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I liked the Spirit Halloween and I Love Lucy sketches, but that was about it. Also Dana Carvey's Biden, but that cold open dragged on too long.

Now that we've seen Tom, I wish they would have goofed him up a bit, or made him a little more eccentric or something. I understand they wanted to tone him down for television, but they ended up losing too much of his personality. Plus his whole mentor role seemed wrong.

I believe they said they left the army behind to battle the underground "beast" if/when the older Durin sets him free. I like Mardania's name as not-Galadriel better, as some of the posters here called her. I thought Elrond was going to pass Galadriel her ring back during the kiss, but he just slipped her a piece of his armor. The actor playing Celebrimbor did a great job, I thought. The writing is still weak though (a problem Tolkien himself didn't have).

That's what I was thinking. I almost wondered if someone was hopeful for another season and brought back Wilford or Milius? But the scene got lost in the shuffle. Unless that undead soldier was "Rat", the guy who was guarding the rocket room, and was quickly dispatched? Or dispatched again I should say, if that was him. As I said before, I can't tell any of the generic soldiers apart.

I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be one of the soldiers that was killed in the last episode. The lady doctor stops to look at him, and makes some sort of remark about science being able to do wondrous things, or whatever she said. I'm pretty sure that's who it was supposed to be, but they never really paid that scene off, did they? What was even the point of it? I guess we were supposed to know the different soldiers by the painting on their masks, but I never picked up on any of them, they were too generic. I guess the bit at the end with the flower blooming far from New Eden means the Earth is actually starting to thaw. That's great, but all that research they did and all that data they collected? And they still had no idea at all what the climate was going to do. Sounds like a weather report, all right. Bye Snowpiercer, you were a thing. Don't rest now, though, Daryl Dixon's show is coming back next week, with Carol.

Next to the last episode, and only a few posts here. This series is whimpering to a close. Anyway. Feels kind of weird with Wilford and evil Phil Coulson (Milius) dead. Nima seems like an odd villain. I was kind of hoping Wilford was Alex's father, even though yeah that would have been too predictable, and wouldn't have really made much sense (since that meant Melanie would have chosen him). I'm curious to see how it all ends. I was hoping the rocket fixes the atmosphere despite what Melanie and Alex are saying about it, but maybe that's implausible. Maybe they'll come up with a last minute fix. Everyone could end up dead. Or maybe they all end up stuck back on the train, which I'd hate to see.

Nope. Apparently the Petries cut him off completely :)

The first half of the episode moved the story along quite nicely, then it stalled. I guess it's okay to put some character stuff in the second half, for those who care about the characters. Unfortunately, there aren't many that I find that interesting, so it was a little dull for me. Two more episodes to go. Layton didn't get much of a welcome, did he? I guess the residents have troubles of their own on their minds.

Well, I thought the first two episodes this season were better than last year, for whatever reason.

This show works better if you don't think too hard and just look at the pretty visuals.

I think the actor is appropriate for Bombadil, I would have dressed him a tad different. And why put him in Rhun? Maybe Goldberry was talking from a nearby stream? Barrow wights too! So we have an entwife. Again, it doesn't seem right with the timeline. I actually wonder if they are showing an entwife before they disappeared, or if they are showing female ents for political reasons, because you know, you can't have all males? I wasn't guessing the ents, I thought maybe they were dealing with trolls or giants.

I had heard that Rings of Power did some major overhauling during their time off, after negative responses to the first season. After watching the first two episodes, I was pretty impressed, it seemed like they had cleaned things up a lot, and they were doing a lot better. Then the third episode seems like a step backwards. The Numenorean plotline just has not been very satisfying at this point, and it's rather dull. Plus of course all the time discrepancies still exist, but not much that can be done about that now.

That brings up two questions: Are the ells eating or keeping the other fish away? And if there are so many eels, why aren't they allowed to eat them? For a protected species, there sure seems to be a lot of them.

I think the US version abandoned the reunion shows long ago. And not to be that guy, but it's Timber, not Tinder. Tinder's a cool and appropriate name too though. His complaints about the deer jerky made my teeth hurt.

This season felt brutal, even though I think food was scarcer in previous ones. Any of the last three would have been deserving. I didn't think William was going to win after he convinced himself he was the winner for the med check, but he looked strong in the end. I don't feel too bad for Timber, since it didn't sound like he wanted the money for himself anyway.