Episode 4
I am starting to feel the strain of the weekly release schedule now. I really wish I had the patience to wait for the series to be over and binge it.
There was not really anything new revealed in this episodes. The hobbits were absent in this episode as the Dwarves were in last weeks. These are over hour long episodes, but with....I guess 4 parallel stories being told side by side, they don't can't cover all without chopping and changing constantly.
In the Dwarf part, the "reveal" was what we already, knew, the Dwarves had discovered Mithril. But other than that nothing really advanced.
It took the whole episode for Galadriel to finally set sail for Middle earth, which we knew was going to happen.
We didn't learn anything about Adar, when Arondir asks him and he is about to answer, a warg interrupts and growls, and he never answers. A bit frustrating.
And the Hobbits are totally absent, so we learn nothing about Meteor man,.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the episode. I just want more.
One thing that struck me as kind of stupid was Adar releasing Arondir. At the end of the last episode all of the elves die trying to escape, and now Adar just releases Arondir....kind of stupid writing.
Other than that it was all good, I guess from next week the show will have to pick up pace though, we are half way through now, and there is a lot of ground to be covered. On the one hand I like the slow burn, they are holding a lot of their cards, which is a bold decision, rather than just throwing stuff at the audience to get twitter buzz. It shows they are comitted to doing this right I think.