You sir, are out of your gotdang mind. The first 5 seasons of GoT were amazing. 6 and 7 were very good and 8 had a couple of good episodes, one great episode, two ok episodes and one "WTF was that?" episode. Still, it sets the standard for live action Fantasy and is one of the all around best TV shows of all time.
I'm enjoying Rings Of Power for the most part but it isn't particularly well cast, doesn't stick to the lore or timeline, doesn't feel like Tolkien's work at all and has very little action. The Harfoots are insanely annoying (no wonder they are scared everyone/everything wants to kill them), Galadriel is a hot-headed fool who is not likeable and the first season is almost over with almost nothing happening.....Galadriel vs the troll early on, a fairly minor skirmish with Adar's forces (definitely not a war or even a battle really) and a volcano erupting.
The best characters have been completely non-canon and they major canonical characters have mostly sucked.
Once again, Amazon decided to display their hubris in thinking they can write better story and build a more interesting world. I will say that for all my complaints I do think it's decent but that's probably just me being relieved that it isn't as much of a steaming turd as Wheel Of Time. They butchered WoT so badly that I was extremely pissed every time I watched an episode and Rings of Power doesn't make me feel that way.....it just makes me laugh at how inept the showrunners are. WoT was pure woke garbage with horrible casting, complete butchery of the source material and just bad TV.....F everyone involved in that show right in the A. There was one good scene in 8 hours of TV and that was the Blood Snow scene where Tigraine (Maiden Of The Spear fighting with the Aiel) took out a bunch of armored warriors while giving birth.
GoT nailed casting perfectly and was true to the story, style and tone of the books until they ran out of source material in late seasons. WoT didn't even bother with trying and gave the middle finger to book fans......
