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.
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I agree - I liked it. Possibly three things going on First the LOTR fanatics want it to be a literal interpretation of Tolkien’s mythos. A completely unrealistic expectation. I found reading the silmarlon to be more like a class assignment in a course I didn’t like than actual entertainment. Second you have the people who object to black elves, but I don’t remember Tolkien’s ever specifying a skin color for all elves. Third there are the jackasses who simply want to spoil things for other people - these are the sort of malicious busybodies who like to get on home owners assn boards and cause trouble for other people.
The "black" elf is played by Puerto Rican actor Ismael Cruz Córdova and the "white" woman is played by Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi.
So they can't control their sexual impulses even in middle earth, huh?
It figures.
Serious discussion about a fantasy genre. LOL
Yep LOL.
I hope not. I really like the first two episodes. And I’m a serious Tolkien student.
If they want black elves, purple elves or pink elves with green stars that eat soap they can make up their own fantasy world and have them.
There is a complete and total lack of creativity here that is appalling.
Come up with your own worlds, your own characters, your own mythology and you can do as you like.
This, "It's (insert name of already established character here) but he's a gay mouse with bladder issues" is fricking lazy.
Which means that the stories they try to come up with will bore your socks off.
Creativity gentlemen. And story telling.
But that is beyond them. Because they are wee timid cowering beasties who are afraid to try anything new.
There are any number of writers out there that create whole new worlds and populate them with interesting people.
Hire a couple of them to give you a frame work.
Yes, a "Stoor Hobbit", a type that developed great strength, an affinity for water, learned to swim, and even wore boots to keep their feet dry.
Bilbo, Frodo, Pippin, and Merri were a mix of Harfoot and Fallowhide hobbits, known because they descended from "The Old Took", a known Fallowhide. They were generally thinner & a bit taller, and were more adventurous, making them suspect among the Hobbit community.
Samwise was probably mostly a Harfoot hobbit, as he stockier than the other 4 Fallowhide-stock hobbits in the story, and was generally more shy of adventure.
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Love it!
Not as bizarre as her deciding once she got there to jump off the boat and swim across the entire sea back to Middle Earth. Whut?
Tolkien explains the existence of dragons and magic throughout his works.
Dark skinned elves or dwarves. Not so much.
No kidding. And before you get the argument of “she’s an elf so she could do it”, she also mentioned “frostbite” from the first scenes in the north. So evidently, Elves are indeed susceptible to the elements.
My husband tried watching the first episode. He kept saying, ‘Boy, they are taking incredible liberties with this!’
(Wasn’t Galadriel Elrond’s mother-in-law, or something like that, in the family tree?)
It wasn’t just a ‘fantasy genre’. It was an allegory and mythology with a lot of truths in it. (I think classical literature - including the Bible! - is a lot like that...)
In the past I’ve found Rotten Tomatoes audience scores to be fairly accurate. The “critics” usually come off as paid shills. Except The Critical Drinker, of course.
I was responding to a prior poster.
And, observe is not the same as obsess.
Entertainment is a business. Nobody wants to make movies that only appeal to racists. There simply arent enough of them out there to be a significant audience.
LOTR is fantasy to start with. Getting bent out of shape over black hobbits is asinine.
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