***Official*** Amazon Rings of Power Thread (2 Viewers)

[Gr00vus]

Finally got around to watching season 2. Wish I hadn't. What a stupid show. Maybe Bezos is just trying to outdo Musk in terms of bad investments.

I also finally got around to finishing season 2 and thought it was pretty good (it's just one of those "me only" shows my wife isn't at all interested in, and I don't get around to watching those too often).
But then, I enjoyed season 1, too, despite its flaws. I can't imagine watching until the end if I had thought the first season was bad and wasn't at all enjoying the 2nd. Different strokes I guess.

I kept hoping it'd get better, as I'd like a solid middle earth series.

 

[stbugs]

Finally got around to watching season 2. Wish I hadn't. What a stupid show. Maybe Bezos is just trying to outdo Musk in terms of bad investments.

I also finally got around to finishing season 2 and thought it was pretty good (it's just one of those "me only" shows my wife isn't at all interested in, and I don't get around to watching those too often).
But then, I enjoyed season 1, too, despite its flaws. I can't imagine watching until the end if I had thought the first season was bad and wasn't at all enjoying the 2nd. Different strokes I guess.

I’m with you, I enjoyed both seasons. I hope we get every planned season.

 

[Buckna]

I think I know why Numenor is unsatisfying. We haven’t seen any real pay off yet.

It's not even that for me, though I could see others having issues. I expected that to be a slow-burn and don't mind it as long as the characters are well written/acted.

The son (of bad guy) and daughter (of good guy) pair are the weakest two actors in the show. It doesn’t help that the guards/army just take order from whoever gets chosen by an animal and there’s no army leader to even ask why. The son reminds me of every 80s movie dickhead rich kid that you know will lose and the daughter is just plain stupid always screwing over her family for the son who’s a d-bag. I think if the son didn’t have the entitled d-bag vibe and she wasn’t so dumb, Numenor would have been better. I know you can’t insert Sauron as a bad advisor right now but a bad guy advising him and pushing his son would have made it a bit better.

Also, the paragraph above wasn’t as much of a dig on the show but thoughts on why Numenor (post Galadriel/Halbrand) has been my least favorite as well. Really enjoyed all of season 2, but if I had to pick the worst part, that’s it. Queen surviving and getting “spit” out was fun.

I didn’t know all the backstory/fates of the Numenor crew yet so honestly, I was expecting that tidal wave the queen saw to happen as well. I get why it won’t yet but I look forward to it.

Would agree with this, the motivations of the daughter were very poorly laid out. I think we're supposed to buy into she's distraught that the Queen led the failed expedition leading to the "death" of Isildur but it was poorly done. It made turning against her father, the friend that later got murdered, and the queen seem like it came out of nowhere. Pharazon's son is mustache twirling evil and the standard spoiled rich kid trope and could be written much better.

 

[Tick]

Finally got around to watching season 2. Wish I hadn't. What a stupid show. Maybe Bezos is just trying to outdo Musk in terms of bad investments.

I also finally got around to finishing season 2 and thought it was pretty good (it's just one of those "me only" shows my wife isn't at all interested in, and I don't get around to watching those too often).
But then, I enjoyed season 1, too, despite its flaws. I can't imagine watching until the end if I had thought the first season was bad and wasn't at all enjoying the 2nd. Different strokes I guess.

Same here, I watched season 2 over the past couple of weeks and enjoyed it. It had some flaws, but overall I was happy.

ETA: Numenor story gets a 2/10, hobbits get a 6/10, dwarves get a 7/10, orcs get 7/10, and elves get 8/10.