Alright, technically more than a week, sorry about that. I hope you guys are still enjoying this series. I'm hoping to finish it up as quickly as possible so that we can get back to doing a few more normal videos before going on a bit of a break (believe it or not, I actually hate the internet and don't want to spend much time on it)
I'm probably one of the few self-proclaimed Anti-Rings of Power activists who does not care that some characters were race-swapped. As House of the Dragon and Dune have shown us, this is fine when the script is well-written. While the black actor who plays Arendir was Elven-looking enough to be suitable for the role, his suitability was--sadly--only skin-deep. The reason for this is not that the actor is black, but the fact that this show is so terribly written that it can only be described by two words: cultural vandalism. This was Amazon's first and only chance to cast a black elf and they ruined it with a shitty script.
My only concern in this script is that Sauron specifically acknowledges the halflings by directly mentioning them, while I would have left them outside of his mentions as to showcase how he really ignored them, until he realised their kind has the One Ring and even then he underestimated them. I wish this series of yours, was continued at some point PS Ok, I'm confused, why would the Dark elf show himself and bargain with the other elves?
Well, to be honest, I don't like the notion of "dark elves" as the show uses them, but since they added them to the show I thought this would be a better interpretation. Concerning why he would show himself, I don't think their existence needs to be particularly secret. Also, I should note, I'm almost done with writing this series (wrapping up the episode 6 script and working through 7&8). A variety of distractions happened which have basically halted all video progress on the channel, but once the summer comes I will post the rest of this series in daily succession and then work on the other three videos I have saved up.
@@thejollyviking8083 I meant more like "why did he risk walking up to them recklessly, risking capture or death" rather than "why did he reveal himself" , but I didn't phrase that correctly. I would think that a Moriquendi who had become a servant of Morgoth and lead armies of Orcs against his own kind, costing them precious lives, would be quite of frowned upon and would probably cause him to at least be captured and imprisoned. Unless we assume that the Elves don't exactly realize the role this guy plays, yet
@@alexkats30 That may be an oversight on my part. I suppose he was relying on the dual protection of his guard and expecting the people within the fortress to uphold the honor of a parlay. It's one of those things where the villain relies upon the goodness of the good guys even if he himself wouldn't uphold it.
@@thejollyviking8083 I guess if he cares to cut his losses, like the show Adar did, it kinda makes sense. Those two things were my only questions about this episode, I enjoyed the rest of it very much, I'll be watching the next ones gladly. It already sounds much better than the Amazon show and I'm glad it has some action and "hooks" in it already, as some people who also attempted this focus too much on the lore and build up and forget that as a tv show, not everyone watching is a LOTR nerd and they need something to find it interesting. The Amazon show went the exact opposite way, they focused too much on familiar concepts and action sequences that are irrelevant or unnecessary for a Second Age story, plus the film narrative tropes, then they bended the story/lore around it, instead of the opposite. However, the inclusion of a corrupted elf of Morgoth and the Mordor origin story was a nice idea to be included, I thought. Bad execution, but one of the most interesting things they tried
Alright, technically more than a week, sorry about that.
I hope you guys are still enjoying this series. I'm hoping to finish it up as quickly as possible so that we can get back to doing a few more normal videos before going on a bit of a break (believe it or not, I actually hate the internet and don't want to spend much time on it)
np
Glorfindel?
EDIT: OH!😳
Oh hello Anatar nice switch of alias!
I will say, watching your real time journey through these videos was a great pleasure
So the attack was a feint to destroy their crops?
Well, it was technically the other way around, and it probably would have worked if Marigold didn't spot them at first.
I'm probably one of the few self-proclaimed Anti-Rings of Power activists who does not care that some characters were race-swapped. As House of the Dragon and Dune have shown us, this is fine when the script is well-written. While the black actor who plays Arendir was Elven-looking enough to be suitable for the role, his suitability was--sadly--only skin-deep. The reason for this is not that the actor is black, but the fact that this show is so terribly written that it can only be described by two words: cultural vandalism. This was Amazon's first and only chance to cast a black elf and they ruined it with a shitty script.
My only concern in this script is that Sauron specifically acknowledges the halflings by directly mentioning them, while I would have left them outside of his mentions as to showcase how he really ignored them, until he realised their kind has the One Ring and even then he underestimated them. I wish this series of yours, was continued at some point
PS Ok, I'm confused, why would the Dark elf show himself and bargain with the other elves?
Well, to be honest, I don't like the notion of "dark elves" as the show uses them, but since they added them to the show I thought this would be a better interpretation.
Concerning why he would show himself, I don't think their existence needs to be particularly secret.
Also, I should note, I'm almost done with writing this series (wrapping up the episode 6 script and working through 7&8). A variety of distractions happened which have basically halted all video progress on the channel, but once the summer comes I will post the rest of this series in daily succession and then work on the other three videos I have saved up.
@@thejollyviking8083 I meant more like "why did he risk walking up to them recklessly, risking capture or death" rather than "why did he reveal himself" , but I didn't phrase that correctly.
I would think that a Moriquendi who had become a servant of Morgoth and lead armies of Orcs against his own kind, costing them precious lives, would be quite of frowned upon and would probably cause him to at least be captured and imprisoned. Unless we assume that the Elves don't exactly realize the role this guy plays, yet
@@alexkats30 That may be an oversight on my part. I suppose he was relying on the dual protection of his guard and expecting the people within the fortress to uphold the honor of a parlay. It's one of those things where the villain relies upon the goodness of the good guys even if he himself wouldn't uphold it.
@@thejollyviking8083 I guess if he cares to cut his losses, like the show Adar did, it kinda makes sense.
Those two things were my only questions about this episode, I enjoyed the rest of it very much, I'll be watching the next ones gladly. It already sounds much better than the Amazon show and I'm glad it has some action and "hooks" in it already, as some people who also attempted this focus too much on the lore and build up and forget that as a tv show, not everyone watching is a LOTR nerd and they need something to find it interesting.
The Amazon show went the exact opposite way, they focused too much on familiar concepts and action sequences that are irrelevant or unnecessary for a Second Age story, plus the film narrative tropes, then they bended the story/lore around it, instead of the opposite.
However, the inclusion of a corrupted elf of Morgoth and the Mordor origin story was a nice idea to be included, I thought. Bad execution, but one of the most interesting things they tried