The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Prime

If someone had told me while in the cinema watching "Saint Maud" that the actor playing the title character would play Galadriel in the most expensive TV show ever made I'd probably have thought them nuts. Morfydd Clark is rather good at this acting lark.

Far out brussel sprout. The trailers did not do this justice its pretty damn good.

I'm still not 100% on some of the Elf casting, Gil-galad and some the Elves aren't how I imagine Elves elves would look but it's a very minor issue. Even liked the Harfoots and the Dwarves were spot on.

One thing to watch for is a character named Theo who is a boy with the voice of a 50 year old 20 a day somker.

Ass Temps Crancked! Feel like I'll watch it as it comes out and rematch the whole thing again.

A cracking start.

It looks better than almost every movie I’ve seen recently. You can definitely see why wheel of time sucked ass. I can’t imagine there was much money left after paying for this.

You can see where the money went. Thats a lot of set dressing going on in some of those scenes.

Looks like they may have managed to pull it off as those first two episodes were way above the first two House of bad Wigs.

No idea how they sound to actual natives, but the accents of both the Harfoots and Dwarves sounded good to me. I’ll be looking forward to the rest of the series. 

It's quite a feast for the eyes, but I don't really know the franchise well so a lot of it is over my head story-wise. Found it a bit boring at times honestly, but the sheer scale of the production kept drawing me back in.

Made the mistake of going to the subreddit discussions, urgh.... bunch of racist arseholes. "It's too woke, shoving coloreds and strong women in inappropriate roles just to make it more appealing" wtf?

YES. That was class.

Pretty much loved everything about those two episodes.

Very cool seeing the elves and dwarves in their pomp before it all goes tits up and everyone becomes 24hr doom merchants.

Glad to see Amazon have sorted out their picture quality too, as this whole thing looks the fucking nuts.

If they can somehow keep this up, this is going to be a bit special.

I cannot deal with the hair. Each elven greaser cut is worse than the last and the Definitely Not Hobbits seem to go out of their way to drag themselves through every hedge.

I am really enjoying it.

Watched the first 2 episodes. It was better than I thought it was going to be, with some really well done, visually arresting scenes. Basic storycraft was also evident, which gives me hope that this is the start of a worthwhile story.

That said, I'm just not buying Galadriel as the grizzled, tortured elven warrior they want her to be. Good choice of main protagonist, and well cast, but I just think they've gone the wrong direction with her character.

Also, some of the dialog and attempted accents were so jarring they completely took me out of the story.

Also, given this is a TV series, why isn't it being shown in 16:9 aspect? I'm getting really tired of 'direct to streaming' content being shown in cinema aspect. It's probably to give content a more epic, cinematic feel - I get it - but I want to use the whole TV screen I paid for dammit! It just seems silly forcing viewers to peer at content through a letterbox, especially content that's never graced a cinema screen.

Yeah they aren't going to spend a gazillion dollars on a series that isn't accessible. Jump in.

For me, first episode was dull. Elves are boring, altho Galadrial is great, and elves waffling about destiny and sunset and sunrise metaphors blah blah blah is extremely boring.

But obviously looks amazing and I expect it will pick up so I will persist.

You are exactly the same as me. It will all make sense and it’s great 👍

I don't know about anyone else. But I'm finding this bloody brilliant. The budget in this is massive and it really shows. The music and story is looking great. Like someone else said, it feels like I'm watching a movie instead of a TV show which is pretty great. No faffing about about backstabbing and treachery. Just a great adventure from A to B at the moment. Loving this

yep, too early for either of them or the istari - but then it appears that time has been compressed for the events in the series that still take place over hundreds of years in the original lore so i'm reserving judgement

i watched it 'live' at 2am thanks to crippling insomnia and fucking loved it, like a pair of comfy old slippers - as above, i think a knowledge of the original films is all you'd really need to engage with this - it seems a lot closer to the feel of the originals than i was expecting it to be but apparently new line have been involved in some way to ensure this happens

pisses all over house of dragons, imo