Ironic that people criticise Nerdrotic for making constant videos and tweets about this show when the alleged superfans have done absolutely NOTHING to cover the show!
This all just goes to show that Amazon knew full well what a mess they had on their hands. Not one of these 'super fans' has a clue what day it is, let alone anything about LOTR or its lore. Just read your scripts and be on your way, you've been used. I hope it paid well.
There is not a single Rings of Power "super fan". There is only twitter clowns wanting to get clout about a garbage show, nothing more. Keep kicking ass on exposing the hypocrites Az, you're awesome!
of course there are "superfans", and there is nothing wrong with it, some people just have bad taste (from my point of view), but of course there are all the other toxic people who try to shut up critics for different stupid reasons ( or money).
Glad your doing a follow up on the “super fans”. Just like the naughty dog shill, sorry I mean naughty dog employee. These people have to be exposed for not only the damage they cause to beloved franchises, but to the fans who keep the franchises healthy.
What Naughty Bitch shill are you referring to though? It still grinds my gears knowing what they did to TLOU... I can only surmise Neil Cuckmann is going to infect the fuck out of the HBO adaption too
I would say Neil Druckman is less evil cos he destroyed "his own franchise" (but false strikes makes him the worst) Solo lost money Fuck ND Fuck superfans
Imagine if Shad Brooks had managed to Mission Impossible his way into the 'super fans' team, with a a clever disguise, like a bigger beard. That would have been glorious.
It makes sense. We all know that they don't know how to write fictional characters. Therefore they are incapable of writing personal backstories for their fictional shills.
@@MapEffects for real it makes Amazon look really bad they pretty much think the Public and Tolkien fans our stupid... we know those kids in the Super Fan never picked up a Tolkien book 📖 let alone even watch a Peter Jackson LOTR/ the Hobbit, Rankin & Bass , Bakshi movie and animation before ... crazy they want to appease the 1%er of people who don't care about Tolkien at all .
"I love this video straight up proof they are not real fans !!" Of course they're not real fans.... They're Super-Fans.... someone cue the Superman theme....
Guess Amazon didn't want to fork out the extra cash to pay these people to actually make content about their show. They probably didn't think anyone would actually follow up on this.
I think it was HelloWorld or some kind of YT channel who said "I don't mind supporting your show" in response to an email inviting them for support and for cash no less from Amazon "PROVIDED I can give my honest opinion on the show since I owe it to my followers." They ghosted them in reply...
No they just thought people would forget about it. But the internet is forever and even if you delete or unlist something there's ALWAYS someone out there who's screen capped or downloaded what you were trying to get rid of. We all knew 8 months ago that these so called "super fans" were paid off by Amazon to give fake praise for their billion dollar train wreck. Their socials were checked months ago and showed no signs of anything Tolkien. They really think that we're all morons with the attention spans of gold fish.
It's actually worse than you say - that first one did a livestream q&a and was asked if she preferred House of the Dragon or Rings of Power. She said she hadn't seen Rings of Power yet and would bring watch it once it was finished, but that she thought House of the Dragon was amazing so it would be hard to beat that. THAT is your "superfan" Amazon???
It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire quality. But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop. And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film. One show to ruin them all.
Chanel did a Q&A recently, someone asked her what she thought of Rings of Power, and she said she's not even watched it yet as she's too invested in the new Game of Thrones. LOTR super Fan.
I was pretty sure we all thought this was fake as hell when it happened 8 months ago? Pointing this out is hilarious though. Sadly, it won't change a damn thing.
The dialogue in the rings of power is really terrible , not is it just boring and without substance , there is way too much just looking or staring by characters when there is no dialogue just to fill up time . The mandalorian totally different of course had decent dialogue and why am experienced director John favreau was behind this star wars series . The makers of the rings of power clearly have no credentials for movie making
Somebody on TH-cam had a video of the first "superfan" Channelle ? Saying she hadn't even watched Rings of Power because she was watching House of the Dragon and she could only watch one thing at a time. She did say she was going to binge watch it later but she didn't seem like much of a fan at all, let alone a superfan.
What is worse, Amazon paying people to fake being a super fan, or Tolkien websites accepting trips and merchandise then praising the show and lying about it being true to the lore and being Tolkien in feel and nature?
A couple of Tolkien lore channels I used to follow have started shilling for RoP. They praise the show whenever it gives a vague (or sometimes unspoken) nod toward actual lore, but gloss over all the blatant mistakes and rewrites. One of them even picked up an Audible sponsorship, promoting it at the start of their glowing RoP review, and getting annihilated for it in the comments. Really sad since I used to love their videos, but I guess the money was enough for them to betray their own work.
I consider those individuals worse than the so-called Tolkien scholars that try to attribute the alphabet people to characters that never were that persuasion. The shills for Amazon deceived their audience into thinking they were pure like Tolkien in their love of the lore but went full Benedict Arnold for money/gifts/access.
That video of the four ( I haven't been paid honestly ) fans makes me shudder. No concept whatsoever about the masterpiece of Tolkien and how to interpret such a wonderful story. To think that Amazon thought this a good idea just shows what a clueless corporation they are.
And shows just how stupid they think the public are, that they think they can just throw these no-named non-fans out in front of a camera to say shit and expect everyone else just to follow along, just because Amazon called them 'superfans.' It's incredibly insulting.
To quote one of them I can fix rings of power. Burn every scrap of film, delete every last scrap of digital media, burn every costume, melt down every stupid piece of armour or weapons and recycle the sets and shred every last written script. Ok it's a lot of work but it would fix it.
@@vinnyganzano1930 I was very fortunate to visit the science museum in London after the trilogy had ended. The amount of work achieved by master craftsman making weapons and armour was truly breathtaking. The SFX of how they duplicated the armies in the Two Towers was also shown. A day to remember, unlike this rubbish.
I honestly think this entire ridiculous dog and pony show was amazing in so many ways not the least of which amazon, (while being an entirely ONLINE business) somehow couldn't predict that these so called "super fans" could be EASILY exposed ON THE INTERNET as anything but 🤣. Did they not realize that a simple search of these posers would (without a doubt) show that not one of these bought and paid for clowns gave an ounce of a fuck about Tolkien or even LOTR.
The marketing was steered on purpose to woke/representation/diversity/changing the source. Perhaps they feared the series being seen as for nerds only from the start, if they talked about Tolkien and the lore.
That “My Girl Galadriel” girl who had a seizure while saying it, said on a twitter feed that she hasn’t seen any of the rings of power. She is waiting for all of them to come out before watching. She was busy with The House of the Dragon. How can you give a review of it, if you haven’t seen it.
Someone needs to message these "Superfans" and ask some loaded questions like: "As a fan, why do you think Smeagol stole the ring from the dwarf in Moria?"
Everyone fragging called out these shrills for what they where and what Amazon had done from the beginning. The super fans are way to scared to say anything about the series as they know they'll get ripped a new one for just uttering their lack of knowledge... I'm sad , as I really wanted this series to be good but after how they treated one of the best and well designed fantasy universe of wheel of Time, i had no illusions this could turn good...
I made it 17 minutes into episode 1 of WOT before turning it off in disgust (when Rand and Egwene started sucking each others faces off, in the book they never had a sexual relationship, they were just promised to each other when they came of age, since they were fucking _teeneagers_ at that point), and about two minutes later I canceled my Amazon Prime. Wheel of Time is my favorite book series in the world, I've read the entire series front to back about two dozen times, and I was under the impression I was going to love the show, because I had wanted to see a live version of the show ever since I started reading the first book 25 years ago, but now I truly wish Amazon had never heard of it, they butchered WOT just like they butchered ROP. I hope Amazon fails, they are truly destroying everything that made our country great.
Grew up on wheel of time. Couldn't finish the series after Robert Jordan died. I heard Sanderson is great, but just couldn't convince myself to continue it. I want the characters to exist as they were in my mind forever. Ive read all of the Jordan books no less than 8 times. All the covers are falling off them. When I heard Amazon was making a WoT series, I felt like someone had announced they were going to deface Jordan's grave. I'm glad I never even saw a second of the series. The image I have in my mind of Rand, Matt, and Perrin will remain as they are, based on the cover art from the books.
I never liked Robert Jordan's writing but tried to watch the show but noped out after about 20 minutes. Not I have to say an unusual response from me when I see something that just doesn't grab me. A bit like Andor but at least it took 2 episodes of slipping in and out of sleep there.
@@hardbrocklife You really should pick up the post-Jordan books, they are truly excellent. Many fans even say Sanderson revived the series, and I'm of the same impression (I love Sanderson's books as much as WOT). Honestly, you'll find it hard to see any changes in the style from old to new, Brandon Sanderson was truly the best person to take up the reigns, and between Harriet's conversations with Robert before his death and the plethora of notes he made there was a lot to go off of, the story was still true to Jordan's vision. Please, in honor of Robery Jordan you really should finish the story, it will give you a sense of closure you didn't know you needed, you are missing out on a _lot._
I'm not surprised to learn that the marketing department at Amazon Studios believes that Tolkien fans and Harry Potter fans are the exact same market segment. After all, they've gotten practically everything wrong at every turn: couldn't even be bothered to do a little research.
Az, I think you pointed out a year or two ago another case of a woman on Twitter who said she was going to have watch Dr. Who now that it had a woman doctor, and she never posted about Dr. Who again. Sadly, these are the kind of people they are desperately trying to bring into the fandom, people who they can't give the product away to, while they turn away from the real fans.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… As someone who has been involved with and done work in Politics, Community Service, and Activism for Decades, I UN-IRONICALLY *LOVE* the ROP Super Fans! ❤ Because NOW, my Fellow Nerds and Pop Culture Fans FINALLY understand what I mean when I say, “I wan’t these ‘Activists’ out of MY Activism!” If these “Super Fans” aren’t a GREAT Example & Reason to actually do some Gatekeeping of our beloved franchises, then I don’t know what is! 🤨
The entire marketing around this show really amazes me. Rather than focusing on making an amazing show, which am sure amazon has more than enough resources to make happen, they chose this weird angle of focusing on aspects external to the actual show itself. I guess it's the times we currently live in but it's so weird
The first 'super fan' was actually asked what she thought of the first few episodes of Rings of power in a livestream. She replied she didn't know as she had not seen them as she was more interested in House of the dragon instead and would watch it after. probably. That is the only ROP content or reference she has produced other than the trailer reaction. What a surprise......
checked twitter too - one tweet from one them. a retweet regarding LOTR - not a peep about the new show whatsoever. the harry potter fan only tweeting about harry potter, funnily enough and fictional fates on sep 2nd tweeted" " i keep seeing everyone’s tweets about rings of power and i don’t think i’ll be able to watch it until tonight but i’m so so excited 😭🥺" then never mentions it again
Channelle did put something up...she was doing a live chat and said plainly how she hadn't watched any of the Rings of Power but was watching House of the Dragon. I think this is when you say..."OOOOOOOOFFFFFF!"
Thank you for all the wonderful daily content and all the fun on FNT and TRBBC. Never watched any of the shows you review but you make your reviews really well so it doesn't matter to me!
I also note that Chanel Williams (aka "My girl Galadrielll!") has a reaction to the Wheel of Time trailer but not to any of the eps- is it possible that Amazon asked her to plug that show too? BTW in Feb she was in the comments of the infamous superfans vid trying to say that she really was a big LOTR fan. lol.
You know, I would have expected the marketing department and people running the social media side of promotion to be more competent, to actually include in the contract for these people to appear as superfans that they would have to produce sponsored content for at least a little while when the show released. Then again, maybe they assumed like I would that these "super fans" wouldn't risk their own audiences discovering that they are paid shills forever destroying any trust the audience could have in them.
They don’t seem to have even done anything showing them just going to the screenings though! What’s that about? I can imagine them being embargoed about doing content discussing the show itself in some way, but not the event that they got invited to. That’s weird.
ROP is as amateurish as scammers as they are in producing a TV show. I can understand them wanting to distance themselves after the Superfans fiasco but you'd think ROP would have told them to at least put out something about the show to maintain the illusion. The only praise I see for the show comes from suspicious accounts with little content or those types who have deluded themselves into liking something unpopular because they think that makes them intelligent and edgy.
This was actually funny as shit. NOBODY ever expected you or anyone to do something like this. It just goes to further illustrate the vacuousness and idiocy behind Bored of the Rings. They can't even get a shill marketing campaign right, much less a show.
Super Shills! Amazon never ceases to amaze. They'll buy anyone willing to talk up Rings of Power. But yup no surprise, those people don't actually care about the show.
What I noticed about each of these clowns is that they are all fans of a fantasy series (Harry Potter and Percy Jackson), yet they were presented as "superfans" of Tolkien, even though it looks like they don't give a damn about the man and his works. That's like calling someone a fan of Berserk because they like Dark Souls, even though they never read it.
Is this is how interested a "super fan" is, what would a casual fan be like? But seriously, how can someone even become a "super fan" of something that isn't out yet?
This was something that I wanted to look into myself. Thanks for putting this up. I believe that people might have been a little more open to Amazon's mediocre adaptation if it was approached with a little more humility and tact. The superfans thing was a huge mistake.
So they did not even post about the event. Not even the typical influencer stuff. Amazon should have put up a disclaimer that it's just paid actors. And they wonder why there is backlash with that kind of marketing.
Kelsey absolutely killed it, when she asked "yeah, what was the reason??" - the reason for forging the one ring... Imagine a starwars "superfan" asking, why the sith are evil. it´s the same story with the german "superfans" - not a hoot. I forced myself through it and I remain mentally scarred forever. dumber than an empty jar of mustard.
LOL great video Az. Brilliant that you call out these MASSIVE FALSE FANS. I am a massive Lord of the Rings fan. Love the original trilogy. Read the books multiple times. But I cannot even be arsed to watch any episode of Rings of Power. I watched about 5 minutes of the first episode, then turned it off. This show has nothing in common with Tolkien.
It's says more about their scummy fans that they will listen to people with zero Integrity . As you know with what you do, your Integrity is what people listen for and trust.
Az, it shows another thing that is just plain missing. Sometimes the things that are missing are even more important than the things they show you. You will find NO real Tolkien fan and reader here, that actually took Amazon's Judas money. Think about that for a moment. All of them could not care less about the author. That means the ones who cared even a little bit just declined.
Good stuff man. You know I hadn’t even thought about the superfans now that the show is out. Surely they’re just posting non stop over there……Oh. House of the Dragon has really impressed me. I was totally done but it got interested again. You look at the two shows. We’re halfway through both now and I don’t know any more about ROP than I did 3 months ago. On the other hand HOTD has progressed the story and set up all the pieces and you can see where it’s gonna go. It’s just embarrassing
Thank you for making this video, HvB! I'm not shocked in the slightest that they haven't made even one video about it, but it's nice to see a full video documenting this.
What was the goal with inviting these people to pretend to be LOTR fans? It still baffles me, and I can't explain it rationally. The viewer saw through the lies right away. But why lie in the first place? If they wanted "representaion", they could have easily found actual fans of any color and creed, and with online clout of some sort, too. My mind is effing blown by this nonsense.🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕
You really think they could find real Tolkien fans, die hard fans, that would have watched Rangs of Powah and not give it a negative review? The people running the show aren't interested in succeeding, they are interested in pushing the ideology. They fired the Tolkien expert they hired. And I believe he was only hired because Christopher wouldn't have allowed them use of the franchise without him. How do I know they don't care about succeeding, they spend upwards of 2 billion dollars for a TV show, and placed no name never was beens in charge of the production. If success was a goal, they'd have continued to overspend and secured actual talent, and THEN worked to avoid having 3 dozen executive producers....
It'd be hard to find an actual LotR fan who could stand their garbage. They fired the lore master Christopher Tolkein hired for them, so they sure as heck weren't going to risk another knowledgeable person coming in and questioning their decisions.
The thing that felt so off was they 'flew in' folks who felt more akin to Instagram models (and I use that term loosely) than just a regular person who is either new or old to Lord of the Rings. Granted, even casual fans don't have a set 'look' but it still feels Amazon picked people based on visials to make their BRAND, Amazon as a whole, look good rather than Rings of Power itself if that makes sense.
This is the reason why the Superfans videos were so disliked as well. They got ratio'd to hell. Cause everyone saw that they were fakes. They're not super fans, they are Super Fans™.
It’s a shame because there are some quality Tolkien lore channels on TH-cam. Though, if they had brought them in I’m sure they would have excoriated the show so I understand why they didn’t ask them lol
Their "superfans" were random influencers that fit their criteria, which actually fits perfectly with the rest of the bullshit reviews and shilling the show has gotten, the show is really just a disaster on every level and so much wasted potential.
And Amazon is apparently still going around "teaming up" with people on IG. Just saw a post yesterday from a painter, painting Guyladriel, and stating they were proud to partner with LOTRonPrime for this painting, and of course they totally love the show. So weird.
Amazon really did not want anyone up front who actually knew anything about The Lord Of The Rings, because that would just have led to awkward questions. Probably some of the same questions Tom Shippey was asking before he was pinpointed as 'problematic'.
Ironic that people criticise Nerdrotic for making constant videos and tweets about this show when the alleged superfans have done absolutely NOTHING to cover the show!
How is it that ROP “haters”, “incels,” “racists” have done more to promote the show that the supposed “super fans?”
@@coldchillin8382 You forgot "sexists"
@@viktorvondoom5950 Yeah, and istophobes.
They got payed by Amazon to pretend to be "superfans". But they haven been payed to make any content about it when it is now on air.
We all knew these ''superfans'' were picked to tick boxes not because they were actual fans with any knowledge or understanding of the franchise.
You conspiracy theorist you.
This all just goes to show that Amazon knew full well what a mess they had on their hands. Not one of these 'super fans' has a clue what day it is, let alone anything about LOTR or its lore.
Just read your scripts and be on your way, you've been used. I hope it paid well.
They were in the alphabet gang and that was all the qualifications they needed.
Of course they weren't did you see their video , look at them ,they probably haven't even read not even one tolkien book
@@Spartan-oj9dc Or possibly any book.
There is not a single Rings of Power "super fan". There is only twitter clowns wanting to get clout about a garbage show, nothing more. Keep kicking ass on exposing the hypocrites Az, you're awesome!
These were just marionettes made to dance upon strings of cash.
did they not think we were gonna find out who they were :P
of course there are "superfans", and there is nothing wrong with it, some people just have bad taste (from my point of view), but of course there are all the other toxic people who try to shut up critics for different stupid reasons ( or money).
the twitter clowns and the makers of this dumpster fire they are all fanatics
We have another word for them, NPCs.
Glad your doing a follow up on the “super fans”. Just like the naughty dog shill, sorry I mean naughty dog employee. These people have to be exposed for not only the damage they cause to beloved franchises, but to the fans who keep the franchises healthy.
*you're - contraction of _you are_
your - possessive pronoun, belonging to you
What Naughty Bitch shill are you referring to though? It still grinds my gears knowing what they did to TLOU... I can only surmise Neil Cuckmann is going to infect the fuck out of the HBO adaption too
I would say Neil Druckman is less evil cos he destroyed "his own franchise" (but false strikes makes him the worst)
Solo lost money
Fuck ND
Fuck superfans
Imagine if Shad Brooks had managed to Mission Impossible his way into the 'super fans' team, with a a clever disguise, like a bigger beard.
That would have been glorious.
Hear hear
Can't even be bothered to create a proper backstory for their superfans. Poor character development from marketing 0/10.
It makes sense. We all know that they don't know how to write fictional characters. Therefore they are incapable of writing personal backstories for their fictional shills.
@@CoffeeConnected so true!
All their time, effort, and brain power went into the story for the show... ...
Your saying just being part of a specific "community" isn't enough?
I love this video straight up proof they are not real fans !!
Well not only does it reflect poorly on them, it really makes Amazon look even worse.
i legit cracked up watching everyones rehash of them. like do they think were this stupid? yes. yes they do.
@@MapEffects for real it makes Amazon look really bad they pretty much think the Public and Tolkien fans our stupid... we know those kids in the Super Fan never picked up a Tolkien book 📖 let alone even watch a Peter Jackson LOTR/ the Hobbit, Rankin & Bass , Bakshi movie and animation before ... crazy they want to appease the 1%er of people who don't care about Tolkien at all .
"I love this video straight up proof they are not real fans !!" Of course they're not real fans.... They're Super-Fans.... someone cue the Superman theme....
@@Primarch19th I think you mean 6 out of 8 seasons was great
Does this mean I won't see the "influencer" do another chicken-wing dance and say "Mah girl Galadrirelllllllle!!!" 🤔
Lmao
Hahaha man I found that mighty annoying and cringey
Why would anyone want to see that again?
That was cringe af!!!!!
Omg that was the worst dance ever. Who ever does that it was so awful. Didn’t
She think it looked amazing.
Guess Amazon didn't want to fork out the extra cash to pay these people to actually make content about their show. They probably didn't think anyone would actually follow up on this.
I think their budget was pretty tight. They only had a billion dollars to spend on the show after all. ;)
I think it was HelloWorld or some kind of YT channel who said "I don't mind supporting your show" in response to an email inviting them for support and for cash no less from Amazon "PROVIDED I can give my honest opinion on the show since I owe it to my followers." They ghosted them in reply...
@@isgrimner this show has to be money laundering.
No they just thought people would forget about it. But the internet is forever and even if you delete or unlist something there's ALWAYS someone out there who's screen capped or downloaded what you were trying to get rid of. We all knew 8 months ago that these so called "super fans" were paid off by Amazon to give fake praise for their billion dollar train wreck. Their socials were checked months ago and showed no signs of anything Tolkien. They really think that we're all morons with the attention spans of gold fish.
@@Thor-Orion This. Nailed it.
It's actually worse than you say - that first one did a livestream q&a and was asked if she preferred House of the Dragon or Rings of Power. She said she hadn't seen Rings of Power yet and would bring watch it once it was finished, but that she thought House of the Dragon was amazing so it would be hard to beat that. THAT is your "superfan" Amazon???
I saw that clip too. Amazing.
That's 🤣
I will appreciate the source if you have it handy! I need the laughs.
Both shows suck honestly. HotD just isn't AS bad. They're both awful though.
@@TheHeroRobertELee odd opinion, the 2 shows areso farfrom each other they cannot even be compared.
There has never been a greater example of "Twitter is not real life" than the RoP "Super Fans" debacle.
Damn straight.
Twitter in a nutshell.
It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire quality. But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop. And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film. One show to ruin them all.
Better writing than anything Rings of Power tried to write
Chanel did a Q&A recently, someone asked her what she thought of Rings of Power, and she said she's not even watched it yet as she's too invested in the new Game of Thrones.
LOTR super Fan.
This is the same phantom audience that they want to sell comics to. It’s funny seeing them on camera.
It's the same audience that Lucasfilm been after, just that they don't exist!!
I was pretty sure we all thought this was fake as hell when it happened 8 months ago? Pointing this out is hilarious though. Sadly, it won't change a damn thing.
The dialogue in the rings of power is really terrible , not is it just boring and without substance , there is way too much just looking or staring by characters when there is no dialogue just to fill up time . The mandalorian totally different of course had decent dialogue and why am experienced director John favreau was behind this star wars series . The makers of the rings of power clearly have no credentials for movie making
It's useful to actually keep the receipts though.
So you mean “ma gurrl GAH-LAH-DRIEEL” is a poser lol
Que hand spasm
lmao I never hear anyone us that term anymore. It's still soul-crushing to millennials. Fuckin' posers. xD
Somebody on TH-cam had a video of the first "superfan" Channelle ? Saying she hadn't even watched Rings of Power because she was watching House of the Dragon and she could only watch one thing at a time. She did say she was going to binge watch it later but she didn't seem like much of a fan at all, let alone a superfan.
The fact that they ever thought that "superfan" video was a good idea shows how out of touch the people at amazon are.
What is worse, Amazon paying people to fake being a super fan, or Tolkien websites accepting trips and merchandise then praising the show and lying about it being true to the lore and being Tolkien in feel and nature?
The second part
Yeah, the latter 100%. Fuckers.
A couple of Tolkien lore channels I used to follow have started shilling for RoP.
They praise the show whenever it gives a vague (or sometimes unspoken) nod toward actual lore, but gloss over all the blatant mistakes and rewrites.
One of them even picked up an Audible sponsorship, promoting it at the start of their glowing RoP review, and getting annihilated for it in the comments.
Really sad since I used to love their videos, but I guess the money was enough for them to betray their own work.
I consider those individuals worse than the so-called Tolkien scholars that try to attribute the alphabet people to characters that never were that persuasion. The shills for Amazon deceived their audience into thinking they were pure like Tolkien in their love of the lore but went full Benedict Arnold for money/gifts/access.
@@astrovarius543 Broken Sword?
That video of the four ( I haven't been paid honestly ) fans makes me shudder. No concept whatsoever about the masterpiece of Tolkien and how to interpret such a wonderful story. To think that Amazon thought this a good idea just shows what a clueless corporation they are.
And shows just how stupid they think the public are, that they think they can just throw these no-named non-fans out in front of a camera to say shit and expect everyone else just to follow along, just because Amazon called them 'superfans.' It's incredibly insulting.
To quote one of them I can fix rings of power. Burn every scrap of film, delete every last scrap of digital media, burn every costume, melt down every stupid piece of armour or weapons and recycle the sets and shred every last written script.
Ok it's a lot of work but it would fix it.
@@vinnyganzano1930 I was very fortunate to visit the science museum in London after the trilogy had ended. The amount of work achieved by master craftsman making weapons and armour was truly breathtaking. The SFX of how they duplicated the armies in the Two Towers was also shown. A day to remember, unlike this rubbish.
I honestly think this entire ridiculous dog and pony show was amazing in so many ways not the least of which amazon, (while being an entirely ONLINE business) somehow couldn't predict that these so called "super fans" could be EASILY exposed ON THE INTERNET as anything but 🤣. Did they not realize that a simple search of these posers would (without a doubt) show that not one of these bought and paid for clowns gave an ounce of a fuck about Tolkien or even LOTR.
The marketing was steered on purpose to woke/representation/diversity/changing the source. Perhaps they feared the series being seen as for nerds only from the start, if they talked about Tolkien and the lore.
That “My Girl Galadriel” girl who had a seizure while saying it, said on a twitter feed that she hasn’t seen any of the rings of power. She is waiting for all of them to come out before watching. She was busy with The House of the Dragon. How can you give a review of it, if you haven’t seen it.
No LOTR super fan would do that
Hahaha seizure is definitely the apt word :')
Someone needs to message these "Superfans" and ask some loaded questions like: "As a fan, why do you think Smeagol stole the ring from the dwarf in Moria?"
Everyone fragging called out these shrills for what they where and what Amazon had done from the beginning. The super fans are way to scared to say anything about the series as they know they'll get ripped a new one for just uttering their lack of knowledge... I'm sad , as I really wanted this series to be good but after how they treated one of the best and well designed fantasy universe of wheel of Time, i had no illusions this could turn good...
I made it 17 minutes into episode 1 of WOT before turning it off in disgust (when Rand and Egwene started sucking each others faces off, in the book they never had a sexual relationship, they were just promised to each other when they came of age, since they were fucking _teeneagers_ at that point), and about two minutes later I canceled my Amazon Prime. Wheel of Time is my favorite book series in the world, I've read the entire series front to back about two dozen times, and I was under the impression I was going to love the show, because I had wanted to see a live version of the show ever since I started reading the first book 25 years ago, but now I truly wish Amazon had never heard of it, they butchered WOT just like they butchered ROP. I hope Amazon fails, they are truly destroying everything that made our country great.
Grew up on wheel of time. Couldn't finish the series after Robert Jordan died. I heard Sanderson is great, but just couldn't convince myself to continue it. I want the characters to exist as they were in my mind forever. Ive read all of the Jordan books no less than 8 times. All the covers are falling off them.
When I heard Amazon was making a WoT series, I felt like someone had announced they were going to deface Jordan's grave. I'm glad I never even saw a second of the series. The image I have in my mind of Rand, Matt, and Perrin will remain as they are, based on the cover art from the books.
I never liked Robert Jordan's writing but tried to watch the show but noped out after about 20 minutes. Not I have to say an unusual response from me when I see something that just doesn't grab me. A bit like Andor but at least it took 2 episodes of slipping in and out of sleep there.
@@hardbrocklife You really should pick up the post-Jordan books, they are truly excellent. Many fans even say Sanderson revived the series, and I'm of the same impression (I love Sanderson's books as much as WOT). Honestly, you'll find it hard to see any changes in the style from old to new, Brandon Sanderson was truly the best person to take up the reigns, and between Harriet's conversations with Robert before his death and the plethora of notes he made there was a lot to go off of, the story was still true to Jordan's vision. Please, in honor of Robery Jordan you really should finish the story, it will give you a sense of closure you didn't know you needed, you are missing out on a _lot._
It's hilarious to think that FNT probably has more consistent viewership than ROP.
FNT?
NFT's have more of a consistent viewership than ROP.
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The only thing the real fans has in common with those "SUPERFANS" is noone is watching rings of power.
I'm not surprised to learn that the marketing department at Amazon Studios believes that Tolkien fans and Harry Potter fans are the exact same market segment. After all, they've gotten practically everything wrong at every turn: couldn't even be bothered to do a little research.
How much money do these huge companies have to lose before they finally realise woke politics does not sell?
Until the msg through your thick skull they would not stop
As long as people have their prime sub, they are making money.....Wasted money, but they have enough for it to not even matter.
Az, I think you pointed out a year or two ago another case of a woman on Twitter who said she was going to have watch Dr. Who now that it had a woman doctor, and she never posted about Dr. Who again. Sadly, these are the kind of people they are desperately trying to bring into the fandom, people who they can't give the product away to, while they turn away from the real fans.
My gurrrl GALLL-AHHHD-DERRR-REEE-YEEHHLLL!!
That lovely English accent
She has done a great Harry Potter parody - and does a cracking McGonagol impression.
I like,
YAaASsS sLaY qWeEeEnNNNN
Well, they have Xanderhal, but all he did was insult Mauler and FNT for disliking the show, and claiming that Season 1 will have 50 hrs of content.
Season 1 DOES have 50 hours of content. For those of us ripping it to absolute shreds in review videos.
😂 “ that’s gotta be with credits”
He also claimed the best part of ROP was dragons fucking eagles 😂
50 hours of what they are putting our? I'd rather watch batwoman
@@davetycho8330 I don't remember Dragons being into cross species shagging.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…
As someone who has been involved with and done work in Politics, Community Service, and Activism for Decades, I UN-IRONICALLY *LOVE* the ROP Super Fans! ❤
Because NOW, my Fellow Nerds and Pop Culture Fans FINALLY understand what I mean when I say, “I wan’t these ‘Activists’ out of MY Activism!” If these “Super Fans” aren’t a GREAT Example & Reason to actually do some Gatekeeping of our beloved franchises, then I don’t know what is! 🤨
Imagine having to spend any amount of time with those toxic cretins. **shudder**
The entire marketing around this show really amazes me. Rather than focusing on making an amazing show, which am sure amazon has more than enough resources to make happen, they chose this weird angle of focusing on aspects external to the actual show itself.
I guess it's the times we currently live in but it's so weird
The first 'super fan' was actually asked what she thought of the first few episodes of Rings of power in a livestream. She replied she didn't know as she had not seen them as she was more interested in House of the dragon instead and would watch it after. probably. That is the only ROP content or reference she has produced other than the trailer reaction. What a surprise......
Thats impossible. We all saw that every superfan had their phones out for the trailer. Craziness
Did Amazon call them Tolkien Superfans, or just Superfans….? Cuz I think they tried a loophole there and it backfired epically
checked twitter too - one tweet from one them. a retweet regarding LOTR - not a peep about the new show whatsoever. the harry potter fan only tweeting about harry potter, funnily enough and fictional fates on sep 2nd tweeted" " i keep seeing everyone’s tweets about rings of power and i don’t think i’ll be able to watch it until tonight but i’m so so excited 😭🥺" then never mentions it again
She still hasn't watched RoP
We all already knew this. They were actors paid to pretend to be Tolkien fans.
Channelle did put something up...she was doing a live chat and said plainly how she hadn't watched any of the Rings of Power but was watching House of the Dragon. I think this is when you say..."OOOOOOOOFFFFFF!"
Apparently Tolkien wrote Harry Potter, that'll sure be news to J.K. Rowling!
Thank you for all the wonderful daily content and all the fun on FNT and TRBBC. Never watched any of the shows you review but you make your reviews really well so it doesn't matter to me!
Imagine my f'ing shock! They all seemed to bleed authenticity and looked and acted like hardcore Tolkien fans!
The “Super Fans” are clearly too shocked into silence by all the stunning and brave that Reeeeeengs of Power presents them.
At this point the "superfans" have more videos on them about rings of power than they have done on the rings of power.
I also note that Chanel Williams (aka "My girl Galadrielll!") has a reaction to the Wheel of Time trailer but not to any of the eps- is it possible that Amazon asked her to plug that show too? BTW in Feb she was in the comments of the infamous superfans vid trying to say that she really was a big LOTR fan. lol.
You know, I would have expected the marketing department and people running the social media side of promotion to be more competent, to actually include in the contract for these people to appear as superfans that they would have to produce sponsored content for at least a little while when the show released. Then again, maybe they assumed like I would that these "super fans" wouldn't risk their own audiences discovering that they are paid shills forever destroying any trust the audience could have in them.
They don’t seem to have even done anything showing them just going to the screenings though! What’s that about? I can imagine them being embargoed about doing content discussing the show itself in some way, but not the event that they got invited to. That’s weird.
"The elves took our jobs! And they live forever, those jobs aren't coming back!"
I've been reviewing things on Amazon for more years than I can remember and I've only ever had one review kicked back. Guess what it was for?
ROP is as amateurish as scammers as they are in producing a TV show. I can understand them wanting to distance themselves after the Superfans fiasco but you'd think ROP would have told them to at least put out something about the show to maintain the illusion. The only praise I see for the show comes from suspicious accounts with little content or those types who have deluded themselves into liking something unpopular because they think that makes them intelligent and edgy.
Always good to see these "influencers" get held accountable for their deceptive ways, helps safeguard people from falling for their b.s. 👍
This was actually funny as shit. NOBODY ever expected you or anyone to do something like this. It just goes to further illustrate the vacuousness and idiocy behind Bored of the Rings. They can't even get a shill marketing campaign right, much less a show.
Super Shills! Amazon never ceases to amaze. They'll buy anyone willing to talk up Rings of Power. But yup no surprise, those people don't actually care about the show.
Jim Henson would be proud how life like his muppets have become.
What I noticed about each of these clowns is that they are all fans of a fantasy series (Harry Potter and Percy Jackson), yet they were presented as "superfans" of Tolkien, even though it looks like they don't give a damn about the man and his works. That's like calling someone a fan of Berserk because they like Dark Souls, even though they never read it.
Bezos: My terrible show is failing, I need to recoup my money.... (Superfans mysteriously delete their social media and hide) :D
How surprising, they couldn't find a Tolkien super fan that would accept the garbage they produced.
Is this is how interested a "super fan" is, what would a casual fan be like?
But seriously, how can someone even become a "super fan" of something that isn't out yet?
'Ma gurl Galadriel', cringiest line ever
One guy put that in slow motion on his video, so cringey and funny lol
“If Sauron is hot, ima be like, I can change him” 🤢 I knew right then and there, This show gonna be even worse than I thought
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We all knew it back then. Putting a paper trail to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt is chef's kiss delightful.
This was something that I wanted to look into myself. Thanks for putting this up. I believe that people might have been a little more open to Amazon's mediocre adaptation if it was approached with a little more humility and tact. The superfans thing was a huge mistake.
So they did not even post about the event. Not even the typical influencer stuff. Amazon should have put up a disclaimer that it's just paid actors.
And they wonder why there is backlash with that kind of marketing.
I wonder if that insufferable Ali G wannabe who presented the thing has actually mentioned it once since it dropped.
Calling out the “super fans” was the video I didn’t know I needed.
Kelsey absolutely killed it, when she asked "yeah, what was the reason??" - the reason for forging the one ring... Imagine a starwars "superfan" asking, why the sith are evil.
it´s the same story with the german "superfans" - not a hoot. I forced myself through it and I remain mentally scarred forever. dumber than an empty jar of mustard.
What seems more likely is amazon confused a harry potter fan with a LOTR fan. Not even trolling…. That’s how out of touch this mega corp is.
How funny
You know I'd be nice if there was lotr fans to watch the show and give their honest opinions either good or bad... oh wait
Broken Sword. Nerd of the Rings looks like they're on the take.
Amazon had their own super fan to help with the lore... They fired him.
@@Rose.Of.Hizaki he was the "wrong" type of superfan for them.
LOL great video Az. Brilliant that you call out these MASSIVE FALSE FANS. I am a massive Lord of the Rings fan. Love the original trilogy. Read the books multiple times. But I cannot even be arsed to watch any episode of Rings of Power. I watched about 5 minutes of the first episode, then turned it off. This show has nothing in common with Tolkien.
Oh and it amazes me how sad content creators like these 3 get so many subscribers on TH-cam. It looks to me like they just produce a heap of shite.
It's says more about their scummy fans that they will listen to people with zero Integrity . As you know with what you do, your Integrity is what people listen for and trust.
Great bit of journalism here! Well done. ... None of us are really surprised but nice to have the evidence.
I was JUST thinking about this the other day! Have any of the "super fans" done any videos on ROP? DIDNT THINK SO!!!!
"Superfans" sounds like something a TikToker would make up just to sound extra special.
Az, it shows another thing that is just plain missing. Sometimes the things that are missing are even more important than the things they show you.
You will find NO real Tolkien fan and reader here, that actually took Amazon's Judas money. Think about that for a moment. All of them could not care less about the author. That means the ones who cared even a little bit just declined.
Notice how the superfans werent chosen for their knowledge....... but skin color instead....
Good stuff man. You know I hadn’t even thought about the superfans now that the show is out. Surely they’re just posting non stop over there……Oh. House of the Dragon has really impressed me. I was totally done but it got interested again. You look at the two shows. We’re halfway through both now and I don’t know any more about ROP than I did 3 months ago. On the other hand HOTD has progressed the story and set up all the pieces and you can see where it’s gonna go. It’s just embarrassing
Thank you for making this video, HvB! I'm not shocked in the slightest that they haven't made even one video about it, but it's nice to see a full video documenting this.
What was the goal with inviting these people to pretend to be LOTR fans? It still baffles me, and I can't explain it rationally. The viewer saw through the lies right away. But why lie in the first place? If they wanted "representaion", they could have easily found actual fans of any color and creed, and with online clout of some sort, too. My mind is effing blown by this nonsense.🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕
Because they knew real Tolkien fans are intelligent and have integrity.
You really think they could find real Tolkien fans, die hard fans, that would have watched Rangs of Powah and not give it a negative review?
The people running the show aren't interested in succeeding, they are interested in pushing the ideology. They fired the Tolkien expert they hired. And I believe he was only hired because Christopher wouldn't have allowed them use of the franchise without him.
How do I know they don't care about succeeding, they spend upwards of 2 billion dollars for a TV show, and placed no name never was beens in charge of the production. If success was a goal, they'd have continued to overspend and secured actual talent, and THEN worked to avoid having 3 dozen executive producers....
It'd be hard to find an actual LotR fan who could stand their garbage. They fired the lore master Christopher Tolkein hired for them, so they sure as heck weren't going to risk another knowledgeable person coming in and questioning their decisions.
@@rozu7772 firing Shippey was the mask off moment for just about every real fan. As soon as they fired him we knew what was up.
@@rozu7772 yes, I guess that would somewhat explain it. I should just accept that this show was made for all the wrong reasons.
Well done, Az! Keep opening everyone’s eyes to the shilling of the BS paid fans. Bravo!
Ive seen the presenter pop up on m&mdirect adverts on youtube.
I was like, ahhhh where have i seen him b4???
Thanks for this video. I just checked the German "Superfans" and - surprise! - also zero content about Rings of Power!
The thing that felt so off was they 'flew in' folks who felt more akin to Instagram models (and I use that term loosely) than just a regular person who is either new or old to Lord of the Rings.
Granted, even casual fans don't have a set 'look' but it still feels Amazon picked people based on visials to make their BRAND, Amazon as a whole, look good rather than Rings of Power itself if that makes sense.
This is the reason why the Superfans videos were so disliked as well. They got ratio'd to hell. Cause everyone saw that they were fakes.
They're not super fans, they are Super Fans™.
It’s a shame because there are some quality Tolkien lore channels on TH-cam. Though, if they had brought them in I’m sure they would have excoriated the show so I understand why they didn’t ask them lol
Their "superfans" were random influencers that fit their criteria, which actually fits perfectly with the rest of the bullshit reviews and shilling the show has gotten, the show is really just a disaster on every level and so much wasted potential.
she seems really happy to have only 1 eye. looks like most of her content was centered around that.
Well, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman is yasss queen.
Imagine having one eye and wanting to be represented, ffs 🤣
I love it when ALL the bullsh*t is called out and exposed for all to see! Keep it up, Az!
Not super surprising. You could listen to them and know there was no depth there... Harry Potter may be a fun story, but it is a kid's story.
This is hilarious. I should be considered a superfan with all of the LOTR memes I've shared if this is the bar.
They're fake fans
Not even that. Just actors.
@@mietha37 pretenders
Somebody tell me the girl with one eye didn't seriously demand "One Eyed Representation" 😒😒😒
Rings of Power She Hulk and now Andor so much Garbage to watch and so little time to watch it 😁
Hot take: new disney star wars show will suck as bad as return of the jedi and book of boba.
Great idea to check these clowns out. Amazon should really stick to delivering parcels.
The representation for 1 eyed handicap in 2 towers, i laughed 5 min straight
Absolutely f****ng shocking, but we knew this was a load of bollocks when they first annoyed us 8 months ago.
And Amazon is apparently still going around "teaming up" with people on IG. Just saw a post yesterday from a painter, painting Guyladriel, and stating they were proud to partner with LOTRonPrime for this painting, and of course they totally love the show. So weird.
Amazon really did not want anyone up front who actually knew anything about The Lord Of The Rings, because that would just have led to awkward questions.
Probably some of the same questions Tom Shippey was asking before he was pinpointed as 'problematic'.
You caught them with their pants down lol
This is disgraceful.
They never thought anyone would check.
They were super fake.
Good video mate, that super fans thing was so blatant that I honestly cannot believe it exists in the first place.