Noble collection nenya mark4/18/2024 ![]() So while these complaints of mine are not ‘story critical’ and are not the ‘reason why Rings was bad,’ I think they are worth talking about.Īnd if you think this is worth talking about, you can help by sharing it or supporting this project on Patreon. ![]() Also they’re just plain fun and we all know it. In part I suspect this is a product of information being so much more available in our age, but also a product of realism being a strong marketing point: it’s something viewers value.Ĭonsequently, I think that these kinds of critiques, while ‘nitpicky’ have some value. Of course there are projects that absolutely abandon any sense of realism, but for films, games and TV that want to feel real, the bar has been going up. Compare, for instance, the costume work in Gladiator (2000), especially the opening battle scene, with similar ‘sword and sandal’ epics from the 1940s and 1950s in one direction and with HBO’s Rome(2005-7) or Netflix’s Barbarians (2020) in the other. There is a common retort to this kind of analysis that audiences don’t care or know what is realistic and what isn’t and so the whole endeavor is pointless.īut I think a close look at the way fiction – especially visual depictions in fiction – have changed over time suggests the opposite: over time the emphasis placed on verisimilitude or even realism has increased. At the same time, thinking about failure is how we get success. ![]() Once again before we dive in I want to note that it is fine if you still enjoyed Rings of Power most audiences seem to have been disappointed, but I don’t want to take anyone’s joy from them. There was apparently such a plethora of smaller nitpicks that I have opted to split this post in two this week we’ll deal with armor and smithing, while next week we’ll deal with ships and tactics. These are the sorts of small issues that many viewers may not notice (although some viewers very clearly did notice many of them) but which I think add up over the course of a season to injure the suspension of disbelief and the audience’s trust in logical consequence in the same way (though not to the same degree) as the much larger problems of scale and social structure do. This week we’re going to return to Amazon’s Rings of Power, as promised in the first post there were a plethora of smaller believably and realism issues with in the show that I wanted to discuss but which didn’t rise to the storytelling problems of those major issues this has ended up as a three-part ( I, II, III) series.
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