Calibandar Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Would be much better to just show off some characters rather than this..its a tease yes but you cant deduce anything from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 You can deduce that Jeff Bezos the Golden has a lot of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryk Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, fionwe1987 said: You can deduce that Jeff Bezos the Golden has a lot of money. He certainly does, although it didn't feel like much of it went into The Wheel of Time (I know it had a big budget, just saying it didn't feel like it did). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Darryk said: He certainly does, although it didn't feel like much of it went into The Wheel of Time (I know it had a big budget, just saying it didn't feel like it did). This is either because of choices the showrunner made, or it could be because a large chunk of the budget was ear-marked for buying and building a studio that Amazon intends to use across other productions. If the former, I would not expect things to be improved very much even with a higher budget. If the latter, 2nd season should look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 20 hours ago, fionwe1987 said: Kind of shows how far behind WoT was in this department. Kind of shows what happens when Amazon writes a blank cheque. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Darryk said: He certainly does, although it didn't feel like much of it went into The Wheel of Time (I know it had a big budget, just saying it didn't feel like it did). The man is paying for a bridge in Rotterdam to be dismantled so that his Bond villain sail yacht can pass through when completed. Some cuts had to be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 4 hours ago, fionwe1987 said: You can deduce that Jeff Bezos the Golden has a lot of money. He must have one of the seven then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 6 hours ago, fionwe1987 said: You can deduce that Jeff Bezos the Golden has a lot of money. And he's raising the rates for Amazon Prime, despite having an earnings report off the hook, and having crushed fb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASOIAFrelatedusername Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/amazon-the-rings-of-power-series-first-look Excuse me while I vommit Quote “The forging of the rings,” says McKay. “Rings for the elves, rings for dwarves, rings for men, and then the one ring Sauron used to deceive them all. It’s the story of the creation of all those powers, where they came from, and what they did to each of those races.” Quote Another concern: Is the series going to put hobbits in the Second Age? In short (so to speak), yes and no. “One of the very specific things the texts say is that hobbits never did anything historic or noteworthy before the Third Age,” says McKay. “But really, does it feel like Middle-earth if you don’t have hobbits or something like hobbits in it?” The hobbit ancestors in this era are called harfoots. They may not live in The Shire, but they are satisfyingly hobbit-adjacent. McKay and Payne have constructed a pastoral harfoot society that thrives on secrecy and evading detection so that they can play out a kind of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead story in the margins of the bigger quests. Two lovable, curious harfoots, played by Megan Richards and Markella Kavenagh, encounter a mysterious lost man whose origin promises to be one of the show’s most enticing enigmas. Quote Bronwyn (played by Nazanin Boniadi) with her forbidden love, Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), in the village of Tirharad. Nazanin Boniadi’s Bronwyn is a single mother and healer, seen here in her apothecary in Middle-earth’s Southlands. Quote Speaking of Sauron, the villain’s presence is a major factor throughout the Second Age, culminating in his resurrection as a tyrant. As the show begins, there are only hints of the danger to come. Some see them clearly; others don’t necessarily want to. Quote Elrond (Robert Aramayo) is a politically ambitious young elven leader Blergh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon2909 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Just saw the newly released photos. HAHAHAHAHAHA why are Americans like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Quote Galadriel, commander of the Northern Armies. That's all I needed to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhaenysBee Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 I saw the new stills on Instagram. I am not watching it. I refuse to reaffirm the existence of this thing and the decisions that brought it about by allocating even a single penny to its revenues. My fragile nerves don’t need this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 38 minutes ago, Falcon2909 said: Just saw the newly released photos. HAHAHAHAHAHA why are Americans like this Hey, don't blame us all for this. ETA: Why do the elves look like they were ported from The Witcher? A new Convergence?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Sigh. I will never like short-haired elves. They just look too pedestrian. Whatever characters and plots they invent, my fear is that the spirit of Tolkien's world will be absent. The final paragraph basically gives the story and is the most telling. And frankly I disagree with their decision. They're fine with inventing characters but don't wish to try to develop established characters that live and die in a certain period? Quote In the novels, the aforementioned things take place over thousands of years, but Payne and McKay have compressed events into a single point in time. It is their biggest deviation from the text, and they know it’s a big swing. “We talked with the Tolkien estate,” says Payne. “If you are true to the exact letter of the law, you are going to be telling a story in which your human characters are dying off every season because you’re jumping 200 years in time, and then you’re not meeting really big, important canon characters until season four. Look, there might be some fans who want us to do a documentary of Middle-earth, but we’re going to tell one story that unites all these things.” The Galadriel commander of the Northern Armies caption is really taking the piss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Drewy Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Quote So will there be Westerosi levels of violence and sex in Amazon’s Middle-earth? In short, no. McKay says the goal was “to make a show for everyone, for kids who are 11, 12, and 13, even though sometimes they might have to pull the blanket up over their eyes if it’s a little too scary. We talked about the tone in Tolkien’s books. This is material that is sometimes scary—and sometimes very intense, sometimes quite political, sometimes quite sophisticated—but it’s also heartwarming and life-affirming and optimistic. It’s about friendship and it’s about brotherhood and underdogs overcoming great darkness.” That really doesn't sound like the 'long defeat' of the Second Age to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 I'm guessing that either that Halbrand fellow or the enigma guy the Harfoots meet is Gandalf with amnesia or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Pretty much what one could have predicted from the time they revealed it was 2nd Age instead of closer to LotR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASOIAFrelatedusername Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 I am aware that I should not take this marketing article seriously, but I can not help but notice how little attention the more canon elements get. Yes we have a lot of Galadriel and a bit of Elrond, but Numenor, Isildur and Celebrimbor only get mentioned once. Elendil, Ar-Pharazon, Miriel, Tar-Palantir and Gil-galad do not even get one. Sauron himself seems more like an addition to the Hobbit storyline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 So much of this reads so wrong. This is less "passionate Tolkien fan spares no expense to bring his world to life" and more "let's use the Tolkien name and LotR make recognition to take over the fantasy TV show market". You're basically writing an original story in the world of LotR and using the names of popular characters to draw in fans. I wish these studios would just get the guts to write a big fantasy epic for TV from scratch and avoid all this nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 6 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said: I'm guessing that either that Halbrand fellow or the enigma guy the Harfoots meet is Gandalf with amnesia or something like that. What's worse is, there is in-canon reasons for Olorin to be in Middle Earth. Just not as an active player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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