Season 2 begins with a flashback. After Morgoth's defeat Sauron is running for President and delivers a low energy speech to the orcs. Adar starts an insurrection by stabbing the Dark Lord with his crown followed by the orcs killing him. Years later Sauron becomes a symbiote like goo feeding from maggots and mice until he crawls outside the Mountain, kills a woman and becomes "Halbrand". Then Halbrand boards a ship with an old man, a big fish destroys the ship and Saubrand steals the man's sigil, later he finds Galadriel and season 1 events ensue.
Now Saubrand goes back to Mordor where Adar tortures him, and later lets him go because he promises Adar to find Sauron. I hace no idea of what was the point of Saubrand in Mordor. Then he goes to Eregion to meet Celebrimbor and convinces him he's a messenger of the Valar, finally we have an Annatar reveal.
This should have been in season 2 and is probably the only scene so far I thought it was kind of cool, but is sad they casted an old man as Celebrimbor, the elves are ageless god Darnit! After that they resume their work.
The moronic and gullible she-elf Galadriel tells Gil-Galad and Elrond that Halbrand is Sauron. There's a ridiculous scene with Elrond stealing the 3 elvish rings. He takes to them to Cirdan but it turns out Cirdan doesn't want to destroy them, he puts the rings and gives the other two to Gil-Galad and Galadriel which leaves Elrond pissed.
The dwarves of Khazad Dum are worried about the mountain not responding to the dwarven kween's singing so Durin and Disa go to Eregion where Celebrimbor and Annatar begin forging the 7 rings.
There's the totally not-Gandalf wizard and fem-Frodo along fem-Sam wandering through the desert where they meet Tusken raiders sent by totally not-Saruman (I swear if the Dark Wizard is Saruman than they will outdumb every other dumb change made before)
Not-Gandalf has visions with a staff, he's looking for it. The Tusken Raiders attack him and he summons a dust-devil with a provisory staff, it doesn't work well as the Hobbits as taken away like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
The Numenor shit continues to be boring. Donald Trump Ar-Pharazon coups Kween Tar-Miriel by EXPOSING her as an elvish lover. Isildur's sister shows up at Miriel's coronation displaying the Palantir and calls out Miriel, then an Eagle shows up for a photo-op and Trump goes toward the Eagle and becomes King after the crowd shouts and goes bananas!
As a Tolkien adaptation this slop is 2/10, it is very loosely based on the Legendarium. As its own thing it's like 4/10, very mediocre show, boring with few interesting moments and dumb plotlines.
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I am just gonna play the first episode half on amazon and never play it again. frick them that will send them a message
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The real question is, how bad is this going to be in the new Peter Jackson movies?
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que??
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Yeah, allegedly Peter Jackson is making new LOTR movies. I'm hoping it's just putting his name on those animes, but the implication I've read is that they're real movies.
If it's back in his "universe" then all of a sudden there are a bunch of black elves will look especially funny, or if it's another prequel, then we have genocide confirmation.
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He's making a fricking gollum movie it's gonna be so shit, like how do you make a plot centred around an r-slured little cannibal?
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It's a movie about Aragorn and Gandalf looking for gollum between the hobbit and LOTR. In the story they torture gollum and are cruel to him. It's going to be le gollum was actually the heckin good guy and Aragorn was a white supremacist.
Also they recast Gandalf as an Asian woman and Aragorn is black
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But why? Why would anyone CARE about gollum?
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gollum, gollum
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!nooticers Amazon Prime does it again after Wheel of Time
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They don't even try to hide huh
Or, as the kids say, they're going "masks off".
That said, what is these people's obsession with negro elves?
Witcher was almost nauseating with the BIPOC elf
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Neverwinter Nights had that one funny black elf portrait
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I love how Gilead aka nazi germany but for foids is basically just a run of the mill Muslim
Nation
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I am a woman and I resist male oppression but also I obey Muhammad to cover my head around men
!r-slurs !foidmoment
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Why is there a Muslim wheel of time lady?
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WoT has a zillion cultures, I'm sure that's at least lore adjacent
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carps fav show
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when your casting director pulls out the diversity checklist
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I think he would have looked more elven with elegant box braids
Edit: unironically tho, you wouldn't cast a white guy as an elf who looked like he come off the street with that basic cropped hairstyle
They aren't even trying...
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