I never got the sense that the people who made the show had any love for the source material. Can't imagine they had anyone who was anywhere near the equivalent of Peter Jackson running around barefoot in the snow. Just a committee of people with varying degree's of familiarity with the source material trying to get their own stories and ideas to fit within this world with really uneven results.
This kind of bottoms out my expectations for LOTR, which will probably be even more of design-by-committee monstrosity due to only having scraps of source material to lean on.
On the plus side, design-by-committee creative teams always aim to please and hopefully they respond well to the mixed feedback.
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