…this introductory clip for LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER.
I am struck by how quickly I decided I hated the elvish douchebro. He’s got that look, right? He looks like the kind of guy who made people make that nail polish that chemically reacts to the presence of roofies. I’m hoping that’s deliberate, because otherwise the actor got some baaaaaad direction, there.
…I don’t have a single damned idea just what’s happening here.
That’s supposed to be, what, Sauron crash-landing in Middle Earth in the Second Age? That’s my best guess. And I should be able to make a coherent guess. LotR is supposed to be something I know something about.
I do not say that this show is going to be good. I will say that Amazon is probably going to spend a billion bucks on THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, which is an insane amount of money that probably should not be in Jeff Bezos’ hands anyway. Plus, at that level of funding? If the show fails it will do so spectacularly. That can provide some entertainment, all on its own.
Moe Lane
Continue reading So, I finally sat down and read that Vanity Fair LotR article.Sigh. I’m going to watch this, you know. I’m going to watch it, and I’m going to be cranky about it, and I’m probably going to even agree beforehand that I shouldn’t watch it. But we all know I’m going to watch it. I may even convince myself that it’s not bad, really. The Ring’s insidious influence cannot be held off forever, after all.
Huzzah.
#commissionearned
