12:02 I remember Bernard Hill talking about the beautifully crafted sun insignia on the _inside_ of his armor, placed there for no other reason than the Weta Workshop crew believed it would be there on the King's armor. It was never shown on camera. It was never meant to be shown on camera. It was there for love of the craft. Now we have foam sword that doesn't fit in foam scabbard. This feels like contempt.
The more I watch the countless hours of behind-the-scenes of PJ’s LOTR, the more I realize how much heart and soul was put into making it, regardless if you’re a lead actor, costume designer, miniature sculptor or just one of the thousands of extras required to film a battle sequence? The creators of this dreck of a series, are creatively bankrupt and downright lazy.
Even in The Hobbit movies, when Bard's in the jail cell; every slip of paper on the wall is a handwritten arrest warrant detailing names, crime and length of punishment.
Especially since bracing the walls would be next to useless in a situation where the fantasy siege equipment intends to pull in the opposite direction. This show is insanely stupid from start to finish.
I think it’s possible to do. But, you would need someone who really really knew the lore, was a great writer, and had the ability to create a great show. Unfortunately, that’s not the route Amazon took
Celebrian: MOM why are you kissing my husband? arwen: DAD? GRANDMA WHAT THE HELL!? (I think this kiss was the real reason why celebrian was leaving middle earth for good)
@@jonathangallegos8235 It defenatly was , otherwise how can they explain Elrond kissing his mother in law... Are all the show runners from Alabama or something , because that was just desgusting.
Idk how they managed to make every single elf look like a complete bozo, literally none of them look, act or talk like a being that is either hundreds or thousands of years old.
This. Literally every elf in LotR, even random soldiers in Helms Deep or courtiers in Rivendell look genuine and somehow angelic. Compared to the Julius Caesar Elrond and Celebrimbor, not to mention multicultural elves lol.
Totally disagree about it being fan fiction. No fan would come up with this garbage and insult the source material like Amazon have allowed these jokers to.
Tbf, Eomer’s sword straight up fell out of its scabbard as he rode off in the Two Towers. Original trilogy fans know what I’m talking about.. still, in a pile of shit, this is simply another turd
Celebrimbor in the lore is an absolute unit. He was a warrior and blacksmith. A lord and mighty elf. How do you think he become lord in the first place. Who the hell is this frumpy grandpa? The elves are ageless. Now some might say OH BUT ELROND IN LOTR TRILOGY DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT! He's a half-elf so him looking a little tired or aged from a few thousand years is understandable, maybe not 100% accurate to how Tolkien would show him but it makes sense that a half elf would look different from an elf. Now anyway, After the sacking of Eregion (btw Galadriel's husband is supposed to be here in this fight) when he's captured and under torture he only ever revealed where the nine and seven were, as they would become known. He did not ever say anything about the three, keeping them a secret. That is hugely important in lore as him knowing of their existence could change key events and how he would play them. The elven rings had a chance of corruption and him knowing of them would make him very eager to get them or do something else to them. Now whether might or might not have been corrupted is worthless discussion as the logic is simple because there is a chance of it, the elves wouldn't use them. None of the elves dared use them while the one ring was in Sauron's possession. Too much risk and he might have had influence over them just as much as the others. It's only after the one ring disappears that they use them to do things like creating barriers around their lands and so on. I also heavily dislike this portrayal of Sauron as a deceiver, illusions are a very easy to get discovered by beings who are just as part of the unseen world as Sauron is. Magic (as we mortals call it) isn't exactly unknown to the elves. He would refrain as much as possible from this and while he might have used lighter forms of magic but using illusions any elf would like be hey yo, wtf is wrong with this room? It's also way too quick, the deception is slow and careful. Sauron wasn't a hasty creature, he would live a long time. What's the rush. Six hundred years is nothing to him. Even in lore Celebrimbor doesn't fully trust him, and it's the smiths who ultimately fall under his control or deceit. We know this because as soon as Annatar goes on his holiday to make the one Ring, Celebrimbor makes the three. Oh yes I make secret rings from a super well trusted friend, all the time. It's like a hobby. He's also displaying power that ultimately makes the one ring seem rather pathetic. The one ring with all his malice and so on, took what months to get a grip on Frodo? Years for Gollum? Years for Bilbo? Yet Sauron can make elves turn on each other without the ring when they've known each other for what a few days? Also guards trusting any stranger, lol. Oh I bet we'll never see that power again.
I read that Elrond aged until he was 24 as a usual man then when he chose the life of Elves his aging slowed until he aged about 5 years for every thousand years. Since Elrond was over 6000 years in lord of the rings he would have looked like he was in his 50s I guess. By the way, it's weird how Sauron now has almost Sith powers. Ignoring Tolkien and just making it fantasy. This makes Sauron too powerful. If he can turn elves on each other and rule over them by mind without any rings then why does he need rings? Why was he even killed by the orc's? He could have just stopped them from attacking. Any battle where someone attacks him could turn into a suicide by the attacker. He can throw people by waving his hand. Why even use a weapon? It's the superman problem. Every time writers made him too good they had to invent something that made him weak again. Instead of not overpowering in the first place. Saurons powers will either be officially nerfed in the show somehow or they will just not be mentioned again leavening viewers wondering why Sauron just doesn't use them
By this time in the lore Galadriel is the most powerful sorceress in Middle-Earth. Any illusions or mind control Sauron conjured up would've immediately been detected by her, and his identity revealed. I hate this show.
If only we could replace Jeff Bozo with you. We'd have one of the greatest tv shows of all time. But alas we can't. So we're left with this steaming pile of woke sh1t!!!
these elves being multicultural essentially means that you can't tell who the elves are, where there from or if they're even elves... they just look like any other mixed race, multicultural gang of people. gone are all the discernible elfy features.
i think it's the way the special effects are made: in the lotr movies, elves had a shine to their hair, a bit like how they're described in the movies. Also their personalities, which were angelic, a bit out of this world. I don't care the ethnic origins of the actors, but I think this part could be better.
@@ClaraWeirdoMiss i agree their presentation but i do care about the ethnicity because one thing you do need is a coherent world. so we really do need a bit of explanation as to where these dark skinned elves come from for example and how these different clans and races have integrated.
@@garyg1705 Couple years back I had a couple TTRPG sessions set in Middle Earth with friends. One of the guys created a black elf character, and the story behind it was that he was descended from some elves that fled after Morgoth discovered the elves at Cuiviénen. They built an elaborate culture, language etc entirely removed from the Elves we all know. The character spoke a language similar to that of the Druedain (they come from very far east in the Legendarium) as a secondary, which allowed communication. They weren't as insular as western Elves, due to not having lands where Men were forbidden to go, so intermixing was more common, which made them take on the features of local humans over time
@@k.v.7681 sounds cool. unfortunately rop made no attempt to address that instead just opting for all groups from all parts of middle earth to be a diverse bunch of sub saharan african, north european, east asian... it's very jarring and doesn't create a conerent world
@@garyg1705because what was stated would be Nationalism and inspire Nationalism and that’s a big “no-no.” The powers that be (read:Jews) don’t want Nationalism because it makes it impossible to take over White Nations which you need to conquer the World.
I swear to God, it's almost like Amazon's saying, "If you don't stop crying, we'll give you something to cry about!" They're straight up deliberately trolling and rubbing it in at this point.
Rings of Money laundering 😮 Okay but seriously...where TF is the money allocated to this show ? Theres no way its themost "expensive" TV show ever made.
We must not forget all the modern grifters like cosplay stress therapeuts, horse counselors, sensibility readers, feng shui advisors, business communicators, vegan catering mentors, diversity experts and such on the set. Not to talk about all the "directors": flower placement director, stonework colouring director, horse shit shape director... That's what is blowing modern budgets out of the water. The people who actually work like building the sets and props, catering, lighting, sound etc. I think don't see much money. OK I take that back, the horses deserve a counselor.
@@FalkFlak We have real world proof. Elon Musk bought Twitter and fired 80% of the staff without much long term damage. There is nothing that can waste money the way progressives can
The buildup to the Troll was also hilarious. "Oh dont release him, he will kill our own men". Proceeds to die like a bitch after killing about 3 Orks and 4 Elves
@@ChopSueyyy He was pushed to the ground by an elf jumping on him. Remember elves in the hobbit? When Legolas jumped on falling rocks because elves weigh so little being etheral beings. So the troll fell by being hit by a slight breeze.
@@flabbergast_se Elves don't really weigh less, though, it's a type of magic. If that weren't the case they'd be swung away like ragdolls by a light breeze, as they would have the density of cork (which is necessary to walk on snow, which he does in the books). And yes, he can physically jump off of falling rocks. I've seen the calculations and it doesn't require as low density as walking on snow. This means their weight is necessarily dependent on what they themselves want it to be in that moment.
@@Arcessitor they exist in both planes at the same time. And no, a wind would not affect them since the wind would not affect them on the other plane. But even a dwarf would jump he wouldnt be able to stagger the troll. If elves could do this then they could easily run down the orcs. Just a line with elves and shields that jump against the orcs and make them fall. Or would the orcs be more stable than trolls?
And just like with Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Witcher and Star Trek - I just stopped caring. By this point allmost every movie/book-series I loved has been reduced to rubble.
Same. And I could add Halo (TV show and latest game), Percy Jackson (both movie adaptation and the current TV series) to that list. Let's just hope they're kind to the source material in the Harry Potter TV series in a few years time
@@crazyralph6386 Don't forget the video games as well. It's indeed a massive movement to destroy our entertainment. The reason for this is unknown but my bet is that people have less and less enjoyment in their lives that they are reduced more and more to corporation robots. Just my bet, idk...
Why does it feel like this whole series is a tax-write off for Amazon? Last I heard the series has cost almost 2 billion at this point with 3 seasons left. That is impossible unless someone is actively stealing funds or they are spending way too much on getting bot traction online
They really put "Orc" in orchestra. It is nice to listen to the music as an individual song. But putting it in Rings Of Power makes me think that Orcs have a culture and music is a part of it - which is meaningless.
@@DonatoColangelo of course not but I expected at least some level of spectacle. All we got was like 30 elves dying to 100 orcs. Boromir does better than freaking Gil-Galad's entire army.
@@Will_Parker yeah, I know what you mean. It's the same general take of the production of this series: it seems they have been cheap on several things, including the numbers of extras and the sets. Fortunately it is the most expensive series ever made. I wonder what did they do with the mountain of money Amazon claimed to have destined to the series. I'm beginning to believe that that "1 billion $" was a fake figure, a lie spread to attract more people to the show.
They assassinated celebrimbor completely. They took an awesome character with so much potential, and turned him into a blubbering old man. All these "fans" talking about "OMG, hot sauron" don't know they were cheated out of canonically beautiful and crafty celebrimbor. The deranged, angry, and slightly dark celebrimbor from Shadow of Mordor, may have not been lore accurate, but he was definitely closer than... whatever this old goat is supposed to be.
Bonus insult with that atrocious acting with atrocious script. Compare this to FROM's S03 end of episode 1? Like comparing a plankton to a majestic whale. You can actually experience Boyd's anguish and despair, unlike Unattractive Old Man Celebrimbor here. Sad for the actor for being given a shitty script with shitty direction.
14:30 That was the single worst moment of the entire show so far. If I had an inkling to give any shred of benefit of doubt to the showrunners that maybe they had read a single page of source material and genuinely thought they were doing it justice, they burned it in an instant with that kiss.
(7:15) But I got to say, i fell bad for the actor who plays Celebrimbor, cause he's great. The scene where he discovers the city is actually destroyed is really good, he delivers. The problem is the writing for the entire show, who takes the talent os some of the actors and throws in the trash
@@chriss3276 ho. ly. fook. a grown human adult decided that was a good idea? wow. that is unbelievable. that is beyond insane. they really didn't have a clue what they were doing.
I like that sort of music, but c'mon! Tolkien! Why! _(I guess this was some sort of homage to the orcs. But this was one of the ways Vikings sang. So it's so disrespectful on so many levels and ways.)_
ELROND IS MARRIED TO GALADRIEL'S DAUGHTER! WTF?! Why would he be kissing his mother-in-law like that?! Where's Celebrían? Elrond married her very early in the Second Age over a thousand years before the invasion of Eregion was even supposed to happen?!
No, he married her in the third age. Around 1500SA Galadriel took Celebrian and founded what is later to be Lothlorien while Celeborn stayed behind... Probably because he hated Dwarves. Anyway, Celeborn fought in the Siege of Eregion. I guess in RoP Galadriel is just going to marry Elrond and give birth to Arwen or something. Gross.
@@GabrielleduVent But Elrond met Celebrian 1700SA and fall in love with her then, when she was about 1500 years old herself alredy. And this was ca 1500 years before Isildur was even born, so even if they compress the timeline, Elrond should have been in love with an adult Celebrian for several centuries by now. It is just that elves do not marry in war times - and it was war times the whole time through.
Does anyone remember a show called "Mystic Knights"'? It was a strange cross between Xena and Power Rangers... only in very, very, very cheap. They had a better quality in Amor.......
Arondir is the pivotal character in the Rings of Power. A competent warden of the Southland would have: 1. Noticed that the 'Southland' is actually not the southernmost territory in MiddleEarth; 2. Noticed that orcs are digging a trench from Mt Doom to the reservoir and called up forces to disperse them; 3. Noticed that the orcs had assembled another large army; 4. Noticed that the other orcs were building a number of siege machines and inferred an intention to use them against a large fortified position; 5. Alerted his superiors of 3 and 4 above, e.g. by telling Galadriel about the siege forces before she sets off back to Eregion with Sauron. If Arondir had done his job properly, none of the disastrous events in the Rings of Power would have occurred.
I am out of words i can't use on youtube anyway.. it makes me mad and sad, the more i think about it.. but videos like yours are cathartic and give hope to see as many cool people feeling exactly the same way about this Whole LotR love ❤ (the real one)
It's unbelievable how many hours of illogical nonsense with bad actors and costumes are being put on. I haven't seen something so ridiculously dumb in a long time. Stay positive! It's so terrible that I found myself laughing out loud in many places, more than I have in ages!
Elrond stopping the charge makes absolutely no sense. For one, once the charge hits the point that they're close enough that they go full out, there's pretty much no stopping it. That's a lot of horses making a ton of noise with riders focused on what's right in front of them. For another, why would he stop? She's in a cage, which the charge would sweep around the sides of anyway. And, sure, they might off her, but a) he's a warrior, she's a warrior, and that's part of war, b) he also knows a good chunk of the elves riding with him, and at least some of them will die when that charge hits home, and c) the most likely outcome of him stopping is the orcs then charging into his troops, who have now lost their advantage. It is just laughably bad and stupid.
Celebrimbor and Galadriel are supposed to be the mightiest elves of their age. Oh. Dear. And they do not know anything about historical warfare. Ugh. I am so happy that J.R.R. Tolkien or his son Christopher do not see this mess.
"The best episode of TV this year" when literally every episode of HOTD, even the disappointing finale episode, was better? Hell Episode 4 was how you do a dang battle sequence.
They wanted that Asian actress to be the Sean Bean Fellowship scene so bad it isn't even funny. My wife and I laughed when she got shot up after saying she would do her best not to miss. This show is junk food, expensive eye candy that is hollow and lacking substance. The Lord of the Rings is like a full course dinner from a 3 star Michelin restaurant.
We should show Celebrimbor Swinging his Smith hammer and marking sparks and flames shooting out like a real Blacksmith,,, NAH we should just show Celebrimbor drinking tea and smiling, then bending a ring together, this will do…WTH???
If you've got trebuchets that can, you know, COLLAPSE A MOUNTAIN, why not just point them at the wall? I've stopped being angry, I've stopped asking questions, now I just wait to see what the next mad thing will be.
🙋♂12:57 The shadows of the horses shows that the sunlight is coming from behind them. It therefore should be shining directly on the front of the orcs. 🤔 18:32 How did she see that bucket from so far away in all the darkness and turmoil of battle? What was in the bucket, C-4? 🙄
- disregards source materials - panders to their own delusional interests - complete disregard for logic - cringe af. .... This is literally fanfiction
5:05 they don’t really try to make the dwarves look small per se, but there’s something to the big bulky handles of their weapons that make them just look like big kids. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Gimli’s axe fit the size of his hand and it still didn’t break the immersion.
OMG thats outro music, om.. omg, wtf, how have they managed to do this, like how do they even have jobs, how on earth did they make to the opportunity to make this crap
Amazing that a company could buy an IP and ruin it more than Disney did Star Wars. I'm betting their scripts are written in crayon from deciphering the sporadic movements of a headless chicken.
I wish people would stop insulting fanfiction. I can't remember ever reading a LotR story that was even a quarter of this mess. And I can certainly produce a list of some great LotR fanfics that would be a much much much better basis for a Tolkien-inspired series.
I need to get that handcuff off of me. I am a the great blacksmith in the most advanced blacksmith's shop in middle earth, surrounded by metalwork tools. I see no way but to cut my finger off.
The way that girl is falling from the wall is pure parody hahaha... And the Orc that said "love you" to Adar, sounded like "shupak", that means asshole in Serbian
The scene with the asian female elf shooting the explosive bucket also has ridiculous continuity error of the arrow sticking straight out of her when she fires her arrow, was not there before as she fell forward (and would have snapped off or been pushed through to other side if it was).
The blatant rip off of Boromirs death and Lurch licking the knife, is just downright embarrassing. And of course Asian Elf lady, took twice as many arrows to die???
My favorite part is when the diverse Asian elf shot an arrow into a bucket filled with nitroglycerin and the wooden device to take down the wall exploded like a car from an 80s TV show😮😂😂
Celebrimbor - the master smith in his workshop can't think of any other way to get out of chains than cutting off his thumb🤔 and as much as i love Bear Mccreary's work and was happy he improved music for this season that orc metal during credits was absolutely awful
There's a great tv show from 1997-98 of "The Magnificent Seven" (stars actors like Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Anthony Starke, Laurie Holden, Robert Vaughn himself). In the first episode, Michael Biehn's character gets out of his shackles. By DISLOCATING his thumb - there is no reason for Celebrimbor to slice his thumb off. Even if he somehow couldn't use any of his tools (that were within hands reach) to do anything to the shackles themselves. My mind just instantly flashed to the Mag 7 pilot episode at that moment (at this point, I just watch Disparu's reviews of the episodes (of a lot of shows) with my face in a frozen numb 'WTF' expression at the actual clips. My only emotion is to laugh at his quips).
Wow. This oddly feels personal now. How could they do that to Celebrimbor, Galadriel and Elrond in one single episode?! I was expecting something incoherent, contrived and overly dramatic, yes, but not such a direct fuck you. 😂
Seriously where did all the money go? Sure there are some decent panorama shots and effects, the orks here look fine but all the armour looks like shit. I've seen larpers with better armour. And every single set/scene looks so small. Even the fires at night that should have felt threatening just felt like a few campfires with maybe 50-100 orks max. This sgow is supposed to have the highest budget of any tv series ever but even the first season of game of thrones dealt with scale better and had way vetter looking armour and clothes than this pile of trash. Either amazon uses the show to launder money or one or more people filled their pockets.
not only can one elf by jumping on an arm hold down the vicious troll, but it seems the smithing techniques are lacking for the swords. Elrond needed at least 20 cuts to sever the rope. But it needed to be more exciting for the plot..
I’ve worked on Vikings & Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel”… I can honestly tell you this, the money is definitely sitting in someone’s pockets because there is no way it went into the costumes, set designs, cgi, script or actors, etc… This is just painful 😂😂😂
@@ymca4547 I also didn’t bother with it to be honest haha weirdly enough, many of us who were on set haven’t watched the shows we were on, given that we already knew what was happening most of the time haha
Copper is actually comparable to iron in terms of durability. Copper gave way to iron not because iron was better, but because iron is much more common despite being harder to work with.
When I read the books, and the supernatural powers of the Rings were stated, I visualised them being forged in the medieval equivalent of a CERN particle accelerator - something very special must have been done to them. This show depicts Celebrimbor holding a cheap-looking strip of metal in.... his.... hands. His HANDS. He joins the ends. There is a Special Effect : a little flash of light. And that's all. The magical forge of my imagination, laughs at this cheap scene. A real smith who makes non magical rings, would laugh at this cheap scene. THE ENDS OF THE CHEAP STRIP AREN'T EVEN PARALLEL.
That kiss was middle aged women in the writer's room hating on younger women and daughters, in their delusionary minds thinking that son in laws secretly fancy them instead.
Haha, I never considered that possibility! It's a ridiculous idea to begin with, because if I fancied my girlfriend's mom more than her, I'd dump her and go looking for a woman like the mom than the girlfriend, I sure as hell wouldn't marry the inferior version and secretely pine over her mom! 😄
No, he doesn't. He kisses his first cousin thrice removed. Elrond doesn't married her daughter till over 1500 years later, so she's not his mother-in-law at that point. At that point he hadn't even met his future wife Celebrían, Galadriel's daughter, yet.
This show really does seem like a purposeful parody. Like Scary Movie, it takes the popular tropes from the original LOTR movies and it remakes them hilariously poorly and does comical impressions of what was made popular decades prior.
12:02
I remember Bernard Hill talking about the beautifully crafted sun insignia on the _inside_ of his armor, placed there for no other reason than the Weta Workshop crew believed it would be there on the King's armor. It was never shown on camera. It was never meant to be shown on camera. It was there for love of the craft. Now we have foam sword that doesn't fit in foam scabbard. This feels like contempt.
There's got to be some hardcore money laundering scheme going on with Amazon. I refuse to believe otherwise.
RIP Bernard Hill.
Maybe you got foam swords that don't fit into foam scabbards. I don't cause I'll never watch this garbage show.
Sums up the difference in the approach very well.
The more I watch the countless hours of behind-the-scenes of PJ’s LOTR, the more I realize how much heart and soul was put into making it, regardless if you’re a lead actor, costume designer, miniature sculptor or just one of the thousands of extras required to film a battle sequence? The creators of this dreck of a series, are creatively bankrupt and downright lazy.
Even in The Hobbit movies, when Bard's in the jail cell; every slip of paper on the wall is a handwritten arrest warrant detailing names, crime and length of punishment.
Reinforcing the walls mid battle, what is this, Fortnite?
Especially since bracing the walls would be next to useless in a situation where the fantasy siege equipment intends to pull in the opposite direction. This show is insanely stupid from start to finish.
Should have built a cheesy staircase instead.
To be fair.... they did that at Helms deep....
@@Winaska that was a gate
not wall
I'm pretty sure more thought was put into Fortnite (much as I dislike it) than this garbage.
It is the peak of hubris to think you can write the 'lost Tolkien' chapters. Like thinking you can write the missing Mozart Sonatas. Just pure hubris.
The streaming wars. They need so much content to keep it going so they just churn out slop. Hubris, perhaps, but more cynicism I think.
Very well put!
No. As an old female girl-boss Star Fleet Admiral (caught on camera) once said: "Shear. Fucking. Hubris!"
I think it’s possible to do. But, you would need someone who really really knew the lore, was a great writer, and had the ability to create a great show. Unfortunately, that’s not the route Amazon took
sheer fooking hubris even
I want to reiterate:
Elrond.
Kisses.
His *_MOTHER-IN-LAW!!_*
Celebrian: MOM why are you kissing my husband?
arwen: DAD? GRANDMA WHAT THE HELL!?
(I think this kiss was the real reason why celebrian was leaving middle earth for good)
Someone tell Celeborn!! Tell me, where is Celeborn? For I much desire to speak with him.
@@OUKIKO I think he is happy to be not a part in this show
Kiss him goodbye
@@OUKIKO the hobbits the hobbits. to isengard to isengard. dun dun dun dun dun dun. dun dun dun.
The sound that came out of my mouth when I saw them kiss... you would think I was a freshly stepped on bird...
I had to pause it and take a few profoundly deep breaths. This is such blasphemy, I can not even ...
I started gagging and the hairs on my arms stood up, never knew something can induce a reaction like that.
How do you know how that sounds? 😂
Is he still gonna marry her daughter after? Elves are pretty kinky, I guess this is why they needed intimacy coordinators.
@@LukasJampen 👀🤫
All those Orc children who are waiting for daddy to come home .
Orc lives matter.
🤣🤣🤣 Gil-ga-daddy ? lolz
I would only be Scared of Disa if I was standing between her and the Golden Corral buffet 😮😱
“Oh won’t someone please think of the Orc children!”
Its soo bad! orcs dont have babys or familythey are pure evil
100% agree that the kiss was a fuck you to the fans. Because if they were making this show for anyone but idiots, they never would have included it.
They already said that the kiss is literally a ragebait
and a service to those few fans who get off this shipping nonsense though I imagine most of them are Team Saladriel
@@jonathangallegos8235 It defenatly was , otherwise how can they explain Elrond kissing his mother in law... Are all the show runners from Alabama or something , because that was just desgusting.
When I saw it I was like "hey thats incest"
@@bambostarla6259 They saw this theme getting popular in porn, so they tried to use it in high fantasy TV show.
Idk how they managed to make every single elf look like a complete bozo, literally none of them look, act or talk like a being that is either hundreds or thousands of years old.
This. Literally every elf in LotR, even random soldiers in Helms Deep or courtiers in Rivendell look genuine and somehow angelic. Compared to the Julius Caesar Elrond and Celebrimbor, not to mention multicultural elves lol.
Totally disagree about it being fan fiction. No fan would come up with this garbage and insult the source material like Amazon have allowed these jokers to.
The sword not fitting into its sheath detail that you pointed out is absolutely baffling. 💀 This show is such a circus. 😅
Foam weapons really
Tbf, Eomer’s sword straight up fell out of its scabbard as he rode off in the Two Towers. Original trilogy fans know what I’m talking about.. still, in a pile of shit, this is simply another turd
TBF, warriors often pulled their swords a few cm out of the scabbard before the battle to make sure it didn't jam in the scabbard at the last moment.
@@seethroughlife1481 thats the only big flaw of pj original trilogy
Celebrimbor in the lore is an absolute unit. He was a warrior and blacksmith. A lord and mighty elf. How do you think he become lord in the first place. Who the hell is this frumpy grandpa? The elves are ageless. Now some might say OH BUT ELROND IN LOTR TRILOGY DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT! He's a half-elf so him looking a little tired or aged from a few thousand years is understandable, maybe not 100% accurate to how Tolkien would show him but it makes sense that a half elf would look different from an elf.
Now anyway, After the sacking of Eregion (btw Galadriel's husband is supposed to be here in this fight) when he's captured and under torture he only ever revealed where the nine and seven were, as they would become known. He did not ever say anything about the three, keeping them a secret. That is hugely important in lore as him knowing of their existence could change key events and how he would play them. The elven rings had a chance of corruption and him knowing of them would make him very eager to get them or do something else to them. Now whether might or might not have been corrupted is worthless discussion as the logic is simple because there is a chance of it, the elves wouldn't use them. None of the elves dared use them while the one ring was in Sauron's possession. Too much risk and he might have had influence over them just as much as the others. It's only after the one ring disappears that they use them to do things like creating barriers around their lands and so on.
I also heavily dislike this portrayal of Sauron as a deceiver, illusions are a very easy to get discovered by beings who are just as part of the unseen world as Sauron is. Magic (as we mortals call it) isn't exactly unknown to the elves. He would refrain as much as possible from this and while he might have used lighter forms of magic but using illusions any elf would like be hey yo, wtf is wrong with this room? It's also way too quick, the deception is slow and careful. Sauron wasn't a hasty creature, he would live a long time. What's the rush. Six hundred years is nothing to him. Even in lore Celebrimbor doesn't fully trust him, and it's the smiths who ultimately fall under his control or deceit. We know this because as soon as Annatar goes on his holiday to make the one Ring, Celebrimbor makes the three. Oh yes I make secret rings from a super well trusted friend, all the time. It's like a hobby. He's also displaying power that ultimately makes the one ring seem rather pathetic. The one ring with all his malice and so on, took what months to get a grip on Frodo? Years for Gollum? Years for Bilbo? Yet Sauron can make elves turn on each other without the ring when they've known each other for what a few days? Also guards trusting any stranger, lol. Oh I bet we'll never see that power again.
I read that Elrond aged until he was 24 as a usual man then when he chose the life of Elves his aging slowed until he aged about 5 years for every thousand years.
Since Elrond was over 6000 years in lord of the rings he would have looked like he was in his 50s I guess.
By the way, it's weird how Sauron now has almost Sith powers. Ignoring Tolkien and just making it fantasy. This makes Sauron too powerful. If he can turn elves on each other and rule over them by mind without any rings then why does he need rings? Why was he even killed by the orc's? He could have just stopped them from attacking.
Any battle where someone attacks him could turn into a suicide by the attacker. He can throw people by waving his hand. Why even use a weapon?
It's the superman problem. Every time writers made him too good they had to invent something that made him weak again. Instead of not overpowering in the first place.
Saurons powers will either be officially nerfed in the show somehow or they will just not be mentioned again leavening viewers wondering why Sauron just doesn't use them
By this time in the lore Galadriel is the most powerful sorceress in Middle-Earth. Any illusions or mind control Sauron conjured up would've immediately been detected by her, and his identity revealed.
I hate this show.
Literally fought in battles with multiple balrogs and shit… who is this whiney bitch?
He has the blood of FEANOR. He should have been portrayed as a mighty, cunning sigma. But what can we expect...
If only we could replace Jeff Bozo with you. We'd have one of the greatest tv shows of all time. But alas we can't. So we're left with this steaming pile of woke sh1t!!!
these elves being multicultural essentially means that you can't tell who the elves are, where there from or if they're even elves... they just look like any other mixed race, multicultural gang of people. gone are all the discernible elfy features.
i think it's the way the special effects are made: in the lotr movies, elves had a shine to their hair, a bit like how they're described in the movies. Also their personalities, which were angelic, a bit out of this world. I don't care the ethnic origins of the actors, but I think this part could be better.
@@ClaraWeirdoMiss i agree their presentation but i do care about the ethnicity because one thing you do need is a coherent world. so we really do need a bit of explanation as to where these dark skinned elves come from for example and how these different clans and races have integrated.
@@garyg1705 Couple years back I had a couple TTRPG sessions set in Middle Earth with friends. One of the guys created a black elf character, and the story behind it was that he was descended from some elves that fled after Morgoth discovered the elves at Cuiviénen. They built an elaborate culture, language etc entirely removed from the Elves we all know. The character spoke a language similar to that of the Druedain (they come from very far east in the Legendarium) as a secondary, which allowed communication. They weren't as insular as western Elves, due to not having lands where Men were forbidden to go, so intermixing was more common, which made them take on the features of local humans over time
@@k.v.7681 sounds cool. unfortunately rop made no attempt to address that instead just opting for all groups from all parts of middle earth to be a diverse bunch of sub saharan african, north european, east asian... it's very jarring and doesn't create a conerent world
@@garyg1705because what was stated would be Nationalism and inspire Nationalism and that’s a big “no-no.” The powers that be (read:Jews) don’t want Nationalism because it makes it impossible to take over White Nations which you need to conquer the World.
I swear to God, it's almost like Amazon's saying, "If you don't stop crying, we'll give you something to cry about!" They're straight up deliberately trolling and rubbing it in at this point.
Rings of Money laundering 😮
Okay but seriously...where TF is the money allocated to this show ? Theres no way its themost "expensive" TV show ever made.
We must not forget all the modern grifters like cosplay stress therapeuts, horse counselors, sensibility readers, feng shui advisors, business communicators, vegan catering mentors, diversity experts and such on the set.
Not to talk about all the "directors": flower placement director, stonework colouring director, horse shit shape director...
That's what is blowing modern budgets out of the water. The people who actually work like building the sets and props, catering, lighting, sound etc. I think don't see much money.
OK I take that back, the horses deserve a counselor.
@@FalkFlak The concept of "bullshit jobs" is on the rise in every industry.
Looks shit often. House of Dragons looks ten times better and is not nearly as expensive.
@@FalkFlaknon binary horses 😂
@@FalkFlak We have real world proof.
Elon Musk bought Twitter and fired 80% of the staff without much long term damage.
There is nothing that can waste money the way progressives can
I miss the deranged Celebrimbor from thr Shadows of Mordor...
He was awesome in that game. He would have shoved this Annatar's head into the forge the second he found out he was Sauron.
@@Bonesawisready926 well, he also had a superior version of Annatar, lol.
@@OverLorD768 True true.
Right! How the hell was that project, which _never even claimed_ to be accurate more lore accurate than this billion dollar abortion?
@@t3tsuyaguy1it has a 10x better story, if you let the lore part slide, it has a fantastic story.
The writing of this video is a hundred times better than the writing of the show
Next week: It's over, it's DONE!
It's gone, it's done ❤
Nah 3 more seasons yet.
At some point renegging on the contract will be cheaper, won't it?
@@Jezza_One Those "seasons" might end up being 3 episodes a piece.
Can't wait 😁
Kissing your mother in law is not supposed to exist outside pown.
In which case it should have been him, his wife, and his mother-in-law while Celeborn watches from inside the closet.
This show is really written by some weirdo tumblr deviants with brain damage, isn't it?
I mean, she's not his mother in law yet...
He didn't kiss his mother-in-law, he kissed his first cousin thrice removed. Elrond married her daughter in the third age over 1500 years later.
@@dlxmarksyou mean her daughter?!
Remember when orcs ate their dead raw? Now they burn and mourn them.
How times have changed 😳
They also have families, don't want to go to war and are said, because their daddy Anatar doesn't love them...
Were they burning them or roasting them though? I mean sure raw flesh is tasty but sometimes after a long battle a hot meal is more satisfying!
Amazon: "Get a fire going!!" 😈
@@DrumToTheBassWoop”Yeeeeah, why can’t we have some meats?” 😂
ROP is Tolkien the same way Bridgerton is a documentary about the Victorian era..
Your analogy would be accurate if bridgerton teased its first season as " from the work of Jane Austen"
Bridgerton is fake-Regency, but I take your point.
@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. I thought that was part of their point: even the era's wrong.
I think that’s overly generous to ROP 💀
Or "Hamilton" a documentary about the founding fathers of the US.
The buildup to the Troll was also hilarious. "Oh dont release him, he will kill our own men". Proceeds to die like a bitch after killing about 3 Orks and 4 Elves
WHerE issS Zaur0nn?? 🤬
@@ChopSueyyy He was pushed to the ground by an elf jumping on him. Remember elves in the hobbit? When Legolas jumped on falling rocks because elves weigh so little being etheral beings. So the troll fell by being hit by a slight breeze.
@@flabbergast_se Elves don't really weigh less, though, it's a type of magic. If that weren't the case they'd be swung away like ragdolls by a light breeze, as they would have the density of cork (which is necessary to walk on snow, which he does in the books). And yes, he can physically jump off of falling rocks. I've seen the calculations and it doesn't require as low density as walking on snow. This means their weight is necessarily dependent on what they themselves want it to be in that moment.
@@Arcessitor they exist in both planes at the same time. And no, a wind would not affect them since the wind would not affect them on the other plane. But even a dwarf would jump he wouldnt be able to stagger the troll. If elves could do this then they could easily run down the orcs. Just a line with elves and shields that jump against the orcs and make them fall. Or would the orcs be more stable than trolls?
@@flabbergast_se They probably have the powers of Radahn and can control gravity... but somehow only when Trolls are nearby
don't insult fan fiction, this does not even reach that low bar
and its not made by fans
There are "hate fiction", they basically anti-fanfiction, made by haters. They worse than parody
@@hafirenggayudavery accurate word for Rop
Exactly! Fanfiction is written by people who enjoy a series, and at least TRY to make something good/interesting out of it.
LOTR was never for you right-wing snowflakes lol Go watch mr. birchum
And just like with Star Wars, Game of Thrones, The Witcher and Star Trek - I just stopped caring. By this point allmost every movie/book-series I loved has been reduced to rubble.
Same. And I could add Halo (TV show and latest game), Percy Jackson (both movie adaptation and the current TV series) to that list. Let's just hope they're kind to the source material in the Harry Potter TV series in a few years time
It's like it's on purpose! Destroy everything they love!!! "They" being the average man
They were systematically destroyed on purpose too. All part of the demoralization phase.
@@crazyralph6386 Oh, come on... you don't believe that. 🫠
@@crazyralph6386 Don't forget the video games as well. It's indeed a massive movement to destroy our entertainment. The reason for this is unknown but my bet is that people have less and less enjoyment in their lives that they are reduced more and more to corporation robots. Just my bet, idk...
Why does it feel like this whole series is a tax-write off for Amazon?
Last I heard the series has cost almost 2 billion at this point with 3 seasons left. That is impossible unless someone is actively stealing funds or they are spending way too much on getting bot traction online
...wait.... that was seriously the outro music? I didn't think I could be surprised by their idiocy anymore. I was clearly wrong.
It was the only good part! 😂
It was a travesty.
Yep, I feel exactly the same way. These people…. I mean what the heck is happening?
They really put "Orc" in orchestra.
It is nice to listen to the music as an individual song.
But putting it in Rings Of Power makes me think that Orcs have a culture and music is a part of it - which is meaningless.
@@Knowwhere0724it’s a bad song regardless.
They were so proud of their "TWO WHOLE EPISODES OF BATTLE!" and THIS is the steaming pile of crap they could come up with?
What, did you really expect something good? From these showrunners? 😂
@@DonatoColangelo of course not but I expected at least some level of spectacle. All we got was like 30 elves dying to 100 orcs. Boromir does better than freaking Gil-Galad's entire army.
@@Will_Parker yeah, I know what you mean. It's the same general take of the production of this series: it seems they have been cheap on several things, including the numbers of extras and the sets. Fortunately it is the most expensive series ever made. I wonder what did they do with the mountain of money Amazon claimed to have destined to the series.
I'm beginning to believe that that "1 billion $" was a fake figure, a lie spread to attract more people to the show.
there was no armies jsut two unorganised mob clashing and skirmishing. At least they not went hand to hand this time.
They assassinated celebrimbor completely. They took an awesome character with so much potential, and turned him into a blubbering old man.
All these "fans" talking about "OMG, hot sauron" don't know they were cheated out of canonically beautiful and crafty celebrimbor.
The deranged, angry, and slightly dark celebrimbor from Shadow of Mordor, may have not been lore accurate, but he was definitely closer than... whatever this old goat is supposed to be.
Bonus insult with that atrocious acting with atrocious script. Compare this to FROM's S03 end of episode 1? Like comparing a plankton to a majestic whale. You can actually experience Boyd's anguish and despair, unlike Unattractive Old Man Celebrimbor here. Sad for the actor for being given a shitty script with shitty direction.
14:30 That was the single worst moment of the entire show so far. If I had an inkling to give any shred of benefit of doubt to the showrunners that maybe they had read a single page of source material and genuinely thought they were doing it justice, they burned it in an instant with that kiss.
Yep, sheer stupidity and ignorance. Did these writers even read one Tolkien book???
I can't believe they wasted over a billion dollars to make boring schlop like this.
Somebody with a couple new McLarens is happy they did...
I’m still convinced this show is a money laundering scheme.
@@khfan4life365 It is quite possibly true.
Modified for inflation, the entire original series took 500million. Half than what this did- and it looked so much better 😭
@@OpalLeigh-il8yj Not to mention it was widely successful and made heaps of profit.
(7:15) But I got to say, i fell bad for the actor who plays Celebrimbor, cause he's great. The scene where he discovers the city is actually destroyed is really good, he delivers. The problem is the writing for the entire show, who takes the talent os some of the actors and throws in the trash
This show hurts
Peak capitalism, enjoy.
go watch mr. birchum. It is more of a show for you right-wing snowflakes
@@PROVOCATEURSKpeak post modernism
This show is the equivalent of having dental work without numbing.
“You are He” I wish Sauron’s answer was “I am Him, I was always Him, I will continue to be Him”
It was Sauron all along.
is that not a joke? did that episode really finish with a grungey death metaly screamy track? that really happened?
Yes it really did happen.
@@chriss3276 ho. ly. fook. a grown human adult decided that was a good idea? wow. that is unbelievable. that is beyond insane. they really didn't have a clue what they were doing.
I like that sort of music, but c'mon! Tolkien! Why!
_(I guess this was some sort of homage to the orcs. But this was one of the ways Vikings sang. So it's so disrespectful on so many levels and ways.)_
@@DEATH-THE-GOATVikings sang death metal? It’s disrespecting Vikings to use a death metal song? I’m confused. Can you elaborate please?
@@MJ-gm7km No. Maybe later.
The reviews are more fun than the movies OMG 😅😅😅
ELROND IS MARRIED TO GALADRIEL'S DAUGHTER! WTF?! Why would he be kissing his mother-in-law like that?!
Where's Celebrían? Elrond married her very early in the Second Age over a thousand years before the invasion of Eregion was even supposed to happen?!
No, he married her in the third age. Around 1500SA Galadriel took Celebrian and founded what is later to be Lothlorien while Celeborn stayed behind... Probably because he hated Dwarves. Anyway, Celeborn fought in the Siege of Eregion. I guess in RoP Galadriel is just going to marry Elrond and give birth to Arwen or something. Gross.
@@GabrielleduVent You're right. Thanks for the correction.
@@GabrielleduVent But Elrond met Celebrian 1700SA and fall in love with her then, when she was about 1500 years old herself alredy. And this was ca 1500 years before Isildur was even born, so even if they compress the timeline, Elrond should have been in love with an adult Celebrian for several centuries by now. It is just that elves do not marry in war times - and it was war times the whole time through.
they even said that Melian was ELROND MOTHER!!! They screenwrites don't even read the books right
@@TheAtreyustar When?
Does anyone remember a show called "Mystic Knights"'? It was a strange cross between Xena and Power Rangers... only in very, very, very cheap. They had a better quality in Amor.......
and even a better story, and better characters, I loved this show as a kid 😀 have watched it a few years ago, the story is inspired by irish volk lore
@@annareifer2249 I still have all action figures packed up in storage
I remember.
Liked the opening.
This show makes Arthur and the Knights of Justice look like an accurate retelling of Arthurian legends.
It was a Sam Raimi show!!
Oooh, sounds like a hilarious concept, gotta watch it now 😂😂😂
Arondir is the pivotal character in the Rings of Power. A competent warden of the Southland would have:
1. Noticed that the 'Southland' is actually not the southernmost territory in MiddleEarth;
2. Noticed that orcs are digging a trench from Mt Doom to the reservoir and called up forces to disperse them;
3. Noticed that the orcs had assembled another large army;
4. Noticed that the other orcs were building a number of siege machines and inferred an intention to use them against a large fortified position;
5. Alerted his superiors of 3 and 4 above, e.g. by telling Galadriel about the siege forces before she sets off back to Eregion with Sauron.
If Arondir had done his job properly, none of the disastrous events in the Rings of Power would have occurred.
I blame his absent father.
I am out of words i can't use on youtube anyway.. it makes me mad and sad, the more i think about it.. but videos like yours are cathartic and give hope to see as many cool people feeling exactly the same way about this
Whole LotR love ❤ (the real one)
Prediction for the future.... Expect Guyladriel to turn lesbian at some point... 100%
It's unbelievable how many hours of illogical nonsense with bad actors and costumes are being put on. I haven't seen something so ridiculously dumb in a long time. Stay positive! It's so terrible that I found myself laughing out loud in many places, more than I have in ages!
You probably noticed but none of these battles have any strategy. The two armies just running unorganised and randomly skirmish.
Elrond stopping the charge makes absolutely no sense. For one, once the charge hits the point that they're close enough that they go full out, there's pretty much no stopping it. That's a lot of horses making a ton of noise with riders focused on what's right in front of them. For another, why would he stop? She's in a cage, which the charge would sweep around the sides of anyway. And, sure, they might off her, but a) he's a warrior, she's a warrior, and that's part of war, b) he also knows a good chunk of the elves riding with him, and at least some of them will die when that charge hits home, and c) the most likely outcome of him stopping is the orcs then charging into his troops, who have now lost their advantage.
It is just laughably bad and stupid.
Anyway, for Middle Earth themed/inspired metal, I recommend the band Battlelore. That's what they do, and they know the lore.
This whole RoP debacle has actually become quite fun. They're getting so ridiculous it's legitimate hilarious now.
Celebrimbor and Galadriel are supposed to be the mightiest elves of their age. Oh. Dear. And they do not know anything about historical warfare. Ugh. I am so happy that J.R.R. Tolkien or his son Christopher do not see this mess.
"The best episode of TV this year" when literally every episode of HOTD, even the disappointing finale episode, was better? Hell Episode 4 was how you do a dang battle sequence.
According to ROP, I'd be a master smith cause I can use pliers to bend rings too
That ring looked cheap as fuck
They wanted that Asian actress to be the Sean Bean Fellowship scene so bad it isn't even funny. My wife and I laughed when she got shot up after saying she would do her best not to miss. This show is junk food, expensive eye candy that is hollow and lacking substance. The Lord of the Rings is like a full course dinner from a 3 star Michelin restaurant.
We should show Celebrimbor Swinging his Smith hammer and marking sparks and flames shooting out like a real Blacksmith,,,
NAH we should just show Celebrimbor drinking tea and smiling, then bending a ring together, this will do…WTH???
If you've got trebuchets that can, you know, COLLAPSE A MOUNTAIN, why not just point them at the wall?
I've stopped being angry, I've stopped asking questions, now I just wait to see what the next mad thing will be.
Orcs have mountain breaking catapults but then don't use them to break the walls... This battle was so brain death.
14:00
If you focus you will notice an orc literally looking at elrond as he hands the bead to her.
Imagine if they had put people in charge, who didn’t actually despise Tolkien….
"WTF???"
That's all I've got to say about this show.
Haha. That end credits track had me holding my head in disbelief!!
🙋♂12:57 The shadows of the horses shows that the sunlight is coming from behind them. It therefore should be shining directly on the front of the orcs. 🤔
18:32 How did she see that bucket from so far away in all the darkness and turmoil of battle? What was in the bucket, C-4? 🙄
The Hobbit movies are amazing compared to this show
Yup, and I say that as someone who walked out of the first one and never bothered watching the others! 😄
watcaah the fan edit its actually better and closer to the lore
the lore is so utterly fucked, that it needs to see a doctor to check to see if it has a STD.
This show is so expensive not for production, but to pay people to say and write good things about the show.
That's the only explanation that makes sense.
Disa could barricade a cave with her body. More effective than a snorlax for sure.
- disregards source materials
- panders to their own delusional interests
- complete disregard for logic
- cringe af.
.... This is literally fanfiction
I thought it couldn't get worse, but every time I hear someone talk about it, it sounds like it got *so much worse.*
5:05 they don’t really try to make the dwarves look small per se, but there’s something to the big bulky handles of their weapons that make them just look like big kids. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Gimli’s axe fit the size of his hand and it still didn’t break the immersion.
20:19 team #AdarIsCeleborn looking suspiciously confused.
I was hoping you’d mention the horse drop kicking an orc. That had me dying. Lol
Thank you for taking one for the team and watching this so we don't have to
OMG thats outro music, om.. omg, wtf, how have they managed to do this, like how do they even have jobs, how on earth did they make to the opportunity to make this crap
I thought fighting the walls and floor in Ultima 3 was dumb…. But these Orcs are fighting the mountains.
I just wanna know if the orc baby is doing okay?
Amazing that a company could buy an IP and ruin it more than Disney did Star Wars.
I'm betting their scripts are written in crayon from deciphering the sporadic movements of a headless chicken.
It's not even fan-fiction. More like hate-fiction
Yup its the most anti Tolkien fan fiction ever.
LOTR isnt for right-wing snowflakes.
I wish people would stop insulting fanfiction. I can't remember ever reading a LotR story that was even a quarter of this mess.
And I can certainly produce a list of some great LotR fanfics that would be a much much much better basis for a Tolkien-inspired series.
Jonny’s rop videos are the only ones I care to watch anymore. Not too long, super entertaining. Jonny you’re the 🐐
"They're daming the river"!
🤦🏽♀️ That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works.
I need to get that handcuff off of me. I am a the great blacksmith in the most advanced blacksmith's shop in middle earth, surrounded by metalwork tools. I see no way but to cut my finger off.
Please tell me you made this up?😯
The way that girl is falling from the wall is pure parody hahaha... And the Orc that said "love you" to Adar, sounded like "shupak", that means asshole in Serbian
This stuff happens; Miyazaki made a movie called Laputa, which means "the whore" in Spanish. It's all just sounds at the end of the day.
That ending song was them Orcs screaming in outrage 😭😂
The Stanley pliers are amazing.
The scene with the asian female elf shooting the explosive bucket also has ridiculous continuity error of the arrow sticking straight out of her when she fires her arrow, was not there before as she fell forward (and would have snapped off or been pushed through to other side if it was).
The blatant rip off of Boromirs death and Lurch licking the knife, is just downright embarrassing. And of course Asian Elf lady, took twice as many arrows to die???
My favorite part is when the diverse Asian elf shot an arrow into a bucket filled with nitroglycerin and the wooden device to take down the wall exploded like a car from an 80s TV show😮😂😂
It's a member berry for the Helm's Deep scene
Celebrimbor - the master smith in his workshop can't think of any other way to get out of chains than cutting off his thumb🤔 and as much as i love Bear Mccreary's work and was happy he improved music for this season that orc metal during credits was absolutely awful
There's a great tv show from 1997-98 of "The Magnificent Seven" (stars actors like Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Anthony Starke, Laurie Holden, Robert Vaughn himself). In the first episode, Michael Biehn's character gets out of his shackles. By DISLOCATING his thumb - there is no reason for Celebrimbor to slice his thumb off. Even if he somehow couldn't use any of his tools (that were within hands reach) to do anything to the shackles themselves.
My mind just instantly flashed to the Mag 7 pilot episode at that moment (at this point, I just watch Disparu's reviews of the episodes (of a lot of shows) with my face in a frozen numb 'WTF' expression at the actual clips. My only emotion is to laugh at his quips).
Whats mad.. is that some actual adults watch and enjoy watching this
Wow. This oddly feels personal now. How could they do that to Celebrimbor, Galadriel and Elrond in one single episode?! I was expecting something incoherent, contrived and overly dramatic, yes, but not such a direct fuck you. 😂
Best part about this episode is the harfoots weren’t in it.
Ummmmm?? Eat the bugs?
*mid battle
"Brick layers!!"
Seriously where did all the money go? Sure there are some decent panorama shots and effects, the orks here look fine but all the armour looks like shit. I've seen larpers with better armour. And every single set/scene looks so small. Even the fires at night that should have felt threatening just felt like a few campfires with maybe 50-100 orks max. This sgow is supposed to have the highest budget of any tv series ever but even the first season of game of thrones dealt with scale better and had way vetter looking armour and clothes than this pile of trash. Either amazon uses the show to launder money or one or more people filled their pockets.
No. The orcs look like dried sponges
not only can one elf by jumping on an arm hold down the vicious troll, but it seems the smithing techniques are lacking for the swords. Elrond needed at least 20 cuts to sever the rope. But it needed to be more exciting for the plot..
I like that thicker moustache, Jonny. It looks really good.
Rings of power did one thing right... They brought me Johnny Law
I’ve worked on Vikings & Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel”… I can honestly tell you this, the money is definitely sitting in someone’s pockets because there is no way it went into the costumes, set designs, cgi, script or actors, etc…
This is just painful 😂😂😂
Your thoughts on Valhalla? I didn't bother with it.
@@ymca4547 I also didn’t bother with it to be honest haha weirdly enough, many of us who were on set haven’t watched the shows we were on, given that we already knew what was happening most of the time haha
Copper is actually comparable to iron in terms of durability. Copper gave way to iron not because iron was better, but because iron is much more common despite being harder to work with.
When I read the books, and the supernatural powers of the Rings were stated, I visualised them being forged in the medieval equivalent of a CERN particle accelerator - something very special must have been done to them.
This show depicts Celebrimbor holding a cheap-looking strip of metal in.... his.... hands. His HANDS. He joins the ends. There is a Special Effect : a little flash of light. And that's all.
The magical forge of my imagination, laughs at this cheap scene.
A real smith who makes non magical rings, would laugh at this cheap scene.
THE ENDS OF THE CHEAP STRIP AREN'T EVEN PARALLEL.
That kiss was middle aged women in the writer's room hating on younger women and daughters, in their delusionary minds thinking that son in laws secretly fancy them instead.
Haha, I never considered that possibility! It's a ridiculous idea to begin with, because if I fancied my girlfriend's mom more than her, I'd dump her and go looking for a woman like the mom than the girlfriend, I sure as hell wouldn't marry the inferior version and secretely pine over her mom! 😄
Elrond kisses his mother in law
No, he doesn't. He kisses his first cousin thrice removed. Elrond doesn't married her daughter till over 1500 years later, so she's not his mother-in-law at that point. At that point he hadn't even met his future wife Celebrían, Galadriel's daughter, yet.
Don’t forget they ‘killed off’ Celeborn. THERE IS NO CELEBRIAN.
I just can’t….
This show really does seem like a purposeful parody. Like Scary Movie, it takes the popular tropes from the original LOTR movies and it remakes them hilariously poorly and does comical impressions of what was made popular decades prior.
If only they did them like Scream instead: that was a slasher movie playing with the tropes of slasher movies while still MAKING A GODDAMN GOOD MOVIE!
I'm sure they're making this show terrible on purpose. I would much like to know why.
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
Lasagna works better than copper for armor? Fresh lasagna or dried? Cooked? I suppose the smell of a nice lasagna could distract a hungry opponent. 🤔
Italian is back on the menu boys!