The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: The Rings of Power EPISODE 7 "The Eye" - REVIEW!

Episode Date: October 7, 2022

RELEASE THE BALROG!! Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power 1x7 Reaction, Breakdown, Recap, & Review today featuring Elrond & Durin reaching a fateful decision regarding mithril, The Giant bringing new life to the Harfoots, Galadriel & Theo evading Orcs, Isildur trapped in a fiery inferno, and the formation of Mordor from the newly awakened Mount Doom... #TheRingsOfPower #LordOfTheRings #LordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower #AmazonPrime #PrimeVideo Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions + RINGS OF POWER Watch Alongs! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Support The Channel By Checking Out Our High-Quality Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcast listeners of the Reject Nation, we are here to watch the Rings of Power episode seven. John, how do you say it in Spanish? Ciette. Ciette, more the fuck. We'll make this the best odd-numbered episode yet. Let's get into it. Dove. Dope.

Damn. I guess they earned that. That was quiet. Yeah, I'll give it to him. That was quite. quite ominous just mount doom looming in the distance real stylistic choice to change the text like that yeah buddy that's what's going to happen in episode eight is uh you know adar and his gang are going to find isildor isilder is you never forgot about that

ball rock it's where you play ballrog showdown dude yeah the whole episode is going to be one big fight between dur and the ball rock yeah this is a good one this good one of the better odd number episodes maybe the best maybe the best odd numbered episode no i mean there's it's starting to click for me of what's going on with this show and the structure of it like this is very much the um the end of act to the dark night of the soul after the mordor erupted they gave life to Mordor and then bam you're they all is lost and everyone's like oh my god you know and then yeah like oh Ron you can't have me throw and everyone's all disheartened by the

events of what happens lives were lost they ultimately lost and then now we're in the dark night of the soul before we get into our big finale whatever that might be but a lot of ways this dark night of the soul played like a season finale which I thought was a little surprising because it seemed like

the way they were ending a lot of these storylines we'll see you next season I'll see you next season. I'm like who's going to be the focus of the next episode is this going to be like a complete shift in who you're following or I don't know like this from here where I'm sitting this

feels like it's going to be one of those scenes where it's like okay so the penultimate episodes are the ones with all the battling and then the final episode is like all the sort of political and emotional set up for the future yeah I mean there's still definitely other points

you could end on. I feel like they're at least somewhat good at giving you reversals as of the past few episodes, giving you like either a major triumph or a major defeat and then showing you like, oh, no, no, no, no, something even bigger is about to happen that you didn't

count on. I don't really know exactly what could be bigger than the eruption of Mount Doom and the formation of the earliest stages of Mordor. But you never know. It's probably going to be Harfoot heavy. Sure. They got to go find the big man. got to find the big man stopping from the white men

white androgynous people yeah aliens from from dren from splice and what the hell are they that's a great question i mean they certainly wreak of necromancy yeah necromancy and evil i mean they as much as everyone's like i don't think that's sauron i'm like this this gave total sauron vibes sauron could totally be disguised as as an m-and-m Well, that plot line seems so separate from the rest. Well, yeah, I mean, they're just kind of observing and collecting, and, yeah, we don't really, I like them because we don't know much about them, although, you know, we've only seen, like, two or three times. I don't get how they move. Yeah, they're like teleport and glide and stuff.

Yeah, never see anything like that. They're magical or something. They got dark magic on their side. use one of those Harry Potter what are they this? Yeah, he's like pork keys. Pork keys. Kett is littered with pork keys. They just apparate everywhere. I have no idea

what how that's going to connect to the main plot because every plot line seemed like it came together and I thought this would be the episode where the Harfoot storyline came together. You know they had the whole thing with the the land being destroyed by some volcanic rock because new evil came to rise and like okay yeah they're kind of within the geography sort of they're getting close to there but maybe in the next episode that's when it all finally connects because i don't really know how you do a full season wrap up

like a season one wrap up on this and it feels like it might and like a lord of the rigs movie You're like, there's more to tell. And I'm curious, the heartfeits are fine to me. They fluctuate in terms of enjoyment. Because I like, I like Nori overall.

And even the speech itself from the dad, I thought was a nice speech, which I thought might have been a little bit more profound. I thought he was setting up for something like. Oh, fuck yeah. Like, I know there's grief.

And we got to, you know, deal with that. Yes. Here's what makes the Hartfoot special. Here's how we rise above that and use that to our advantage. What makes us better than the thing we got over every other creature in Middle Earth is we stay true to ourselves. We know who we are and we take care of each other. No other creature does live with us. Nobody's got community but us Hartfoot's.

We're better than everyone else on that. And we have bonds of family and friendship. We know we're doing. Yes, of all the speeches It certainly did not quite live up to everybody else's philosophical speeches at all humans. That's a harfoo way, simplicity.

I mean, yeah, it's the chillest of all the philosophical speeches, which is very in tune with the hardfuss. I guess that would have to be it, though. Maybe that is one of the main ways they will have the finale kind of separate itself is that they will finally be the last thread to,

intersect with the main plot you know i thought that um the storyline with elron and durin was still very very strong um like that's where all the biggest emotions come from and the wonder and i did like the ballrog reveal at the at the end of ah man they because i like the complexity of it because i think they've dealt a lot with wonderful complexities like with durin and durin of how they were budding heads over the direction they should be going with the kingdom and how to treat their allies, but then also unpacking Duran being like, you know, you just, if it doesn't originate from you, and what's the point of doing this? And I like that he was finally standing up for himself in that regard and the way how they're both that stubbornness and also that metaphor drawn of rock and fire,

because it is a good symbolic representation of what they are. And it was kind of like watching a rocket fire fight each other. Yeah, literally. Like, I got all the passion, and I am a bit of a blockhead. I have set in my ways. Yeah. So I thought that was a great argument between them. And then to find out that, because he's like, seal up that whole, no one's getting this me through.

And then to find out like, oh, there's actually like something really fucking evil. Yeah, maybe he's got a point. Keep it hidden. But they don't even know about that probably. No, no, surely not. And it'll take a while maybe to get all the way down. Then again, rock and fire. Break into the rock.

What do you find? Fire. The ultimate. Yeah, fire personified. Yeah, it was good metaphors being drawn. I like Theo and Galadriel bonding with each other. in a mournful state and how she can inspire like that was a time where you know it's like she's kind of like humbled herself down here where because she's so dispirited she's weirdly just kind of melancholic and calm and allow and is able to just sort of be because she's devastated she can also be emotionally sound simultaneously that kind of weird thing when the storm calms down within you

It's that sobering, yeah. Yeah, so I think that side, we got to actually see some of the more wisdom side of Galadriel. Yeah. Which I thought was nice. So there was a lot of good scenes here. I couldn't use the big death.

Especially after a thing like that. I could use the big death. Yeah, because the only, you mainly get the Seilder, who we absolutely know, cannot be dead. He's like, of all the characters. He's the one where you're like, they're faking us out with the one dude we know

is going to be so important down the line. They killed off the other guy who they're like, make him really likable. Yeah. By having him be kind of funny. Make him be the... He's the my girl back home guy. Aw, he didn't mean to be here.

He just wanted to be with his friends. But he was likable because he was funny. He was good, hard until the end. And now he's the one we got to rally for, you know. That's cost enough. Him. He's the face of everyone who died. this battle. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of plot armor going on. It's like, oh, good.

Everybody, all the important cast members made it. You know, Hallbrand got stabbed and stuff, and the wounds infected, that's bad. But otherwise, you know. They try to do, like, a big thing at the end would like. Brownwind's alive. The Harndare's alive. Everyone made it. Hallbrand's alive. We're all alive. Queen Regent, though, being blind and I like that it's motivating her. And I think they're going to do some, like, oh, her visions are going to get enhanced now. Now I can really see.

My eyes held me back. Yeah, it's going to be one of those things. You can feel it coming. Or she's going to be some blind joke. Walking in the walls. Give it speeches. Commander. Where'd you go?

That is not a toilet to my Queen Regent. You are in front of the entire court. cover your shape yeah it's going to be hilarious we needed some more humor in the show we needed some physical comedy is what this show's like we need some mr magoo gags that's what the lord of the rings is but yeah no no i i like that for her character there was a like i i like the way they played that and i even like the idea of having it be like oh yeah we don't see our endear and we don't see ronwin for a while and they're like you know know they distribute the focus around so that at least you can feel from certain

characters perspective that distance of like okay the battle is ended but I don't know where everybody wound up and like I thought through Ellen Elendiel that's a Sildare's father that's what I'm finding right now John I believe yeah like through him like I liked the way they played it in the characters like I thought this episode had a decent amount of emotionality, even in characters who don't typically get it, even if it's not even in the most, you know, expressive of ways. You know, like Galadriel is still pretty, you know, very steady of presence and trying not to use the word stoic all the time. But even beyond that, you know, like I got some hints of that. And I

really do, like, it's weird. It's my favorite performance of hers in this one. Yeah, absolutely. And, like, even the stuff about, at first, I almost expected a pang of, like, oh, here we go. Like, you know, have you lost anybody? And it's like, oh, yeah, let's ring the bell of my brother and my husband. But even that stuff, like, for as much as some of that can feel. Have she talked about her husband before? Maybe a little.

He never seems motivated to avenge his death. No. No, especially after leaving off with him, like, criticizing his heart. He started his own family. he's sauron he's oh damn what if he is who has my armor

no sense but it would be cool do I look like a crab in my armor now saron existed before he went off to you know hey man his plan morgoth is a crazy dude

all right he had a lot of big plans but uh yeah I mean even even those things that I expected to be like you know like her backstory with those details like it's not altogether

super different from various other characters in this position I lost a family member or a spouse vital to me and that drives me but even as such like I thought yeah the performance combined with especially the back and like I thought it was a really yeah wise choice to

pair her off with Theo who needs you know some sort of guidance but also reassurance and who is in sort of this fragile state where he could easily like slip to dark side. Although there are two characters who would probably feel the most responsible given the situation.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's very, and it's nice. I liked, too, them having to kind of, I love the whole like waking up in the, you know, rubble and that long shot and then them, you know, eventually finding each other and having to hide out, you know, like in the

first movie, as the orcs just stopped to admire the ashes everywhere. But yeah, no, I mean, generally i i like this quite a bit and was pretty thrilled and i felt the general sort of collective stakes i feel like it bodes well for the future still yeah it wasn't maybe like a 100 percent dunk but like this is still pretty solid as far as well it's the first episode i think where they

actually cut around to many storylines that didn't feel disjointed and still flowed really well into each of them instead of they're being like there's one story with the wisdom one story with the touching character moments one story with the big plot it's like everybody got a bit of everything yeah no and it would make sense that this would be a bit of a dower episode sure does yeah the way structurally it tends to work and i thought they did a really really great like i really like the first chunk of the episode in the inferno because like especially watching the way they realize that I was like this does feel infernal like this feels very immediate and very oppressive and you can feel the heat and how hard it must be to breathe and watching them scramble and try and you know sift through this rubble and pull out any survivors and watching is like I think it's easy to forget how you know the physics of fire and flame can work when you're so far removed so like you know things can sort of cause many explosions and stuff like that and

And, like, the intensity, I think, is, I don't know, like, there's something I wasn't necessarily expecting. It's, like, in a similar vein to how, like, they've kind of up the gore factor on this show. They've also kind of up to the sort of, I don't know, you really feel like you're there when there is destruction and when there is, you know, wanton loss and slaughter, you know, and, yeah, like it feels for the giving rise to Mordor, like it feels appropriately hellish. you know throughout and then yeah like all the tones that follow that you know feel pretty natural yeah i have a prediction for what's going to go on the next episode right check us out let's do that's that guys so the harfuts are looking for the big man yes and then suddenly uh they get jumped by those uh weird creepy alien guys and then uh and the big man shows up strikes one of them down but the other two are coming of the alien people then he looks to he looks to the

harfoot's and goes fly you fools yeah then he falls into some kind of ravine with the other two is that we're going to know we're going to know who he is him he only learned a couple words centuries his catchphrase full of a hard foot I can't wait. It's going to be so good, dude. And then he's going to immediately return at the very end of the episode, like, hey, I'm back. I got my white outfit now. Let's do this.

Let's go fight Saurah. It'd be great. Oh, yeah, because right now, what, he's like brown. That's right. I'm getting ahead of myself. Be Radicus the brown. Hey, I mean, he seems to be communing with the earth. And, you know, we haven't.

Plant life. Have we ever seen Radicus? Not here and now. I mean, this is well before him, I think. We'll see about that. But this could be proto-radigast the Brown. Radicus the Brown. I used to feel Radicus the Brown.

R-A-D-A-G-A-S-T, I think. Radagast. Yeah, you know. That's right. Radigest was in the Hobbit. Hobbit films, yeah. He had bird poop all over his head. Best character.

That's why I remember right away. A bunch of great woodland creatures helping him out, you know. He was in the little Disney corner of the forest. I do think it's weird. It's not that kind of show, but I do feel like maybe somebody important ought to have died. Yeah, man. Just to drive home.

Because they do make a lot out of the sort of like, oh, certain characters we haven't seen it. I don't know who's going to have made it. And they're playing that up from both our perspective and certain characters' perspective. So I feel like that could have lent itself. And I would love to be. none of these people are really sour on

none of them i mean at this point i feel like it's just as you know there if this is a five season show ostensibly i feel like the odds are just as good we haven't met them yet you know um yeah

oh i like the wife of jurn a lot man disa man she is a mvp and also the uh who's the what's the name of the hobbit leaders arfa leaders oh golly what is that guy's name uh whatever he's good he's like i like him rise it's a good occasion oh yeah he's waited for his wife to give him mortars finally help out all right all right come on you damn kids

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