QuantumMechanic

When they wrote the season they didn’t know they were gonna be cancelled. When they got the news they were given the chance to do some “patching” of the scripts but could not redo the season to be a swan song. So to a large degree we are getting a season 5 from a continuing series rather than a season 5 for a final season.

When they wrote it (and all the other alleged “filler” ones) they didn’t know this was the last season.

Is that the first time there's been an alternate opening titles sequence? (I honestly don't know since I only watch the opening titles for the first episode of each season and skip it for all the other episodes.)

Absolutely love that verrrrrry long pause by Screenwriter Guy. 🤣

Just the opposite, I think. She specifically said she "spoke no spell" and the like. So I believe she "created" Nicky the old-fashioned way. That he was "from scratch" precisely because she didn't use spells, etc. to conceive him.

I can't express how much I love that they took a colorist's error and a Shatner mispronunciation and ran with it!

No, not the same place. That thing with Frodo happened on Amon Hen which was east of the Misty Mountains, southeast of Rohan, and not that far (in the grand scheme of things) from Gondor. The Sauron/Galadriel fight was in Ost-in-Edhil in Eregion, west of the Misty Mountains and much further north. Remember, Eregion is on the same side of the mountains as the "Speak friend and enter" door to Moria, while visiting Lorien and all that stuff that came after it (like the breaking of the Fellowship) was after going through Moria to the other side of the mountains.

Well, it's hard to say because this story is so different from canon. So canonically the Three are not corrupt. But they are bound by the One and subject to its control. Not because the Three were corrupted but because the One was intentionally made powerful enough to control them.

From an RTD interview with SFX, via BleedingCool: UGH "What everyone leaves out of the equation is that, actually, we're now in a universe in which fairy circles are real and have power."

I'm not really surprised but still a little sad, as I liked it. I would have liked to see one more season (I think two probably would have been enough), since chasing the other bandit crew around might have been a nice change-of-pace from the first season rather than just be more of the same (which I'd agree wouldn't be good even though I generally liked the first season).

Dunno if it makes you feel better or worse, but that was a cover (Johnny Burnette, 1960, written by the Sherman Brothers) and not original with Ringo.

Today Deadline is reporting that "we understand" Gaiman has made an offer to Amazon to "step back" so that the season can continue. So maybe we'll get S3 after all?

Game of Thrones season 8 transportation!

Well, in LotR Gandalf explicitly states that whether or not the storm on Caradhras was actually due to Sauron he did have the ability to cause it.

Book-wise, the giant Eagles are messengers of Manwë, King of the Valar. So yeah, their appearance is pretty portentious.