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Law and Order’s writing quality and direction is only a little bit better than Rings of Power so I don’t quite understand your point.
by labster 4y ago
Law and Order’s writing quality and direction is only a little bit better than Rings of Power so I don’t quite understand your point.
- ghaff 4y agoYou probably think you're being clever but I won't take the bait. While good procedurals require talented writing as well, they operate under constraints and are both low risk and relatively low reward compared to something in less charted territory. Writing even good formula is hard to screw up too badly given some level of talent (and clearly communicated and guardrailed formula).
- labster 4y agoYou think you didn’t take the bait, but Dr. Devereaux wrote a four-part blog series on why Rings of Power is bad. The thesis was essentially that it was they ignored enough historical guardrails as to lack verisimilitude, earning the dreaded “I don’t care about these people.” After reading the OP, I can’t shake the feeling that the showrunners flubbed handling the writers room enough to make glaring continuity errors (traveling 1000+ km in two days), and instead spent time in post designing sails that wouldn’t work. Law and Order folks are smart enough to rip from the headlines. Anyway, here’s 10k words from orc logistics guy you can read so you can prove me wrong: https://acoup.blog/tag/rings-of-power/ https://acoup.blog/tag/rings-of-power/