Clark Courtenay

It’s basically a CW drama with LOTR skin. The show runners are far more concerned with proto-hobbit romances and interpersonal drama than they are with telling the story of Eregion and the Second Age. Longtime Lord of the Rings fans are not the target audience for this show. It’s aimed at bringing the franchise to more casual television viewers. Writing has its ups and downs but is woefully inconsistent. Worth watching but only if you go into it with 0 expectations.

Most of the games systems feel incomplete or rushed. After you get through the core planets you will just spend all your time walking around large empty spaces while seeing the exact same procedurally generated stuff over and over again. Ship building is fun, even though every time you edit your ship every single thing in the ship gets moved to the ships inventory which gets old fast. I’m not sure why that feature was left in the game, but I could say that about a lot of things in this game.