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by mola 1377 days ago
It's an episodic tv show with full season story arc. I think there's still some time before you can really judge the narrative structure in this case. As far as aristotelian narrative "rules" go the first episode seem to follow a classic aristotelian tragedy. A high born hero, set on a course of her own destruction. Anyway these rules are not really set in stone, over these past few thousands of years we aquired a multitude of narrative structures and plot devices. Of course Hollywood is obsessed with money and risk aversion so we tend to mostly see the most formulaic "classic" narratives.

BTW, I'd also claim that original tolkin narratives are not very good if you strictly judge them by these rules. The generous use of Deus ex machina to solve the plot climactic moments is just cringy.