An epic drama set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , following the rise and fall of kingdoms and heroes in Middle-earth.
Season 2 airs Aug 29th on Prime Video
I’m through the first three episodes of season two. I do like this series, and the last couple of episodes seemed like they moved along a little more quickly for me than what I experienced watching through season one and episode 1 of this season.
I am trying to figure out why sometimes the episodes just feel like they’re so looooooong. My guess is that I need characters I care about having legitimate problems. Meaning, when I see that Isildur is being attacked by giant spiders, it’s exciting and stuff, but I am fully aware that Isildur is not going to die.
I think that with 50 hours of story to tell us, they could have taken big chances with the source material and created a whole bunch of stories and characters who don’t exist anywhere. I know they created a couple, but I’m talking about creating full blown likeable characters we get invested in, and then put THOSE characters in peril.
Just stretching out the story we already know over five seasons will be pretty to look at and interesting, but it would be a lot more interesting as a stand alone TV series with some stuff happening that is unexpected.
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Based on the first three episodes, the angst of Galadriel, and the same with Elrond, is too drawn out to the point of almost ‘yawn’. Yes, I’m happy they’re actually now going to ‘do’ something but it took three episodes to make it happen. The messenger not reaching Celebrimbor was so contrived I (and anyone with more than two braincells to rub together) saw that coming a mile off and I actually scoffed with laughter when it did.
The ‘wizard’ plotline, I want to be invested in but so far I’m kinda ‘give.me.more please’, to really get my teeth into. Stop with the titillation and feeding us teeny tiny morsels at a time, there was more than enough of that in season 1.
I’m finding Sauron’s plotline and scenes a lot more interesting and dynamic.
Second to that is the dwarven story, along with the Isildur, and the Queen, stories, which provide enough entertainment and intrigue to keep you wanting more without coming across like they’re deliberately moving at a slow pace.
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That is exactly my point! I get that they’re working with a story that has to get to where it’s going, but how about giving me some stories within the story to make individual episodes engaging?
There are so many good examples of TV shows where there were overarching season and series long plot lines, yet each individual episode had a start, middle, and end.
Off the top of my head would be Battlestar Galactica. We knew where they were going (no comment on them actually getting there at the end) but there were great episodes about things that happened along the way. Which is in line with what I said about adding some likeable disposable characters. LotR has some outstanding bad guys. Let’s create some people for them to kill.
Take all of this great universe and make up some stories as opposed to just dragging out the main story to be 50 hours long.
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