Same, seeing Numenor was freakin’ awesome. When we first see the glimmer of mithril I was immediately like…the arkenstone!? But I was quickly slapped reminded on Reddit that the arkenstone was found in Erebor / the lonely mountain, while the Durin & Elrond are at Khazad-dûm

Also I just want to point out

I know little and care less about middle earth lore, I can't tell you if the show diverges. I'd expect that plot lines are cut or streamlined, that's fair. Shoving as much social justice pandering and blackwashing as you can into a show is at best disgusting hollywood pandering and at worst cynical manipulation of controversy knowing their product sucks. But truly none of that matters compared to the fact the show is just garbage. Unbelievably bad writing in places, generally bad structure and direction. Scenes that miss all their beats and fail to build tension and suspend disbelief.

Even with the overuse of CGI that bogged down return of the king, just contrast how Peter Jackson knew to put characters in a scene and have them behave in understandable ways you could empathize with and be consistent with the universe and people's physical limitations;



That's how you build tension in a battle scene in which a strong female protagonist saves the day. Not by shoving female empowerment down people's throats, by showing someone who is physically outmatched, clearly desperate and afraid, but triumphs over it through bravery and luck. Her biggest physical feat is a simple dodge and two hacking slashes, not some unbelievable feat of gymnastics. And mind you LotR was already suffering from some of Hollywood's earliest excesses of that (legolas-on-a-shield). There's nothing in the scene that a normal human couldn't reasonably do in the right circumstances. Meanwhile the Rangs of Powah starts out with she-man using the master of the universe powers to somehow climb ice with a sword even though that makes zero sense and defies the laws of physics, while elves freeze in violation of established universe canon, and then transforms into bayonetta and flips around a troll for a combo kill even though fellowship of the ring made a battle with a troll a climatic task for an entire group of well equipped heroes.

I watched enough to see that scene where an orc offers a guy water. He awkwardly looks at it. Beat. He awkwardly takes it and sips a drink. Beat. He offers it to another guy. Beat. Finally, after 60 whole seconds (I checked), it finally has him kill him with an absurd instant emotional shift with a slow motion and muffled sound death scene of a character we just got introduced to minutes earlier, with a chorus of over the top emotional chanting and reaction shots (and bad anatomy, a slit jugular is going to be messy). Some random ass elf who I didn't even bother to look up the name of, gets more death pageantry than boromir did. Calling it an un-earned moment is as much an understatement as that director's choices are an overstatement. And that's not even close to the worst of that shitshow

This post was edited by Goomshill on Sep 20 2022 09:30pm

Makes sense. It's preachy and unfunny.

I was the exact same. thought it was from Moria and thought it was the arkenstone, was glad i was wrong. mithril is bad ass enough, and its needed to create Galadriel's ring. presumably elrond takes some back with him.

So far woman king made around 22.5 million at the box office and it's production value was 50million.

Typically movies need to make around 50% of production value in the first week to break even. So not a complete flop but idk if it'll break even in the long term.



https://www.thefilmik.com/is-the-woman-king-hit-or-flop-hows-the-sony-pictures-the-woman-king-performed-at-box-office/

Dude looks like Voldemort ROFL

I think it’s hilarious and very spot-on. You along with those newspapers just can’t handle the truth.