So does everyone now agree that this was awful?

I only watched a tiny bit of it, and spent much more time on criticism reviews of the episodes. I find these days that such criticism is much more entertaining than the shows themselves!

I also know is that the shittiness will continue, as I've just heard that the LOTR:ROP showrunners have FIRED all of the MALE writers! It may be a rumour, mind, but I wouldn't put it past them to have actually done that.

the show was utter shit

I knew from the start it was going to be bad. Several clues dating as far back as 2018 gave me a bad vibe that was proven to be right:

- Hollywood, including Amazon Studios, was already known to follow the toxic "woke" trend, which is honestly destroying the entertainment industry on a massive scale. I'd already seen them chew up and spit out at least two or three franchises by that point, and I knew LOTR had to be next.

- LOTR is a 20-year-old trilogy of films, and it was only a matter of time before some young idiot in Hollyweird decided to cash in on it and "reboot" or "reinterpret" the lore.

- The lower quality of the Hobbit film trilogy of films was something of an omen of things to come in the latter half of the 2010s

- hearing about the studio firing their one Tolkien expert and hiring on an "intimacy coordinator" after throwing out their first version of Season 1 was not a good sign

- I heard about what they did with "Wheel of Time," and it appears the idiots working at Amazon Studios didn't learn a damned thing from that dumpster fire. As a sign of their stupidity, they just doubled down on the same disgusting formula they and every other studio in Hollyweird had been following.

- My fears were confirmed when I saw the preview photos featuring a not-so-pretty Galadriel as a warrior princess in armor that had the star of an elven household she loathed and despised in the actual Tolkien lore on her chest, a black elf with mostly-shaved hair, a black dwarf with nuclear mushroom cloud hair and no beard, a black queen in armor, and a short-haired elf guy that was supposedly Elrond, but looked more like Dougie Hauser if he'd put on elf ears and a giant has smashed him in the chin. The cheap-looking costumes just made it look even worse.

- Hearing that Amazon had two stupid, immature writers whose career in Hollywood consisted of uncredited writing for a not-so-great Star Trek film, and only had access to the Appendices of the books, did not bode well either

We should put you in 'Bad Taste Jail' lol

Now it's your turn. Give me your best comeback. Come on, take your best shot!

So...
Waisted you money again?
Good to hear.
Must be awful to hear "I told you so" so often your nose bleeds.

The current IMDB rating of 6.9 is not bad. General consensus is that viewers kind of like it.

I didn't mind the show that much, but I'm not a Tolkien fanatic either. I'm sure the big fans of Tolkien probably hated this. haha...

Ohhh well, it is what it is. At least it gave people something to complain about.