I think they try to explain the Galadriel stuff by saying that once Sauron has deceived her she's never the same near him.
Finally finished S2. Good to see some actual action and battle sequences amidst the generally slow s1 and S2 (particularly harfoots / the visitor). Those tuscan raider looking guys really looks like a rip off of star wars and woefully out of place.
Wouldn't surprise me. From what I've read they were hesitant to greenlight another season. Viewership tanked for season 2.
I really enjoyed season 2 and would take as much as they give me, but I am fine with them stopping it too.
Yea I thought season 2 was fantastic. Season 1 just took way too long to get going and it probably turned off too many people. As long as we get an end to the series, I’m good with it
I think this is the downfall of the show. I think they relied too heavily on people being content with watching something from the Tolkein universe that they forgot to ask "is this good?"
Also I agree with what’s been said, you could eliminate all of the hobbit stuff and the show would be better
I'm not completely against the Hobbit storyline but it's been poorly done for the most part and probably should have been scrapped for last season after the poor S1 performance. so much of what happens in the SA is just about the Elves (and Numenoreans) against Sauron. it's for this reason I think the Dwarf storyline is essentially on-par with the Hobbit one, they're genuinely not relevant when it comes to Sauron and his rise to power so they've gone way off-track with the lore like what happened in GoT and you just get garbage. this should have been mostly about the Elves and then they could have spent a lot more time with Numenor instead of the rush job we'll inevitably get. you could have still included Durin occasionally but just as a friend of Elrond, not someone who needed a full storyline. the Hobbit stuff in S1 is fine and so they get scared of the Stranger and boot him out and Nori goes with them but she befriends the Stranger and later dies and there, now everyone understands why Gandalf treats Hobbits so special. I guess the benefit of not a lot of episodes is we don't get even more awful writing with those storylines but the downside of so few episodes is no storyline has enough time to breathe and develop either.
I mostly agree about how they handled the Dwarves. But I liked the mithril/Balrog and the Durin’s Ring story lines because they link to the 3rd Age stories beginning with The Hobbit. King Thrain possessed that ring in the period that The Hobbit book was set in and he succumbed to the same lust for wealth that King Durin did. Of course the writers didn’t HAVE to go there, but I liked it.
Isn’t the lore regarding the dwarves was that the rings didn’t have much effect on them? Seems they went way away from that for no reason at all. You could have had the Balrog storyline without doing all of that