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Prime Video is forging a new path for \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.\u201d<\/p>\n
The big-budget series debuted its first two episodes September 2, with an Amazon source telling The Hollywood Reporter that reviews are being held for 72 hours to weed out trolls \u2014 and not of the hulking JRR Tolkien variety, though possibly as witless. (Racists have the series’ diverse casting.) \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d currently has a 34 percent average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to an 87 percent critics score. As of print, there are zero reviews for the series on Prime Video with users unable to post.<\/p>\n
More from IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\nA representative for Prime Video had not returned IndieWire’s request for comment at publish time.<\/p>\n
Recently, Disney+ Marvel series \u201cShe-Hulk\u201d was confirmed to be \u201creview bombed\u201d on Rotten Tomatoes with an 88 percent critics score distinctly different than the initial 36 percent audience score. The audience score later rose to 50 percent. Review bombing is born after a group collaborates to upload negative reviews for its \u201cperceived cultural or political issues rather than its actual quality,\u201d as THR defined the term.<\/p>\n
Current Rotten Tomatoes reviews range from the racially-blind series being slammed for mirroring \u201ccurrent politics\u201d in a story that was \u201calready written and should not have been sullied\u201d to calling it \u201cboring.\u201d One review reads, \u201cReflecting world diversity in Middle Earth is an odd goal, albeit good for marketing maybe, but it was clearly more important than making a functional TV series.\u201d<\/p>\n
Co-created by showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay and already renewed for five seasons, the cast behind \u201cRings of Power\u201d anticipated racist backlash.<\/p>\n
When the studio originally released a photo of its multicultural cast, Amazon was immediately met with vitriolic online trolling, as fans took to social media to slam certain roles based on race and gender.<\/p>\n
Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n\u201cObviously there was going to be push and backlash,\u201d Tolkien scholar Mariana Rios Maldonado told Vanity Fair, \u201cbut the question is, from whom? Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?\u201d<\/p>\n
Series executive producer Lindsey Weber added, \u201cIt felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like. Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together. \u201d<\/p>\n
IMDb, which Amazon also owns, has not suspended audience ratings for \u201cRings of Power.\u201d Currently, the series stands at a 6.1 average score out of 10.<\/p>\n
IndieWire’s Ben Travers gave the series a B rating, writing, \u201c’The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ flutters to life in bursts, offering reason enough to believe, with time to play out its own story and optimize its own strengths , the Prime Video creation could leave its own gleaming mark on JRR Tolkien’s still-expanding universe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Prime Video is forging a new path for \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.\u201d The big-budget series debuted its first two episodes September 2, with an Amazon source telling The Hollywood Reporter that reviews are being held for 72 hours to weed out trolls \u2014 and not of the hulking JRR Tolkien …<\/p>\n
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