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Originally Posted by blankall
I'm actually liking the show so far. I went in with very low expectations though. Based on reviews about CGI and pacing, I was expecting Hobbit levels of bad. Some of reviews about pacing are genuine, but there's also definitely been a number of review campaigns that are resulting in reviews that aren't truthful.
The complaints about a female lead are pretty unfounded. Galadriel is an already established character in the universe. It's not a case of the creators just cramming in a female lead for the sake of it.
I do get the complaints about being untrue to the source material. However, the Peter Jackson movies deviated a lot too. The material from Tolkien himself is pretty limited. It's also very whimsical, and it would be pretty difficult to translate onto screen, while not coming across as pretty silly.
This show is very focused on build up. So I'll reserve judgement until we see how they stick the landing. However, I do like, overall, what I've seen so far.
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Pretty tough to stay 'true' to the source material, when you're not allowed to use ANY of the source material to establish proper back stories.
As an example, they can't talk about the Kinslaying, War of Wrath, Beleriand, etc even though both Elrond and Galadriel played major roles in those and many other 1st age happenings.
You can tell the writers are trying to keep within the backstory that the book people know about, but doing it without actually using any of the backstory.
I agree with Cecil, if you're a purist, blame the Tolkien Estate for now allowing them to use whatever they wanted to get it proper justice.