'For a billion dollar show, why does the new Lord of the Rings trailer look so cheap?'
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The trailer for Amazon’s much-anticipated new series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hit screens during the Super Bowl this weekend, giving fans an early glimpse at exactly what the world’s first billion dollar television show looks like.
The answer? A cut scene from an old Final Fantasy computer game, writes Kevin E G Perry. 
Amazon will be hoping to have a Game of Thrones-sized hit on their hands, or at the very least a big enough success to outshine HBO’s Game of Thrones-prequel House of the Dragon, which is also set to premiere later this year.
The scale of Amazon’s spending is a sign that this is something of a pet project for boss Jeff Bezos.
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, told Vanity Fair this month: “His desire to be ambitious – and for us to be ambitious with our content – has always been clear from the moment I got here.”
"Clearly, that sentiment is supposed to reassure Tolkien fans that the new series will do justice to the author’s legacy," writes Kevin E G Perry.
"But all that talk of striving ambition makes it sound suspiciously like the inflated price tag is really just yet another willy-waving exercise from the man who brought us a wildly phallic space rocket."
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