Spoilers Rings of Power is back!

[Morrus]

That Time Sauron Got Reincarnated As A Slime.

Honestly, give me a whole season of the Istari and the hobbits. The rest is okay, but I'd happily watch whole episodes of their journeys.

Oh the Sauron bits are the bits I'm enjoying! The hobbit plot line, nothing seems to happen except they walk a bit.

 

[Morrus]

Episode 3... Spiders!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Oh the Sauron bits are the bits I'm enjoying! The hobbit plot line, nothing seems to happen except they walk a bit.

That happens a lot in the book too…

 

[reelo]

I did not like how they are portraying Sauron, especially during that beginning sequence.

Sauron was an absolutely powerful entity, even at the end of the 1st Age. He wasn't called "the Necromancer" for nothing, he could weave magic and shapeshift into giant bats and wolves at will and probably wouldn't have needed co firmation/coronation by mere Orcs.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This series depowers Sauron a lot, but with the intention of having him win by smarts. Which from the point of view of telling an interesting story is better.

Just need to let go of the idea of being faithful to Tolkien’s vision. He never set out to write an entertaining TV show.

 

[MarkB]

Sauron was an absolutely powerful entity, even at the end of the 1st Age. He wasn't called "the Necromancer" for nothing, he could weave magic and shapeshift into giant bats and wolves at will and probably wouldn't have needed co firmation/coronation by mere Orcs.

The first time I saw that crown, my immediate thought was "Somebody's getting stabbed with that thing."

 

[Parmandur]

This series depowers Sauron a lot, but with the intention of having him win by smarts. Which from the point of view of telling an interesting story is better.

Just need to let go of the idea of being faithful to Tolkien’s vision. He never set out to write an entertaining TV show.

It's fan-fiction, and that's perfectly fine with me. It's actually impressive that theybare making a largely original Fantasy story for TV.

 

[NotAYakk]

Sauron is a recently recovered Maiar. Gandalf is a Maiar recently incorporated.

I'm loving the "As an angelic being, I don't know how to operate as in an approximation of a mortal body. I don't even know how mortal-like minds work" approach.

Imagine downloading a human being into an ant's body: there isn't enough brain to store our thoughts. Sure, you can cheat (give it "enhancements" - in SF, you'd imagine a tiny supercomputer to boost its brain power), but it is an ant, the form factor puts serious limits on how much cheating you can do.

So the Wizards don't fit in their (mortal-ish) bodies.

I also wonder how much of the "I don't really fit in a mortal body" impacts Sauron. There is the injuries and defeat and his recovery from them as another explanation, plus the fact he's sort of hiding.

 

[Rabulias]

I think they are leading the viewers to think the Stranger is Gandalf, but I think it's not him. Poppy and Nori even talk about him needing to find a "gand" (wand) to better control his power, but that seems too obvious to me.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Imma wait for the whole season to drop... enjoying Man in the High Castle in the meantime.