The Eye

I've really tried to like this show. It looks incredible and has some great actors, but oh my goodness the writing and plot are just unspeakably terrible.

Characters change fundamentally from one minute to the next, say and do things which are not only objectively ridiculous, but flatly contradict what they were saying or doing a few minutes ago.

Nobody talks, they just speech at each other. Their lines don't flow one to the next, they fight for attention. No one seems comfortable with the dialogue, with the exception of Durin, Disa and Elrond.

It's still possible to enjoy it for being a depiction of something almost but not quite entirely unlike Tolkien, and ultimately I will of course watch every episode because I am enthralled by the power of the ring just like everyone else, but I will probably turn into a wraith as a result.

Best hope is that Amazon hear and listen. The writing needs to improve.

I think after the episode full of excitement and action and the details of the amazing battle, we returned again to the slowness of the events and the disjointed and dispersed situations.

One of the strangest things is that no famous leader or hero died after the catastrophe. He returned completely, complete, and happy in the end.

Unfortunately, the episode, instead of building on the distinction of the previous episode, came back to bury the achievement that happened and once again revealed to us how bad the story is.

I'm going to give this episode a 6/10, which I think is the most well-deserved rating.

Ok, let me get this right. You get left behind to fend for yoursel by the others because of an accidental injury and yet you choose to speak of being faithful (or whatever his speech was, I watched it dubbed to our language). This episode is either boring or eyrollingly melodramatic. There is no deus ex machina to save the villagers, they just do. Although the explosion was powerful enough to destroy buildings, whatever, ok... Galadriel finally shows some humility and is remotely likeable. Nori's feelings towards the MeteorMan are on a rollercoaster. I still don't care who he is. They make Elendil look weak, they make Disa look greedy. Does anyone actually proofread these scripts? I expect Ashton Kutcher to show up in the next one to tell us we've been punked.

Do I worry if any character will survive in this show?

Absolutely not. Not only they make almost everyone except maybe Durin so unlikeable to the core, what they are doing to the characters is so cliché, I just know some of them will be just fine.

The entire episode could be reduced to ten minutes instead of seventy, and frankly you can skip it without missing much stuff, and it would probably be better because hopefully some dumb dialogues wouldn't have happened. The characters are either contradicting themselves or what's established in previous episodes, or say something so dumb you wonder if they are trolling.

The writers simply aren't capable of giving the characters believable motives for things they are doing.

After previous episode I said ok it will improve. But it has gotten even worse than first episodes. Plot gaps, no character improvement, empty scenes that lead to nowhere. Bad writing and directing needs to change in second season. I want to believe to this series but it's going cheesy in each episode.

How can you waste so much potential.. We have waited for so long and it is not worth it. You need to save this series before the point that you can't. It has been 8 episodes and just 1.5 episodes are worth watching. Other ones are so empty. Fix the plot gaps, writing, directing and add some interesting characters.