The sound problem might be due to your TV or sound system, I've had zero problem with hearing dialogue or background sounds. You might want to try fiddling with the settings and see if anything changes for the better.

The time jumps happen inbetween episodes, not within the episodes.

Assuming that Alicent & Rhaenyra are the same age, by now she’s 17, which is technically legal in most states in America. In ancient Rome it wasn’t uncommon for girls as young 14 or 15 to marry (& to be betrothed even younger), especially amongst the aristocracy (& for the same reasons as the marriages on Got & HotD).…

Also the Crabfeeder got Blackfished and he never had a single line.

The show would have been better off to deviate from the book and kill Viserys off during the hunt given how weak his character development has been and how the plot needs to get moving someplace if they’re not willing or able to do it with the characters.

The acting is, indeed, good, and the setting and characters are strong. I think the big strength of this show and GOT (at its height anyway) is that their stories are structured in such a way that characters are often facing genuinely difficult choices with big consequences. It makes the plot fun to guess at but…

the king seems content in his marriage (to, I will stress once again, an underage girl)

Thought it was super-cool that the white stag appeared to Rhaenyra instead, and that she simply told Cole “no” when he began to draw his sword--not that he would have had much hope of taking it down that way anyway.

Yeah, NASA was too terrible what with Apollo and all the Shuttle missions.

Tell us you don’t know the difference between going to the moon and back and low earth orbit insertions without telling us you don’t know the difference between going to the moon and back and low earth orbit insertion...

Hopefully it won’t be. Why? Because, and I may be getting this wrong, that would mean that Gandalf was around for the War of the Last Alliance, and therefore would have known exactly what The Ring was at Bilbo’s birthday party and wouldn’t have needed to spend years traveling around researching it.

There were only two uncrewed Saturn V launches before they launched a crewed mission with Apollo 7, and that was back in 1968 when everything was designed using a slide rule and paper, hand-built and hand-assembled and they couldn’t run simulations in a computer. Manufacturing is vastly more precise and so much more…

Since a lot of it is derived from the Shuttle program, there probably is some familiarity. Plus they have the benefit of CAD and simulation programs to virtually test a lot of components. In addition, the crew capsule can be jettisoned if something goes wrong.

Canonically Celebrimbor gets the idea to make the Rings from Sauron while he’s being held prisoner

Bezos pays us millions to talk about Finarfin as much as possible. It was literally my only job. Expect a Notes app apology asap

Really enjoying this show so far! Not the biggest fan of the proto-hobbits because gimme all the high fantasy now please, but even that storyline is moving at a faster pace than I expected. 

What is your fucking problem, problem probarillo?

First this was amazing. I am thrilled they got this right.

So far, I think it’s a good mix of both. The Harfoot and Durin scenes are fun and pretty light, everything with the elves has been serious and gritty.

There’s some missed opportunities that arise from not having access to the complete lore - Galadriel’s character would be a lot more complex if the show could reference the Kinslaying and the exile of the Noldor (she willingly follows the Noldor into exile despite having fought against them in the Kinslaying defending…