The Lord of the Rings

[Benji]

[Hellraiser]

I'm warming up to the Rings Of Power now that things finally got going.

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I'm looking forward to seeing Sauron outside of his armor and the prospect of getting to witness the Downfall of Númenor has me excited as well. I still don't know what to make out of the Hobbit sub-plot.

And do we really need to shoehorn a tragic elf/non-elf romance into every talking adaptation?

 

[Dang117]

I've started to enjoy the Rings Of Power, has been slow in parts but seems to be hitting a stride now

[Benji]

I've just started it, first episode is very pretty, clearly has a lot of vision behind the cinematography. Character introductions and scene setting are going well. Can't say it's thrilled me but it's got a lot of set up to do, and it's good that they aren't just making assumptions that people will know every little bit of middle earth lore.

[DFF]

Really enjoyed Season 1 tbh. I guessed the sort of reveals/twists, but that's not to say it wasn't written well. I think Elrond's plotline is the one I've enjoyed the most. 

[Hellraiser]

Same here. The show took a while to properly get going. I still maintain that you can take the first 2 hour-long episodes and cut them together into one hour-long episode without loosing much of importance. But by episode 3 they had me hooked.

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It did take me until the final episode to figure out that Halbrand was Sauron. They did throw me for a loop with the whole "I killed Sauron" speech by Adar and the three weirdos mistaking Gandalf (The Stranger is supposed to be Gandalf, right? I figure that by the way he takes to the Hobbits it has to be Gandalf) for Sauron. For a moment there I really thought they would throw us a curve ball and re-write Sauron's history.

And who were those three weirdos anyway?

 

Edited October 18, 2022 by Hellraiser