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What has tainted US drama is now thoroughly infecting British drama as welL: 1) We need likeable leads. Having a lead who is drunk on their own status and power, assults people randomly, breaks into people's homes and is an all-round, objectively a nasty human being--is not likeable if that character is a WOMAN. Within the first 2 episdoes, had a male character done the things she did, he would be the villian. Gender doesn't justify gross and detestable behaviour. 2) The ridiculous trend of small, gracile woman taking down 200 lbs men is not realistic and belongs in fantasy or superhero shows, not dramas. If you CANNOT write female heroes without making them borish pigs, or you have to give them unrealistic super powers... don't write female heroes, let others do it who can.

Ironically, I was skeptical about House of the Dragon because I didn't like the last season of GoT; and super excited for Rings of Power because, well what could go wrong, you have so much source material and Peter Jackson painted the way... I got that completely wrong. HoD is great; RoP is atrocious. I mean really bad. I sat and winced and tried for 3 episodes but it just made me more angry and mad that the showrunners think we are idiots.1) EVERY scene and instance in this series is over-the-to EXTRA! It is ridiculous,tedious and leaves the viewer now here to go emotionally. 2) The writing is so bad. Writing 101: don't have characters explain what you can show! Talented writers know that is how you invest the audience into the characters--you don't just expect them to be invested because they are your characters. Then characters repeat things they have already said or if the attempt to use allegory, the they spell it out for us! 3) There is so much silly, Disney-like too cute-by-halfness with the Harfoots and the dwarves it turns the stomach. 4) The sets and the costumes look like they just rolled out of a studio. 5) The music is the worst thing about it. The soundtrack is NON-STOP melodramatic schmaltzmore suited for a 90s teenage night time soap. 6) Galadriel is taken from a favourite of most people's to unbelievable and unlikeable. 7) Editing. They have decided to tell a tsory that takes place over thousands of years, scrunched into a couple decade, because, well Tolkein didn't know what he was doing! So, they switch between several storylines but because they are pretty lazy and light on all, you end up not really caring about any. and nothing much is revealled in any of them and when things are, you've aready figured it out because it's all so cliched. I never though a Tolkein show would just be background noise while I do other things,but yup! This show is another instalment in the long line of visual arts that are being lazily and sloppily produced and where the creators try to make up for all the cut corners with hype, loud action scenes, social media campaigns and accusations of racism et al. if you don't like their bad stuff. Bad is bad.