Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
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HAHAHAHA!
I don’t know why people don’t tell stories they KNOW fans will enjoy. The LOTR films made a crapton of money because they told a story for fans in a way that was approachable by anyone.
Ring of Power told a story the producers wanted to tell, trashing the entirety of the lore to do so. Same with the Rohan cartoon, they deface the lore and are surprised when the *real* cultural influencers, the fans, don’t show?
They don’t tell those stories because they can’t. They’re not creative enough, and they only know how to jam their personal opinions down the throats of their audience.
Yeah. I almost don’t blame the writers, if they don’t create what the EPs want they get fired, or the actors, except for their incredible arrogance and ignorance of the lore and the media that has come before (the “first” female dwarf, the first elf of color, the first elven warrior queen, people out of their era just for the Virtue Signaling points ad nauseum).
It is too bad Rings of Power didn’t start off as some generic SyFy fantasy show. Then it would have been able to shop it to Amazon, or Netflix. The news would have been hailed as a great upgrade for any series to get picked up by a big streamer. Nowadays there’s no place to go but DOWN (as if RoP could get any lower). I’d rather watch 72 hours straight of modern day SyFy shows than forced to spend a minute watching Rings of Power.
Hopefully no buyers pay top dollar to syndicate Bezos’s garbage vanity project; if two-thirds of the audience didn’t finish seasons 1 and 2 on his platform, what does he think is going to happen with other outlets?
They made it woke, depriving us of wonderful TV, instead giving us woke slop.