Rings of Power Discussion *SPOILERS*18334
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| I just want to go on record as being correct about everything. The least shitty episode, though I'll never watch any episode of this show more than the one time in my life. I watch the extended versions of LotR once every two to three months. I also want to point out what a horrible score this series has. It's like they're using the Adobe stock library. I've heard better scores on weekly podcasts. |
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| The worst line of dialogue in the entire series, "I'm good!" It would have been better if he had said nothing. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts Fixed your post. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson There's a long list of horrible quotes from this series. Do you know why a ship floats and a rock sinks? (Or whatever nonsense this was.) Nobody goes off trail. Nobody walks alone. (6,000 times because they want to make sure you understand it.) There was another a few episodes ago that made my eyes roll into the back of my skull but my mind has gone blank and I refuse to go back and watch it again. Give me a billion dollars to make a series about Middle Earth. I'd hire the best writers money could buy. I'd hire a couple of Tolkien scholars to work with the writers. I'd hire an amazing composer to write the legendary score. Then I'd hire a showrunner with a passion for the story and a track record of successful productions. The rest would be under the control of this hand picked team. None of the things I just listed were done...with a BILLION DOLLARS... Inconceivable! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts You are spot on Steve. Bezos or Bozo has no idea what he's doing. The same can be said about Disney and the MCU, they have a ton of money and can't hire better writers and directors for their shows and films! |
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 To answer your question, no, this is not where the comics go to die.
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| The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were my favorite books I read when I was a kid. The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are now and will always be my favorite movies. and now....The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power is my favorite television series. I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved watching it  Can't wait for the next season. |
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| I believe it's not that they can't write (well, you know) but that they are writing with a specific purpose. That said, it isn't to tell the best Rings of Power story that they can tell. | ||
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| As a way to waste some time it is ok..it did it's job as entertainment. Are there issues..yes, but for me not as much as other shows that I had to stop watching after only a few episodes...but sone things really did get annoying |
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| Good show, 8/10. | ||
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| For those who like the show, don't take my comments as anything to diminish your enjoyment of it. I'm happy that you like it and hope you continue to do so. But I'm still gonna sit over here and bitch about it.  |
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 I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers).Splotches is gettin old! |
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| I did feel it was a very well done show. I enjoyed every episode. That said, I am not a Tolkien scholar nor do I remember much of the books that I read 40 years ago. I watched the series as if the books didn't exist (because in fact I don't remember them so I have no baseline) |
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| So, two years until the next season, eh? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson  What, BILLION Dollar series and that's it? 1 season of .. what .. 8 episodes? every two years?Yeeesh |
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Quote:Originally Posted by dfoster43 Prose that horrible doesn't just appear out of thin air. It must be planted then harvested only when the fruit becomes ripe. Else you would have never known why a ship floats while a stone does not.  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts  |
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 being an ass and being a clown are two very different things.
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Perhaps he will reach the lunar surface before season 2? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts I don't remember a surface tension and density lesson. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson The very beginning of the first episode. Child Galadrial is being taught a valuable life lesson from her brother. The reason was that the stone focuses on things below it while the boat gazes upwards. I'm paraphrasing, but it literally was that idiotic. |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| This is the brilliance..."a stone sinks because it looks down into the dark water; a boat floats because it looks up to the light." | ||
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| So, they don't have physics in Valinor? | ||
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| @GAC I guess I was being kind. The actual quote is even dumber than I thought. @DrWatson Nope. And while I'm bellyaching, can someone explain to me why the master Elven smith Celembrimbor had never heard of mixing metals to make an alloy? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Precedent.  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Dalkiel They can, but they don't. Disney doesn't currently hire writers, they hire Glob. Warriors to write. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts That one bugged me too, so I looked it up. Apparently, bronze was the only alloy metal until the 1500's. clickable text |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Siggy I heard they preferred to be called Global Change Warriors, not activists. The word activists carries too much of a negative connotation, such as when the words white and male are used concurrently in the same sentence. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jesse_O Yes, but we are talking about elves who have been alive for umpteen billion centuries. Surely their knowledge would have eclipsed that of mere mortal men. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson That would have simple enough. All they would have to do is invent the blast furnace and perfect the iron folding technique of forging. If I understand the history correctly, the Chinese started folding iron about 1000 BC. But it really advanced when the Japanese improved on the technique for sword making. A sword made the Japanese way was EXTREMELY more solid and sharper than any other sword. At the time, that advancement was like inventing the slingshot while everybody else was throwing stones. |
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| Common myth re: Japanese swords. I love them but European swords were their equal or better for the last 600+ hundred years (essentially the entire period of Katana production). Smelting technology and ore sourcing defined processes more than outcome. Europe advanced to modern smelting earlier and benefited, plus access to better source materials. If we are talking pre-Katana then things are all over the place. If we saw a gap equivalent to sling-shots vs stone throwing it would have shown up on the map and my keyboard would look quite different* today. * though would likely say the same thing on the back |
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| The elves in the series must be less intelligent than humans. Same with the books and prior series. To have that much time to learn and advance individual knowledge, combined with equal intellect, should yield better Elven strategy and decision making than we see. Certainly on a relative basis vs humans. Yet humans seem roughly equal in terms of strategy and decision making. Apparently the Elves could manage being a bit dimmer by making up for it through experience and practice. |
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