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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Rings of Power season one is over and it’s time to take stock. So join Ian and David as they discuss what worked, what didn’t, and what may be next in this controversial new take on Tolkien’s work.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. |
0:05.8 | I'm Ian Andrews. |
0:07.3 | And we are here to battle. |
0:09.9 | Oh, it's time. |
0:11.7 | This is close reads. |
0:13.4 | It's a podcast for the Incurable Reader, |
0:15.1 | on which we are going to be discussing Amazon's adaptation of rings of power. |
0:20.6 | Now, as a bookshop owner, far be it for me to defend Amazon. |
0:24.6 | And yet, and yet we did a little bit last time we were on. |
0:27.9 | Some people were, there was rejoicing among certain people that we defended it the way we did. |
0:34.9 | Yeah. |
0:35.3 | There was gnashing of teeth among others. |
0:38.0 | And then some people didn't listen. I think those were the only three did. Yeah. There was gnashing of teeth among others. And then some people didn't listen. |
0:39.5 | I think those were the only three camps. |
0:41.1 | Yeah, those are the camps I can think of. |
0:43.1 | But we're here to discuss because we've watched the whole thing. |
0:45.5 | All, what is it, eight episodes have been released. |
0:48.2 | We watched it all. |
0:49.0 | And we're here to discuss the finale, the final episodes. |
0:57.2 | And I think what we'll do is we're going to talk about it, |
0:59.9 | totally spoilers included. |
1:01.8 | So if you haven't watched it or don't want it spoiled, |
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