We are not 6 episodes in, and finally something has happened. This episode was actually pretty good, for the most part at least. One thing I noticed, and I don't know if it was just me, or was the colour grade different this episode? I was much darker and more bleak, which I believe helped set the tone of this episode. This was rated 15 (UK) and they took full advantage of this with the gory action scenes.
The action scenes were pretty well done, you could clearly see what was going on, with several long shots and no quick jarring edits. I have heard some say the episode was too dark, but I watched this on a 75" 4K TV and it looked amazing. The director of this episode does a reall good job with this one, she has directed some good TV episodes in the past, and ep6 really benefits from her style. However, her good directing could not save this from the awful and bland characters. The battle scenes could have been even better if we actually cared about those in them. Each time a main character's life was at risk, I felt nothing. This is really bad for a series now 6 hours in. The dialogue is the same as the previous episodes - silly and horrid. It tries to sound wise, and while there are some good lines in this particular episode, they come across as cheesey because the actors delivering them, just aren't right.
Udun is the best episode in the series by a long shot, it is well directed, shot and is visually stunning. But that's all it has going for it. The characters are all still boring, the story is all over the place and the writing is poor. Undun did leave us on a pretty good cliffhanger, the whole 'creation' of Mount Doom was nice to look at.
The action scenes were pretty well done, you could clearly see what was going on, with several long shots and no quick jarring edits. I have heard some say the episode was too dark, but I watched this on a 75" 4K TV and it looked amazing. The director of this episode does a reall good job with this one, she has directed some good TV episodes in the past, and ep6 really benefits from her style. However, her good directing could not save this from the awful and bland characters. The battle scenes could have been even better if we actually cared about those in them. Each time a main character's life was at risk, I felt nothing. This is really bad for a series now 6 hours in. The dialogue is the same as the previous episodes - silly and horrid. It tries to sound wise, and while there are some good lines in this particular episode, they come across as cheesey because the actors delivering them, just aren't right.
Udun is the best episode in the series by a long shot, it is well directed, shot and is visually stunning. But that's all it has going for it. The characters are all still boring, the story is all over the place and the writing is poor. Undun did leave us on a pretty good cliffhanger, the whole 'creation' of Mount Doom was nice to look at.