JRR Tolkien Super Duper Mega Thread

[nocera]

Aragorn: A Lord of the Rings Story.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Ok, I'm all in on a Treebeard series.

[eddy]

Ok, I'm all in on a Treebeard series.

Finally gets around to talking in episode 4 of a 6 episode series. First 3 just him walking. 25 seasons.

[tifosi77]

That would be funny. A character asks him a question in Ep1 and he answers it in the finale.

[nocera]

I have really high hopes for this show but this trailer is not it.

[eddy]

I thought that was the best trailer so far

[tifosi77]

The trailer is spectacular, but whoever was in charge of placing that music should be fired from the entertainment industry and made to live out their life in solitude as Elon Musk's first experimental Mars colonist.

The music is a monumentally awful selection.

[nocera]

I thought that was the best trailer so far

Okay, Jurassic World Dominion lover. The music is extremely bad but just part of the badness. It's like they're trying to appeal to a much difference audience, which makes sense, but the dramatic slow-mo, music, overuse of fades, and drab voice over make it feel like a cheap knock off. This is The Asylum's Lord of the Rings. I still have hope for the show but sorry tif and eddy, that's a bad trailer.

[tifosi77]

Nocera, taker of bad, downer of doubling

[Dickie Dunn]

What the **** is this show even about?

[nocera]

Thinking maybe it was just me, I looked at the feedback of the trailer on r/lotr and r/television and it looks like my take is the popular one. Deal with that, bad takers.

[tifosi77]

What the **** is this show even about?

[eddy]

I thought that was the best trailer so far

Okay, Jurassic World Dominion lover. The music is extremely bad but just part of the badness. It's like they're trying to appeal to a much difference audience, which makes sense, but the dramatic slow-mo, music, overuse of fades, and drab voice over make it feel like a cheap knock off. This is The Asylum's Lord of the Rings. I still have hope for the show but sorry tif and eddy, that's a bad trailer.

Haha, even my kids turned on me saying JWD was terrible last night.

Rings of power soundtrack is on Amazon and I listened to it this weekend with my daughter. I think they nailed it. Very impressed with what they did

[Dickie Dunn]

It would take some editing to align things properly, but this is certainly better:

[nocera]

I thought that was the best trailer so far

Okay, Jurassic World Dominion lover. The music is extremely bad but just part of the badness. It's like they're trying to appeal to a much difference audience, which makes sense, but the dramatic slow-mo, music, overuse of fades, and drab voice over make it feel like a cheap knock off. This is The Asylum's Lord of the Rings. I still have hope for the show but sorry tif and eddy, that's a bad trailer.

Haha, even my kids turned on me saying JWD was terrible last night.

Rings of power soundtrack is on Amazon and I listened to it this weekend with my daughter. I think they nailed it. Very impressed with what they did

They're learning.

I have no doubt that the actual score will be solid and my reactions is 100% the editing and choices made with that trailer. I still think (hope) the show will be good. Gotta say, HOD set the bar pretty high.

[eddy]

I thought that was the best trailer so far

Okay, Jurassic World Dominion lover. The music is extremely bad but just part of the badness. It's like they're trying to appeal to a much difference audience, which makes sense, but the dramatic slow-mo, music, overuse of fades, and drab voice over make it feel like a cheap knock off. This is The Asylum's Lord of the Rings. I still have hope for the show but sorry tif and eddy, that's a bad trailer.

Haha, even my kids turned on me saying JWD was terrible last night.

Rings of power soundtrack is on Amazon and I listened to it this weekend with my daughter. I think they nailed it. Very impressed with what they did

They're learning.

I have no doubt that the actual score will be solid and my reactions is 100% the editing and choices made with that trailer. I still think (hope) the show will be good. Gotta say, HOD set the bar pretty high.

Going back to JP, we get JA Bayona directing some of these episodes coming from fallen kingdom.

[nocera]

You're not really selling me on this.

[tifosi77]

Thinking maybe it was just me, I looked at the feedback of the trailer on r/lotr and r/television and it looks like my take is the popular one. Deal with that, bad takers.

"I may have a crap take...... let's see what Reddit says. Oh, I'm in line with r/[whatever], I'm good."

[tifosi77]

Can somebody please help me block all these toxic avenger YouTube channels posting daily anti-ROP pukefests? I'm not in the business of feeding trolls, and have never watched one of these videos the whole way through; to the extent I've clicked play on any one of them at all it was to drop a thumbs down on it. Yet YT persists on recommending them to me, and I'd very much like it to stop doing that.

It's not that I'm defensive about the show, it's that these ape farts are quite clearly overdosed on the evils of 'woke' and that seems to be the full extent of their cerebral output.

[nocera]

You can click the three buttons and select either "not interested in this" or "don't recommend channel." I had to do that for the two guys who pretend to react to movies for the first time. I don't know if it'll hide ALL ROP content from you though.

[eddy]

Has anyone seen anything about episode length for the season?

[tifosi77]

I guess that's a web browser thing, it wasn't available in-app. To the tubes!

[tifosi77]

Has anyone seen anything about episode length for the season?

It's 5 seasons and 50 hours. So I suppose however they want to break that down and divvy it up.

[nocera]

Likely about an hour. The creators called the first season an "eight-hour movie" and there are eight episodes total. I didn't realize it but it'll also be a two episode premiere.

[eddy]

Looks like they come out at 9pm on Fridays?