The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Amazon Prime Video - September 2, 2022

I can't wait to apathetically watch the **** out of this

That bugged-eye girl scares me.

But finally, Annatar has come.

By the Valar this show makes me angry with how badly it managed to **** up the story
This show is genuinely beyond saving - and sadly @Wor-Gar they will never call him Annatar [hence they dont name drop in the trailer but again use a cheeky "gift" line to indicate that is who this is mean't to be those in the know] because they still lack the rights to the story they are currently try and failing to tell.

The main problem is that in Season 1 they stole characteristics of other characters and gave them to Galadriel, unsuccessfully, and are now forced into a position where they must retread the same story beats [Sauron secret identity, forging Rings, shock betrayal] except now its painfully stupid because apparently the greatest elven minds alive can't recognize Sauron when he wears a wig.
Its unsalvageable.
They ought to have made CELEBRIMBOR the main character NOT GALADRIEL, he is the one with the relationship with a disguised Sauron, he is the one who forges the Rings, he is the one with a close friendship with the Dwarves [not Elrond, who ought to have had Galadriel's Numenor story given he is both Gil-Galad's herald and has a profound connection with Numenor and its people through his brother - so HIS story was also taken by Galadriel, meaning Celebrimbor's dwarven friendship story was taken from HIM so Elrond has something to do]
They have completely derailed and destroyed the very few plot points we HAVE from the Second Age, its remarkable to me how much they have f-ed up when they have so much scope for creativity so long as they don't change the only canon events in this age!
Hubris, short-sightedness and stupidity - with a healthy dose of awful writing and pretty poor acting have killed this show.
And I am no hater, I wanted this to go well and was open-minded going in, but by god they couldn't have handled it any worse.

Its incredible to me Amazon are still going ahead with this, but I suppose they must have money enough to burn for the sake of ego.

i think that the blonde lady is very beautiful
I watch for she

crows said:

i think that the blonde lady is very beautiful
I watch for she

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lordnastrond said:

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she so cute

I have to admit. The previews for this are looking pretty damn good.

hoodonit00 said:

I have to admit. The previews for this are looking pretty damn good.

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Only a couple of days left to wait, we’ll see if they learned any lessons from S1.

I enjoyed the first episode.

They need to focus more on the main story. Most of the side plots just aren't very interesting, especially the hobbit one.

BeefEaster said:

They need to focus more on the main story. Most of the side plots just aren't very interesting, especially the hobbit one.

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They’ll all converge eventually. But that one in particularly does seem to be moving at a snails pace compared to the Sauron and Elf plotlines.

Watched the first three episodes of season 2 and I was somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Let me be clear: I don’t have high expectations for this series to begin with. It’s not written by Tolkien! It’s essentially an elseworld. Elaborate high production fanfic. But I’m okay with that. I’m honestly happy to see whatever they cook up. I love the mythos of Middle Earth. I’ll take this.

The details of way that Sauron/Anatar is enacting his plan is actually turning out pretty fun to watch.

I got halfway through the first episode of S2 and ... well, I'll give it another shot and stop thinking of it as Tolkien. One thing I realized is that I must have given up on Season 1 because I didn't recall any of the recap.

I really don't think it's good; but I still want to see where they take it. Kind of a hate watch LOL ...

Alatar said:

Watched the first three episodes of season 2 and I was somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Caveat: I don’t have high expectations for this series to begin with. It’s not written by Tolkien! It’s essentially an elseworld. Elaborate high production fanfic. And I’m okay with that. I’m honestly happy to see whatever they cook up. I love the mythos of Middle Earth. I’ll take this.

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Yeah I’ve been enjoying it more than the first season. It seems to be actually going places now.

Alatar said:

The details of way that Sauron/Anatar is enacting his plan is actually turning out pretty fun to watch.

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Every time Charlie Vickers is on screen is great. He’s a fantastic actor, really hope to see him in more things.

ZE_501 said:

One thing I realized is that I must have given up on Season 1 because I didn't recall any of the recap.

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I believe at one point they said that only about 8 people actually finished Season 1.

Now they're trying to make orcs sympathetic characters...

I'm done.

BeefEaster said:

Now they're trying to make orcs sympathetic characters...

I'm done.

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Who just want to provide for their families!

BeefEaster said:

Now they're trying to make orcs sympathetic characters...

I'm done.

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Khev said:

Who just want to provide for their families!

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I’m loving the Furiosa connection to LOTR!