WEBVTT - The Rings of Power 204 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:21.960 Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for Rings of Power episode four. Hello, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.320 my name is Jason Concepsion. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.320 And I'm Rosie Night And welcome back. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:32.080 Dex's revision of the podcast where Re Dying Deed do 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.839 your favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture company from 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.520 iHeart Podcast, where we're bringing you two huge episodes every 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:40.959 Tuesday and Thursday. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.920 In today's episode, which is huge, too huge. In the 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.120 previously on, we're talking about the Xenomorph coming to Earth 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:56.040 in the newest teaser for the Alien TV show on 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:01.080 FX made by Legions Noah Hawley. Also Minecraft is coming 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.880 to the big screen and it looks cursed. Plus Sony 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.280 pulls the plug on the newly released concord Lots of 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.840 o's today and in the airlock Rings of Power episode 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.880 two O four, what's going on in midleth We're gonna tell. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:21.560 You first news. First up, new alien series coming to 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.119 Hulu of course, Alien Earth as mentioned up top, written 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.480 directed by Noah Hawley of Legion and Fargo fame, and 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.720 the new teaserers up and you don't get much, but 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:38.000 you do get the the terrifying visage of the Xenomorph 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.600 screaming at you with that double mouth. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.360 And it's looking at Earth, and it's gonna look. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:50.440 On Earth, starring Sydney Chandler, Alex louthor Timothy Ola Fant, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.960 sc Davis and Moore. And you know that we love 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.160 the xenomorphs. I think I will be watching this. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:57.400 Yes, I'm very excited. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.680 It's set about seventy years of where we are now, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:07.200 so it's a close future. And it's gonna be about 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.960 a mysterious spaceship craft crashing to Earth and kind of 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.760 how that impacts wail In Utani. And obviously I think 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.520 we will see some xenomorphs on Earth. So yes, I 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.240 think this will be the first alien project that's not 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.720 an alien versus predator project that will have the xenomorphs 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:24.080 on Earth. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.160 Right, which is I was going to ask, do you 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.040 think the alien predator lore will be enforced here? 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:38.520 It is alien predist Holy come on the show and 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.840 ask answer whether it is canon or not? 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:41.239 Please? 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.600 Next up, Minecraft movie trailer long awayed. Minecraft Movie coming 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.800 to theaters April fourth, twenty twenty five, will be a 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.400 massive hit. I'm calling it now. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.280 Yeah, kids like past stuff out, I can. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.760 Tell you to be a huge hit and for those 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.920 of you who have played Minecraft or grown up with Minecraft, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.040 or watch someone grow up with Minecraft, you will notice 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:10.399 that the graphics look more move afied, more smooth, and therefore, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:16.320 as Rosie said, mentioned kind of cursed a little curcast. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.840 I do have questions. I'm not entirely sure how the 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.079 humans are in there. I'm guessing it's some kind of 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:31.360 Jumanji situation, some tron j Jumanji situation. This is gonna 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.239 come out next year April fourth, twenty twenty five. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.840 They are pulled into a portal and sent to Minecraft World. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.040 So they've jumanjid. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:41.680 Yeah, they've JUMANJID. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.240 They've Jumanji and they have to relearn the important lessons 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.840 about themselves and also like crafting and the power of imagination, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.320 That's what I'm guessing. And they gonna meet Steve played 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.760 by Jack Black, who I will say, when this casting 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.760 was announced, everyone was like best casting ever. But I 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.600 think in the trailer when it's just Jack Black just 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.960 wearing a T shirt and he doesn't look like a 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.680 square or and I think people are kind of like, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.000 what is going on here? 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:09.720 You know what? 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.160 I this is probably gonna be like the Mario movie, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.680 a movie I didn't fully understand why it made so 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.599 much money, but it made so much money. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.080 Good for the industry. I love it. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.320 Also, I enjoyed Jason Momoa's outfit here, like they really 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.320 he's looking like he's from the Game. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.040 I will say, Oh. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.920 They cut his hair. Everything he's wearing like a crazy wig. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.560 He's got the rageous jacket, like you know what. Who knows, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.920 maybe it will have the most banging script of all 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.320 time and we'll all be there like, wow, this was 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.760 so hilarious, Like I want to make things again because 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.599 there were many toy movies that we did not Lego movie. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.880 Who knew that was gonna be like. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.800 A modern classic, very fun, fantastic movie. So yes, interesting. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.279 As Forbes said, the trailer was utterly horrifying in almost 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:00.279 every Concen. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.039 I will tell you, speaking of banging, I'll tell you 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:09.480 what's banging. Jason Momoa's bangs. He got straight across bang 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.080 cut page boy life out here looking like a fifteenth 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.360 century dutch Man. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.200 Looking Mikey Coumpy in Game of Thrones. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.200 Yeah, next up, Concord, I hardly knew you. Oh my god, wow, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:35.200 So Concord, Sony's uh, you know, much marketed Overwatch team 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:40.919 based shooter game has had its plug pulled and it 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.800 will end its services to the video gaming community after 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.839 only like three weeks. There was a point where, like Boom, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.080 there was a point where it had just dropped and 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.840 there was like six hundred and fifty four concurrent players like. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.760 On Steam and they were like, this is the highest 0:05:59.000 --> 0:05:59.640 that it's been. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:00.760 Uh ah. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.919 And the game I have not played it, but the 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.480 reviews and from places that I trust seem like it's 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.960 a solid game. I'll say this, this is it is 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:16.520 a mark of how toxic conversations in the video game 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.279 space are. That like there's a lot of creators and 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.479 articles and comments of people just yet fuck them good. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.440 It's failed good, which I don't understand personally, but there 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:31.200 goes concord. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.320 I also think that you make a good point. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:38.960 A lot of conversations drive reactionary choices on both sides, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.480 and I wonder, you know, if there's a different version 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.640 of the discourse, or different version of the numbers, or 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.400 a different version of the conversation where Concorde gets to 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.120 live a little bit longer and see if it gets 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.840 that ground swell, if it gets the games, if it 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.520 gets you know, the streams. I'd even seen some people 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.400 coming out and being like, what does six hundred and 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.600 ninety seven concurrent players really mean? Like are those numbers real? 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.240 What does that really equate to as players? But you 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:08.920 never get to find out because they were like brow 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.320 a pull and this shit, this embarrassed us. It's very 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.880 reactionary and very quick. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.040 Yeah, you make a good point in because we live 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.800 in I mean, we were talking about this series before 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.160 we started the mic, like, we live in a world 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.200 in which the conversation that the tone created by the 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.920 whole gamer Gate controversy, which we won't go into now, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.240 but is now over almost a decade or about a 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.080 decade old story has invaded the rest of pop culture. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.360 And I think you made a good point, which is 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:47.120 the narrative itself around Concord became the story and became 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.760 the brand, and apparently Sony judge that it had become 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.480 such an unshakable brand that there was no way to 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.680 salvage the ip. He she's a shame because people worked 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:08.600 very six years on this. Well. Up next, we're stepping 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.160 out of the air lock to talk about a bunch 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.840 of rings that someone toiled for many many years of 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:35.760 Many Rings of Power Episode two, Rings of Power Episode 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.120 two O four. Here we go, Rosie. We opened in Lindon, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.960 Elrond and Galadriel are preparing for their mission to a region, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:51.679 sent of course, by King gilgalad. Galadriel doesn't like the 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.000 fact that Elrond has been named the commander of this mission. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.439 She keeps like saying, okay, command, okay. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.920 Come on, okay, okay. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.240 And my gal Gavrett, you bought Sadar onto Lyndon Bay, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.800 like you're lucky you're still involved at all. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.120 Yes, let's like, like, let's a little bit of humility. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:17.439 I get it. You are a capable and fearsome military 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.840 leader and soldier. That said, we can we can call 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.760 your judgment into question. I think that's absolutely fair for 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.440 you to take a back seat for a little while. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.800 Also, everyone does like your best thief for like two 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.480 thousand years, so like, get like, just be okay, be 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.360 happy that he feel happy for you actually wanted him 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.720 to come along on this mission anyway, You're just upset 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.400 that he got a different like uh rank than you 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.160 were expected. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:46.200 You know, quite surelish from me, very childish. The elves 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.200 sit out on foot and we get some wonderful, wonderful, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:55.559 classic Peter Jackson esque landscape scenes of elves running across 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.559 valleys and up the top mountain ridges and down into woods. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.360 It's wonderful. The elves come to a point where they 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.880 discover that the bridge that they need to take the 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.920 direct route to region has been destroyed. This is the 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.920 work of my good friend burnt up. This is the 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:20.680 work of my good good friends Saron, friend and companion, Yes, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:27.200 my companion of many weeks, many Souron. I recognize his signature. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.319 And then I will say, look, I will say, anyone 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.640 probably could have guessed that, seeing against the whole bridge 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.600 is just burnt up, Like yes, and he is a 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.960 you know, there's a mad wizard about and his name's 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.280 sourn But I. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.800 Will say Elwand he too is struggling. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.240 With the churlish nature of like being pissed off, the 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.840 rightfully pissed off that Galadriel bought sour in it because 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.720 he's like, okay, so we can go The guy with 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.160 the map is like, we can go north, which will 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.840 add two weeks to our thing, or we can go 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.479 south and that will be like quick. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.000 And Gladriel touches hello, Ring, and she's like it's. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.400 Gonna South's gonna be bad man, and Alron's like, fuck, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.360 you were going to South. He's like, I don't believe 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.000 that ring. I don't believe it's sourn. I don't believe 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.680 any of this, Like I don't care we're going South. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.160 And I will say, Elron, you probably should have listened 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.000 to Galadr. You two just need to work it out, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.400 like kiss, It's something. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.280 It's just like a tough situation because Elron is like, hey, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.800 would you stop like consulting the Evil Ring? This is 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.840 your ring? If this is your advice, fine, but I 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.160 can't be sure if it's like the Evil Rings advice. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.880 And also like we know South. Okay, so actually let's 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.880 talk about that. I want to know what is your 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.480 feeling about the Rings at. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.319 This situation in time during this episode, because I am 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.800 starting to wonder, like, yes, you know sarn. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.120 I'm not saying that. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.520 I would be wearing the ring even though that was 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.800 look very nice. Maybe I'd be perceiving it. But I 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.120 will say I do feel like this episode makes the 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:01.319 argument that the Rings themselves are conflicted, like sometimes they 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:06.680 are definitely doing sourns kind of like manipulation and sending 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:07.520 people in the way. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.080 He would want. But sometimes they do seem to be 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:10.720 helping the. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.240 Way interesting I disagree. I have a different take. I 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:19.840 think of it like our phones. Our phones are track 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:26.000 us everywhere we go. They share they could potentially share 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.400 information about your health, about if you're ovulating. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.559 With if you're a sleeping Wow. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.559 It's this massive invasion of privacy, but they're so convenient 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.000 and they really help with stuff. And I think of 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.840 the rings as like that. They have an overarching purpose, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:51.880 which is to further Sourn's aims, but in order to 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.640 get people to wear them, they have to be useful, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.280 and they are. They they made the leaves come back, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.000 they heal a I We'll get to that later. But 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:08.280 and all of that is extremely useful and convenient, but 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.559 ultimately doesn't really hurt Sarn more than it helps him 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.360 because you continue to wear it and depend on it. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.120 And so that's how I think. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.160 I think that's very real. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.080 So we go to Rune, the wastelands of Rune. Gandalf 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.120 is off looking for Norri, who blew away in the 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.680 sandstorm he created, Norri and Poppy both gone. He comes 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.000 across a farm and a bearded man who is definitely 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:37.800 humming the melody to cash by leads ups and I 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.040 was like, Tom, Tommy, are you are you humming Cashmere 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.920 by leeds up let And he does it throughout the episode. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.040 Well you know what he. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.719 Is, as we will find out, a very powerful old man, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.640 maybe he's been in the post who knows. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.200 Gandalf is like, can you help me? Uh? I have 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.320 this map and it's a star map and I'm looking 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.839 for these stars? Do you recognize this stuff? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.120 Stuff? 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:04.200 Yeah? 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:04.520 You do? 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.880 You recognize this? And a sudden gust of wind carries 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.600 the map to a nearby tree and then the tree 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.240 eats Gander. What the fuck? 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.200 I I'm out of that. That shit was scary as hell. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.800 It was really cool looking and absolutely scary. Nori wakes 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.120 up somewhere off in the desert. Poppy is like right 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.600 nearby in a bush. They're fine, but they have to 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.440 go running because the evil wizards hen cheese are right there. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:29.960 By the way. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.640 Terrible trackers, like their literal only job is to be 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.520 tracking people, and they're just terrible at our. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:42.200 Harfoot's dive into ravine, where they find a desert Hearfoot, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.760 another pre hobbit people. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.720 Yeah, this is that they have a big connection to, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.000 like a fan fave of character. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:55.000 That's right. So this this guy is named Merrimac. Poppy 0:14:55.160 --> 0:15:02.400 is immediately like oh hello, oh hi, hello there, and 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:07.080 Mac is busy stealing water. He's absconding with like a 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.680 wagon full of stolen water. He agrees to take them 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.960 to his dwell leader. Uh. And he tells them various 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.520 rules about this meeting and is like, just don't lots 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.520 of rules, but the number one rule is don't call 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.680 the dwell leader the goon, which is like their actual title, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.240 but don't call them, don't call them that. Don't do 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.840 that in this village. There are a lot of other 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.200 proto hobbits around. These are the people are called the stores, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.000 and they are very very mad at Mac for bringing 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.960 these strangers here, what with the stalkers stalking them. It's 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.400 not smart, no good. Pobby says, Uh, don't be mean 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.440 to my new hottie Mac, like I love him, Why 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.240 are you being rude to him? NEWI tells the stores 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.680 that they need their help finding their friends and who 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.440 is a wizard And apparently wizards have a bad reputation 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.960 around here because of the Dark Wizard play by Rome's 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.440 Kieren Hines. We go to Kieren Hines, Kieren Heines, a 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.880 dark Wizard is just getting the latest news about where 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.120 the person that we are absolutely calling Gandalf is, and 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.440 he's unhappy with the lack of progress and he tells 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.640 his minions like, fuck it, you guys are idiots. You 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.440 go find the Harfoots. I'm gonna that'll be easier. I 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.680 will find the Ista. Let me ask you this, There's 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.760 been like how many like five wizards in Middle Earth 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.400 history total? Who do we think this is? 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.640 I don't know, because they're very distinctly just calling him 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:46.880 the dark Wizard, right, So I feel like, also timing wise, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.160 that istar Wizards were not like supposed to fully show 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.400 up yet, but they clearly are here. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.080 So this is one of the blue Wizards. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.960 I think so, because when we were guessing from Law 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:06.200 Lost season, I think that the butterflies and the connections 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.000 to Ruin were kind of pointing us in that direction. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.520 But I do think it's quite hilarious that we're like 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.119 almost I think we're like halfway through this season and 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.600 they're just like this dark Wizard. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.440 They're like, he's a wizard, but you don't know his name, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.359 and everyone just calls him the dark wizard, which I 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.440 do think is interesting too because have we seen him 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.960 do any magic? Is he actually a dark wizard or 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.560 is he just someone who's like threatening people by saying 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:30.479 he's a dark wizard? 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.280 Right, Maybe he's just wearing the roads. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.160 Maybe he's just wearing the roads like that he knows sourn. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.600 We go back to bearded farmer guy who shock of shocks, 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:47.639 folks sit out. It is the ancient, the long lived, 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.639 the ni immortal, the person who's been here since the 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.640 beginning of time. Tom Bombadill. It's him. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.960 Everyone who watched The Lord of the movies and was like, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.840 where is that little guy? Just where's Tom's he wearing 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.560 his They'll singing his little songs, wearing the ring, not 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:07.640 being impacted. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.080 That's the funny thing about Tom Bombadil. We don't know 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.760 a lot about him, but what we do know is 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.840 he loves to sing, and also he can wear. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.640 The one ring and he's just like, oh, this looks nice. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.320 It's just a nice bit of jewelry. He's not impacted 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.399 by it. So here they expand that to being like 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.720 this man's like the most ancient and powerful of all, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.640 and that's that's why he couldn't wear that ring. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:36.080 Gandalf takes a bath and he's hearing Tom talk to 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.200 someone else, sing along with someone else in the other room, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.879 a woman's voice. He comes out. Tom's like, you forgot it? Nope. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.520 Tom speaks in riddles. Is the other thing. He never 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.119 gives you a straight answer about what's going on. He 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.439 tells Gandalf that he is the eldest. He says that 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.040 he was here before the river and the trees and 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.600 the mountains and the sky and all that stuff. Gandalf 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.080 is like, can you teach me, man, because it's appears 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.679 that you're a very powerful magician, and Tom again, it 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.320 just answers in various riddles, and then Gandolf realizes that 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.199 wait a second, maybe you're the person that I was 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:18.240 meant to find, and maybe you were meant to find 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:37.600 this ad. We'll be back after this, and we're back. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:43.359 Tom and Gandolf are about to get down to brass 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.359 tacks when the dark wizards hen Chies arrive and Tom 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.280 tells Gandalf that, oh, I've this dark wizard. I know 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.640 him from years ago, from back in the day, which 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.960 is very interesting because how. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.840 This man is old h. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.960 And he says, listen, this dark wizard, it's the same 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.360 with all the other dark wizards. He hungers for power, 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.480 and he's probably gonna lie with Sourn because that's how 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:15.800 he's gonna win. Tom taels Gandalf that Gandalf's mission is 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:20.080 to face both Sourn and this dark wizard of Root 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.120 in the hills on the Southern Path that Galadriel told 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.399 everyone was fucking evil. We're in the woods on this 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.480 Southern Path, and guess what it looks. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:35.040 Obviously, I will say we mentioned that we get those lovely, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:41.560 like you know, beautiful green rolling like Peter Jackson esque hills. 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.080 Allie and I do feel like in this sequence they're 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.960 really leaning into that kind of spooky forests and the 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.719 team having to like look around. It felt very Peter Jackson. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:54.800 They were definitely invoking that. To me. 0:20:54.920 --> 0:21:01.240 Here lots of fog, lots of you know, gee looking trees, 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.960 spooky trees. This is apparently. One of the elves says 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.119 the barrow downs where in ancient times men buried their kings, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.640 and you know, it's weird. Things start to happen. One 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.280 of the elves thinks he sees glowing eyes in the 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.760 dark Gladriel. He tells Gladriel, I think I heard a song. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:26.000 L Rond then comes across that crushed tube that King 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:31.400 Gilgilad had put his message to kelibrinborn, and they realize, 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.240 oh my god, the messenger has never made it to 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:39.119 a radion. Then the barrow the dead barrow Whites attack. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:41.480 Chains wrap around one of the elves, drag him around 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.480 the earth. He is gone, he's dead. The barrow Whites emerge. 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.000 The Elves have to fight them, but their weapons don't 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.480 work at all, and we learn that only the weapons 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:54.080 that the Whites wielded themselves when they were alive can 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:54.880 beat them. 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.200 Very good fantasyla of that, I felt like I was wonderful. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.920 I was like, this is exactly right, totally a logical thing. 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.679 But in the moment you're like, yes, a jose sounds. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.639 This is why your Kamanda, this. 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.520 Is why that's right. Get in those coffins and and 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.000 pull out whatever is in there. Elsewhere in the south Lands, 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.400 we go to Aran Deer and a sil door. They're 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:23.439 still searching for theo who has been captured in what 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:29.920 was probably an end attack. Under tells Isildur that don't 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.840 worry about THEO. He's been through worse. He started this 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.240 whole thing with Saraon and was touched by his evil, 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.240 so he's fine, don't worry about it. 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.520 Right after, I know you're upset about the mom, but like, 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:44.080 chill out. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:46.760 Yeah, come on, we don't need to We don't need 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:50.240 to support this guy. Right after that, Aran Deer after 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.160 around Heer had just gotten done, saying, oh, he's probably fine. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.000 They find like a body all torn apiece, uh and sadly. 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:58.359 It's not there. 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.200 Back in town, Aeron Deer and a sel Door are 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:07.399 like rallying the town folk. They're trying. They're like, listen, okay, 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.040 there's a bunch of wild men brigands in the woods, 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.080 and also we don't know what killed them, but we 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:19.119 gotta go in there because Theo's in there, and also 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:20.320 a horse. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.280 The best boy. 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:29.960 But Estrid, who it was recently revealed has the mark 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.400 of Adar, had the mark of a Dar on her. 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:35.160 She burned it off. It's like, no, no, no, no, let's 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:37.840 let's go to the north where the woods are very old, 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.600 because that's that's why the guy there are They're over 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.600 there probably and she and a sil Dour are vibing. 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:49.040 I got to love in this episode. You've got Poppy 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:53.879 and Merrimac, and you've got Isildur just like hearts coming 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.639 out of flying out of his eyes and find what 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:58.840 was he missing. 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:00.399 In his life that he is so deaf, but to 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:04.120