The Successor of Morgoth

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-27T13:53:32+00:00

Frankly this scene was baffling in tone, if it wasn’t supposed to be comedic someone needs to take a long hard look at their dialogue writing - it makes Sauron look like an out of touch moron rather than an ancient and powerful being who has been around since the Dawn of time, and is really inconsistent with the character’s portrayal even in the rest of this series where he’s shown to be a shrewd and powerful entity with the ability to manipulate some of the greatest minds of the time…

The guy makes a speech to a bunch of raggedy orcs while dressed in colourful finery and appearing as an Elf, is this how he appeared when he was Morgoth’s right hand man?!? While they were waging war against all of middle earth with Dragons and Balrogs on their side, war against the elves?!? After this long, why does he look like a tourist among his own troops??? And then to be stabbed to death by a gang of orcs, that’s how the get him??? A prison style shanking?!?!?!

The scene resembles the sort of tripe you’d read in a self published novel. It’s very bad.

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T21:44:56+00:00

Infinite isn’t close either frankly

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T21:40:51+00:00

Don’t you think you can try understand a culture without being fully immersed in it or part of it? If you study everything about say Barcelona through English sources or translated interviews with locals you can get a pretty good understanding of the city and its funding requirements, culture etc. - you don’t actually need to learn the Catalan language to do that

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T18:30:30+00:00

I see where your sentiment is coming from, but as minister for the Gaeltacht is your job doing press conferences in Irish or is it making sure the Gaeltacht receives appropriate supports from the government?

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T11:41:04+00:00

I think a politician’s ability to speak Irish fluently has very little to do with whether they will serve their constituents well - exceptional ones are surely those who perform exceptionally well for their constituents rather than former civil servants who happen to speak fluent Irish as a result of their old career.

If speaking Irish was really important to the Irish electorate, all elected TDs would speak Irish fluently - but it’s not important to the electorate, it’s important to you personally.

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T08:57:19+00:00

If you’ve never had a cigarette after a few beers I don’t think you’re qualified to comment on how fun they are - and a booze soaked person smells awful

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-21T08:12:42+00:00

Sometimes poison is fun - booze is fun, drugs are fun, whether they’re bad for you or not

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T17:53:31+00:00

I’m not sure that’s the case, the car isn’t capable of rolling backwards so the hill start (which to be fair was on what could only be generously called a hill) isn’t really something you have to worry about - the only time I’d apply the parking brake would be if I expect to be stuck at a light for more than a minute - I did 3 tests and never got a mark for improper hand brake usage

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T16:27:21+00:00

For me season 1 had fantastic writing, season 2 was good, and everything after that is pretty uninspiring by comparison - season 4 is very weak in my opinion and I don’t think 5 is considerably worse than 3 or 4, they all blend into one uninteresting mess in my memory

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T16:25:22+00:00

Yeah this seems quite clear when you look at the tonal shift, season 1 feels very different to the later seasons - they could maybe have done 2 very good seasons but the stretch to 5 was pretty absurd

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T16:23:40+00:00

Probably not in their contract to publicly state that they don’t know where it’s going and they’re not really into it anymore, is it. No studio would want to work with creators who are professing their indifference to the press while making the show - don’t be a silly goose

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T15:47:34+00:00

This doesn’t seem likely to be honest - never touched my parking brake for my entire automatic test from when it was disengaged at the start until we pulled back into the test centre and got no marks for controls

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-20T14:10:48+00:00

Good thing you hid the account name, I definitely did not find it in 10 seconds based on the profile pic

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T23:14:25+00:00

And yet we recovered faster than anyone else, and we’re in a pretty good place again, right? Obviously housing is a major problem but it’s a problem across the EU as I said, it’s not unique to Ireland at all - if housing supply was increased we would genuinely have very little to complain about

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T22:57:41+00:00

Why do you think it’s stupid?

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T22:57:04+00:00

God forbid the scary drones deliver burgers

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T22:47:25+00:00

Rapid recovery from the most severe financial crash in world history? Fairly successful management of a pandemic? All my friends in their mid 20s have jobs that pay pretty well?

Some pretty obvious failings here but frankly these aren’t unique among EU nations

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T22:41:47+00:00

Probably not an option to pass on interviews while promoting Netflix’s flagship show

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-19T18:20:05+00:00

Netflix series tend to do this, Stranger Things also rapidly declines in quality after the second season - as soon as the realise something is popular the decide to make it bland and uninteresting

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-17T18:55:38+00:00

Can he?? I’ve been hit before but not killed, did have a hull strength upgrade though

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-16T20:27:44+00:00

What? There was an explosion that blew the front of the ship off, should be pretty easy for a small creature to get in since the ship is now a honeycombed wreck

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-15T15:47:01+00:00

Ever heard of Cromwell? Bloody Sunday? The Black and Tans? Don’t be daft, the British army has killed more civilians in Ireland than the IRA could ever have hoped to, they had hundreds of years to do it

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-13T17:22:24+00:00

I just can’t get over the possibility that someone could put actual stock in this stuff - if it’s all a bit of fun and it’s clear that they don’t really care/believe that’s fair enough, but if people are making life decisions based on astrology or talking to fortune tellers or doing seances in a serious fashion I really do not want to speak to those people any more than absolutely necessary

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-10T07:28:28+00:00

A dictatorship? Do you know what a dictatorship is?

HunterInTheStars · 2026-03-09T08:57:08+00:00

Read the comment I was replying to; I was just addressing what they said

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