So, this began! I don't have a lot to say about it, but I assume we have enough nerds around here to merit a dedicated discussion thread.
Amazon launched the show by dropping two episodes and also by disabling user ratings because it was getting review-bombed. The motivations for those bombs seemed like it was mostly ugly racist/sexist in nature, but also Amazon spent 750 million dollars to make this season and also it's Amazon so lol.
I'm not remotely a Tolkien fan by any stretch, but to my normie-eyes, so far this felt like more of the Peter Jackson LotR, just even better looking and with more minorities in prominent roles. (Yay!) My guess is if you like LotR, and if you aren't horribly racist and misogynistic, you'll probably enjoy this. But if you found those movies dull, then you'll probably be bored by these.
I liked the part where the dwarves were doing dwarf-things.
I like that my girl Galadriel is finally getting her due.
I think from a production stand-point, this show is marvelous and incredible. It all evokes Peter Jackson's visual oeuvre for Tolkien's stuff. But to my eyes, there's been a very conscious design effort to showcase the different fantasy race's attire, abodes, and living spaces as feeling very Bronze Age technologically compared to the LotR's high Middle Ages. And that's just super neat. The not!Hobbits look like they're living in Bronze Age tribal units; the humans in Bronze Age hamlets. The Elves and Dwarves are technologically lightyears ahead, with some ornate designs that evoke some of the splendor and wealth of say, Egyptian royalty in antiquity. But the craftsmanship is a step down from LotR in very subtle ways evoking an idea that their tools and practices just haven't fully evolved yet.
I liked the parts where the scene transitions between different povs included looking at a map of Middle Earth. Whoever did that, you're a real one.
This show is going to draw a lot of natural comparisons to HBO's Game of Thrones prequel that I don't think is particularly fair to either - as they're both very different things trying to do different things. But one point of comparison I do think is worth discussing is that House of the Dragon has a very top-heavy focus on society and realm politics, but The Rings of Power is almost democratic in fashion in how it's attempting to showcase the immense variety of the many walks of life that can be seen across Middle Earth which is very nice and I enjoyed quite a bit.
Amazon launched the show by dropping two episodes and also by disabling user ratings because it was getting review-bombed. The motivations for those bombs seemed like it was mostly ugly racist/sexist in nature, but also Amazon spent 750 million dollars to make this season and also it's Amazon so lol.
I'm not remotely a Tolkien fan by any stretch, but to my normie-eyes, so far this felt like more of the Peter Jackson LotR, just even better looking and with more minorities in prominent roles. (Yay!) My guess is if you like LotR, and if you aren't horribly racist and misogynistic, you'll probably enjoy this. But if you found those movies dull, then you'll probably be bored by these.
I liked the part where the dwarves were doing dwarf-things.
I like that my girl Galadriel is finally getting her due.
I think from a production stand-point, this show is marvelous and incredible. It all evokes Peter Jackson's visual oeuvre for Tolkien's stuff. But to my eyes, there's been a very conscious design effort to showcase the different fantasy race's attire, abodes, and living spaces as feeling very Bronze Age technologically compared to the LotR's high Middle Ages. And that's just super neat. The not!Hobbits look like they're living in Bronze Age tribal units; the humans in Bronze Age hamlets. The Elves and Dwarves are technologically lightyears ahead, with some ornate designs that evoke some of the splendor and wealth of say, Egyptian royalty in antiquity. But the craftsmanship is a step down from LotR in very subtle ways evoking an idea that their tools and practices just haven't fully evolved yet.
I liked the parts where the scene transitions between different povs included looking at a map of Middle Earth. Whoever did that, you're a real one.
This show is going to draw a lot of natural comparisons to HBO's Game of Thrones prequel that I don't think is particularly fair to either - as they're both very different things trying to do different things. But one point of comparison I do think is worth discussing is that House of the Dragon has a very top-heavy focus on society and realm politics, but The Rings of Power is almost democratic in fashion in how it's attempting to showcase the immense variety of the many walks of life that can be seen across Middle Earth which is very nice and I enjoyed quite a bit.