In some ways, we wanted to do an origin story for Sauron.
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“I hope after the last episode airs, viewers watch the whole season again
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“Season one opens with: Who is Galadriel? Where did she come from? What did she suffer? Why is she driven?” says Payne. “We’re doing the same thing with Sauron in season two. We’ll fill in all the missing pieces.”
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“Sauron can now just be Sauron,” McKay adds. “Like Tony Soprano or Walter White. He’s evil, but complexly evil.
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Season two has a canonical story
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Like how they spend way too long showing people suffering and in pain for no storytelling payoff.
Say what you like about Whedon (and I’ll say many fucking things) but at least his characters had arcs and reasons to suffer. Season 2 of Angel is still amazing.
doing this whole arc to get in a boat and then 2 seconds later theyre at the destination galloping across a field lmao
not even a landing scene
Please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the first time they name the setting with on screen text too? Like rather than just having the uruk say “Mordor” they introduce a new and worse means of communicating with the audience.
I honestly really enjoyed it but yes, it’s too slow, it spends way too much time with characters slowly staring at each other, and I actually would prefer if they didn’t keep doing callbacks (if that’s what they’re called) to the LOTR movies. Elrond’s lengthy speeches about mythological characters are boring and he also looks like Doogie Houser. The (Super) High King Gil-Galad looks like Liam Neeson. The Harfoots are dirtier than wild animals. Galadriel is genocidal. But I have to say, I enjoyed most of it. I liked Gandalf, Numenor, Sauron, and even the cop elf.
I don’t care if it’s not true to Tolkien because Tolkien was a reactionary. They should keep moving away from him and somehow include a scene in the next season with Tolkien nerds / chuds getting crushed by oliphants.
