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I'll be really disappointed if Arondir is really dead, but I suspect the showrunners know he's an important presence on the show. I would have to go back and watch every episode this season again to be sure, but feels like the best, most solid, focused episode this season. I think it was really...

Looking forward to the new ep when I get home tonight! Very curious to see how this season ends...

I've mentioned this on these forums before, but I've been playing a thri-kreen battle-master fighter, using the 2024 playtest and now the official 2024 rules, and I have to say it's a bit of a nightmare. I know this an edge-case, but 3 weapon properties, 5 manuevers now, plus action surge...

Yeah, one can definitely get too far up one's own you-know-what with art criticism. It can be easy to miss the forest for the trees. I've been to art exhibit openings where the juror(s) will talk about why they chose the award-winners, and sometimes it's work that is technically proficient, but...

So...to be fair and not insulting I should read everyone's opinions and research? Not really following you here. I'll agree that the show has problems, and there have been a lot of little things that have been headscratchers, but not enough to ruin anything for me - or drive me to spend my time...

Would detailed criticism of the articles be seen by those who like the articles as just as nitpicky as those who say the articles are nitpicky? Would we then enter a recursive nitpicking loop? Would this be unusual? ;)

This, 1000% I read less than half of the first article and realized it was going to be a waste of time. I'm sure there's valid points in there, but just because there's water in mud doesn't mean I'm going to drink the mud if there's perfectly fine water (more balanced analyses) to be drunk.

It bothered me, but not enough to ruin anything. Like Aragorn in FOTR swinging a sword that clearly hits nobody yet 3 orcs fall down.

Regarding comparisons of the budget of the LOTR movies vs of RoP: 1. I don't know if the figures used have been adjusted for inflation. 2. It's worth mentioning that one of the reasons those movies gone greenlit at all was because Jackson's budget proposal was relatively low for 3 tentpole...

I try to remind myself that opinion and art criticism are two very different things. The latter requires an understanding of the media in question, craft/technique, context, history, etc. Opinions use "I like" and "I don't like" (or if online: "X is great" or "X is crap)", which are phrases that...

It would be interesting to compare the number of storylines in RoP with those in GoT, and how the two shows approach balancing them. I can't think of any other shows that have so many characters so far apart and with such (relatively) disconnected storylines.

Mostly I'm just envious of the time this person seems to have on their hands.

Can't argue with that. Conceptually it doesn't bother me, but I think the shows execution of the idea was clumsy. This is niggling, but certain Maiar were recruited as the Istari (your phrasing makes it sound like all the Maiar were). This timing doesn't bother me - it feels like a difference...

His music is one of my favorite things about the show. His character and location themes are unbelievably good, IMHO.

Yes and no - they have access to all of LOTR, but are mostly using just the Appendices. They have also negotiated use of non-LOTR material here and there.

I wonder if the Mithril thing was an attempt to show in a more clear-cut way one of the reasons the rings are as powerful as they are. Technically, Tolkien never said there weren't Istari in Middle-earth in the 2nd Age... ;) Why wouldn't there be Barrow Wights lots of places? What do you not...

Or the movies, shows, etc are a version of the stories told by X character to Y audience in location Z in year QQQQ of the Nth Age.

I'm feeling kind of the opposite: I mostly really liked the 1st season, and I'm finding this season a little lifeless. Can someone tell me how the elves didn't know an army was massing on the other side of the hill across the river?

Maybe Adar just thinks it's the real deal? Or is selling snake oil?

Nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole.