Rings of Power Is Struggling To Have Its Characters Connect
The following contains minor spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Amazon'sLord of the Rings: The Rings of Power seems to have everything going for it. There is already an established fanbase behind the source material for the show, and they had a massive budget to use while creating it. They have talented actors giving excellent performances in every episode, and a mix of well-done practical and visual effects. The one (very important) thing that the show is lacking in is some of its writing choices.
More specifically, the show fails to endear most of the characters to the audience in any meaningful way. There are a lot of storylines, and not all of them are properly fleshed out, meaning that some characters still feel like blank slates even six episodes in. This is a problem because it doesn't matter how good the plot is, most people won't be able to really get into a story unless they find the character compelling and/or relatable. It's something that The Lord of the Rings movies managed to do well, but their sister series is definitely struggling with.
Rings of Power: Where Is Celeborn?
Even though they are separate stories being made by different people, it's hard not to compareRings of Power to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. WhileRings of Power has had a fairly positive reception, for a lot of fans, it still doesn't quite measure up to the standards set by the movies in a lot of ways. One of those is the way in which each approach their characters. While the movies still deal with a lot of plot, they manage to devote enough time to the characters to endear them to the audience, and they feel like real, fleshed-out people.Rings of Power, however, is a little too plot-heavy and seems to be
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