It’s not over until Jeff Bezos says it’s over. The Dark Herald manfully continues to suffer through the relentless water torture that can’t even rise to the level of a generic and mediocre High Fantasy pastiche:
The series is unsalvageable, everyone involved knows it. You don’t have an exodus of on-camera talent unless they are trying to avoid the taint of association. The Tolkien fans are long gone. Even Hollywood has been forced swallow the bitter pill that the Woke audience they want doesn’t exist. By no possible measure is The Rings of Power a success yet they have to keep doing this. The makers are now going with the minimum risk of remaking Jackson’s Lord of the Rings without knowing how to do that. Whatever financial sleight of hand that was used to finance this has clearly locked Amazon into a multi-season commitment.
Every episode of this show is bad, no getting around that, but one of them had to be the worst. This one was it. They will have to build a high mountain indeed to top this heap of shit. This is the stupidest, most incompetent episode of the entire series so far.
The Legendarium. The Cinematography. The Spacial Awareness. The Basic Physics. The Narrative comprehension. The Avoiding gross demi-incest stuff. This one got every single thing wrong.
Except the title. That was picture perfect.
“Doomed to Die.”
I have to admit, I wasn’t even remotely tempted to watch Dem Rangz last season. And now, well, I just feel bad for Dark Herald and all of the poor actors and actresses are involved. And, of course, for Tolkien’s heirs, who are receiving an object lesson in why Christopher Tolkien was always such a stickler for respecting his father’s legendary work.
“What could possibly go wrong?” You know someone, probably a lawyer, said somewhere along the path that led to Amazon acquiring the rights to ruthlessly and relentlessly rape the literature.
And now we know.