Partings

Again, as I've mentioned, the virtually static storytelling tempo continues. I guess it's fine for a series, but we're 3 episodes short of the season's end, so once again, as I've mentioned, this is going nowhere but to an "intriguing" cliffhanger.

The entire season seems to be aimed at introducing the characters. Too bad that 90% of the characters are either dull or annoying. Since the story has many branches, not all of them have been sufficiently developed in this episode.

In this episode, the writers keep introducing pointless conflicts and twists that don't add anything to the story but just make the characters constantly change their minds and feel inconsistent. Perhaps it would be easier to perceive even Galadriel's stubbornness if she spoke and acted like an elf rather than an actor in an elf costume. But this is not the case since the dialogue is so unnatural and modernized.

All in all, I went around in circles again, spending an hour watching the characters overcome made-up difficulties and constantly changing their minds. Already you can see that no characters are well-written, and most likely, there is no concrete vision of what they should become at the end since there is no clear understanding of the story's beginning and end.

So it is quite understandable why history is stagnating because it simply has nowhere to go. We don't know what to expect from the characters as they always act differently and change their attitudes at the last moment. That is, we know who they are supposed to become in many years and their future merits, except that what is happening now has nothing to do with the established personalities in the universe.

Thus, by episode 5 of the first season, the writers themselves have written out all the characters from the universe, making them more modern and completely different from expectations. If before, you would have thought that their way to the characters we know would be interesting, and we would understand why they became as we know them now so many years later. After this episode, given the pace and the approaching end of the season, I am fully convinced that the whole series is driven by completely different heroes, having nothing to do with the universe or Tolkien, who just put on fancy suits to do an amateur acting routine on expensive sets.

The problem is that the creators don't want to tell me a story to interest me, to intrigue me. They want me to watch it. They want me to spend time watching content. All the effort is invested in the process, not the substance. It's a beautiful empty shell, but what's the point?

I am done with this show . They have spent years & years hyping up the public by saying this was going to be mind blowing, exciting at every level & showing off those digits spent on a humongous project. Yet NOTHING exciting has happened in the first 5 episode (maybe just the very first 10 minutes which they have hooked me up with on that). I had to stop the episode 4 times because it is incredibly slow & I get distracted very easily because of the useless & boring speeches the characters have during the whole hour & more (rewinding to parts of conversation I've lost turned out to be a waste of time). WHERE IS THE ACTION? It's talking, talking over & over. The storyline is very confused, there are too way many characters who could be easily cut out, the acting is poor.

It had to potential to be one of the greatest series ever, but it turns out to be the most delusional series of all time.

This episode is the worst so far by a stretch, it's as if the producers believe that this series can't fail but it's been very hit and miss so far this first season. This episode is quite boring lots of talking and not much happening and the music is very dramatically overlayed over generic underwhelming scenes. PRODUCERS Game of Thrones was much betterthan this expensive bore. I can tell this series is building upto a big event but there isnt much impact from the intended scenes, some the actors are poorly picked in my opinionand let down the talented members of the cast, this show needs to grow up or its doomed im sorry to say.

No matter what series it is, I always give them 5 episodes to wrap up and settle the issue. This is the 5th.

No, friends, the series is not recovering. A black elf is not the problem! I love the portrayal of a strong woman! I live in an eastern country and have nothing to do with the interesting problems of westerners. Color doesn't matter to us! We like strong women! The series is poorly written and neither the effort of the actors nor the great art design can save it. I'm not so excited...I get even more excited when I see a butterfly! This is very difficult to achieve. Orcs are on their way to attack, I don't care! The Numenoreans are on their way, I don't care! In the whole series, only Durin and Elrond's scenes catch my attention, that's all! Non logical things are flying around! Characters go out of their character! They should just call this "Rings Of Power" leaving the name LOTR out of it. Even the so called "bad" Hobbit's scene where the White Council fights against Nazgûls Dol Guldur is better then all 5 episodes and it is just 3 minutes long! Stop protecting bad things just because of your ideals...

I have already written this show off as a hack job, but I can't help but want to see how bad it gets. The issue is it's so bad, so boring, that Im floundering even doing that.

Please, for the love of god, fire these writers before season 2, you can still save this show!!!!!!!

Galadrial is unbelievably insufferable, she has no struggles what so ever, shes the best at everything, she can defeat every obstacle with absolute ease - this is terrible writing. Only high school kids would write a character that 1 dimensional. That fight they had was unbelievably cringe.

Why are the definitely not hobits always mentioning their feet? They never went on about it in the actual LotR. When they had an opportunity to have some great action, again deux ex machina- any writer that relies on such a troupe is not a writer, they are amateurs.

The legolas rip off guy should have kept his mouth shut as the guy cant act to save his life.

We all know who Sauron is, your efforts at subversion has failed.

THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT.