Long doesn't mean slow. The trilogy tells the entire LOTR story in 9 (or 12) hours. That's not slow, that's dense. RoP takes 8 hours to tell barely any story at all. Hours pass where nothing happens. The characters are barely developed. We can't even begin to have character arcs because we don't know who most of them are in the first place. That's slow.

I enjoyed the show and would say it had a pretty slow pace. I thought the slow pace was enjoyable in some parts and annoying in others.

> i'm guessing they haven't seen the 9 hours of movies then

I've watched them, I saw Two Towers last weekend. I still found it more entertaining and it went 'faster' than any single episode of this show.

People don’t mean viewing length when they say its slow, they mean its slow

Forget precise complaints. I read the books 16 years ago and watched the complete first trilogy maybe even further back but you could tell within 10 mins of the show starting that they had literally no idea what they were getting involved with.

The monologue on why a ship floats is literally so dumb alongside a myriad of other random happenings. The dialogue, the writing, the characters are all completely bland and outright moronic.