Lord of the Rings: The Series

So why was it?

I mean, give us your actual opinion and not a casual "nah, I'm not racist bro" line, because that just makes us think you ARE.

Or are you waiting till someone podcasts an opinion for you?

I thought it was very beautifully made and well acted, but kind of slow and kind of hard to follow at times. There was a lot of walking around and not a whole of action. They could have started with the explosion of Mt. Doom and have Meteor Man show up around the same time. I get that they wanted to create mystery by not revealing who Sauron is right away, but it felt dragged out too long. No dragons.

When you compare it to HOTD which also doesn't have a whole lot of action, the story is more compelling and better written despite the confusing time jumps and changing actors/actresses. Dragons.

Well not many dragons in the source material. Ancalagon the Black was dead (you fucking wish) after Morgoth's defeat and the rest didn't really pop up much in the Second and Third Ages.

I do agree that HotD has done well with the time jumps and so they didn't really need to compress all this into so short a timeframe - in the novel these events would be spanning hundreds of years.

My friend had a lot of the same complaints I had and she's big into LotR lore.

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WB is getting into the act.

https://twitter.com/variety/status/1628875118457004033?s=46&t=vSnT6D7lE-98vCnZLyO6zw

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Goooooood!

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"But feeding people to giant spiders isn't the way we do things in America." IYKYK.

So, I actually gave this series a watch about a month or so ago.

It's largely boring and uninspired. The good shit doesn't really happen until the final two episodes. So, for anyone who hasn't watched the series yet and has a passing familiarity with the LOTR universe, my recommendation is to seriously consider just watching the final two episodes of season one. Otherwise, you risk slipping into a coma. (In fact, Amazon should put that disclaimer before each episode.)

So it's much like the source material?