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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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.
