LOTR: The Rings of Power

[Carvalho Diablo]

Loved the books (The Hobbit and LOTR), loved the Peter Jackson films (although part 3 of The Hobbit bored me to tears), but this? This is something else.

 

Galadriel is possibly the most annoying cunt in the history of television drama. Arrogant beyond belief, more smug than Patrick Mahomes, condescending, deceitful, utterly fucking useless. I utterly detest the bastard.

 

Sauron, about as scary as Larry Grayson and as good as actor.

 

The fat dwarf bitch Disa is another wedged in woke bastard. Just appalling actress. Truly appalling.

 

The Hobbity shire lasses. Just fuck off and die, as fast as you fucking can.

 

At least Lenny Henry remains dead.

 

2 episodes into season 2 and it's a marked improvement over season 1. Still no better than a 2 or of 10 so far.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Celebimbor, what a fucking idiot.

 

These elves are fucking stupid beyond belief.

 

I'm now firmly on Team Sauron. I firmly hope he kicks the living shit out of these pointy ears wankers.

[Anubis]

On 02/09/2024 at 07:51, JagSquared said:

did they change the actor who plays Adar? 

 

It was Jospeh Mawle in season one. Sam Hazeldine in season two. 

[JagSquared]

47 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

It was Jospeh Mawle in season one. Sam Hazeldine in season two. 

Ah ok. I really liked the Mawle in the role shame he has been recast. 

[Section_31]

It's absolutely horrendous, I couldn't get through the episodes. The dialogue is bilge and wtf with trying to make Sauron a sympathetic character?

 

Every villain these days has to have a story, a reason for being bad - you heard it a lot in the promos for The Acolyte star wars show "The thing about Star Wars is there's no good and evil, it's gray". Er, that's exactly the opposite of what Star Wars is.

 

Sauron is a god of sorts and generally a malevolent, power mad cunt extraordinaire,  not an unfortunate man from Yorkshire. 

[Pete]

16 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

It's absolutely horrendous, I couldn't get through the episodes. The dialogue is bilge and wtf with trying to make Sauron a sympathetic character?

 

Every villain these days has to have a story, a reason for being bad - you heard it a lot in the promos for The Acolyte star wars show "The thing about Star Wars is there's no good and evil, it's gray". Er, that's exactly the opposite of what Star Wars is.

 

Sauron is a god of sorts and generally a malevolent, power mad cunt extraordinaire,  not an unfortunate man from Yorkshire. 

Must admit that first episode was boring as fuck.  Second was a bit better. If this season doesn’t improve I’ll be binning this off. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Yeah, it was so dry. I fucked it off in season 1. I wanted to like it, and it looks beautiful, but essentially I just don’t care. 

[Pidge]

4 hours ago, Section_31 said:

It's absolutely horrendous, I couldn't get through the episodes. The dialogue is bilge and wtf with trying to make Sauron a sympathetic character?

 

Every villain these days has to have a story, a reason for being bad - you heard it a lot in the promos for The Acolyte star wars show "The thing about Star Wars is there's no good and evil, it's gray". Er, that's exactly the opposite of what Star Wars is.

 

Sauron is a god of sorts and generally a malevolent, power mad cunt extraordinaire,  not an unfortunate man from Yorkshire. 

 

Yeah, they should have done something with Morgoth and all that if they want to explain how Sauron got to be Sauron. But yeah, it's a dumb approach, a bit like setting up all of Game of Thrones to come down to the question of "who wins?" and a happily ever after, when the answer from the books would surely be "it doesn't really matter, they're all cunts".

 

Now the general thinking of making it a TV show about Sauron fucking with literally everybody I can understand, that sounds like fun. But to do that they should have made it... fun... even the Gandalf stuff, which is ridiculous, feels glum and going nowhere in particular. Like, it's not a coming of age story, he's basically an angel. Do a fantasy version of Michael, not a naked beardy dude looking confused all the time.

 

Basically it's not nearly nerdy enough for actual fans, and doesn't have the momentum to engage casual viewers. The whole story was told in five minutes by Cate Blanchett during the opening of Fellowship twenty years ago.

 

edit: I also still can't take the Elrond actor seriously (the bit where he asks Cirdan to dispose of the rings, and then five minutes later he turns up to hand them out at the tree party was fucking hilarious)

[Bobby Hundreds]

I thought the guy Elrond went to for help was Marcus Wareing.

[Pete]

I said this about the first series. It looks beautiful, it’s well scored and the acting is strong but is fucking boring to watch.  

[Section_31]

Elrond Hubbard. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

3 hours ago, Pete said:

I said this about the first series. It looks beautiful, it’s well scored and the acting is strong but is fucking boring to watch.  

The acting is strong?!!

[Carvalho Diablo]

That's it. Just finished s02e03 and I can take no more of this wretched syphilitic diahorrea.

 

Celebrimbor, what a fucking daft pointy eared cunt you are mate.

 

A vast improvement over season 1 but still only 1.5/10 in my book.

 

I cast the bastard into Mount Doom.

[M_B]

I'm enjoying it.

[Pidge]

It's bad (theres an orc family with a baby in episode three ffs...), ridiculous and nonsense. But it's fun to watch, criticise and dig up a bunch of nerd lore from 30 years ago when I tried to read the silmarillion.

 

Watching ep 3 now, they've just shown the dead marshes? But that whole thing hasn't happened yet... Great way to wind up the inner nerd..I'm confused what they're trying to even do there...

[Lurtz]

I'm one episode left of rewatching the first series as I couldn't work out how I could hardly recall any of it. I know now; it's a bit fucking dull isn't it? It's OK in a drama-ish kind of way but get past the scenery, the props etc it's fucking boring. 

[Section_31]

2 minutes ago, Lurtz said:

I'm one episode left of rewatching the first series as I couldn't work out how I could hardly recall any of it. I know now; it's a bit fucking dull isn't it? It's OK in a drama-ish kind of way but get past the scenery, the props etc it's fucking boring. 

 

If it wasn't called lord of the rings I don't reckon anyone would watch it. 

[Scott_M]

7 minutes ago, Lurtz said:

I'm one episode left of rewatching the first series as I couldn't work out how I could hardly recall any of it. I know now; it's a bit fucking dull isn't it? It's OK in a drama-ish kind of way but get past the scenery, the props etc it's fucking boring. 

Ha. I turned on the 2nd season earlier in the week, watched the S1 recap and thought “I have no memory of any of this”.

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, Scott_M said:

Ha. I turned on the 2nd season earlier in the week, watched the S1 recap and thought “I have no memory of any of this”.

 

The only thing I remember is Sauron is from Yorkshire, which stands to reason as they can be moody fucks.

[Scott_M]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

 

The only thing I remember is Sauron is from Yorkshire, which stands to reason as they can be moody fucks.

Very true, I am.

[Lurtz]

5 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Ha. I turned on the 2nd season earlier in the week, watched the S1 recap and thought “I have no memory of any of this”.

 

Exactly the same. No recollection at all.

 

Everything takes so fucking long to happen. Imagine if these cunts had written the movie trilogy. They'd all be about 14 hours long. 

[Lurtz]

3 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 

The only thing I remember is Sauron is from Yorkshire, which stands to reason as they can be moody fucks.

 

"Mordor would have taken more"

[Lurtz]

Ok, season 2 is a definite improvement so far. Plenty more happening. I really can't be doing with the whole dwarf family dramas. Pointless and boring. 

[Code]

Its great!

[Bobby Hundreds]

I must admit the little goblin family made me think "oh fuck off"