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I tried watching Rings of Power. All of that budget, all of those resources, and it was so bland. I drifted out before the "prestige TV" torture focus really kicked in, at least.
RoP has many flaws that could probably be forgiven if it wasn't just such a slog to get through. Screwing up the canon and characters and everything is one thing but at least make it good. Jackson's films mess with the canon too but the original trilogy is still timeless because it was so well done
The whole (I'm not spoiler alerting this because this is such a garbage story that I don't mind spoiling the surprise) "Sauron was just some dude that Galadriel randomly ran into after she jumped off the boat" thing was an amazing shark jump.
That's about when I stopped watching. So much wrong with that entire sequence. Lore wise, logic wise, story wise it was just so fuckin dumb. Galadriel is like Gil Galads great aunt she's like 1000 years older than him and here he is like banishing her to Valinor which isn't even a thing? "Auntie Galadriel, you've been bad, get on this boat and go to heaven and don't come back". Scolding her like a child when she is in fact older and more powerful? Canonically she would have a husband and CHILD at this point (both are absent from the show completely so I guess who cares) and Gil Galads like, get the fuck outta here, fuck your family I guess. And she meets Sauron in human form guy RANDOMLY FLOATING ON THE OCEAN because of course. Ugh.