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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I like it too but it's impossible to compare it to the movies and not be disappointed, and it's inevitable that it will be compared to the movies. As a stand-alone series I think it would be considered pretty good, not great. But in comparison to the movies it's meh. At least it's still better than The Hobbit.
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It's still only the first season where they had to do a lot of world and character building to setup the big events to come. The Second Age also has relatively little written about it by Tolkien, especially compared to the LotR period so Jackson started from a much better base.