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People are upset not because the show is bad but because it's not as bad as they expected. In fact, it's quite good. This ruins their mockery narrative.

• simonh 4y ago
  I do worry about that. The extremely negative sentiment IMHO is vastly out of any proportion to the quality of the show. Frankly, much of the criticism was based on misunderstandings of the characters and what Tolkien actually wrote anyway. It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s nowhere near as dire as the anti-hype suggests. If it had come out without any connection to Tolkien, or the truly cringeworthy marketing, I think it would be doing fine.
• nathias 4y ago
  what, no I really wanted it to be watchable, but it isn't
• tgv 4y ago
  Really? Then again, I'm not upset, nor did I find it good. It's quite boring and bland. It focuses on a few characters instead of a large quest, but those characters are, well, empty. There's little to nothing that spells greater things to come. And they talk in this pseudo-archaic English ("What say thee of thy tidings, ye olde Master?", you get the idea), but still use words like the noun "project" in its modern sense. And the music for the first Hobbit/Harfoot scene sounds like the bloody Sims. It's a pretty mediocre 5, perhaps 6, out of 10 rating from me. Back to your statement: where did you get that people "are upset not because the show is bad but because it's not as bad as they expected"? Are there really that many people with the desperate desire to mock it? OTOH, nearly 40% rated it a 10. Where does that come from, then? I suppose that a few people with bots could also be an explanation.
  • Kiro 4y ago
    > Are there really that many people with the desperate desire to mock it? Yes, the most thumbed down trailer of all-time and a big meme culture based on how bad it was going to be, how they ruined Tolkien completely etc. Now when the show is not the 1/10 trainwreck they expected all those memes become invalidated and this infuriates the mob.