Posted on 09/05/2022 12:32:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Where’s a wizard to fight trolls when you need one?
The mega-budget fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is under fire from some of its viewers. A day after the first two episodes of Amazon’s billion-dollar baby debuted on Prime Video, the show’s average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is a “rotten” 37 percent, and reviews on Amazon have been outright suspended.
Compare that score to TV critics giving the show a very fresh 83 percent average, and many of the reviews were highly enthusiastic (“It’s great: a gorgeously immersive and grandly ambitious spectacle, packed with stunning imagery and compelling plot threads,” wrote TV Line). The Hollywood Reporter dubbed the first two episodes a rather successful, promising start.
The scores come a couple weeks after Marvel’s She-Hulk was declared review bombed on the site, with 88 percent critics score and an initial 36 percent audience score.
How The Rings of Power is doing on Amazon’s own user review ecosystem is not yet clear because the company has taken the unusual step of suspending user ratings for the show. An Amazon source says reviews are being held 72 hours to help weed out trolls and to ensure each review is legitimate. The source later claimed Prime Video started the policy this summer on all its shows.
“Review bombing” is when a group of online users post numerous negative reviews for a product or service due to its perceived cultural or political issues rather than its actual quality. Perusing Rotten Tomatoes’ audience reviews for Rings of Power, there are some one-star entries that meet the definition. “They wanted to involve such an important work with current politics and they have succeeded,” reads an example.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
I haven’t seen either episode but I hope they keep them available for online viewing. I want to make up my own mind.
Where’s a wizard to fight trolls when you need one?
. - .
Great opening line!
After all the talk here I watched the first episode. I saw no gay couples or any of the other allegations. Cinematography was well done. I don’t blame Amazon, many of the negative reviews are unverified.
Feminist, woke propaganda. Who knew?
I’ve watched the first two episode, I liked both of them and looked forward to the rest.
I wasn’t a huge Lord of the Rings fan, remember the character that took the ring to its final end was a Hobbit and so was his best friend.
It’s sort of like the new HBO show, “House of the Dragon”, comparing it to the original is not really fair, judge it on its own, I like both new shows.
I haven't seen The Rings of Power yet. But I've watched the first episode of House of the Dragon. I found it dull. The characters lacked personality. The acting wasn't solid. In general, prequels do not work because we know what's going to happen afterwards.
Ignore the racist morons who think having black elves is somehow unthinkable.
Listen to the honest critics who simply point out how the show stinks.
I find it a bit distracting. Lord of Rings is based on a European Fantasy world so naturally all the characters are white.
There are plenty of stories in Africa that Hollywood can explore. How about the Adventures of Mansa Musa?
Gollum was also a hobbit back in his Sméagol days.
Watched the first 2 episodes. Its OK. Nothing spectacular. Nothing over the top SJW. Just OK. I remain cautiously optimistic.
Black Panther certainly showed it can be profitable....Make Wakanda Great Again!
I tried to watch and could not get in. Maybe I’ll try in 6 months if I still have prime.
Waste of money if it's just okay. We are expecting Game of Thrones quality for the amount of money they are spending.
Yep I agree. They need to use their imagination more instead of ruining established franchises. I enjoyed Squid Game, it's out of my comfort zone but it's a great show.
Imagine a series that explores the world of Wakanda and finds that the sharpest minds and greatest warriors from that hidden African kingdom are a bunch of white guys with blonde hair.
I don’t think that one will be greenlit by the studio.
LOL, nope.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.