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Rings of power

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PurpleIsTheNewPink · 05/10/2022 23:01

Anyone watching this? What do you think?

I know it's got super bad reviews but I love it. In spite of the wooden acting, the cringe worthy dialogues and the dodgy accents. I normally don't like action but I'm loving the fight scenes. And I love Arondir, the elf and the other Southlanders, including the orcs and Adar.

However, I haven't watched any TV (or any movies) since game of thrones (and I'm not talking about house of dragons but the original series) so maybe my standards are very low...

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SoupDragon · 07/10/2022 19:29

Interestingly, I thought the acting when they give Big Speeches was very good 🤔

FivePotatoesHigh · 07/10/2022 19:32

Theeyeballsinthesky · 07/10/2022 19:21

I’m enjoying though I find the harfoot stuff a bit dull

really enjoying durin & Elrond though agree that generally the elves are not portrayed well (celebrimbor looking about 60?? Do they not know elves don’t age??) arondir is the most elven elf

weirdly and also enjoying Adar - so good to look at the orcs as more than mindless killing machines

certain Halbrand isn’t Sauron as It’s too obvious

I don’t mind the slow pace as they’re still world building & there are over 40 episodes to go

Where are you getting 40 episodes from?!

Thewayshetalks · 07/10/2022 19:36

I read earlier it was doing to be 5 series in total 8 episodes each, series 2 not until October 2024

TottersBlankly · 07/10/2022 19:44

I was quite pleased when I woke up this morning and remembered there’d be a new episode!

Almost gave up after the first, but there were so many reviews I felt I was missing out. Am glad I gave it a chance as it’s gradually improving. I would mind less about wooden acting if only it were not all so ponderous. And the music all so obvious. There’s never any mystery because the music tells you how you’re expected to feel even before you see whatever it is.

But the violence and destruction is … enlivening! Lifts it out of being CBBC. And Joseph Mawle is too ridiculously beautiful as Oren.

As for Sauron - if it’s anyone we’ve met, my money’s on Theo. Is that impossible? It’s so many decades since I last read (all) the books …

QueenOfThorns · 07/10/2022 20:00

As for Sauron - if it’s anyone we’ve met, my money’s on Theo. Is that impossible? It’s so many decades since I last read (all) the books …

Funnily enough, DH has just suggested Theo. We don’t know much about him, do we? Who/where is his father?

TheLoupGarou · 07/10/2022 20:07

I'm enjoying it too!

Theeyeballsinthesky · 07/10/2022 20:12

@FivePotatoesHigh I’m sure I read somewhere that it was 50 episodes over 5 series 🤔

TottersBlankly · 07/10/2022 20:24

Hmm I meant Adar not Oren above!

DonnaDonna0 · 07/10/2022 20:27

At first I thought the stranger might be Sauron but I think he is Gandalf now.
I would be disappointed if it was Halbrand though but it definitely is hinting that way but could be a ruse.

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PurpleIsTheNewPink · 07/10/2022 20:27

TottersBlankly · 07/10/2022 19:44

I was quite pleased when I woke up this morning and remembered there’d be a new episode!

Almost gave up after the first, but there were so many reviews I felt I was missing out. Am glad I gave it a chance as it’s gradually improving. I would mind less about wooden acting if only it were not all so ponderous. And the music all so obvious. There’s never any mystery because the music tells you how you’re expected to feel even before you see whatever it is.

But the violence and destruction is … enlivening! Lifts it out of being CBBC. And Joseph Mawle is too ridiculously beautiful as Oren.

As for Sauron - if it’s anyone we’ve met, my money’s on Theo. Is that impossible? It’s so many decades since I last read (all) the books …

Funnily enough I normally struggle with violence and gore but I really enjoyed the action in episode 6. Maybe because I really like arondir. I am glad though that it's not game of thrones level of violence. That was too disturbing.

Yes, the music is a bit too much in your face and sometimes more dramatic than the action. Except when arondir and Bronwyn kissed. Then it for really well and was very moving.

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PurpleIsTheNewPink · 07/10/2022 20:30

DonnaDonna0 · 07/10/2022 20:27

At first I thought the stranger might be Sauron but I think he is Gandalf now.
I would be disappointed if it was Halbrand though but it definitely is hinting that way but could be a ruse.

I think Halbrand is too obvious as well but so is the stranger. There aren't that many characters that could be sauron: Halbrand, stranger and Theo. Maybe it is Theo but if he is he genuinely doesn't seem aware of it and that's not how it plays out in the books, isn't it?

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Doowop1919 · 07/10/2022 20:31

Loved the lord of the rings movies growing up (they came out when I was a teen), loved the Hobbit movies and have read the Hobbit, and the three lord of the rings books once. I'm not a super fan but I really enjoy them.

I'm enjoying rings of power. Watching tonight's episode now!

DonnaDonna0 · 07/10/2022 20:45

@PurpleIsTheNewPink it could be Theo, he obviously is going to develop into a main character but is it Sauron?
Could Sauron not have been introduced yet? Unlikely but there’s quite a few series to come.

Doowop1919 · 07/10/2022 21:00

Something I've been thinking. Could the stranger be Saruman? Mainly people are guessing it's Gandalf or Sauron but my thoughts went to Saruman!

TheyreAllDeadDave · 07/10/2022 21:33

Doowop1919 · 07/10/2022 21:00

Something I've been thinking. Could the stranger be Saruman? Mainly people are guessing it's Gandalf or Sauron but my thoughts went to Saruman!

Nah, remember in LoTR Gandalf once said something about Saruman never paying hobbits and their affairs any attention? So that points to the stranger not being Saruman... Radagast perhaps tho?

Doowop1919 · 07/10/2022 22:04

TheyreAllDeadDave · 07/10/2022 21:33

Nah, remember in LoTR Gandalf once said something about Saruman never paying hobbits and their affairs any attention? So that points to the stranger not being Saruman... Radagast perhaps tho?

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Ah yes of course, you're right. Radagast could be an option. I just think Gandalf seems too obvious so trying to think of other options!

FivePotatoesHigh · 07/10/2022 22:15

Thanks for clarifying re episodes. I somehow got it into my head that you meant the first series would have 40 episodes

MaxiPaddy · 07/10/2022 23:10

It's probably Gandalf, but he technically isn't supposed to arrive in ME for another 1000 years. It should be one of the two blues - they arrived around this time, for the purpose of stopping Sauron.

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PurpleIsTheNewPink · 07/10/2022 23:20

Just watched episode 7 and I'm definitely underwhelmed. So the sociopathic harfoots have suddenly developed empathy and durin likes to cry. A lot.

However, was that sauron awakening in the mountain when the leaf fell down the mithril shaft? Does that mean that none of our existing characters are sauron?

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SoupDragon · 07/10/2022 23:47

No, that was the Balrog who wipes out most of the dwarves there.

CrossPurposes · 08/10/2022 00:38

"Fly, you fools." One of my favourite bits in the LOTR trilogy.

Doowop1919 · 08/10/2022 14:19

PurpleIsTheNewPink · 07/10/2022 23:20

Just watched episode 7 and I'm definitely underwhelmed. So the sociopathic harfoots have suddenly developed empathy and durin likes to cry. A lot.

However, was that sauron awakening in the mountain when the leaf fell down the mithril shaft? Does that mean that none of our existing characters are sauron?

The Balrog who we see in the fellowship. I'm guessing that's why king durin doesn't want his son poking around down there. Seems like he may know what's down there!

Doowop1919 · 08/10/2022 14:20

And yes, the sudden change of heart of the harfoots was a unrealistic to me too.

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PurpleIsTheNewPink · 08/10/2022 15:59

SoupDragon · 07/10/2022 23:47

No, that was the Balrog who wipes out most of the dwarves there.

Oh I see. Isn't that the thing that killed or did something to Gandalf?

(It's been nearly twenty years that I've read lotr and watched the movies.). Off to educate myself on balrog.

I found the harfoots suddenly being all community spirited and kind hearted difficult to believe as well. I'd have believed if they had kicked out nori and her family for drawing the whitehood's attention to herself and getting their wagons burnt.

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SoupDragon · 08/10/2022 16:52

PurpleIsTheNewPink · 08/10/2022 15:59

Oh I see. Isn't that the thing that killed or did something to Gandalf?

(It's been nearly twenty years that I've read lotr and watched the movies.). Off to educate myself on balrog.

I found the harfoots suddenly being all community spirited and kind hearted difficult to believe as well. I'd have believed if they had kicked out nori and her family for drawing the whitehood's attention to herself and getting their wagons burnt.

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I had to Google the name but I remembered them taking a "short cut" through the abandoned mines where the dwarves had been killed off by some mysterious evil thing in the depths.