The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
 

Hmm????????

Is this unrelated to the Jackson films? I noticed the One Ring looked a little different from how it looked in those movies.

Yes, it is a new adaptation.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/...acters-agency/

One of the characters is an activist and the actress is glad the writers gave female characters "agency."

If we're going to assume this show follows what Tolkien wrote (... M'yeah, I know...) then any character who isn't a human, wizard or presumably hobbit can have full agency. Elves, dwarves and most other creatures don't have full free will.

This looks like a joke, nothing about this had anything to do with tolkien:lol:

I'm willing to give it a chance. A little one. But a chance.

So Amazon originally wanted Peter Jackson to be involved with the series, But then they ghosted him, It looks like the Tolkien estate didn't want him involved because he turned the Lord of the Ring movies into action movies, So they wanted this series to be taken seriously.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...es-1235193692/

That's incredibly silly. You could tell Peter Jackson had the utmost respect for the IP; it was whoever the hell greenlit the Hobbit trilogy and turned that one, simple, rather short YA fantasy novel into three bloated, drawn-out, ridiculous films that needs to be kept far, far away from production of The Rings of Power.

So from what I heard, this show is a bit of a farce. Is that correct?

Also, I had another thought. It's now roughly 20 years before Tolkien's work enters the public domain, do you think adaptations of it will be more or less embarrassing than this show once that happens?

The wife was watching the first two episodes so I walked in and out of some parts. Seems... possibly OK. But I'm not sure about a couple of castings, the music's weak, and it's a little "SAURON! GALADRIEL! SAURON! GALADRIEL!" callouty. Going to wait a few episodes and hear what the general consensus is on it.

I watched it, it was so bad, the characters are sooo unlikeable.The story is slow, and the acting is awful. The dialogue is cringe, it's trying to be Game of Thrones. It's impossible to ignore all the woke/virtue signalling nonsense.

Not tolkien, if you like Lord of the Rings then avoid this.

I watched it, I thought it was fine.

I admittedly never read the appendices, so am just seeing it for what it is. I'll watch all of it.

Apparently Musk doesn't like it:

“Tolkien is turning in his grave… Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.”

https://www.darkhorizons.com/elon-mu...-of-power-fan/

I will watch no more, it's a total waste of time, I had to try it so I could give an honest opinion if asked about the show.

Welcome to the 2020’s

Musk loves to hype on trends and create controversy around himself. He knows that with his amount of money no pedotransfreak or any other SJW variety would be able to cancel him, so he can go all out with his trolling. It doesn't mean he really mean it.

To me the show's chief sin is that it's boring :ohwell:

In season 2 the only two male directors have been removed, leaving it an all-female directing team:

https://screenrant.com/rings-power-s...count-details/

https://www.darkhorizons.com/horse-d...-power-s2-set/

So a horse died on set and PETA says we should never, ever use real horses in movies. Just CGI horses and metal rigs.

There’s a season 2? I clearly haven’t been paying attention.

... I know this is PETA and that they have an unreasonable standard for how humans and animals should interact but they do know accidents happen, right? And it's not even like the horse died because it had to perform a stunt, it just suffered a heart attack while lined up with other horses according to this article, so it seems like it had some unknown health issues.

PETA doesn't care about animals. They are just a public relations company that puts themselves in the news as often as possible.

Sounds like this is the show people start but never finish:
https://kotaku.com/amazon-lord-of-th...ive-1850296353

Unrelated, but there are some movies I've been slowing working my way through since December.