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    On 8/24/2022 at 12:22 AM, notpropaganda73 said:

    The latest trailer doesn't fill me with much hope. 

     

    Having said that, to answer the OP's question, I think LotR being a success could be good for WoT solely from positive press around Prime and everything, but I don't think it being a failure would really mean anything. Netflix don't look at The Witcher's successes or failures and then think "We will renew the Sandman for another season". The Sandman's success is in its own hands really (although even that seems to be in question with Netflix apparently not guaranteed to renew for another season). 

     

    If WoT S2 is good, it doesn't really matter what happens with Rings of Power. 

    I thought Netflix had pre-confirmed The Sandman for season 2; this would be crushing if I mixed that up with another show.

    But success hasn't always been as much in the hands of shows in the past couple of years.  A lot of old-school media groups & their tired execs have been involved with mergers and acquisitions that result in them doing weird things to shows that previously were considered successful, or dropping the ball on marketing shows correctly & to passionate audiences...like how I totally forgot about The Sandman until I saw a screensaver slideshow for its premiere about 6-10 days before it dropped.  That's a very respected property and reviews have been positive from critics & non-critics alike; there was no excuse for the lack of publicity, especially when there is a Streaming Subscription Shuffle happening right now.  But Netflix has been under a new management direction for a bit.  HBO Max is acquired by Discovery, who like the new Netflix C-set think they figured out a way to increase profits: cancel the good, growing shows as though there was a limited broadcast slot lineup demanding tough choices, stuff the service with cheap reality TV and stale weekend-cable owned-library fare.  Forget that a lot of consumers ditched cable over the past 20ish years in sync with that exact mismanagement on traditional television platforms-and those who do both cable plus subscriptions surely don't need you to duplicate cable on streaming.

    All that said, Amazon and Disney are both a little different and the former has mastered marketing "If you liked this..." so my guess is LOTR doing well probably bodes well for WOT.  I last heard November might be when WOTS2 releases, and that seems to be a perfect time if they are doing LOTR on a weekly release (I admit I don't know if they are).   People will get that empty feeling as they finish LOTR and WOT will be right there and ready.  Amazon also has a lot of opportunity to advertise to those who subscribe through them to HBO; they can cross-market with the GOT crowd as well.  But this may be a double-edged sword, if this marketing plan is more than a theory.   If Amazon does try to blitz LOTR and GOT viewers with WOT advertising and they can't get enough response, that could be bad news for WOT.  If they can't get high fantasy fans to check out a show that has 2 seasons already (since some people don't want to try stuff that may only ever have the one season) when they have their appetites whetted already, they might decide it isn't worth the investment, and they may kill it or send it into Eternal Show Limbo.

     

    Yikes-sorry for the essay; this is something I've been thinking about and I haven't had a social life since I moved here in 2015. XD

    This is positive but not constructive-that first Bali gate you shared really does look alive.   (I always pictured the Waygate doors as being kind of like giant cellar doors, with a slight angle so that forward always had a little bit of down as well).    I’m hoping there will be doors-and I am with someone else in that I also imagined the exterior “framing” would vary by location.  In no way would they be so visibly advertised as on a bare hill, with no trees around.   Either the grove remained, or it was hidden after the corruption.   But I’m open to see what comes of this.  Again, that Bali gate is positively vivacious.

    I have a friend whom I think of when I hear “ageless.”   It is some combination of very smooth skin and deep, old eyes-IF I had to try to describe what made her that way.   I look far younger than my age, and that’s totally different.  We have both looked similar for 20+ years, but in different ways.   She hasn’t aged, and I have aged very slowly.   (Ironically, she was “formally” trained in witchcraft as her mother was a practicing witchy woman-the “local witch,” in her town of 65 people, in Bvmfvck, IA).  I don’t know that you can make it come through on the screen, or by makeup.  You could be told that person is 20 or 45 and you would say “Ok, seems right.”