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Gwladysstreetlad said:
My thoughts on The Rings of Power episode 3
At this point I have entirely separated the show from Tolkien and his work in my mind and find it more enjoyable because of that.

The positives is that its mostly visually stunning. Numenor looks amazing and shows why this project cost so much. The Orcs look good too (way better then I expected them to) but the Warg was absolutely dreadful. Its up there with the worst CGI from the Hobbit films. Just terrible, it looked like a deformed Pokemon that's been cracked mated with the three Hyenas from the Lion King.

The characters are mostly interesting but they've REALLY got to work on Galadriel. She just comes off like an angry adolescent (which is why it was amusing when Elendil compared her to his children) rather then an Elf Queen/Warrior that's lived for literally thousands of lifetimes. She's just angry all the time (apart from the scene where she's laughing on the horse which looks so forced that it hurt) and its daft. You'd think that in the thousands of years she's lived she would've learned basic diplomatic skills like being gracious to your host in order to win favor with them. Her and Halbrand acting like they wanted to angrily screw each other just felt weird and unnecessary.

Elendil is interesting as is the bulk of the Numenor people apart from Isildur who is just painfully cliché as the conflicted young man not wanting to follow in his father's footsteps. The whole family is very soap opera-ish.

The Harefoots however are unfortunately just dumb. I'm sorry but they are. They've been built up as this group whose hearts are bigger then their feat but they're apparently happy to leave a whole family of their clan behind to basically die in the wildness all because of a sprained ankle and a mischievous daughter? I mean, ok but they just got very unlikeable to me very quickly. Also the whole outfit thing? It just makes them so distracting. I can't constraint on their faces because they've basically got a full blown garden bobbling about on it.

I really liked the scene where Arondir wept as he was forced by the Orcs to cut down the tree. Personally that felt the most Tolkien like thing I've seen from the show thus far. It was good. As is that whole story arc. This was the best part of the episode by far imo.

I'm looking forward more to next week because I hope to see more of Gil Galad, Elrond and the Dwarfs who where missed in the episode this week.

1/10 as a Tolkien show

7.5/10 as a generic fantasy show.
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Pretty much agree with everything here. The Harefoots are annoying as heck, just a really daft storyline - very clear they're the Frodo & Sam of this iteration.

Whole thing is coming across as style over substance to me a little, the story does feel a little weak at the moment and the pacing is so slow it hurts.
 
LocalNative said:
Pretty much agree with everything here. The Harefoots are annoying as heck, just a really daft storyline - very clear they're the Frodo & Sam of this iteration.

Whole thing is coming across as style over substance to me a little, the story does feel a little weak at the moment and the pacing is so slow it hurts.
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Good morning mate.
 
OK! I'll say it!

Great British Bake Off

There! Said it. Always enjoyed it as I always encouraged my kids to bake buns/biscuits/cakes when they were growing up. Something very rewarding about sitting down with something sugary delight you've created with a cuppa at night. Of course watching some of the contestants have an absolute mare is also enjoyable. The judging, not so much!
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
My thoughts on The Rings of Power episode 3
At this point I have entirely separated the show from Tolkien and his work in my mind and find it more enjoyable because of that.

The positives is that its mostly visually stunning. Numenor looks amazing and shows why this project cost so much. The Orcs look good too (way better then I expected them to) but the Warg was absolutely dreadful. Its up there with the worst CGI from the Hobbit films. Just terrible, it looked like a deformed Pokemon that's been cracked mated with the three Hyenas from the Lion King.

The characters are mostly interesting but they've REALLY got to work on Galadriel. She just comes off like an angry adolescent (which is why it was amusing when Elendil compared her to his children) rather then an Elf Queen/Warrior that's lived for literally thousands of lifetimes. She's just angry all the time (apart from the scene where she's laughing on the horse which looks so forced that it hurt) and its daft. You'd think that in the thousands of years she's lived she would've learned basic diplomatic skills like being gracious to your host in order to win favor with them. Her and Halbrand acting like they wanted to angrily screw each other just felt weird and unnecessary.

Elendil is interesting as is the bulk of the Numenor people apart from Isildur who is just painfully cliché as the conflicted young man not wanting to follow in his father's footsteps. The whole family is very soap opera-ish.

The Harefoots however are unfortunately just dumb. I'm sorry but they are. They've been built up as this group whose hearts are bigger then their feat but they're apparently happy to leave a whole family of their clan behind to basically die in the wildness all because of a sprained ankle and a mischievous daughter? I mean, ok but they just got very unlikeable to me very quickly. Also the whole outfit thing? It just makes them so distracting. I can't constraint on their faces because they've basically got a full blown garden bobbling about on it.

I really liked the scene where Arondir wept as he was forced by the Orcs to cut down the tree. Personally that felt the most Tolkien like thing I've seen from the show thus far. It was good. As is that whole story arc. This was the best part of the episode by far imo.

I'm looking forward more to next week because I hope to see more of Gil Galad, Elrond and the Dwarfs who where missed in the episode this week.

1/10 as a Tolkien show

7.5/10 as a generic fantasy show.
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Basically agree with every point you made here. I thought the third episode was a big improvement on the first two. I still lose interest whenever the hobbit wannabe clan show up on screen, though. I also think the characters visual looks are a bit too...polished, if that makes any sense lol The show just lacks the grittiness of the original trilogy.
 

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