people crying that the reviews are bad but all in all the reviews are quite favourable. 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, 71% Metacritic and 6/10 on imdb
Personally I align more with imdb since that's been my platform for reviewing things since 2001. With that said, I am not putting my review of season 1 up until season 1 is finished, I don't like that they make you put reviews up right away. At least wait until the season is over.
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Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
I have read tolkien (hobbit, lotr, silmarillion, unfinished tales) and I loved it.
Yea they didn’t follow the lore 100%. That doesn’t make it BAD though.
I loved touches like the dwarves referencing Aule, or the elves relinguishing their armour/weaponry before entering valinor.
Review aggregates are all over the place though.
Wheel of Time critic reviews sits at an 85% and it was mediocre at best.
In had Prime for over a year before I put 2 and 2 together and realised I could use it to watch shows.
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I would have loved it if they'd leaned into Lenny more and made all the Harfoots speak with a brummy accent.
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This is basically the side of Galdriel that she finally banishes in LotR when she refuses the One Ring, her speech to Elrond about not wanting to take the darkness she carries to Aman basically confirms it. I do think the show has suffered slightly from their licensing agreement, lots of what happened with a telling lack of how and why. Still I loved their allusion to the First Kinslaying and it was nice to see the brief glimpse of the Oath of Fëanor.
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I'd be extremely disappointed if it is Gandalf and a little bit if it's Sauron or Radagast. I'm hoping it's Sauron pretending to be an Istari sent to oppose himself, but I'll happily accept a Blue Wizard.
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Only seen the first episode so far but things I worried would look a bit goofy like the Harfoots turned out alright. I did get massive Peter Rabbit vibes from Nori, especially as they showed someone carrying a huge bunny just before she scrabbled through Farmer McGregor the abandoned farm's gate.
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Overall I just love how much this feels like Arda. Yeah the events aren't going to be 100% "canonical" but the feel of the setting is spot on and it's completely recognisable to someone who has read the Silmarillion and delved into HoMe and NoMe.
I think the death of all the fireflies around him was a strong hint that it is Sauron, perhaps in Annatar form (though he needs a bit of a wash and shave first)
Would explain how Galadriel could never find him, if he had removed himself from Middle-Earth.
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I said my wife is completely disinterested because of the media that Amazon has released, nothing to do with any "vitriol" or anything. She doesn't read forums online and knows nothing about this show other than the released trailers and teasers.
It is possible for people not to like something of their own free will, you know.
Now that I've read a plot synopsis of the show I also lack interest, as both a fan of Tolkien and an enjoyer of cinema in general. Just reading the dialog gives me severe cringe vibes.
Would be nice if it was a Netflix series, releasing one episode per week is stupid
Watched the first ep and it wasn't complete shite.
It's not a bad show, but it's not Tolkien. They took names and places familiar to people from the movies and made their own story.
They probably would have been better served not calling this Tolkien and making their own property, but I doubt they would have gotten the funding without the name recognition.
I don't know the timeline, but my first thought was that he's actually Melkor (or a part of him) that somehow managed to escape banishment/imprisonment. But it would probably make more sense if he's just a Maiar of some sort. No point in having two cosmic baddies (Sauron and Morgoth) around in the same story like this.
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The series would literally be forgotten in a week if they did that.
As much as I like Netflix's model, it does terribly for the longevity of a series. If there wasn't a one-month gap between Stranger Things 4 release, no one would have continued talking about it after a couple weeks.
IMDb has deleted every single user review that gave a score of 5/10 or below. Fucking lol.
For the amount of money they threw at this, the reviews aren't great. More concerning is the critic/audience disconnect. The critics can praise it all they like but they aren't going to be the ones paying to watch it.
6.1 on Amazon owned imdb, and that is with one third of reviews giving it 10/10.
Rotten tomatoes is 84% from critics, but just 34% from audience viewers.
Metacritic is 71 from critics but 2.3 from the audience.
I mean, it's pretty obvious just looking at any of those reviews that it's being brigaded.
It goes both ways - anyone giving it a 10/10 is not being objective either. It's not the greatest show ever made just like it isn't the worst either. It's kind of average.
For the most expensive TV show ever made you'd want more than just average though.
Lets be real the brigade goes both ways, plenty of 10/10 for a show that certainly doesn't in the slightest deserve that high of a score.
I do get confused by all the people claiming it is stunning visuals, like they are good, but certainly not amazing, nothing new or stunning. Like 7 of 10 at best.
Every single reviee below 6 out of 1
Was deleted by imdb(amazon owns it)