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LOTR "The Rings of Power"

Scat said:
That's the biggest complaint so far. It is VERY loosely based on these works.
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So it is basically expensive fan-fic? Yay....? Look how that kind of crap worked for the Gunslinger. Ugh.
 
Scat said:
Based on what I have seen and heard the series gets cancelled within 2 seasons.
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The second season will begin filming before this one releases so we'll at least get two.

I'm afraid they're going to be over reliant on CGI which was a strong point for the Fellowship of the Rings (and less so for Two Towers/ROTK though I'd also argue those were superior movies). It left a bitter taste in my mouth that The Hobbit was too CGI'ish.
 
Avery said:
The second season will begin filming before this one releases so we'll at least get two.

I'm afraid they're going to be over reliant on CGI which was a strong point for the Fellowship of the Rings (and less so for Two Towers/ROTK though I'd also argue those were superior movies). It left a bitter taste in my mouth that The Hobbit was too CGI'ish.
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The CGI was the least of the problems for the Hobbit. The over-bloated "story" to fill 8+ freaking hours of total run time with no substance and tons of useless and meaningless filler as a blatant cash grab was the problem with the Hobbit. It should have been 1 movie. Better still a 4 or 6-part (max and that is probably too much) mini-series would have been better to flesh it out a bit. But the movies were ridiculous in the extreme.
 
One Brow said:
Can't expect too much from an adaptation. It's not like Jackson was fanatically devoted to the text.
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Jackson did a pretty good job with LOTR. There were no made up characters. He did expand some character's roles but overall I feel like he did a good job of staying with the story.

Regarding the Hobbit, he did go off the rails. Made up characters, made up scenes, involving characters that were part of Tolkein lore but had nothing to do with The Hobbit. This was a money grab. It should have been one movie.

The Rings of Power appears to be worse than The Hobbit.
 
I don't really care for the title honestly - I think many of us have had our fill of 'rings are bad' and there's plenty of other directions they can take Middle Earth while keeping the rings low-key in the background while Sauron's rise is a bit more muted (at least initially). Broken alliances between elves and humans, the downfall of Numenor from The Silmarillion, etc.

At the very least, will be good to discuss on this forum.
 
I just saw this from a Vanity Fair article:

So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”
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This right here will be a huge blow to the series.
 
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I’m excited to see how it compares to The Wheel of Time - not only from a storytelling perspective, but also from a production perspective.
LOTR had a bigger budget than WoT. Should be interesting.
 
Scat said:
I just saw this from a Vanity Fair article:



This right here will be a huge blow to the series.
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I wasn't aware of that. Basically tells me that they're creating everything from scratch essentially. The more you draw upon fractional lore, the reduced are the returns. See Star Wars, Matrix, Harry Potter... essentially every series where they can't help but milk every dime.
 
Avery said:
I wasn't aware of that. Basically tells me that they're creating everything from scratch essentially. The more you draw upon fractional lore, the reduced are the returns. See Star Wars, Matrix, Harry Potter... essentially every series where they can't help but milk every dime.
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Final season of GOT...
 
gandalfe said:
Final season of GOT...
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Awful season. All this buildup with no real payoff. You can't just kill major characters and have others make decisions outside of what previous seasons stressed again and again. No TV show should go more than 4-5 seasons as you lose your creative arc.

Daenerys going crazy was extremely rushed and poorly conceived. Literally one of the only moments I've watched a show feeling angry about how they could fumble something so bad.

Daenerys - "Save all innocent lives."
Also Daenerys - "Kill all innocent lives."
 
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