Amazon’s prequel series looks visually impressive, but the script is frequently just lore – said with such comical portent that it’s a turnoff to casual viewers. It really needs more action
mazon’s streaming service, Prime Video, is burdened with what it hopes is its one true destiny: to create a fantasy series as popular as Game of Thrones used to be. Can it prevail? Fearsome enemy HBO is casting a long shadow with, a show that has the major advantage of being a Thrones prequel, but Amazon has a big, iron-spiked prequel of its own. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been given a colossal production budget that you can see on-screen in every scene.
And so, season one was a lot of foreshadowing and nod-wink referencing, introducing younger versions of known characters, other characters we strongly suspected are younger versions of Rings stalwarts although they currently have different names, and places and peoples that similarly are ready to evolve into the familiar.
There are other sweeteners, however, the most obvious one being the show’s production values. If a giant spider attacks, it is convincing in its movement and in the details of its awful, huge spider face; when a gaggle of festering orcs is required, there are hundreds of them and they plausibly hum with rot and filth.
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