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The Acolyte: Destiny (2024)
Good Fantasy, Bad Star Wars
I liked the idea of this episode. The witch coven was cool, the created children were cool. If this was in Rebel Moon it would be pretty cool. But as Star Wars, it didn't work.
Furthermore the whole episode was a bit of a waste of time and money. The first 2 episodes told us everything we needed to know, we didnt need to see it all in episode 3. Episode 3 just recapped everything we already knew from the first 2. Pointless. The way these series are written its just frustrating. We get very little story in each episode. They teased the bug bady, they teased the wookie jedi. I think people are a bit sick of 18 minutes of nothing and one minute of tease.
Disney should hold an open competition for fans to write a series because the "pros" have obviously given up.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Perfect Way To End The Gunn Run.
James Gunns trilogy of GOG are the best stand alone marvel films ever made. They are not only incredibly entertaining but deeply emotional and meaningful. This film is hands down the best animal welfare movie ever created. A marvel of animal rights and care. This will probably be the last Marvel film I watch in the theatre as the rest of the universe is going down in virtue signal flames.
This film was a wonderful ending to the original team and a wonderful stand alone movie on its own, regardless of comic heroes or The Avengers. I will miss James Gunns Marvel movies. I hope we see more films from the characters in the future and hopefully some reunions.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Alloyed (2022)
Come What May
For some reason the phrase "come what may" just really does not feel like it belongs in Middle Earth. Of all the issues with this episode, I am just drawn back to that phrase. It just doesn't seem right. Probably just me though.
I used to be so excited for more Tolkien but this has just been a total disaster from start to finish.
Every reveal has been completely predictable and it just doesn't feel like Tolkien.
I actually don't have any issues with the cast or the actors but the story has just been a complete mess.
The visual effects are some of the best but the costumes and writing is just bad.
Hopefully in season 2 there will be no Hartfoots, they don't bring anything to it.
I cant think of why they veered so far off course from Tolkien's work, it was all right there waiting for them.
Terrible terrible writing. Not worthy of Tolkiens universe. Not even worthy of a Disney style "what if" set in Middle Earth.
I wont be watching season 2.
I have a feeling the failure of this series will bankrupt Amazon Studios.... Come What May.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Eye (2022)
Time Is Precious
People are busy, life is hard. So to produce something where nothing happens in an hour is quite frankly really astounding to me.
I don't understand why the only people feared dead are the people we know CANNOT be dead because they are in Lord of The Rings.
I was excited for this show for years, ever since it was announced. I would search for titbits online throughout the years to see what was going on because I was so excited for more Middle Earth content. To be honest, what we have given just makes me sad. You can seriously tell that not a single person on the writing team cares about the story or the world.
Visual effects are faultless (apart from the silly font change for Morder) I mean seriously? It looked like a power point presentation. "and now on the next slide, you will see ladies and gentlemen that it is in fact Morder," DUN DUN DUNNN!
Durin wanted to dig for Mithril, his dad said no, he dug anyway, his dad caught him, his dad said no, he dug again, his dad caught him again. 58 million dollars..... 58....million.... dollars.
Galadriel is clearly suffering from dual personality disorder because in the previous episode she was a raging racist genocidal maniac and in this episode she's telling Theo not to talk about wanting to kill orcs.
The writing is so lazy you can see it on screen which is a first for me. They needed Halbrand to go with Galadriel so he was "mortally wounded" and only Elvish medicine would make him better. So we see him walking to his horse for a long ride perfectly fine! He could have just slept it off!
How about Halbrand agrees to tell his tale to Gil Galad because the king has lost faith in Galadriel, boom, better reason, took me 30 seconds to think of.
There is a real problem here, this show is forgettable. Its going to take another 2 years for series 2. Who the hell is going to care. I don't care about any of these characters now, let alone in 2 years time!
This episode sucked hard, this whole show sucks hard. The characters are weak.
Anyway, enough ranting.
As a super Tolkien fan I am BEGGING you Amazon. Please fix series 2. Just sort it out. Everyone would respect you so much more for just fixing this disaster.
Get Peter Jackson. If it isn't broke, don't try to fix it. Look at the original films and just get Peter Jackson to pull you out of this massive pit you have dug yourself into.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: A Shadow of the Past (2022)
I'm Glad Tolkien Or Christopher T Are Not Here To See This Adcraptation
Say what you want about Peter Jacksons Lord Of The Rings & Hobbit adaptations. He at least stuck to Tolkien's messaging and language throughout the six films.
For the most expensive show ever created, this is a complete joke. Out of all of the law, stories, myths and incredible creations that came of out Tolkien's mind, you chose to start the show with a young girl, who by the way was royalty, getting bullied by lesser elves.
Out of all the things I have watched in my life the most pointless monologue of all has to go to Finrod comparing boats to stones. Absolutely ridiculous. There was literally an infinite number of ways you could have started the show with a bang and you chose the worst possible one with extremely high definition but dull scenes that vaguely in a boring way explained the 1st age. The trees of Valinor were just kind of faded away. You could have had a huge dark spider sucking them dry LIKE THE BOOK. Even that one small tweak would have made the first 10 minutes of your show more exciting.
I have no issue with new character or minority actors playing characters, more the merrier. But for the love of god make the characters interesting and give them a good opening!
Galadriel's character has been completely made up by people in 2022 who cant even dream of having the talent of JRR Tolkien. There are none who can! Its not their fault. But what is their fault is deciding to make stuff up and change beloved characters personalities, wants and desires.
I honestly never thought that I would be wanting Galadriel to get squashed by a troll. The character they have created is the most unlikable character I have seen in years.
Poor. Very Poor.
With the choice of GOT or Witcher I wont be continuing with Ring Of Power.
As a life long Tolkien fan. I will also be cancelling my prime account.
As someone who has done most of my shopping on Amazon for the past 4 years. I will be supporting businesses locally or just finding products elsewhere.
They really messed it up.
Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
The Story Ended Up Being Something Ghost Would Do After A Large Meal - I Hope Disney Are Reading These Reviews
I don't know how D&D will ever set foot at Comic Con for Star Wars.
This show has been completely through down the toilet by people who didn't respect the story or the characters or the material or the fans.
I love TV and movies and HBO make some great things but honestly I hope the suffers for this. I hope people cancel their subscriptions and I honestly will not be watching any spin offs or sequel\prequels to GOT.
Its a bad thing to say but I honestly hope they don't get their hands on any more beloved stories again.
Everything from Costumes, Effects and Acting remained consistently great throughout the 8 year series. But man! What happened to the story?
I think D&D need to go back and read "The Art Of Dramatic Writing"
An audience craves a resolution to a characters journey and we didn't get one at all.
There were tiny minute long scenes in this episode that were OK. But the story over all was something that would have come out of Ghost after a big meal.
Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
What a Complete Waste Of A Great Show
What a month May has been. We have seen a perfect way to end a decade long story with Endgame and now we have seen a perfect way of how not to end a great 8 year long story.
Ridiculously stupid insane moronic battle strategy aside.
Characters are getting picked off left right and center but not in the good old Game Of Thrones way we have all come to know and love.
I read that HBO are developing 3 spin off shows from GOT and I seriously don't understand what they were thinking ending this series like this. Losing fans before launching spin offs.
If it wasn't a matter of budget, then they could have easily made a series 8 dealing with the Night King and a series 9 dealing with Cersei. It just seems like such a waste.
If it was a matter of not having the source material, just make something up, you're writers.
I will say this for The Bells though. Hound vs Darth Mountain was great, even though it could have been made longer and more emotional. No emotion in series 8 that's the problem, just ticking characters arcs off without any emotion.
It very much feels like GRRM has given D&D bullet points on what happens and they have visualized those bullet points without any further explanation.