The Reel Rejects - THE RINGS OF POWER 2x1 REVIEW!! Lord Of The Rings

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Starting point is 00:01:28 The schedule's down below. Keep a lookout. The schedule's down below. Anyway, let's do it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched Rings of Power season two, episode one. And John. Yes, Gregory. So that way I don't influence your opinion.

Starting point is 00:01:58 Oh, no. I don't know what, how am I going to think if you don't tell me what to say? No, honestly, how you're going to do it? Let's find out a man who's simultaneously known to be more articulate than me, have a wider vocabulary than me, also apparently gets all his opinions influenced by me according to comments. I got the words, you got the content, baby. Just tell me where to put those words, and I'll choose the right ones. I thought this was good

Starting point is 00:02:25 I was trepidious walking into this because contrary to popular belief I too was kind of mixed on the first season It looked beautiful I was also Well I always had a good time watching

Starting point is 00:02:38 Like it's one of those things We're like I'm always happy To be watching a Lord of the Rings thing But I don't think it's in any way Deniable that the first season fell short of being as rich And as compelling And as

Starting point is 00:02:51 broad in tone not broad like silly but like a woman from the 30s abroad it just yeah the first season seemed like it went for like we're doing big stoic and everything's important and everyone's angsty and a badass

Starting point is 00:03:07 and you know there's some improvement to make on that I was hoping that things would scratch a little deeper below the surface and maybe even give us certain things that aren't necessarily so dialogue heavy that are more in the mood and more in the visual storytelling. And this, as a starting point for season two,

Starting point is 00:03:27 I thought was at least solid, and it gave me a good amount of just, you know, cautious optimism that whatever is to follow will build on and maybe, you know, improve upon, you know, the general approach of season one. Was this like an amazing episode, and I loved it?

Starting point is 00:03:45 Not necessarily. But, you know, I'm here for it, and this was at least like a solid time. And, you know, barring some minor confusion for me on, yeah, like, where are we with Hal Brand again in time and everyone knowing about him? But other than that. What do you mean? It's pretty obvious. I guess it is.

Starting point is 00:04:05 Well, because we had that first. Only Galadriel knew, and then Galadriel told a few of the elves here, but they don't have telephones. So for anyone to get a message, they have to send. They got to travel. Yeah, but apparently Hal Brand can get to the guy who makes the rings faster than the elves can get their message. He's got evil power. He could do anything with the power of evil. The guy who's chained up at Mordor for a while, travels all the way back on horse,

Starting point is 00:04:30 and this can apparently get to him faster than the messenger. It's right next door to Mordor. He's right there. Yeah. I mean, how brand, you know, it's interesting to follow him this way in a solo capacity. Like, you know, the whole mislead of the first season didn't really pan out. And everyone's like, this guy's probably,

Starting point is 00:04:52 he can't be sour on because it'd just be too obvious. But at least here, I think, watching him travel alone and meeting Adar again and little things like that, there's just like a slightly more interesting, at least as of now, portrayal of like the deceits and knowledge

Starting point is 00:05:10 that people do or don't have, which is kind of fun. Yeah, you know, there's, there, yeah, potential for us to be in on what someone, ones machinations are even if the other characters aren't fully aware and that's kind of cool um and yeah the debate on the rings i think is obviously a solid thing to do because you know because he was so instrumental and forging them in the first season like obviously it seems like something must be up

Starting point is 00:05:37 with those and then to have galadriel be so gung-ho i'm like no no we should use these this is good is also like just a nice i feel like the first season with galadriel she was just always in control and always a badass and always right and always serious up until the end with like oh you screwed up on halbrand though um so here it's at least like a good question mark i'm like i don't know if she's making the right choice or not and i can see her pov i can see elron's peov i mean we know she's making the wrong choice yeah i guess so we know what the slates that's true um yeah i thought it was good i thought it was better than i could have hoped for It's smart to not cut around to every single character because we didn't cut around to Cool Elf.

Starting point is 00:06:24 We haven't seen him at all yet. We didn't cut around to the dwarves. Nope. So to keep it focused on these three storylines was really smart to keep it focused. I did really like the Sauron backstory of what led to the fallout. And even though I feel like I don't know what the passage of time is from him being a bunch of leeches or whatever that. it was, and to forming a good-looking man. What was the name, Heimdahl, Heimann?

Starting point is 00:06:54 Halbrin. Halbrin. Halbran. Trying not to act like this show made me tired again. There's something about this show that I feel like this. I feel like I should be watching this on a couch and like just got to sit in back and watch it. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:13 Don't just smoke a bowl and watch the show. I feel like I might actually enjoy it more. Yeah, I guess I'm Gandalf's pipe tobacco. But I did enjoy it. I could see at least what I liked about it most was I can see that they've taken notes and you can see them starting to apply them. You know, you can't immediately like reverse everything around because you have carryover and it is a continuation at the end of the day of a season that whether you like it or not,

Starting point is 00:07:43 you got to admit it's a mixed pack of people. It doesn't reach the heights of the Lord of the Rings movies that we are trying to reach and surpass the heights of. It just been like receptive-wise. It was obviously a mixed bag with people. Even for the crowd that was not just like, what? Women and Black Elf. Like the people who just became writing of the heights of writing and the heights of storytelling. Yeah, it was just that aspect.

Starting point is 00:08:07 And so you still got some of that carryover. But I can see the market improvement. There seems to be a better pulse to it. There's a better rhythm, a more clear to find. mood and I did like I would echo the same things that you said there's something really I didn't quite like about it it's I am the influencer of opinions now yeah I forced you to like the show based on my mildly positive feedback I just don't want to get hatred yes of course from the really strong fan base of what we can do now is we can start the review and basically we'll blindfold and put like those soundproof headphones on for the first part while we each say our piece and then you know we switch so that we have no idea with the start off piece

Starting point is 00:08:51 I mean it was it was good it was not seriously it wasn't bad I liked it more than a lot of the episodes of season one sure and it feels like we are building up to something pretty cool I think actually getting like bullshit misleads out of the way is refreshing

Starting point is 00:09:09 sure because having just I was watching the first 20 minutes I was going man what if this was like the first 20 minutes the first season just like we know like we're gonna follow sauron like wow what an interesting hook that would have been sure like your hannibal show or something like that where you're just following the the one of your main characters your protagonist is sauron and to do this show for a season two where they are saying because i thought it was just going to be like all right sauron i'm doing bad ass shit now for the rest of this show i'm gonna be doing like sauron stuff but he still

Starting point is 00:09:41 seems kind of like he's got like turmoil going on he flat out cries when he's in prison you know and it there seems like he's actually hurt so to illustrate a humanity now that the guise is gone that we know it's sauron it actually makes them way more interesting yeah and i like that that was that was definitely my favorite part about it and just the interactions overall felt more natural and less like pretentious stoicism so yeah i think this was i i feel like they they definitely took some notes and we're like we got to apply some of the shit yeah it seemed like it's not behaving as though it thinks it's as deep and as

Starting point is 00:10:18 like, you know, arresting as it wants to be. And it seems like it's just actually kind of telling the story. And yeah, like, I think that's part of maybe what threw me a little bit with the Halbra and stuff in terms of time. Just because, yeah, like I was similarly expecting like, well, he's

Starting point is 00:10:34 Sauron now, so he's going to have the armor and he's going to be the Dark Lord. But yeah, somehow I feel like his character has almost gotten more interesting, at least as of this episode, to watch him, yeah, have these interactions and have these pangs of you can tell there are times where they're like yeah he's enjoying twisting the knife or being evil or being you know the person with the true knowledge in the upper hand but there are other times where you can feel the grappling of humanity in him and i think that

Starting point is 00:10:58 actually makes for a more interesting it makes for a more interesting story to follow about the formation the rise of sauron when it's not just how'd it happen when it's more like why did it happen what experiences led to this i still feel like some beats get a little bit sped over Totally. I would have made the prologue this whole episode. I thought that's what we were watching. Yeah. That's why when I got to the part with the ship, I was like, oh, I guess like he was this guy for like a day.

Starting point is 00:11:23 For like a day. Yeah. He just got back and immediately found what he's looking for. And I thought we were going to do this whole thing with him bonding with this older guy. And then he just like betrayed him like it was nothing. Which was it? He didn't try to save him like it was like one scene like seconds ago. He seemed like he was really connected to this dude.

Starting point is 00:11:40 And then a second later he's like, screw this. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And I mean, it's funny. You also mentioned it being nice not to have every plotline present in this episode, which I think is a good thing, especially when you look at other shows that this is trying to exist in the lane of like, you know, the Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon stuff. And even those have problems with geography and time. And I think leaving out certain plot lines and people make the map feel bigger. It's good to miss characters. And that in the prolog was one thing that made me worry because I was like, oh, damn. This is so cool in one breath, but now it feels like it's happening really fast, and we're skipping right to this. And luckily the rest of the episode didn't fall into that trap so much, I think, which is good. Because, yeah, it does sort of feel like, oh, damn, there's almost no additional journey between him reforming and him meeting Galadriel, which, I don't know, it just seems like it would have been an opportunity to do some interesting stuff and to have him completely alone before getting him back in with characters who we know. but who don't recognize him. So, yeah, there are things that could be improved upon.

Starting point is 00:12:48 But, yeah, in terms of carrying over the beautiful production values, that's all still there. And, yeah, at least thus far, you know, I liked hanging out with Nouri and the wizard guy in the desert, and even their relationship, even though that's not, you know, not, you know, the most expansive part of this episode, even just like I felt the atmosphere of being there.

Starting point is 00:13:09 I like the contrast of the landscapes and everything. and you have, I think, a nice, I like that getting poppy back, but still having the looming trackers, whoever these like Nasgul race type guys are who are following them. That's a fun little mystery. We don't know if that's them. We don't know if that's them,

Starting point is 00:13:27 but they certainly have that kind of vibe. And, you know, we got hobbits and wizard being stalked by characters. It's all reminiscent. It's poetry. It rhymes. Well, I think they released three. They release three? That's right.

Starting point is 00:13:42 Three hours. all right let's go let's keep going what do you guys think leave your thoughts down below influence our opinions with your opinions we'll see you guys so

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The Reel Rejects - THE RINGS OF POWER 2x1 REVIEW!! Lord Of The Rings

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