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Rings of Power. I really wanted it to love it.
This one hurts. The potential was there, the visuals were genuinely incredible, the acting was solid, and I remember liking the music. But the writing was atrocious. It was like they went with the first draft. And also they piled on all those stupid prequel tropes like: "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to find out how this iconic character got their NAME!"
The music and the visuals are what I kept going back for, and the clearly-insane hope that someone on the writing team might have picked up any of the Silmarillion or History of Middle earth books and just given them some consideration
The concept behind Rings of Power is what is wrong with the show.
The Silmarillion is a terrible “book” to try to adapt to a TV show. The whole thing is a bunch of incomplete ideas. Add to that, Amazon wasn’t even able to get the full rights to it..
Amazon should have just done an adaptation of the LOTRs or done nothing at all.