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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Someone who cared about the source material would actually be able to rescue "The Rings of Power" and turn it into a faithful adaptation, with this one simple trick (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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So I was literally in the shower, thinking about the difference between the "I will diminish and go into the west" scene from the movies, and the infinitely superior version from the Ralph Bakshi version.

I realized that you just need one simple fix to make the Rings of Power make sense: It just needs to stick with its current plot and strategy, skip forward in time episode by episode, and then replay the same scene, and Galadriel takes the ring. It's an alternate history. All the same character flaws that the writers have that fucked up the show are exactly what would lead her to be the same character, just with that one tiny flaw, the right type of hubris to take the ring and start to make everything better according to her perfect vision.

And then, events play out.

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[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

It's a good idea, but it can backfire. The "silver timeline" setup of HALO was intended as a tool to let writers do whatever they want. The issue is that alternate timelines, parallel universe etc. isn't part of the original concept and in the end just seem like fanfic. Or in HALO's case, Greedfic.