I only just started, but for all my previous hesitation, so far I'm fairly pleased. It isn't comparable with the original movie trilogy, but as a show it's entertaining and hasn't put me off yet.

Some people asked if I had watched it before, and now I have, somewhat. Galadriel's characterization (and both actresses playing her) have carried the role well. It's nice to have a story where not everyone left alive is a smirking sociopath, but that's just my subjective preference there.

It may yet disappoint me, but so far so good. The halfling predecessors were my favorite worldbuilding feature so far.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Musk added this in a later tweet.

    Almost every male character so far is a coward, a jerk or both. Only Galadriel is brave, smart and nice.

    So it's a slightly different flavor of :frothingfash:

      • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I really like how they pointed out how 20 years is like a couple of months to an elf, while its a massive chunk of time for anyone else

        • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          yeah i really liked the conversation, and the guy who is playing Elrond legitimately sounded remorseful. Probably the scene that made me get over how he looked and start enjoying the character

        • Eris235 [undecided]
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          2 years ago

          Well, and Galadriel is one of the oldest elves, from the years of the trees. Elrond, in comparison, was born like 1000 years later, well after the trees got ate, and is a half-elf besides (though as a half-elf that chose to be immortal, he is basically considered an elf). So, for the events of the forging of the rings of power, Elrond is about 1000 years old, and Galadriel is almost 2000, so like, they would have somewhat different perspectives on time.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :what-the-hell:

      In the story where the characters don't have the privilege of knowing the stories that come after them, their reluctance and hesitation to go hunting a few centuries longer for Sauron seems reasonable to me. I think the self-described "TechnoKing" doth protest too much.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, she's been searching for Sauron at least 400 years longer than the actual war took. The other elves are right.

    • cynesthesia
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      11 months ago

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      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Maybe politically colored men don't count as men to the apartheid princeling.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/x7en1p/shots_fired/