Television

Only watched episode 1 so far, I enjoyed it.

I really liked season 1, it had more criticism than it earned, most of which was 'it's not house of the dragon!'. The pacing was not as bad as was hinted, though it was clearly uneven, I chalked that up to a combination of elves being timeless and the transition between peace and war.

The only really nasty bits were the hobbit/stranger segments, they needed to work on that, and the strangers one line last season was abominable. It felt like they tacked on a very low-budget community theater production adapted from fan-fiction as an afterthought.

Ep1 felt like it was trying to start from the best bits of s1, if they keep that up, great.

It's not the movies, but as someone mentioned, it's better than the Hobbit trilogy, and my favorite book was always the silmarillion, I'll take more of this please and thank you.