Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Amazon.

site23 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying "obviously! it was shite!" which I'm finding a bit baffling. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was fairly good, with a lot of potential.

This. It's far from perfect and had some terrible moments, but overall my impression was positive.

site23 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying "obviously! it was shite!" which I'm finding a bit baffling. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was fairly good, with a lot of potential.

I thought the end was really quite flat but the overall season was decent enough.

That article seems to be saying 37% of the audience finishing the season is bad because Netflix will cancel anything that is under 50% but says it can’t be compared because Netflix release a season in one go. So it should be compared to viewing figures for certain HBO shows, which is still an entirely different broadcast model!

Surely they should be comparing how The Rings of Power has done to shows on Disney+, Apple TV, or even Amazon itself? It may still be doing poorly by that measure but at least it would be a fair comparison.

Cuttooth wrote:

site23 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying "obviously! it was shite!" which I'm finding a bit baffling. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was fairly good, with a lot of potential.

I thought the end was really quite flat but the overall season was decent enough.

That article seems to be saying 37% of the audience finishing the season is bad because Netflix will cancel anything that is under 50% but says it can’t be compared because Netflix release a season in one go. So it should be compared to viewing figures for certain HBO shows, which is still an entirely different broadcast model!

Surely they should be comparing how The Rings of Power has done to shows on Disney+, Apple TV, or even Amazon itself? It may still be doing poorly by that measure but at least it would be a fair comparison.

Also, the article says "sources" claim only 37% finished the series. It sounds like Amazon themselves haven't confirmed anything.

Moggy wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

site23 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying "obviously! it was shite!" which I'm finding a bit baffling. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was fairly good, with a lot of potential.

I thought the end was really quite flat but the overall season was decent enough.

That article seems to be saying 37% of the audience finishing the season is bad because Netflix will cancel anything that is under 50% but says it can’t be compared because Netflix release a season in one go. So it should be compared to viewing figures for certain HBO shows, which is still an entirely different broadcast model!

Surely they should be comparing how The Rings of Power has done to shows on Disney+, Apple TV, or even Amazon itself? It may still be doing poorly by that measure but at least it would be a fair comparison.

Also, the article says "sources" claim only 37% finished the series. It sounds like Amazon themselves haven't confirmed anything.

They would never go on the record to confirm that, nor would any streamer. There's no equivalent of Nielsen boxes to confirm these things for the public, which suits streamers fine. The overall article is quite damning on how much money Amazon is blowing on its TV and film projects. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was not only paid $20m per year on a three-year deal and produced nothing, but Amazon then renewed that same deal! On the bright side, the Fallout series is apparently "extremely expensive", so whatever it's quality at least it'll look spectacular.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-amazon-studios-jen-salke-vision-shows-1235364913/

I bet that number doesn't include the number of people who watched the whole series via piracy

speedboatchase wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

site23 wrote:I'm seeing a lot of people on Twitter saying "obviously! it was shite!" which I'm finding a bit baffling. It wasn't perfect but I thought it was fairly good, with a lot of potential.

I thought the end was really quite flat but the overall season was decent enough.

That article seems to be saying 37% of the audience finishing the season is bad because Netflix will cancel anything that is under 50% but says it can’t be compared because Netflix release a season in one go. So it should be compared to viewing figures for certain HBO shows, which is still an entirely different broadcast model!

Surely they should be comparing how The Rings of Power has done to shows on Disney+, Apple TV, or even Amazon itself? It may still be doing poorly by that measure but at least it would be a fair comparison.

Also, the article says "sources" claim only 37% finished the series. It sounds like Amazon themselves haven't confirmed anything.

They would never go on the record to confirm that, nor would any streamer. There's no equivalent of Nielsen boxes to confirm these things for the public, which suits streamers fine. The overall article is quite damning on how much money Amazon is blowing on its TV and film projects. Phoebe Waller-Bridge was not only paid $20m per year on a three-year deal and produced nothing, but Amazon then renewed that same deal! On the bright side, the Fallout series is apparently "extremely expensive", so whatever it's quality at least it'll look spectacular.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-amazon-studios-jen-salke-vision-shows-1235364913/