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I don't think anything new has come out beyond what the uncle claimed. They'll likely keep him sedated and on a vent until his circulation has sufficiently improved. That could still take some time.

It's a sorry testimony to the state of modern discourse that it's not abundantly clear who you're talking about.

You'll have a solid 2-3 minute window to get this done when the EMTs discover "white shit" and immediately engage vax-injury coverup protocol 2.47b.

When I was in elementary school, a couple of teachers would occasionally tell a story of a former student who got into an argument with another kid, which devolved into bare-handed boxing. At one point, the student allegedly took a healthy jab square in the chest, immediately collapsed, and was...

It's very much in the vein of Blade Runner / Vangelis. I love it, and it fits perfectly with the tone. It may seem rather pointless, but despite the fact that this is a slower-paced show with little in the way of big action set-pieces, watching it on a big screen with the surround-sound turned...

Wow, that was fantastic. This legitimately enhances and layers more emotional heft into the original movies, instead of cheapening their legacy by way of lazy writing buried beneath CGI and shoddy nostalgia. How are prequels supposed to work? Why have them at all? This is the answer.

The words aggressive and indifference don't really make sense together, but I can't think of a better way to describe my reaction to this than aggressive indifference. I liked the first one well enough but I have no need to see any more of these people.

Then they did a terrible job of translating it to the final cut. I can market a car that I'm building as the best red car ever made, but if I buy the wrong paint and it turns out blue, I guess my marketing was full of shit. The likely reality is they did all that to rile up the vocal culture...

Yeah, sorry, Galadriel in this is not a Mary Sue at all by any definition I've ever encountered, unless you accept edgelord idiocy like "every powerful female character is a Mary Sue by default" as valid. She's badly written and directed in this, but she's not a Mary Sue. The show really isn't...

If this show had actually been well-written the time compression could almost be forgiven. Tolkien himself was a bit silly with how glacially he had certain things move. Sauron as Annatar spends something like 300 years in Eregion working to forge the initial batch of rings with the...

Ironically, the most lore-accurate part of the entire thing is the narrated few minutes of the First Age that's shown in the prologue, which they have no rights to beyond the brief references made to it in the LoTR appendices. They actually did a reasonably good job with bringing that to life...

The episode segmentation is the show's biggest sin. A good slow-burn can be absolutely great, but there also needs to be at least some hint of a hook, a twist, a story / action beat that hits hard...something beyond ONLY leisurely character development or heist planning or whatever within the...

They don't hold the rights to the name Melkor, the same with Annatar.

That could partially go back to rights issues, as Finrod is mentioned in LoTR, but I'm not sure if the other brothers are. Also, Aegnor and Angrod are killed while battling Morgoth's forces. Morgoth is gone by the Second Age so there's no longer need nor means to take vengeance for them. Finrod...

I think he's referring to the scene where she's mourning over Finrod's corpse, in which case that was part of the First Age prologue, which is set long before the timeframe of the main narrative.

This is a solid observation. The show is essentially high quality Middle Earth elevator music. It’s pleasant to have on in the background.The scenery, Middle Earth imagery, and score are all nice as a backdrop to working, doing chores around the house, building Lego sets with the kids, etc. But...

This show only holds the rights to the LoTR appendices, which covers the Second Age in a scant 10 or so pages. The fullest account of the Second Age (which is still fairly short) is in The Silmarillion. Some things are fleshed out in more detail in Unfinished Tales. The show can't really touch...

Both are essentially happening at the same time. Tar-Palantir just died in the finale and Pharazon is (apparently) prepping to wrest the lordship of Numenor from Miriel. Sauron is now on his happy way to Mordor to build Barad Dur and forge his ring. The timeline compression is massive.

If viewed in a vacuum as a standalone series and not as a Tolkien adaptation, the finale was surprisingly...not terrible. It was easily the best episode not containing Dwarves. As a Tolkien adaptation...lol. The writing all season was insanely uneven. There were certainly nuggets of goodness...

Excellent episode. The show does a great job of character building and generating tension, so when the TIEs finally show up it's actually compelling and engaging and not simply space_chase_pew_pew_CGI_34. I also thought Skeen was rolling out a final loyalty test for Andor at the end, and...

Only $250M for ~10 pages of text. What a bargain!

I was in no way on board with Halbrand as Sauron, as there are multiple reasons why it wouldn't make sense and they've been going so heavy handed with the hints it seems like it couldn't possibly be anything but misdirection, but since they decided to go with that Southlands Mordor shot last...

That was great, but sadly it's clips stitched together from other shows / movies.

RoP has more (and deeper) problems than this does. I'm sure Andor will be fantastic once the entire season's uploaded and it can be binged straight through, at which time this complaint will be irrelevant, but for now the rollercoaster feels like it's going to keep breaking down mid-ride.

No, it ended at a jarring point. Where a typical show would have established the dangerous objective of the week, taken a few minutes to plan it, rallied the troops, and then taken a commercial break, this show did that and then...stopped. I like a good, savory slow burn as much as anyone, but...

Yeah, I was enjoying episode 4 until its first commercial break was literally a week long.

Season five will allegedly end with The Last Alliance, so even if they suddenly started following the actual timeline of the Second Age they would be somewhere around 3250 now (given the state of Numenor), and Sauron loses the ring in 3441, so while not exactly "hundreds" of years, it's still a...

Did you guys not watch the third one? It's certainly not boring. The second episode could have easily been 20 minutes shorter and merged with the first. Beyond that, I'm absolutely enjoying the vibe. We've gotten a mountain of stuff that looks, sounds, and feels like Star Wars over the past...

Nope, he’s just referred to as Sauron. The name is not in the LoTR books at all.

The mystery box stuff isn't even one of the bad aspects of the show. They are turning less than 10 pages of source text into five seasons of teevee, and anyone who watched LoTR already knows rings of power get made, Sauron makes the ruling ring, and then loses it (along with some fingers). It's...

We didn't just "finally" meet him, he's been in two episodes now.

The person he thinks is Sauron is a female. What are you having trouble with here?

Well that's just it...that probably wasn't the idea. The original plan was likely to have had Arwen adventuring with Aragorn in RoTK, but they scrapped that because some behind-the-scenes pictures of her swashbuckling at Helm's Deep had leaked and nerds lost their minds. They then had to rewrite...

All of that was completely concocted for the show. There's no direct connection with mithril and silmarils in the lore, never mind mithril having anything at all to do with Elvish lifespan in Middle Earth, except perhaps in the barest of connections. At least one of the great rings was made of...

I haven't watched RoTK in a few years, and with it laid out as you did it sounds plausible, but aren't you forgetting that it also tied into Arwen collapsing into some sort of mystery sickness, and then boom, ring destroyed, all better? It just seemed invented for no good reason, as if those...

It really does seem like they hired a couple talented writers who eat, drink, and sleep Tolkien and dropped them into the middle of a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters. They're trying their best but are simply outnumbered. For fuck's sake, the Harfoots are more interesting than...

Elves are immortal (unless killed). Dwarves are just long-lived, probably 200-300 years for the older ones.

I only had time to watch the first one, but I love the aesthetic. I hope they spend more time on the Blade Runner planet. The writing and direction seem solid but it's too early to really render judgement. So far it seems like they came up with a plotline that could stand on its own and then...