Caporegime
Been a bit slow up to now but that was a great episode. Hopefully it picks up from here and we having a cracking second half of the series.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime)
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Caporegime
Playing fast and loose with established timelines again!
Soldato
Well that eps blew up quickly. Quite enjoyed that. NAMPAT!!!
Soldato
Think she comes across a bit of a brat at times, when she is supposed to be the commander of the northern armies and 1000s of years old. Which is fair criticism especially earlier on. I think what they were trying to portray was how driven she was because of her brothers death but handled it a bit poorly on screen.
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i imagine they are quite grateful for your instruction to carry on
He seemed confused enough already so I didn't want to add to it.
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Amazon don't need no stinkin' high falutin' hornswogglin' established time-lines bs - they got discount dumb and dumbererer!
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They already said they had to compress the timelines massively.
Because elves live ages and humans don't, they said they would need 100+ seasons and constantly be recasting people if they stuck to the timeline laid out in the books/appendices.
Anyway, I thought that was a great episode overall. Action was decent, "good guys" suffered multiple defeats and quite dark really. I had 1 or 2 niggles but I've already forgotten what they were.
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Elf eyes can now see over the horizon?
It's middle earth, why do you assume our earth rules apply?
Middle earth was flat until the destruction of Numenor.
In Peters Jackson's movies, Aragorn says to Legolas "What do your elf eyes see?"
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Caporegime
Because the horizon is clearly visible...as is the sunrise.
Aragon says that when they're in an elevated position with huge viewing distances.
she was barely involved.even so, as said, the world is flat at this point so an elf can see further/more.
Soldato
Against the popular flow here, I've been enjoying it so far but didn't enjoy that episode so much. I've been enjoying the story and the world, this was all about the battle, which just didn't grab me. I felt there were more of these lines delivered like they were Shakespeare level of writing 'you don't quench thirst with seawater' again for example.
Caporegime
That's demonstrably untrue though.
Soldato
It wasn't what was made out above anyway.
If you look at the start they were looking in a different direction to where ME showed anyway
Basically looking towards where the sun would rise and when it rose you could see ME hence the comments.
Flat earthElf eyes can now see over the horizon?
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Caporegime
Horizon. Arcing sun.
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Well then we are back to Tolkien, who still has day and night on his flat middle earth.
And then the earth magically becomes spherical in the second age because it's a book and anything can happen that the author wants.
How do you think they should have depicted sunrise on a flat earth?
And then the earth magically becomes spherical in the second age because it's a book and anything can happen that the author wants.
How do you think they should have depicted sunrise on a flat earth?
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Caporegime
Do you not understand what an arc is?