Same here, I only caught one episode of HOTD, the one where they are at the feast and the two guys fight over the girl and then she gets kidnapped. The whole episode felt intimate, filled with emotion and natural rhythm, very personal and lifelike. Now I'm a fan.
Contrasting to LOTR where a bunch of miscast 20 year olds give wooden performances in front of sterile CGI to advance a bolted on story. Disappointment of the year.
Things have totally flipped. I’m actually enjoying HoD. Not perfect but really engaging story.
I literally hate RoP. It has the story, direction and acting quality of a badly done high school musical. It has literally no redeeming qualities.
Coming up with an origin story for mithril was stupid enough but the stupidity of the story isn’t even consistent. It’s an absolutely terrible show.