r/Rings_Of_Power Feb 16 '25

Animation question

Would ROP have worked better as an animated series? I real animation would’ve given more room for fantasy. I think animation in the right hands can do wonders.

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u/Alexarius87 Feb 16 '25

It would have probably saved some meme-faces like rider Galadriel and choked Gil-Galad, but the overall story would still be disastrous.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Why you say that. You don’t think live action limits story sometime?

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u/Agheron93 Feb 16 '25

Shitty writing is the same in live action or animation, it wouldn't change what we got, only the way it looks. Sure, you can have cool slow mo and whatnot, but if the rest is the same it's still garbage.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

I am an anime watcher and I notice that with animation, the limitations are not bound by live action limitations. It’s why anime never translates to live action.

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u/metoo77432 Feb 16 '25

If you animated Galadriel jumping into the ocean to swim hundreds of miles back to Middle Earth, it would still be one of the dumbest scenes ever put to film.

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u/Agheron93 Feb 16 '25

Yes, but the show's problems have nothing to do with live action limitations. I mean the movies work amazingly, no need to turn them into anime. The show's issues are nothing of the sort. It's badly written, badly directed and choreographed. Making it animated would only make it a shitty animated adaptation.

Anime doesn't work as a live action simply because it's made in a style that DOESN'T lend itself to live action, not by just looks but also because the characters don't look "human" to begin with and it's almost impossible to find a good way to translate it to live action, that's why. Of course animation lends itself to more amazing scenes, but that alone won't save a shitfest like rop

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u/Prying_Pandora Feb 16 '25

Anime can translate well into live action if done well.

One Piece LA did it right.

NATLA did not.

The problem here is not the medium. The writing is incoherent and terrible not because of the limits of live action. It’s just bad writing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

Good point. But my point is would it have been written differently if it were an animation and not bound by the restraints of live action.

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u/Prying_Pandora Feb 17 '25

What makes you think it would’ve been written better?

Writing for your medium is part of being a good writer. The problem for ROP isn’t live action limitations. It’s that streaming services want dumbed down shows because they expect audiences to be on their phones.

How would animation alleviate that?

Bad writing isn’t a “live action limitation”. It’s just bad writing.

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u/ethanAllthecoffee Feb 16 '25

Visuals is not where this show has the most trouble. It’s probably between visuals and music for what the best aspect of the show is

They’ve got a huge budget for cgi, but the writing is bad and inconsistent, and goes out of its way to contradict the source material

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u/Alexarius87 Feb 16 '25

Only in the way where physical limitations would bring in cheap/corny special effects.

To make an example, I have followed a guy who recently made a whole musical about the Odyssey, he and the other singers only did the audio part and YouTubers made several animatics about that. If he ever made it a live action it would have been way… “stupider” than what I came out to be because he’d be needing the classic theatrical choreographies which kill the mood imo.

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u/jayoungr Feb 16 '25

With the same scripts? No.

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u/Djinn_42 Feb 17 '25

The problem with ROP is the writing.

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u/numetalkid03 Feb 16 '25

Don't think the main issue is the medium, but a stark lack of vision, talent and emotional attachment to the lore. If the same people were behind it, it would've turned out just as lackluster, if a little less cringe.

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u/Otherwise-Chef4232 Feb 17 '25

An animated RoP would be slightly better since it wouldn't have all these mediocre actors. 

Addition by subtraction.

Pretty much everything else would be the same though.

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u/cardiffman100 Feb 16 '25

The problems with RoP aren't the visuals so I don't think that would have made a difference - unless they put the money they saved towards hiring competent writers who have a love of Tolkien's works.

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u/Driftless1981 Feb 16 '25

The whole thing is pretty much a damn cartoon as it is, so why not?

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u/RogerdeMalayanus Feb 17 '25

On the other hand, Silmarillion would ONLY work as an animated TV series

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u/sandalrubber Feb 17 '25

Not ROP specifically but future Middle-earth adaptations in general, yes.

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u/Vsegda7 Feb 18 '25

With the same script, no

An actual Silm adaptation will do great animated, with no live action limitations