Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

[The Soloist]

When did they first mention that was Morgoths Crown, as this episode is the first I recall!!
Understand now why it turned Sauron into a puddle of mush!

In the episode where Sauron gets backstabbed by the crown, I assumed it was Morgoth's. I wasn't shocked it almost killed Sauron. Made sense to me.

 

[Zaukrie]

Do non fans know who morgoth is? In any event, I'm so bored with the numenorians.... And yet they are getting half the screen time. The hobbit story just gets interesting, and they basically leave it. Overall, I enjoy it, but it's not emphasizing what I'd like. Which, cool, I'm just one guy.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Do non fans know who morgoth is

I would have thought he had been mentioned often enough by now.

 

[TheSword]

I’m enjoying the corruption of Celebrimbor.

A clever, talented and essentially good elven lord is tempted and decieved. His kingdom falling in ruins around him as he pours more and more of himself into the rings.

He’s basically being gaslit by Sauron the deceiver who is exploiting Celebrimbors deep optimism and intense desire to craft something meaningful. First isolating him from Lindon before finally isolating him from his own people.

 

[TheSword]

Do non fans know who morgoth is? In any event, I'm so bored with the numenorians.... And yet they are getting half the screen time. The hobbit story just gets interesting, and they basically leave it. Overall, I enjoy it, but it's not emphasizing what I'd like. Which, cool, I'm just one guy.

Anybody who knows the material enough to be perturbed by Sauron being killed by the orcs knows who Morgoth is.

 

[MarkB]

I’m enjoying the corruption of Celebrimbor.

A clever, talented and essentially good elven lord is tempted and decieved. His kingdom falling in ruins around him as he pours more and more of himself into the rings.

He’s basically being gaslit by Sauron the deceiver who is exploiting Celebrimbors deep optimism and intense desire to craft something meaningful. First isolating him from Lindon before finally isolating him from his own people.

Sauron also seemed to be having a bit of a fourth-wall-breaking dig at The Silmarillion this week, with his bit about the Silmarils being seen as barely a footnote in history compared to the Rings of Power.

That last shot of him looking out over his carefully-crafted chaos and spreading his arms did feel the most truly Sauron he's been in two seasons.

 

[Zaukrie]

Season one was lots of fights and adventures. Season 2 has been a slow burn of drama. I wonder which people like better (not the trolls, so I can't really look on line to see)?

 

[Dire Bare]

Overall, it seems that critical reaction to Season 2 is higher, but ratings are lower.

Personally, I have enjoyed both seasons so far. It's a great show. Pacing in Season 2 is a bit off, but not enough to derail my enjoyment of the story.

 

[ART!]

Overall, it seems that critical reaction to Season 2 is higher, but ratings are lower.

Personally, I have enjoyed both seasons so far. It's a great show. Pacing in Season 2 is a bit off, but not enough to derail my enjoyment of the story.

My understanding is that at least among the earlier episodes this season, some content was moved from one episode to another, after the filming was complete. This might be the reason many episodes have two directors listed.

As much as I'm enjoying the show, I think it has both too many characters and too few. There are half a dozen storylines, and some of the main characters have strong connections to others, but others have almost none. Durin has Disa, his father, and Elrond. The Stranger and Nori have each other.

Celebrimbor has no one. He interacts with other characters, but has no strong bonds to any of them. He barely interacts with the smiths working under him, who mostly don't even have any lines. This is probably an intentional way to make him isolated and susceptible, but part of me wishes he had someone close to him who was affected by Sauron's abuse of him.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My understanding is that at least among the earlier episodes this season, some content was moved from one episode to another, after the filming was complete. This might be the reason many episodes have two directors listed.

As much as I'm enjoying the show, I think it has both too many characters and too few. There are half a dozen storylines, and some of the main characters have strong connections to others, but others have almost none. Durin has Disa, his father, and Elrond. The Stranger and Nori have each other.

Celebrimbor has no one. He interacts with other characters, but has no strong bonds to any of them. He barely interacts with the smiths working under him, who mostly don't even have any lines. This is probably an intentional way to make him isolated and susceptible, but part of me wishes he had someone close to him who was affected by Sauron's abuse of him.

Celebrimbor having only two people speaking to him (and a third, the guard, last night) to me smacks of the production not wanting to pay the higher rate for actors who speak on the production. It's a trick you see in a lot of shows that are trying to trim the budget here and there.

I recently binged Moonlighting and the Blue Moon Detective Agency has more than a dozen employees (most of whom do nothing) and other than the characters you know the names of, there's one other staff member who gets to speak on a regular basis (serving as a rival to Herbert Viola), even though some of the other cast members are in nearly every episode for the show's entire run.