I think it has the writing of a soap opera, plotlines does not make sense, characters have an average IQ near zero, full of internal inconsistencies, without any sense of scale, space and time. "Dinner time TV" that is more enjoyed watching it in the background, but with a wasted huge budget - some good showrunners could have made it a least on a Game of Thrones level series. The "Inside of episode" stuff is really comical when the showrunners and directors speak. Sadly it's the only "Middle-earth" series as of now.
Ah, I forgot: every few minutes there are callbacks to the movies + quotes straight up ripped from them but placed at random, like a sit-com.
Ooff, Svrcek showing the world what NOT to do when going for a sprint. He seemed like with 200m to go he was still not expecting the sprint to begin...
Epic race though for Behrens, far and away the strongest in this race today, what a monster of a rider.
Hey, we have cross country skiing on snow this weekend! It is the German Indoor Championships, using what looks to be some top-secret James Bond villain's lair in the former , filled with artificial or preserved snow.
Langlauf - xc-ski.de - YouTube