I like slow burn TV shows! I don't have to have everything exciting and interesting happen all at once in episode one. But this one just doesn't engage me. The characters are not interesting. I don't have to like characters but I do have to want to hear what they have to say and at no point in this series was the dialogue ever truly engaging in such a manner that made me think these were anything but actors saying their lines. Everything felt wooden.
Like there was a moment where an Elf had not seen his Dwarf friend in 20 years. Now for an Elf 20 years isn't much but for a Dwarf it's a huge amount of time. And they tackle that conflict in such a childish manner. Like I could imagine the scene be played out exactly the same in a children's cartoon made for 10 years old's as it was portrayed here.
Now this is NOT "The Worst Thing Ever." It doesn't "Ruin The Movies" or anything like that. It's just a boring piece of media (to me). It's a "C" piece of media. Not even a C- but also not a C+. And my screentime is so limited that I just don't have time for C media.
If you like it fine, people can like things I don't like and vice versa. But if you had told me in 2002 that there was going to be a BILLION dollar LoTR series in 2022 and that I would feel nothing as I watched it, well I would have been pretty disappointed (then I would quickly move on and ask you, the time traveler, for stock tips).
Like there was a moment where an Elf had not seen his Dwarf friend in 20 years. Now for an Elf 20 years isn't much but for a Dwarf it's a huge amount of time. And they tackle that conflict in such a childish manner. Like I could imagine the scene be played out exactly the same in a children's cartoon made for 10 years old's as it was portrayed here.
Now this is NOT "The Worst Thing Ever." It doesn't "Ruin The Movies" or anything like that. It's just a boring piece of media (to me). It's a "C" piece of media. Not even a C- but also not a C+. And my screentime is so limited that I just don't have time for C media.
If you like it fine, people can like things I don't like and vice versa. But if you had told me in 2002 that there was going to be a BILLION dollar LoTR series in 2022 and that I would feel nothing as I watched it, well I would have been pretty disappointed (then I would quickly move on and ask you, the time traveler, for stock tips).
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