There’s a long way to go, but there’s also enough here to suggest that “The Rings of Power” will make it a worthwhile journey.ĭOHA: Qatar Museums will collaborate with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a partnership involving the exchange of exhibitions, programs and scholarly cooperation, Qatar News Agency reported on Wednesday. If you enjoyed Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, then the early signs are that you’ll enjoy this series. But the sheer scope of this show means it takes a while to lay all that out.Ī lack of nuance can be tough on actors, but the large ensemble cast handle it well, showing the necessary commitment to enable viewers to immerse themselves in the showrunners’ world. The story is a simple one - Evil (in the form of Sauron, the right hand of the Dark Lord Morgoth) versus Good (pretty much all the races mentioned, with some individual exceptions, except the Orcs). Its reported $1 billion budget makes it by far the most expensive show in history. There’s exposition a-plenty and a lot of jumping around Middle-earth. It's likely neither fair nor wise to proclaim judgement on the story just yet - given the amount of heavy lifting necessary in the early episodes of a fantasy epic on this scale just to establish the world in which it is based, with its various races and characters: Elves (very long-lived, clever, enigmatic), humans (complicated, capricious, human), dwarves (stubborn, emotional), orcs (sadistic, bad), harfoots (proto-hobbits, simple, sweet, kind) and so on. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy works to really succeed then the storyline - set thousands of years before the events of “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” and cobbled together from various Middle-earth-based writings - has to grip us, and the performances need to convince. But that’s only half the battle (maybe less), of course.
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