THE RINGS OF POWER 2x08 Breakdown & Review!!!
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01:03Your personal messages stay between you, your friends, and your family.No one else.Not even us.What's up?Message privately with everyone.Ten rings for everyone.Let's do this thing.the sword, John.
01:30It will.Well, oh my goodness.We did it, gang.We did it.We made it to the end of season two.That we did.The rings of power.One show to rule them all.
01:47G.Listen, all right.I'm going to tell you what you thought of this episode.Please.It's a pretty solid end of the season.A couple of little details and things.maybecould have been
02:01expounded upona little bityou knowthere are a couplemomentsthat feels likewe skipped a fewpages
02:06oh my GodJohn you arenitpicking so muchwhoa whoasorryyou just don't knowhow to enjoytelevision
02:11and because ofthose few thingsI will notacknowledge the factthat most of thiswas pretty compellinghad goodperformances
02:18some really strikingactionand visuallanguage about ityeah but you saida couple of thingsyou knowI did
02:26and I'd like to goback to thosewhat did you think gee what did you what did you think of the episode i thought it was really good yeahit was a solid episode yeah there's a couple of things that i'm like wait huh wait we skipped thatand uh how this happened and maybe that's just my inability to understand what went down because you'renot smart because i'm not smart as smart as jr r to something even though my eyes didn't leavethe screen i still'm like i don't know how this happened you must have had it had it's okayExactly the Goliadryl heal.
02:59I feel like there's a piece of information that we missed.Yay.You know.Yie!The rings plus, you know, elven mystical prayer.What is that mean?Yeah, I don't know.How to Aaron Deer come back after it looked dire for him in the last episode?
03:15We kind of skipped over that, too.Yeah, he just survived a wound.He's just fine.Which is fine.I like him.I'm happy.He's here.And then, yeah.
03:23And Adar with the ring.I felt like that was a little bit.Yeah, especially when that was kind of the cliffhanger of last episode.Yeah.And I think the building up of his exit, like I like the, I like the, I like his exit,but I feel like there could have maybe in this episode specifically been a little more, I don't know,something to like really make that momentous or make the betrayal of that like hit rather than you sitting there going like, I bet that's going to happen, you know.Yeah, yeah.
03:57specifically with like the you know that just us the audience being like i bet you know this is goingto go badly well i think overall this season was a lot stronger um i really feel like this showhas actually because the first first half of this season was the show looks like it's findingits strike and then i feel like towards the last half of this uh season i feel like it hasfound its stride uh whatever if there's like a little thing here there where you're like i don'tknow about this it doesn't mean the show is not flowing it doesn't mean the show hasn't found itsengine i i think the show has found its footing and it's their battle to lose now in terms ofwill they maintain its strength um but i like eladryl a lot in this episode i feel like out of all
04:45characters she's kind of the one that gets like the most shit and i should have i really liked herhere um i found i i noticed this show was really working for me during the fight scenebetween her and Sauronbecause a lot of times whenyou're like all right well I knowI know there's a whole future with these charactersso there's no one's gonna die hereor if she does die she'll come back
05:09you know sowhat my point with that is my mind wasn't jumpingthere and pulling me outyeah and the stakesif it's good enough you're still able to be pulled inand enjoying it yeah to the momentyeah and so I was really I was really pulled into thatbeautiful visuals
05:27throughoutCalibrimbor's deathI like how Sauron doesshed a tear because he's like a compellingcharacter here ofa man with a variety of emotionslike a real abuser guy where likeyeah at times I am like
05:42oh yeah Charlie Vickerslike big props becauseI mean you know in the first seasonthere was a lot of that sort of like he's probablySauron and like him as Hal BrandI certainly enjoyed but I feel like thisseason especially has really highlighted like what a great casting choice and two it's reallygratifying to see like yeah with the struggles that the first season maybe had at least for our
06:05viewing experience uh to see that like they really chose a great performer the right performer iwould say for you know sauron anatar et cetera because like i believe every shade and there are stilltimes where i sit there and wonder if he's having like an authentic feeling when he is slipping backinto his more benevolent, seeming sideor something like that.So, like, you know,it's good.It's a good quality performance.
06:32I do think he's a really good performer.And the orc betrayal?Yeah, I do kind of wish we had a little bit.Like, we saw it coming from last episodewhen he's like, hey, Ar, you said you loved us.Yeah.So, yeah, the betrayal, I'm not saying it's, like, badthat it was, like, predictable.
06:52I just think thatI wish we had a little bit more timeI wish we could have lived in that transitionEspecially when Adar having like a change of heartWhen you catch up to himYeahI feel like you couldLiving in that a little longer
07:05Could have enhanced the tragedy of itBecause like his turn thereSeems like something that would only benefitHis children as wellOh my God the ballrog sequence is awesomeIt was legitimateYeah yeah and I like the you knowBack and forth between Duren
07:21Father and sonand the whole arm wrestling thing was sweet.And yeah, just like the scope and the scale.And it's one of those things where like, yeah,it's not an episode like, oh, we're doing a bunch of ballrog fights.But like, it's very striking and memorablein the time that they had to portray that.Yeah, absolutely.
07:40And I think that was, that's another example of, yeah,like I think the pacing, even though we have talked aboutthe pacing of individual episodes,I think this season has done really nicely to pick and choosewhen to focus on certain things in certain episodesand here even though you are kind of checking in with everythingI thought the proportionality was pretty goodand so you know you have all that stuff with the Balrog
08:02which then gives you a nice kind of reason to be likewell the dwarves got their hands full until they ultimately show upand help save the day for the elvesbut even that doesn't feel like the most triumphant thinggiven the circumstances like yeah I feel like they'vebalanced their moving parts against each other nicelyI want to apologize in advance I haveI don't like texting in the middle
08:22I really hate doing thatI am currently managinga lot of different things at onceat the moment and I'm like I just want to be in the momentto talk about the show but I'm likeif I don't respond to this is just going to keep blowing upand everything's like time sensitivetoday
08:38you keep picking up plot lines in your phonewe can't afford to cut you every episodejust keep filling the silence Johnthat's right yeah just keep filling the silencenot like I could just cut this outAnd we also got Isildor back.We got a little bit with Theo.And it's things like that.
08:55Like those sequences, like I appreciate that they give us time to miss certain characters.And then seeing Theo and Isildur again was like, oh, cool, I've missed you guys a bit.And then having at least that brief reuniting with the snively guy whose name I forget, you know, and having the truth come out there.Like this hasn't done a ton for Isildor this season.But that also kind of, I don't know, somehow makes that.the map and the breadth of everythingfeel a bit more real, because I'm like, yeah, in the futureI know he's going to continue to rise
09:25to prominence here, but like in terms ofwhat stage of thefall of Middle Earth were in, it kind of makessense. And then, yeah, to get him back, the littleacknowledgement of Barrick, and thenyeah, setting him out on the next season'sjourney, I thought was just a nice kindof, at least way to,
09:41you know, it's like the TheoIsildor and Isildor's new girlfriend'sstuff hasn't been like the mostforefronted of the season by anystretched and arguably it's probably more toward the back of all the things focused on but even that you know ithought was nice uh and checking back in with things going on in numinor uh and you know homeboy heading outinto the wilderness and the queen being i mean that stuff this episode was the most probably likethat really crescendoed in the previous one and now you know today i feel like uh what was cool
10:12about it is the only parts i feel like oh you're just setting up for season three are some of thethe dialogue exchanges at the very end.True.But a lot of the other scenes,I wasn't even registering them as, like,oh, they're just setting up for season three.Like the scenes in the house were good.Also, but a numinor was good.
10:30Even the daughter coming around and help the dad.And then silver is his name?What's the guy?Oh, oh.I got his name.Ellen Deal.Yeah, yeah.And then even with the Seildor as well.
10:45Like a lot of this is set.up season three stuff but the scenes the immediacy of the scenes itself are are strong enough that you're like oh okay i'm just into this i'm not even thinking about a lot of times he's to roll your eyes it like you're just setting something up yeah and even the the um you know as frustrating as it is it makes a lot of sense that they would be like this divine act that you performed last week you know with the sea creature like that's actually that's all fake and uh you know you actually had help from dark forces like it's so frustrating but it also makes ita ton of sense that they would make a choicelike that because, of course, and that's like some faircommentary to the nowthat's not like screamingmodern day relevancybut, you know, it's
11:29very tangible to it now.There's total aspects of thatof what's going on in Newman or thatremind meof an orange president.Oh, no.Who's... When have we ever had an orangepresident? Name one.
11:45Yeah.Yeah.Totally. There's some fake news going on in Newman, or, and I also, you know, I feel like I can hear the people who hate this show online, whinging loudly at the Gandalf stuff, but I actually, I can't begrudge anybody if you think it's kind of cheesy to be like, ah, you're a grand elf, ah, Gandalf, but I thought that was actually kind of sweet.like we all know and i think maybe the benefit for the show is that like we all kind of knowwhat that's going to become but like the whole grand elf becoming sort of in pronunciationsanded down into gandelf i thought was nice and uh you know the the the speech that poppygives about like sometimes you can't just fix things sometimes you just have to take the piecesand start something new but that was nice i don't really know what they're going to do with the
12:39harfuts into the future is the one question i think i wrote it it does feel likeYeah, it does feel like Nory and them are headed off and like, not that I don't enjoy slices of life, but it seems like them and the other not Harfoot Hobbit people, like, it seems like checking in with them would be mostly sort of a slice of life rather than like, oh, they're majorly engaged in the story, but maybe they have some surprise for that.This season took the time to focus its episodes and not cut around to every single plot line.And sometimes you wouldn't check in with something.Like a lot of these plot lines, we haven't seen in several episodes.And I still stand by the, I think a lot of people do.The heart foots are not the most interesting characters on the show.And as sweet of beings as they are good-hearted, there's, they're not as.
13:36And when you have this many characters, you get to a point we're like, well, maybe we don't need these characters.well and they've been largely kind of support characters for gandalf essentially like in the first season it felt like the harfoot's way of life was some kind of forefront element whereas yeah here it seems like they're mostly accessories for his journey and i part of me it's not really a criticism but part of me is like i could see what purpose the harfoot's would serve in the overall because they are you know so um you know they're their homeyand they're kind-hearted generally,unless they're leaving you behind at the caravan.They're generally, like, good-natured charactersand, you know, very kind of relatable and huggableand other words.I'm not finding the right word, but you get what I mean.
14:26And so, like, I feel like that could be a nice counter-themeand a nice counter-flavor to everythingand, like, an important element of, like,yeah, these creatures, these people who you wouldn't expectto be very important to or formidablein, like, a battle or some kind of world-rending.situation they're still important what they bring their attitude their way of life is stillimportant like i could imagine or i you know i part of me wishes that might be what their function
14:53could be moving forward if they just find some compelling way to articulate it but i alsodon't quite know what that would be off the top of my head yeah that's true um but yeah it's ii like yeah the array of stories and the way that they've chosen to peer in on each one and i feellike you could, I don't know, it hasn't felt disjointed,even though you're not proportionally peering in on every storyline.Like, Isildur, for example, or the Harfoot certainly seem like they are a lot less time allotted.But it doesn't feel like lopsided or weird to me, for the most part,minus individual episodes that had like pacing issues or whatever.
15:30Don't say that.They've never had once a pacing issue on the whole show, the first season either.John, every episode is the best episodeI'm gonna let you get alongThey're all the best episodeIn the category I'm inOh noWith these fuckers
15:46Don't let you goDo not assessYouYou will protect youYes thank youProtect my preciousUnadulterated viewing experienceBut some great effects
15:58Some quality musicAnd yeahLike the star of the seasonHas been the wholeKella Brimbor and Sauron thingWeirdlyWhich ITotally. I'm chilling in this one room, making rings.
16:10But it makes sense being in the show is the rings of power, and there's so much about all that.And we still don't have the one ring, so there's some intrigue to be had there.But that was, yeah, that was like such a striking tragic thing.See what it's built up to. So it's getting annoyed. It's too much to manage. I wish there was just, like, one ring.It almost, yeah.Wish there was. You know, you could just make one ring.I've got way too many apps. I just need a cable package that has all the channels.I just have everything under one of brother
16:38It's gonna be the ending of season threeYeah, it almostSauron's EpiphanyOhNineWhat are I doing here?Three seven, nine is way too manyThere's like 30 rings out there
16:48There are way too many racesI'm gonna take controlI'm gonna be the managerAlrightYeah, come onYeahThis show has been on a steadyUpward trajectory
16:58And I hope that season threeContinues thatBecause like at this pointAs of the last handful of episodesthese past couple, I'm like, all you've got to do then is just like smooth out the couplemoments where you're like, oh, I feel like we skip some stuff.Otherwise, pretty quality.And like the quality of the dialogue this season, I thought, has been a lot better, too.
17:15It sounds Tolkien-y, but also just like the themes of what they're often talking about,at least for me, a person who has experience with the books, but is not an expert on thedeepest parts of the lore.Like, this is hitting pretty well.And it's satisfying and gratifying to see a show rise to.that occasionafter such a rocky startbecause that doesn't always happen
17:38shows don't always get the opportunityto do that and as muchas there is talk about likeah no one's watchingI do hope that they get to continueand that they can continue buildingon this and that people recognizethe improvement because
17:51I think people dobecause yeah there's some really lovely stuffhere and I love the world of Lord of the Ringsso like these past few episodes have beena joy like it's it's transitionedinto like I'm looking forward to watchingrings of power nowWhich is like the best thing you could say
18:04So any stray thoughts before we'reNope not you John I'm goodAll right well gangTell me what I thinkBy telling me what you thinkIn the commentsDid you like the seasonWhat are you looking forward to from season three
18:17Hopefully we'll be backWhenever that rolls aroundHopefully it doesn't take as longAnd yeahBe wellBe good to each otherAnd find your staffTom Bombadale too
18:28He was hereDidn't even mention him at allStephen Grahamkilling itFor a character that's been well built upand people wanted to see for so long,I thought he's been pretty satisfying too.And I like him and Gandalf singing at the end.
18:40So anyway, be well, people.We'll catch you next time.Hey, guys, we're shouting out on rings of power this timebecause we know this is the one everyone can't stop watching.Yeah.So we wanted to make sure we got the most eyes on uson you guys just getting shouted out today.Let's do it.
18:56So let's do it.John, pick a theme.Okay, here we go.I'm going to commit each one of,of you, they all have a specialfantasy storyweapon to offerup to the quest. Got it. Lane
19:10Papsmere.Wherever you need a Papsmere,Lane is there, ready to go.With my speculum of truth.Yep. Benwith my lanceof mononymity.That's what you bring to the quest.
19:27Mark RyanCabico, hebrings a dictionary so he canunderstand what the hell is a mono what it doesn't matter mononym you're modernanonymous means you go by one name amazing uh hey michael pinada uh brings the pinn of infinitesorrows which uh you know it really hurt like one all that force like pressed into onesingle point is enough to like tear into your soul and bring all the trauma back oh jacksonRyan brings the indomitable bowel movement.
20:02That way, if you're ever stressed, it's a way to relieve some.It's a real way, great way to get out of a pinch.And Joe Smith brings the castanets of eternal glory because you need a little bit of rhythm, you know, when you're rising to Valhalla or the, you know, endless realm or whatever that is called in Lord of Rings.Who's next?It's Alicia Rosales.Got it.Alicia Rosales brings the web of lies.If you're ever in need of a good lie, you just call on Alicia to get one with a really believable one.
20:37And it's always going to come in handy on a quest.And speaking of handy on a quest, stardust and madness brings the star of indubitable madness,which, you know, one glimpse at its glowing light is enough to drive a person insane.But also, they'll tell you prophecies.Oh, I love that tail end.And Matthew Arms, Matthew Arms brings additional arms.So many more arms.Just a man carrying arms and that way if you need to sneak in.
21:09Or, you know, it's fantasy.People get their arms cut off.You might need to replace some arms out there.Jack Forrest is just an actual forest.It's just a normal forest.Kevin Meek brings the phone of eyes.Yes, to navigate.This mystical, all-encompassing tool.
21:34Hey, Zen science brings the beaker of blood-boiling benevolence.Just so kind, it makes you mad.Navdib Situ brings the briefcase of recruitment because it's never too late to build your network marketing team.Yes, and Heather Geer brings...The gear of wistful remembrance so that we may think back on all of our fallen brethren from the quest.Oh, my God, this is easy.Joe Fisher brings the gifts of more Joe's.Oh, so many Joe.
22:15I bet you're that that's Joe Perra.Joe Rogan.Joe Pesci.Joe E.Diaz.Joe Flaherty.Joe Mangunello.Joe Cewa.
22:25There are so many Joe.Absolutely.When you heard Joe Fisher, it was like, easy, Joe's.Definitely.And Kayla the King, we do it all for you.We offer all of our instruments up in your service, my liege.Olivier Hamlin brings a coin to the Witcher.That's right.
22:43He brings the instrument.Oh, yeah, the loot.The bard is a bard.He's a barred, damn it.He's definitely a bard.And Alan Ling brings the window clings of.silly stringhe's just got a thing
23:01a silly string and it's mostly annoyingit doesn't really help to Quest but it does make us laughsometimes and you gotta laugh you knowon a journey he's like the Pippinoh that's cool yeah well to complimentthat Kiera brings the decks of winoh the decks of winany barrier can
23:17be rendered transparent with the decksof win and ohJuan Longoriabrings the longdrawn out scrollof the prophecybecause obviously the prophecy is what we do all of this forthat's what we're following along.
23:35The chosen one will be anointedand the beacons will be litand the planets will align and then the gateswill open and, you know,the evil will be vanquished.And then Cliff Rodriguez, he's just got one of themravens that you could see through, you know?When you fly, you get that kind of obscure vision.
23:52Warg into it.That's what Cliff Rodriguez is about her.Seen through a bird.And Goat Nation actually has goats numerous enough to fill an entire nation.And so, you know, everyone's getting wool blankets thanks to goat.Because everyone needs a blanket on a journey.We've come this far.We've come this far.
24:17Another!We're doing it.This is a true epic quest.It lives up to the Lord of the Rings.Lorenzo Baxter.brings the brothel, because every fantasy needs a good brothel with a very attractive onewho's looked cleaner than the rest of the others that the main character falls in love with.Yes, and differently sane brings the crystal shock therapy nodes of Vandalor
24:46so that we can, too, see into his twisted psyche.And Marco Tunstall whispers evil-doin's into the kids.Kings to ear, snivering.He wishes to be the king regent.Simply faded is he's got into Gandalf's stash and is not helping a lot,but, you know, everyone likes to go hang with simply faded when we're camping for the night.So you serve your purpose.Oh, and SJ94 is the Dragon Rider.
25:22Oh, the Dragonia.Yeah, you need one of those because they write.dragons. Of course you do. And you also need a Justin Martin, a wielder of theskateboard of truth, just doing kickflips over people and compelling them to, you know,cast out their falsehoods. And Philip J. Smith Jr. is a scribe here to document the historicalevents going down here because, you know, documentation of history is a little bit hard to come byAnd Marjorie brings the bagpipe of Gary Busey, filled with meatball subs, which the orcs hate.And Daniel Evans, he is, he rides a Griffin.
26:12Yeah, that's cool.Griffin Rider.It's pretty sick.Compete's with the dragons.We're all jealous, buddy, okay?But we're all so jealous of Jen Smith, who is a blacksmith.Oh, yeah.And can rot, whatever the present tense of rot is, anything, she can make any armor or sword you need.
26:36Yeah.Yeah.I'm going to go with this one because I know the name.Cage Uzumaki.Oh.Oh.Because Cage Uzimaki has the ability to wield shadows.Oh, such spiral.
26:50Yeah.Such darkness.Yeah.And Melanie LeBlanc is the white witchFor whom we all serveBecause she is the most virtuousAnd her magic is pureAnd without her, the realm would fall into chaos
27:10Like the chaos magicLike the chaos magic wonderWell guys, I'd like to think that this seasonWith this cast of charactersWould be way better than the way this seasonand rings of power has been playing out.Look out now.So guys, leave us down below what you think the title of this show should be,
27:30and we will catch you next month.We're John.We'll be shedding all you guys out, Gary Busey style.Meatball's sub, baby.Take care.
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