Review: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, "Where Is He?" | Season 2, Episode 6
There are some things we don't need origins for
Sometimes you start to wonder what the point of this job is. Like, for instance, when you’re watching the 14th episode of a show that still hasn’t really given a convincing reason for its own existence, and a character quotes a line from a movie that actually means something to you, and you have to stare down the cold, hard fact that no matter what you say about it, it doesn’t matter. I’ve never expected a review of mine to reach a creative team for a show in a meaningful way, and I prefer it this way; I write these because I enjoy thinking and talking about stories, not because I consider myself an expert or an editor. But there are some moments where the badness is just so obvious, so mind-numbingly wrong, that I start to question everything. Not just the show, whose motivations are obvious (creative people working at the behest of a company trying to generate interest in its major IP), but my own existence in taking this nonsense seriously.
“Where…