Finished up watching Season 2 last night. Now that there's so much interesting TV lately, I find it much easier to watching seasons as a whole than waiting week to week, pacing feels better that way, and it's easier to keep track of characters and remembering who is who.
That said, they turned this show around greatly. Less halflings and Numenoreans and more rings was much better way to handle it. Now I can see where this show is going and it's a bit easier to follow.
It's still hard to wrap my brain around the fact that this takes place 2,000 years before the movies. I keep wanting to think that Elendil is Aragorn's grandpa. It's just weird because Elrond and Galadriel look thirtysomething in this show and look fortysomething in the movies. They look great for being 2,000 years old in the movies.
My main complaint about this season was how much of it took place at night. Many scenes were really hard to see what was going on. I much prefer scenes shot in dark blue light, to signify night time, rather than them actually shooting in darkness with just ambient light. I would've through once Game of Thrones did it wrong, cinematographers/directors would figure out how to do it right, and not just repeat the same mistakes.
