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It's not a movie, it's a TV show that will have a run time of ~40 hours. The scenes where no story development happen also serve a purpose: allowing the viewer

It's not a movie, it's a TV show that will have a run time of ~40 hours. The scenes where no story development happen also serve a purpose: allowing the viewer to not be drowned in over-information. The show is easy to follow because of that reason, even for someone who hasn't watched anything LOTR related before. All the comments about the development being too slow or some scenes being just for spectacle are nonsensical. The ones mentioning the budget as if it had been allocated to the first 4 episodes are even worse.

smoldesu 4y ago
> It's not a movie, it's a TV show that will have a run time of ~40 hours. Game of Thrones is 70+ hours start-to-finish, that wasn't an excuse to slow the pacing down or write impotent dialogue. It knows how to direct characters, and the showrunners understand that 60 seconds of horse riding doesn't make good television. Allegory is used sparingly, and the world is fleshed out through it's characters rather than CGI environments. It leads to a story that can be followed by bookworms and football dads alike. The Rings of Power doesn't build it's world in the same way. Instead we're whisked away to exotic locations that most viewers are unfamiliar with, and the following scenes do nothing to really characterize the world these characters inhabit. It's like the writing team and art directors never met to share notes. I'd argue that this lack of cohesion makes it decidedly harder to follow than other contemporary fantasy shows. > The ones mentioning the budget as if it had been allocated to the first 4 episodes are even worse. Okay, I'll be generous then. Why can't $125 million dollars buy better writers?
- nhinck2 4y ago
  > Why can't $125 million dollars buy better writers? I know this is really a rhetorical question but imagine just being able pay more for better writing. (The writing sucks because this is a commercial project first and foremost)
  - klipt 4y ago
    > imagine just being able pay more for better writing. Is it that difficult? What if you ran a contest to write the best script, winner gets a million dollars and top billing in the credits? Seems there should be plenty of college students who can write better than e.g. last season of Game of Thrones.
    - scotty79 4y ago
      You'd need someone to judge the contest so you have the same problem that people with large budgets in modern film making completely lost the ability to tell if a script is very, very not good.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    Part of the problem (as I understand it) is that this series is being directed by first-time showrunners. Amazon took a big gamble, and I would not be surprised if some of these cinematic/writing failures are the result of that.
- mr_toad 4y ago
  > It knows how to direct characters, and the showrunners understand that 60 seconds of horse riding doesn't make good television. And the result was a soap opera set in a “fantasy” world. They teased us with white walkers in the first episode, and then… nothing, for like 7 seasons. We didn’t even get to see any dragons for what seemed like forever.

smoldesu 4y ago

> It's not a movie, it's a TV show that will have a run time of ~40 hours. Game of Thrones is 70+ hours start-to-finish, that wasn't an excuse to slow the pacing down or write impotent dialogue. It knows how to direct characters, and the showrunners understand that 60 seconds of horse riding doesn't make good television. Allegory is used sparingly, and the world is fleshed out through it's characters rather than CGI environments. It leads to a story that can be followed by bookworms and football dads alike. The Rings of Power doesn't build it's world in the same way. Instead we're whisked away to exotic locations that most viewers are unfamiliar with, and the following scenes do nothing to really characterize the world these characters inhabit. It's like the writing team and art directors never met to share notes. I'd argue that this lack of cohesion makes it decidedly harder to follow than other contemporary fantasy shows. > The ones mentioning the budget as if it had been allocated to the first 4 episodes are even worse. Okay, I'll be generous then. Why can't $125 million dollars buy better writers?

nhinck2 4y ago
> Why can't $125 million dollars buy better writers? I know this is really a rhetorical question but imagine just being able pay more for better writing. (The writing sucks because this is a commercial project first and foremost)
- klipt 4y ago
  > imagine just being able pay more for better writing. Is it that difficult? What if you ran a contest to write the best script, winner gets a million dollars and top billing in the credits? Seems there should be plenty of college students who can write better than e.g. last season of Game of Thrones.
  - scotty79 4y ago
    You'd need someone to judge the contest so you have the same problem that people with large budgets in modern film making completely lost the ability to tell if a script is very, very not good.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Part of the problem (as I understand it) is that this series is being directed by first-time showrunners. Amazon took a big gamble, and I would not be surprised if some of these cinematic/writing failures are the result of that.
mr_toad 4y ago
> It knows how to direct characters, and the showrunners understand that 60 seconds of horse riding doesn't make good television. And the result was a soap opera set in a “fantasy” world. They teased us with white walkers in the first episode, and then… nothing, for like 7 seasons. We didn’t even get to see any dragons for what seemed like forever.