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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Very disappointing
Honestly, I am deeply disappointed by this series. What I was hoping to be an amazing journey back into Middle Earth has just turned out to be a very beautiful, but distinctly average, fantasy story, loosely based on the 2nd age.
Amazon's "adaptation" is badly made TV with a nonsensical story built on wild coincidences, contrived plotlines and a blatant disregard for the various building blocks that make any story complete: logical character choices, a sense of time and place, and narrative tension-not to mention an overly large cast of mostly forgettable and uncharismatic characters, some wholly made up for the show and others changed entirely as to be almost unrecognizable.
In every way that truly matters, The Rings Of Power fails from the writing to the acting to the presentation. It fails as an adaptation, neither enriching Tolkien's work nor remaining true to it. It fails as a good fantasy, giving us generic tropes and melodrama rather than blazing new ground. And it fails as a compelling story, filled with cheap mystery boxes and unsurprising 'twists.'
I could go on, but it's honestly not worth my time.