Still,The Rings of Powertakes its cues from Tolkien’s history.
There are simply too many people with their own plotlines to follow.
There are stories with the Numenoreans, the Southlanders, the Elves, the Dwarves, and the Harfoots.
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And though all of the plots are solid,The Rings of Poweris doing too much.
Though Elrond and Galadriel share a story, the Khazad-dum plot is ongoing without Elrond.
“It has been here among us all along.”
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After waiting a week, the audience had no resolution for these characters.
Instead, it pushes them away as they forget what is happening with those characters without any development.
Can ‘The Rings of Power’ Fix Its Pacing Issues?
The season is more than half over, and some characters have only appeared a few times.
The pacing would be less of an issue if the season allowed more time to tell the story.
But, that would drastically narrow the perspective.
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Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
