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.
― omar little, Sunday, 9 October 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
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 … ?”
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 9 October 2022 09:32 (one year ago) link
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?”
― mh, Sunday, 9 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
👉🏾 NOW A DEBATABLE AND DESERT LAND 👈🏽
― mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
“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.
― omar little, Sunday, 9 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
but how did the land name change happen, was there a referendum or what
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 9 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
It was a vibe shift
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 9 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
the land name change is like when you throw the one ring in the fire and letters appear, but with a volcano
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
the land name reveal parties are getting a bit over the top, i blame the elves
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
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.
― omar little, Sunday, 9 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
xp arguing over who the bins get delivered to..
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 9 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
Enjoy a last trailer?
Is there only one episode left this season? Jesus
So, so bad
― groovypanda, Monday, 10 October 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
orcs in ordinary down-time, chatting, chilling
I remember that scene in the Hobbit
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 October 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
loveable cockney trolls
― mark s, Monday, 10 October 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
title card reveal: BOW BELLS
― mark s, Monday, 10 October 2022 10:14 (one year ago) link
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/
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 10 October 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
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?"
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 10 October 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
surprised i didn't realize till now that one of those guys is ex-stylus-mag
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 10 October 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
Hollywood Reporter should have just shown them mark s's comments from this thread.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 October 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
next can we put alfred in charge of narnia
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 10 October 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
(self xp)
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 10 October 2022 14:20 (one year ago) link
ent fap
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 10 October 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
terrible episode. so many times i wanted to scream "get on with it" at the tv.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 October 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
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.).
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
would watch Tolkien Jeopardy
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 10 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
"This author was a serious fucking nerd."
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
*views season finale*
*throws hands in air*
Christ on a bike.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 October 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
STOKED FOR THE PUKELMEN
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
celebrimbor just baffled by the smallest amount of smith-science, "an alloy you say, what an intriguing suggestion"
*wildly googling "eloi"*
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
"those words, HAIL THE NEW FLESH -- where did you hear them?"
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
time to fuck sauron
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
it'll need to be something… smaller (hobbit-sized)
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
really darth mauled the cool-looking non-canon character there
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
That was...frequently hilarious.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Friday, 14 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
its a comedy like breaking bad
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
i'm good!
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0879/7592/files/breaking-bad-heisenberg-drawing.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
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..
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
I myself have been equivocating but I think I'm ready to admit this show is... really not good
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
By which I mean that I don't desire to see more of it
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
If we can't be glad because Amazon spent a billion or so dollars giving us an amazing extension of the Middle Earth story to enjoy, then we can at least be glad that Amazon wasted a billion or so dollars making something we can easily walk away from and ignore while we find better things to do with our time.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 14 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
i will never find better things to do with my time
― mark s, Friday, 14 October 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
I was uncertain why it made such a thing about Elrond finding the scroll in the water, when all it tells him is that Halbrand isn't who he says?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 14 October 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
I guess it's supposed to be Portentous in terms of Future Events and Internal Conflict. Thrilling.
Well now it's funny you should say that:
“Season one opens with: Who is Galadriel? Where did she come from? What did she suffer? Why is she driven?” says Payne. “We’re doing the same thing with Sauron in season two. We’ll fill in all the missing pieces.”“Sauron can now just be Sauron,” McKay adds. “Like Tony Soprano or Walter White. He’s evil, but complexly evil. We felt like if we did that in season one, he’d overshadow everything else. So the first season is like Batman Begins, and the The Dark Knight is the next movie, with Sauron maneuvering out in the open.”
(I want to hurt these people.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 October 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
I appreciate the tartness here:
That’s not to say there haven’t been highlights in Rings of Power’s debut. It and its characters have often stalled on repeating the Tolkienesque themes of hope in the face of despair over and over, with what has essentially just been increasing amounts of despair—but as simple that it is, there’s still something charming about it. And, of course, it has continued to be a ridiculously pretty show, gleaming with the millions upon millions of dollars at its disposal. “Alloyed” carries this on much the same, but in a madcap 70 minutes that both feels like too much and not enough is going on. It does, however, actually take a step forward in the long narrative of the Second Age it reveals to us, for all that aesthetic glimmer, what we’ve experienced every week for the past few months was both incredibly obvious and, at the heart of it, quite empty.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 October 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
I was going along with it, enjoyed ep 6 a lot, but this final episode. oh no. oh no no no
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 15 October 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
Truly. (And Episode 6 was the best and also stupid as fuck, per my comment earlier.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
yeah I was going along with it, this will all work out in the end. just tweaking the story to make it a viable TV show. all the obvious and completely stupid plots will just be misdirection etc. whoops
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 15 October 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
CelebrimBORING, amirite
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
what if instead of swords we made something smaller…yes…three…salmon forks. quite a flurry of naff shoehorning, kinda ruined the dull yet beautiful vibe of the rest of the series imoall i know is i still have a slight outside chance that the bob odenkirk wizard is going to turn out to be tom bombadill (private theory)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link