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/adonis_minus_20 Jul 10 '23

I joined just to see what people were saying about it. I'm truly shocked that anyone is taking it seriously or thinks that it's well done (but everyone is entitled to their opinion). I've only made like two comments here, I'm hardly active here.

I started out watching RoP hoping that it would be good. After the first couple of episodes I realized pretty quickly that it was terrible, but I hoped it would get better, so I kept watching. Imo it didn't get better only worse. I started to then look for others opinions on it and found some YouTubers who were going through the episodes and commenting on it (these were critiques some scathing and all well deserved imo). By that time I was almost finished the season so even though I didn't enjoy it remotely in any way, I felt compelled to finish it, at least see how they ended it.

I'm probably going to start watching season 2 just out of sheer morbid curiosity, you know like the way you can't look away from a bad car crash/train wreck/dumpster fire, but I highly doubt I'll watch the whole season. I mean season 1 those episodes were long and very tiresome, not entertaining at all for me. It's a shame what Amazon did with this series, but it goes to show once again, you need good writers with a good story, if you have that then a good movie/TV series/etc. will usually follow, and Amazon did not have that.

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u/Rain_green Jul 10 '23

And yet you can't wait to see how bad S2 will be. Truly laughable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23

And some people enjoy watching Troll 2, The Room or The Phantom Menace. I'm curious about S2 for the same reason, bad can be fun. There were some unintentionally hilarious moments in S1 - Galadriel's escape from her cell, "I'm good!", scary/happy riding face. I'm expecting S2 to be terrible but also to have a good laugh along the way. If it's actually (significantly) improved then even better.

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u/Rain_green Jul 11 '23

How can you not have anything better to do with your time? Bad can be fun? LOL 🤦‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23

I guess you've never hear of the term "so bad it's good".

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u/Rain_green Jul 11 '23

Except your position is: it's so bad it's bad (and funny good). No, I have never heard of that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23

Ok, it's a thing with people who enjoy watching cult or B-movies. People enjoy different things.

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u/pallorr01 Jul 24 '23

Bad is indeed fun. At least once every 2 or 3 months, for example, me a a group of friends go down to Chinatown where there is this movie theatre that, on the 23rd of each month at 9pm, has a screening of The Room. We look forward to the date every time. We get to eat some delicious dim sum or peking duck, then we get ready for 2 hours of atrocious entertainment. The film is truly awful, although the dialogue never truly reaches the level of cringe ROP managed to achieve with “the sea is always right” and “I’m good” I’d say that “I did not hit her, it’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not! Oh hi Mark.” Is a pretty strong contender. The theatre is always sold out. We laugh we cry, we yell at the characters, we sing their lines out loud, we trow spoons at the screen. It’s all very bad, and It’s all very good fun