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Posted on 8/27/26 at 1:38 pm to
Posted by StansberryRules
Member since Aug 2024
5978 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 1:38 pm to
Serious question, does anyone actually watch this show? Only 37% of viewers bothered to finish the first season. It has zero cultural impact or significance. Other than occasionally being mocked on social media, I never hear a single thing about it.

Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
79452 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 1:42 pm to
It looks like a God-awful LARPing troupe, or folks trying to sneak into a hood version of Dragon*Con in downtown Atlanta.
Posted by This GUN for HIRE
Member since May 2022
6376 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 6:42 pm to
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
50181 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 8:52 pm to
Show runners have admitted that the first two seasons aren’t needed watching to jump into the third season.

Translation seasons one and two are trash, just ignore them.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
50181 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:26 pm to
I’m gonna come clean y’all… I’m not Nerdrotic

Even if he & I were thinking exactly the same with this image of the two dwarves in da hood.




And yes, the easiest case of I TOLD YOU SO continues.
Posted by Huey Lewis
BR
Member since Oct 2013
5203 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:27 pm to
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85877 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:42 pm to
quote:

am one of the biggest Tolkien fans you are going to find. I've read every book. I read the Hobbit each year, and Lord of the Rings every other year. I was looking forward to this series so much... and it is so bad. This one was a gut punch.


That’s how I felt about wheel of time show.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
24274 posts
Posted on 8/27/26 at 9:57 pm to
quote:

quote:

am one of the biggest Tolkien fans you are going to find. I've read every book. I read the Hobbit each year, and Lord of the Rings every other year. I was looking forward to this series so much... and it is so bad. This one was a gut punch.



That’s how I felt about wheel of time show.

What's truly sad is there was so much potential, and the money was there to spend.

Wheel of Time was terrible, but they also didn't spend anything on that. I've seen episodes of Xena or Legend of the Seeker that looked more professional.

Rings of Power, they put effort into some stuff... the (male) dwarves look great. The orcs look great. They actually found an actress with a pretty strong physical resemblance to Cate Blanchett's Galadriel.
They went out and got an accomplished composer to do the soundtrack, which is pretty good.
You could say they weren't granted a lot of access to Tolkien's work, but that's not true. He laid this story out in outline form in the appendices, literally all you needed to do was fill in the dialog.

It's insane how far they veered away from the original story; I honestly think the softcore porn parodies stick closer to canon than this show is.
Posted by Freauxzen
Washington
Member since Feb 2006
38964 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 10:36 am to
Where are all of the folks who defend this stuff?

Nothing to say on this travesty?
Posted by Roaad
White Privilege Broker
Member since Aug 2006
86021 posts
Posted on 8/28/26 at 10:58 am to
I guess I'll not watch even harder than before

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