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Look at me addressing something as it’s happening. Cause it’s still happening. People are still freaking out about the kiss between Elrond and Galadriel. Or at least they were yesterday, when I wrote this entry before the airing of the finale. This freak-out has pissed me off because while I’ll be the last to judge a person for not liking something, people have been way more dramatic and judgemental about it than just “I didn’t like it”. Opinions, of course, said that it was completely unnecessary. Critisismwise it has been put forward that Elrond could have just hugged her or something and sneaked the pin to her then, while trying to justify it, people say things like he wanted to go big to avoid the risk of getting caught. The reality is that there really was no other way. First of all, Galadriel’s hands were bound before her body, thus Elrond needed something where it wouldn’t look suspicious that his hand is before her. Second, they were surrounded by Adar and several orcs, any of ...

This was posted a while ago but I’ve only now seen it, so I’m addressing it now. I have seen someone complain that the first episode of Rings of Power season 2 set up a mini redemption for Sauron and abruptly ended it 3 seconds later. This is a take I absolutely disagree with. My initial thought was that it was hardly abrupt, but it didn’t take much thinking about why it didn’t feel abrupt for me to realize that this take is wrong because that flashback was never a redemption arc in the first place. In “Elven Kings Under the Sky”, the flashback we see as to how Halbrand/Sauron ended up on the raft was an explanation of how he got to that point in his story. He was betrayed and killed by the orcs, left trying to take form again for a thousand years, seemingly sought out death, and decided to run from his problems. When he joined the men that were escaping from the Southlands, he decided to turn his back to his past. The man he met encouraged him to turn toward life and turn toward goodn...