It’s a decent show that is moderately popular, just it’s also an easy target for edgelords to dunk on in the audience reviews. It has some pretty significant pacing issues early on, represents non-binary & brown people from early on, and dropped during the height of Tate-mania. Like a perfect storm for backlash from angry white boys. And even normal people wanna dunk on Bezos’ expensive new toy. The later episodes are worth sticking it out for tho imo.
It cost about 10x per episode to make compared to The Expanse, which was a Syfy show offloaded to Amazon on the cheap. Amazon recycled the assets, rushed a final half season and killed the production before they’d have to spend any real money on it (due to setting/cast changes in the book that follows final season arc). So the comment above is kinda a weird one to make. Even Wheel of Time is bigger, let alone Citadel, The Boys etc
My monthly reminder that for the same cost of Rings Of Power and the MGM acquisition, Amazon could have likely kept every single laid-off employee hired (assuming average $100k salary) for the average tenure of an Amazon employee.
Do you mean rings of power?
Wasn’t that a gigantic flop?
It’s a decent show that is moderately popular, just it’s also an easy target for edgelords to dunk on in the audience reviews. It has some pretty significant pacing issues early on, represents non-binary & brown people from early on, and dropped during the height of Tate-mania. Like a perfect storm for backlash from angry white boys. And even normal people wanna dunk on Bezos’ expensive new toy. The later episodes are worth sticking it out for tho imo.
It cost about 10x per episode to make compared to The Expanse, which was a Syfy show offloaded to Amazon on the cheap. Amazon recycled the assets, rushed a final half season and killed the production before they’d have to spend any real money on it (due to setting/cast changes in the book that follows final season arc). So the comment above is kinda a weird one to make. Even Wheel of Time is bigger, let alone Citadel, The Boys etc
Ah OK, fair enough. I might check it out as I patrol the high seas, then 😉
Didn’t Amazon make like 50% of the expanse seasons?
Aren’t they doing a second season?
My monthly reminder that for the same cost of Rings Of Power and the MGM acquisition, Amazon could have likely kept every single laid-off employee hired (assuming average $100k salary) for the average tenure of an Amazon employee.
HotD isn’t an Amazon original is what they’re saying
Syfy also cancelled the expanse and it was bought by Amazon for the second half
Oh, it isn’t? checks oops, my bad 😂
Gonna change it to the best ever Amazon original then 😁
Yeah the shows came out around the same time so I can see why you got them confused. Didn’t mean the show was good.
I tried to watch that garbage. I should be the target audience, but I wasn’t desperate enough.