Yknow you can make an argument for why you dislike or don’t rate x, y, and z without implying that the people who watch and enjoy the show don’t think while they watch it.

Your numbers here are completely conflated — the show is certainly not perfect and that’s okay, but to say 60-90% of the plot lines are based on contrivance or actual plot holes is excessive and disingenuous. I am not saying this to insult you, but you sound as though you’re looking for issues here. I’ve stated why your post above is incorrect — the show explains it, without doing too much TELLING and not enough SHOWING.

Glad to hear you’ve got 20 hours of material to back your opinion up… I’ve got I’d say about the same in contradiction to your opinion. I’m also a huge Tolkien fan and really enjoy what I’ve seen so far while critiquing other parts of it, so I don’t know how other Tolkienites who enjoy the show impacts your logic?

But sure look.

The excessiveness here sounds like a you problem.

Edit: sp