tv Amazon's "The Rings of Power"... is anyone here watching this dreck?

[Bad Hippo]

I've managed to retain my sanity after watching the first two episodes last year of Season 1 of "The Rings of Power" (where I promptly gave up and did something else). Fuck me, it was awful pompous shite. If JRR Tolkien saw what had been created in his famous world of magic and villany, he'd be spinning in his grave so fast, he'd drill a hole to New Zealand!

And now Amazon has doubled-down on their Billion dollar mountain of shit with a second season (which I will not be watching). However, I think The Critical Drinker says it best in his video here - it's not got any better. In fact, it's got worse!



What about the rest of you?

Any of you watched it?

Have any of you liked it?

 

[The anarchist]

I have not seen it and now I know I will not 😂👍

 

[savgbeast]

"Billion dollar slab of arse cancer" - lol.

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

Agreed, I really wanted to like this series. But I could not.

Black elves? Black dwarves? What kinda DEI nonsense is this?? It’s bullshit.

 

[Lepeka]

Fuck no

 

[LowkeyRenHana]

NEW ZEALAND MENTION RAAAAWRR- I keep getting ads to watch this dumpster fire and I refuse for the sake of my heritage.

 

[Harumph]

Yeah no, I'm not going to watch that. Thanks for the warning though, @Bad Hippo! I don't watch television much nor do I use a smartphone these days. It's bliss and I don't have to sacrifice more IQ pernts on horrific shows! If ever I want to binge watch something or watch a movie, which is very rare and it must be good to great or a classic, I go to HD Today and watch it for free if I don't already have the DVD. Lately, I've been watching the start of the new 2024 version of Shōgun, based upon the 1975 James Clavell novel. It's at least as great as the 1980 mini-series version with Toshiro Mifune, Richard Chamberlain and John Rhys-Davies. They are both a good watch if you like the age of exploration and the age of samurai in feudal Japan during the early period of the Edo Shogunate in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It is fiction though, but loosely based on an actual English navigator named William Adams (1564-1620), if you would like to check it out.

Shōgun (2024 TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

William Adams (samurai) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Bad Hippo]

I still have my copy of Clavell's novel, Shogun, which I read when I was 16. I need to blow the dust off it and give it another go.

I'm currently ploughing through "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds.

 

[oyleodoyle]

Fantasy England with diversity hires, girlbosses and everyone is gay.
How about, 'No,' Scott, okay?

 

[kozer]

It’s sad hey had so much money and this is what we got.