The Eye

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.

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.

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.

So much of this series has been setting up the next series. The first half has definitely been a slow but world building start. So many viewers now of any series are expecting such a grand start that has to be in the story right from the off but this episode is yet again proof of the old school style of story telling and details that are being laid per episode.

The way that the last episode ended was just epic on a middle earth scale along with the Strangers story and then Mount Doom finally being shown just aims us 3 to 4 series down the line where we are seeing the final alliance of middle earth.

Theres the other side of Galadriel of the caring nature after the explosion. Which can only grow in the 1000 years to when she finally meets Frodo. So much of the story isnt true to Tolkien's works but is certainly filling in the gaps of the missing years. I cant deny that i want to know more, this is amazons target to fight Star wars and Game of thrones with their own prequel filling series.

Overall story is being laid for greater thing, never a bad thing but can understand where so many reviews are coming from lead to people switching off until it gets epic, for me its already epic.

Bad follow up to an otherwise decent previous episode.

They need to tone it down with the wannabe profound dialogue. It's embarrassingly cringy at times and doesn't serve the story to overdramatize certain moments. Overall the pacing was horrendous. I have no idea why this whole season for the harfoots was devoted to 'find tall Man, send tall man away' and nothing else. No answers to any of the mysteries there.

Penultimate episodes need to up the ante and make us want to watch the finale. I have no idea what this episode was served to do.

Very disappointed in how they are rounding up the season.