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MLSM posted:The new GoT show looks much better than this LOTR show tbh. Costumes, casting, cinematography, CGI just looks much more competent. make sure you start getting your hopes way up
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Ishamael posted:make sure you start getting your hopes way up I plan to let my guard down for a brief second for BOTH shows!
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Guys guys what if it's good?
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I'm sure it will be adequately good and they'll make back their billion dollar whatever investment but that's all. Amazon are now basically content creators and it will just end up being more content to fill out their streaming library.
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The show could be absolute dogshit(which tbh is looking possible) and still be a success for Amazon because who doesn't have Prime for the shipping? That also speaks to the problem of the streaming model where theres no real incentive to actually be great because all these streaming services make the vast majority of their money through their monthly subscribers. With traditional theatrical releases, there was an incentive to be great because better movies usually do better through positive buzz for a bigger opening weekend and longer legs through word of mouth. TV shows on cable made their money though commercials and advertising so there definitely was an incentive there to be great so people would keep watching the show. All and all I love streaming and haven't owned a cable subscription in well over 10 years, I just wish the streaming services actually somehow took a hit every time they put out lovely content and not just get away with hoarding lovely libraries of content thats merely good enough for the normies to keep paying.
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Entertainment Tonight has a brief interview with the showrunners and cast. There's some new footage that contains a few interesting details. This shot's in the SDCC trailer, but there it was only a fraction of a second, so I didn't see the werewolf scars all over Finrod, which is a cool detail.  I think this is new. Galadriel meeting Elendil.  The first clear shot of The Stranger that I can recall.  A glowing box with  The Oath of Feanor clip goes on a second longer in the ET footage, and you can see another guy! The guy on the left, with short reddish brown hair. Amrod/Amras/Maedhros? 
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jesus christ the numenorean armor looks like cheap plastic
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elendil looks like the guy from nickelback
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use the edit button next time instead of making 2 posts you lazy oval office
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William Bear posted:Entertainment Tonight has a brief interview with the showrunners and cast. There's some new footage that contains a few interesting details.
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I just hope it tells a good and compelling story. I don’t tell people to watch a TV show because “the costumes look really expensive”
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Data Graham posted:I just hope it tells a good and compelling story. The crazy thing is that the costumes don't even look expensive in the footage and stills released though. A lot of them basically look like what you would expect from a TV-budget LotR spinoff--even though the show has a movie budget.
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Data Graham posted:I just hope it tells a good and compelling story. A lot of them look great, the numenorean armor has all looked like poo poo. It's like it's a separate guy doing it. Those breastplate don't fit correctly, and look like literal slabs of plastic and it catches the eye immediately. Same for the ones that took like scale mail but I guess are supposed to be decorated. They look like they were all made out of the same injection mold
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Wouldn't it be funny if The Stranger was young, hip Gandalf
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2nd level spells posted:Wouldn't it be funny if The Stranger was young, hip Gandalf They have two other Istari they can use without really ripping up the canon so there’s no way it’s him.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:A lot of them look great, the numenorean armor has all looked like poo poo. It's like it's a separate guy doing it. Those breastplate don't fit correctly, and look like literal slabs of plastic and it catches the eye immediately. Same for the ones that took like scale mail but I guess are supposed to be decorated. They look like they were all made out of the same injection mold Season 2 seemed to completely retcon them out and they looked way more like standard metal armor.
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Also the weird half vambrace thing that has the metal on the wrong side is dumb as poo poo and makes no sense whatsoever. The LOTR movies have some of the best movie armor ever done, and this is tremendous step back. Numenor is supposed to be more advanced than Gondor, not less, and they look like pseudo greek hoplites, harkening to older, less advanced times.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:A lot of them look great, the numenorean armor has all looked like poo poo. It's like it's a separate guy doing it. Those breastplate don't fit correctly, and look like literal slabs of plastic and it catches the eye immediately. Same for the ones that took like scale mail but I guess are supposed to be decorated. They look like they were all made out of the same injection mold hey, it’s a good match with the painted scale armor, okay? what’s your problem with consistency in quality?
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I said that looked like poo poo too and that it looks like it's intended to be solid steel made to look like scale which is weird but a theme across multiple costumes. what's your point
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2nd level spells posted:Wouldn't it be funny if The Stranger was young, hip
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We've a new scene: https://twitter.com/FellowshipFans/status/1555049507787792384 I don't know why the guy cited for his fieriness creates ice crystals with water, but it seems like they've at least aped the cadence and style of writing in the dialogue.
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why do they think elves are supposed to sound like that
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This poo poo looks giga cringe and its promotional videos on youtube have hundreds of thousands of dislikes. I will watch it cause it's either going to be a trainwreck and good for a laugh or genuinely good and crow will be served to many. it's a win/win
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Galadriel looks hot I guess.
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It sounds just like the movies? I dunno, I'm not seeing the "giga cringe" from that clip, looks fine.
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I don't know if it counts as nitpicking or if nitpicking is justified in this if nothing else, but It uhhhh kinda sounded like she said Sauron like "dinosaur" If Jackson had not gotten all the pronunciations right I would esteem the movies about 1/10th as highly
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Data Graham posted:I don't know if it counts as nitpicking or if nitpicking is justified in this if nothing else, but Nah, she definitely says Sauron (not Sore-on), but she rolls the R in a way that they didn't in the Jackson movies
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Data Graham posted:If Jackson had not gotten all the pronunciations right I would esteem the movies about 1/10th as highly I was under the impression that Isengard, per Tolkien's pronunciation guides, should be Ee-sen-gard, not eye-zen-gard
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Nope, Isen is an English word (archaic root of Iron). It doesn’t follow the sensible rules of the synthetic languages. I made the same assumption on first reading and had to train myself out of it.
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Modern German's Eisen still means iron, and is pronounced like Isengard in the movies.
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Yeah, it's one of Tolkien's "translations" that we never got the "real" Old Westron name of as far as I recall. It's mentioned as being a Rohirric translation of the Sindarin "Angrenost," but unlike the Hobbits' names or the Brandywine River, Tolkien never gave us the "original." "Orthanc" is also an Old English word that means "skillful or clever work," but apparently Tolkien liked that word so much he lifted it directly into Sindarin where it translates as "tower of fangs."
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What would happen if an orc got a ring of power?
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Also the weird half vambrace thing that has the metal on the wrong side is dumb as poo poo and makes no sense whatsoever. The LOTR movies have some of the best movie armor ever done, and this is tremendous step back. Numenor is supposed to be more advanced than Gondor, not less, and they look like pseudo greek hoplites, harkening to older, less advanced times. This disparity here is jarring given that Numenor is supposed to be much more advanced than Gondor  
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sticksy posted:What would happen if an orc got a ring of power? Probably about the same that would happen to a human who got one of the Nine; it would extend their lifespans, let them turn invisible, allow them to view the Unseen world, bind them even more tightly to Sauron's control than they already were, and eventually they would degenerate into wraiths.
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Gresh posted:This disparity here is jarring given that Numenor is supposed to be much more advanced than Gondor You're comparing marines/sailors to heavy infantry/cavalry.
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CommonShore posted:You're comparing marines/sailors to heavy infantry/cavalry. Fair point. But even then:  
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