Why is Rings of Power So Hated?

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Many claim it's the reason why what would normally be just a boring, mediocre fantasy show has generated its vitriol because it takes place in Tolkien's world, a world that is so beloved. For many people, Tolkien's stories were so fundamental that they were the progenitors of what we now know as modern fantasy. His works are so elaborate and unexpansive that they have led to the rise of Tolkien Scholars who dedicate their lives to studying and understanding his world and his stories. The rings of power also exist in a world with Peter Jackson's Trilogy heralded by all as an incredible set of films that do justice to the symbolic world of Middle Earth and its stories have played an important role in many people's lives and there never was.

One question is that each frame of the power rings would be under the microscope to see if it was up to par with the material it was adapting. Combine the vigor of the fanbase with the astronomical amount of money Amazon spent on the show. Expectations were through the roof. and the rings of power were destined to fall short. I think these are some of the main reasons why the show is viewed by so many with so much hate and disgust and effectively makes it seem worse than it really is. Amazon probably hasn't helped the program. reputation when they temporarily suspended reviews for the show in an attempt to limit review bombing, this fueled the mob's anger and made them feel as if they were being silenced for telling the truth.

Now this is not to say that Rings of Power is a good show or that much of the criticism is unwarranted, Rings of Power is incredibly flawed, but it is not without its merits. Rings of Power's biggest crime is that it's boring and every time a new episode came out, I was never in much of a hurry to watch it. This is because I was largely uninterested in the characters and stories being told. This is probably another reason for the outrage surrounding the show, as many people are angry at what the power rings could have been compared to what we ended up getting before going in.

The crux of this review I feel compelled to reveal my experience with Tolkien's world before the rings of power, like many others. The Lord of the Rings is something that is incredibly dear to me and was instrumental in shaping my love of storytelling. When I was a child, my grandfather gave my siblings and I his copies of the Lord of the Rings books. just after the release of Peter Jackson's first film. I've read the main Lord of the Rings books several times and can practically quote the Jackson Trilogy by heart with the The number of times I've seen them are taking the ho, it's two eyes and God looks like a beach again in the menu, guys.

I have read The Hobbit several times and have seen the very bad movies I have read. some of Tolkien's extended works such as The Children of Huron and the Silmarillion, although it has been years since I read them and my memory of the Silmarillion is not very good, as I remember that it was a challenging read for me at the time and that I also grew up in the In the early 2000s I interacted with any and all Lord of the Rings media, as I owned Lord of the Rings action figures, played Lord of the Rings Risk, and played a lot of Lord of the Rings video games.

The Lord of the Rings has been a part of my life for 20 years and also serves as a connection to my grandfather father and as important as The Lord of the Rings has been in my life, it certainly played an even more important role in the lives of many others. I mentioned this so you know what type. of perspective I have when entering the rings of power, as well as to further illustrate how much these stories mean to the people and the monumental task that the power of Ringswood was trying to undertake with all that said.

I have a lot to say about the first season of the Rings. of power and in this video I will analyze in depth everything that happened throughout the season. I'll be reviewing the season in detail so I'll go into full spoilers and believe me, we've proven it. respect and the amount of dedication and love it deserves, you will be very happy, this is where the show dies for a lot of people, as I said before, this material is incredibly important to so many people that any change made to the work feels like a sacrilege. Some fans have dedicated their lives to studying the history of Tolkien's world and undoubtedly know it better than the people running the show.

The world and story are so vast and unfortunately the rights that Amazon has are very limited. Rings of Power is technically an adaptation of the appendices and the show can't use material not directly referenced in them, so the appendices provide a lot to work with the amount of material Amazon can't use is equally large without the rights. . For the Silmarillion or any of Token's extended works, the show is sometimes forced to write about certain things they can't mention or change things to suit their own purposes, this causes events to play out differently than as they did in history, often leaving the bitter. taste of disappointment in The Meadows for many, as events and characters that were highly anticipated are forced to change from how we have experienced them in Tolkien's writings.

An excellent example of this is Halbrand vs Anatar as Sauron's alias because Anatar was never mentioned by name. in the appendices, Rings of Power could not use the name or characterization. This is disappointing because it changes the story of how the rings are forged and the story leading up to them, makes the show feel incongruent with the events of Tolkien's world, and robs us. of true storytelling in a visual medium, even with the things they have rights to, they have made significant changes when adapting the material, for example, the timeline of Rings of Power is a mass, but the show effectively shuffles around key moments of the appendages as they would. a deck of cards, they are choosing what they find interesting while trying to balance the immortal characters with the mortal ones, now on paper, adapting the most interesting aspects of the appendices is not a bad thing since at the end of the day The purpose of the show is entertainment , where the problem arises is how changing the timeline would theoretically influence a change in the characters' decisions as they progress, for example in the story, Calibrin Bore and Sauron Forge, the other 16 rings before the rings Elves in the program they will forge the elves.

The rings first and after Galadriel and Elrond realize that Halbron is actually Sauron, they tell Keller Brimborne not to work with him again, so to move forward to forge the rest of the rings must be done. significant changes. There are changes like this. make the show feel a little cluttered compared to the story, the power rings timeline also feels condensed because they are cramming so much stuff into such a small period of time in the show's timeline, given the age of mortal characters, makes him feel that way. the Last Alliance will occur right after all the Rings are forged in lore, the wandering journey was forged during the year 1600 of the second age and the last Alliance did not defeat Sauron until the year 3441 of the second age, so these events occurred. shortly after each other in the show only serves to make Tolkien's world feel smaller and limits it from everything it could be.

There were also changes that apparently aren't made for no real reason other than the showrunners feel their version allows them to explore things. What they're most interested in, for example, on the show, Kelborn has mysteriously disappeared and Galadriel thinks he's probably dead. This is an invention of the show and it seems to me that it was done for two main reasons: the first is to create a new mystery box which is something that the show seems to really like doing, it shouldn't be a big surprise, although considering that one of the reasons Why showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay got the job was because JJ Abrams vouched for them, it represents infinite possibilities.

It represents hope, it represents potential and I am drawn to infinite possibility and that sense of potential and I realize that mystery is the catalyst for imagination. The second reason I think they didn't include Kelleborn was to extract some sexual tension from Galadriel's Halbron. relationship, these types of changes are disappointing because it feels melodramatic and I don't think it really serves the story or really adds anything. Probably one of the biggest problems I have with adaptation changes is when they change the characterization of the characters from Canon to By doing this, they are effectively creating their own characters wearing the skin of one of the tokens.

The treatment of Gilgalad feels especially egregious, as they make him seem like a manipulative corrupt schemer rather than the noble character he is in the story. I think a lot of these characterization changes are made to generate more intrigue and I feel like eventually the characters will return to their canon representations given where the story is supposed to go, but even if that's the case I feel like fans are expecting a precise adaptation of these changes. It can be frustrating. Rings of Power also made the decision to create a number of characters exclusive to the show and much of the season's popular focus is on these characters, making it an incredibly difficult path for the writers as they have to try to create.

Characters that are your own while also making them faithful to Tolkien's original characters can potentially add a level of suspense and intrigue, as readers of the book will not know where your stories are going; However, this can also make the show feel less like an adaptation and more like fan fiction as the events focus so much on characters that don't even exist in the original text and this is where one of Rings' biggest problems is revealed. of Power: The show is in the unenviable position of forcing the audience to ignore the connection to Tolkien's Story in order to try to enjoy the show because it largely fails as an adaptation and the changes made can be very frustrating to watch;

However, if the audience is forced to disassociate themselves from the Lord of the Rings connection, then they wonder why they continue watching. Since the only reason many people started watching the show in the first place was because of said connection, this is a huge hurdle for the show to overcome and probably one of the biggest contributors to the vitriol directed towards it, we always wanted it to be practical and on-camera, and from our creature design like our Orcs, to our costumes, all hand-made and laboriously aged to be dirty and old, and our sets that have layers and layers of storytelling detail, we felt it was important that that will be there and not only for our actors, but also for the way it would look in the finale, in the final frame.

Given the huge budget that Amazon gave for the show, there is an expectation that the production side of the show will be stellar and I think that since the budget was so big, people don't feel that succeeding on the technical side of the show is worthy. of praise. I can understand where they're coming from with this, but I disagree on this point because, in my opinion, if anything it's a good thing. It's nice that the Jackson Trilogy provides a framework for what Middle-earth should look like in a visual medium and I think the Rings of Power did a good job of developing that.

New Zealand has become synonymous with Middle-earth in live action and I'm happy to see that it's home to the rings of power, the world feels visually consistent with what was presented in the trilogy and at the same time feels different during the time it is set - they even brought back John Howe, who worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a concept artist - one of Rings of Power's greatest strengths is its ability to create beautiful cinematic moments. . These moments often serve the story and are a visual treat for the eyes. Some frames in the show feel like beautiful paintings created with love and incredible attention to detail. brought back as a workshop to assist with the creation of accessory sets and practical effects with the exception of the armor worn by Galadriel and herteam when they were honored by Gilgalad, who appears to be made of spray-painted Styrofoam, costumes and armor throughout the show.

Looks great. I especially like the armor that Galagel gets after his trip to Numenor, as well as Durian's Dwarf Prince. The Orcs look amazing too. Practical effects bring them to life in a way that CGI never could otherwise. I think they do a good job. The work is the music that weaves throughout the program. Bear McCreery was chosen to do the music and I think he does a very good job with it. The music enhances the scenes, and from watching McCreery's interviews, it's clear that he was incredibly passionate about this work. He had big shoes to fill as Howard Shore's score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a timeless masterpiece and although McCreery's work on Rings of Power doesn't match Shore's masterpiece, it still does. a good job.

I'm going to have to write an article. of music that will be as famous as the Howard Shores Shire theme that will be examined by a hundred million fans, having said that, although when I first heard the music for the title sequence I thought it was a cut above the rest of the music from the program. and when I found out that it was actually Howard Shore who composed it I understood why what were the technical aspects that took me by surprise was the showrunner's decision to douse the show with a lot of slow motion, they rely a lot on slow motion to make the scene feels more epic than it really is to me.

I think the overabundance of slow motion actually detracts from the show and makes some of the scenes that could have been really great feel a little contrived, it can also be distracting at times and I think it hinders more than it helps. I'm also convinced that if they took all the scenes that played in slow motion and instead played them at normal speed, you would lose an entire episode because they really use a lot of Lomo, even though it's not really a technical aspect of the show in the same way that The other things I discussed, I felt like now would be a good time to discuss some of them.

Of the dialogue in the show there are quite a few instant instances of stilted and overly stylized dialogue throughout the show that it feels like an attempt to evoke Tolkien in his writing. The lines fall like the stone giants of the north. The force most of the time. I don't feel like this works, as it doesn't end up feeling deep or intelligent in the way I think they were going for, but rather it just feels like a poor imitation of Tolkien's prose, it makes a lot of the characters speak in a very unnatural. complicated riddles instead of saying what they mean, so why don't you say that?

Because a shared burden can be halved or doubled depending on the heart that receives it. This can lead to some cringeworthy moments and sometimes leaves the audience breathless. The program for the next sections of this review I will analyze each of the four main stories of Rings of Power. The main story lines are the Harford story, the Kazadum story, the Southland story, and the Numenora story. Each of these stories effectively has its own main story. characters who are Nori elrond erondir and Galadriel respectively, no one comes up here, the Hartford story shouldn't be in the show, it feels completely superfluous and doesn't really add anything, nothing really happens in the Hartford story and considering how much screen time If that's a major issue, my complaints about the power rings being boring are largely based on the shoulders of the hard feet, since they're uninteresting and whenever they're the center of attention, the Program pace slows down.

I feel like Harford's story was included. for two main reasons, the first is because the showrunners felt that in what was shown it was necessary to have some hobbit-like creatures to make the audience feel like they were in Middle Earth. I don't think this is necessary as they are not really relevant. for the main story the show is trying to tell, but by including them in the show, they are distracting the audience from the stories that really matter and have consequences. If they cut the hard feet, we could have focused on more interesting characters that were ignored. in the show like gilgalad and keller brimbor, the second reason I think they included the hard feet was as a way to present the stranger as an alternative to Sauron, the show uses him as a red herring to try to distract the audience of the Hall brand, since there are really no other real Husarin possibilities that can be the representation of hard feet.

It's also something I don't really think works. Hard feet look killer and are not as healthy when traveling from one destination to another, they seem more. Willing to leave their people when Gandalf stumbles upon his camp, they consider banishing Brandy's feet before finally forcing them to the back of the line. They do so knowing that, given Papa Brandyfoot's injured leg, they will almost certainly be left behind and die. when they play Gandalf helps load the mauve brandyfoot cart up says that they should break their cart and leave them for dead its wheels and let them talk a lot about the harfords being a family a community that looks out for each other but that's not what we are shown is that none of the hard feet are willing to help Brandy's feet.

When Dad Brandy Foot gives his speech later in the season, he rings hollow because they are not the healthy, kind creatures they claim to be. stay true to each other and let them so that was a lie this dissonance makes it hard to take hard foot seriously harford's trip also ends up feeling useless they spend most of the season walking to the Grove they spend so much time walking that The description from the clerk in the Lord of the Rings films is actually an accurate description of Harford's story. So it was that the group began to describe themselves as walking and as they described themselves as walking, Obed confirmed that they walked when they finally reached The Grove has been destroyed by the eruption of Mount Doom, so Gandalf does not restore the Grove only for it to be destroyed. again in the next scene and then after all this at the end of the season they just move to a new location, why?

I can't hit Gandalf, just restore Grove again, all of his carts are destroyed, so shouldn't they try to make new ones before they leave? It really seems like there was no reason for his trip. The most interesting thing about Hartford. The story is not Gandalf, the reason I call it not Gandalf is because the show simultaneously wants us to believe that this is not Gandalf and at the same time practically shouts to the audience that he is Gandalf. Gandalf will appear. Exclamation mark. Good theory, right? good theory, well done in the last episode, the minions call him Sauron, they try to fool the audience but I didn't believe it for a second at the beginning of the season, they make him declare his name as father and then they don't claim a full name . different name, I'm good, but no matter how many times I try to fool the audience, it's clear that you're supposed to be Gandalf, there are little callbacks everywhere, like him whispering to the fireflies in a similar way to how he whispers to the moth and companionship.

They also have him quoting Gandalf with the phrase "follow the line of your nose" if in doubt. Eleanor Brandy, the foot always follows your nose and, at the risk of sounding inarticulate, it just has a Gandalf vibe to it. Something I think is really stupid in Harford's story is the Nori crisis. Faith near the end of the season after fully believing and not in Gandalf all the time, she begins to have doubts after he proved himself with the other hard foot after defending them from a Warg, she begins to think that he is dangerous because when it is healing.

He freezes her arm himself, she walks up to him and grabs his arm, causing the ice to run up her hand. She walks away from this encounter asking if not, Gandalf is actually a good guy. This moment seems so stupid to me and it makes Nori look really dumb. when she approaches him it's clear that he's in some sort of trance and she should have left him alone even though she doesn't know what he's doing, it's clear that he is incredibly powerful and the smart thing to do would be to just leave him alone for a minute and come back. to meet later.

I have no idea what Nori thought she was doing when she grabbed his ice arm after he just didn't recognize her when she was trying to talk to him. It's clear he was doing something and she shouldn't have bothered him this gets more stupid when the tree branch falls when he touches Gandalf is healing The Grove once again they know he's doing magic and now they should know to give him some space man when the little boy started walking closer to the wizard performing magic, they should have stopped it and removed it before anything happened, instead, after the tree branch falls, Nori acts like he's not Gandalf, like a dangerous monster, this feels silly considering everything Gandalf hasn't done for them.

The villains of the Hartford story are the mystics of Roon, they were also known as Sauron's minions. The henchmen serve as very unsatisfying villains, as they are only introduced in episode 5 and were not developed at all. They feel like a nothing burger, since they don't provide anything interesting. In the story, they also give us the worst fight sequence on the show. The fight between the Harfords and the Minions feels incredibly disjointed for one scene. Sadik stabs a Minion in the foot after she tries to attack the Norian company. In the next scene, the Harfoots. Suddenly they are in the trees throwing rocks at the minions and then suddenly they are on the ground cornered against a rock, it feels like the entire fight they are teleporting from one place to another which gives the whole scene a feeling of confusion.

I'm not saying they have to show every time Harford moves, but at least it takes a while before they show up again in a completely different location. The fight concludes without Gandalf delivering one of the most embarrassing lines in history. I'm fine. One of those moments where showing is much better than telling, as Gandalf was showing that he was good at defending the minions' tough feet, but by having him say it explicitly, the moment feels embarrassing and makes it seem like the minions showrunners don't trust. For the audience to understand what they are trying to convey in the context of the show, this line doesn't work and honestly feels like really poor writing, underscoring how much I don't care about the hard foot when Savic is dying while Watching the Dawn and all the hard feet are sad.

I don't feel at all like I don't care at all, which is a failure on the show's part for not making the audience care about the characters. The story of the hard feet ends with Nori and not Gandalf heading east. and maybe it was just me, but I got the impression that Nori didn't really want to go with Gandalf, it seemed like she was happy to be left cold-footed and his parents were like, get out of here, but yeah. Overall, I think the Harford story is the worst story on the show and only serves to address the viewer, ruins the payoff of the show, and is time that would have been better spent elsewhere, so the falsification of the entire story elven race is in my hands.

So it would seem to go from the worst story on the show to what I consider the best story on the show. Kazadum's story features the most compelling characters and tells its story in a way where the audience really gets involved with what is happening. he manages to capture some very symbolic themes making it feel true to the source despite the changes they made now entering the show. The general audience begins already involved in The Rum and Galadriel since the roles in The Lord of the Rings films allow it. The audience clings to a familiar face at the beginning of the story when they may not actually know anyone else.

This allows Eleron to start with the audience already in his corner now, when we first meet Elrond, giving off JV's political vibe as he writes a speech for the High King later, when Gilglad is giving the speech, Aranda he's putting the words together, he clearly takes pride in his work. I think this is a good reintroduction to the character in an interesting place to start, although I will say it is annoying. I, the Elrond, along with other elves, notably Aaron Deer and Keller Brimbor, have short hair, it just seems wrong to me as I have come to associate Elven Beauty with her majestic long hair.

At first it was very jarring and I was afraid of the short. -The fur elves may feel like humans with pointy ears, but I think they still felt like elves despite their chopped locks as the season progressed. I got more and more used to short hair, but it's still not a decision I would have made. of Elron's history is Elbalancing act between friendship and duty. This is an intriguing premise as throughout her story Eller is faced with dilemmas where she must prioritize one over the other, it is difficult to see what is right and friendship and duty get mixed up when these two.

Things are fundamental pillars of who Elrond is and how he sees himself by putting him in difficult situations around these things, it serves to create a compelling story and to explore who the character really is. The balancing act between friendship and duty begins with her interactions with Galadriel. Galadriel is sure that Sauron is still hiding there waiting until he has regained enough strength to attack, she pleads with Elrond and Gil is glad that he grants her more troops to continue her quest. However, Galadriel of Elronsi has begun to lose herself and her ability to think properly has been compromised. he cares deeply for her but feels that she is a risk to the prosperity they are trying to achieve if you are wrong if you are wrong you will lead more elves to die in distant lands he convinces her to board the ship to Valinor with the promise that If evil still exists, he will extinguish it.

He feels guilty for the decision he made, but in this case his duty was based on his friendship. After Galadriel's departure, Gilglad has a new mission for Elrond as he asks him to help Kellebrimbor with his new Endeavor. It is later revealed that Gilgalad chose L Ron for this task so that he could get closer to the dwarves and find the mithril. However, it is unclear how she knew that Elrond would go with the dwarves. It seems like a leap on the part of the writer. Also speaking briefly about the casting of Kelle Brimbor, I was a little disappointed.

I think the actor does a good job with what he has given, but he has an older appearance that contrasts once again with the timelessness of the elves. This is just a minor surface complaint. but where elves are immortal and eternal beings, having the actor on the older side is not the direction he would have quickly taken in his work with Kelly Brimbor. Alron concludes that the project would be helped by approaching the dwarves. and his friend Prince storing, however, he does not receive the welcome he expects from his old friend and his men at the entrance to Kaza Doom with skill, we must summon an ancient dwarf right to even enter the door, he participates in a breaking contest condurian rocks the consequences are that the loser is banished, this scene was honestly a little average, however, once elrond admits, we meet elrond during the relationship, which is the strongest relationship in the entire show, we learned that the reason Why Duran is so angry with Elron is because he hasn't seen him in 20 years, but let it be clear, it may be the blink of an eye now, but I have lived a whole life in that time, a life that you missed.

From Durian's perspective, he feels abandoned by his friend who missed out on his entire life. Life in his achievements makes Ariana return because, as an elf, for him it felt like no time had passed. It shows us how elves view the passage of time differently than other races and how this can have an interesting effect on elven relationships with them. I think this is an interesting starting point for their relationship on the show and a great point for them to start rebuilding where they left off. Duren accepts Elrond's apology and welcomes him back into his life, introducing him to his family.

This is where we learn that The Rings of Power showrunners are cowards since they didn't have the balls to give us the bearded midget women we deserved. Elrond eventually discovers that the dwarves have discovered a new ore of mithril, it is an incredibly rare resource and Duran makes Elrond swear never to do so. tell someone as a token of his friendship, he gives a piece of mithril to elrond, however, after playing hosta durian in Linden gilgal, he lets elrond know that the tree in Linden is rotting and soon the elves will not be able live in Middle Earth Mithra.

It is the key to saving the elves in order to obtain it. Iran finds itself in a difficult position, once again forced to choose between friendship and duty. Now our people are doomed unless they break an oath. In this case, he betrays a friend, even though he chooses friendship and is sincere. Durin telling him everything he has learned and putting the fate of his entire race in the hands of his friend and his faith and his friends seem to be in a good position as Duren agrees to help him convince his father to give mithril to the elves Another important aspect of Elron's resistance bond is his relationships with his parents and how they relate to each other through this during laments about his father's controlling nature and how he can be frustrating to deal with while also making it clear that the best a dwarf can have.

What he can do is be worthy of the name of his father, Elrond tries to console Duren by telling him about his relationship with his own father and how he has tried to live up to the Great Achievements. of Arendelle. He observes that where he used to fear whether his father would think favorably of what he has done, now he just wants to talk to his father regardless of his judgment. I think this is a really good scene that continues to develop elrond and jiren and at the same time builds their bond even more after durian's father doesn't.

They bite the field the two are forced to consider how to move forward there is also a quiet moment that I really liked where Durian wordlessly conveys to Elrond that they failed his father with nothing more than a look and that look Jiren is able to convey A sadness and guilt is a rare moment in the show where the writers trust the audience to realize what is happening in the actor's performance. This also seems like a good time to highlight. I think Owen Arthur Prince Duren's actor is the absolute standard of the series. show his performance as jiren is incredibly sincere and captivating, bringing another dimension to the character after witnessing what mithril can do to decaying leaves, he decides to dig for mithril without his father's blessing and elrond are caught by the king Just as they discover the massive mithril deposits, this leads to a confrontation between the durians where the king talks about how he knew his son was destined for greatness and the prince talks about how he cannot achieve greatness with his father constantly restricting him.

The scene culminates when during the names alrond. Brother Elrond is as much a brother to me as if he had been sent away in my own mother's womb, how dare you and King Duren take offense at this by disowning him as his son and heir? This was a great scene and felt epic, especially considering it's simply two actors at the end of the story introducing a balrog to the bottom of the mithril deposits and I wasn't really a big fan of this decision, it seemed like the writers were trying to to entice the audience to stick around for the second season because it's going to be creepy down there in the mines, but for me it felt like it wasn't necessary to show that when we inevitably meet the balrog in a future season.

I feel like the moment could waste some time. suspense and surprise because they showed it in the first season for no real reason. I'll also talk about the fortune of the Rings from the perspective of Elrond Keller Brimbor and Gilgalat in this section and then talk about the Galadriel Hall brand side of things later in the video regarding the bright color I feel like he's a wasted character I feel like the Smith who made the rings of power should have been much more central to the show, he almost feels like a non-character and more like a plot device to make the Rings, I feel like he should have been interacting much longer with the figure of the anatar hall brand and really build that relationship.

I feel like that relationship would have been incredibly interesting to explore, as would Kellebrimboard's desire to forge the Rings and his ambition. make something really great too if Kelly Brimborne Hal Brand spent more time together and were true partners in the forge, the reveal that he was Sauron all along would have been more impactful with the color Brimbor trying to understand how he was used and how. That potentially taints his work. I think Sauron's betrayal to kill Brimbor would have been more shocking than Halbrand's betrayal of Galadriel because in Color's case Brimbor colors her vision of his best work, whereas with Galadriel they were simply in love. between them and were war companions, this could also be what leads Keller Brimbor to want to make the three Elven Rings after the fact as a means of redemption and to free himself from the work he did with Sauron.

What we got on the show was Keller. brimbor Meeting Hall brand in the final episode, then Hall brand essentially tells him what to do with Keller Brimbor, it seems like he wouldn't have been able to come close to forging the Rings without Sauron's guidance, making Keller Brimbora a really disappointing character and not I can. I can't help but wish more time was devoted to his story. Ron's story comes full circle with Galadriel's return in the final episode. In the first episode he chose Duty and after his experiences with Duren throughout the season he tells Galadriel that he regrets it. that decision and moving forward you will not make that type of choice again.

I think this is a good arc for Elrond in the first season overall. I think Kazadum's story is the best and most consistent in the rings of power, however that's not to say it's without flaws, although I think it's a well-told story and I actually got invested in some of the characters. I can't help but feel that, given the source material, it could have been much better even when it's at its best. The best power rings have me wondering what if and wishing for a different universe or for the show to live up to its true potential.

Only twice in known history has a mating between Elgin humans been attempted and each time it ended in tragedy and ended in death. You don't need to remind me that Southland's story is a very mixed bag, as it has some of the best sequences on the show, as well as some of the most atrocious sequences. It also suffers from not having truly interesting, fully formed characters to root for. because it could just be me, but I found that sometimes there would be a really cool moment that would have been suspenseful if I really cared about the characters that were in danger.

It's also marred by attempting a human-elves love story but without any of the chemistry or tragedy that makes these relationships so juicy. The plot of Southlands begins with some Elves wearing armor with strange trees from Game of Thrones patrolling a small town that once fought alongside Morgoth. The opening scene does a good job of showing the hostility between the people and their Elvish Watchmen oh Let It Go knife, but you all say that we focus on one elf in particular, irondir, who serves as the main character of this story and I have to say it doesn't really do anything for me as a character.

He comes across as incredibly bland and lacking in personality, it doesn't help that his delivery is quite rigid. Holden's people were known to be especially strong and loyal to Marco, and I think this is done intentionally to try to make him a strong, silent guy. with a certain dignified nobility about him, but he gives the impression that he is not interested in everything that happens, it is difficult to get involved in him because there is not much to say about him other than that he is noble and is in love with a human talking about said romance , her human counterpart doesn't offer much more than Aaron Deer, it's true that she seems to have more personality than the darling, but that's not too hard to do, she's a healer and has a bit of fire in taking over when the Southlands began Let's go, she is also Theo's mother, a relationship that I'm told is important to both of them, but I'm not really sure I believe it, at least from her side, if anything, she seems to forget that she has a son. of the era and where Ron Deer and Bronwyn are separated, they don't suddenly become interesting when they are together when the show begins, it is clear that they have been eyeing each other for some time and supposedly have reasons to like each other .

Unfortunately, we don't really know what those reasons are, it almost seems like the only thing they have in common is not hating each other, which is quite prevalent in their surrounding town. Deer is just one of the elves that patrol the Southlands, others like Revion. and medhore characters whose names I would never have remembered without Amazon's Nifty information guide. Patrol next to him revion appears to be the leader of the outpost and tells a reindeer that the people of the Southlands are still evil because of the way this is framed, the show wants us to do it.

I think the review is wrong, but it ends up being half right considering that half of them end up joining a Dar of their own free will, regardless of the fact that the elves have decided that they are bored of watching the southerners with their alphys and they are preparing to leave like a deer Ron. He doesn't like the idea and so he visits Bronwyn before leaving, while there they discover a cow thathas chocolate milk and they decide to investigate, they come across a series of tunnels where Ron the deer crawls in a muddy hole for a while. and Bronwyn returns to warn The Village No One Believes Bronwyn and then goes home where we are treated to the first absolutely terrible scene of this story.

When he gets home, he finds a hole in the floor and Theo hiding in a cubby in the wall. Theo sticks his head out and says there's an orc and to get her to go get help, he snuggles back into her little hideaway. I feel like there was a miscommunication in directing the scene because with the amount of time they are talking before a noise is even heard, it's clear that they both had enough time to run out the front door and go get help. Theo has no reason to start hiding again because there is nothing dangerous around and he could just leave.

He becomes more stupid when Bronwyn decides not to leave. and looks for help and instead hides in a cabinet like why is the front door right there there is nothing stopping them from leaving after what seems like an eternity we finally hear and see an orc start to emerge from the hole on the ground that they try to have for so long. and a prolonged sequence of maybe the orc hears them maybe he doesn't, oh my god this is so scary. Can you see how scared they are? But he doesn't really feel suspense at all because the whole time I'm just thinking about how stupid they are for not running away.

I don't care if they die because based on the decision made, I honestly hope so when they hide instead of running, it feels contrived and the only reason they stay is because there is a Meanwhile, upon returning to the deer of Iran in the prison camps, we discover that all the other elves have also been captured. The Orcs are digging this massive title system for some reason and using the elves as their workforce right in the middle of the tunnel path is a tree the Orcs want to cut down, the elves reject it and are rewarded with a sip of water on a cut throat for the elf whose name I have already forgotten, this lets a Ron deer step forward and cut down the tree now.

This is actually an interesting kind of moment for the Deer of Iran, as he shows himself willing to compromise his beliefs when he's reached his limit and if it means potentially saving others, this is actually an intriguing character beat and, although nothing more emerges from this. season, might be something to look out for in later seasons, not long after this, the elf organized the escape plan for the attack in the middle of the day and used his chains as whips and it actually looks pretty cool . I also like the rhythmic way they are hammering. in the chains of him to try to escape almost as if everything they do is elegant or musical in some way, however, this is where my praise for this scene ends.

As the scene progresses, it becomes clear that the only elf here who knows how Legolas is is Ron. Deer, the rest of the sequence is around, you're doing absolutely everything you can to ensure that Nilf escapes and all of his teammates bottle it up. He breaks the tent and forces the Orcs back. He distracts the work and then kills him saving Revion's life in the process. he literally carries the entire team on his back. This scene feels like when you're playing a video game and your allies are computers, they're there and technically helping you, but the reality is that you're doing all the work and you have to constantly save your allies so they don't die to their bad AI. in this scene.

Aaron Deer is the player character and all the other elves. they are his NPC allies, it makes it seem like everyone except Aaron dear is completely incompetent and it doesn't matter, there is a moment where after breaking free Revion throws away his axe, his only weapon, why does he do this? The only explanation is poor AI programming. because he needs it literally two seconds later, when he comes face to face with the Warg, this forces the Iranian stag to throw the spear at him and save him once again. This scene tells us that the only character here that matters is a deer Ron and the rats are only there to make him look cool after a reindeer serves as an escape for him to revive on a silver platter, he is killed by arrows anyway, Although I appreciated the archer who shot him doing a bit of Sully in the background, this scene is made worse by the fact. that none of that matters anyway because the Orcs let the Iran deer go in the next scene to deliver a message, so the elves' idea of ​​having one of them escape so they could get reinforcements could have been done without If everyone died, if one of us gets home, we can return to Falls, the enemy of these lands like salt on a table.

I mean, a reindeer isn't going to go looking for reinforcements like the ones his comrades died for, but they came anyway, so the person who frees a Ron deer is lucky. He is known as Adar and is probably the coolest character in the Southlands. He was once an elf who was captured by Morgoth and tortured, twisting him until he became one of his minions in an interesting twist of fate. He comes to love the Orcs and see them as. His children, his actions throughout the program are a means to create a home for his children where they can live free in the darkness.

This is a fascinating backstory for a character. He is without a doubt the most interesting character in the plot of The Southlands. Also played by the same actor who played Benjen Stark on Game of Thrones, so that's pretty cool While this is going on, the southerners have fled to the abandoned elven guard tower, Bronwyn tries to take over and they find themselves without meal. Theo decides to take matters into his own hands and raids the abandoned village looking for anything he can carry, unfortunately it is not as abandoned as he thinks and he is forced to hide in the well after hiding for a while.

Theo decides it's time to go home and sets off on his way. Back at the tower, what follows is a one-shot tracking shot that follows Theo as he activates stealth mode and attempts to escape the Orcs without being seen. It's a pretty interesting sequence. I also have to applaud Theo's dedication to getting the food as he goes back for his abandoned grain bag instead of just saving it to get out of there, he almost escapes but gets accosted just when he thought he was free at home only for the Iranian deer to come rescue him. This is also around the same time that Bronwyn remembers that she has a son and the two help Theo escape.

When they return to the tower, a reindeer gives the message that the Orcs are coming, leading to half of the inhabitants of the south to leave and swear allegiance to Sauron in the hope that they will be protected. This seems like a good time for Theo to touch, since there was definitely a non-zero chance of him leaving considering his affinity for the key to Sauron's sword that he uses to stab his arm. I'm not necessarily interested in him right now, but I feel like I am. A character with a lot of future potential, he has flirted with the Darkness but ultimately stayed on the light side largely due to his mother.

I mentioned earlier that Bronwyn doesn't seem to remember that he has a child half the time. but from Theo's point of view, he seems to care desperately about his mother. Now this probably comes down to the actor's performance, but this boy desperately loves his mother. I think the only reason he stayed when the southerners left is because his mother stayed. He later also gives Adar the key to saving his mother, showing his willingness to sacrifice things for his loved ones. I think it would be interesting to see Theo's trajectory in later seasons, after the death of his mother, there are many theories about how he becomes a Naz demon. and I think it's at least interesting as an idea.

The point is that I think his character has potential and he is one of the only characters on the show who should be watched closely in the future. After the Southeast departure, we learned that Iranian deer are a glass half full type. as a boy as he chooses to focus on the half of the southeast he left behind while trying to get Theo to feel comfortable with having an elf as his new stepfather, he discovers the key and tells this to Bronwyn, who immediately loses hope and wants to give up because the tower will fall and when they march on us this Tower will fall, say this Tower will fall again guys, I got it, they decided to let the tower fall on the Orcs when they come and they played, honestly, I like the plan of the tower falling, it's A fun little set piece, even if they get lucky with the way it all plays out and how the tower falls with the orcs worried, it gives the southerners the perfect moment to completely flee and when they don't, it emerges. the question of why.

No, why do they stay and fight when defeat seems inevitable? I suppose the reasoning would be that these are their homes and they don't want to leave them, but at the same time they never seem particularly fond of the Southlands before this. It would make sense for them to leave now and settle in a new place where the Orcs wouldn't kill them. This isn't a big sticking point for me, but it seems a little strange that it's not even mentioned as an issue. Option: They make preparations to stand and fight before the battle. The Iranian stag tries to hide the key, but unfortunately he's not very good at hiding, even if Theo hadn't noticed where he hit it, the Orcs would have certainly found it.

Considering it was right under one of the floorboards, what you should have done is just send someone with it and tell them to travel until it found a large body of water and then dump it there, the first thing to do is let it . where they are, then we get to the big battle of Southland history, it's actually a pretty entertaining fight. All things considered, I like the little fire trap they set up and I actually find it pretty funny when Bronwyn couldn't start the fire to light the hay bale, okay, stop right where you are, let's go to the matches.

There was a weird little moment where some Orcs were suddenly on a roof so they could move around here on the ground. It was also a very funny moment when a Reindeer fought the large Orc and found himself drinking a liter of blood from the Orcs' eyes. The reveal that they had just fought their own was also an interesting development, but it wasn't the Mind-Blowing Reveal it was supposed to be. I loved how there was an orc that wasn't quite dead yet so he could talk before he died, the classic had to pay the toll. I know, overall it was a pretty entertaining battle sequence and my only major complaint is that I didn't do it.

I don't really care what happened to the characters so there wasn't much at stake after surviving the initial wave, the southerners are quickly defeated and Adar enters the building and starts killing people in the hopes that Ron Deer give him the key to do it. In the end it stops, it is Theo who gives the information when his mother's life is threatened when Adar took the wrapped package. My first thought was that if he didn't unwrap this and it turned out it wasn't the key, he would be really stupid and when he opened it to make sure he was pleasantly surprised.

Good job. Rings of power. You didn't do anything stupid. Unfortunately, this is short-lived as once Galadriel retrieves the key, she does not check it to make sure it is what they were looking for later. when he hands it to the Iranian stag he doesn't check it either, finally Theo checks it but after discovering it doesn't contain the key he doesn't say anything, it would have been useless at the time anyway but at least let him notice. what happened and he starts panicking or something after Mount Doom exploded on the Numenorians and the southerners have fled. Adar and his children emerge into the Realm of Darkness when Adar says that this land is no longer the Southlands, a title card appears on the screen that says Southlands and then evaporates into the word Mordor.

This has now been heralded as one of the show's worst moments and has been used to illustrate how bad the show is. In my opinion, this is a bit of an exaggeration, don't get me wrong. I think the title transition is completely unnecessary and shows that the writers have a lack of trust in their audience to understand what is happening without explicitly telling them; However, it's not really something that is very detrimental to the program or makes it much worse, as it feels. a moment that's easy to meme rather than an example of terrible writing. I think the "I'm fine" moment is comparable, as both cases are a show that tells rather than shows, but in the "I'm fine" case it's much more direct.

As it is used as an epic line before Gandalf kills the minions in general, Southland's story has some good scenes and some bad, its biggest failing is not being able to create developed characters that the audience can invest in in the Darkness. , your vote became mine, this is the story that has attracted the most attention of the audience and is possibly the main plot of the season and if this can be considered the main story, Galadriel can be seenas the main protagonist, coincidentally, this is also where many people have problems with the show as the fanbase has grown to denigrate this interpretation of the Galadriel character.

Some of the criticisms leveled against her are completely valid, while others. I feel like some audience members are intentionally ignoring aspects of her characterization. Similar to how I mentioned that the audience was pre-invested in L Ron due to his appearance in The Lord of the Rings, the same can be said for Galadriel this season. I think a lot of people would like to like this character. I also think that making her the face of the show was a good decision, since Galadriel is one of the most historical characters in all of Middle-earth and, unfortunately, she had all the makings of an amazing character when they came to write for her and adapt her. to the world.

On the screen they left a lot to be desired. The simple fact of Galadriel's portrayal in the Rings of Power is that she is unlikeable. She dethrones your character. Will people love her or love to hate her? I guess I hope people feel empathy for her. She is characterized. As extremely reckless, forceful, demanding and aggressive, she is a ball in the china shop and she lacks tact when it comes to communicating with others. a demand, she speaks to the King directly, then she could present my proposal to Someone who has the authority to answer it. It is because of the elves who gave her this island a pattern that emerges throughout her story is that Galadriel arrives at a place talks about her Duty and the evil in the world and then demands that the person she is speaking to give her an army she remains stubborn even though everyone she interacts with tells her to calm down and think about the things she does before acting, her way of communicating makes her seem aggressive, arrogant and unfortunately unpleasant, this creates a big obstacle for the show, since the main protagonist spends a lot. of her time on screen of her alienating her built-in fan base as The Show Goes On, the audience is less and less on her side, as she is seen as brash and entitled .

I think it's clear that the showrunners were looking to start Galadriel at her lowest point. and over the course of the series we expect the character to grow and gain wisdom through her years of hardships in the movies and books. You know fans of hers have found her to be the wise, ethereal Lady of the Forest offering portals of wisdom and gentle guidance. and on our show she's kind of, you know, a driving freak, you know, uh, warrior in a way, she's younger, she's not quite formed, but she's raw, she's making mistakes. I think they also try to get the audience on her side by presenting it through her first.

The loss of her brother Finrod and how her grief has led her down this dark and dangerous path. Unfortunately, the show doesn't do enough to fully tell that story and Galadriel appears as a 2000-year-old girl throwing a tantrum, having said everything. that I don't think Galadriel is a lost cause and the latter is not interesting, this leads me to criticize Galadriel which I think is less fair and comes from a place of not paying attention or willfully ignoring what the show is trying to do. To tell the audience, there has been a lot of talk about Galadriel as an infallible Mary Sue, that she is a strong woman and is always right and that all the men around here are stupid and wrong and hate her because she is too perfect, whatever. whatever.

I don't think Ladriel is a Mary Sue nor do I think the show is trying to portray her as one. When making this argument, people point out two main things: the fact that she is hypercompetent and the fact that she is right in thinking that Sauron is still in the clear when it comes to high hypercompetence. I don't equate being a skilled fighter with being a perfect character. It makes sense that after thousands of years of fighting she would gain an incredible level of skill. I would have a problem if The first time she picked up a sword, it was amazing, similar to when the force awakens, Rey can use Jedi Mind Tricks a couple of hours after learning what the force is and then bests Kylo Ren in a battle with lightsabers after having practiced. her entire life and she just picked up a lightsaber for the first time, the point is that Galadriel being a good fighter is earned and justified by the backstory she has been given.

Along the same lines, people argue that being better than all her troops is a way for Amazon to force its strong woman agenda and my thoughts on this are similar. For my thoughts on the Iranian stag and her prisoner escape, it's not about showing that she's better than all the men around her and is more of a show that treats all the red shirts as poorly programmed ally AI in a video game to The Elf Show's eyes on their expedition with her doesn't matter because at the end of the episode they leave for Valinor and will never be seen again, so the showrunners use this time to try to show off Galadriel's capabilities and introduce her. like a strong fighter. like I said in the irondir section, I think this is a flaw of the show, but it's not a secret conspiracy to turn frogs gay.

To the second point, about how Galadriel is right about Sauron, where everyone around her is wrong. I really feel that way. one carries even less weight because yes, Galadriel is right that Sauron is still at large, yet she is wrong about almost everything else and her reckless actions unknowingly revitalize Sauron. It really seems like the people who say Galadriel is always right have moments picked out in order. To feed into her own narrative on the show, the point about the Galagio Arc is that she is wrong in her eternal pursuit of Sauron. We foresaw that if she had done so, she might have inadvertently kept alive the very evil she sought to defeat.

It's not even a case of the show trying to frame her actions as Justin just because there are moments where the character reflects on how he has constantly made mistakes. She admits that the reason her troops mutinied against her and her close friend tricked her into early retirement is because her judgment had become so clouded that she could no longer be trusted. The company I led mutinied against me. closest friend urged the King to exile me and each of them acted the way they did because I guess they could no longer tell me apart from the evil I was fighting in the opening scenes when she leads her Northern Expedition, we're not supposed to think wow, Gladriel is right, these other elves are Jim Oaks, we are supposed to think that Gladro's trauma has brought her too close to the darkness. and that she is actively wrong to be so resistant to hearing the thunder too after having led the Numenian army to their deaths.

Then she once again acknowledges that she shouldn't have been so desperate to get them to fight for her and that her deaths are her responsibility, why are you so worried that it's your fault? Yes, it is, and the biggest thing she gets wrong is Mark Hal and how she essentially motivates Sauron to come out of hiding from him and try to rule Middle Earth. This is the biggest problem. In the entire show, Gladriel and her warmongering ways are to blame for saying that she is a Mary Sue after this, it seems ignorant to me because for me, being a Mary Sue is not about being hyper competent, it is about the decisions that the characters make and how. that shocks the world by Galadriel unknowingly propping up Sauron that is the program that emphatically says that collateral and warmongering ways are wrong.

I also think that her obsession with trying to find Sauron must come from a place of trauma and guilt, she is acting this way. Because she has survivor's guilt in PTSD from her years of fighting, she doesn't want to go to Valinor because in her mind she doesn't believe that she deserves it, she deserves to suffer. Her journey is about trying to let go of that pain and trying to grow to be better than she was now. You could say this is a stretch and I'm inferring things the writers never intended and while I admit it's possible, I think the story is there, the show just isn't.

You do a good job of saying that Galadriel is the Iowa of the storm when it comes to hatred directed towards the power rings and I find it incredibly interesting. I'm honestly really curious to know what others think about her and the show's portrayal of her, so I'd be really interested to hear what you have to say about her in the comments. Now that I've addressed the ollie fountain in the room, we can return to the actual moments that make up the story of Galadriel and Numenor. The program begins with the narration of young Galadriel. something about his finrod's brother and I admit that this is a very stupid metaphor for why a stone sinks in a boat floats.

It's one of those moments I mentioned before about the show being a poor imitation of Tolkien and trying to sound profound similar to his technological change. It seems to be one of the times where people have realized why the show is so horrible and my thoughts are somewhat similar to the technological change. It's poorly written dialogue and it's definitely a blemish, but I think the memes about it are overblown. It's fun, although they also try to connect the ending to the final episode when Galadriel sees herself in the reflection as the queen of Darkness. I actually like this callback and if the beginning of the metaphor wasn't so poorly written this moment would work even better, we also get an opening narration from Galadriel similar to how Cape Longshat's Galadriel narrated the opening of Fellowship.

I've seen people criticize this moment as a member of Barry, but I actually liked it with a lot of member Barry's criticism. It seems like people don't like callbacks and they're giving showrunners the nefarious motivation to manipulate the audience into liking a bad show. Honestly, I don't think it's that deep and I like the decision to have Galadriel narrate the opening and I think she. Actress morphod Clark does a good job where there could potentially be some criticism is the content covered in the narration and how she makes some pretty big jumps at the end of the first episode, we get what I think is the completely stupid first. terrible bad moment in the show and it is when Galadriel jumps from the boat in the middle of the sea.

This decision should effectively leave Galadriel stranded at sea in the middle of nowhere with no one around. She should be dead for this reason alone. She doesn't die because she is the main character and she has to live through decisions like this that take me out of the story since it seems like some characters are exempt from the consequences of their actions. She is forced to swim and swim until she finds a raft because , of course, she keeps swimming, keeps swimming, keeps swimming, swimming swimming on the raft, encounters a group of randos who die like two seconds later, and a man named Hal Brand whose first words in the show are that appearances can apparently deceive.

A lot of people marked it for Sauron immediately after this line, but it took me a little longer. The sequence on the raft is not something I really understand and I feel like it could be a product of bad writing when the sea monster arrives. To eat the raft, we see how Brand breaks his little mini Raff and leaves the rest of his friends for dead. This served as an immediate characterization showing us that Brand only cares about himself and doesn't care about saving others. a hero up to this point, this feels like good writing introducing a new character and showing us who he is through the decisions he makes.

Unfortunately, they almost immediately undo this good work and give the audience a Whiplash, as he does the exact opposite right after. Galadriel is caught in a rope and dragged into the water. Why does Halbrand risk her own life to save her? It seems to contradict what we were just told about him. I feel like this makes even less sense when we learned who his true identity is. Sauron, I think the show wants us to feel this almost instantaneous bond between the two and how this encounter faded away, but I didn't really get it and as a result, I don't care much about this moment, plus this is just a small thing. but after Ellen saves them and takes them to the ship, they waste time dwelling on the fact that they are sailing towards Numenor towards a pool.

Can we say for ourselves that we are almost there? It's hardly a big deal, but it just bothered me just saying the name when we finally get to Numenor, we're treated to some of the silliest moments in the entire show and a few more scenes of Galadriel yelling at people to give her an army, this results in her being observed and arrested in both. In some cases this doesn't really seem to matter as it seems like she can escape whenever she wants, in particular I think Galadriel's escape from herself feels especially silly and provides some unintentional comedy.

It also has the side effect of making you drink everything less. Seriously, since moments like these hinder my investment in the program, this nonsense continues throughout our time on Numenor after the regionagreed to send an army to Middle-earth during a training session. The guarantee gives some advice to the Numenian soldiers. I'll follow it's a strong and simple backspin, thanks Captain Obvious, you mean if I want to kill an orc I should stab it with my sword, wow, once again just a silly moment that didn't really need to be said, this brings us to verse a. A group of people did a session that was giving me some Pirates of the Caribbean vibes, whoever is able to draw blood from Galadriel gets a promotion, but damn, they were really shocking to kill, like any of these actually connected to Galadriel. dead, the scene ends with Hall Brand unnecessarily doing a sword trick for no real reason other than to be a braggart talking about Sauron.

I mean, Hall Brand has been having his own silly little sidewall adventure in Numenor and discovers that he likes him. there and wants to get a job as Smith, the only problem is that he doesn't have a guild crest so he decides the best way to get one is to steal it from Smith, he gets cut pretty instantly, but even if it wasn't there, there's no way for this to work if you show up at the forge again, the first thing they'll ask is how did you get the shield because I guess you can't get one in a day, it should be pretty obvious that you haven't done your job. blacksmithing test, it turns out that Hal Bran has a small trinket with the Seal of the King of the South.

Flint Galadriel focuses on this and declares him the missing Heir. Quite a leap in logic, as it could just be some guy who found it. something Halbrand even says, but Galadriel doesn't want to hear nor is she interested in doing any research at this point to make sure she's not basing all of his war plans on an assumption. During her time at New Menorah, we meet a lot of new characters, but for now I only care to talk about Ellen Deal and Isildor, two incredibly important and interesting characters in the symbolic story. I was very excited to see them on the show.

They had a few moments throughout season 1, but they will be much more. more prominent in future seasons. I think Ellendale actor Lloyd Owen is another standard in the cast who brings the necessary gravitas to the character. He was also very interested in the interpretation of the silador in the rings of power because, as he is most famous for not destroying the ring, many people see him as a corrupt character with rings of power when looking deeper. He was hoping that we would get a glimpse of the incredibly complex character that he is. Are you ready to go to the Israel Gate Rehabilitation Tournament to play this character who is also complex because he does something that confuses a lot of people because he had the opportunity to defeat people, but at the same time you know that we are all human , we all have the capacity for good and evil in us.

This season didn't do much with him, but they show him that he is an eager young man in search of purpose and duty. He does not want to join the sea guard and intentionally fails in the hope that he will allow him to travel west, where. Unfortunately, his brother Anarian is his father, not only does he get fired, but also his two best friends in Sealdor's motivations change and I wish we had more time with him to really develop them, he decides his failure is a shame. and it doesn't. He doesn't deserve to go West, but when Numenor decides to send ships to Middle-earth, he is one of the first to volunteer.

Is this an attempt to regain his honor? Why is he not worthy of going to the West but he is worthy of going to Middle Earth? I'm not saying his decision making is bad, just that he wishes it was explored more. I think that when there is a time to do something for Numenor and his friends, he has to be on that ship, yes, and it is also a feeling of adventure. a sensation of escape that I believe sealed and would not have hit an eyelid. I don't think West was even an option at the time.

Probably my favorite part of Osceola Door in the first season is her relationship with his one true love, Barrick. horse, take care of a Barrett for you, I promise Barrack will leave. Sorry, it's not as painful as bothering him to get him off his rider in time. They become one. Minorian's new campaign ends up feeling a bit half-baked, as once they land, they charge. their horses in a full Sprint when in reality they don't know where the battle is, they just suspect that they are still fighting in the region, they are not sure if there is a battle actively going on or if there is one where it is a reindeer and his crew didn't send a message asking for help, so why are they marching with such urgency?

It seems oddly framed to me and would be a good way to tire out the horses long before the battle begins - when it actually comes, the battle is quite good, unlike Southlands' cast of characters. In fact, I'm involved in the new minor cast. Now most of the ones I'm involved with are characters I know from the books, but I seem to like a Sealdor's friends. and he was interested in what would happen to them. I also liked seeing Galadriel riding around with her battle braid and doing some cool horse moves. We also get a really cool chase sequence between her and Adar, however I do have one complaint about the chase sequence and that is the fact that Hall Brand starts behind Galadriel and then suddenly he is writing from the opposite direction, heading straight. towards Adar.

Did the frame of him coming out of nowhere teleport? somewhat dampens the fun I was having in the chase sequence moments before, this is also a good time to mention Sauron, a dark dynamic as the show makes it clear that there is a history between these two characters, there is a lot of hate . and mixed feelings there are between walking he tells Galadriel how he killed Sauron in the north and he doesn't recognize Halbrand either obviously it seems to me that Sauron changes his appearance and that is why Adar doesn't recognize him this backstory built between the two I'm more interested what exactly happened and how the two will interact once Sauron returns to Mordor.

I think this is also a good time to mention the fact that in the show Sauron is very disconnected from the Orcs and the creation of Mordor. It seems like he doesn't really like the sighting of orcs before he was chased out of his house, the way I see it, it was an elf that chased me from the Resorts in my homeland. He also claims that he will not abandon the Southern Lands to Darkness, but how is that going to work? The ruler is supposed to be supremely evil, so he feels strange that they're cutting him off from all the things he's associated with after failing to verify that they actually got the key back.

Mount Duma steals and us. They are given what I believe is a visually stunning scene. Now, this scene also led to volcano experts coming out of the woodwork to say what works and what doesn't work in this scene. Many people were angry because of the smoke from the volcano or the pyroclastics. The flux didn't kill everyone or Pompeii and while I can definitely understand this, it wasn't really a problem for me personally when it comes to Mount Doom explosions, my suspension of disbelief is pretty high considering Fredo and Sam were still inside when occurred. exploded in The Lord of the Rings.

I think you're justified in being upset by this scene considering the show had the smoke sweeping right over everyone for the purpose of a cool shot, but I personally don't mind which I do find a little silly. It's after Collateral picks her up and Theo can't find anyone else when they're literally right next to them, this little Galadriel couple allows us to get the first mention of Kelleborn and I'm happy the writers at least acknowledge her existence. although they are changing their story after Muriel is about to return Gladriel and Halbrand to a region to receive elven healing and here she is suddenly very suspicious of Hal Brand, was she picking up on all the clues along the way or did she have no idea until she saw someone post the theory online under their belt, although the showrunners throw all subtlety out the window in this episode to the point that Hal Brent almost feels like a completely different character.

Every scene he appears in this episode feels like a giant blinking red eye. It also wasn't really a surprise to most people, since it seems like people had realized his true identity from the beginning. He plays it like Rob in his moment of dramatic tension because he almost feels like the audience is simply waiting for him to reveal it. himself and get it over with. However, I think after he reveals himself, we get a couple of compelling scenes with him, Galadriel, as she takes her through his mindscape. The showrunners have stated that their desire to build a relationship between Sauron and Galadriel came from When reading one of Tolkien's poems about Galadriel on paper, I think having some history between the big bad and your protagonist can often increase the conflict between them and make things much more personal, which increases the drama.

I don't think the fact that the two characters interact was by Anyone means a bad decision, I just think they spent too much time together and I think it would have been a better choice if the relationship between Sauron and Kelly Brimbor was more focused as I proposed earlier in the video, that seems to be the way of However, there are rings of power when they choose to write stories that are okay ignoring better alternatives and forcing the show to live in the shadows of untold stories as the season comes to an end, we can see to Galadriel reaching the end of her first arc when she is finally ready to let go of her brother's dagger because she has held on so tightly to this decision, as well as the Revelation that unknowingly helped Sauron, and she is sure that she is willing to start changing your point of view and not constantly be on the path of war.

I hope people take away a little bit from Tolkien, you know, his stories are full of darkness and intensity and the kind of darker side of human nature and non-human nature, but at the end of the day they're optimistic and hopeful, and we hope people get a little piece of that it would be wonderful if even in some small way it was translated to the screen the first season of Rings of Power was a bit massive, has a lot of flaws and feels bloated in some ways by focusing on stories It really has no reason to be told and neglect other stories that go on too long to really develop all of its characters and do them justice.

It owes all of its success to its connection to the source material, but it's also the reason it's become so

hated

. If this weren't an adaptation of Tolkien's world, it would be a boring, mediocre fantasy show trying to cash in on a fad, not something truly terrible but not something particularly good either. I'm not very good at giving numerical scores, but if I had to write. Rings of Power for what it is, I would probably give it a 4 out of 10. Since the feeling it left me with was mostly average, however, it is supposed to be an adaptation of Tolkien's world and his characters and in this sense it so fails. which is a 4 out of 10, but for what it could have been, it's probably a 2 out of 10.

That's why I think so many people have so much hate for the show, why they put every little mistake into these huge sticking points, it's because They feel robbed of the story that could have been told and feel the need to vent and get everything off their chest. The power rings are not going anywhere and I know that in the future I will watch the new seasons that come out. I'm even hoping that the showrunners learn from their mistakes and we can enjoy a good story, even if it's not the one we expected or hoped for, if you somehow made it to the end of this video.

I want to thank you for watching. I'm sure you all have as many thoughts on Rings of Power as I do, so feel free to let me know what you think of the show in the comments. If you enjoyed this video, it would mean a lot if you liked it and subscribed. Thank you. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in the next video.