How will the WB/Embracer news affect ROP? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Victariongreyjoy · 02-27-2023, 05:33 PM

Now that WB is back in the game to make new adaptations of Middle-Earth, how will this affect ROP?

Formendacil · 02-27-2023, 06:45 PM

I am not confident enough of my prognostications to say how this will affect RoP (the answer could well be "not at all"), but I do know that I would like it to affect RoP.

Obviously, I would like it to magically result in RoP making all the creative decisions I presently feel it has flunked, which is unrealistic, but in more general terms, I do hope that it helps force RoP to define itself. A few months--and many criticisms of RoP later--I think the biggest flaw of the show is that it didn't have a discernible vision or identity. Some sense of artistic direction, maybe, but nothing that moved me beyond the aesthetics of the earliest teaser shots to "okay, THIS is what Middle-earth is about in this story."

Even if it's in reaction to a competing product, I would like to see RoP have more such definition.

***Mithadan*** · 03-02-2023, 11:08 AM

Just adding some recent opinions posted on the net relevant to this discussion.

https://screenrant.com/warner-bros-l...t-rings-power/

https://comicbookmovie.com/fantasy/l...0787#gs.rhmkdk

William Cloud Hicklin · 03-04-2023, 11:29 PM

I'm not sure why we should be hopeful that Warner fanfiction will be any less dire than Amazon fanfiction.

Snowdog · 03-21-2023, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Victariongreyjoy

Now that WB is back in the game to make new adaptations of Middle-Earth, how will this affect ROP?

Not much.

02-27-2023, 05:33 PM	#1
Victariongreyjoy Haunting Spirit Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 99	How will the WB/Embracer news affect ROP? Now that WB is back in the game to make new adaptations of Middle-Earth, how will this affect ROP?

02-27-2023, 06:45 PM	#2
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,326	I am not confident enough of my prognostications to say how this will affect RoP (the answer could well be "not at all"), but I do know that I would like it to affect RoP. Obviously, I would like it to magically result in RoP making all the creative decisions I presently feel it has flunked, which is unrealistic, but in more general terms, I do hope that it helps force RoP to define itself. A few months--and many criticisms of RoP later--I think the biggest flaw of the show is that it didn't have a discernible vision or identity. Some sense of artistic direction, maybe, but nothing that moved me beyond the aesthetics of the earliest teaser shots to "okay, THIS is what Middle-earth is about in this story." Even if it's in reaction to a competing product, I would like to see RoP have more such definition. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

03-02-2023, 11:08 AM	#3
*Mithadan* Spirit of Mist Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Tol Eressea Posts: 3,380	Just adding some recent opinions posted on the net relevant to this discussion. https://screenrant.com/warner-bros-l...t-rings-power/ https://comicbookmovie.com/fantasy/l...0787#gs.rhmkdk __________________ Beleriand, Beleriand, the borders of the Elven-land.

03-04-2023, 11:29 PM	#4
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,321	I'm not sure why we should be hopeful that Warner fanfiction will be any less dire than Amazon fanfiction. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.