell!

I honestly thought Amazon cut the cord with this. I watched Season 1, and I’ll watch a second season as long as Amazon doesn’t go midseason break like they did with Invincible.

I think I made it through three episodes before I dipped out last time. The only interesting character was the elf.

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I know some on here are part of the 37% who watched every fantastic and amazing episode and can't wait for the series to return.

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I made it through the first season

I'm a big Tolkien fan, so I kept holding out hope.

They got 90% right- production values were great for a tv show, music was great, some of the casting was very good. The effects were good enough to be a movie.
The problem in a nutshell, they gave the show to people who:
a) don't understand the lore
b) aren't talented enough to handle a primetime epic show like this.

The scripts and plot feels like it came from a 3rd grade class, who "knew" about the movies (but not the source books), and wanted to make some fan fiction.
They wanted "Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits", in a fantasy setting. And then they wanted to name-drop some LOTR stuff, thinking it would all be cool.

But my God, some of the sheer and utter ignorance- if they would have asked knowledgeable fans "well, why can't we do ____?", there were a dozen points where anyone familiar would have said because it's clearly stated that this happened instead.

Most changes are interpretive and you can get away with it, if you do it right. But this had some doozies that just don't work; the biggest being that the Elves made all the other Rings before the Three (including the Nine, which became the Nazgul). And Sauron was involved in those others, but NOT the Three.

As for cancelling it- I don't think they will/can. They promised 5 seasons to the Tolkien Estate, in return for getting the rights. There may be penalties, loss of rights and all sorts of issues if they renege and quit early.

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If you mean the main girl elf,

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No. The show turned me off of her pretty quick. The black warrior elf.

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They got 90% right

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The scripts and plot feels like it came from a 3rd grade class, who "knew" about the movies (but not the source books), and wanted to make some fan fiction.

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But my God, some of the sheer and utter ignorance-

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But this had some doozies that just don't work;

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lol noone is gonna watch this show. Real LOTR fans(myself included) dont even wanna watch it for curiosity

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They got 90% right

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When I say that, understand that I am talking about the overall production, not just the actual story.

The show LOOKED good, unlike say Wheel of Time. You could tell they put money into it. The set designs were good. The prosthetics they used for the Elves, Dwarves, and especially the Orcs, were very good, on par with the movie quality.
You can quibble about some of the costumes (the shirt armor), but by and large that was good too, and you could see effort put into it= they were clean when it was supposed to be, and dirty/worn when it was supposed to be (a big gripe was how everything in Wheel Of Time looked fresh out of the dryer).
They had Bear McCready with the score and music, and that was great too.
The filming and cinematography was good. We laughed at some of the slow motion stuff, but it was well-framed (just not appropriate to the story at that moment).

In short, they were READY to make a good show, they just needed a (far) better writer's room.

It's funny to think about, because you would guess that would have been the easy part; at least with the overall plot. The story is there, even if you have to intentionally avoid details only in The Silmarillion. You can still use them to construct an outline, and build up from there.
I don't know why they chose to ignore that. It's not that they made it any more woke , it's that they didn't stay in the lines when they filled in the blanks.

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Which aren’t a thing in Tolkien’s middle earth. So there’s that.

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I’m not a Tolkien purist, so the stray away from cannon just doesn’t bother me.

But I get it, because it does bother me when creative IPs that I am invested in are changed, like Harry Potter and Star Wars.

I just thought he was an interesting character. Really the only one I remember.