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the money in the world has to offer let's do this wa is that a heart or a lava it's the lava
it looks like the heart of the lava it's both oh the map the darkness spreads
across the land cuz it's a thriller thriller oh no not to cause a doom it's going to be the dwarf isode
have a light pointing at it speak bruh and enter heyy nice damn that's smart that's pretty cool yeah wow that's why you should learn
geometry kids it's how you defeat doctor strange that ombre damn too dear huh we're
not poppers you're the one said we'll be wise to tighten our purse strings or were you
not including yourself when you said that this is good for memory and vitality you married
a prince now you're bound to an outcast I'm bound to the dwarf I love and I wouldn't trade
his heart for a mind full of fire opals nothing like my wife hey give me those fire opal baby be
nice to have Opals though I it would no have you tried to talk to your father do you know he will
never agree to see me why should I be the one to ask for an audience he disowned me uhoh stubborn
as a stone leg this is what happens men don't pay attention to their wives That's right just ask
for directions brace yourself oh [ __ ] [Music] I she knows the song of the mountain oh oh
no that's horrifying mad we simply dug too deep oh [ __ ] Are they trapped in her someone's turning off all the lights darkness
is casting out the lights oh no no oh [ __ ] [ __ ] oh the the the title sequence
we didn't get a title sequence the first episode damn there was just too much
ground to cover yeah let's go simulation I hope AI made this I've never met a bigger
proponent of generative AI oh look it's how many rings everyone gets yeah it's
a whole lot of rings it's a whole lot oh the crown nice the different branches
of leadership it's a cool update no the eye 11 secret herbs and spices
we coat every piece of how br's delicious twice Fried Chicken in our proprietary blend such such a such a soft opening yeah
you know what I mean mhm it's very delicate it's very bothies it's like I don't quite
Pack-a-Punch it's just like it's it's like nice little YouTube video it's very
soothing you know they just want to give you a moment of levity like what I
play to keep the cats company while I'm gone let's go abundance once more
my dear brother wow that's a very accurate statue yep they got the best
wood Carvers in all the real Kor they did not tell me you had arrived what
news I've had an unexpected visitor reference or well Unexpected
Journey oh it's a vision or something whoa although I hope it's not really it would
be are they not the seeds you planted oh no it is yeah it's a dream she worried she made
the wrong choice whoa that was right and you got that one I was right yeah oh my God this is
like vna's household yeah wet squelch squelch intensifies oh damn that's a harsh Monument sorry I was just feeling really confident
about my decision our spies indicate that Sauron was last seen traveling into Mordor we believe
he intends to supplant Adar and claim his AR what about that giant land from Mordor gadri This
Woman's always a guest yep we should send ships up the anduin invade Mordor who is the speech coach
for the show everyone's got great pronunciation murder murder like dialect coach must be getting
everyone's tongues limber it does not take the eye of an eagle to see your thoughts have flown far
field the Eagles you leave Nigel out oh Eagle the eagles they said the eye of nle yeah the eye of
deagle the eye of Nigel Sauron sees himself not as master of a baron waist but of all Middle Earth
he's looking for a nicer place to set up shop he seeks to rule it not only through Conquest but by
bending the mines and wills of all its peoples to his own and for that he needs not armies he needs
to seep into your unconscious but rings and he cannot craft them nope Sauron is alone Aron is
protected by two rivers with miles of curtain wall of Dwarven Stone oh my God you're your ego
calmore and the secrets of his craft are safe no hubris is often a downfall he was literally
helping him out like at least take some caution man since the wearing of this ring I have felt
perceived glimpses of the Unseen World the Unseen World eh you believe the Rings have kindled your
ability to see that which has not yet come to pass visions of the future have they kindled yours
I have seen mountains crumbling Waters running dry and clouds black gathering over White
Towers then send me to a white towers there I will s face Sauron again the towers of
the White City Once the deceiver obtains a being's trust he gains the ability to
sculpt their very tools oh that deserves a wide eye take that deserves a wide
eye take Elum Le in that one fully a gas yes he knows my mind and I know
his do you know his M which is why I must face him why I alone can slay
him you once considered him a friend how brand was not saong oh say the
name supposing I was not alone D Punk Lord kmor regrets to inform you he's unable
to Grant you entry oh but he wishes you good fortune on your journey he's putting on
his Everyman voice are you asking me to leave the lord of the regon is asking you
if it were up to me perhaps I'll just wait here you can trust me I just wear all black
now with my black horse I'll just wait here indefinitely she saw the scars she you see
the scar you see scar hey Soldier hey check this scars right I'm just going to pick this
up really quick he refuses to leave my lord well he can refuse all he cares to I promised
Lady Galadriel before she left that I would never treat with him again that's true he did
I believe he's injured my Lord let him be she didn't say you can treat him just not treat
with him he'll leave soon enough Messengers from Lindon should arrive with news any day
oh no no she's falling for him she she's in love hear them flies it's like The Hills Have Eyes
it's like the teaser trailer oh no oh just doing this in case that's
what we're supposed to do oh no bad Tidings that a great shot oh my God where do they shoot that he's
still L he's s this is in the volume W oh it's the people who are following
gandol must be to some desolate desert Citadel God what a mask I want it I want it bad
it does look like something out of mad mags carus gar oo of these group vocals the moths oh no the moths these moths are
collectively Slim Shady are they Rasputin an offering of blood
God the way people always get their hands cut in these types of
period piece things always the Palm do like the elbow or the wrists
but you got got to go the right direction this is pretty cool I like when they do these extended just
act like scenes based off of actions and not dialogue wait a minute is that
that's not uh what's his name George Lopez it's George Lopez now Kieran Hines no oh whoa the robes look like moth wings too it's
cool what Tidings from the White Wings Sauron Shadows deepening it is said he has taken a new
form to deceive his enemies I think it is him you might be right we must reach him before
he learns to harness his powers perhaps the blood I wasted to bring you before me should have
been SP on more useful servants burn what are you going to say that slim now I'm on her side
that's true Everyone's an underdog have you found him I didn't just find him I know how to
capture him yeah and I will bring you the eastar in Chains whoa what makes you think a mortal
could defeat an e star when my most powerful acolytes could not the acolyte the eastar
will surrender to me because if he doesn't I will Slaughter the halflings he calls friends
ah smile we can't do that but they can they can and wise it is a fine name nevertheless it
is not going to be mine frar hey it's almost radagast but don't you see no one can give
you a name your Dumbledore it is yours already it is who you are and when you hear
it spoken you feel your heart glow Randolph Grand Grandy I knew it says here
if we turn Northeast we can C this leg of the journey in half what if it is Saron
cuz like Sauron Saron they sound similar so what if somebody misspeaks and then
he's like that's my name Saron [Music] what Vasquez Rocks damn the location
Scout on this my would be to avoid the path in which we' run out of water the
first day and die of heat the second hey man sometimes you got to go the unlikely
route how about do you already said Do no he didn't yes yes he did pay attention Nori
implemented comedy make it more lively yeah silence clear the a horse
almost sounds like hooves well and there was a clear Winnie
back there as wellar clear horse sound yes I haven't seen turbo kid but I
feel like that mask looks just like the metal skull mask from Turbo kid
that's what that's what it reminds me of oh I mean wizard guy is fortunate
cuz he really does blend into stuff oh no just kick the snake oh no oh good
I'm so evil I had to kill this snake oh [ __ ] they're still close y'all best start poking
into the brush not that I want them to get discovered but they are watching our Trail
meaning we'd be wise to find another we already have hey they almost they led us
to it nobody goes off Trail nobody walks alone nobody walks alone except all the people
who we've left behind every Garden has weather since the earthquake rumors abound of dark
Omens across all the Dwarven realm whoa some say the mountain was cursed on the prin in
that a you two wouldn't be trafficking in conjecture would you uh-oh CU a rumors like
a song bird may sound filling from afar but up close it's an empty Feast oh that something
terrible is happening we're about to prove it isn't how how are we going to do that all the the
plants are dying and there was that earthquake wow she's going to the king directly huh
and you too the grown shs It produced spread through the bones of the Earth all
the way here collapsing our sun shafts and with them our ability to grow crops that
would make a lot of sense actually every Stone singer you've brought here has failed
to identify a safe path to dig but I can do it we will find the light you have it
damn you're doing much better with the [Laughter] Duran whoa this is pretty cool what a beautiful [Music] ability so epic
wow that sound like a whole chorus oh oh are you making things better you got the
gig on the Wonder Woman soundtrack well done whatever the cause the bond is broken the hand of
Darkness has closed around kazak Doom wow are you really going to make me ask do you mean your
grandchildren they're well you need make this harder than it already is I keep saying the same
thing to him surely Duran knows I spoke in Anger oh they're both Duran that's right apology I hear
King try saying it to my husband why should it be me who apologizes it was he who caused offense
he stubborn as a rootbound pars like you what you call stubbornness son draw skull strength
sure that's what I tell my wife oh I imagine it does take strength to keep your Wounded Heart
so tightly bound it can barely beat ah it does it truly does this guy's good he always plays
[ __ ] you want to show True strength summon your son to you everything around you will change
circumstantially if you change first my king but leave it to him and the peaks of zil will th
before this Feud of yours will not the peaks of sagil yes John the peak of srail we all know the
peaks of srail okay jeez not dead end we're going to have to work all night oh growing blisters are
te no shame in it even I've heard them what it was fine your hands must be one big Calis by now
it's his fault we're in this m not his father oh seeds of descent lay a finger on me again I'll
bite it off at the knuckle do it let's see and there he's a prince oh wow dude oh and a push him
from behind you didn't attack him no no there's a finger on his plate over there how was the mine
you know they didn't mind their own business hey this Ry tastes like last year's bread it is last
year's bread ouch year old bread why not trade for fresh grain from the surface who in the dimal
Dale will we find to convince your father don't stop M climb off your high peak and apologize
giving me indigestion give me indigestion we can't hear the mountains anymore yeah man your
whole way of life I'm afraid dur and I know you are too we dwarves we'll find a way even if we
have to fit through a hole even if an elf has to throw us I feel bad for them they don't get all
the Privileges anymore I know now they have to live like common peasants can't imagine getting
my privileges taken away from me mhm just having to live like a filthy commoner oh our letters
to Kell bmore say don't forget where he came from I forgot a long time ago I got as soon as I
left the high King has consented to send me and a small party there to ensure Kell bribor and
his City are safe kmor I'm asking you to join us I'm but a politician and as such you have the
high King's trust he refuses to send me without you the high King believes that if I were to face
the enemy alone I may be vulnerable to deception yeah what do you believe she has a small mouth
doesn't she yes she doesn't really doesn't seem like move that tin mouth Sauron used me and
under his hand I was played like a harp to a Melody not of my choosing oh I let you play me
like a harp I want to see a harp that chooses the melody Sauron looked inside you plucked
the very song of your soul note by note oh my God he's keeping the metaphor going exactly
what you needed the Lost King who could ride you to victory I'd like to rewrite that song
yeah and I'd like to put it through an effect pedal help us navigate this Labyrinth the
Labyrinth is his as long as you stay in it you have already lost yeah please elant
I cannot let him in again oh you got to practice emancy Harry I think her entire role
is bent on not blinking not blinking being very assured smiling once a season and open your
mouth just little tiny bit and get those RS rolled Deion he never left catria M you have all
chosen to become his collaborators collaborators if our friendship ever meant anything to you
please leave I like elron so much more this season yeah well it's interesting to have this
Dynamic where at least I'm sitting here being like he's he's right like she like I like that
they're letting her make this choice that seems like a mistake I mean but it's easy to fall for
it when they see the leaves come back and [ __ ] totally yeah when the tree comes back yeah do not
wish to live in beauty master k I cannot trust these Rings that's a sharp shell what is beauty
when it is born in part of evil no less beautiful what part of you are you shaving my upper cheeks
his beard grows inverted so it's all the top Brill was a drunkard do not ask of Dion there's always
like three to four soldiers in the background of sh it's probably the same for stunt actors and
leave judgment concerning those who wrought it to the judge who sees all things separate the
art from the artist that feels impossible it is called humility and it is difficult for most
but it is the truest form of sight imagine taking the rings to this guy and he just like turns
them in and wears one I love these things man thank you God that sucks so much I wish I could
know your peace you can for I am saon yeah just ignore all those bad thoughts and feelings we do
not yet fully understand these rings but look at the power they exert over every form of life yeah
that's the problem that's not good you literally said power over life in sauron's hands they could
work an evil Beyond Reckoning dominating the minds and wills of all oh no Boromir no why they must
remain in the hands of elves no Boromir you are wise to fear this power me on the other hand but
do not let that fear blind you to the ways it can be used for good for it is not your enemy that
bears these rings but your most trusted friend we we got to get our hands on nuclear war cuz
we can use them for good use them for good yeah exactly to take out the people who built the
nuclear but but righteously because we're the good guys it is cool having because like elron
is such a character that inspired like calm and he's always like collected and then the first
season like he's challenged but he's more like affable whereas here like I like the debate
with him and the pathos yo wizard try to create some freaking water man it's worth a
shot yeah he got a big old crater right over there how much control can you really lose that
they're like a mile away or something you need to rest certainly not I rest I'll rest when I'm
dead a rard rests exactly when he means to wake up beard water going to his beard poppy
he's not breathing anymore there yes nor I can see it oh a well a well how could
someone that's a good cut quick sck pleas hurry poppy just throw him down there
poppy poppy please poppy please don't trust us water whose flag is that I
hear water the Assassins are in there yeah I've got it oh Jesus no yep you've
alerted the bag guys damn it maybe stop that noise yeah well maybe stop this really
obvious noise yes go go now go to stop the noise now come on maybe stop the noise Nori can
handle this for 10 seconds while you go stop that from happening quick goat you're alive for a
moment there I thought we lost you we none of us going to lose each other you
guys probably have some water too dude water's great I love water water's
so good I wonder if this well is naturally alkaline the root from my dream
what is it it's a back massager it's not dissimilar than the stuff I saw
in my dream makes like a heart nor back scratcher oh this staff might have
come in just the right time hey that I whoa I thought they shouldn't be trying
to kill them maybe they'll care about the harits yeah that staff came right at the right
time oo make some horses out of dust whoa twister wow whoa dude now make your
face appear in it like the mummy oh [ __ ] all you needed was
a staff concentrate your power he only knows how to do things with
extreme yes measures it's going to be all mud in that well after this
oh no you got to find a new staff oh God and and Poppy there we go we got her in there come on he's
not flying away cuz he's just that heavy oh [ __ ] wow how long's that think going to go
on for I don't know for the rest of the season it's gone has it you look pleased with yourself
you are going to [ __ ] when you see this I have called it athine made from our last sliver of meil
out of the Moonlight it is all but invisible speak friend and enter visitor is he still the night
is cold my Lord shall I bring him a Shaw M do you thinking God he's just been standing there
staring all day that patience resilience if you do not leave willingly you shall be removed by
force I can treat with you no longer I promised she said you'd say that ah damn it gadriel you
have spoken with her no dude well haven't you not since she left for Lindon then you know nothing
of what's happened nothing of the Rings damn it what are the rings oh no my rings have they
worked do they my rings work you do better to ask her she is not here what about the high King
surely he wouldn't neglect to send word wow it's the oldest tale there is isn't it oh God way to
play the game s clever man the true creators t till their Knuckles bleed and then
they come along take all the credit take whatever profits them most and forget
all about us shape his mind I applaud your patience Tim buron did not make Nightmare
Before Christmas Henry Cel deserves this to wait oh damn man clever way to appeal to that
side of him so smart Pride tell me the Rings did they work bro they worked wonders if you put your
hand in the water the fish like freak out come right you we'll never have to fish again when
the elves yes and uh Lindon oh you weeping no no I'm not gay something in my eye you're gay
you're okay there's a little Shard of eil in here you have not the slightest inkling oh I got
some inkling are you my friend yes of course are you my friend are we locked in there is no place
for half truths between those who have worked so close as you and I oh God I did give you half
the idea to mix the alloy so there is much you do not know much I want to tell you he wants
him to align with him you're afraid you see I've never been able to hide anything from
you God damn it man well be to eat a I like this guy I don't want something bad happen
whatever it is you wish to say to me I shall receive it with an open heart oh I am Sor un
brilliant you know how deep down I I suspect it was a plead with you to make rings for men
rings for men whatever for you saved the elves elves are not men men are Covetous the risks of of
corruption are far greater even if I did wish to forge more Rings the dwares would never provide
the me I think you'll find the dwarves facing a dilemma all their own what are you talking about
albrand my name is not albrand I take it then you are not a king no not a king there are forces in
this world and sometimes they send a messenger sent to bring guidance to the ears of the wise
really beyond evil huh mordor's rise was but the beginning at this very moment all Middle
Earth balances on the brink of the Abyss soon every realm will fall Not Just Elves but dwarves
and Men the darkness is growing stronger and the rings of Power are our last hope of restoring
a light rings of power you cannot expect me to believe that you are a messenger from The Valor
wowe does this not prove it yes do the elements not back my claim how R oh Batman I'm just
going to show up as some type of like crazy entity are he invisible oh oh spooky they're here there's other ways of proving this I am the forge through
which all power is smelted St is coming uhoh I [Music] can oh what a great shot forever oh the Lord of the Rings oh the Lord of
the Rings R damn that is a Biblical ass shot right there wow I can't imagine seeing that in my living
room our work begins now his eyes look freaking weird what am I to call you I am your partner a
sharer of gifts anatar oh anatar would of gift oh that's bad Lucifer bringer of light I know
he comes across like an angel got way more lip gloss on people this season he's got crazy power
why isn't he using this yeah maybe it drains him every time he does one of these little shows for
people you depart for a Aon at first light with five of our bravest HS we got to get a message to
Kell bur I totally forgot he's going to be pissed Elon I am very grateful you have decided to join
my company elon's task is not to join your company but to lead it oh that's that's a good call she
makes a lot of assum and conversations where she has to be corrected yes yes she does actually
glader you're way off Target if you would just listen oh snap it's some sort of invitation
from me father from Lord Kell brim oh God he wants the dwars to come to Aon oh [ __ ]
whoa nice Cut and no one directed this episode thank God where's the director credit what I
guess it must have been in the uh opening no we don't need it it was Kieran H I told you it was
you doubted it right away you immediately rejected that I don't recognize anybody immediately face
blindness you know immediately all right well Rings of Power Review gang we made it to season 2 episode 2 Greg listen
I don't want to influence you into liking this this any more than you already have to what did
you think I thought it was good it's a solid episode this season so far two solid episodes all
around I actually weirdly even though it's not as exciting I don't know if exciting is R for any of
these episodes like this one plays out more like a drama right yes I found myself actually kind
of getting lost in the episode and not paying attention to the time sure I would find myself
occasionally checking the time on the last one but isn't that nice but on this one I was like
oh I actually noticed I haven't looked at the time yeah I noticed that funny enough I don't I I
looked away from screen for a moment and saw the the counter here at 50 minutes and I was like I
was at 58 like this is flying time actually pass yeah this is nice I like it well cuz yeah there's
something different about like the first season I felt like was doing more like look how epic
it all is and they're not doing quite as much of that and they're just yeah letting the drama
play out and then they're complimenting it with you know arresting imagery when it's you know the
most appropriate yeah I think there's some really engaging like not every scene is super engaging
but there are enough scenes that are genuinely engaging scenes everything with Sauron I am really
really enjoying funny enough yeah I thought it's so funny it is funny because that whole reveal was
like supposed to be such a huge deal and everyone a lot of kind of laughed at that and I feel like
it's been the best part of this season so far the part that I remembered being really bored during
in season one was with the uh Hobbits or not the hobbits what are they called freeo har foots free
foots yeah free foots makeup whatever har Bots literally reading a book right now this fantasy
book called fourth wi and I forget everyone's names I'm like halfway through the book oh the
more books you read like that the worse it'll get yeah I just keep call like the main characters
I keep calling them the wrong names when I talk about them um but the but yeah like but whenever
we cut to them for some reason I'm I I can't even quite put my my uh my finger on it there's just
uh literally it's what's what's fascinating about the experience of these two episodes so far is it
doesn't feel like a dress IC change it just seems like they tuned enough to make major differences
like they didn't make major overhauls they changed enough minor things that make a major difference
it feels like the same show but that's moving with better Grace exactly has slightly more astute
writing yeah the potential that we saw in the last season that it just wasn't quite hitting there
I'm finding myself actually enjoying these and I don't like we're watching this before it's
aired so we don't know what the hell anyone's saying right um those are just our opinions
it'll change by episode four when other people have opinions on and we just got to follow what
people are saying and then we'll hate the show along every better than House of the Dragon worth
all that money depending on what everyone else is saying so subject to change take this all with
a grain of yeah that's our opinion now and then eventually until we get a new opinion and I mean
you know the true Mark of wisdom is being able to you know update your opinion for new knowledge
to get bullied to think in a different opinion how you do it but I found like that whole Trio
uh surprisingly engaging because I don't about usually even that's the weirdest part to me is
usually like desert stuff can kind of make me tune out a little bit and I'm actually absorbed
in it I don't know why I actually don't know why I'm was enjoying this so much more I think there
is something to be said for when the storytelling doesn't rely is heavily on dialogue one thing too
I've noticed in these two episodes is that there's way less speech giving first season was like so
many would Mount to like an inspiring monologue of some kind and and it tried being rousing
and [ __ ] it tried being epic and rousing and like oh this is so damn important but also these
Mysteries are so Grand and it's like the Mysteries were not Grand and the writing wasn't really far
beyond the depth of the surface so yeah it's like here something like that I think is interesting a
because I think once they're off on their own as a Duo and then a trio um you know I think there's
just a general Underdog that's different here like before it was like oh Nori is kind of like
a black sheep among the harf foots and now it's sort of like oh they're traveling off into sort
of Uncharted Territory and I think their plot line represents a their each plot thread I think has
a different level of like you know broad expanses of ways it could pan out some things seem like
they're leading in a particular direction whereas the stuff with the wizard and the harfoot
seems like it's it's kind of there's a a a more vast potential there and I also think that
the setting deserts can be drab but I think they chose good locations in that they're desolate
in the right ways but they're also interesting in the right ways and I think Lord of the Rings I
rarely think of deserts I think of Mines I think of forests I think ofal I think of New Zealand
I think of water I think of greenery I think of a lot of stuff that isn't the desert so I feel
like it's for me been a nice visual and just like I don't know there's something about the way they
capture the atmosphere where I'm like I can kind of feel the heat and most other places I can feel
how cold and damp it is you you often point out geography with these things and it does make the
map feel bigger especially when you cut to where's uh calaban at calab bmore uh he's in edio egio
something like when you cut the him we looking up it's like thunderous Skies that feel appropriately
theatrical you know like oh let's cue the this the Thunder right on time and all this like things
that are just it's a little cheesy but it's like Hollywood you know like yeah whatever I'm enjoying
it it's it's fun it's theatrical it complement in a cheeky way his yeah great power yeah yeah so I
really enjoy that and but but then when you get to the desert it feels like you're on a completely
different side of the map here versus where he's at even even that contrasts with where the other
elves are at so I think that works everything with Cal Bron cello R it sounds like I'm intentionally
doing it I'm just not trying to remember his name I'm just going with whatever comes out of my mouth
sure calab rimbor calab rimbor all right Cal a brimo four syllables yes Cal a brimo cal bmore
he's good yeah I was worried he was going to like die for some reason at first sure they keep they
keep worrying me at the outset of things and then like you know fur the further we get into a lot
of these scenes the more I'm like okay cool like I think there's something there been no action
and it's like been enjoyable like no action and we haven't even seen badass elf yet like you know
there's still stuff to to come to be revealed and uh and I think there is something also uh in the
way they're approaching this season where I think the first season made a mistake with a lot of its
it's not going so much for mystery box anymore and I think it's kind of conscientious to go like we
know where a lot of things are headed so actually let's get submerged in the debates let's get
submerged in The Temptations because we all know the Rings are are the conduits for all this
downfall but I do like that in the Here and Now of it they're debating it and they're you know
doing the we're going to run the test of like the Boromir thing of like what if we could use
it for good what if we could harness the power for good and because we're not as far along as
that it makes more sense to do that and even here gadriel uh is more of an underdog 2 and in
the first season she was just so assured and so single-minded and spoke to everyone the same way
well uh whereas here you know there's there's just more Stakes with her character personally yes
I still find her to not be she's not the most interesting character no no and I think in the
last season they were like you're the lead you're the lead you know and it really feels more like
a full ensemble yes I don't get the sense that they've like pushed her to the it's they've done
it smart they've done it in a wise way I I don't feel like they pushed her back pushed her to
the side nor do I feel like they have made her the established lead still you know so I think
they've done a nice job of not drawing attention to oh you're it's not like the gadriel show and
others now you know and I feel like that really helps it out a lot because she is not the most
interesting character uh but she works better in this this fitting yeah of of this positioning of
the character she works better when when we're not supposed to be locked into her POV yeah and her I
think her inner I think everyone's inactions the character Dynamics are better overall like there's
there's more motion involved in it because if we do know where the plot's going like it's kind of
stupid to try to make a mystery box around like well we [ __ ] know what's going to happen we've
all seen the goddamn movies at least like we know what's going to happen so to make it more about
these other things about these interactions and watching the developments of these relationships
is stronger and not everything is like firing you know sometimes it's a little bit of a drag at
certain points this is way more proportionate for like what it is it's no I think yeah it's
that thing of like it doesn't feel like it's working so hard to justify how expensive it is and
to convince you that it's like Earth shatteringly grandios I can't think of a scene where I was like
every part of this is boring like there's at least there's at least like there's like sometimes they
like okay this is a bit dull but then something will happen they like all right that was that was
good you know like even with the uh even with the dwarves it's not the most exciting stuff going
on but I really like the scene with the do with uh dude I don't know anyone's name the king and
the wife daa is the wife they interact and uh luckily for you uh her husband and his father
the king have the same name so they're both Duren Duren um yeah their interaction uh of like
watching that this downfall is happening between them and they're so similar I feel like is better
fleshed out and I guess the only thing I was kind of checking out during truly was the Kieran hind
scene I was like I'm a little bored here I I like I know you like the visual a lot in the mood I
wasn't I just wasn't clicking with that I like the moth stuff but yeah I mean do we have like little
association with that to go off of so it's more just yeah like oh cool actor who I assume because
they cast recogniz actor this character will come back and be you know a bigger part of it but like
yeah I as much as I thought the execution of that was pretty cool it's not among the scenes I would
point to anywhere close to the middle or top of the good scenes in these episodes I would say I've
I've ventured into its enjoyable territory ver I'm not like the only real te like okay between the
two episodes the only real like tension scene I was really feeling it was the scene with Cal bmore
with calab bmore and and uh Sauron mhm like that was the scene where I was I was really feeling
I'm like really hooked into this what's going on in this scene right now yeah absolutely and what
it even involved into that was the one but I'm not really generating much like like I'm not like this
is exciting or this is tense but I'm enjoying it you know that's the thing is I've at least entered
I'm enjoying it yeah it's it's it's clearly building off of as as we've said it's clearly
building off of some constructive criticism and I think that if they just continue to do that
this could Crest eventually into something that is truly great but right now it's it's gotten pretty
good it's it's gone from being very Hit or Miss to being like it's pretty good you you know it's
way more enjoyable and and I will happily accept that uh and you know just yeah here I like elron
way more to the season yeah so much better and I think that's a cool dynamic they've drawn with
him because obviously we have the association and you know the the Hugo weaving elrond is so
collected and he has a calming presence for us the audience and here he is the one one of a very few
characters we like know is kind of on the right track see how this guy got laid and got a little r
that's right you can definitely would have done it he's got that charm with the right amount of but
uh have him be in this position where he's I don't know everyone's gotten a bit of an underdog is or
everyone's kind of on a back foot this season and he is like right about so many things so it's
it's a little bit of a contrast with him but he's still got that like pathos of like [ __ ] no
one's listening to me and we're in a pretty bad place where we may lose you know our entire future
because of these decisions uh more people should listen to elron but even that even him and the
ancient guy who he goes to who loves the rings and guy the ancient guy who seems like he could
be creepy but we don't know old elf man with the fish uh even that I I was expecting at the
outset not to be as interesting as it eventually like them having the debate by the water with
the fish thing as much as you can tell like man this isn't going to go well you know you
can't harness this power like I think sometimes you can get around the we already know it with
just having the debate and making that compell and while that wasn't the most like Rich scene
in the episode even that was something where I was like I don't know about this and I'm you know
was pretty enjoying that too the words um so yeah so far so decent so far so decent and uh and that
whole thing where they did the singing I I do I do appreciate too that it seems like these episodes
these two episodes have taken time for sequences that involve just physical action and not Di
always not to slight the dialogue there's some lovely appropriately tolken esque dialogue here
but scenes like that where they do the ritual they sing the song and you're just observing you know
some kind of tradition some kind of process that is just of these people and just of this fantasy
world I think those do a lot to transport us and the way that like I was even struck by the times
in the first two episodes where there was like a song or music and they just let you bask in
that for a minute like those kinds of things go a long way and just immersing you into the
world I think um so yeah all right well until next episode where we get some kind of rousing
speech we're doing good so uh hey leave us just have to earn the rousing speech yeah you can't
it's not go in can't go into a Lord of the Rings show being like well one of the major tropes
is we have to have rousing speeches so every episode we got to get at least a few rousing
spe yeah earn the moment and uh leave the space between it and and embrace the space between it
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