LOTR Rants | Mostly Aralas

the RINGS OF POWER FINALE gave me scoliosis

like the elves i can understand since they barely even have a gender binary and i actually rly rly love that and the numenoreans i also accept bc they canonically had MUCH less of a gender gap but SOUTHERN COMMONERS???? IN THE SECOND AGE???

again, while i love bronwyn's character, there's still that element of unrealism in her costuming, her relationship w arondir AND her leading the townsfolk

and again, while that might've worked for the third age (e.g eowyn leading the ppl of rohan while theoden was at war) in the second age there would have been at least SOME sexism-centered conflict based around this

and i actually think that's a super interesting theme to explore !! like the gender gap (or lack thereof) in the second age versus the third and how it varied throughout the diff races

and the fact that they just kinda ignored that feels more third age-y and less second age-y to me which just continues to push this slightly off modernity that the show has

and the fact that everything is shiny and new and at the height of civilization does feel VERY second age-y to me, i've said in prev. chapters how much i actually LOVE this, but shiny and new doesn't necessarily mean modern western societal standards

(and yes i am looking at you, elves w short hair and YES I AM STILL MAD ABT THAT OKAY)

anyway, all of that being said, i am willing to make an exception w all the bronwyn stuff bc we gotta take one for the girlies ykyk

but keep all that second age vs third age stuff i just said in mind, we'll come back to that later

SO EP6.

i mean what's there to say abt this one??? everything that has to be said has already been said

i loved it, you loved it, we all loved it, i'm a hoe for cavalry charges (galadriel could run me over w a horse, i'd say thank you) and this was by far the best episode in rings of power

good, we good?? okay let's move on.

EP7.

inspired me enough to make a single low quality meme bc amazon rly said "oh yk who'd REALLY mess things up and create plot holes in our galadriel-centered show??? CELEBORN. yk, let's just KILL HIM OFF--"

like i??? i???? like I KNOW HE'S GONNA COME BACK IN A LATER SEASON BUT STILL 

LIKE THEY JUST DIDN'T WANNA DEAL W THAT SO THEY CHOSE ✨DEATH✨

anyways i'm not all that mad abt it bc all that being said ep7 wasn't terrible as far as rings of power episodes go. i was actually invested in a character death for the first time in this whole show (rip valandil) and it gave us a bigger look at the character we were all convinced was annatar aka sauron (that one slim shady looking mf) but let's set that aside for a sec bc i have 600 words left until i need to cap this chapter and now we're getting down to the MEAT.

💥👹THE RINGS OF POWER FINALE👹💥

LISTEN AFTER THE SOLID 7.5 THAT WAS EP 6 AND THE SOLID 6.5 THAT WAS EP 7 I HAD HOPE. LET IT NOT BE SAID THAT I DIDN'T HAVE HOPE BC I DID. I REALLY REALLY WANTED TO LOVE THIS FINALE.

but as a celannatar shipper, an annatar stan and a celebrimbor stan........ i just couldn't.

like it was FINE at first but the more i think abt it the more i spiral and the more i realize i really really didn't like the rings of power finale

and i didn't realize this until a FULL DAY after i'd finished it, so maybe this chapter will open some eyes and make some ppl who liked it think more critically abt what the finale rly meant