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[Paul Farquhar]

It had volcanic lightning in it. That was not just ashfall.

That’s normal - check up on your vulcanology.

Really, it’s ridiculous how wrong people get the science in an attempt to pick holes in shows they hate-watch.

It’s certainly not possible to set off a volcano like that - using science, but clearly dark sorcery was involved. That what makes it a fantasy show.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Double post

 

[Eric V]

These are my big issues as well. The world as depicted makes no sense in dozens of ways. And people let them get away with it; I'm not sure why exactly, maybe Rule of Cool is all that matters to them, or maybe they just want fantasy TV and will compromise on logic and verisimilitude (consistency, not realism) to get it. In any case, I will always see this as a legitimate complaint.

Maybe it just doesn't make sense to you.

 

[Maxperson]

When I don't like a series, I stop watching it. No entertainment is better than bad entertainment. I don't understand why people waste their precious time on things they know will invariably displease them.

This season was much better. If it had been as bad as season 1, I probably would have stopped watching.

 

[Maxperson]

The fate of the Crown after being used as a collar for Morgoth remains unknown. The obvious answer is that it went into the Void with him; but that is never stated outright, and it could be that physical objects can't be removed from Arda. If so, the Valar would have had to dispose of it somehow afterward -- they certainly would not want it in Aman -- and it's conceivable Sauron might have recovered it and reforged it into a crown again.

I'm not real sold on this explanation, but it is at least possible. Still, the Crown was never indicated to possess any extraordinary power -- it wasn't Morgoth's equivalent of the One Ring or anything (per Tolkien, all of Arda was effectively Morgoth's Ring).

The crown was made of unbreakable iron. Not mithril. Iron. Iron isn't that hard if it's normal, so it's safe to say that it had some kind of power in it. It took a magical knife that could cut through anything to remove one tine of the crown to get the silmaril and the magical knife broke in the process.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Maybe it just doesn't make sense to you.

Does it make sense to you? Do you have answers for all of @Maxperson 's points of contention? Or is it that none of them matter to you? That's what it looks like from here when folks defend the show from these concerns: that it's Rule of Cool fantasy, so how and why don't matter.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The crown was made of unbreakable iron. Not mithril. Iron. Iron isn't that hard if it's normal, so it's safe to say that it had some kind of power in it. It took a magical knife that could cut through anything to remove one tine of the crown to get the silmaril and the magical knife broke in the process.

Pretty soft in fact. It didn’t look rusty either, which you would expect of an old (non-magical) iron crown!

 

[Maxperson]

Does it make sense to you? Do you have answers for all of @Maxperson 's points of contention? Or is it that none of them matter to you? That's what it looks like from here when folks defend the show from these concerns: that it's Rule of Cool fantasy, so how and why don't matter.

Whoever you are talking to has me blocked, so you might want to bring up any points of mine that you want that person to know.

 

[Eric V]

Does it make sense to you? Do you have answers for all of @Maxperson 's points of contention? Or is it that none of them matter to you? That's what it looks like from here when folks defend the show from these concerns: that it's Rule of Cool fantasy, so how and why don't matter.

I have him blocked, so I don't know what his points of contention are.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I have him blocked, so I don't know what his points of contention are.

He just told me. It's quite a list, so I'll have to get back to you. Any thoughts on my general point?