Der Herr der Ringe: Die Ringe der Macht

As a Lord of the Rings fan, I was eagerly awaiting the origin stories of Middle-earth. Of course, I have high expectations after Lord of the Rings, which is close to perfection in terms of time and fiction. Because they have a considerable budget and opportunities, that's why I gave my points by watching the first episode right away. Although it is the beginning part, I can say that I liked the first part very much. The character of Galadriel could have been more strong, but she is still successful. We will warm up to the characters better over time.

Characters: 8 Story: 10 Decor and venue: 10 Costume: 10 Music: 10.

A pleasant surprise, the cinematography is impeccable, the characters quite well done, the plot looks like a link between the stories of the First Age, the Silmarillion and the stories of the Lord of the Rings of the Third Age, the rhythm of narration is pleasant albeit a bit slow. If the outcome of the series will be to narrate how Sauron forged the Rings of Power, it will definitely be something to watch. Until this moment, I think that in general terms, at least the first chapter delivers. I think enough to be cautiously optimistic about what the next 7 episodes might turn out to be. I must add, again that I am pleasantly surprised.

We all know liberties were taken with this series so my review is not based on faithfulness to the source material.

A lot of the marketing for this show led people to fear it would be woke. I didn't see anything like that. I wasn't rolling my eyes or cringing at any virtue signalling.

The pace is a little rough in parts but since it's the beginning of the series I almost expect a little dawdling. There's a lot going on, things to be set up and introduced etc...

The characters and the story is engaging though, the cinematography was well done, and the score seemed to fit... so I'm honestly excited to see where this series goes.

Definitely give this a shot and decide for yourself.

Overall a very meh series that does not convince at all. No character has developed enough to care about. Now I lied a bit, Adar is honestly the most interesting character in S01 (played by the same actor that plays Benjen Stark in Got). The fact that the series then hangs on a main character with one facial expression, does not make things better.

They have spent absolutely zero time to make the audience care and feel anything for the story and its characters. Everything feels stiff and forced into its dialogue and is very woody. In PJ's LotR Gandalf, Frodo, Aragon, Samwise, etc is way more interesting, credible and human than this party.

Fortunately, there is to see the Got Prequel series, which is so much more vibrant than this mess.

Visually it is beautiful, but at the same time, too beautiful. It's kinda seems fake, cause everything everywhere is beautiful to the max. It's is so unreal when nothing looks used, damaged, gritty. It just feels strange and wrong with the visuals.

This is as bad as Amazon's The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Which also was a huge disappointment.

RoP S01 is a 1/10.

It's a shame they are even calling this Lord of the Rings. They should've made their own fantasy series, instead of ruining Lord of the Rings.

A case study in how you can ruin an entire series by taking away everything that made the original good, LOTR is a story about heroes, this is a story about failure through and through. Case in point Galadriel is probably the oldest living elf in middle earth, she is the elf kings great, great aunt yet he talks to her like a child... make it make sense.

It takes the ancestors of all your favourite characters, dresses them up in plastic mock ideas of what they think they should be then try to beat you to death with nostalgia baiting. It honestly hurts to watch some of the episodes when they get things so absolutely wrong, to the point where even the spectacle of the thing is just a bore. Watch it for a laugh, pretend its another universe.