The Lord of the Rings - Second Age - Amazon Prime

I'll avoid this. But I wanted to say I love the idea that discussion of this TV series be located in the Chrons section for TV, NOT in the Tolkien section. Please, moderators, encourage this. Thanks.
 
I just had a horrible thought . What if the series like that horror movie The Ring.:oops:
 
Personally, I feel like you can't tell a decent story for scifi or fantasy in less than 10 episodes. Amazon and Netflix seem to be hovering around 8 episodes as their preferred season limit. It isn't enough, I think. WoT had a decent budget, but that story felt really rushed in season 1. The Expanse was good until the final season, rushed again.

The Witcher season 1 was 8 episodes but I feel like they went for the 1 monster per episode format with only minor scenes for the overarching story, it worked. Season 2 did not work as well for me. The Mandalorian did the same thing. Season 1 was 1 mission per episode while building the arc for Baby Yoda, I liked it. Season 2 felt rushed because they focused on that story and there wasn't enough with 8 episodes.

Maybe it's just me, but 8 episodes doesn't seem to work if you want an epic storyline told.
 
Is that the same trailer that was shown during the Superbowl, or a different one?

Some of the online comments were that it was "cheap" (in comparison to the enormous price-tag) and that "cgi has taken its soul." I don't know about that, but that trailer certainly doesn't say to me, "you must watch this series!" A lot of the comments online are coming from people who just don't like Jeff Bezos and will never like anything he has had a hand in making, so comments that it is "w***y waving." However, I don't see anyone genuinely saying, "this is wonderful" either. There is so much choice these days of SFF tv that it could actually flop.
 
My earlier post was an attempt to be objective, mentioning money and the possible fruits therof.
Quality? Eventual reactions?
Comments and predictions now, except to visceral reactions to the images in the trailors, are speculation abstracted from reality.
Of course that's what we do. But still, very premature, for me at least.
 
I don't want to speculate on scenes and characters I don't know. They need more PR on showing who's who because that teaser did nothing to me.
 
As the Simarillion is a collection of legends they could take bits and pieces as background and key characters in a series. Maybe that is ok. I don’t think it is a book that should be exactly replicated.
 
Judderman said:
As the Simarillion is a collection of legends they could take bits and pieces as background and key characters in a series. Maybe that is ok. I don’t think it is a book that should be exactly replicated.
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I'm reading the Silmarillion at the moment, at the start of the book are two short 'stories' (more like essays) on the Ainur and Valaquenta. No dialogue in those pieces
 
AE35Unit said:
I'm reading the Silmarillion at the moment, at the start of the book are two short 'stories' (more like essays) on the Ainur and Valaquenta. No dialogue in those pieces
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Exactly. Like some folks would still complain if this section wasn't included.
 
Personally I prefer Silmarillion to LOTR (which makes me weird), and I doubt any contemporary director can get into the world of Middle Earth in the Second Age enough to fill up the detail that is left out in the laconic writing. Come to think of it, I don't believe any contemporary filmmaker is capable of portraying accurately the mentality of a society more than 50 years in the past.

The 1995 TV series on Pride and Prejudice pulled it off almost perfectly (Suzanna Harker had a little difficulty fitting into her role as Jane Bennet but everyone else nailed theirs). The series ruthlessly replicates the mindset of the English middle and upper classes at the end of the 18th century and makes no concessions whatsoever to contemporary priorities. We've come a long way since. It is a real, real shame.
 
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