The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy showrunner J.D. Payne determined to assault followers of creator J.R.R. Tolkien as followers have deserted the present en masse.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 25: (L-R) Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay attend The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Energy SDCC Press Preview Occasion at Venue 808 on July 25, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photograph by Jerod Harris/Getty Photos for Amazon MGM Studios)
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Payne mentioned, “he Fellowship needed to look to one another, and people who help it, and keep in mind what it’s combating for. And after we see that hundreds of thousands of individuals are watching this and responding so positively to it — that’s who we’re combating for.”
He then added, “And people who watch each episode and [negatively] write about it on social media and make YouTube movies, we’re blissful to have you ever guys, too. It wouldn’t be a journey by Center-earth with out some trolls alongside the way in which.”
Damrod the Hill-Troll; and Sam Hazeldine as Adar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
This isn’t out of character for Payne. Again in October 2022 following the conclusion of the present’s first season, Payne described critics of the present as “evil.”
He instructed The Hollywood Reporter, “The spirit of Tolkien is about disparate peoples who don’t belief each other and look completely different from each other discovering frequent floor in friendship and conducting massive issues. That’s the spirit we’ve tried to inculcate into each single comma and interval within the present.”
He then addressed critics, “That this aspiration could be offensive to folks and enrage them … it’s very exhausting for us to know. What are they defending? I don’t see how people who find themselves saying this stuff suppose that they’re combating for good.”
“There’s a line in episode seven the place Galadriel says each battle is fought from with out and inside. Even in case you’re combating for one thing you suppose is sweet, in case you do one thing worse in that combat, then you definitely develop into evil. I don’t see how people who find themselves saying this stuff suppose that they’re combating for good. It’s patently evil,” he declared.
Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy (2022), Prime Video
Payne’s most up-to-date feedback come as viewers have deserted the present en masse. Samba TV reported that the present misplaced over 50% of its viewers from the primary season when simply evaluating the 2 premiere episodes.
The information monitoring agency revealed again in 2022 that the present’s debut episode was watched by 1.8 million US households over 4 days.
Initially of this month, Samba TV revealed the Season 2 premiere was solely watched by 902,000 households over 5 days.
The brand new season of Rings of Energy is out with 902k US households tuning in over the past 5 days to observe the primary ep.
What do you consider the brand new season?#SambaTVInsights #RingsofPower #RingsofPowerS2 #Ringsofpowerseason2 #Sauron #LOTR #LOTRonPrime #AmazonPrimeVideo… pic.twitter.com/JNbWvVj5Qp
— Samba TV (@samba_tv) September 3, 2024
It’s not simply Samba TV both. Luminate also reported that the present solely garnered 372.7 minutes watched for the week of September sixth by September twelfth.
That’s 51% lower than the present’s third week the place it garnered 764.7 million minutes watched. In its first week the present solely garnered 63.2 million minutes watched albeit it was solely obtainable to observe for a single day in Luminate’s weekly window. Variety reported the present did not chart within the prime 10, however as a substitute was thirty seventh on Luminate’s chart in its first week.
Luminate’s Streaming Originals Knowledge for Tv for the week of September sixth by September twelfth
For comparability to the primary season, Nielsen reported that the debut week, the place they launched a two-episode premiere, introduced in 1.253 billion minutes watched.
When you give The Rings of Energy all the first week plus all the second week knowledge from Luminate it involves 827 million minutes. That’s a decline of 33%. And that doesn’t even consider the truth that the second season had a three-episode premiere.
Sam Hazeldine as Adar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy (2024), Amazon MGM Studios
The overall variety of critiques per episode on IMDb has additionally considerably decreased. The Season 1 premiere had over 55,000 critiques. The Season 2 premiere solely has over 13,000. That’s a whopping 76.3% decline.
And there’s not only a decline from the primary season to the second season, however as famous by Luminate there’s already an enormous decline simply with the second season. The fourth episode of Season 2 solely has over 8,900 critiques. That’s a 31% decline.
It will get even worse although in case you take a look at the fifth episode. It solely has 6,600 critiques after over per week. That’s a decline of 49.2% from simply the Season 2 premiere.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy Season 2 IMDb scores by particular person episode
To focus on how horrible this, Luminate reported that The Acolyte garnered 380.5 million minutes in its second week. That’s greater than the 372.2 million minutes watched that Luminate reported The Rings of Energy obtained in what is basically its second week.
As famous by NowItsKnown on X, The Rings of Energy’s fourth episode is 24 minutes longer than The Acolyte’s third episode. Thus The Rings of Energy had much less watch time regardless of having an extended episode. Meaning it’s very doubtless there are much less folks watching The Rings of Energy than The Acolyte, which noticed its second season get scrapped by Disney and Lucasfilm as a consequence of its low viewership.
Factoring in #RingsOfPower‘s runtimes towards Est. Minutes. Watched.
It does worse than #TheAcolyte.#RingsOfPowerS2–
Ep1 1Hr 16Mins 29 Aug 24
Ep2 1Hr 2Mins 29 Aug 24
Ep3 1Hr 6Mins 29 Aug 24
Ep4 1Hr 5Mins 5 Sept 24
Ep5 1Hr 1Mins (1-Day Measure, 12 Sept 24 Launch)#TheAcolyte–
Ep1… pic.twitter.com/RTZEZaOUC3— MAC (@NowItsKnown) September 14, 2024
What do you make of Payne’s assault on critics of the present whereas viewers are quickly abandoning the present?
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