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09-11-2024, 08:33 PM | #1 |
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**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S2E3 - 'The Eagle and the Scepter'
I watched the first 3 episodes all at once so things are a bit mixed up for me.
Was that actually Shelob? Orc family! Fun fact, Gil-Galad's actor also voices the troll. I'm beginning to think that Annatar is a baaaaad influence on Celebrimbor. Lying to the high king? Dealing with dwarves?? Forging rings in secret??? What's next, war???? Theo: YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!! Also Theo: Horse heist! Imagine the chaos in Numenor if there had been seven seeing stones. I can't remember if they addressed how many there were in the LotR movies, but maybe we'll see another one being found somewhere in ME that Sauron will take posession of.
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09-12-2024, 06:41 AM | #2 |
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Oh look, it's the B-plot.
Overall I didn't like this episode much at all. Isildur is boring, Numenor was clumsily handled, and the dwarves are busy being pushed so hard by the plot that their only personality is saying "stubborn" over and over in a variety of accents. Also, Isildur spends so much time in the pitch black! I had to turn off the room lights and I still couldn't tell what was going on. hS
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Her actress has left acting for a time to work on activism. Theo's being set up to probably be a Ringwraith, gotta give him some angst to drive him to Sauron's arms. Quote:
Maybe it's "Damn Rod", like that's what his victims call his club.
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09-13-2024, 06:30 PM | #5 | |
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If that doesn't just sum it up!
Some "baby in arm" notes again for Episode III--I've actually been sitting on these since... Monday? Sunday? It's been a while. Long enough that I find myself wondering if I'll remember what I was going for. Quote:
And... it's time for another weekend and the next episode or two. I still like the actors in this show (the casting is good), but I find that I just... don't like how they're handling either the Southlands or Númenor. It's like I can see deep respect and some original thinking with Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits--even Orks. But as soon as they touch humans, the writers seem to indulge all their worst rewriting tendencies, and these are the plots too most affected by geographic smush and timeline rot. We'll see how it scores going forward.
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