LOTR: The Rings of Power

[Bobby Hundreds]

I think that Halbrand guy is terribly miscast. In the films aragorn and  the men looked like fucking warriors there was a grit to them not just in their looks but how the actors portrayed the roles, that halbrand if that is his name just looks like a fucking plumber with long hair, absolutely no gravitas to the character no sense of underlying greatness or brooding menace it's just a dude trying to look stern but just looking like a whiny tart. He's shite. A really really shit performance because if his head got chopped of in the next episode I wouldn't feel anything. The path they are hinting at that he's some great warrior fuck off its like having rowan Atkinson playing the lead role in gladiator I don't buy it.

[Section_31]

Have stopped watching after the third one, not because it's got oriental people in but because it was dull. May go back to it when I've got literally nothing better to do.

[ZonkoVille77]

It's a Renault Clio engine in a Bugatti Veyron. 

All fur coat and no knickers. 

[Scott_M]

Not feeling tired yet. If I stay that way, I’ll turn it on to send me to sleep.

[Baltar]

2 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I think that Halbrand guy is terribly miscast. In the films aragorn and  the men looked like fucking warriors there was a grit to them not just in their looks but how the actors portrayed the roles, that halbrand if that is his name just looks like a fucking plumber with long hair, absolutely no gravitas to the character no sense of underlying greatness or brooding menace it's just a dude trying to look stern but just looking like a whiny tart. He's shite. A really really shit performance because if his head got chopped of in the next episode I wouldn't feel anything. The path they are hinting at that he's some great warrior fuck off its like having rowan Atkinson playing the lead role in gladiator I don't buy it.

I would extend that to the Numenoreans too. They are supposed to be hard arses, way tougher than the average humans on Middle Earth. But the men of Numenor we see in the series just look like pansy's to me.

[M_B]

I love it, but I admit I seem to be in a minority.

[ZonkoVille77]

9 hours ago, M_B said:

I love it, but I admit I seem to be in a minority.

 

Some reviewer pointed out that everyone just seems to be angry the whole time and he has a point. Galadriel is constantly angry and grumpy. Isildur's friends fighting with him non stop; his Dad too. His sister is angry. The Harfoots angry at each other during their migration. I'm not sure if that's on purpose but it does push a complete "meh" attitude onto the viewers. 

 

The best parts of it so far have been the scenes between Durin and Elrond, and Nori and the Giant. The rest suffers from bad pacing and shite dialogue,and indeed shite actors. 

[Paulie Dangerously]

Better episode that. Still think Galadriel is awful. She's like a malfunctioning android. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

34 minutes ago, Paulie Dangerously said:

Better episode that. Still think Galadriel is awful. She's like a malfunctioning android. 

The bit where she's showing off with the swords was cringe inducing, she comes across as such an arrogant boring cunt, every scene she's in, she's like a joy vacuum.

 

That scene too, it's been so so much better, so many times before.

 

The magic of Middle Earth has fucked right off.

[magicrat]

Nothing about this production compensates for the appalling dialogue and wooden actors . The script is like something from a 3rd rate soap opera . I don’t recall Dwarves having fake Scottish accents or Hobbits being a parody of  band of Irish tinkers either. Hugo Weaving must be pissing himself that some Martin Clunes lookalike is playing his character .

[Paulie Dangerously]

1 hour ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

The bit where she's showing off with the swords was cringe inducing, she comes across as such an arrogant boring cunt, every scene she's in, she's like a joy vacuum.

 

That scene too, it's been so so much better, so many times before.

 

The magic of Middle Earth has fucked right off.

Yeah that was embarrassing. Feels like they said in the pitch that she would be a strong female who don't need a man and every scene she has been in has to have reference to that. 

 

"Whenever she's off screen everyone should be asking "where's the strong female character?"

53 minutes ago, magicrat said:

Nothing about this production compensates for the appalling dialogue and wooden actors . The script is like something from a 3rd rate soap opera . I don’t recall Dwarves having fake Scottish accents or Hobbits being a parody of  band of Irish tinkers either. Hugo Weaving must be pissing himself that some Martin Clunes lookalike is playing his character .

The acting and accents draw my focus away from the glorious scenery and obviously high production values 

[J-V]

They've done well to drop a billion on this and come up with absolute shite. It has zero going for it.

[George Costanza]

I like it

[JagSquared]

I enjoyed that episode. Guess we know who Sauron is now. 

[M_B]

2 hours ago, JagSquared said:

I enjoyed that episode. Guess we know who Sauron is now. 

Yeah good episode, but do we?

[Paulie Dangerously]

Bored of the Rings: Rings of Dour 

[TD_LFC]

My Halbrand guess was wrong.

 

Odd that we had no half foots/meteor man in the episode, and I didn't realise this season only had 6 episodes. Almost every question was left unanswered.

[Sugar Ape]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

My Halbrand guess was wrong.

 

Odd that we had no half foots/meteor man in the episode, and I didn't realise this season only had 6 episodes. Almost every question was left unanswered.

It’s got Eight episodes hasn’t it?

[M_B]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

My Halbrand guess was wrong.

 

Odd that we had no half foots/meteor man in the episode, and I didn't realise this season only had 6 episodes. Almost every question was left unanswered.

There are 8 episodes.

[JagSquared]

Just now, M_B said:

Yeah good episode, but do we?

Maybe I’m reading too much into it but

 

spoiler

 it’s all pointing to Halbrand, the whole “Are you the king that we’ve been waiting for?”.. delayed response ”yes” and his interaction with Adar who claims to have killed him. “Do you remember me?” 

 

 

[M_B]

3 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

My Halbrand guess was wrong.

My guess is Halbrand becomes the Witch King.

[TD_LFC]

That explains it, I misread an article this morning talking about the final scene so when I watched this episode it felt like a finale episode but it left too much up in the air.

 

Two more to tie some stuff up.

[M_B]

1 minute ago, JagSquared said:

It’s all pointing to Halbrand, the whole “Are you the king that we’ve been waiting for?”.. delayed response ”yes” and his interaction with Adar who claims to have killed him. “Do you remember me?”

You might be right, which is the joy of it I think. They are keeping us guessing. My money is on Meteor Man myself.

[TD_LFC]

2 minutes ago, M_B said:

My guess is Halbrand becomes the Witch King.

That's become more likely now.

[JagSquared]

While I admit the show has done a lot of things I don’t particularly like (Galadriel being a bit of a prat etc) I do like what they have done with Adar. He’s added a lot more depth to orc and the goblins. Little things like them having rituals for their dead, the little speech about them having a home and being brothers. 
 

I also really like the dwarf and Elrond scenes and accents aside the nomadic harfoots (proto hobbits) being so apparently cut throat and fear of others is interesting and prob explains why the hobbits don’t like leaving the shire.