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Wosbald
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by Wosbald » 31 Dec 2024, 00:09
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Del wrote: 30 Dec 2024, 21:41 […]
[E]verything I've heard is about how awful it is …
you are the first cricket to crick that it is tolerable to enjoyable.
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Season 1 has 84% of 489 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes whilst Season 2 has 84% of 170 reviews.
So there's that.
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by Del » 31 Dec 2024, 09:33
Wosbald wrote: 31 Dec 2024, 00:09
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Del wrote: 30 Dec 2024, 21:41 […]
[E]verything I've heard is about how awful it is …
you are the first cricket to crick that it is tolerable to enjoyable.
[…]
Season 1 has 84% of 489 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes whilst Season 2 has 84% of 170 reviews.
So there's that.
I haven't watched it, so I am not offering any opinion on the show. Fine wid me if you enjoy it.
Rotten Tomatoes says that the hoity-toity media reviewers give it 84%.... but the actual audience give it 49%.
This is typical for woke movies that tickle the elite agenda but piss off audiences. High score with media reviewers, low score with audiences.
49% is actually pretty good audience score for a woke show. The disparity is often much greater.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_l ... s_of_power
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by Wosbald » 31 Dec 2024, 10:05
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Del wrote: 31 Dec 2024, 09:33 […]
[A]ctual audience give it 49%.
This is typical for woke movies that tickle the elite agenda but piss off audiences.
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Unless negro Hobbits piss people off, I dunno what could be the prob.
Maybe it's the Harfoots' habitual migrancy?
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by Del » 31 Dec 2024, 10:47
Wosbald wrote: 31 Dec 2024, 10:05
Unless negro Hobbits piss people off, I dunno what could be the prob.
Maybe it's the Harfoots' habitual migrancy?
Hmphf. There aren't enough of your MAGA-phantoms in existence to move the needle one way or the other.
Critical Drinker really hates the Mary Sue girl-boss themes, more than anything else. And the chance-meetings of plot devices....
VIDEO
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by Del » 31 Dec 2024, 11:11
Drinker has done several take-down reviews, episode by episode.
But I think this is one in which he lays out the systemic problems with Rings of Power and why audiences haven't embraced it.
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