bradclayton
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This was easily the best episode of the season. It's somewhat hindered by being saddled with the weaker writing of the previous episodes, more of the poor dialog, and a desire to cram some of Tolkien's popular characters together, but... as a whole, it was a good episode.
If you've stuck with Rings of Power this long, Alloyed (not a great name, imo) should be entertaining and the high point of the season. Our protagonist still has some issues, but the pacing was good, there was some intrigue, and even the main mystery box is handled pretty well.
I wish the rest of the episodes had been more like this (but, please, stop trying to spin silly metaphors out of every other line of dialog).
Hopefully season 2 will be more like S1E8.
If you've stuck with Rings of Power this long, Alloyed (not a great name, imo) should be entertaining and the high point of the season. Our protagonist still has some issues, but the pacing was good, there was some intrigue, and even the main mystery box is handled pretty well.
I wish the rest of the episodes had been more like this (but, please, stop trying to spin silly metaphors out of every other line of dialog).
Hopefully season 2 will be more like S1E8.
This show is an aggregation of individual scenes with really no greater whole. Cliche after cliche, characters without solid motivation, and a general "smallness" to it all.
We're still mostly caught up on little things like if someone finds a trinket, or whether or not seeds will heal a wound, but this episode did get a bit bigger, albeit in some sort of nonsensical ways.
There's a whole collection of things that really don't make any real sense if you think about them at all, and I suspect the writers are relying on you to only consider the immediate moment +/- about 10 seconds. For example, please get excited if someone rides out of nowhere to save the day, and please don't at all ask how they managed to warp three miles ahead of everyone just so they *could* ride in and save the day. Or look at the spectacle and please just ignore how physics and nature might work. Etc., etc. Plenty of Deus ex machina stuff here.
However, it's still the most interesting episode so far, despite the nonsensical stuff. You really have to ignore a lot of basic storytelling, but if you've made it this far, I suppose this episode is a high point...? (Though, it's as far from Tolkien as it's ever been.)
Show would have been 10x better if the main character hadn't been named Galadriel, and if the show didn't have "The Lord of the Rings" in the title.
We're still mostly caught up on little things like if someone finds a trinket, or whether or not seeds will heal a wound, but this episode did get a bit bigger, albeit in some sort of nonsensical ways.
There's a whole collection of things that really don't make any real sense if you think about them at all, and I suspect the writers are relying on you to only consider the immediate moment +/- about 10 seconds. For example, please get excited if someone rides out of nowhere to save the day, and please don't at all ask how they managed to warp three miles ahead of everyone just so they *could* ride in and save the day. Or look at the spectacle and please just ignore how physics and nature might work. Etc., etc. Plenty of Deus ex machina stuff here.
However, it's still the most interesting episode so far, despite the nonsensical stuff. You really have to ignore a lot of basic storytelling, but if you've made it this far, I suppose this episode is a high point...? (Though, it's as far from Tolkien as it's ever been.)
Show would have been 10x better if the main character hadn't been named Galadriel, and if the show didn't have "The Lord of the Rings" in the title.