I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE OF RINGS OF POWER (illegally) SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO:
I will list all the bad things and the good things of the first episode. Fair warning, I am right and those articles which calls this piece of steaming shit a masterpiece is wrong.
BAD THINGS-
The acting is sub par and so uncaring that it literally didn't feel like a real, just under a billion dollar, fantasy show based off of the legendary writing of J.R.R Tolkien.(Rest in peace, you deserve the world.)
Galadriel is a Mary-Sue (the perfect person. Everybody wants to be her, she is so 'cool' Rawr XD Uwu) and she is short despite being described in the books as taller than most elvish women and almost half of elvish men.
Elrond seems to have a crush on her and that just makes me nauseated.
Galadriel, if I should even call her that, wears the fëanorian star on every wardrobe item she owns it seems.
Actually, all the elves are the same height or even under it when compared to the humans.
The music sounds more like Game of Thrones than anything even remotely associated with LOTR.
The costume design in terrible. The material is cheap and plastic, they don't even try to conceal it. In one scene you can see that one of the background characters is wearing a black T-shirt underneath the clothes.
They barely say any of the characters' names (except Galadriel, which they repeat almost constantly). I had to google their names.
Brondir is the edgy warrior who is in love with the single mother (already forgot her name) who tries to help everyone around her.
The Harfoots, I also forgot all of their names, are the Hobbits of the second age and I hate the other main character whom comes from them. She is the relatable, clumsy character who is super curious. In other words, the most over used and predictable trope in all of film history.
They bring in new monsters/creatures that Tolkien never, ever wrote about. They probably needed these cliches to make the first episode more interesting.
The CGI sucks especially when Galadriel is climbing the glacier, icy, mounting thingy. The water is jelly and a piece of Valinor's sky literally clips out if you look really closely.
They jump locations every two minutes which gave me a headache and somehow the series is both fast and slow...AT THE SAME TIME!
There is really no heart in it. The entire thing was apathetic and simply lacked soul (because they sold their souls for money).
GOOD THINGS-
Gil-galad, his character actually looks canon and the actor is putting his heart into the performance thus making him the best.
The make-up of the orcs is simply beautiful. If only the rest of the series was.
Any scene with Sauron and the mentions of Morgoth is cool as it feels as if they have actual power in the otherwise boring show.
So far it sucks (no surprise there). I wanted to break my TV simply because their disrespect towards the source material is so obvious. Tomorrow my brain will have recovered enough to watch episode 2: Shit becomes shitier.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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it’s so silly and goofy how i’m not allowing myself to be into spider man right now even though i saw the new movie a week ago and it was so GOOD but i’m desperate to stay into the monkees for some unknown reason because they changed my life or something? who is this michael nesmith? and why am i sobbing over his death YEARS ago right now?
like i would love to love spider-man right now like i have in the past but i can only handle one special interest right now and i’m not ready to let go of the monkees yet. they’re too absolutely special to me. and they also come with the baggage of the entire 1960s that i also get obsessed with.
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had a really weird dream last night where i was on a completely empty cruise ship. i was in my room and the only thing they had was this VHS for The Shining so i started playing that, but it was actually a weird children’s film where the villain was a live action version of the king from Wish and he was trying to murder Cillian Murphy and his family of like 12 children. never finished the movie but it was literally just the villain guy standing on a balcony telling Cillian Murphy how much he wants to murder and eat his family
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why are children the way they are. also doctor who, very cool. also, like humans are ducking weird. why does autocorrect always turn fucking into ducking. why aren’t sour candies actually sour? also how weird are eggs. like “hello other species, allow me to consume your fried unfertilized fetuses.” ew . my brain is fucked. mental illness is so fun. lie. i hate being unconsensually fucked by life.
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I feel so genuinely detached from myself. I don't feel like anyone or anything unless i'm fucking daydreaming.
I used to think it was a way to comfort myself, something my brain had picked up so I wouldn't have to acknowledge the shit around me, but all it did was make everything so much worse. I barely know who I am anymore, and every. single. time. I'd rather die than snap back to reality. It's the only time I can really put a name to my face. I'm never 'myself' in them. I'm always someone else. But I always fucking know who I am. The longer I live, the more fucked up these stupid daydreams become. It's sick, and I like it?
It's like the entire damn world is fake.
Sometimes they aren't bad. Sometimes they're just complex and elaborate stories, characters and people i've never even thought of before, and it's nice.
At least i'll never run out of messed up shit to write about!
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Growing up ugly and then being decent looking as an adult is so weird. I automatically think people are making fun of me when they give me compliments
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