i really do have to take a step back and point out that HBO streaming fucking plays too much.

honestly this hot new trend of neither renewing shows nor cancelling them, just letting us fucking twist in the wind for weeks/months, this shit is duck.

and the more 'omg the writers for industry have some AMAAAAZING ideas for season 3' articles i see, the more desperate and transparent they get.

Yeah it's thin

I tried some stupid Netflix bs that was in the top 10 and hit the eject button 20 minutes in. HoD is not bad. I can't bear to watch the business/empire dramas - it just reminds me of work. I got through 2 eps of the RoP series and it's just not very interesting to me. Rick and Morty has been pretty solid though!

honestly i feel like HBO could simply refuse to renew the show because they cant fucking imagine what to do with the characters at this point and tbh id kinda get that.

guys please be advised that we are running extremely fucking low on shit to watch at the moment.

**** ALSO SEASON 3 IS NOT SIGNED ****

I DID NOT REALIZE THIS WAS A SEASON FINALE AND WAS NOT PREPARED EMOTIONALLY

OH MY GOD INDUSTRY HOLY FUCKING SHIT

HoD costs $20m per episode and it looks a thousand times better than RoP which costs about $60m per episode.

also as a bonus HoD really isnt bad and its getting better.

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tour de force

I'm at a point where I consider it an improvement when RoP manages to focus on a manageable amount of characters and locations in a single episode. Also a possibility of something happening soonish is a plus.

Just not showing hobbits in an episode is an achievement and that alone makes it almost tolerable.

I've just made my peace with the quality of writing, acting and filming. I'm just baffled with where all the money went? I have no clue why every episode has 50 lore related easter eggs? Anyone that spots them is aware of all the massive lore deviations.

I have no idea what's the purpose of double red herring Sauron, meteor man and elf on the orc highway. No one who doesn't know about Sauron in the second age isn't going to pick up the "subtle" clues pointing towards Aragorn-Sauron.

When did orcs became vampires? They don't like sun light. It doesn't hurt them in any major way. Uruk-hai doesn't tolerate light because of genetics. They're just conditioned to not care and when needed they will whip up lesser orcs to travel at day time. And seriously wtf is up with the orc highway? There's a reason Vietcong didn't build a trench network. Even if we made a leap that those trenches become tunnels soonish, you kinda lose the element of surprise when both sides of the tunnel above ground have every tree chopped and ground is randomly scorched.

Then what exactly are the stakes when Galadriel does something that could kill her, when everyone knows she's alive few thousand years later? Free climbing with a single dagger is exactly the same as using an elevator. Also she's 2000 years old elven royalty, why is she completely clueless how the court functions? Why is she avenging his brothers death when he is already reborn? Also he's in the place she decided not to go when she decided to jump out of the ship that was going there. Not that it makes any sense she was allowed to go there considering she's exiled from that specific place.

Why is everything retarded in this show?

edit: I lied about having made my peace with the writing, I can deal with the community theater level of overacting and telenovela interior shots.

ok i gutted through the ep and honestly we might be turning a corner. not much of a corner but..

i thought the effects with the pattertit ball was cool too.

im decided to dip a toe into ep 4 of RoP over dinner and im just completely unable to give a shit about absolutely anything its bringing to the table.

the dialog is inconceivably bad and they seem to have no idea how to string together world building events or evolve the plot without doing these inane fast edits away from reveals, like we're all on the edge of ours seats to find out what the message is from the human/ork guy or whatever.

jesus christ what a drag this show is.

i cant imagine them not renewing it because the budget is probably around a literal thousandth of RoP.

ive been thinking a lot about what a bullet we ducked with conan.

the magic of conan reallllllly wouldnt land today. and im pretty sure every conceivable novel take on the source material has been done many times over in the last... [ checks watch ]... 40 fucking years.

It was pretty bad, but I think it's still renewed for 3rd season already?