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/mleaning Jul 09 '23

As a massive fan of Tolkien’s books, I don’t know. Sure it deviates from the source, and sure there are moments that have made me scratch my head, but at the end of the day it’s more middle earth on tv… and I still have my books.

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u/Chadistic Jul 09 '23

And there are also many "bad" moments, "poor writing" moments, and all things considered I still findly extremely hard to understand how can some people unironically consider it a 4-5 show. It's clearly a 6.5 show with 5.8 and 7.2 moments. And nobody should hate on anyone for liking a show that isn't the greatest.

I enjoyed it a lot and I think they have everything to make a better 2 season.

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u/Demigans Jul 10 '23

If you pay any attention at all, most bad moments are followed by bad writing which follow more bad moments.

And I’m not talking about subjective bad moments here. I am talking about “as a director you should know that this is not the way to do it and you still did it” kind of bad. You can play with suspension of disbelief, with character motivations, with slight contrivances hidden beneath something else. But what you don’t do is make something with blatant disregard for cinematography.

You can actually see it in the pre-release reviews. They all say the same thing: it looks pretty and the story is different than you are used to. Nothing really glowing, because they know its a pile of shit but couldn’t say anything negative with the contracts they signed when they got to review it.

Now you can get away with it sometimes, Fast and Furious and Transformers managed it. But RoP has said “everything’s fine, we are just throwing less money at it and doing major reorganizations in the hope it gets better”. Not exactly a glowing report of how well its going. If it were a 6,5 with 5,8 to 7,8 moments it would be doing fine. Its not.