What an absolutely horrific change in her day to day life over the course of a few short weeks. I hope she recovers quickly, although I hear that burn recovery is brutal and that her boyfriend goes to prison forever for such a malicious act.
Was going to say with all of the episode of Dr. Who, it had to be in one of them.
I’ve never heard of it before, but it looks awesome!
The pacing cheapens the entire experience. The greatest part of Tolkeins worlbuilding was his willingness to dwell on the little things and let the greater world and conflict fall into the background so it could build into something terrifying. The action packed pacing doesn’t feel earned, and I don’t care about any of the minor characters or locations because they feel hamfisted in and not genuine.
I genuinely wanted to love this. I find myself returning to the other LoTR media throughout my life. The books, movies, soundtracks, and audio recordings all have a place in my heart. Now I am sitting home on maternity leave, genuinely hoping to give season 2 a shot and hope they heard the criticism from season 1. And the pacing is just absurd. Who did they make this show for? Not old fans certainly, but it also seems unattainable for new fans.
This copyright is especially messy because of the limited amount it actually includes. They have to dance around parts they don’t have the rights to and are plowing through more iconic Middle Earth material to try and keep the audience interested. But I agree it is so clearly a matter of too many cooks in the kitchen and not the work of a single or few passionate people with a meaningful vision to bring to life.
He desperately feels the need to continually latch on to famous people of consequence. That’s how he deludes himself into thinking he deserves to be in their company.
Amazing that arguments like this were tearing European cities and nations apart 500 years ago. At least this time no one was willing to die for their cause. But you can see how quickly it spirals out of hand.
My family watched the movie Clue about a million times. Can quote every line by heart. To this day, we only have to look in one another’s eyes whenever a quotable opportunity comes up. “Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?” “You don’t need any help from me.”
This review makes a lot of great points about parts of the series that I was having trouble putting into words. Especially the bit about the scope being so grand and beautiful and then zooming too far in so that the cities or towns feel like a set.
On social media, I keep seeing the Rings of Power promotions with ‘Deep Dives in Lore’ or something like that. Why have these deep dives if the lore doesn’t add up? Tom Bombadil doesn’t deserve this.