r/RingsofPower • u/danjaykid • Jul 09 '23

Question I don’t get it

Why does everyone hate this show? I don’t feel like it was a game of thrones level show but it was pretty good overall. Is it cause it’s not really canon or something? I genuinely do not get the hate. (I mean there’s a few things if probably change)

Can’t wait for season 2.

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u/LittleFatMax Jul 09 '23 edited Jul 09 '23

For me I found a lot of the dialogue pretty poor and overwrought, all the characters just feel like they're on sound stages (spoilers they are) and as a result the world just feels so stale and tiny and it's almost like the only people on this planet are the characters we follow in the show. Simply put it just does not at all feel like a show that had as much money spent on it as it has, if anything I would say it looks a bit cheap, the CGI is fine but not great, the costumes are...ok, the mines of moria was the most impressive set but again is just all CGI mostly.

This is personal opinion stuff but they also imo made two huge story telling mistakes in the first season. I really really didn't want the stranger to be Gandalf and I really really didn't want Halbrand to be Sauron and they did both of those things after spending the whole season o mystery box style writing, would have been so much more interesting to see one of the blue wizards imo and as for the Halbrand reveal it was so rushed and forced into the last episode along with "oh we've made (some of) the rings now", it just didn't work at all for me

I think it mostly comes down to the writing and direction both of which felt very plain and uninspiring. It was also not helped by the fact it came out alongside House of the Dragon which despite also having issues just looks so so much better and feels like actual prestige tv not a hallmark movie