Part 2

"The Rings of Power" is a show with too many plotlines, making it difficult for the audience to connect with certain characters. The development of characters like Celebrimbor and Gil-Galad is uneven, and their screen time is limited. The show also focuses on original characters rather than beloved canon characters. The portrayal of Adar and the Orcs is a standout performance, but the mystery surrounding Sauron's identity is frustrating. Overall, the first season has potential for improvement in future seasons. The Rings of Power is a show juggling too many things at once, not allowing us, the audience, to fully understand or connect with some characters, especially with some characters whose spoiler alerts death may be coming soon in following seasons. For instance, Celebrimbor, the character who realistically should be a central figure of this show, just pops up in episode 2, maybe once in episode 3 and 5, and then behold the whole finale is centred a lot around him. The development of these characters are uneven, as though we do see the insides of characters like Galadriel and Nori, what do we know about the intentions personalities of the rest? Gil-Galad, a ruler of a kingdom, with about 2-3 actual visible on screen places in his kingdom, and I personally believe Gil-Galad was a bit overacted in a certain way by Benjamin Walker, ultimately walking around like a massive asshole. This is the High King of the Elves, who helped the transitions of the last remaining houses of the elves migrating to Middle-Earth at the end of the First Age. In this regard I am worried, season 2 has 8 episodes again, with even a 2 episode battle which cuts things, and if we are getting Celebrimbor's death maybe at the end of season 2 or the start of season 3, that is still not enough time, will his death be meaningful to us if we get so little of him, and then when we do get him, it's still not the best writing. Will the screen time in the next seasons allow us to see the more ruly and kingly Gil-Galad who we want to root for by the time of the War of the Last Alliance, or just continue to be really depressed and like an angry manager at a job you just want to leave. The screen time for some characters left them really undeveloped, and sometimes even thinking why are they even in this show, for some the frustrating thing here is that the screen time has been taken up by the original characters like Nori and the Halfwits, Arondin and Bronwyn, even Adar, which are one of the more blander romantic relationships I have seen on screen, and even Adar for example, this is a problem engulfed in season 1, but there can still be hope for improvement if we get to spend more time with our central beloved canon characters. We just spoke about him, so now let's move back to one of the successors of this season which is Adar, evil including Halbrand, and the thematic interpretation of the creation and nature of the Orcs. From the beginning, one of the standout performances and characters of season 1 goes to Joseph Marley who plays Adar, and even though an original character, he felt almost like a relic from the past, the first stage, as you perceivably see him as an elf along the riverbank in Beleriand before he fell, one of the Avari. Covered in with the visual menacing nature of the Orcs, from the detailed prosthetics and performances to the little details like the helmets on their heads protecting them from sunlight. The potential future leader of the Orcs, Halbrand, also known as Sauron, was surprisingly actually one of the more stronger parts of the season for me, this is where I give the showrunners warranted leeway of what to do with the character that between 500-1200 of the second age didn't do much and this was appeared to be pretty much covered here in season 1, and in some versions Tolkien even described Sauron in a human form, in a human repenting form after the first age, so that is an aspect of Sauron as Halbrand that I did like. What I saw as a failure for the first season was having to play the guessing game as to who is Sauron, but less so that specifically, but more the mystery box nature of the first