Welcome to Duck2Deep, the officially unofficial podcast for the rings of power on Amazon Prime, I'm Jim.

I am Aeron.

And today we're talking about the season finale, Episode 8 Alloyd.

Aeron, what did you think of this episode?

I thought this is a pretty good finale, actually, shockingly.

I was thinking over the last few weeks, good, golly.

Am I even going to want to come back for another season?

Like, this is so far from what I wanted to see out of a rings or power adaptation.

After such a promising start, I mean, go back and listen those first few episodes.

I was really taken with this.

And I feel like that this, I got to come up with a new theory of why the middle of this show sag so much.

Is it like that they have a pretty good idea like in terms of road map where they want to go and some good twist,

but they don't know how to make those connections and tell that story effectively.

Yeah.

Because I think if I, and I'm going to save some of this stuff for the wrap-up podcast we'll do next week.

But I can't tell if like, did this, did this season move too slow too fast?

Because this felt like, like, I got so many more answers to so many more things that I thought I was going to get.

And I thought some of them were some kind of clever twist.

I still think there's going to be some clever twist around the road around the trail, whatever.

But like, I thought this, in fact, I think this is single-handedly revived my interest in the series.

Oh, okay.

If this is the starting point for next season, I think I would definitely check out next season to see if they can learn from some of the stuff.

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