this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
0 points (50.0% liked)

movies

1577 readers
141 users here now

Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.

🔎 Find discussion threads

A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome

Related communities:

Show communities:

Discussion communities:

RULES

Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.

Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.

Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.

2024 discussion threads

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Dunno about this.

S 1 sucked, let's be real. This doesn't convince me S2 will be any different, so I guess I'll go in expecting to be disappointed.

Though, from the plot points they're showing, it does seem like S1 was just setting the stage and now, as the show runners have claimed, they can just tell the story. We'll see I suppose.

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I liked it, but it's not exactly canon, but that is also not exactly the fault of the show runners who had limited material to work with due to the Tolkien Estate apparently. I kind of liked how they handled Sauron and what they did to humanize the Orcs.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

yea there were definitely some significant positives in S1 for sure. The writing was just off though.

My biggest like from S1 turned out to be the quasi-romance they created between Galadriel and Sauron. I thought it was creative and interesting without terribly violating any lore but instead kinda adding to the lore with an interesting "maybe this actually happened" that is vague enough that even the main characters (Galadriel and Sauron) can't be sure what it was.