Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

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Locnar said:
Well I guess Tom spells it out that the "dark wizard" is indeed another Istari

So looking more like not-gandalf and not-saruman are the blues
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The blues were best friends and traveled together

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amigo

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Yeah, hard agree. Only Tolkien "experts", who know very little (basically what they remember from the movies), will eat up Amazon's shite. Fucking casuals ;P.
All the bastardization and idiocy aside, it's actually *hard* for me to even watch Drinker and Nerdrotic reviews where they show the actual footage. It's super cringe inducing and unwatchable, especially anything involving midget warrior Guyadriel.
 
Bald Brah

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amigo said:
Yeah, hard agree. Only Tolkien "experts", who know very little (basically what they remember from the movies), will eat up Amazon's shite. Fucking casuals ;P.
All the bastardization and idiocy aside, it's actually *hard* for me to even watch Drinker and Nerdrotic reviews where they show the actual footage. It's super cringe inducing and unwatchable, especially anything involving midget warrior Guyadriel.
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Any scene with her attempting any action hero moves is 100% distilled garbage. She looks like the last person picked for dodge ball for her entire life.

If they wanted a tough girl boss bitch they should have at least cast someone who looks like Xena or Wonder Woman. Not some 5' 80lb pathetically weak looking kunt.
 
Chris

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Locnar said:
Well I guess Tom spells it out that the "dark wizard" is indeed another Istari

So looking more like not-gandalf and not-saruman are the blues
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I'm going to guess that Istar are Maiar who live in space and observe Middle Earth from above.

If they decide to enter Middle Earth, they crash down with no memory in mortal form. All the Maiar did this but 1000s of years before just after creation, Bombadil was the first one.

So this is actually Gandalf and Saruman. By the end they will somewhat get their memories/mission back, optional three other wizards, fight Sauron, Gandalf will turn Saruman good and they will journey to Valinor at the end of the 2nd age.

They return later for the canon stuff they did in the 3rd age.

I've made this up but it's the only way to make everything make sense.
 
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Our armies cannot defeat the might of Adar and Sauron alone!

*army consists of 15 orcs, some scared up elf and a faggy elf Sauron

Fuck this show
 
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If the hobbit storylines didn’t exist, this show would be 10x better.
 
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Quaid

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Animosity said:
If the hobbit storylines didn’t exist, this show would be 10x better.
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The story, characters, and tone are irredeemably bad. I don’t think removing a minor sub plot would help this show much. It’s fundamentally flawed.

Great acting and effects, but who cares?
 
Chris

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Maul said:
Our armies cannot defeat the might of Adar and Sauron alone!

*army consists of 15 orcs, some scared up elf and a faggy elf Sauron

Fuck this show
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But Elrond says that line in Fellowship of the Ring about Saruman and Sauron, it's like poetry, it rhymes.

Also Saurman was the really famous leader of the white council, nobody knows who the fuck Adar is, not even Tolkien lol.
 
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Bald Brah

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HOW IS THIS SO BAD????
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I just watched Ep.1 of Game of Thrones last night. It's amazing the contrast in quality of these two shows from the beginning. Game of Thrones was freaking amazing out of the gate. Atmosphere, suspense, acting, writing. The opening scene with the Rangers and the Whitewalkers is insanely good. Compare to any LoTR laughable battle scenes.

It's pretty wild watching it again knowing how everything unfolds. When they get the dire wolf pups it takes on some added weight when John says "I'm not a Stark" before he finds the 6th wolf.

Then the next sequence where Robert shows up and goes right to Lyanna's grave talking about killing Rhaegar and marrying Lyanna. Watching as a clueless noob none of that means anything.
 
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Bald Brah said:
I just watched Ep.1 of Game of Thrones last night. It's amazing the contrast in quality of these two shows from the beginning. Game of Thrones was freaking amazing out of the gate. Atmosphere, suspense, acting, writing. The opening scene with the Rangers and the Whitewalkers is insanely good. Compare to any LoTR laughable battle scenes.

It's pretty wild watching it again knowing how everything unfolds. When they get the dire wolf pups it takes on some added weight when John says "I'm not a Stark" before he finds the 6th wolf.

Then the next sequence where Robert shows up and goes right to Lyanna's grave talking about killing Rhaegar and marrying Lyanna. Watching as a clueless noob none of that means anything.
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I've been watching a few episodes here and there, and there's good stuff in there, but I know it falls off a cliff when they were working from the notes. It's been a long time since I seen those last few seasons, and I'll get to them eventually. The first two or three seasons maybe four we're all pretty decent. I just don't remember which season it was when it went off the rails.

I've never watched a single episode of the rings of power shit, and I never will.
 
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GoT doesn't fall off a cliff until S8. A slow slide begins once the show moves past Storm of Swords, which progressively accelerates after they go beyond the books entirely, and of course it suffers further when graded against the amazing earlier episodes. But even when taking all of the negatives into account, it's still watchable, above-average television. Then season 8 hits and they just set the whole thing on fire.
 
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Dr.Retarded

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zignor 4 said:
GoT doesn't fall off a cliff until S8. A slow slide begins once the show moves past Storm of Swords, which progressively accelerates after they go beyond the books entirely, and of course it suffers further when graded against the amazing earlier episodes. But even when taking all of the negatives into account, it's still watchable, above-average television. Then season 8 hits and they just set the whole thing on fire.
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I couldn't remember, like I said I haven't watched it in a long time since it originally aired, and I've never rewatched it.

I just don't remember where it started going wobbly. I know there were some pretty goofy episodes where the stuff with the people in Dorn and the horrible sand snakes or whatever choreography.

It's not a bad show but it's definitely not one of my all-time favorites.
 
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I couldn't remember, like I said I haven't watched it in a long time since it originally aired, and I've never rewatched it.

I just don't remember where it started going wobbly. I know there were some pretty goofy episodes where the stuff with the people in Dorn and the horrible sand snakes or whatever choreography.

It's not a bad show but it's definitely not one of my all-time favorites.
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My opinion on GoT is seasons 1-4 were amazing, 5-7 were still good but definitely trending downwards, S8 was the train wreck.
 
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