Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 21 2022 01:23pm)
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;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWEbd0hKN4That'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
Galadrial is about as close to being a god as a mortal (kind of since she is immortal still) can get, she is a pure blood noble high elf born in valinor and about equal to a balrog in strength, she SHOULD be stomping on anything she fights short of sauron, a nazgul (which do not exist until the 9 rings are given to human kings) a dragon or a balrog, anything else in middle earth is nothing to galadrial, gil galad, glorfindel, fingolfin and the other elven lords.
The elves that fight in lord of the rings are not even close to this level, glorfindel shows up in the novels and chases off 7 ring wraiths at once, other than that no real elven lords are involved since all that remain are either withdrawn from the world like galadrial, dead, or have already returned home to valinor.
There is two remaining lords of the noldor in middle earth at the time of lotr, galadrial and glorfindel and glorfindel died and was reborn like gandalf, galadrial had lived in middle earth since morgoth and ungoliath killed the great trees in the first age.
From People of Middle-earth, The Shibboleth of Fëanor:
“Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years.”
Feanor fought all of the balrogs of middle earth 12 v 1 and died to the lord of all balrogs in a multiple hour long battle.
Did you not get the hint of how powerful she was when frodo offered her the one ring and she pretty much admitted she would become a dark queen and rule the world with an iron fist?
This post was edited by Plaguefear on Sep 22 2022 12:26am