The Eye

What a missed opportunity. Last week's episode had its flaws but was overall brilliant. This week's episode is completely different and is incredibly slow with some awful dialogue. The harfoots need to just hurry up and be written off the show. They constantly contradict each other, saying how they stick by each other but in reality they leave their own behind if their not quick enough to die. There is no action what so ever in this episode. Boring scenes of people just walking. It has to be said that galadriel really is the worst leading character in recent memory. So unlikeable. Things happen in this show with no explanation. The three witches finally get some screen time and they really do come off as an off brand ring wraiths rip off. It's just such a pity that the penultimate episode is such a let down. It is the first time in recent memory that a huge TV show like this one uses its penultimate episode as a filler episode. I can't believe a billion dollars has been spent on this writing. The fact that I'm a huge LOTR fan is keeping me interest ed but this episode falls flat and kills all sense of excitement. Very dissapointing. I'm praying that next week makes up for this week.

Do I worry if any character will survive in this show?

Absolutely not. Not only they make almost everyone except maybe Durin so unlikeable to the core, what they are doing to the characters is so cliché, I just know some of them will be just fine.

The entire episode could be reduced to ten minutes instead of seventy, and frankly you can skip it without missing much stuff, and it would probably be better because hopefully some dumb dialogues wouldn't have happened. The characters are either contradicting themselves or what's established in previous episodes, or say something so dumb you wonder if they are trolling.

The writers simply aren't capable of giving the characters believable motives for things they are doing.

Ok, let me get this right. You get left behind to fend for yoursel by the others because of an accidental injury and yet you choose to speak of being faithful (or whatever his speech was, I watched it dubbed to our language). This episode is either boring or eyrollingly melodramatic. There is no deus ex machina to save the villagers, they just do. Although the explosion was powerful enough to destroy buildings, whatever, ok... Galadriel finally shows some humility and is remotely likeable. Nori's feelings towards the MeteorMan are on a rollercoaster. I still don't care who he is. They make Elendil look weak, they make Disa look greedy. Does anyone actually proofread these scripts? I expect Ashton Kutcher to show up in the next one to tell us we've been punked.

So much of this series has been setting up the next series. The first half has definitely been a slow but world building start. So many viewers now of any series are expecting such a grand start that has to be in the story right from the off but this episode is yet again proof of the old school style of story telling and details that are being laid per episode.

The way that the last episode ended was just epic on a middle earth scale along with the Strangers story and then Mount Doom finally being shown just aims us 3 to 4 series down the line where we are seeing the final alliance of middle earth.

Theres the other side of Galadriel of the caring nature after the explosion. Which can only grow in the 1000 years to when she finally meets Frodo. So much of the story isnt true to Tolkien's works but is certainly filling in the gaps of the missing years. I cant deny that i want to know more, this is amazons target to fight Star wars and Game of thrones with their own prequel filling series.

Overall story is being laid for greater thing, never a bad thing but can understand where so many reviews are coming from lead to people switching off until it gets epic, for me its already epic.

I've really tried to like this show. It looks incredible and has some great actors, but oh my goodness the writing and plot are just unspeakably terrible.

Characters change fundamentally from one minute to the next, say and do things which are not only objectively ridiculous, but flatly contradict what they were saying or doing a few minutes ago.

Nobody talks, they just speech at each other. Their lines don't flow one to the next, they fight for attention. No one seems comfortable with the dialogue, with the exception of Durin, Disa and Elrond.

It's still possible to enjoy it for being a depiction of something almost but not quite entirely unlike Tolkien, and ultimately I will of course watch every episode because I am enthralled by the power of the ring just like everyone else, but I will probably turn into a wraith as a result.

Best hope is that Amazon hear and listen. The writing needs to improve.