The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)

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   Cynicus Rex

   South Park made a parody of Lord of the Rings, but they won't for The Rings of Power for it is mere franchise rife with trite writing, suspense for the heck of it, and political correctness.
   It is, however, entertainment junkfood, good to watch while on a date. Don't worry about missing anything if you end up having sex instead, for that is way more compelling. 1 year 6 months ago
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   vril

   If they did the music similar to the movies it could be so much better 1 year 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Prime's big budget-busting prequel to the Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power is surprisingly legit, considering that they didn't the rights to the Silmarillion, etc. and had to invent incidents around the LotR appendices. WETA Workshop without a doubt helps the series feel like it's of a piece with the Peter Jackson trilogies, and while Bear McCreary's music isn't as iconic as Howard Shore's, he showed with Battlestar Galactica that he could do "primeval Earth" very well. I'll probably gain a better appreciation for it when I plug the soundtrack into my ears. Seeing as the movies are super-long, I could imagine thinking of this 8-episode spurt as 2 of a prequel trilogy (I suggest "The Second Age" and "The Rise of Mordor" as subtitles, but I'm no Tolkien expert). Detailing how the rings came to be (duh!), the show is a Middle-Earth-spanning epic with various leads and stories. A war-like Galadriel is obsessed with bringing Sauron to bloody justice (the season teases us with various possible identities, all ironic enough to keep us guessing). Elron has perhaps the best plot line as he tries to convince his best friend, a dwarven prince, to help save the elves from falling into shadow with new-found mythril. The men and women of Numinor play a part, as as certain Isildur must come from their stock. And then we have the inventions, including nomadic Hobbits who find a man fallen from the sky, and the most compelling new character, an awesome elven ranger, Arondir, defending the Southlands from Orcs trying to turn the territory into what we know as Mordor. It looks great, mostly if not always sounds like Tolkien's writing, and should reward fans of the Peter Jackson films (and probably the books' readers, though the nerdiest may quibble). But of course, it's a prequel, so a lot of what we're seeing is foreordained, not so much what will happen, but how it will. That's always going to undermine the interest in this kind of project. 1 year 6 months ago

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