• Muffi
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    2 days ago

    Heard so much crap about this show, then finally gave it a chance and was pleasantly surprised. The pacing is definitely not for the TikTok-brains of the world, but the overall story is great.

    • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      I don’t think it’s solely a matter of having a “TikTok-brain”.

      I don’t use Tik-Tok (never have) and I did not like The Rings of Power. I would have much preferred if they adapted the main story in The Silmarillion; Quenta Silmarillion. Instead they came up with a generic “made for streaming with minimal inspiration from a literary work for marketing purposes” concept.

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        1 day ago

        They don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion. They’re basing everything off the appendencies.

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        I dunno Silmarillion was one of the driest, most awful books I’ve ever read. If i wasn’t such a huge Tolkien fan I never would have finished it.

        Shows great, fuck the armchair critics. If you don’t enjoy it, quit watching it. There are always people saying things like, “I hate the show so much, the 15th episode was the worst of them all!” Go watch something you enjoy if it’s that bad people.