The Reel Rejects - THE RINGS OF POWER 2x03 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:35 It's only number two in the U.S. Ladies and gentlemen, what? What did you guys think about the Rings of Power season two, episode three? John. That's me. I know you're itching to talk. Always. Cannot wait.

Starting point is 00:01:54 I know you're itching. go uh yeah as a three part in totality the three episodes we've seen uh i'm enjoying this this is good i feel like they're building on the first season in i mean it's a lot of i feel similarly to a lot of what we've said in the past two episodes like yeah i like the way that they are uh they've like subtly broadened out the tone in that now there are more quiet moments in general across these three episodes there are moments where you get to observe tradition or you get to simply observe action

Starting point is 00:02:29 through body language and I thought to the way that they have tempered a lot of the characters to where they definitely have their core elements that we know from the first season but everybody just feels like a little bit more of like an actual person and I feel like they're being a slightly more naturalistic

Starting point is 00:02:47 in terms of how they capture the performances and in the writing of the characters in general and certainly as we've touched on the previous season had a lot of pontificating and a lot of speech making and stuff like that and I feel like they have almost taken that note and gone in the opposite direction whereas like we're going to

Starting point is 00:03:04 do a little bit more poignance we're going to do a little bit more sort of letting the tone of the moment ring out and then when it does come time for a speech either we're going to hopefully earn that or we're going to subvert that by unrest and various like I thought the whole thing with the queen was a nice turn

Starting point is 00:03:20 of events up until it got to tragedy which is you know good for the drama but you know her preparing to make a speech people calling out cutting the speech off then her getting to actually earn a better kind of speech you know yeah i just feel like they've taken what they set up which you know they had a lot of good pieces assembled for that first season and have now given it a bit more grace in execution yeah what do you think i think that this is much better than the first season. I agree.

Starting point is 00:03:55 By a lot. By a while. I do. I'm still not really feeling as much as I'd like to. That's the main thing that I'm kind of hung up on is I'm, it's easy, it's so much easier to pay attention to it. I pay attention to it. I can enjoy it.

Starting point is 00:04:22 And I like, and I can see all the improvements. And I'm, I just keep going like, but why do I still like have a emotional distance in my heart with everything that's kind of happening? Still not quite there. And to me, this was actually my least favorite of the three that we watched. I still liked it. I still thought it had some great moments. I like the Sealed Door stuff a lot.

Starting point is 00:04:48 I like the stuff like the spider. That was really cool. A Seildor as a character, I feel, was way more enjoyable to watch. I like the whole scene when he is lamenting his sorrows about his mom. And that's how it was like his big motivation on life. He wants to do one thing. It's really tragic when you think about how he's going to cut that finger off of Sauron and not throw it into the volcano. It's kind of bummer to know, not a volcano.

Starting point is 00:05:16 I mean Mount Doom is a volcano A lava pit I guess it's a volcano It's inside the tip of the volcano It's just an actual volcano Yeah Mount Doom is it's a mountain with lava inside that's a volcano I guess I guess it's his secret little

Starting point is 00:05:32 Lava store chamber I don't know if there's another word for a lava pot He's in the caldera What a terrible place to have your base A volcano Yeah that's how you know he's that evil What kind of person would would enjoy this.

Starting point is 00:05:47 This is hot and sweating and dirty and sulfur everywhere. Ash. But anyway, to have Tia. To have that tragic element. I do give me your point about the acting. About acting and writing, like more people seem like real characters this time around. And love the horse kicking ass.

Starting point is 00:06:09 That was a great scene. I like that they chose to zero in on that thread of the, the Lord of the Rings. movies and certainly it's more expanded in the books, but I feel like even the movies kind of gave you this idea of like, you know, your horse in this world is more like an actual companion and you have, yeah, the horses in this world especially seem to have just a greater sort of spiritual mental connection with their writers. And so I thought that was a cool element to make a plot thread both through the prologue, but also with Isildore getting jacked and having to go back to the camp and save Barry. Eric. Those are the things that happened, and I agree with you on that. I also did like appreciate the scene between Duren's their sort of amending situations. Like I really like him as a character a lot. And again, there's just something there where I'm just, I'm more there than I was in the last season. I know that much. I'm more there in the heart than I was in the last season. Because I got more appreciation going. going on in the noggin as I'm watching it. Yeah. Whereas I remember my viewing experience last season was I didn't really

Starting point is 00:07:23 have much of an appreciation in my mind other than like technical aspects of it. Whereas here I do see it about the characters. I'm like actually logically finding ways to be like, okay, here's what I'm really appreciating about what they're doing with this character in a sincere way. The one who I fear the most for it. Actually, if there's something I feel for, it would be Calibrimbor

Starting point is 00:07:49 yeah Calibrimbor oh yeah that whole thing whenever he's talking I'm just like man you're breaking my heart dude like

Starting point is 00:07:58 you really seem like you're like I'm doing what I have to do I'm doing the right thing I'm taking a righteous swing yeah my reputation on the line even against my high king

Starting point is 00:08:08 you know not realizing he was doing this with the entire time that actually weirdly it's the least like emotional heavy scene because you know as fielder was talking about

Starting point is 00:08:21 my dead mom and and uh the the dwarves are like our father and son and we're not talking like that's like very direct and everyone's sad shit the O's like my mom dead um and I like um elf guy coming back too that was cool as cool scene

Starting point is 00:08:37 Aaron dear let's go Aaron dear um but when I really feel it is like sometimes I feel like tension um like when like when he was grabbing the horse that's what i mean i could like count the moments where my heart's really in it like like is uh the horse when he's when he has to save his horse um from the people and then uh parts of the scene with the queen and but yeah but every time with calibran war i'm just like oh man dude it's like so much tragedy is coming your way and i feel so bad the poetic irony rings loudly and is a yeah it's a real bummer yeah really connect with my heart

Starting point is 00:09:14 actually does really connect with that storyline. Yeah. So, yeah, like I said, it's still a market improvement in every way to me over the first season by kind of a lot. Yeah. But, you know, I guess like the thing that is really kind of whole, I mean, they cut around to like a lot of different storylines that maybe don't feel as like, like, obviously it's all going to tie together. But at the moment, they kind of, a lot of them feel like a little divorce from each other. Yeah. And you don't really, you know that unity will live.

Starting point is 00:09:44 eventually come in this epic story but you know some i think anything that's usually a little bit really focus on the actual thing at hand about like that involves something with the rings it's like the center the center is a yeah there's like a weird unifying center point because everything is unified by like yes like the rise of sauron or the return of sauron seems to be percolating and imminent and that's something bad for the all of us but there's something I guess maybe some kind of connective tissue

Starting point is 00:10:15 between any of the plot lines beyond that might make them feel a bit more of the same thing or of the same I don't know I kind of get what you mean

Starting point is 00:10:25 and I think it's especially apparent with the new menor stuff with the queen regent and queen

Starting point is 00:10:33 maybe not Farizan all that yeah I think she's been usurped man Miriel and Farazon and all that stuff and that too

Starting point is 00:10:41 is interesting in its own way, but it is the most divorced from, and maybe it's just because it took three episodes to get here. Not that I'm mad about that. I do appreciate like we talked about before. We didn't think a ledger at all. Yeah, they're not cramming everything into every episode, and I think that is

Starting point is 00:10:57 good. I think you should be able to miss things or anticipate things, and it makes the map feel that much bigger, blah, blah. But still, I feel like that plot line has the furthest to go in feeling engaged with everything else and not that that's entirely inappropriate to me because it is a separate

Starting point is 00:11:13 they in the dialogue here even kind of bother to make it feel like it's a separate place from you know the rest of Middle Earth yeah things like that so now we got the trolls thing and the Theo being kidnapped that troll kidnapped yeah we got shit to do so I wonder

Starting point is 00:11:29 who's going to save him I wonder I wonder the errandeer again and he's like you're still not my dad I can see this being a thing where like season one my hope is that by season three maybe could be great like I feel like we've gone from like

Starting point is 00:11:45 this is okay but in a way where it should have been better with season one and then season two we're like all right this is pretty solid like this is pretty decent I'm enjoying this and it's got me feeling yeah it's not like a drastic overhaul but it has me feeling markedly

Starting point is 00:12:00 more positive and more excited to see what comes and then hopefully maybe in season three they can like really nail a stride and make something that truly is as like something that broke not that everything has to be amazingly great you hope everything is but something that I feel like lives up to the

Starting point is 00:12:16 mantle of Lord the Rings you know I feel like the the road this show has to go on is living up to you know the beloved nature that those stories hold both in book and the movies form and I feel like we could get there eventually

Starting point is 00:12:31 dude I it's inspiring to in a way to see a show make an adjustment and like actually improve in a way that doesn't feel like everyone's panicking, you know. It feels like they really sat back and we're like, okay, we've laid the foundation decently enough, but we have a lot to work on. And I feel like they put in the work. Yeah, which is nice, which is cool to see.

Starting point is 00:12:53 And it makes the experience, oddly, feel a bit more alive just creatively. Yeah, that's true. I guess it's more than just the heart. Now it's more about just the heart to me of connecting to it, which I'm sure some of you guy and a lot of you guys evidently really do um and i'm just here to be honest about it and i mean just trying to tend to both camps you know the people who really hate it and the people who like it absolutely trying to please everyone if they would just put uh more heart but not too much heart because you know the books aren't overly schmaltzy so we can't do too much of that and also

Starting point is 00:13:31 so more white people but also more diversed jackson was like heart this shit up i mean he does Peter Jackson does sign the hell out of this. Let's go. Well, and I think, too, because Lord of the Rings, like, directly has this route line of, like, even when you're not with the hobbits, like, the hobbits are so much of the heart of the story, and they are the easiest eyeline because they're the most, for us, just regulars, they are the most regulars-type-vibe people. They're just about living the simple life and having a little, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:01 having their food and festivals and just, you know, community together, Whereas, you know, elves are very lofty and stoic. I think my favorite storyline is the Sauron one, just because of Sauron, but I think it's because that's the one that has what feels like a ticking clock to it, what has a pulse to it, versus the other storylines. They kind of feel like they're more in a reflective period of their storylines right now, or just starting to find something to build up to. Whereas, like, that Sauron, like, that's the thing with Lord of the Rings is, like, it's an adventure, so you're off to an adventure right away.

Starting point is 00:14:40 And I think the thing that comes closest to category of adventure would be the Sauron storyline. And to do a rise of, for a villain like that, you know, the first season didn't get me that excited to see the rise of Sauron. But I think this has done a nice job in really embodying. the choice to that thing they said a couple episodes ago or last episode where it's like his the real evil of salron is that he gets into your mind and kind of molds it for his own and so the fact that he doesn't you know from the movies and stuff you think of yeah the armor and the this this otherworldly not human seeming figure whereas here he's very human and he's you know getting to embody different types of people different types of he's an elf form now and he's whispering in this guy's ear

Starting point is 00:15:33 who thinks he is doing the best for everybody and even the way in which he decides to reveal certain information. They have the whole conversation about like, actually, the High King doesn't know I'm here and he probably won't be about this. In fact, he doesn't want any more rings. You know, and like, watching him play the chess, I think, is a good

Starting point is 00:15:49 move, you know, is a good thing for them to do because I actually, I would agree. Like, in some ways, that is the most compelling story. And in your show about the rise of Sauron and the rings of power, I think that's good. That's a mark you should be hitting. So I think they're doing it.

Starting point is 00:16:05 Guys, tell us your thoughts down below. Is John too negative about the show? I hate it all. Hey, we'll talk with everyone relatively soon. Bye, everyone. Andrew, if there's anyone here who I think can wield the ring of power, it would undoubtedly be you. You know why?

Starting point is 00:16:27 Because you are so good at not being found. You are so good at being secreted. We haven't seen you in years. We have no idea if you even see these shoutouts. Are you here? We don't even know if you're aware your card is being charged. That's the kind of person we need to be protecting this dangerous ass ring. He's like a hosbid in that way.

Starting point is 00:16:47 He is. I mean, hey, don't make hobbit jokes just because he's a tiny, tiny, tiny man. Almost. He's good at being cunning and clever and he likes food. Don't be, don't be mean. Don't be mean. Just because he looks like a hobbit. There's no need to say that.

Starting point is 00:17:03 Has nothing to do that. I'm sorry he walks around barefoot in the street to New Jersey. Which, hey, more power to you. That doesn't mean he's like a hobbit. I'm saying he is like Frodo. Wait, no, Frodo is a hobbit. Okay, I guess he is like a hobbit. Andrew, you're,

Starting point is 00:17:18 that's mean. I know. That's the reason they take them out of snow white. That's true. Oh, no. Andrew, I love you. And I hope that you are protecting the rings by sealing gates or something with one of your keys because you have a key business with your dad. Bam, tied it into your personal life,

Starting point is 00:17:36 you small person. Happy Labor Day weekend. Big in my heart, buddy.

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The Reel Rejects - THE RINGS OF POWER 2x03 Breakdown & Review!!!

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