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Yesterday, 04:19 PM | #1 |
Psyche of Prince Immortal
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**Spoiler Warning** Rings of Power S2E8 - "Shadow and Flame"
Another season finale and another post full of thoughts. This time around I decided to wait for the ending before compiling my thoughts for this season, which i will add below and edit as I go along.
I filled out all my thoughts and the page timed out, so i lost it all and will have to find time and energy to re-write and re-think all my thoughts later. Quick thoughts on this episode: - Durinsbane was long known, but the rise and fall of the Durins was done quite well. - Dark Wizard told us what we already knew and then left with nothing new, thus making him and the stranger/harfoots storyline a bit flat. - Oh yeah Numenor was there too
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Uh oh, is prince Durin going to collapse the mine on himself and his father?
Drums in the Deep! There are so many really thin walls in Khazad-dum. He was a burned dwarf. "Pity will not defeat Sauron" - hahaha. Sauron's thinks he's showing off, but he's just being a conjurer of cheap tricks. Nothing really new in this episode. The strongest and the weakest parts were no surprise. RIP Celebrimbor. Now that was a well-done prophecy. So do uruks/orcs have free will or not? Did all of them decide to turn on Adar at once? Why not turn away from Sauron immediately since it only took like ten minutes to betray them? Quote:
Very disappointing. Ciaran Hinds is no slouch as an actor and he was wasted this season. Maybe he'll be the "Adar" level large bad next season? Quote:
I am sorry. I've had that happen too many times to count.
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Today, 04:51 PM | #3 |
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The final episode--and my least tardy one! Only took the whole "season" (which I feel needs to be in quotation marks, because 8 episodes a season is not).
So, I have my gripes. My biggest gripe is Númenor, which suffers the most from the telescoping of the 2nd Age into however little time it gets. The writing is weaker, the wild mass creating out of wholecloth is far greater. We're losing all the best parts of 2nd Age Númenor (probably because it wasn't in the Appendices): we're losing the glorious arrival of Tar-Minastir, saving the Elves and Eriador and driving Sauron from the field. That, very clearly, is going to be folded into the arrival of Ar-Pharazôn's armada, but that's unfortunate: one is storming the beaches at D-Day, the other is more like Cortez landing in Mexico (i.e. they're both landings, but the POINT of them is supposed to be utterly different). By folding them into one, we're going to lose one--probably the "Númenor at the peak of its glory" version. Númenor never gets a chance to be "the closest thing to Aman that Men get int his world"--just some references to having indoor plumbing. But, on the other hands, the Eregion plot: Annatar and Celebrimbor and the forging of the Rings, even taking into account the narrative liberties taken--and the debts owed thanks to Season 1--were REALLY strong: the casting of Annatar and Celebrimbor paid dividends here, to the point that I think these scenes elevated Season 2 sufficiently for me to say it's better than Season 1. I'm glad they cut back on the Stranger and the Southrons and the Númenóreans in favour of it--I just wish they'd cut back more!
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