Amazon teases their upcoming Fallout show
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Because Jonathan Nolan is at the helm, I do have hope. But seeing as Amazon has made the biggest TV flop in history with Rings of Power, I am sceptical.
Dawelio
Active member
2 things I didn't know;
1, Jonathan Nolan is onboard, anything the Nolan's touch is an masterpiece in my opinion: Inception, Interstellar, Tenet.
2, Why is Rings of Power the biggest TV flop in history? Must've missed something huge here...
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
It's going to cost Amazon $1 billion dollars in total, but the first season has been a failure critically and with the audience. Jeff Bezos said that to be successful, Rings of Power doesn't just have to be moderately successful; it has to become the biggest TV show of all time, surpassing Game of Thrones and Stranger Things. The amount of money invested dictates it so. Actual consistent viewership numbers have been hidden from the public eye, likely for good reason.
Anecdotally, I watched the first two episodes and then stopped. It's garbage.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Because you don't make a story "based off Middle Earth" lore and then proceed to royally F it all up and essentially boils down to using names of characters and locations just to sell.
They may as well make up their own universe at that point.
They may as well make up their own universe at that point.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Exactly. They used the branding of Tolkien, who was a master wordsmith and creative mind—one in a million in reality (I'm not a diehard Tolkien fan; it's just rare to find a mind like his)—and turned it into a woke and pretentious snoozefest. They either should have stuck to the lore as closely as humanely possible or done something completely different.
I never cared about their being elves of colour or female dwarves. Elves being European/Scandinavian in descent is somewhat irrelevant in reality to the story and characters. It's all fiction so it's inconsequential how the characters looked, at least from my perspective. The issue was the story was a dumb as a bag of hammers, the actors were terrible, the dialogue was a pretentious attempt at Tolkien-isms that failed miserably, and woke-isms were shoehorned in awkwardly. What does modern day reality and social politics have to do with fictional Middle Earth about dragons that like gold and rings that can summon hordes of Orcs?
