This week on the blog: Impossible Logistics! Absurd Plans! *Terrible* Lighting! That's right, we're back to Rings of Power, season 2 to begin our look at the ten layers of hot nonsense that was the Siege of Eregion, starting with - of course - Logistics! acoup.blog/2025/02/21/c... - ThreadSky

bretdevereaux.bsky.social • 123 days ago

This week on the blog: Impossible Logistics! Absurd Plans! *Terrible* Lighting!

That's right, we're back to Rings of Power, season 2 to begin our look at the ten layers of hot nonsense that was the Siege of Eregion, starting with - of course - Logistics!
https://acoup.blog/2025/02/21/collections-the-siege-of-eregion-part-i-what-logistics/

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gruagain.bsky.social•123 days ago

It’s possible to clean up the screen caps a bit. I think this is a bit more legible. I was really struggling with them reading down through the blog 😅

codingwyzard.bsky.social•122 days ago

I couldn't make it through the first season.

pemryjanes.com•123 days ago

I haven't bothered with Rings of Power, but I very much enjoyed this dive into logistics and how limiting armies to only transporting rather than teleporting could make for a better story.

jennyeverywhere.bsky.social•123 days ago

Rings of Power: filmed in all-obscuring Dark-O-Vision!

leftback.bsky.social•121 days ago

I take it that there's one part for each layer of hot nonsense?

bretdevereaux.bsky.social•121 days ago

That is, in theory, the plan.

leftback.bsky.social•121 days ago

Your magnum opus.

happykurokitty.bsky.social•123 days ago

I love when you do these LOTR blog series..excited to read this one!

jacd.bsky.social•123 days ago

The plan is so bad, even without the logistics. With the abilities that the antagonist shows with elven soldiers and others in later episodes, an army filled with mental domination fodder is basically the last choice that you'd ever bring to deal with this issue.

apophis426.bsky.social•123 days ago

until i read the words in this post i thought someone had posted a bandcamp page for some doom metal band with an abstract black album cover

bretdevereaux.bsky.social•123 days ago

The lighting in this show is so intensely terrible and the orcs are usually shown at night.

It has made getting screencaps so very annoying.

caraeilis.bsky.social•123 days ago

Saves money on the CGI if nobody can see anything on screen anyway!

molpy.bsky.social•121 days ago

They might as well make an audiobook at that rate, can't see anything in those screenshots. Would also save money to hire better writers

jujuchewbacca.bsky.social•120 days ago

Good lord, you were not kidding about the lighting

tomkilianart.bsky.social•120 days ago

The forced march through Rohan (assuming it is open plains and isn’t mostly Fangorn) is probably even more miserable because his army will roast during the day with no cover. If their skin cloaks and tents work then they still probably have issues with morale, extra baggage, and minor injuries.

tomkilianart.bsky.social•120 days ago

Adar’s hill-troll mercenary is apparently immune to the sun, but he still probably complicates things when the food gets low and his pay is delayed.

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