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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“Complexly evil” my dude he was an angel equivalent who sold his soul to the devil equivalent and was a literal werewolf/vampire king and after the devil got got he wanted to bend the entire world to his will personally
