LOTR: Rings Of Power Season 1 Finale Reveals Who Sauron Is, Will Become Like Walter White In Season 2
Amazon's The Rings of Power has concluded its first season, and the show went out with a bang. There was a big reveal during the episode and it could have big implications for Season 2. This story contains spoilers for The Rings of Power, so only read on if you've seen the episode or don't care about being spoiled.
In the Season 1 finale, we finally learn who Sauron is--Halbrand. He successfully deceived Galadriel and others by telling them he was the king of the Southlands. Many viewers guessed that Halbrand was Sauron, but this was finally confirmed in the Season 1 finale. Showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne discussed their take on Sauron in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and teased that the character will be like Walter White or Tony Soprano in the upcoming second season of the fantasy show.
McKay said that Sauron in the books is an «all-encompassing evil» and in Peter Jackson's films, he is the image of an eye and not manifested physically. For The Rings of Power, the showrunners wanted to make Sauron «a character in his own right.»
«We wanted to study the currents running within him in a way that hopefully would reward audiences as they follow him moving forward as he becomes The Dark Lord. You now know him as a person outside the name 'Sauron.' In some ways, we wanted to do an origin story for Sauron,» McKay said. «We didn't want to make a show that was about the hunt for Sauron, but we love the idea of Sauron as a deceiver who could, hopefully, deceive some of the audience.»
For Payne, he said the team tried to make Sauron similar to how Satan is presented as a «really compelling» anti-hero in Paradise Lost. Satan is compelling and persuasive, and Payne tried to make Sauron this way, too.
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