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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Having no Durin or Adar in the finale was a real letdown. They were my favorite parts of the show.
The Mount Doom eruption was cool, and the buildup was all right. I’m just not sure the rest of the season was worth it just for that moment.
I was mostly bored and frustrated with the Numenor plotline.
Elrond and Durin’s friendship was a real highlight. The two actors had great chemistry, I thought.
I don’t understand how adding water to Mount Doom makes it explode but w/e.
The dialogue was poor overall. Adar was a big victim of his dialogue being cut off, like when he was giving instructions to the elf to tell the human villagers. Adar says something like, “I have a message for you to take back to the villagers…” Then it’s a hard cut to the next scene, and the audience is left wondering for a few minutes with this little mystery, what could Adar have asked? It was just a message to surrender. The same trick was used several times, so we rarely get to sit with a character or discover things like internal motivations without the characters having to go on an unhinged monologue about orc genocide.
The show did not make a convincing case to me that the Mt. Doom eruption shouldn’t have been a 2-minute long youtube video by a well-regarded 3D artist who spent a long time on it to get all the details just right with the title “The Eruption of Mt. Doom” and it gets several million views, and a bunch of likes and people enjoy it and move on with their lives. Why was $500m and years of people’s lives devoted to making this show?
