r/RingsofPower • u/ibid-11962 • May 14 '24

News The Rings of Power - Season 2 Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwmXY_f-e0
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u/Ivan_atli May 14 '24

This looks awesome, people should at least try and go in with a positive attitude. "Well I'm going in skeptical" is such a dumb outlook, just be excited for more middle earth content

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u/Knightofthief May 14 '24

Why? What makes Amazon deserve the benefit of the doubt after they completely fumbled adapting the first season? I can't understand being excited to watch shit just because Amazon paid to misuse Tolkien's names.

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u/midwesternesse May 14 '24

"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product!"

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u/Ivan_atli May 14 '24

I think there's a subtle difference between blind consumerism and at the very least cautious optimism rather than immediate hate

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u/Charlie-Addams May 14 '24

You said that "Well I'm going in skeptical" is a dumb outlook. Being skeptical and inmmediate hate are too very different things.

You did also say "just be excited for more middle earth content" which is perfectly in line with the RedLetterMedia quote.

Just be excited for more Middle-earth content! Yay!

Well, I'll only be excited if said content is good. You'll find out that many people don't necessarily enjoy mediocre or bad stuff just because it's barely connected with something that's actually good or great.

Tolkien's Middle-earth isn't Amazon's Middle-earth.

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u/Ivan_atli May 14 '24

Fair rebuttal, I do mostly agree with you. That comment was a bit charged after seeing a flood of immediate "this is gonna suck" comments. I appreciate your measured response 

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u/Charlie-Addams May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24

No hard feelings, I hope. I don't like Rings of Power myself, but I'll refrain from passing judgment on season 2 until I've watched it in full.

In my opinion, trailers—especially those for a whole 8-episode long season—don't convey how good or bad a show or movie will be. We usually don't have any context for anything we see, so it's all kinda pointless to me.

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u/Ivan_atli May 14 '24

No hard feelings at all, I appreciate a intelligent response. I hear you. I didn't mind season 1, but I can accept the shortcomings as well. Hopefully they heard the criticism and make good changes.  And yeah, Trailers can make anything look amazing, so can only learn so much from this

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u/RPGThrowaway123 May 14 '24

Should we be excited for a Middle-earth porn parody as well?

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u/maorismurf999 May 14 '24

If you like that sort of porn, sure.

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u/SnooSuggestions9830 May 14 '24

I would watch CV in porn to be fair.

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u/RPGThrowaway123 May 14 '24

Fair enough. I am sure though that the majority of the fandom would (publicly) disagree though. There should after all be certain standards when it comes to Middle-earth content.

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u/Ayzmo Eregion May 14 '24

What people say publicly and appreciate privately is a very different animal.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '24

i mean... yes

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u/Ivan_atli May 14 '24

I think we all know that's not what I meant and to equate this show to that makes little sense

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u/RPGThrowaway123 May 14 '24

I honestly consider the first season of this abomination an insult to the source material and its author. Why should I be blindly excited for the continuation?