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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 9474840" data-attributes="member: 7024893">So my girlfriend insisted to watch the remaining episodes. Were now done with Season 2. It might be some of the worst television I've watched.Season 1 felt soulless but inoffensive. Some major departures from the lore immediately killed the show for me, but I was able to non-chalantly cruise through it.Season 2 has a bit more personality, but it's so, so bad. The writing is absolutely atrocious. You can guess the characters line before they come, the punchlines are so bad. And they're unable to build anything with any emotional charge without winking a Jackson's work.It's really bad. And it's not not lore accurate. It's actively going against so many lore elements that made these stories so interesting in the first place. Tolkien's work has a poetry to it. This feels like a room of kids writing poetry for the first time.I'll give the show some credit. I abhor the final product, but it's obvious lots of love went into many aspects of the show.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The music is great.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I love the costumes and the visual quality.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some actors are really strong, especially with the text they have to work with. Elrond, Durin (King), Celebrimbor especially. I was unconvinced by the actor of Sauron in the first season, but he played the fine line of Sauron's role exceptionally well. I'm still unsure if he enjoyed his time with Celebrimbor or was just manipulating him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I like Sauron's depiction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I dislike the new Adar's actor, but I like the character.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The opening sequence is lovely.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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