Rings of power season 3 thread

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I will, but admittedly only to take a poop on it

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So you’re saying it’s a Triumph?

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Early reviews say season 3 is worse than seasons 1 and 2 if that helps?

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Wow!

That means it sucks so hard light cannot escape.

The amount of money Amazon just threw away on the series is idiotic

I watched the first episode last night, and it was pretty good. For what it's worth, I thought that the first season was decent, and that's Season 2 was genuinely good.

If you ignore the people who are angry that there are black dwarves and elves and genuinely try the show out on its own merits, you'll see it's a good show — not perfect, but good.

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If you ignore the people who are angry that there are black dwarves and elves and genuinely try the show out on its own merits, you'll see it's a good show — not perfect, but good.

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Just being on this site for as long as we have I know from our discussion that you're as big of a LOTR fan as anybody. I feel like I am too.

But this is painting with a extremely wide brush. I could not give two shits that there are black dwarves and black elves. Before the show started I halfway defended that. If a race swap was all I had to look past, I could look past it. Virtually every show and movie race swaps now.

That is so far down on the line of things wrong with this show it's not even funny. What I can't look past, as a big LOTR/Tolkien fan, and honestly have a hard time seeing how you as a big fan as well could look past is the major changes to the lore. Just blatant disrespect for the source material.

An elven warrior fighting a Balrog over a tree in the Misty Mountains that supposedly contains a lost Simaril story being an absolute abomination. Lightening strikes during the fight sending energy down the tree roots into the mountain creating Mithril. The Mithril having the light of the two trees of Valinor in it from a tree that wasn't one of the two trees. Not only that, we know where the Simirils are, none of them are hidden under a freaking tree in the Misty Mountains.

They don't touch on that ridiculous concept for a while and I'm in my head thinking maybe they forget they did that and it just be a one time really really dumb thing. O no, they take the invented mythology even further. Now, the Elves need the light to survive! Now elves are rapidly fading because of no access to the light of the Mithril. Wrong. So wrong. Which leads you to ask, why are countless other elves fading when they never even saw the light of the two trees int he first place?

I'm going to keep going since it's apparently only a black people being in the show issue. Freaking changing Gandalf's entire mythos is unforgivable as well. Gandalf? Really? You're going to try and think you're a better writer of Gandalf than Tolkien? We have a clear understanding of what Gandalf's name is, and the meaning of it is not "Grand Elf". Tolkien deliberately created a linguistic real-world history to the meaning behind his name. Not just some stupid "It sounds phonetically like Grand Elf" explanation. O yea, and let's bring him to Middle Earth literally thousands of years earlier IN A METEOR instead of a completely different age on a ship in the Grey Havens. And Gandalf specifically tells Faramir in the Two Towers numerous of his names but also that TO THE EAST I DO NOT GO. Rings of Power spends and entire season with Gandalf in the East.

I could go on. And will if you need me to explain more about why some people don't dislike the show because of black people.

Don't forget the ridiculous volcano scene.

How the eruption was triggered snd that everyone survived the blast.

And don't forget. The showrunners and cast were the first to focus on how important it was to have dei casting.

The show is a joke and an insult.

Looks like we’re getting to see the start of the elves of color extinction event!!

I mean, there's no way to compress the entire 2nd Age into a 5-season TV series and not take some liberties with source material. Obviously, the time compression is going to lead to discrepancies with canon.

Yes, we have Gandalf appearing way earlier than canon, but of course the show was going to have Gandalf in it — it was always going to have Gandalf in it.

Some artistic decisions (like the mithril one that you mention) simply poor decisions, but a lot of them are simply a function that the TV show has to be different.

We could do a lot of the same stuff with the original LOTR movies. For example, Faramir is my favorite character in the books, and Peter Jackson completely destroyed his character in the movies.

I didn't mean to imply that the show is without flaws, but I maintained that. It's a good show and that it's true to the spirit of Tolkien, even when it departs from canon.

And the show is visually spectacular. It has new music composed for each episode. The actors are good.

But I'm not really interested in arguing about it. If people want to hate the show, they can hate the show.

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But I'm not really interested in arguing about it.

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You were interested enough to try to tell the forum why people don't like it.