{"id":97388,"date":"2022-10-14T23:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-finale-amazon-has-more-battles-to-come-spoilers\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T23:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:38:21","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-finale-amazon-has-more-battles-to-come-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-finale-amazon-has-more-battles-to-come-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season finale: Amazon has more battles to come (SPOILERS)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Editor’s Note: <\/b>The following contains spoilers about \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d season finale.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n \n \n \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d has ended its first season, with plans for several more to come. Yet the real battle for Amazon could be convincing everyone that its very expensive \u2013 and mostly underwhelming \u2013 gamble on JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth saga has been a rousing success.\n <\/p>\n \n Amazon has acted like it’s thrilled with the show’s execution and performance, with Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke touting its audience numbers in an interview with Variety, while noting that the first season accomplished \u201cthe hard work of setting up who all those characters are.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n After initial reviews admired the scope and visual grandeur, though, more critical voices have drifted into the naysaying column, pointing out \u2013 as the Daily Telegraph’s Duncan Lay put it \u2013 that the series \u201cmanaged to be both pretentious and boring.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Forbes’ Erik Kain sounded a similar note, writing that after the opening chapters, \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d has demonstrated \u201chow quickly a badly written TV series can wear out its welcome once the shimmer fades.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n A few barbs from critics are to be expected, and an earlier controversy surrounding the series and HBO’s \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d \u2013 involving greater inclusion of people of color, breaking up the monochromatic nature of these mythical worlds \u2013 perhaps helped distract from, or delay, more fundamental observations about the show and its flaws.\n <\/p>\n \n The eighth episode\/season finale underscored that point, offering belated revelations regarding Sauron and his identity, while presenting the actual forging of the rings, lovingly shot before fading into the threat to come.\n <\/p>\n \n At 70-plus minutes, it mirrored the season as a whole: Pretty, with a few visually striking moments, but slow and bloated. Where \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d has raced ahead using multiyear time jumps, generating ample buzz and viewership in the process, \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d \u2013 unlike Peter Jackson’s trilogy \u2013 has operated at something closer to a crawl. Heck, it took seven episodes just to see the name \u201cMordor\u201d flash across the screen.\n <\/p>\n
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