It’s a decent show that is moderately popular, just it’s also an easy target for edgelords to dunk on in the audience reviews. It has some pretty significant pacing issues early on, represents non-binary & brown people from early on, and dropped during the height of Tate-mania. Like a perfect storm for backlash from angry white boys. And even normal people wanna dunk on Bezos’ expensive new toy. The later episodes are worth sticking it out for tho imo.
It cost about 10x per episode to make compared to The Expanse, which was a Syfy show offloaded to Amazon on the cheap. Amazon recycled the assets, rushed a final half season and killed the production before they’d have to spend any real money on it (due to setting/cast changes in the book that follows final season arc). So the comment above is kinda a weird one to make. Even Wheel of Time is bigger, let alone Citadel, The Boys etc
Yes, and I’m glad they did, didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But they resumed an existing production Syfy fronted the costs for. I think that whichever way you slice it, Amazon squandered the IP to an extent. In retrospect of such excessive spending on their more recent productions… They just didn’t spend enough on it. The final season benefits greatly from a higher budget, but that doesn’t magically save it from feeling rushed when it’s half the normal length. It’s a handwave apology for re- prematurely canceling the show
The weirdest thing about the people talking about it not being “lore accurate” is that they’d usually complain about things that are actually fine for the lore but ignore the things that aren’t.
GAlaDrIEl wAsnT a WArRiOr, suck my fucking hairy hobbit foot.
There are some weird dialogue and graphics choices though. Prepare to roll your eyes a couple times, even if you end up liking it anyways.
That’s a doozy though. Does it mean we can assume the guy who 1v1’d Ancalagon the Black could tank the fire breath?
Like, I guess? The idea of a fighter blocking dragon breath with a shield is pretty iconic fantasy imagery if nothing else, and it’s hard to imagine Ancalagon just not using his.
She used the same space saving technology the Numenorians have in their galleys.
Funnily enough, 150 men and some horses would have been historically plausible. They really should have left that number vague. There should have been as many Numenorians as the plot demands, just like elves.
It’s never been about lore accuracy. It’s about accuracy to their individual subjective historic reading or thinking about a text. When a book gets adapted to a film, it’s natural to want it to be like you imagined. What they don’t understand is that if it isn’t, that’s not necessarily because it’s inaccurate to the text. The reader might not have had the requisite general understanding to put the text in context.
In practice even this is a very charitable view of the people complaining. Usually it’s literally just that they imagined it with more cis white people and traditional gender roles. That’s if they even truthfully engaged with the source material they pretend to champion, and aren’t just people with an agenda trying to dupe fans
My monthly reminder that for the same cost of Rings Of Power and the MGM acquisition, Amazon could have likely kept every single laid-off employee hired (assuming average $100k salary) for the average tenure of an Amazon employee.
Wasn’t that a gigantic flop?
It’s a decent show that is moderately popular, just it’s also an easy target for edgelords to dunk on in the audience reviews. It has some pretty significant pacing issues early on, represents non-binary & brown people from early on, and dropped during the height of Tate-mania. Like a perfect storm for backlash from angry white boys. And even normal people wanna dunk on Bezos’ expensive new toy. The later episodes are worth sticking it out for tho imo.
It cost about 10x per episode to make compared to The Expanse, which was a Syfy show offloaded to Amazon on the cheap. Amazon recycled the assets, rushed a final half season and killed the production before they’d have to spend any real money on it (due to setting/cast changes in the book that follows final season arc). So the comment above is kinda a weird one to make. Even Wheel of Time is bigger, let alone Citadel, The Boys etc
Didn’t Amazon make like 50% of the expanse seasons?
Yes. Syfy cancelled the show after season 3 and Amazon did seasons 4-6.
Such a god damn shame were probably never getting the best books adapted to TV :(
Yes, and I’m glad they did, didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But they resumed an existing production Syfy fronted the costs for. I think that whichever way you slice it, Amazon squandered the IP to an extent. In retrospect of such excessive spending on their more recent productions… They just didn’t spend enough on it. The final season benefits greatly from a higher budget, but that doesn’t magically save it from feeling rushed when it’s half the normal length. It’s a handwave apology for re- prematurely canceling the show
Ah OK, fair enough. I might check it out as I patrol the high seas, then 😉
The weirdest thing about the people talking about it not being “lore accurate” is that they’d usually complain about things that are actually fine for the lore but ignore the things that aren’t.
GAlaDrIEl wAsnT a WArRiOr, suck my fucking hairy hobbit foot.
There are some weird dialogue and graphics choices though. Prepare to roll your eyes a couple times, even if you end up liking it anyways.
I’m still waiting for someone to explain for me how she survived a face full of pyroclast.
Because Elves, bitch- Tolkien
That’s a doozy though. Does it mean we can assume the guy who 1v1’d Ancalagon the Black could tank the fire breath?
Like, I guess? The idea of a fighter blocking dragon breath with a shield is pretty iconic fantasy imagery if nothing else, and it’s hard to imagine Ancalagon just not using his.
Okay, I chuckled on this one.
Also, I don’t remember her having a shield??
She used the same space saving technology the Numenorians have in their galleys.
Funnily enough, 150 men and some horses would have been historically plausible. They really should have left that number vague. There should have been as many Numenorians as the plot demands, just like elves.
It’s never been about lore accuracy. It’s about accuracy to their individual subjective historic reading or thinking about a text. When a book gets adapted to a film, it’s natural to want it to be like you imagined. What they don’t understand is that if it isn’t, that’s not necessarily because it’s inaccurate to the text. The reader might not have had the requisite general understanding to put the text in context.
In practice even this is a very charitable view of the people complaining. Usually it’s literally just that they imagined it with more cis white people and traditional gender roles. That’s if they even truthfully engaged with the source material they pretend to champion, and aren’t just people with an agenda trying to dupe fans
Aren’t they doing a second season?
My monthly reminder that for the same cost of Rings Of Power and the MGM acquisition, Amazon could have likely kept every single laid-off employee hired (assuming average $100k salary) for the average tenure of an Amazon employee.
HotD isn’t an Amazon original is what they’re saying
Syfy also cancelled the expanse and it was bought by Amazon for the second half
Oh, it isn’t? checks oops, my bad 😂
Gonna change it to the best ever Amazon original then 😁
Yeah the shows came out around the same time so I can see why you got them confused. Didn’t mean the show was good.