Rings Of Power (spoilers)

A series of drawn out plot lines all culminating in a finale that sets up further seasons. As I think had been mentioned before, the total lack of jeopardy when we know the main protagonists futures does take away from the experience. This second season has certainly been better than the first though.

I knew not Gandalf would end up being Gandalf but still hoped he wouldn’t be. Some decent set pieces but not much of an improvement on the first series. Just a bit bland and badly acted with a ropey script. Not sure I’ll watch the next series if it gets one. It’s a shame because with a good script and not shoehorning in popular characters it could’ve been rather good.

I’m enjoying it, up to ep.six so far.  I used to consider myself a Tolkien nerd many years ago when it was still slightly fashionable to be a Tolkien nerd but I’ve probably forgotten most of what the true nerds remember. So for me it captures the spirit of Tolkien’s work and seems to have most of the characters in mostly the right place at mostly the right time. I’m not bothered if it isn’t truely accurate.

OH(who hasn’t read any of it) keeps asking why I know who all newly introduced characters are.

Not sure the mountain troll deserved the Meshuggah-lite soundtrack, he didn’t really live up to his hype.

It’s writing by spreadsheet, but that’s what they’re bound to. Introduce anything non-canon and people complain, stick rigidly to the template and people call it predictable. There’s far worse writing in current film and tv, excepting the now standard “people travelling vast distances across an epic landscape seem to bump into one another surprisingly often” as perfected in the dragons and boobs show. A decent cover version of the original Peter Jackson films.

where are all the people?