All right, welcome back.

This is your host, Tom, or Robots, and this is my look at episode four of the second season of the Rings of Power.

I'm glad that you are here.

And welcome to the Lord of the Rings of Lorke.

All right.

So let's get into it.

I've realized something recently as I've been discussing, let's not say debating, discussing

these episodes both on the Discord and online on social media.

I've been on threads, as you guys have probably heard the little announcement.

Come join me over there, by the way.

It's very nice.

It's a lot better than Twitter.

But I think I've realized something.

One of the things that I have been doing, and I'm going to preface this before we get into the details of the episode, and just so you know, I'm going to go through my reactions and thoughts and predictions, and that's a big important part about this.

But one of the things I've realized is that I think fundamentally I engage with this series and maybe just watching things and experiencing things in general in a slightly different

way than a lot of people online do. And maybe you can identify with me on this and maybe you can't.

But here's what I'm saying. One of the things that a lot of people do that I've noticed and the

disconnect in the way that people do or don't enjoy this show is that they react to things in a way.

You're probably going to say, well, no, duh.

Obviously, this is like because it's the 90s, no duh.

But this is going somewhere.

They react in a way where they respond to what they're seeing with

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