Why does the dwarf Kween look so videogamish on that pic?
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Despite Celebrimbor and the other Elves knowing "Halbrand" was Sauron he now returns as Annatar with his new elvish hair but no one excepts Galadriel realizes it 
Aren't you guys tired of winning? Isn't it exciting? 
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Haven't watched this yet, is it worth it? I know the chuds hate it and it's been criticized a lot cause there's the dark people but is it actually decent enough to try?
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There's about 3 minutes worth of good scenes spread over an absolutely horrible season. It's literal 2/10 garbage tier show
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After the episode where they transitioned "Southlands" to "MORDOR" with spooky halloween style I kind of half expected they would show "Halbrand" switch to "SAURON" in letters for the Sauron reveal.
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I can't think of many times where a scene in a tv show made me groan like that one did.
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I was going "They're not gonna - surely they're not - oh frick they are" at that part.
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Why would Southlands be Mordor, Harad exists (and even it has some undefined stuff to its south)
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Neighbor do you really think the people who made this shit care in the slightest bit.
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What is this "Harad" of which you speak? Surely nobody has ever heard of such a place! Halbrand is King of the Southlands (all two villages worth)!
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Harad literally means south. Most of names in LOTR are simple things like fast river or green plane or naked hill only said in Elvish.
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So you can make your own judgments
!kino
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I haven't finished watching the clip yet but that raft is remarkably stable for how small it is lmao. Bro stands up and it doesn't even move haha.
Have none of the effects people ever been in a canoe or raft or something?
edit: lmao okay the scene does NOT get better
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It was a dream sequence but still r-slurred
Unintentionally hilarious!
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Yeah the first-person camera angles looked really ugly.
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the prisoner is a dark elf who considers Orcs as his children. Jump at 3:45 and Galadriel goes full 
on orcs
!nooticers
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be called her out for saying the racist wypipo word for orcs
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She looks so cute when he cups her chin tho
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I dreamt about being on a raft before. It had waves n shit. Just get an i5 brain lol
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As far as the raft part, this is a dream sequence, so there's technically no requirement for it to obey the laws of physics.
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Okay that makes a lot more sense
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I bet they had elven rafts that magically floated an inch above the water too
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It's not relevant to this, but aren't the elven boats from Lothlorien unnaturally stable?
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Wait till you hear their explanation for why a ship floats and a stone sinks.
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DO NOT EVER REMIND OF THIS EVER AGAIN I LITERALLY HAVE PTSD FROM SEASON 1
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This is even dumber when you consider that Sauron had to show them how to make the rings using his Fallen Angel esoteric knowledge and the Elven rings were made last.
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Don't forget, the magical mystical secret knowledge only Sauron had, which even the great Elven-smith Celebrimbor had never learned, not even from his grandfather Feanor the greatest of all the Elves, was the secret of "alloys".
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You forgot the "I'll just jump overboard and swim nearly five thousand miles back to Middle-earth, no biggie" scene. Truly in the spirit of Tolkien's canon!
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The music is so generic. It's clear they're trying to channel Howard Shore, but they're utterly failing at it.
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Nah. Regardless of DEIslop, its just bad. Horrible writing, honestly just god-awful. Everything else is mid at best. Stunt choreography is awful, but that seems to be a requisite nowadays in hollywood, havent seen good one in probably a decade. Effects are okay i guess.
Honorable mention to the dwarf guards that you could see for like 2 seconds once, even though they were in the background, you could tell it was children in the costumes and they had no idea what they were doing. Absolute Middle-school level acting.
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The writing is pretty shit. They made Galadriel so fricking unlikeable and she is supposed to be one of the main protagonists.
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They actually make you root for Sauron, which is impressive subversion of the story and Tolkien would probably physically assault the writers for it
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It felt like they were going for a "hero learns their lesson and grows as a person" narrative, but forgot to put something in to make us like the hero so we root for them to become better.
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That makes more sense when the protagonist isn't thousands of years old
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And she was the mother in law to Elrond even though the show kind of acts like they are the same age despite Galadriel being like 5000 years old at this point and Elrond would have been like ~1700 at the time of the forging of the rings.
Not to mention she was one of the key figures in the forging of the Simarils, the Kinstrife and the entire War of Wrath in the First Age where there were literal gods fighting on the battlefield against Morgoth lol.
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The character that got treated the worst was poor Celebrimbor - turned into a doddering old fool (even though he's a generation younger than Galadriel) in a granny dressing gown who has to be told about alloys by some scruffy mortal Man, and just hangs around in the background doing nothing until the very last episode. They took the Celebrimbor and Narvi Elf-Dwarf friendship we should have had, and turned it into Elrond and Durin instead, so he didn't even get that much in the scripts.
Seriously, him being tortured to death by Sauron in the second season (if they stick to canon storyline) will be a better ending than anything the show has done to him so far.
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I couldn't help laughing at the episode (after Galadriel took an erupting volcano to the face and just walked it off) when Miss "Imma Genocide Every Freakin' Orc" lectures Theo about how he should give up plans of revenge.
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The idea is pretty clearly that she learned her lesson when taking a volcano to the face-hence the about face. If you find it believable is up to you.
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It starts slow for the first three or four episodes, but it really picks up after that. It's one of the best shows released this decade alongside the acolyte. Definitely give it a watch.
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Not really. Forget all about Tolkien, even as a Basic TV Fantasy Show, it's not that great. Mostly because the guys in charge as showrunners, Payne and McKay, spent ten years writing movie scripts that never got made (so that tells you the quality we have here).
They updated everything for "the modern audience" so we got Girlbossing all over the place, Look We Have Diversity, and forgot to include any plot. It's only eight episodes long, which is too short for everything they needed to do, but they still wasted about three episodes with "Numenor is not going to war. Okay Numenor is going to war. Hold on, we've changed our minds. Now we changed them back again".
The best actor in the show was the guy who played Adar, the Orc Father. And he's left and has now been replaced for the second season, so that's a bad sign. Also, what made me laugh, is that the idiot writers tried to set up a Star-Crossed Lovers romance in the first season, forgot to have any actual chemistry between the actors, and now the Look We're Diverse actress half of this couple has quit and won't even be in the second season. Unfortunately the Look We're Diverse male half of the couple is staying and he is as wooden as a tree when it comes to acting.
I'm going to watch (or at least watch the reviews) of the second season, which starts in August, purely out of spite to see how dumb and stupid they can go (for example, their notion of a clever disguise nobody will ever see through is to have the Sauron of the first season come back, only this time he's wearing a wig and Elf ears. Surely nobody will suspect anything wrong there!)
But if you just want some fun escapist TV or streaming show? Can't really recommend it. Stick with House of the Dragon which has better reviews and beat Rings of Power like a gong in their respective first seasons.
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you're fricking bananas if you think I'm reading all that, take my downmarsey and shut up idiot
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It's mid. Not at all as bad as the seethe implies. Lots of (ironic) purposeful autism in the criticism. But still really mid. If you need to consoom some fantasy, you could put it on the list.
I like watching LOTR nerds seethe though. They've been so haughty about how majestic the 00s trilogy was. Peter Jackson stuff is overrated autism that had to keep a distance from the truly neurodivergent Tolkien shit, which is so neurodivergent can never be translated to any kind of mainstream media because no fricking gives a shit that Sauron and Gandalf are fire angels distantly related to balrogs who attacked the great spider tree twin lamps that lit the world before men were born because of the air angels that are also god elves or something.
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Visually it actually looks pretty nice. The dialogue was overall good when there were 2 people on screen, and not great the more people there were(especially the speeches).
Story wasn't good, but it wasn't horrid. Music was good, although it's not something I care much about.
I'm still very confused as to why rightoids hate it so much, since the show itself doesn't really have woke messaging in it-just the marketing.
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THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
And how can we possibly forget "Give me the meat, and give it to me raw" which is clearly their secret gay forbidden Elf/Dwarf romance code for "take me hard and fast now"?
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Goddarn I didnt remember just how godawful it was.
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My guess is that the dialogue is better when they have two actors and a crew that have to deal with the one.
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Galadriel acting like a b-word without ever facing consequences or getting called out, only male action hero character is a black twink, theyy took errr jebs guy in numenor, racism allegory with the black elf entering the bar (despite elves being the colonial overseers of the town)
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I felt that it was pretty clear that them not liking the elf was because of elves being colonial overseers, independent of skin color.
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Oh man yeah, they really did 'the knife ears are gonna take our jobs'. There are so many high-quality excellent examples like that all through this series, it's hard to pick out just one or two gems.
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@PeepeeButtKiss watched a couple eps. Just seems badly made. Chud stuff aside
Then again @PeepeeButtKiss was super fricked up watching it and was just looking for stuff too laugh at and make fun of so didnt exactly give it a fair shake
jewish lives matter
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No, not at all. They fricked everything up
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