LOTR: Rings of Power Season 2 (Spoilers)

[Captain Blood]

There were parts of it I liked, and it was certainly less flaky than the first season. But it’s just sooooo slow getting anywhere.

[HerbertTarkel]

There were parts of it I liked, and it was certainly less flaky than the first season. But it’s just sooooo slow getting anywhere.

This. It’s like watching a record on the wrong speed - the music is there, it moves, just so so so so so slowly

[Daeothar]

I found the pacing to be ok, mostly. We're all used to bullet train tempo these days, with bite sized content fed to us in easy 1 minute long portions. So I find the slower pacing and deliberate build up to be a welcome change of pace (literally).

If you want to see slow, try watching films from the sixties or seventies.

In fact, one of the minor gripes I've had with the series, but actually also with the movie trilogy (to a lesser extent) and many other fantasy films and series; travel time.

It often appears as if locations are situated mere miles form each other, while in reality, for instance, Eregion and Mordor lie many hundreds if not thousands of miles apart, yet in the series, they appear to have crossed that distance (on foot) in a matter of days.

Nothing wrong with shortening travel to a couple of minutes for the viewer's sake, but often this is done too briefly, making it appear that a trek taking many days, will be ovber in mere hours.

I give you the travel through Moria in the original films. In the books this took many days, while in the film it appears as if they're in and out in a few hours. A simple sequence of them bedding down or simply resting plus a travel montage would work much better. And this would only take a minute or so of playing time.

As you might tell, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but it's no less true because of that...

[anevilgiraffe]

As you might tell, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but it's no less true because of that...

whatever you do, don't watch season 8 of Game Of Thrones.

[Daeothar]

whatever you do, don't watch season 8 of Game Of Thrones.

  I never did and probably never will. I read the books before the series was aired. I watched season 1, but then we cancelled our subscription and I never watched the rest.

I loved the books but them deviating from the source material just to be different sort of put me off, as I have no intention of having to follow two divergent realities. Now if only George Martin finishes writing the final book(s) before he croaks, that'd be great, yeah...