Why do people think a next scene is immediately taking place after the previous one?As a buddy of mine said, they move quickly to another scene so they can do nothing of importance. Like I get world building, but you have to make the watcher invested in the world with some hook before you build it around them. I guess they were trying to make that Galadriel, but the way she is portrayed is so unlikable it doesn't work. The only character I have really liked is Elendil (though he has some bad dialogue too, no fault of the actor), with the dwarfs being fine too (Duin III seemed perfect, but he only got like 2 lines). Halbrand is okay, but think he just gets elevated by the rest being stinkers.
The show does a lot of telling and not a lot of showing somehow. Like we see Arondir get captured, fair, but then suddenly every single elf in his troop was captured what the same/next day? After they all missed the swath of trees being cut down, and they were basically (the ones we know of at least) taken alive just to be killed later in the episode? I know they wanted to raise the stakes and make use feel something, but honestly I just didn't care as I had meet the characters once. You can tell that Payne and Mckay had some clue about what to do, but no clue how to pull it off.