I haven't watched it, mostly because I found out before it aired that they had compressed the timeline of a sizable chunk of the Second Age into a single human lifespan, and that killed any interest I had in it.
(Well, no; mostly because I don't have an Amazon subscription and won't purchase one. But I wasn't tempted to do so, because of the timeline issue.)
I don't understand why Amazon chose this route; if they wanted a generic, action-movie-esque fantasy property with a human timeline, they could have chosen one particular part of the Second Age to focus on, and if they wanted to show an Age in full, they should have built the show around that, because it's imcompatible with the hacked-off timeline they themselves insisted on. There's no way you can do justice to an Age when you've flattened it into such a cramped span; it would be like trying to turn time-lapse video of a redwood tree's development into a summer action movie.
The sexism in casting/costuming hasn't impressed me, either, but the timeline is still the most baffling and offputting element.
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Date: 2022-10-15 12:39 am (UTC)(Well, no; mostly because I don't have an Amazon subscription and won't purchase one. But I wasn't tempted to do so, because of the timeline issue.)
I don't understand why Amazon chose this route; if they wanted a generic, action-movie-esque fantasy property with a human timeline, they could have chosen one particular part of the Second Age to focus on, and if they wanted to show an Age in full, they should have built the show around that, because it's imcompatible with the hacked-off timeline they themselves insisted on. There's no way you can do justice to an Age when you've flattened it into such a cramped span; it would be like trying to turn time-lapse video of a redwood tree's development into a summer action movie.
The sexism in casting/costuming hasn't impressed me, either, but the timeline is still the most baffling and offputting element.