Still trying to pick a fight, huh?

CW has different owner now and a different focus. Think “people who watch News Nation”.

So funny, that's exactly when I stopped watching.

there's a show you may not have heard of it, such worldwide game changing there folks

I enjoyed Harry's Law a lot. I remember everyone being shocked that it was cancelled, especially since it was doing really well in the ratings. If I remember correctly, NBC was trying to get a younger audience and pulled the show because their audience skewed older, which made no sense to me.

To me, that scene is emblematic of one of the show's worst issues: fake tension.

There are so many scenes that are shot like something that's supposed to be tense, but what's going to happen is so painfully obvious and it's dragged out so much.

It's the beginning of a ten hour show and we know Galadriel is around in LOTR, of fucking course she isn't going to leave Middle Earth and she's going to jump off the boat.

So many scenes like that, where they shot it like a tense moment but you 100% know what's going to happen because you've seen movies before and/or it's a prequel to one of the most famouse stories of all time.

Like the elf guy getting the orc blade close to his eye. OMG, what is going to happen to this main character? Oh, he was saved a moment before being blinded? No shit.

Are they gonna make the three elven rings? They are? No shit!

Is Galadriel going to join Sauron? She isn't? Who would have thought!

Rings of Power is so painfully bad.

Edit: Added thoughts.

Reacher outpaced Boys season 2, they break it down by seasons, it might be different if looking at entire show lengths, obviously biased towards shows that have been on longer.

Oh, yeah. Everybody loves your show.

9-11 seasons

I feel like the show pretty quickly establishes that Galadriel is kind of insane. Her first scene is climbing a giant icy cliff, then pushing her struggling men through a blizzard on the vague chance of finding a clue to help advance her centuries long revenge mission.

I watched a couple of episodes right after seeing the LOTR extended editions. The gulf in writing and acting quality was huge. Reacher is the best show on Prime for me and it likely cost less than the costume budget for Rings Of Power.

How kind, but you couldn't even pay me to watch that inbred fuck spend public money on a new hat party while people who work full time can't afford food.

Blind people

Kinda reminds me of my Dad.

He would(and still does) share stories about other people's lives, who he met through work, like a former NFL lineman from the undefeated Miami Dolphins squad; the guy who shot all the animals who are now on display at one of the Cabela's in Minnesota; a descendant of the guy who founded Pabst Blue Ribbon; etc

But if you would see how he ended conversations you think he was a complete dick sometimes but he genuinely enjoyed learning a bit about everybody he would talk to he just didn't want to talk forever with you.

Yeah I was really hoping they were going to give it their all for the last season but not even close. After killing god Dean gets killed in a routine vampire hunt, something we've seen them do numerous times, and we end up with Sam wearing a cardigan, glasses and a shitty gray wig. Never seen a more buff grandpa in my life.

Except all three seasons of Ted lasso probably cost the price of 1 RoP episode and didn't have the name recognition LOTR has. That's the context you're speaking in. ROP definitely flopped a bit all things considered

Have a character say “I don’t trust those First Age elves, they’re always taking stupid risks and don’t think their decisions through”. Show one doing something stupid, like that one black elf, and have a human go “wow, those First Age elves do really impulsive things with no regard to their or others’ safety!”

I’m being blunt lol but my point is that there are ways you can setup a character’s actions prior to them doing something, and this should happen if the audience won’t have prior knowledge of what these characters are like.

It might be something a casual fan wouldn't understand, but clearly u/RusevReigns is referring to the role 9/11 plays in Bobby Axelrod's backstory and the rich lore of the Billions universe. Understandable that this might go over your head, as to be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ (or just a lot of spare time) to get all the references in such an intelligently written show as Billions.

/s

> Those first 5 seasons are so great to me, too, cause I’m from the PNW and having a show set/filmed in that area just gives it that extra mood

Thiiiiis. I always love when they're out in the woods somewhere cause it's like "that looks like where I walked my dog yesterday"

Didn't he have a hat in Season 1 and look different?

How would they inform the audience in a better way?

I enjoyed him in Wolf Hall, and had totally forgotten about Life until your comment (I think for a couple years I would either conflate or confuse Life with that David Duchovny series Aquarius, even though the premises are totally different).

I'd also recommend The Escapist (plus you get Brian Cox planning a prison breakout).

Band of Brothers, however, will always be peak Damian Lewis. Between that and Billions, I feel like he's even better when his character has a sort of partner or best friend-type to play off of.

The powerhouse they had at Thursday night I believe with Smallville leading into Supernatural made them a ton of money. It’s not surprising they would milk it even after the creators were out of story.

>I still think that it's a bummer that it probably drives away people who would love the show if not for having gleaned a mistaken impression of it

It definitely does. I have a friend who I had been trying to convice for a while to watch Lost because I knew he would like it, but he kept saying "I heard it goes nowhere and in the end they don't answer anything". He finally caved and wound up loving it.

You’re knit picking data. You’re looking at the initial popularity of the show, and neglecting the sharp decline of viewers once people realized the show was terribly made.

So here’s the history, the show was released to a number of people excited about it. People watched and the many stopped watching. People have been giving terrible ratings on the show throughout the series and the last episode was better received and watched more.

So you’re completely missing the fact that the show had a huge drop off. Your grabbing onto the initial hype of the show and forgetting the downward spiral the show had after the initial release lol. Amazon had to turn off the ratings option for a long time because people were giving terrible ratings for the show when it first was launched.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/09/05/rings-of-power-is-getting-review-bombed-so-hard-amazon-suspended-reviews-entirely/?sh=6a75620f762f