I think it just twists the lore while being badly written regardless of source material, and often looking incredibly low rent despite having a stupidly high budget, while the cast is patchy, its like they saw the Hobbit films and decided that was moving in the right direction while LotR got it totally wrong. I think its sheer stubbornness that's keeping this show running despite its return on views vs. budget at this point.

Halo.

Its completely out of character for Master Chief to face reveal and had a sex scene, neither is the worst thing with this show either. I get that actors do not like non face roles, see Pedro with Mandalorian, but it should be deal breaker for casting for such roles.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Outside the show, it's not even known whether Spartan IIs have skin below the neck, let alone genitals. Things from Halo are just shoehorned into an unrelated story, which is thought by some to have started out as an adaptation of Mass Effect. Commander Shepherd definitely has skin and genitals in the games, and isn't afraid to use them.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

"I'm commander shepard, and halo is my favourite tv show on the citadel."

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if that turned out to be the case.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Halo was something that shouldn't have happened, the writers admitted they wanted their own story unrelated to Halo.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They already have enough clout to be put in charge of a decent budget tv show, so their idea must have sucked something terrible if they can't get it made without slapping a license onto it

Just make the damn thing you paid to make not your shitty show you can't get anybody else to buy.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In a slight defense of Rings of Power, I don't think the lore "problems" are really a big deal. It had to not follow the Silmarillion for legal reasons. As someone who hasn't digested that "book" the lore parts seem ok. The problem is most the writing still sucks and has many problems that are more substantial than that's not what Tolkien said in the book that can't be named. Also the weirdly cheap appearance is totally accurate. I think there's also a lot of merit to the rumors much of the writing and props were originally intended for a dragon age adaptation.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Lore is complicated as if you aren't familiar with the letters, silmarillion and appendices to an insane degree, some things that look right are wrong, and some things that look wrong are actually right depending on what you count in cannon.

I think this sums it up for me as the only bits actuallyin the lore:

The existence of characters named Galadriel, Elrond, Durin, Sauron, Isildur, Elendil, Celebrimbor, some of the others

The existence of Numenor and Middle-Earth and some of the places in it
The existence of rings of power

The armour just highlights what I mean with its lazy approach to just about everything.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wheel of Time.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Seconded. It was just such an enormous pile of shit from the first episode.

Edit: felt like it was worth mentioning that I've read all the books multiple times, and love them. I just hate what they did to the characters.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Third.

[–] rafikki@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Latest season has been a massive improvement if you haven’t watched it.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe in the future.

I'm kind of burned out in high fantasy TV for a while. Thanks for the info, though.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Try something completely different.

"Slow Horses" is about MI-5's worst agents. Those who have screwed up in the field are sent to work on low priority garbage work until they retire or quit. Takes about one and a half episodes to hit its stride.

"Landman" is about a Texas oilman whose job is to manage everything from the drilling to getting the product to market. Billy Bob Thornton is a great anti-hero; divorced, alcoholic, in debt, and smarter than everyone else for all the good it does him.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the suggestions.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Slow horses is great.

[–] spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the news

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I got to watch the movie 'Network" go from cutting edge satire to staid docudrama in real time.

[–] dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Willow, a show so bad Disney pulled it from streaming. I felt really bad for the actors. They were all quite good, just rubbish writing. It felt like someone dusted off some terrible generic YA script and doctored it up to be "willow".

[–] ghostlychonk@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

The Futurama revival on Hulu. I watched the first episode about Fry trying to stream everything he's missed and was completely bored by it. Haven't watched any of it since.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Under The Dome.

It was an epic Stephen King novel, with a great story line, and a huge cast of interesting characters, including Big Jim Rennie, one of his best villains. King's output is notoriously inconsistent, but occasionally he is really great, and this was one of those times.

I was so excited that they were bringing it out as a series, since it could never be captured in a single movie, or even a trilogy. Then they announced that Big Jim would be played by Dean Norris (Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad), which was PERFECT casting.

The show started well, with the dropping of The Dome rendered perfectly. Then it went off the rails so quickly that by the third episode, I was enormously pissed off. They i troduced weird new supernatural elements. I assume they were supernatural, because I stopped watching. The story was good enough, they didn't need some hack network writer "fixing" it.

A huge lost opportunity. I hope someone takes another swing at it someday.

[–] turdburglar@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

season 3 of yellowjackets. meh. where’d that special thing go?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Didnt even know it was out, burnt out the story trying to keep it going.

It could have been a great 1 season of a closed story. They could have continued by looking into the conseqeunces of that story.

Hell it could have been an anthology series with the name being groups across time and space finding themselves in odd senarios.

[–] RainyTank@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

I feel the same! Season one was so good. The second I didn't really like but it was still ok. This season feels like it's gone off the rails. But I love Misty and Walter

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Game of Thrones, but mostly because it was so good at the start. Controversially I think the series went to shit in Season 5, or even season 4, basically as soon as they started seriously deviating from the books. It's extremely clear what is original for the show and what is from GRRM because everything they came up with outside of the book material is stupid as shit and nobody's actions or motivations make any sense.

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[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s uzumaki. It’s a manga that I love and have read it many times, when I heard that there was an anime adaptation that was sticking with the art style, I was interested. When I saw the trailer and heard Colin Stetson’s bizarre music, I knew that this would be amazing. Time passed and I checked on its release every month. It was delayed again and again but I had patience, thinking that they just wanted to get it right. It finally releases and it was amazing, the first episode anyway. When episode 2 drops I can hardly contain my excitement. Yet, something is off with it, I try to ignore it. Third episode, same thing. Last episode, had some improvements but still wasn’t the same quality as the first. I go online and see that people are divided over it, with a very vocal majority saying that something is off. I felt deflated and didn’t join in on the discussions. Time passed and I forgot about it until recently when I saw an article where one of the production staff said that there was some pressure from higher ups and they chose to release what they had or it was gonna get cancelled.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

That was some serious shitshow indeed. The director completely focused on the first episode and a very few parts on the other ones. When they were rushed, they sub-hired some Korean studios, and in the end even cheaper Chinese ones, if I recall correctly. I think the result speaks for itself. An absolute disaster.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago

The consultant. Started off interesting, but yeah..

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