Unfortunately, Disney's copyright-extension laws don't just line Disney's pockets; they stretch the copyright on the Lord of the Rings until 2050 in the United States. LoTR would have gone into the public domain in Canada this year, but they just caved to the greedy bastards and passed a 20-years-more extension.
Amazon Prime Rings of Power: Lord of the Rings on Amazon
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Unfortunately, Disney's copyright-extension laws don't just line Disney's pockets; they stretch the copyright on the Lord of the Rings until 2050 in the United States. LoTR would have gone into the public domain in Canada this year, but they just caved to the greedy bastards and passed a 20-years-more extension.
TheRejectionist
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Aldarion
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And I decided to publish my commentary on Season 1 of Rings of Power:
Technically not finished, but it was too depressing to continue.
Technically not finished, but it was too depressing to continue.
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Jaenera Targaryen
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It was depressing to read too, not that I hold it against you, especially since everything you wrote was true. Professor Tolkien is turning in his grave.
Do not worry,Tolkien never finished his story about fall of Gondor for the same reason.
Jaenera Targaryen
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If nothing else, 'Rings of Power' is loyal to Tolkien's themes only in the sense that it embodies the corruption and decay ingrained in the very fabric of creation by the power and will of Morgoth Bauglir. A work starts out great and beautiful, but as time passes and wears, it slowly but steadily wilts and rots away.
IIRC Amazon laid off the original crew/cast? I think RoP is DoA.
They (Amazon Studois) recently laid off around 750 people, IIRC, and already had killed off a slew of shows to make up for the costs and failed RoI from Rings of Power. With Indian Sauron and the utterly lacklustre (and justified) reception of the first season -- only 37% of viewers who started it actually watched it till the end -- we can assume that any continued production is solely due to contractual obligations.
Jaenera Targaryen
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The sheer schadenfreude inspires yet more from yours truly, so allow to join in...
*coughs and composes face and voice into solemnity*
...my sincerest condolences.
Poe
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The actor that plays Sauron is a white dude from Australia, what are you talking about?
I think there were rumors that they are recasting him, however from that standpoint I personally don't care, Sauron is a shape shifter and a master schemer who can disguise himself as anyone. Although I have no faith in them being able to execute that effectively.
In an ideal world were Rings of Power had competent writers Sauron would have been literally multiple people throughout the series, he could be nobody in the background one season, a minor villain in another with seemingly different goals the next, a man who joins the protagonist one season and becomes a well like character only to have him fake his death at the end in a 'heroic' sacrifice only to then rip the rug out from under the viewers who felt he was 'safe' after that death by revealing he survived and is in fact Sauron.
If you want my opinion, really the entire story should have been a fantasy adventure thriller with Sauron playing the game so smoothly that the protagonists are only barely able to keep up with some of his moves by flukes or intentional slip ups on his part to further some other goal.
That! Is how I would imagine a well written Rings of Power Sauron would be written as you would imagine him, hyper competent, the singular most powerful being east of Valinor (Tom Bombadil withstanding) and someone who is more than willing to get his hands dirty or play any part, he would be Loki without any of the redeeming qualities, a control freak dominated so much by his inhuman, industrialized machinelike interpretation of the world that he cannot see a beauty in the free will, nor understand people beyond their uses as tools to be used and disposed as needed their feelings irrelevant to the situation.
The bittersweet ending of the series as I would write it would leave you thinking first and foremost.
"Thank God Sauron lost the ability to shapeshift as well as the one ring later because if he had one or the other at the time of The Lord of The Rings the Free People would be beyond doomed."
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Maybe Sauron has a Stepbrother from Harad who goes by... the same name as his... Stepbrother...
having watched youtube walk throughs of the Gollum game when it came out...am I, seemingly, the only person who likes that game? Not every game has to be some major high budget production to be enjoyable, and the complexities and tragedy of Gollum's character is one of the most human parts of Tolkien's legendarium
The problem with it isn't that it was low production, there have been countless crap adaptations of video games concerning LOTR over the years and you don't hear many complaning.
The problem with Gollum is that it's a 16 millon dollar budgeted game with outdated graphics and gameplay more at home in 2008 than 2023 that has been marketed and priced like a AAA game that has ten times that budget.
I mean if the game was offered at a starting price of like thirty dollars or less with a download only release you probably wouldn't hear near as much criticism, everybody is more offended that the game was initially priced as if it were Elden Ring, Halo Infinite or Witcher 3 and the fact is that it in no way shape or form is those games equals and in no way is worth the intial 60 dollars they were asking.
In other words, it isn't the game strictly that people have a problem with.
Jaenera Targaryen
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I know AI art can be a very controversial topic, but fucking hell, would you look at this?
All that money Amazon sank into the burning dumpster fire that was their lame excuse for a TV show, and a hobbyist's AI shows them up. That's just sad, that is.
All that money Amazon sank into the burning dumpster fire that was their lame excuse for a TV show, and a hobbyist's AI shows them up. That's just sad, that is.