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Not necessarily a reimagining, but a premise. A concept.

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Rings of Power. I really wanted it to love it.

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This one hurts. The potential was there, the visuals were genuinely incredible, the acting was solid, and I remember liking the music. But the writing was atrocious. It was like they went with the first draft. And also they piled on all those stupid prequel tropes like: "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to find out how this iconic character got their NAME!"

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The music and the visuals are what I kept going back for, and the clearly-insane hope that someone on the writing team might have picked up any of the Silmarillion or History of Middle earth books and just given them some consideration

It's my understanding that they were limited to the Lord of the Rings appendices for source material. Weren't allowed to touch Silmarillion.

I want a Silmarillion show very much. I don't think it would work as movies, but each episode telling a different story.

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