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Amazon has renewed The Rings of Power for a third season (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/showsandmovies@lemm.ee

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[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

God this show was incredibly boring.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's so slow and anything that happens is kinda stupid. Character motivations are all over the place.

[–] Jaderick@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The last scene of the second season was straight cringe. I was mad

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

ripe for a decent fanedit me thinks

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of negtivitiy here, but I don't mind it. I'll put it on my watchlist

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree, I have plenty of complaints about the first season and the second season, plenty of wasted storylines, but it has its moments.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

Charlie Vickers as Sauron alone makes it worth watching. He’s been absolutely incredible. A few other actors have been great too. I love how it’s mostly all unknowns. The visual effects are really impressive as well. The story is…up and down. But it seems like they’re figuring it out. Most of the criticisms are totally fair. But I’m still glad the show exists. It’s light years better than The Hobbit trilogy at least.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Heard so much crap about this show, then finally gave it a chance and was pleasantly surprised. The pacing is definitely not for the TikTok-brains of the world, but the overall story is great.

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think it's solely a matter of having a "TikTok-brain".

I don't use Tik-Tok (never have) and I did not like The Rings of Power. I would have much preferred if they adapted the main story in The Silmarillion; Quenta Silmarillion. Instead they came up with a generic "made for streaming with minimal inspiration from a literary work for marketing purposes" concept.

[–] PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno Silmarillion was one of the driest, most awful books I've ever read. If i wasn't such a huge Tolkien fan I never would have finished it.

Shows great, fuck the armchair critics. If you don't enjoy it, quit watching it. There are always people saying things like, "I hate the show so much, the 15th episode was the worst of them all!" Go watch something you enjoy if it's that bad people.

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I quit after the first episode when I realized it's not really based on Tolkien's work and it wasn't going to be a novel and unique concept.

I agree The Silmarillion is rather dry and somewhat convoluted. But the main story offers a lot of potential for epic story telling. Setting the story in Numenor could also offer a lot of potential.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

They don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion. They’re basing everything off the appendencies.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Ahahahahaahahhahahahahahahhahaha

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 months ago

One day I'll actually watch it