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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9474418" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>I thought it was a strong finale overall.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I confess to being disappointed that the Stranger isn't a Blue Wizard. When the Dark Wizard started monologuing (and those poor raiders got gaslighted to their face, which was rough), I figured the reveal was that they were the two Blue Wizards of Rhun, who otherwise are a footnote of a footnote in The Lord of the Rings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I like angry proud Galadriel. I'm glad to see her back. Just because she wears nice dresses and hangs out in a cool tree house in the Third Age, that doesn't have to mean she's a passive figure. Casually mentioning that she's killed more orcs than anyone in  history was suitably epic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Although I look forward to seeing some of these jerks get turned into ringwraiths, I'm sick of the humans. Numenor feels claustrophobic, but not in an artistic way, but in a "this is where we're going to save on our budget" kind of way. And everyone but Isildur is insufferable.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This whole season has been too eager to cleverly drop in big lines from the movies or the books. Sauron being called "the Lord ... of the Rings" didn't even make much sense narratively with what had come before in that speech, and is a bit too much like latter-day The Walking Dead, where characters kept announcing that the living humans were, in fact, the walking dead, just in case anyone at home hadn't figured that out in the first season.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All the dwarf stuff was awesome and I liked that, even as that storyline wrapped up, we suddenly had a whole bunch of new plot lines dropped on us there. Some quality DMing there.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I hope next season we hear a little more about what Sauron said to convince the orcs to turn so definitively on Adar, whom I'm sorry to see go. At least Glug had a half-second of realization before the end of what a mistake he'd made.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally, I'm glad to see that our hero characters who all know how dangerous the rings are have rational reasons to use them, even if they're scared of their effects. The rings should be seductive: "oh, yes, it's dangerous, but you're strong and wise and can resist me, and look at all the good you can do with my power ..."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's going to be quite a tonal shift to scatalogical humor with Vox Machina on Thursday nights.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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