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So in for a bigger world of shite. First off the trailer starts off great with the first face being shown having a Covid face mask and wearing it outdoors per the science. At least they filmed the butchering of my beautiful property safely. Hopefully they were wearing condoms as well, but moving on to the actual words of the show creators:

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The Second Age is the great untold story in Tolkien’s Legendarium.

Oh is that the excuse that the Tolkien Estate charged you way more for the First Age and you could have adapted that properly over the 40 year War of Wrath, and therefore went with the Second Age that has way less going on for it?

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With the forging of the Rings and the Last Alliance. And we felt that was the story that should be told.

Hey, ummmmm, I think we’ve seen that in perhaps the most famous prologue in cinematic history. So yes, it’s been told. I’m cool with that 4 minute interpretation.

And now onto Galadriel’s actress:

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Galadriel has been on a quest for over a thousand years scouring Middle Earth for searching for this elusive undiscovered evil.

Did she though?

And back to the creators:

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From the beginning we knew that she couldn’t do this alone. Every quest needs a Fellowship.

Oh frick off with using buzzwords that would not be relevant for another 4,000 years trying to manipulate the fans and idiots dumb enough to fall for that.

And to the actor of Gil-Galad:

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This is the time the characters and species we love become who we know they came to be.

Is it? Although I will give a bit of rare casting praise since that actor is how I imagined Gil-Galad roughly, so congrats on at least casting someone well.

And the Oath of Fëanor is so anticlimactic from how it was described in the Silmarillion. This is what it should look like:

And now onto Bronwyn (whoever the frick that’s supposed to be) comments:

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What Tolkien represents it’s really important that we keep that legacy alive.

Then tell that to at least three of your costars that were explicit that they’re directly trying to destroy Tolkien’s legacy.

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In this show anything can happen in a split second that changes everything. It’s dangerous and shocking.

And I don’t like that. Lord of the Rings is supposed to be more mesmerizing than shocking, and I don’t like things that are different. The only things that should truly be shocking is through the themes.

And now for some for character videos that all look like shite and more character images: Twitter

Oh my God… they managed to finally not frick something up. That looks like Gil-Galad as described by Tolkien. Holy shite, they fricked up everything else finally got at least one thing right. So maybe this will be one step above the Last Airbender which got literally nothing right. Bottom of the barrel here.

This looks like a Woke high school drama class putting this on and building everything from scratch. Everyone and everything on this show looks like shite except Gil-Galad

This post was edited on 8/3/22 at 9:32 pm