There are so many things wrong with Season 1 of Rings of Power, but I will start on the positive side.
The environment is amazing that releasing 8 hours of just drifts through the streets, the nature and architecture would be an entertaining ride. Just give it some of the sweet majestic music and release it as meditation tool for the masses.
Couple characters have actually decent set of mystery around them that kept me watching the and got me fairly hyped towards the later episodes.
Now the bad things. The cast for some parts is just ridiculous, mainly Elrond, Ceelbrimbor. Lets face it, give them beards and they would make a decent dwarf. I guess I am spoiled by Lee Pace as Thranduil.
I am not a person who would nitpick about distance crossing and time element in the story, but it is obvious in the backstories that there is no drive, nothing that would drive the story forward. Things are happening, new characters with famous names are adding to the Galadriel contact list but that's about it.
I am not sure what's the objective of the creators / storytellers but it seems that they want to have some tension with added fan service, but it turns out as stretched and laughable attempts to parody LotR / Hobbit characters. So instead of some fresh take we get more majestic landscapes with pathetic storytelling.
The environment is amazing that releasing 8 hours of just drifts through the streets, the nature and architecture would be an entertaining ride. Just give it some of the sweet majestic music and release it as meditation tool for the masses.
Couple characters have actually decent set of mystery around them that kept me watching the and got me fairly hyped towards the later episodes.
Now the bad things. The cast for some parts is just ridiculous, mainly Elrond, Ceelbrimbor. Lets face it, give them beards and they would make a decent dwarf. I guess I am spoiled by Lee Pace as Thranduil.
I am not a person who would nitpick about distance crossing and time element in the story, but it is obvious in the backstories that there is no drive, nothing that would drive the story forward. Things are happening, new characters with famous names are adding to the Galadriel contact list but that's about it.
I am not sure what's the objective of the creators / storytellers but it seems that they want to have some tension with added fan service, but it turns out as stretched and laughable attempts to parody LotR / Hobbit characters. So instead of some fresh take we get more majestic landscapes with pathetic storytelling.