Watched Rings of Power and want to write a bit about it sometimes. Many things to say about it, I'll just want to make couple of points, but now only one thing. One thing that plagues recent telly shows. They create a bunch of main characters and separate their scenes with separate stories, which are also divided into short episodes, happening far apart both in time and space, denying a logical, coherent story from them. And considering today's telly shows are so goddamn short, 6-12 episodes in a season, this gives them too short screen time to get to know them, get to know their stories, see their motivations, their arc, see their actions, etc. and not just hear a load of empty lines told in hushed but strained tone to give tension to the story.
Watching Walking Dead these days. Not too long seasons (first season has 6 episodes but basically follows Rick and that's it..., that is a lot of screentime), but the story isn't scattered into many strands and even those keep close together to the core events, and just complementing it. Back in the day Walking Dead was considered a tedious filler filled melodramatic crap, at least some of it. I did thought that too in case of certain episodes and finally dropped it about season 6. Now compared to Rings of Power this thing is fucking genius. There is story, there is action, there is drama, there is acting(!!!!), there is character development, there is a watchable show. Srsly. It feels great now.