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My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. The first episode was an atrocious formulaic mess that tried to stack as many memorable LotR

by zppln 4y ago

My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. The first episode was an atrocious formulaic mess that tried to stack as many memorable LotR style moments on top of each other as possible. So far they haven't taken the opportunity to use the format to their advantage at all. Visually appealing, but bland is how I'd summarize things so far.

chrisseaton 4y ago
> My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. In just two episodes? Yeah there won’t be.
- farleykr 4y ago
  Story tellers need to do their job to give us compelling characters. We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. I liked every character in the LotR trilogy within five minutes of their introduction.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    > We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. Nobody thinks you owe the authors anything - of course you don’t have to watch it at all. But if you wanted to try it how few episodes or chapters are you will to give a creative work time to reach a character development? What's the point of a character development in the first couple of episodes or chapters? That's just churn - they aren't genuinely developing in that time because you won't have given them any time to establish something to develop from. And where do they go from there? Just keep having major developments every episode? That'd be exhausting.
- towaway15463 4y ago
  In two hours. Yes they could have fit in some character development along with backstory. Want an example? Just look at pretty much every movie ever with run times less than two hours.

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My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. The first episode was an atrocious formulaic mess that tried to stack as many memorable LotR

by zppln 4y ago

chrisseaton 4y ago
> My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. In just two episodes? Yeah there won’t be.
- farleykr 4y ago
  Story tellers need to do their job to give us compelling characters. We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. I liked every character in the LotR trilogy within five minutes of their introduction.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    > We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. Nobody thinks you owe the authors anything - of course you don’t have to watch it at all. But if you wanted to try it how few episodes or chapters are you will to give a creative work time to reach a character development? What's the point of a character development in the first couple of episodes or chapters? That's just churn - they aren't genuinely developing in that time because you won't have given them any time to establish something to develop from. And where do they go from there? Just keep having major developments every episode? That'd be exhausting.
- towaway15463 4y ago
  In two hours. Yes they could have fit in some character development along with backstory. Want an example? Just look at pretty much every movie ever with run times less than two hours.