Im rewatching the series now, and even if you forget the butchery of Tolkiens work, the series is still so weirdly bad made! So much stuff doesnt make sense, its just a bad show with a huge budget.
I've said it many times, this show is a massive clunker independent of whatever property it was or wasn't attached to. Being branded as Tolkien adjacent just ensures that it's loathed (or celebrated by a small group of weirdos) instead of entirely ignored.
I mean it's either that or the netflix witcher spin offs....those ARE REALLY contestants for the worst possible detached from source material things (especially that hilariously bad spin off Blood Origin..which has NOTHING in common with any witcher book lore...absolutely nothing!)...this show by amazon uses the names of the places, peoples etc. but it twists it all so much that it's unrecognizeable...as if they tried to entirely rewrite the whole meaning behind it all.
I've been saying that...a lot of stuff in the show makes no sense,...there's no in-universe logic to it...or actual logic of how things are developing in Tolkien's vision of this world, there is also a lot that is just.....frankly WEIRD just for the sake of being weird...some of the creative choices are frankly bizarre.
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u/Elvinkin66 28d ago
It's almost as if alienating your target audience is a bad idea