Swarley Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 Season 2 coming 29th August. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 Watched S1 back again in the last couple of weeks. Not as bad as I recall! I know Tolkien purists hate it, and I understand why, but it seemed to drag much less than I remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 That trailer gave me a full body minter. Will still watch it though...well...hate watch it. The first season was just a load of characters and events randomly chopped from Tolkiens story, shoved in a blender and shat out by a cave troll along side other nuggetty turds like Orondir or whatever his name was, the King of the southlands rubbish, Mordor being switched on by a sword, the Harfuds and not-Gandalf etc. The Isildur plot line... However now the writers have to build on these terrible plot lines and characters for season two of this lore obliterating jobby. #notMyBombadil Good to see the Tuscan Raiders have found new acting roles though. On a more general note, looks like pretty much all of the best franchises are now one huge big shite filled dumpster fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Just watched episode 1 of Series 2. No spoilers, but some of the scenes were so badly lit I could hardly make out what the hell was going on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Watched the first episode and the first 15 minuites of the second. Plot is garbage. The dialogue is mostly tragic again. It's like im watching a really bad fan fiction made by a really bad film student. Still going to hate watch though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 I know Sauron is magical and crafty as f**k, but still hard not to think of Celebrimbor as a terrifyingly stupid man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McLean's Ghost Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 On 30/08/2024 at 22:43, Bairnardo said: I know Sauron is magical and crafty as f**k, but still hard not to think of Celebrimbor as a terrifyingly stupid man. I would simply NOT be deceived by Sauron the Deceiver. Is Celebrimbor stupid? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 On 29/08/2024 at 13:35, Wee Bully said: Just watched episode 1 of Series 2. No spoilers, but some of the scenes were so badly lit I could hardly make out what the hell was going on. Hate when they do that, then having to turn up the brightness to try and see it better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 On 30/08/2024 at 22:43, Bairnardo said: I know Sauron is magical and crafty as f**k, but still hard not to think of Celebrimbor as a terrifyingly stupid man. Elf!!! FFS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 17 hours ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said: I would simply NOT be deceived by Sauron the Deceiver. Is Celebrimbor stupid? Yeah, I get it. Sauron is a master of deception, the source material says so. But they didn't shoot it well. They shot it in such a way that made Celebrimbor seem like a moron. 33 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: Elf!!! FFS Yeah I clocked that after I posted it, then thought il leave it and see if it gets pulled up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 1 minute ago, Bairnardo said: Yeah, I get it. Sauron is a master of deception, the source material says so. But they didn't shoot it well. They shot it in such a way that made Celebrimbor seem like a moron. Yeah I clocked that after I posted it, then thought il leave it and see if it gets pulled up Totally agree with your point though. They've totally misrepresented the partial naivety and innocence of 1st and 2nd Age Elfdom, and mostly portrayed them as a bunch of oblivious morons. Exceptions being when Elrond is basically telling Galadriel to wind her neck in, and Gil Galad, who they seem to have written as suffering from some sort of personality disorder that sees him flip character from one extreme to the other on a whim. It's every bit as much shite as series 1, but I'm going to force myself to watch it through my fingers. Funny how the first half of series one was mostly people thinking "that can't possibly be Sauron, it's too cheesy and predictable", yet it turned out to be true, and now this season so far is all "Those guys can't possibly be Gandalf and Saruman, it's too cheesy and predictable, they must be random Blue Wizards...." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 (edited) Heres a question. How does Sauron regenerate into a black Spaghetti goo monster if there is no ring to bing him to the physical world after his body dies? Or did he make the One Ring off screen? Does that not make the whole Lord of the Rings a bit pointless? Edited September 2 by mishtergrolsch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 The orc family, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 5 minutes ago, bennett said: The orc family, Totally cringe, but as Tolkien himself said that Orcs reproduce in exactly the same manner as Elves and Men, it's not totally out of canon. Not as egregious as the multi-racial Numenoreans and Elves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Aw f**k. Tom Bombadil. Utter dick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 It's crossed into 'its so bad its good' territory for me now. I wish Thorongil was still here to give his thoughts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wee-Bey Posted Saturday at 22:10 Share Posted Saturday at 22:10 Enjoying Celebrimbor's status as the most stupid being to exist in Middle Earth. Pippen and Merry would have f**king figured it out by now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKTID Posted Tuesday at 08:38 Share Posted Tuesday at 08:38 On 05/09/2024 at 20:43, Savage Henry said: Aw f**k. Tom Bombadil. Utter dick. They basically lifted half the dialogue from Fellowship of the ring book. Good i suppose they're using actual source material but in the wrong situation. In 2 minds about this series, the locations, costumes and the way the orcs look is fairly true to the movies. Keeping the same actor for Annatar with a bit of makeup though makes Celebrimbor look like an idiot. Some of the dialogue is basic to brutal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted Tuesday at 14:47 Share Posted Tuesday at 14:47 6 hours ago, PrestersKTID said: They basically lifted half the dialogue from Fellowship of the ring book. Good i suppose they're using actual source material but in the wrong situation. In 2 minds about this series, the locations, costumes and the way the orcs look is fairly true to the movies. Keeping the same actor for Annatar with a bit of makeup though makes Celebrimbor look like an idiot. Some of the dialogue is basic to brutal. It’s certainly something when you yearn for Lenny Henry doing an Irish accent to bring a bit of gravitas back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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