Partings

I have already written this show off as a hack job, but I can't help but want to see how bad it gets. The issue is it's so bad, so boring, that Im floundering even doing that.

Please, for the love of god, fire these writers before season 2, you can still save this show!!!!!!!

Galadrial is unbelievably insufferable, she has no struggles what so ever, shes the best at everything, she can defeat every obstacle with absolute ease - this is terrible writing. Only high school kids would write a character that 1 dimensional. That fight they had was unbelievably cringe.

Why are the definitely not hobits always mentioning their feet? They never went on about it in the actual LotR. When they had an opportunity to have some great action, again deux ex machina- any writer that relies on such a troupe is not a writer, they are amateurs.

The legolas rip off guy should have kept his mouth shut as the guy cant act to save his life.

We all know who Sauron is, your efforts at subversion has failed.

THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

No matter what series it is, I always give them 5 episodes to wrap up and settle the issue. This is the 5th.

No, friends, the series is not recovering. A black elf is not the problem! I love the portrayal of a strong woman! I live in an eastern country and have nothing to do with the interesting problems of westerners. Color doesn't matter to us! We like strong women! The series is poorly written and neither the effort of the actors nor the great art design can save it. I'm not so excited...I get even more excited when I see a butterfly! This is very difficult to achieve. Orcs are on their way to attack, I don't care! The Numenoreans are on their way, I don't care! In the whole series, only Durin and Elrond's scenes catch my attention, that's all! Non logical things are flying around! Characters go out of their character! They should just call this "Rings Of Power" leaving the name LOTR out of it. Even the so called "bad" Hobbit's scene where the White Council fights against Nazgûls Dol Guldur is better then all 5 episodes and it is just 3 minutes long! Stop protecting bad things just because of your ideals...

Ep5 of Rings of Power is pretty much the exact same as the previous episodes. Average. For the most expensive TV show in history, it really does severely lack in writing and acting. This is the most boring episode so far, even though it does have some good moments;

Elrond and Druin are the best characters, they have a great on screen friendship that reminds me a little of Legolas and Gimli, they have great banter and ever scene with them in it, is the highlight. Even though Galadriel is dull and boring, I enjoyed the little sparring scene where she actually showed a different emotion other than frown - joy and playfullness. It was a good scene. The scenes with the Harfoots was ok I guess, nothing special as with the scenes in the Tower.

I know many people have compared this show with House of the Dragon, I can't help but do so to. We are also 5 episodes into that show, and yet we have fallen in love with the charcaters, and care about the story. Here, everything is just dull. There are no stakes, no tension, and no care for anyone the TV show wants us to care about. EP5: Partings is just the same old slow story with little happening. I don't think the show is bad, by any means, some of the bad reviews are a bit extreme. But I am keepiing my hopes up, that the show will improve, since Middle-earth is one of the greatest fictional places ever created.

C'mon creators and writers, you can do better than this.

It've been 5 episodes till now and the show keeps on disappointing, now don't get me wrong it's not a terrible show, but it's not good as well, it's just watchable. There are some really good characters in terms of performance, dialogues and their part of the story is interesting such as lord Elrond the elve and Durin the dwarf, their relationship is worth watching, with Elrond being the best character in the show . Galadrial on the other hand has a really weird writing her purpose makes zero sense her dialogues are lame and the performance is... I won't say bad i don't know who can play a character with this bad writing in a way that will actually make it bearable. The Hobbits part is fine not great but not bad, we are still half the way through the season so i won't judge the story but things don't look promising.

I don't know why they didn't spent a bigger portion of that 1 billion dollars they have been talking about for years on writing, the visual effects can vary from really good to just fine, but nothing outstanding.

So yeah the lord of the rings is disappointing till this moment which is episode 5, maybe the next episodes will prove me wrong, but until then iam not happy with it.

Again, as I've mentioned, the virtually static storytelling tempo continues. I guess it's fine for a series, but we're 3 episodes short of the season's end, so once again, as I've mentioned, this is going nowhere but to an "intriguing" cliffhanger.

The entire season seems to be aimed at introducing the characters. Too bad that 90% of the characters are either dull or annoying. Since the story has many branches, not all of them have been sufficiently developed in this episode.

In this episode, the writers keep introducing pointless conflicts and twists that don't add anything to the story but just make the characters constantly change their minds and feel inconsistent. Perhaps it would be easier to perceive even Galadriel's stubbornness if she spoke and acted like an elf rather than an actor in an elf costume. But this is not the case since the dialogue is so unnatural and modernized.

All in all, I went around in circles again, spending an hour watching the characters overcome made-up difficulties and constantly changing their minds. Already you can see that no characters are well-written, and most likely, there is no concrete vision of what they should become at the end since there is no clear understanding of the story's beginning and end.

So it is quite understandable why history is stagnating because it simply has nowhere to go. We don't know what to expect from the characters as they always act differently and change their attitudes at the last moment. That is, we know who they are supposed to become in many years and their future merits, except that what is happening now has nothing to do with the established personalities in the universe.

Thus, by episode 5 of the first season, the writers themselves have written out all the characters from the universe, making them more modern and completely different from expectations. If before, you would have thought that their way to the characters we know would be interesting, and we would understand why they became as we know them now so many years later. After this episode, given the pace and the approaching end of the season, I am fully convinced that the whole series is driven by completely different heroes, having nothing to do with the universe or Tolkien, who just put on fancy suits to do an amateur acting routine on expensive sets.

The problem is that the creators don't want to tell me a story to interest me, to intrigue me. They want me to watch it. They want me to spend time watching content. All the effort is invested in the process, not the substance. It's a beautiful empty shell, but what's the point?