Jim A. Morrish
Well-Known Member
enjoying it so far, this harfoot-less episode was the best so far
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Yeah I'm not gonna stop watching or anything but it all felt drearily predictable to me, I think I agree with your argument earlier of the pacing. Galadriel has become less a character and more an unstoppable force of forward momentum. But sure we'll see, I'll be watching it all no matter what.I thought it was great, the Orcs are properly scary and that chase through the woods felt so tense. The scenes with the Dwarves are just magnificent, the bit with Durin and his dad Durin was played beautifully. Elrond is growing on me too.
I think it’s meant to be five seasons, I’m guessing season one is going to be all scene setting and lining up the main plot. Sauron will probably only become apparent in the last 5 minutes.can;t believe we're halfway through already, only 8 episodes
yeah, planning at least 5 seasons afaikI think it’s meant to be five seasons, I’m guessing season one is going to be all scene setting and lining up the main plot. Sauron will probably only become apparent in the last 5 minutes.
elf praise is no praiseElrond is growing on me too.
get off the fence and tell us what you really think, whydoncha!?!apart from the scenery. the rest of it is shit though - the script, the acting, the CGI - all shit.
apart from the scenery. the rest of it is shit though - the script, the acting, the CGI - all shit.
Unfortunately, by this stage it has become clear that the showrunners and their streaming paymasters have made the same terrible mistake. In setting out to replicate successful predecessors (Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and HBO’s eight-season Game of Thrones series), they chose the wrong damn heroes. In both cases, after surveying the expansive universes created by Martin and Tolkien, they decided to focus on the posh blonde people. With House of the Dragon, that meant the Targaryen dynasty. In The Rings of Power it was the elves. With that, their doom was sealed.
It’s not hard to see how this could have happened with The Rings of Power, the first billion-dollar production to be based on a book’s appendix (the only-for-true-nerds bits tacked on to the end of LOTR). Tolkien, an arch-conservative who was in the news again this week when putative far-right Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni was revealed as a lifelong fan, was at his worst in these portentous, cod-medieval passages. It should not be a great shock that the unreadable has turned out to be undramatisable.
Ouch.House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power have made the same mistake: posh blonde heroes
Hugh Linehan: Upper-crust heroes don’t cut it in the fantasy warswww.irishtimes.com
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