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The Rings of Power trailer

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(Jul 6, 2022 03:26 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Coming in the fall...when all good things happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7v1hIkYH24

At least it's Amazon Prime -- they'd give it a chance to wrap things up super-hurriedly even if it tanked in the ratings. Whereas Netflix would kill it on a cliffhanger after two seasons, like they did The OA. I still haven't forgotten that.  Angry
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Thankfully I get Amazon but not Netflix. Although I recently bought a new router so I don't know if my Tv will link to it anymore. I need to explore that.
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(Jul 6, 2022 03:26 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Coming in the fall...when all good things happen.

The good things happening season for me is the summer. Always has been.

But yeah, now that I'm a sucker... er, a Prime member, I will probably watch it. I loved Lord of the Rings when I first read it in the 1970's, but that was Tolkien as much as anything. And bonding with my friends, we were all reading it the same summer and talking about it. My roommate had a little dog he named Frodo. (I miss Frodo, he was a great little dog, everyone's friend.)

The Lord of the Rings movies were wonderful too. It's rare that movies do justice to a book, especially books that special. But they succeeded wonderfully.

This new Prime Video series promises to be eye-candy. It is shaping up to be the most expensive television show ever made. Amazon has spent $465 million on the first season and expects to spend $1 billion on it total. So I expect it to look really good.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/am...off-series

But I don't expect the story line to match the mythmaking that Tolkien produced. Tolkien was a kind of guy they just don't make any more, a Professor of Medieval Literature at Oxford in the 1920's and 1930's who spent his career teaching Beowulf and similar literature. Lord of the Rings wears that heritage on its sleeve. It incorporates a whole alien way of perceiving reality as filled with meaning and magical potentialities that are invisible and even incomprehensible to people today, without a guide like Tolkien.

So I fear that Rings of Power might just turn out to be contemporary genre fantasy, with woke feminist touches coupled with really top notch billion dollar visuals. It really needs to have writers worthy of their material and their task.

I'll give it a chance and will watch it with interest though. Maybe it will surprise me.
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When I went to a church boarding school in the 70's I passed around the Lord of the Rings trilogy to several of my friends. We were very enthused about, naming ourselves after the various characters. I was Stryder. Truth be told, the school itself would've frowned on us reading such worldly fiction if they had known about it. But we got away with it, and it was one of the most lifechanging books I have ever read. Even more than the Bible. To this day I still dream about it. The movies were also done amazingly well. You can tell they were made by people who really loved those books.
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(Jul 23, 2022 07:17 AM)Yazata Wrote: [...] So I fear that Rings of Power might just turn out to be contemporary genre fantasy, with woke feminist touches coupled with really top notch billion dollar visuals...

Shouldn't impact its viewership, since the fantasy/scifi fan base that watches ratings lightweights like the CW network and cable/streaming television programming was already woke long before the latter became a popular substitute for religious piety. Angel Wink

Movies are arguably a different matter, though, due to the larger, global, culturally heterogeneous audience that they have to attract. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) tanked so badly that it killed the franchise, and the woke version of Fantastic Four (2015) was a box office bomb.

Personally, had no problem with proto-SJW-ism on television back in the days when it was voluntary and prior to New Establishment proselytizing. But now that it's studio policy (non-hip), it's just so much Goskino USSR stuff -- conforming to Hollywood administrative protocol & propaganda. Cool Wink

Quote:I'll give it a chance and will watch it with interest though. Maybe it will surprise me.

Like "Foundation" on Apple's service, we may not watch it till there are multiple seasons to binge on, and there is certification that it is at least 65% non-preachy. Didn't even touch "Yellowstone" till after season four.
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Quote:Like "Foundation" on Apple's service, we may not watch it till there are multiple seasons to binge on

I binged on GOT before I had HBO and watched it on Comcast Watchathon week. I think that made a huge difference in my enjoyment of it. Spending all Sunday afternoon in that world of Westeros, experiencing the numerous plotlines in that series and mourning the deaths of beloved characters. I want to binge House of Dragons and Rings of Power too.
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(Jul 24, 2022 08:45 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:
Quote:Like "Foundation" on Apple's service, we may not watch it till there are multiple seasons to binge on

I binged on GOT before I had HBO and watched it on Comcast Watchathon week. I think that made a huge difference in my enjoyment of it. Spending all Sunday afternoon in that world of Westeros, experiencing the numerous plotlines in that series and mourning the deaths of beloved characters. I want to binge House of Dragons and Rings of Power too.


No substitute for it in terms of it keeping track of the storyline.

For instance, it took over two years for the next seasons of "Westworld", "Stranger Things", and "Better Call Saul" to finally debut this year. By then one has just about forgotten what happened before, including whom some marginal characters are.

Compare to television decades ago when everything was self-contained episodes, each week reset to the same old circumstances. But few could endure a steady diet of such stasis nowadays. If trapped in that era (and home video recording anachronistically existed), I'd probably be watching soap operas like "The Doctors" and "Dark Shadows", where the characters and events evolved. That scorned, daytime stuff was actually the future of primetime television.
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