‘Painful To Watch’: Viewers Hate ‘Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power

Spoilers: DO NOT READ if you want to be surprised by the show.

So, let's chat about it. The below article is critical and I am mostly critical as well. First, the new hobbits. We have female Frodo and Sam. When the "big girl" showed up the first thing my wife said is "there is the new Sam". The Galadriel story has been horrible so far. Elrond looks and sounds NOTHING like the LOR character (Agent Smith) and it is hard to picture this guy as Elrond. The dialog is terrible. Right out of a CW TV series. The stories have been pretty bad so far. The only saving grace has been the Dwarves which I assume someone else wrote the dialog for or they had a separate Director / Producer for that part of the story as it is much better than the rest comparatively.

Then we see Star Gandalf. Pretty sure this is who he is supposed to be an "Age" early. Star Gandalf.....

Anyway, Galadriel sails a few hundred miles to "ascend" and at the last second changes her mind and dives into the middle of the ocean...... Bad timing to change your mind and practically suicide. Made zero sense.

So, as for watchable, sure... .it is about as watchable as Discovery or a crappy fantasy show like Shanara Chronicles or the new Wheel of Time series with added CGI. I will watch it but it isn't that good. I give it a C-. Something to watch but I am not going to be waiting for the next episodes like I did with GoT or Witcher.


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Many of the people panning “Rings of Power” say it’s a visual masterpiece with an impressive score, but the dialogue is clunky and it’s difficult to connect with the characters. They are not angry about diversity initiatives. They just think it’s an unworthy adaptation.

“Complete disaster of a show, boring story, horrible characters (especially Galadriel), poorly written dialogs [sic], and it’s just two first episodes of the show. Above else, no respect for Tolkien and his work,” one person shared.

“The first episode was painful to watch. Not even the gorgeous CG backgrounds could save this mess. The dialogue was baffling. It sounded like they asked an AI to write it. The acting was uninspired and the protagonist was unsympathetic and unlikeable,” another agreed.

“While the visuals do not disappoint, not once did they manage to make me care about any of the characters,” another person shared.

“They forgot to spend their big budget on what matters: the dialogue is robotic and lifeless, the way the story is written conveys little to no emotion, and everything feels generic as if it was an unlicensed adaptation. The soul is just not there.”

I fell asleep. It was like watching the hour hand tick around.

originally posted by: lakenheath24
I fell asleep. It was like watching the hour hand tick around.

I like the Dwarf (Prince Durin) & his wife. So far they are the only Characters that seem to really click. I could care less what happens to rest. Kind of like the new Star Wars trilogy or the First season of Fear the Walking dead. Nobody really cares about any of the Characters.

And I swear.... Star Gandalf.... We are touching on Darth Gollum (Snoke) with this one. Just stupid and out of place.

a reply to: infolurker

I have to admit.. i had my trusted candy and beer, prepared to hate it and yell as i chug down some cold ones and stuff my face with sugary goodness...


But a few minutes in, and i was loving it, the orcs were cool, almost better than in lotr, because they were more corpse like.. the dwarves were really cool, much better than the male model types we saw in the hobbit.. the black actors kinda stood out, but i did not feel any wokeness in the first two episodes. racism was more like elves vs humans vs dwarves, instead of skin color, so i will allow it.

all and all, a positive surprise, and i hope the rest is as good.


Dont even get me started on the new GOT series, really boring, dreadful casting. especially when compared to the first episodes of the original show.


Would also like to add, i am a huge tolkien fan, have read it all, silmarillion many times etc.

a reply to: infolurker

I thought it was alright.

But I guess that doesn't fit in with the new group think that everything sucks, nothing is good anymore blah blah blah, wah wah wah.

a reply to: infolurker

I don't think Morfydd Clark is the right actress to play Galadriel, imo her face lacks expression and so far it created a rather boring character.

Not even half way through 2nd episode I caught myself zoning out constantly, the show can't keep my attention. Hope it becomes better in the 3rd otherwise I'll stop watching.

Also, the sound, either way to loud or you can hardly hear the conversations.


I did like House of the dragon so far, but Rings of Power is disappointing to me so far

originally posted by: KindraLabelle2
a reply to: infolurker

I don't think Morfydd Clark is the right actress to play Galadriel, imo her face lacks expression and so far it created a rather boring character.

Not even half way through 2nd episode I caught myself zoning out constantly, the show can't keep my attention. Hope it becomes better in the 3rd otherwise I'll stop watching.

Also, the sound, either way to loud or you can hardly hear the conversations.


I did like House of the dragon so far, but Rings of Power is disappointing to me so far

Haha, our opinions are the opposite, i like who they casted as galadriel, and hated who they cast as the princess in the house of dragon, and all the other Targaryens look wrong also. But different strokes for different folks

a reply to: XipeTotex

good thing we are not all alike

but in all honesty, I'm a huge GOT fan, it has to be really bad before I'll dislike it! lol

I thought the whole thing was well done.

Maybe I missed something, but I thought the reason that Galadriel jumped ship was she sensed evil had already taken hold on the kingdom of the elves (at least thats what I felt).

Loved the dwarf kingdom and seeing the great halls in all their glory as it mentioned in LOTR.

CGI was stunning. Things have come a long way since the LOTR trilogy and thank god theres a whole lot less soft focus.

Dialogue is no better or worse than the books in my opinion, but the audio WAS too low during conversations (also an issue with HOTG) - I figured this might be more of an issue with me not having a 5.1 system with center channel to watch it on.

To each their own.

Most critics are idiots. Took me awhile to figure that out. Now, I don't read reviews, I just see it for myself and at least 7 out of 10 negative reviews are not even warranted.

Or perhaps I have bad taste.

Don't care.

Totally watching it, and I'm reinvigorated as far as the LOTR Universe is concerned.

House of the Dragon is not too shabby either. Both shows show huge potential in my opinion.

a reply to: infolurker

I agree with you. Why meddle with success? They could have done sooo much with the source material. I would love to see a true to print telling of Turin.
Edit to add... the girl who plays Galadriel looks just like Damaris from the Food Network.

I think the problem partially is with "GIRRRL Power" Galadriel. Yes, she is a very strong woman, but not in the sword and board sense. Think about LOTR when all the Fellowship meet her. They are terrified; they sense her power, but she's no more physically imposing than a tall lady dressed in a white dress. That's her power. She has presence. She doesn't need to dress the part; she IS the part.

I have not read the source material for HoD or LotR. With that being said, I felt the LotR show was better at displaying how broad and deep their universe is. HoD was good in it's own right, but it hasn't started as many storylines, yet, so it feels slower.

Just finished watching the first episode.

I do like the fierceness of Galadriel...made me think of Feanor

What threw me were the actors/actresses. Every single one looked out of place.

Apart from the names of characters/places, there's not much that follows the real story.

Pretty much what I expected... but there is some entertainment value there..

This abomination is to Tolkien's body of work what the Gospel of Peter is to the New Testament canon.

originally posted by: ketsuko
I think the problem partially is with "GIRRRL Power" Galadriel. Yes, she is a very strong woman, but not in the sword and board sense. Think about LOTR when all the Fellowship meet her. They are terrified; they sense her power, but she's no more physically imposing than a tall lady dressed in a white dress. That's her power. She has presence. She doesn't need to dress the part; she IS the part.

Agreed. Galadriels whole thing was being an OG Nolder, and having the fortitude and fire to match any male elf. From her politics in Valinor, to the grinding ice, She proved herself a force to reckon with. Another thing that kind of threw me off was the whole friendship with Elrond. He is supposed to be her son in law.

Plop! You need to grab someone within the first ten minutes, especially today with so much choice vying just beyond the back button. The first ten minutes of this was like swimming in syrup.

Agree on most of the points. Visuals are excellent. Characters aren't very interesting right now. I did like the dwarves though. Even the dwarf elf interaction. The search for Sauren because hes evil and comin back is bland to me.

Im definetly going to watch more and hope it gets better.

a reply to: EternalShadow

Yea agreed. Its hard to completely trust the internet on shows like the new GoT or LOTR because anything but near perfection would be seen as an abomination to some fans.

I think it was well done so far... they're just introducing characters from the stories, we're only two episodes in.

the visuals were stunning throughout... and honestly i have no complaints thus far.

I also read the producers aren't even concerned with the plot right now. With loads of material to draw from they're just working up the feel of middle earth in the early days

I was actually hoping they were going to use the material from before Beleriand sank... looks like they skipped that entire part of the story.

Lets hope we see some flash back stories in the future.