Welcome to Doug Too Deep, the officially unofficial podcast for the Lord of the Rings,

the Rings of Power TV series, my name is on Prime, streaming, I'm Jim.

I'm Aaron, still getting my bearings on this intro, it's a lot of the rings and

the lords and the digging. It's a whole thing.

Aaron, we're here to talk about season one episode two, a drift. It's the second episode

released on the same night for the premiere on Amazon Prime. What do you think of this

one?

I thought it was another good one. There's definitely some things I'm like kind of scratching

my head about and trying to figure out from, you know, how it fits in with what I think

I know of the lore and where they're going with it. I think this media or man is the central

mystery because they're really giving me mixed signals. They're really coding them

all over the place on this, but I liked it. I really liked, I thought the dwarves came

off really well, like, you know, what does it look like for a high elf to be friends

with a dwarf and like the nuts and bolts and not when they're hunting orcs, you know.

What's the look I winders chilling out and having dinner? And I thought that played

surprisingly well. I thought Kazak Doom, the minds of Moria were absolutely stunning.

Like we've seen them in the ruins and the movies and like, you know, you hear Gimli

talking it up about what amazing place it is and you see it deserted and like, huh,

but man at its height where they got the reflecting lights, growing their gardens and all their

rivers plum through there and the minds are going at full swing and it's full of dwarves

chanting and singing and banging rocks and resonating or out of the walls. It's pretty

fucking cool. And continues to be the most beautiful damn thing I've seen on television.

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