TV News: I’m always surprised when a show that I ddin’t really get, and I also didn’t know anyone was watching suddenly earns a second season, but if I know a bunch of people who watch he show, it is just cancelled. Like, i actually knew real people who loved Dead Boy Detectives, plus the show was nominated for some Dorian awards. But, I’ve never heard anyone talk to me about Based On A True Story, and that apparently has a second season coming this fall.
TV Shows Watched: the Rings Of Power: S2E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Pachenko: S2E2 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Khaos: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, and Terminator Zero: S1E5 and S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description.
YouTubes: Breakfast All Day (Review: Beetlejuice), The Critical Drinker (Review: The crow), Cody Leach (Review: The Crow), and For Your Consideration (Random Oscar Buzz). I also was there yesterday on Insta for the Dark Room boys and their livestream recapping the summer movies. Where were you?
Podcasts: breaking Points (Reacting to the CNN interview), The Interview (An interview with an author), post Reports (A blind rock climber)
Movies: Kinds Of Kindness (Hulu) with audio description, The Fall Guy: Extended Directors cut (Peacock) with audio description
Today, it is time to discuss the first three episodes, essentially, of The Rings Of Power, but I shall do so all through the amazing personification of this horse.there is a horse in the third episode, and it doesn’t talk, so it functions as a non-verbal character, and this one thing was given so much life. It had such personality. I think this is the best horse since The Neverending Story. It beats War Horse. the audio description highlights its intelligence, emotional awareness, and rational thinking. Not just that horse, but then we have a cave spider sequence, so another non-verbal character to deal with. Lots of great stuff here.
If I were to quibble, or quabble if you were, which is like having a squabble, which sounds like scrabble… but if I were, I would point to something I bring up rather often, and that is size relativity. There’s a giant here, and while I’ve visually seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, I feel like from the narration, this thing has a heigh possibility that seems endless. Things that have no basis in the real world, flights of fancy if you will, they need that size relativity where they can be compared to something so we know about how big something actually is. Things like “Gargantuan” don’t cut it, because your version of that and someone else’s might be totally different.So, always shoot for size relativity to help immerse the audience and bring them in.
Tomorrow, God willing, I’m gonna tackle Khaos.