I assume that elven hair doesn’t follow the same laws of physics as that of mortals.
That’s not continuity, that’s logic. Continuity is making sure that messy hair is messy in exactly the same way throughout a scene, even though different parts of the scene were shot days or weeks apart.
Now if the character’s hair is shown getting messy in battle and is neat immediately afterwards with no explanation that would make it a continuity issue.
I should probably take this someplace else, because I am not really offended by the hair in this show. It’s pretty much every other show where it drives me nuts that you see a woman dragged by her hair, and a moment later, her hair is still perfect. Or she falls into a pool, and comes out and still has a perfect part.
I think it was the original LotR movies where there was a scene where someone’s hand was shown to be dirty, and it was all wrong – the dirt was on the upper surfaces, and not in the crevasses, as if dirt had just been painted on. Anyone who has every actually had dirty hands knows that the dirt on the high points mostly rubs off, it’s the dirt in the lines and crack and around the edges of the nails that you actually see.
And makeup.
Well fine, if we’re listing nonsense, people seem to spend a lot of time in enclosed space/prisons without pooping or peeing, or even a handy bucket.
They bore me. That’s what I mean when I say they are boring.
Nomads and other itinerant peoples can clean their faces, and they generally do. And the Harfoots often camp near running water and have some water source for daily use.
Different strokes. They were by far the most interesting characters of the show to me with Arondir and Adar tied as fairly distant distant seconds. The dwarves held some interest. Everyone else was boring as hell (to me).
Ive enjoyed the series so far, i agree that some episodes were a bit boring at first, could have moved a few things along quicker, but its been good. Perhaps they will get things rolling in the next season.
Why? It’s not like they’re eating a lot of refined sugars. Ancient (pre-farming) people had better teeth than us.
Elves, of course, are perfect and never suffer tooth decay. I’m sure that’s in a lost Letter somewhere 
The harfoots are clearly using dirt as camouflage, that’s why they have all that crap in their hair all the time, too.
I’ve wondered where they get all those plastic acorns they adorn themselves with, though.
A wizard did it.
Human and Elven physical bodies are made of the same stuff, the “magic” really comes from how their underlying fëar manages to inhabit their physical shells.
Though re-reading about fëar and thinking of the moriquendi I wonder if the show runners were going for moirquendi spirits bound to physical form by Sauron for the 3 cultists.
From plastic oak trees, of course.
It occurs to me at the end, Halabrand does what Boromir says couldn’t be done: he simply walks into Mordor.
I heard an interesting interview on NPR adjacent to my issues with this show. It was with some guy who is a birdwatcher. And he said that being a birdwatcher ruins movies and TV for him. Whenever a show has bird song in the background, it’s never suitable to the location and time of year. He’ll be watching a scene set in Italy, and the soundtrack includes songs from a Californian jay and a Carolina wren. And it just yanks him right out of the show. Couldn’t they do minimal research to get the birds right?
Maybe i just care more about sailing than the rest of you? And the physical nature of stuff? I don’t mind if a fantasy makes up some new rules and sticks to them, in fact, a world with different rules is part of the fun. When Galadrial sees shore before the humans, it’s because the earth is flat, and nothing is actually below the horizon. But Galadrial yanking in that stick when she was on the little flotsam raft just drove me nuts.
You think I don’t care about e.g. geology, geography, or basic physics? I care about things like that very much. Yet the completely fantastical vulcanology and mineralogy on display in the show doesn’t ruin my enjoyment one little bit. Because it’s not a science documentary. It’s a movie that, as you know, is set on a Flat Earth to start off with. Physics is clearly not a thing that needs concern us here.
It’s like how the question of where the everloving fuck everyone, but especially the Harfoots, gets all that fabric tweaks at the medievalist in me - we never see anyone (especially women) spinning yarn, an activity that should take up all their Valardamned time. But that’s a bit of realism that’s never going to show up on film, and that’s sort of OK*. So I’ll call it out briefly (as I did earlier in this thread) as amusing trivia, and then let it go.
* Not entirely OK, though, because it seriously skews popular perceptions of women’s labour contributions to Medieval economies, but that’s a rant for another time.
I think the difference is that for me, I don’t expect minimal research. I expect nothing. That way I’m always pleasantly surprised when some production does get something right.
Sailing specifically: sure, maybe. Other stuff: I think most people have just learned to ignore it.
Almost every sci-fi show/movie with spaceships has them flying around as if they were aircraft. They’re built wrong, often with useless wings or the like, and even counting warp drive they move too fast. Basically every single thing is wrong with them. But somehow I’ve learned to live with it, and even get excited by it.
Computers are not handled well in general. Hacking scenes are largely nonsense. Things that should be instant happen just slowly enough to cause tension, but things that should be slow are sped up to not be boring. They aren’t capable of “enhancing” an image to arbitrary detail.
Just two personal bugbears that I’ve largely learned to ignore. For my dad, it’s cars: hearing a car upshifting through like a dozen gears, or seeing a car be called year X when clearly some feature didn’t appear until year Y (or was discontinued at Z). I’m sure doctors are horrified at what passes for medicine on TV/movies. And, well, birdsong is a new one to me. I don’t spend a single millisecond thinking about birds singing, but for an ornithologist that might be the only thing they’re thinking about.
Now, to a large extent I agree with your comment about inventing some new rules and sticking to them. But ultimately, even that is too much for the average show. They just can’t (or won’t) hire subject matter experts for every single thing that appears in the show. If nothing else, the story would die by committee–you’d be unable to get anything done if you had to rework key scenes just to make every one of your 200 experts happy.
Birdsong is a new one to me, too. I even recognize a handful of birds, but that’s a detail I’ve never thought about in a movie.
Surely, the migratory harfoots must need to buy their fabric from other peoples? Do they even keep sheep?
But i suppose that’s a bit like how we never see anything like a latrine.
Also, thanks for the link. That’s quite interesting, and i learned what a distaff is. I’ve done a little drop spinning (a friend was into it, and even kept alpacas and angora rabbits to feed her passion) but she used a ziplock bag, not a distaff.
The other people they seem to avoid like the plague?
Also, they don’t look like having a monetary economy (despite Poppy having octagonal metal coins in her hair…)
Not that we saw. Although wild sheep can also have their wool gathered. Or other animals like goats: Pacific North-West inhabitants gathered wild goat wool to make blankets. Although some kept other animals for this.
But a lot of their clothing looks to be either cotton or linen, which … I guess you could gather wild nettles and the like, but the processing there is an industry in-and-of-itself.
Now, don’t get me wrong - it’s not out of the real of possibility for non-sedentary hunter-gatherers to develop trade relationships with settled agriculturalists - I know of a couple such relationships involving San Bushmen and Bantu farmers. But the Harfoots aren’t actually presented as amenable to that sort of thing.
So my head-canon is that the nearest Elves annually just drop a few bolts of cloth somewhere the Harfoots are sure to stumble on it, as a sort of non-interfering charity effort. The Harfoots literally think cloth grows on trees.