I watched the first episode, but I don't remember if I finished it. So I can't comment on most of the substance of your review. But I'm willing to agree with it.
It's kind of sad, really. It would be really nice to see a well-done dramatization of the era of the forging of the Ring of Power. I'm not super fluent in the Tolkienverse (e.g., I've read Hobbit and LOTR, but not the Silmarillion), but I'm more than just a casual fan. I like the idea of exploring how Sauron started out good and then became bad and deceived the elves, who didn't catch on until it was almost too late. But instead, what we got (from what I saw of the first episode), was the warrior Galadriel (whose role in LOTR didn't seem to me to be primarily that of a "warrior" per se) chasing after Sauron. Oh, we also got a cutesy look at a pre-hobbit society.
I watched the first episode, but I don't remember if I finished it. So I can't comment on most of the substance of your review. But I'm willing to agree with it.
It's kind of sad, really. It would be really nice to see a well-done dramatization of the era of the forging of the Ring of Power. I'm not super fluent in the Tolkienverse (e.g., I've read Hobbit and LOTR, but not the Silmarillion), but I'm more than just a casual fan. I like the idea of exploring how Sauron started out good and then became bad and deceived the elves, who didn't catch on until it was almost too late. But instead, what we got (from what I saw of the first episode), was the warrior Galadriel (whose role in LOTR didn't seem to me to be primarily that of a "warrior" per se) chasing after Sauron. Oh, we also got a cutesy look at a pre-hobbit society.