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 - graybags
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Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
merc wrote:nightcrow wrote:Ok. So I haven’t started this show yet… but is the general consensus that’s it’s good and not to focused on the political agenda that it tries to portray (based on previous posts in this thread)?
Is it a good show that’s worth picking up?
it is ok if you watch 2 or 3 eps at a time as too many subplots per eps. At the end of the say there aint many eps to the season
See, that's the thing. I really don't think it has too many subplots per episode. I don't want to compare this to GoT, but that had FAR too many things going on for my liking, way more than this does.
2020. Meh.
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Ok. I’ll check it out.
We have a festival week coming up so I’ll binge.
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nightcrow wrote:Ok. I’ll check it out.
We have a festival week coming up so I’ll binge.
Out of interest, what is a "festival week"?
2020. Meh.
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Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
graybags wrote:merc wrote:nightcrow wrote:Ok. So I haven’t started this show yet… but is the general consensus that’s it’s good and not to focused on the political agenda that it tries to portray (based on previous posts in this thread)?
Is it a good show that’s worth picking up?
it is ok if you watch 2 or 3 eps at a time as too many subplots per eps. At the end of the say there aint many eps to the season
See, that's the thing. I really don't think it has too many subplots per episode. I don't want to compare this to GoT, but that had FAR too many things going on for my liking, way more than this does.
my feeling is that the subplots are rather thin in content why you need to watch 2 at a time
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nightcrow wrote:Ok. So I haven’t started this show yet… but is the general consensus that’s it’s good and not to focused on the political agenda that it tries to portray (based on previous posts in this thread)?
Is it a good show that’s worth picking up?
Ya, for sure, binge it, let us know your thoughts.
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graybags wrote:nightcrow wrote:Ok. I’ll check it out.
We have a festival week coming up so I’ll binge.
Out of interest, what is a "festival week"?
I’m Jewish.
We have a week of festivities called Sukkot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot It’s a pretty strange festival, but also super fun. Especially for the kids. My kids love it.
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paisley1 wrote:nightcrow wrote:Ok. So I haven’t started this show yet… but is the general consensus that’s it’s good and not to focused on the political agenda that it tries to portray (based on previous posts in this thread)?
Is it a good show that’s worth picking up?
Ya, for sure, binge it, let us know your thoughts.
Will do buddy.
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- graybags
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Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
nightcrow wrote:graybags wrote:nightcrow wrote:Ok. I’ll check it out.
We have a festival week coming up so I’ll binge.
Out of interest, what is a "festival week"?
I’m Jewish.
We have a week of festivities called Sukkot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot It’s a pretty strange festival, but also super fun. Especially for the kids. My kids love it.
Ah ok, cool.
2020. Meh.
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Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
I have a number of tv shows I can watch again and again and again as they have that special something - this show is not one of them.
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well eps 7 was an anti climax. Seems like this season is going to end with LOTS of lose ends?
86 Reply by merc 2022-10-08 10:50:28 (edited by merc 2022-10-08 10:53:17)
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inkblot wrote:merc wrote:well eps 7 was an anti climax. Seems like this season is going to end with LOTS of lose ends?
Anti climax? The birth of Mordor was anti climactic? Well sir/madam. What exactly does turn your crank? Are you sure you watched the same episode?
5-20 seconds at the end out of 1hr+ a high price to pay for that!
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merc wrote:inkblot wrote:merc wrote:well eps 7 was an anti climax. Seems like this season is going to end with LOTS of lose ends?
Anti climax? The birth of Mordor was anti climactic? Well sir/madam. What exactly does turn your crank? Are you sure you watched the same episode?
5-20 seconds at the end out of 1hr+ a high price to pay for that!
Like with other experiences in life, you're supposed to also enjoy the whole experience, not only the last few seconds. 
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Tried to watch the show, but wasnt able to finish ep two. I guess i'm not the targeted audiance. Seems it's for children and people who can freely ignore bland story telling and bad acting.
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Moze wrote:Tried to watch the show, but wasnt able to finish ep two. I guess i'm not the targeted audiance. Seems it's for children and people who can freely ignore bland story telling and bad acting.
The only good bits are the Scotish dwarves. but rather anti semitic with their big honkers
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merc wrote:Moze wrote:Tried to watch the show, but wasnt able to finish ep two. I guess i'm not the targeted audiance. Seems it's for children and people who can freely ignore bland story telling and bad acting.
The only good bits are the Scotish dwarves. but rather anti semitic with their big honkers
Or maybe they just wanted to make them look different than the other characters and the anti-semitic thinking happened in front of the screen when you watched it?
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lighton wrote:merc wrote:Moze wrote:Tried to watch the show, but wasnt able to finish ep two. I guess i'm not the targeted audiance. Seems it's for children and people who can freely ignore bland story telling and bad acting.
The only good bits are the Scotish dwarves. but rather anti semitic with their big honkers
Or maybe they just wanted to make them look different than the other characters and the anti-semitic thinking happened in front of the screen when you watched it?
I was putting on my wokey mask...some one must have suggested that?
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107 I didn't realize.... ▼Spoiler ...the Volcano is Mount Doom in Mordor! Harfoots, Elves, Men, possibly Dwarves all strolling through Mordor like it's Sunday afternoon because at one point The Southlands (Mordor) was a safe place to go. Given the CGI of the Volcano blast and how they were all directly in it, no one should've survived that, it would've melted their bodies, think Pompeii, so, I thought that was pretty dumb. If they were just outside of the blast, then ok, or if Galadriel had used some form of magic to protect them, sure, but to have all the lead actors survive a volcano blast as though nothing had happened; so dumb. So we can expect end scenes to have no stakes? Straight out of the CW playbook! lolz  My rating for the series so far: 6/10. Tagline: A disjointed work that fails to capture the fantasy of Tolkien. What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
93 Reply by merc 2022-10-10 20:01:17 (edited by merc 2022-10-10 20:36:10)
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paisley1 wrote:107 I didn't realize.... ▼Spoiler ...the Volcano is Mount Doom in Mordor! Harfoots, Elves, Men, possibly Dwarves all strolling through Mordor like it's Sunday afternoon because at one point The Southlands (Mordor) was a safe place to go. Given the CGI of the Volcano blast and how they were all directly in it, no one should've survived that, it would've melted their bodies, think Pompeii, so, I thought that was pretty dumb. If they were just outside of the blast, then ok, or if Galadriel had used some form of magic to protect them, sure, but to have all the lead actors survive a volcano blast as though nothing had happened; so dumb. So we can expect end scenes to have no stakes? Straight out of the CW playbook! lolz My rating for the series so far: 6/10. Tagline: A disjointed work that fails to capture the fantasy of Tolkien. What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
well except for the little people they did all get very dirty, the harfoots already had dirty feet
94 Reply by paisley1 2022-10-10 20:36:47 (edited by paisley1 2022-10-10 20:38:53)
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merc wrote:well except for the little people they did all get very dirty
▼Spoiler The harfoots came too the destruction after the fact, they weren't in it. Everyone in the blast should've been vaporized! Makes no sense. What's your rating?
95 Reply by merc 2022-10-10 20:57:18 (edited by merc 2022-10-11 10:50:16)
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paisley1 wrote:merc wrote:well except for the little people they did all get very dirty
▼Spoiler The harfoots came too the destruction after the fact, they weren't in it. Everyone in the blast should've been vaporized! Makes no sense. What's your rating?
▼Spoiler even if they weren't vapourised they should have been suffocated as in Pompeii? dont know about numbers more a matter is it a show to keep and watch again and again. No. No special moments. I indicted before with that film "Ready Player One" special moments to savour. None here I think. other than the ep8 violence
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paisley1 wrote:What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
Something like 7.8/10. I had high(er) expectations, but I still enjoy watching the show.
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when are we going to SEE the rings of power?
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paisley1 wrote:107 I didn't realize.... ▼Spoiler ...the Volcano is Mount Doom in Mordor! Harfoots, Elves, Men, possibly Dwarves all strolling through Mordor like it's Sunday afternoon because at one point The Southlands (Mordor) was a safe place to go. Given the CGI of the Volcano blast and how they were all directly in it, no one should've survived that, it would've melted their bodies, think Pompeii, so, I thought that was pretty dumb. If they were just outside of the blast, then ok, or if Galadriel had used some form of magic to protect them, sure, but to have all the lead actors survive a volcano blast as though nothing had happened; so dumb. So we can expect end scenes to have no stakes? Straight out of the CW playbook! lolz My rating for the series so far: 6/10. Tagline: A disjointed work that fails to capture the fantasy of Tolkien. What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
I agree with them standing near a base of a volcano that size with that type of eruption and living, I just was able to put it in the hey it is a fantasy slot and overall I really like it, so far I'd rate it a solid 8/10.
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Tasviewer wrote:paisley1 wrote:107 I didn't realize.... ▼Spoiler ...the Volcano is Mount Doom in Mordor! Harfoots, Elves, Men, possibly Dwarves all strolling through Mordor like it's Sunday afternoon because at one point The Southlands (Mordor) was a safe place to go. Given the CGI of the Volcano blast and how they were all directly in it, no one should've survived that, it would've melted their bodies, think Pompeii, so, I thought that was pretty dumb. If they were just outside of the blast, then ok, or if Galadriel had used some form of magic to protect them, sure, but to have all the lead actors survive a volcano blast as though nothing had happened; so dumb. So we can expect end scenes to have no stakes? Straight out of the CW playbook! lolz My rating for the series so far: 6/10. Tagline: A disjointed work that fails to capture the fantasy of Tolkien. What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
I agree with them standing near a base of a volcano that size with that type of eruption and living, I just was able to put it in the hey it is a fantasy slot and overall I really like it, so far I'd rate it a solid 8/10.
The thing about fantasy (the good kind anyway) is that it can be as wild and magical as you want it to be but it has to be internally consistent and follow its own rules. There is nothing in the rules of Middle Earth to suggest that either a human or an elf could survive a pyroclastic flow by closing their eyes and leaning into it or why a small group of genetically isolated proto-hobbits would have black hobbits and white hobbits when there should really only be beige hobbits.
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bvereshagen wrote:Tasviewer wrote:paisley1 wrote:107 I didn't realize.... ▼Spoiler ...the Volcano is Mount Doom in Mordor! Harfoots, Elves, Men, possibly Dwarves all strolling through Mordor like it's Sunday afternoon because at one point The Southlands (Mordor) was a safe place to go. Given the CGI of the Volcano blast and how they were all directly in it, no one should've survived that, it would've melted their bodies, think Pompeii, so, I thought that was pretty dumb. If they were just outside of the blast, then ok, or if Galadriel had used some form of magic to protect them, sure, but to have all the lead actors survive a volcano blast as though nothing had happened; so dumb. So we can expect end scenes to have no stakes? Straight out of the CW playbook! lolz My rating for the series so far: 6/10. Tagline: A disjointed work that fails to capture the fantasy of Tolkien. What's everyone's rating for The Rings of Power so far?
I agree with them standing near a base of a volcano that size with that type of eruption and living, I just was able to put it in the hey it is a fantasy slot and overall I really like it, so far I'd rate it a solid 8/10.
The thing about fantasy (the good kind anyway) is that it can be as wild and magical as you want it to be but it has to be internally consistent and follow its own rules. There is nothing in the rules of Middle Earth to suggest that either a human or an elf could survive a pyroclastic flow by closing their eyes and leaning into it or why a small group of genetically isolated proto-hobbits would have black hobbits and white hobbits when there should really only be beige hobbits.
I wonder how they dirtied them all? roll them all in ashes? lol
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