We open on Arondir running in the forest. It looks similar to the area Galadriel was captured. How much time has passed? Is he already in the outskirts of Eregion?

He stops because he hears orcs deserting. The way the dislogue is edited-- I'm positive it's ADR-- makes the conversation feel unnatural. When it cuts to the orcs, it takes an orc a full 4 seconds to reply to his buddy. And they're silent again.

Then the action happens. This was some really bad choreography. An orc jumps Arondir. The other two notice from a ways away. Arondir quickly kills it, but then the other two are suddenly on either side of him. But what's funny is they look woefully unprepared. Like they don't even have their weapons out. They're literally not a threat. Unsurprisingly, they get killed.

Arondir randomly decides to look at a dead orc's arm, where he notices a parchment or cloth, which has a map detailing the plan for the attack on Eregion. Why would they have that map if they're deserters? Holy convenience, Batman!

Now Arondir's gonna come in and save the day next episode. This feels like the writers' response to the criticism of the Numenoreans arriving at the exact village they needed to in the Southlands, except they still didn't put much thought into it.