Rings of Power: Incoherent Bad Writing

The Rings of Power is not that great of a show because many significant plot developments do not cohere together. The showrunners are newbies; they have never before managed any show or movie anywhere near the scale of The Rings of Power, which as everyone knows by now, is the most expensive show ever made (so far). This inexperience shows in the various ways that actions, events, and facts in the show do not work together.

Perhaps the most glaring example of this incoherence are the Harfoot hobbits, for several reasons. First, they sing songs about not leaving anyone behind, and yet clearly the Harfoots have an established custom of exiling and abandoning members to certain death by cutting off their wagon wheels.

Sick Cult Vibes

The Rings of Power creators have created a sick situation in which it is entirely plausible that at least some of the dead people whom the Harfoot hobbits sing memorial songs for were members of their band whom they deliberately exiled and abandoned to death. The show creators definitely did not intend to create this sick cultish vibe, but yet that is exactly what they did.

Always Right, Sometime Wrong?

In fact, the same person who threatened to cut another Harfoot hobbit’s wheels off provides the other clear example of the show’s incoherence. This person, Malva the matriarch of the Harfoot band, admitted to the patriarch of the Harfoot band, Sadoc, that she was “wrong”: the previous victims of her threat were not…