The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series

What has it got in its Raggettses?

im calling it: no one has ever used the word "yester-eve" outside poorly written fiction

what shall we call it instead lord adar
hobbiton

My cohosts and I were, how you say, not taken with that name change business and how it was conveyed. I was hoping for neon letters underneath Mordor reading "Under New Management."

Enjoy a last trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5w2TG8IqM

That musical background is just so lazy and generic it could be something they pulled off a shelf that's already been used in dozens of other trailers.

I’m several episodes behind but I’ve seen 75% of the shots in that final episode trailer already.

this is just so stunningly bad

it's like lifeforce or battle beyond the stars

My cohosts and I were, how you say, not taken with that name change business and how it was conveyed. I was hoping for neon letters underneath Mordor reading "Under New Management."

it was so tonally wrong and unbelievably cheesy it stood out in what was the worst episode so far

Still so, so, so lacking in actual rings of power.

The worst thing about this episode was I completely missed Isildur being taken out of action, which was where the Queen regent lost her vision as well. I know what scene it was, it was the catastrophically directed bit with the house afire and then collapsing. I just didn’t follow the action somehow.

Thought for a minute that the big fella bringing the apple orchard back to life would lead to them deciding to settle down there. Missed opp for parallel title card change at the end.

I’m late to this and thus not reading the thread yet, but had to check in to vent my despair at the horrible, bland, awkward dialogue. Every time the story threatens to become interesting we get some cretin in costume leaning in saying “and your name is … ?”

the title card change was great

“ok, it’s painfully obvious to everyone who has watched or read anything related to this what the implication is”

“hmm, but what if our audience is really thick?”

👉🏾 NOW A DEBATABLE AND DESERT LAND 👈🏽

“Yester-eve” really stood out to me as well. There’s a lot of straining for heightened language which doesn’t work, and I just don’t understand how no one noticed how stilted and awkward it can be.

I’m still not used to emotional elves.

but how did the land name change happen, was there a referendum or what

It was a vibe shift

the land name change is like when you throw the one ring in the fire and letters appear, but with a volcano

the land name reveal parties are getting a bit over the top, i blame the elves

we very much need to see orcs in ordinary down-time, chatting, chilling, not pillaging, debating small local issues like borough signage, ash clearance, bin collections

Hear me out but as the orc tele-cinematic universe expands maybe we can get the occasional trade dispute between rivals. Or complaints about orcs “juking the stats” with regards to manflesh supply.

xp arguing over who the bins get delivered to..

Enjoy a last trailer?

Is there only one episode left this season? Jesus

So, so bad

orcs in ordinary down-time, chatting, chilling

I remember that scene in the Hobbit

loveable cockney trolls

title card reveal:
BOW BELLS

Gotta love the defensive tone in some of the responses!
"Look, you nerds..."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-criticism-response-1235234018/

Those are all minor criticisms, although I guess it would weird to expect the Hollywood Reporter to be like "why is the dialogue so bad? why doesn't ANY of it make ANY sense?"

surprised i didn't realize till now that one of those guys is ex-stylus-mag

Hollywood Reporter should have just shown them mark s's comments from this thread.

next can we put alfred in charge of narnia

(self xp)

ent fap

terrible episode. so many times i wanted to scream "get on with it" at the tv.

When Alfred is done with fixing LotR and Narnia, there are a few other fantasy franchises that need fixing (ahem House of Time, Wheel of Dragons, etc.).

would watch Tolkien Jeopardy

"This author was a serious fucking nerd."

*views season finale*

*throws hands in air*

Christ on a bike.

STOKED FOR THE PUKELMEN

celebrimbor just baffled by the smallest amount of smith-science, "an alloy you say, what an intriguing suggestion"

*wildly googling "eloi"*

"those words, HAIL THE NEW FLESH -- where did you hear them?"

time to fuck sauron

it'll need to be something… smaller (hobbit-sized)

really darth mauled the cool-looking non-canon character there

That was...frequently hilarious.

its a comedy like breaking bad

i'm good!

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0879/7592/files/breaking-bad-heisenberg-drawing.jpg

i haven't been posting in here too much because i don't want to be too negative and i do think that in some ways the show is a good time.

but episode 5 took me _three_ different attempts to get through. this giant's storyline is unintentionally hilarious. the galadriel scene where she trains the soldiers was tedious (in that you can predict how the entire scene goes, before it happens) and a weird obvious nod toward getting a some sort of fighting choreography emmy, with the playful music in sync with the swordplay. i watched all of the hobbit trilogy on an airplane. i feel like that when i am watching this show.

not that imdb knows anything, but it had episode 5 as the worst and episode 6 as the best of the season (this was before the finale was up). a friend told me that if i didn't like episode 6, i could just give up. i'm just trying to get through episode 6. but i have the feeling ep. 6 is the best because there's more CGI / big battles? my hopes are low. but i know that hope is the very last thing to go, before the darkness, and the very first thing to return..

I myself have been equivocating but I think I'm ready to admit this show is... really not good