Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I went into this hoping beyond hope they weren't going to mess this up. The things I was afraid of bothering me are no bother at all. The writing on this show is terrible, there is just no way around it. The acting is flat and the characters are not likeable in the least. You should want someone to care if a character is in danger or dies and I simply just don't care. You can't worry about the safety of the big two because simply put we know where they are in the third age so any danger is not real. The Dwarves were the only ones they seem to just get right, the rest just seems rushed and with no sense of what Tolkien had created. I'm hoping somehow in the final five episodes they redeem themselves, if they don't then I won't be watching season two because so far this is like a billion dollar poorly written fan fiction I honestly can't see anyone thinking this is middle earth, I also find it annoying that they keep showing the map over and over again in order to remind people this isn't just some random sword and sorcery movie but LOTR. Even the writers and producers knew they had to do that to say hey yeah this is middle earth guys dont forget. I'm now six episodes in and the headline is 100% correct. Nothing about this feels like Tolkien, the way the characters speak to one another, the story, the plot, it's one thing to change small things but to rewrite the very lore of Middle Earth is saying to me that we used the LOTR just to sell the show because this has nothing to do with any of the Middle Earth any of us has learned. The fights were terribly choregraphed in ep 6. I will say Arondirs bow shooting looks very real, his anchor point is always in the same place very nice detail. For all the money spent they should at least not recycle cgi and not put the same people in the same crowd all over it to be seen it's lazy work for a show that I still cant see where all the money went on this show, there is not one thing that screams big budget. There are two more episodes and I just don't see how anything will save this show, or redeem it. I will watch them but if it doesn't pull a 180 then I will not waste any time watching season 2. Amazon dropped the ball on this show terribly and they have proven they can not tell Tolkien for today, or any other day for that matter and should be ashamed for ever saying it.