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I wish they had been more bold in staking out a new tone. Instead it feels more like content cut from Jackson's better films, with mostly boring characters and

I wish they had been more bold in staking out a new tone. Instead it feels more like content cut from Jackson's better films, with mostly boring characters and plot that doesn't really move forward. Imagine something that follows the ring-smithing process but with the tone of Primer between Annatar and Celebrimbor. Galadriel in something plotted and shot like a Western war film instead of a handful of mediocre martial arts scenes. Durin and Disa but it's a sitcom with Elrond as the crazy neighbor who keeps dropping by. If you're going to invent, invent.

WesleyLivesay 4y ago
Agreed. I think they should have made an effort to be _more_ different than the movies. The LotR trilogy, for many fans, has passed into a kind of mythological state of reverence. When they decided to make a show that followed in the same vein they were just making everything so much more difficult for themselves. They probably should have avoided comparisons to the movies, instead of welcoming them.