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09-07-2024, 04:28 PM | #1 |
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**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S2E2 - "Where the Stars are Strange"
Okay, episode 1 was surprisingly okay, so what about episode 2? I can't remember the order of any of this, but:
Overall thoughts: I liked this one as I watched it, but looking back it did make some weird decisions. hS
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09-08-2024, 12:16 PM | #2 | ||
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RIP Cirdan's beard, we hardly knew ye.
Oh wow, an interesting woman who recently lost her spiritual link to the stone, they could go some interesting places with this....annnnnnd she is primarily focused on fixing some mens' emotional issues. Groundbreaking stuff. Rhun magic is kind of cool. I'm choosing to watch this part of the series as an 80s fantasy movie that never was. Pallandatar is our third "The Terror" alum, Ciaran Hinds, and the true bearer of the name "Mothrandir". Quote:
I agree. It's possible it could be linked back (forward?) to Gandalf's words to Frodo regarding Gollum (Because he began ownership of the Ring so - with pity and mercy). Quote:
Better than "Burping Man with Carrot". I think the Annatar reveal scene was done pretty well. Celebrimbor seems a bit at a loss after the emotional shift of finding out if the elven rings worked. Getting a "messager from the Valar" must have been both overwhelming and an ego boost. If Celebrimbor had invented cell phones or if palantir use was more wide-spread they wouldn't have this "I didn't specifically tell Celebrimbor that Halbrand was explicitly Sauron" plotpoint. I can't quite tell if I like Elrond's resistance to the elven rings. He's right to be suspicous, but he's being very dramatic about it haha. Most of that is knowing he becomes a ringbearer in the future. I wonder how they'll resolve that. Plus the whole marrying the daughter of the fried he's suspicious of deal.
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09-08-2024, 02:05 PM | #3 | |
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And with Galadriel somewhat juvenated by making younger than Gil-galad, not having Celeborn... and the Second Age being about 2 years long... I wonder if they're just not going to address who Arwen's mother is. Anyway, I've now watched the second Episode--baby in hand, notes on phone, but with fewer typos, so we'll go straight to the straightened out notes:
And... that's it. So far, I think I like Season 2 better than Season 1 just because more of the glaring problems the writers have with understanding geographic scale and military tactics are more easily hidden, even if they're still very much there. I like that identifiable canonical events, however grossly distorted, can be sort of recognised to be happening, which in Season 1 seemed to peter out after the the "prologue" elements.
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