The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime)

Throrik said:
It's been around for donkeys that one. People shipped Mulder/Scully, Grissom/Sara back in the 90s to 00s and then Harry Potter got all over it too etc. Even I know it.
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He didn't know what a Stan was either and that's been a thing since 2000...

It's like boomer ed 101 in here, and I was at Monsters of Rock '91.

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Apex said:
He didn't know what a Stan was either and that's been a thing since 2000...

It's like boomer ed 101 in here, and i'm pretty old.

:)
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Shouldn't be difficult for him to research, given his habit of researching obscure facts about things in an attempt to prove other posters wrong.

Anyway, I've given season 2 a go and it's a very Simon Cowell, no from me. Rings of shower is what I'm calling it now.
 
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LOL, I wonder if that sentence of "The Rings of Power are complete." was forshadowing the series itself? :D

Hmmm, seems very strange that Calebrimbor would deny Sauron desire to fashion 9 rings for Men now, when last episode they were so prepared to do everything treasonous under the sun after believing Sauron to be a Valar (and thus is Divine decree, you don't disobey, they know whats best, etc).

Not a very blind queen regent is she? Her hand goes exactly to where it needs to for a perfect shot on camera. Onto the chest of someone heading towards her, or grabbing right onto their arm as they have turned to walk away... :rolleyes:

Thought it might have been the Balrog, but no, something else. Guess we wait on that one.

Spoke too soon, the order to dig further down has been given...

Saw that betrayal a mile away. You can't reason with petty people who will strike at you from behind and you most certainly can't be merciful with them either. Should have "accidentally" dropped the sword into them as you obeyed the order. Elendil has been written into the stupid corner this episode, now this is fully on them. You can sacrifice your own actions, but not others, but as a leader yours will impact on others and a real leader would know that.

Real strange logic being applied here; why would the failure of the Seven even need the Nine to draw power from the Three? Seems illogical. Also, if you can do that kind of illogical stuff like being able to "invent" a way to draw power back from the Three, why not draw power from Eru? As that wouldn't be far off logically. There's basically no limits so long as they want it to happen story wise. Almost going Dragon Ball style with just adding more power.

Overall, too much talking, and not very important talking either. Not much by way of CGI so nothing to talk about there. It's CW levels of drama. Forgetable episode really.
 
Minusorange said:
This season has a whole lot of pointless sidequests, had to laugh at Isildur's sidequest with the maybe maybe not evil wench
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The whole show is walking about looking for things/someone. That's because they don't have a story worth telling, or any characters anyone cares about. The two big mysteries they're so proud of obvious from the opening episode - Halbrand was Sauron and everyone knew immediately from the laughable raft scene, and everyone knows the stranger is Gandalf. I have to say the actor playing not-Gandalf has no chance of making this character in any way appealing, it's utterly ridiculous - he just looks like a bloke whose got lost in B&Q.

Who is writing this rubbish?
 
The portrayal of the elves is just woeful - they're supposed to be wise, long-lived, ethereal beings, that have a presence - what do we have here? a petulant spoilt brat, and old uncle Celebrimbor who could be anyone really, there's nothing elvish about him at all, or any of them.

What do we have at all? Harfoots and Stoors - no-one cares. Dwarfs? - family drama (yawn), humans (CW level rubbish), and Elves I have already covered, the supposed bads, aren't in any way threatening at all, just simply incompetent, and apparantly now Orc lives matter...:cry:

It's a disaster.
 
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Throrik said:
It's been around for donkeys that one. People shipped Mulder/Scully, Grissom/Sara back in the 90s to 00s and then Harry Potter got all over it too etc. Even I know it.
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Literally never heard the term ever...

must be some American thing... the term literally has 0 logic

whatever happened to "hoping they will get together"

"I'm shipping for them" just sounds weird
 
arknor said:
Literally never heard the term ever...

must be some American thing... the term literally has 0 logic

whatever happened to "hoping they will get together"

"I'm shipping for them" just sounds weird
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It's not exclusive to the Americans. I first encountered it by those discussing Pokemon of all things. I was thinking, what the heck? What is Advanceshipping? Pearlshipping? What are you all on about?

It's basically a relationSHIP of X people (can be more than two), shortened because those on the Internet are always dreaming up new words and names to stand out or be "unique" and have as "their own". And it's been there for well over two decades now.
 
I've only recently heard of this shipping business. Seems to be something shoved in there to get more female viewers.

Also learned the term thirst trap. Basically putting a hunky guy in there to get the women (and gay guys) frothing :p

Funny they don't seem to put sexy women in there for the straight male viewership though...
 
IvanDobskey said:
I've only recently heard of this shipping business. Seems to be something shoved in there to get more female viewers.

Also learned the term thirst trap. Basically putting a hunky guy in there to get the women (and gay guys) frothing :p

Funny they don't seem to put sexy women in there for the straight male viewership though...
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They tried to make Sauron a thirst trap, that's how ludicrous this show is.

Oh no, the "male gaze" is a bad thing, and what they actually mean is the feminist lesbians don't like feeling inferior to hot women, it's all fem jealousy, and if they can stick their fingers up to straight men, so much the better.

As Amazon has such poor quality wtiters they're having to rely on shipping everyone to create interest from young people on tik tok and social media. And because of they cannot wrote for toffee that's why everything feels like a daytime soap.
 
Apex said:
They tried to make Sauron a thirst trap, that's how ludicrous this show is.

Oh no, the "male gaze" is a bad thing, and what they actually mean is the feminist lesbians don't like feeling inferior to hot women, it's all fem jealousy, and if they can stick their fingers up to straight men, so much the better.

As Amazon has such poor quality wtiters they're having to rely on shipping everyone to create interest from young people on tik tok and social media. And because of they cannot wrote for toffee that's why everything feels like a daytime soap.
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Yep, exactly this.

But if you dare to call out the bad writing, you're a misogynistic basement dwelling toxic dudebro and the show isn't for you :p
 
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