"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" boasts a price tag that must be mentioned: the most expensive series in television history.
The production of the first season, which launched on Friday, cost Amazon Prime something like $715 million.
The product is a prequel series, which takes place hundreds of years before the events in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Peter Jackson's film adaptation, and manages to provide fans with a fantasy to face with dwarves, elves, dragons, intensifying evil and the whole Middle-earth package.
But is the most expensive series in history capable of being a masterpiece series?
Because its opening point is not promising.
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of adventures in a detailed fantasy universe, but drama was never part of Tolkien's books;
Certainly compared to the brand of "Game of Thrones" (the competitor from HBO, which simultaneously broadcasts "The House of the Dragon", which appeals to a similar section of viewers).
Want to say, George R.R.
Martin wrote books about Westeros jumping between multiple storylines - this simplified the TV adaptation, gave Game of Thrones air for many seasons and left material for another series.
The creators of the new "Lord of the Rings" had nothing to work with, and they invented dramatic plots for the series based on undeveloped parts of the story.
To adapt the work to the platform they also built replicas of characters and replaced the Tolkienian literary writing with clichéd dialogues.
A weak starting point.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power",
According to the first two episodes, "The Lord of the Rings" is not worth the investment and does not provide anything we have not seen before.
Maybe Tolkien really has to stay in books, and has no place on television - that's the 715 million dollar question.
"The Lord of the Rings The Wind Rings", double opening episode, Amazon Prime
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