Rings of Power

Not me, first season was a little slow but now were getting to see why and how the rings came about which is the point of the show, plus visually its pretty amazing work imo, seeing Sauron as a human is weird but hoping we get to see the whole transformation thing.

I'll let this run a bit before I wade in :-)

I couldn't make it past the 1st episode of the 1st season... Life's too short.

Stanmore said

I couldn't make it past the 1st episode of the 1st season... Life's too short.

100% agreed.  I have always been a huge Tolkien aficionado - read the Hobbit aged 11 and LotR aged 15 - and loved the Jackson Trilogy.  But like you I thought RoP was a pathetic travesty of Tolkien from the outset.

I could amend the OP to

Anyone who has read The Silmarillion, feeling disappointed etc ... :-)

It's not awful, it's much better than the Hobbit trilogy

I was disappointed that it was made at all TBH

What has happened to original ideas these days.

Classic stories do not need to be"expanded" on.

That is why they are classics in the first place.

I'm enjoying it , it's not brilliant but it's certainly not bad.  There's rumours it may not continue due to low viewing figures.  That's the nature of tv , what can you do. I do get tired of people moaning about expanding a well established story.  LOTR is part of a story as is the Hobbit. Why not expand on the theme, if some don't like it. Then get on with the rest of your lives and worry about important things. 

its not even close to being good.

what a sodomisation of Talkein's work.

time lines are not just way out, but 1000 years or more out.

horrendous pap!

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I don't think I mind stories being expanded, but its when they deviate from the established plot for no good reason. If they made it better than yes (and there are some weaknesses in Tolkien's narratives) but here they'd changed things and added characters just for the sake of it, with the result being all the poorer. I bet they dont get the Downfall of Numenor right, there are hints of it moving in the right direction, but the end was caused by Sauron when he was taken as a captive.

The one good thing is seeing Sauron in disguise. But the rest is disappointing, such a shame when they have so much good material to draw on.

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I know nothing about ‘Rings of Power’, but I just finished ‘Wednesday’ and have now started ‘Silo’, and I can recommend both of them.

TedBancroftPortraits said

I know nothing about ‘Rings of Power’, but I just finished ‘Wednesday’ and have now started ‘Silo’, and I can recommend both of them.

Silo is seriously good!

TedBancroftPortraits said

I know nothing about ‘Rings of Power’, but I just finished ‘Wednesday’ and have now started ‘Silo’, and I can recommend both of them.

Wednesday is the best.

PaulSH - Silo is looking good so far, should finish it on Wednesday evening.

It’s utter rubbish. Imagine missing the point of the hobbits in Tolkien’s story so badly that you make them diverse. Imagine reducing the demi-god Galadriel to some sort of crass, armoured Marvel superhero.

Then there’s just the most ridiculous things we’re asked to accept as the audience to this nonsense such as Celebrimbor walking a thousand miles without so much as a packed lunch, Galadriel just “running into “ totally not Sauron in thousands of miles of open ocean. The greatest Elven smith that ever lived being ignorant of alloys. Meanwhile, screen hours by the dozen are wasted on pointless “stories” of mysterious characters they didn’t quite have the rights to portray.

Utter nonsense. Badly written on any level, and demonstrates a failure to grasp the source material that is staggering tbh.