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Rings of Power S2, an incomplete ramble
I can't decide who my new favorite Sauron is. Wormy goo!Sauron on his little road trip of indignity? Jesus rising from the fireplace!Sauron? Pretty, psycho-eyed elf lord!Sauron with the cute little bow in his hair? Glam filter Halbrand revival!Sauron with the sudden shock of luscious curls? (Damn dude, they couldn't have given you those last season? NOW you're speaking my language.)
Speaking of "oh NOW -":
Oh NOW they're breaking out the box of elf dude wigs and female dwarf facial hair. NOW. After the fugly mormon haircuts and pervasive air of gender-conforming cowardice has already ruined all of S1. After establishing enough precedent to make this sudden tidal wave of properly groomed new he-elves and dwarf ladies glaringly inconsistent. And while making it so that Elrond and Celebrimbor still can't be fixed because of in-universe time constraints. Now. Re-release S1 with the long-haired he-elves and bearded dwarf ladies edited in where they always should have been, you fucking hacks. At least Arondir seems to have started growing his hair out? ONE DARES HOPE.
(Almost the only thing that kept me from loving S1 without reservations was the cowardly hack styling, can you tell?)
Yaaaaay, they brought Poppy back!! My giiiiirl <3 <3 <3 <3 They damn well better bring all the hobbits back again next season, old and new, even if *stuffs mouth full of cotton swabs* Gahndahlf has left them for that dude. One dares hope, while they're at their new migration, that Poppy's exploded badger boyfriend's styling will improve a bit in more humid climes.
But ugh, why did they have to do Tom Bombadil? More Dontsaygandalf interacting with the other wizard would just have been infinitely more interesting, even if I didn't personally think Bombadil was an obnoxious, tone-deaf waste of page time. And did they really have to lift half his dialogue almost verbatim from scenes made famous by the movies? Don't answer any that, I know why. I'm just rolling my eyes so hard at the blatant ratings baitthat I did not ask for, I want them to take a good hard look at what they've done. And hand in a 2000-word essay on monday about why callbacks require a delicate touch, not this "DID - YOU - GET - THE - REFERENCE - YET?!" hammering.
S1 left me faintly convinced Eärien would end up one in of those insane death cults making human sacrifices to Morgoth that Númenor comes down with near the end. S2 has continued to strengthen that impression. But while I thought Kemen might be her haplessly decent counterpart by leaning away from his father's scheming corruption even as she leans away from Elendil's bravery and nobility, now I hope that when Eärien winds up tying Kemen to the altar and cutting out his heart while he screams about how he thought she loved him, that fuckwad knows he deserves every second of his agony.
D:{ How DARE they do that to Bronwyn! But keep that annoying brat Theo? BOOOOOO.
...and I had more thoughts, but that's as far as I got in writing them down before I was distracted for long enough to forget what they were!
Speaking of "oh NOW -":
Oh NOW they're breaking out the box of elf dude wigs and female dwarf facial hair. NOW. After the fugly mormon haircuts and pervasive air of gender-conforming cowardice has already ruined all of S1. After establishing enough precedent to make this sudden tidal wave of properly groomed new he-elves and dwarf ladies glaringly inconsistent. And while making it so that Elrond and Celebrimbor still can't be fixed because of in-universe time constraints. Now. Re-release S1 with the long-haired he-elves and bearded dwarf ladies edited in where they always should have been, you fucking hacks. At least Arondir seems to have started growing his hair out? ONE DARES HOPE.
(Almost the only thing that kept me from loving S1 without reservations was the cowardly hack styling, can you tell?)
Yaaaaay, they brought Poppy back!! My giiiiirl <3 <3 <3 <3 They damn well better bring all the hobbits back again next season, old and new, even if *stuffs mouth full of cotton swabs* Gahndahlf has left them for that dude. One dares hope, while they're at their new migration, that Poppy's exploded badger boyfriend's styling will improve a bit in more humid climes.
But ugh, why did they have to do Tom Bombadil? More Dontsaygandalf interacting with the other wizard would just have been infinitely more interesting, even if I didn't personally think Bombadil was an obnoxious, tone-deaf waste of page time. And did they really have to lift half his dialogue almost verbatim from scenes made famous by the movies? Don't answer any that, I know why. I'm just rolling my eyes so hard at the blatant ratings bait
S1 left me faintly convinced Eärien would end up one in of those insane death cults making human sacrifices to Morgoth that Númenor comes down with near the end. S2 has continued to strengthen that impression. But while I thought Kemen might be her haplessly decent counterpart by leaning away from his father's scheming corruption even as she leans away from Elendil's bravery and nobility, now I hope that when Eärien winds up tying Kemen to the altar and cutting out his heart while he screams about how he thought she loved him, that fuckwad knows he deserves every second of his agony.
D:{ How DARE they do that to Bronwyn! But keep that annoying brat Theo? BOOOOOO.
...and I had more thoughts, but that's as far as I got in writing them down before I was distracted for long enough to forget what they were!