Welcome back. We are taking a look at episode three, season two of the Rings of Power.

This is Tom or Robots as usual. I hope you've

been enjoying these extra episodes. I decided clearly to start talking about each of these

episodes one by one and kind of putting them into the feed a little bit extra. This one is taking

the place of one of the normal episodes. Normally I'd be talking about The Hobbit right now, but I decided, you know what, let's catch up. Let's get it up to speed

with all three episodes so that we can then talk about episode four later this week, because

that will have been out by now. And I haven't seen that yet. So this is all takes on episode

three before seeing the rest of the season. So some of my predictions might be wrong and we're just going to have to find out how that goes.

So this episode, and just to remind you, I'm not going to go every scene by scene, but I'm going to point out the things that I think are most interesting to me about this episode.

So we have the horse thing.

The horse, like many other scenes and situations in this show, is a callback or a call forward,

a foreshadowing, maybe, to some of the events that we see in the Peter Jackson films.

And if you remember, Aragorn was able to calm down Brego.

I believe that Brego was the name of the horse.

And that was attributed to the fact that he came from this.

Well, both he was raised by the elves, so he understood how to interact with nature and animals in a way that many men didn't.

But he also came from this royal bloodline.

What royal bloodline does he come from? Well, the two characters that we see are interacting with this

horse, Elendale and Isildur. So it makes sense that we get these echoes or foreshadows of the horse thing with Aragorn.

And in the movie version of the events, the horse pulls Aragorn out of the river and saves

his life.

Now, that doesn't happen in the books.

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