Episode 6 was good??? I dunno, man, I think that was just a case of **** tastes good when you are starving. The episode can be summed up in two memes...Episode 6 was good and it feels like they needed to keep up the momentum in 7 given 5 episodes of super slow buildup before that. Feels like too much left to do in the finale now but I’m expecting it to be a good sendoff nonetheless. This whole season needed to be edited and paced a lot better.
Haha, will do.Episode 6 was good??? I dunno, man, I think that was just a case of **** tastes good when you are starving. The episode can be summed up in two memes...
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Episode 6 was good??? I dunno, man, I think that was just a case of **** tastes good when you are starving. The episode can be summed up in two memes...
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If you want some good fantasy TV, check out the new adaptation of Interview with the Vampire on AMC. It is seriously excellent.
Actually, you are dead wrong there. The early Second Age is supposed to be a time of peace and prosperity with Numenor at this time being like Rome at the height of its powers. Numenor is so powerful that Sauron actually fear them and founds Mordor to give him a base to contest them.yup, Episode 6 was good. Not everyone wants to hate this.
The lands are not so civilised as much as thousands of years later. Like in ancient times in the real world - there weren’t much big cities
But that is the point. The show has made the big act of Numenor coming out of exile to be a small expedition to save some random tiny village, but has portrayed it as some fate of the world matter.Numenor is kinda out of this world..they’re not really normal human
Episode 6 was good??? I dunno, man, I think that was just a case of **** tastes good when you are starving. The episode can be summed up in two memes...
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If you want some good fantasy TV, check out the new adaptation of Interview with the Vampire on AMC. It is seriously excellent.
Episode 6 was good??? I dunno, man, I think that was just a case of **** tastes good when you are starving. The episode can be summed up in two memes...
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If you want some good fantasy TV, check out the new adaptation of Interview with the Vampire on AMC. It is seriously excellent.
But that is the point. The show has made the big act of Numenor coming out of exile to be a small expedition to save some random tiny village, but has portrayed it as some fate of the world matter.
The show generally feels small and isolated, with the exception of Numenor. Both Lindon and Moria look and feel empty. Tolkien's legendarium is strongly based on the classic fantasy trope of a more brilliant, magical past that was lost and diminished by the corruption of fallible mortal beings.
The Time of the Trees was the golden age of the Eldar as they lived in peace in Valinor. The First Age was the tale of those elves at the height of their powers making war against Morgoth, a literal god, with armies of Balrogs, dragons, and other supernatural beings. The war resulted in them being diminished and Morgoth banished.
The Second is the tale of the diminished Eldar and the Numenoreans at the height of their powers at war against Morgoth's lesser servant, Sauron, a fallen angel only rather than a god. Sauron having more mundane armies of orcs. The might of the Eldar and Numenoreans being sufficient to defeat Sauron and his forces by might of arms and cut the ring from his hand.
The Third Age is about the last of the Eldar and the diminished Numenoreans faithful barely holding on against a diminished Sauron and doomed to defeat unless Frodo destroys the One Ring.
The narrative is very clearly one of lesser and lesser power, splendor, and might as time goes on and the mundane takes over the world. In classical mythological fashion, the tale Tolkien tells in The Lord of the Rings is about the last hurrah of those magical, fantastical elements in the mortal realm before it became the mundane world we know. The fact that the best that the most expensive television series in history with a budget of $1 billion can manage is a lame battle between a small band of orcs against some villagers and a small company of Numenoreans over a nameless village and tavern is plain sad. It is an immense failing.
My prediction:So what do we get today?
Balrog and old fool plotline resolved hopefully. At least he should have graduated up to rubik's cubes by this episode.
So they basically side-stepped the entire Annatar plotline, and the two most popular (and predictable) theories about Sauron's and the Stranger's identities turned out to be correct.
I'll give this another season, but yeah. Kinda feeling like this one just isn't for me. :/
I think that's my main complaint honestly. It still feels like we're waiting for the good stuff. Overall, I really liked the episode and I do think the show kinda found it's footing.Thought they were about to do something unexpected with The Stranger as Sauron but looks like he’s Gandalf as expected. The balrog will have to wait too. At least we saw the Elven rings forged. Many decent ingredients in this show but it didn't quite work overall in season 1.
Stuff started happening in Ep 6 and then took a breather again in 7! They needed to keep up the pace of 6 once they started IMO. Could have done with a couple more episodes here. Feels like way more was built up than delivered on this season. I hope there isn’t a long delay till season 2 as I want this show to get people back onside who are wavering. I know a fair few outright hate it so no getting them back lol.I think that's my main complaint honestly. It still feels like we're waiting for the good stuff. Overall, I really liked the episode and I do think the show kinda found it's footing.