I am considering not getting a haircut and wearing my hair as bangs from now on- I haven't done so since I was a kid but surprisingly I actually look better and significantly younger, like a 25 year old in a boyband lol.

All of this is by accident as I haven't been able to get a full haircut in 2 1/2 months.

This is also a trick that women do to look younger

Why?

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1 hour ago, Jade Bahr said:

Why?

 

29 minutes ago, Matt! said:

 

As long as it will make some maybe lol This is no longer a given these days I think with all the streaming services and more costs.

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I agree, money...$$$ 

There is no real source material for Gollum's quest, just like Amazon's ROP attempt.  

A gollum game came out last year-  a big failure and badly made. :

21 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

There is no real source material for Gollum's quest, just like Amazon's ROP attempt. 

Turning THE HOBBIT book of 300 sides + something into an overblown trilogy was already a disaster imo.

23 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said:

Turning THE HOBBIT book of 300 sides + something into an overblown trilogy was already a disaster imo.

It's desperate and insane imho!  

The Amazon series and this new effort are literally based on a bunch of paragraphs from the Simarillion etc., which is why they are badly written.

The hobbit is a very simple story, literally just 1 movie's worth and no more.  In the middle of production  Peter Jackson was forced to expand it from 2 to 3 movies due to the greed for $ lol.

57 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

The Amazon series and this new effort are literally based on a bunch of paragraphs from the Simarillion etc., which is why they are badly written.

One thing I appreciate about this show was that it introduced me to aussie Charlie Vickers. We have to be thankful for the small things in life right? lol

He was even better in amazons

even though his part was rather small but fuckin intense. He's good in playin.... evil.

14 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:

One thing I appreciate about this show was that it introduced me to aussie Charlie Vickers. We have to be thankful for the small things in life right? lol

 

He was even better in amazons

 

even though his part was rather small but fuckin intense. He's good in playin.... evil.

I thought he was kind of strange person.  He looked a bit like Aragorn (disheveled, good looking)  but unlike Viggo there is a creepiness to his presence.

Did you suspect that he was Sauron when you first watched it? I didn't catch on to the twist in the beginning at all.  It seems that they were vaguely trying to make Sauron 'misunderstood' evil, which isn't bad if it is implemented correctly, which it was not.

I think it would have interesting if they made Galadriel & Sauron BFF & even more romantically inclined lol.  There are slight hints to that in later episodes.

my impression from reading the Simarillion is that Tolkein's concept for Sauron was not so much like the one used in Rings of Power, but someone very similar to Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost:  In human form he is attractive and charismatic & skilled in the rhetorical arts/arts of persuasion in which he used to his advantage.

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

I thought he was kind of strange person.  He looked a bit like Aragorn (disheveled, good looking)  but unlike Viggo there is a creepiness to his presence.

In the beginning I thought he's related to Aragorn (I think it was intended) because of the resembles in looks like you pointed out. Then he started acting... weird and my second guess was ok maybe he's related to the creepy family of Boromir 🤣

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Did you suspect that he was Sauron when you first watched it? I didn't catch on to the twist in the beginning at all.  It seems that they were vaguely trying to make Sauron 'misunderstood' evil, which isn't bad if it is implemented correctly, which it was not.

It's been a while since I watched the show but at some point it was clear SOMEONE here has to be young Sauron and I was suspecting pretty much everyone but Halbrand. So yeah it kept me off guards when it was pretty obvious that it was him 🤯 I actually didn't had the feeling the show wanted me to sympathize with him besides maybe in the beginning when he acted like a somehow decent dude even though like you said something about him was off the whole time. I can't remember thinking once during the revelation "ah now I get Sauron". Normally I'm a easy target for something like that 😄 The longer I think about it the less I can't believe I did not once suspected him to be Sauron 😆

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

my impression from reading the Simarillion is that Tolkein's concept for Sauron was not so much like the one used in Rings of Power, but someone very similar to Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost:  In human form he is attractive and charismatic & skilled in the rhetorical arts/arts of persuasion in which he used to his advantage.

Never read the Simarillion but I actually thought this is exactly what the show did with the character!? Perfect description 😄

I actually liked the show much better than THE HOBBIT trilogy. Call me crazy.

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It seems like Hollywood LOVES to cast young hot actors in prequels for famous villains like some psychological trick making the audience having a hard time keep in mind their -mostly future- evilness.

Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal Lecter

Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle/Voldemort

and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow/President Snow

are coming straight to my mind. Mostly also turning them into some kind of love interest for some poor soul aka "I can save him" and the thirst is real. It's actually a good distraction imo because somehow evil seem to attract people in some kind of way and it's even harder to resist when it comes in a handsome face. I also think we are MUCH MORE forgivable about bad behaviour when the person who treats us badly is looking like these dudes.

Maybe that's a women issue I don't know.

Speaking of greed. No literary source anymore but hey let's continue nevertheless because why the heck not?

‘Shōgun' Season 2 is Happening

Here we go again! Who's still holding? 

I don't even know at this point...

YAY but wtf

.............

This entire fucking family is gross and wrong

He's going to be beaten to death in the street by said refugee's for looking like that..

WARNING NUDITY and all kinds wtfness