TheRingsOfPower Season 1 was full of big swings and small mysteries. A look at what worked in the LordOfTheRings show's first season and what didn't.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1 concluded with its first season finale episode on Friday,"Alloyed." Reviewing the first two episodes of Prime Video's saga set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, I expressed a middling opinion. It seemed like a well-produced show with some good ideas, but there was a listlessness in its reliance on mysteries over adventure to drive its story forward.
Speaking of Sauron, while his secret identity wasn't an unsolvable mystery, the idea of a repentant Sauron is interesting. The question is whether Sauron's penitence is genuine or part of his manipulations. The Rings of Power deliberately leaves this open to interpretation, but to my reading, the reveal works if Sauron is sincere. Galadriel was correct to aid Halbrand even if he did turn out to be Sauron.
Next to the Orc storyline, the events in Khazad-dûm are easily the other highlight from this season, but for different reasons. The origin of mithril is fine, but the friendship of Elrond and Durin is what shines brightest. Played brilliantly by Robert Aramayo and Owain Arthur, these two have warm chemistry that is absent from the rest of the show. There's joy in those Dwarven halls, and seeing Moria in its glory is a special treat for Lord of the Rings fans.
And then there's the reliance on mystery, one of my initial qualms with the series. The Rings of Power is hardly the first series or even the first show based on a popular intellectual property to fall back on mystery boxes to take on the now standardized X-hour-movie-as-streaming television-show format. But it's hard not to question their viability in The Rings of Power. Many viewers guessed Sauron's identity and the Stranger's nature long before the big finale reveals.
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