Cherry-Picking the Good Parts

[Formendacil]

In the Rings of Power First Episode Thread, in my stream of consciousness-esque list of first impressions, there were a few things I noted as genuinely liking. I'll start by quoting them here:

Originally Posted by Formendacil

• I like the round door "etymology."

• First impression: I LIKE young-Elrond but cannot picture him as the same being as Hugo Weaving.

• Graeco-Roman is far better for Elves than Celto-Nipponese

• I do like Gil-galad as a presence. N.B. I **DID** half-retract this later

• It's weird, but the in-between dynamic of Gil-galad's man and Galadriel's friend does seem right.

• Well, at least Celebrimbor LOOKS like a mad scientist Elf.

• Okay, the ship climbing the straight road is cool imagery, even if the dumbly-standing Elves are still ridiculous.

• This feels more 1st Age Doom of the Noldor but it'd make a cool setpiece in an Eärendil retelling

That is heavily excerpted--everything I said that had a definite positive spin to me, and that's what this thread is about: just a similar "I LIKED this part of RoP!"

You don't have to agree with my list--you can even like things I found baffling or distasteful (the same British sound on Haradrim as Noldor? What is this nonsense!), but that's not the purpose of this thread. This thread is--solely--for things you genuinely liked. If you want to go long and detailed on why you liked it, I'd love to read it, but I'm open to mere lists.