Bilbo

Dunno why HotD being a prequel is an issue. There aren’t any characters that will be in GoT. There’ll be familiar locations and names but the events of the show don’t have any direct impact on GoT. It’s just a separate event in Westerosi history. Now, if it was Robert’s Rebellion they were adapting I’d understand the hesitation.

If it didn’t have Lord of the Rings plastered across the front of it I would never have been able to tell that had anything to do with Tolkien.

“from the guys who saw (some of) The Lord of the Rings movies”

Oh Christ.

Was that Harfoot woman supposed to be doing an Irish accent? Please tell me she wasn’t because that’s fucking terrible . Also, this is a bit of a stretch:

There’s a stench of that awful Sword of Shannarah TV series off Rings of Power.

I don’t know if anyone can solve the Myreenese knot! And now he’s in an awkward position where he’s original ending hasn’t gone down well. He’s now got to try and fix that. I think Bran becoming king was always his plan. It’s foreshadowed in the books. Even the very first chapter is from Bran’s POV. I think Dany was always supposed to go mad and be the bad guy. In saying all that, a couple of extra episodes, Jon killing the Night King, and Arya killing Cersei might have gone a long way towards saving the reputation of the show.

He’s great at creating a story and he’s a terrific world builder but he’s an awful writer. His “I’m a Gardner not an Architect” approach is just an excuse for being a poor author. He had no fucking clue how he was going to get from point A to B and now he’ll never get there because of all the ridiculous detours he took.

The books are an even bigger mess than the show. The show, for all its faults, managed to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. That will never happen in the books.

I’m cautiously optimistic about House of the Dragon. I think a lot was learned from the reaction to GoT and I think the Dance of Dragons has a story that the casual GoT fans will really enjoy once they give it a chance. D&D have no involvement either. RoP looks fucking awful in every respect.

Somethings Can’t Be Forgotten is playing on a loop in my head since the episode aired.

As said, it’s Holt’s action writing that really let’s her down. some of the more lyrical stuff is alright. but having seen the show and listened to the album they should just have hired Ross and given him a free hand

From what we’ve seen so far from both I’m more excited for this than Rings of Power

Also. 2 tracks (Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore and The Room We Require) will be available on streaming platforms from April 1st. So they’re already available in any time zone where it’s that date already.

I haven’t seen it but I know some people who have and no. It isn’t explained. It’s treated the same way as the change of Dumbledores in Harry Potter.

TORn hasn’t been relevant for a long long time now.

Amazon only has tv rights at the moment. but even if they buy the rights to make movies from SZ they won’t have the rights to the pre-existing films as I understand it.

A Shore score and this is already better than Rings of Power. the concept art is hopefully an indication that this won’t be too stylised.

So not only is it adding a bunch of non Tolkien storylines and characters none of it is actually going to really look like the Jackson films because legally it can’t. That explains the generic looking cities and stuff. This is going to be everything bad about the Hobbit x1000 People complained about the Hobbit being a single book made into three movies. This is a handful of pages being made into several seasons of TV!

This might be the one positive thing from this series!

My biggest worry is that this would be like Sword of Shannarah or Wheel of Time… and so far that’s exactly what it looks like. I have pretty much no faith in Amazon when it comes to producing original TV and movies. Every scrap of news that comes out about this show gets worse and worse. This could be a very expensive flop for Amazon.

The music in the teaser is Shore? Really? It doesn’t sound like him at all. Trailerised epic Shore maybe but… eh

Leak it Doug! Do a Ryan Reynolds Deadpool on it!! and send us all hard drives of the scoring sessions for the trilogy!

Yes the “subtle” Númenor reference 😬