El señor de los anillos: Los anillos de poder

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.

Unlikable characters. Storyline with giant logic flaws. Twists that were so obvious, that we saw them coming the moment the twist characters were introduced. The only thing making the twists a surprise was that writers threw out what was already established in the books to make it happen.

To me, this ended up being another reboot, that not only was terrible, but spat on its predecessors.

The only upside I'll give it, is at least the visuals looked deserving of this shows' giant budget. If only they put some of this budget towards a strong writing team. It's hard to imagine how this show could be turned around.

Although I liked some of the landscapes/cities (in my opinion most of that was done much better than in those Hobbit movies), some others seemed to be very cheap greenscreen settings. Don't really get this... there was so much money available to do better.

Most of the behaving of nearly all main characters doesn't make sense at all. Galadriel is worst. Just count how many times and how fast she changes her mind about what to do with Adar (!?). That woman should be one of the most powerful beings at the time with hundereds years of age. Instead she acts like a 13 year old Teenager.

Biggest disappointment is storytelling. There are so many things that do not make sense at all. Watch some videos of people explaning them in detail, that would take too much time.

I'm not even talking about points that differ from Tolkien's books. It's things like: you see Harfoots travelling through landscapes for what has to last weeks or months (considering they are small, walking and carrying all of their stuff without the support of horses) but at the same time you see other characters for only some (2 or 3) days on the island of Numenor?!

Last but not least: if you do points I mentioned above that badly, minorities/genders (and whatever else should be shown here) won't be seen equal and can't be taken serious. I'm so disapointed in this desperate try to present different strong "unusual" characters throughout all storylines but letting them act like total fools most of the time. That should have been done better...