-"Did you see that Pharazon was made King?" -"Yeah, I heard the old king died. Did he name him as his successor?" -"Nope. An Eagle did." -"What!?? The Eagle called him that?" -"Nooo don't be stupid. It landed near him, so...." -"But, what about Queen Muriel?" -"She's a traitor now, or was. She had a trial and everything. You'll never guess who the judge was." -"I dunno, one of the elders?" -"Pffft no. Sea monster" -"Are you drunk?"
You know, if Sauron was played by Arnold, and all his dialogue consisted of one-liners, this show would've been briliant. Kinda like that Hamlet trailer with him from "Last Action Hero".
@marcussawyer4751 no point trying to run from it 😂 A flow like that, missing you by 30ft still turns you into a statue made of ash, at the very least your now crying your eyes down your face
This series is a missed opportunity. Sauron was supposed to be a pseudo Promethean figure generating religious engineering in Harad and Rhûn with the metallurgical revolution he made in the east and south. He was like Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust or Azazel from the book of Enoch or Lucifer from Paradise Lost. Galadriel supposed to be a sage and a political opponent of Annatar's reformist ideas. She could be like a philosopher-queen archetype. She was such a fierce enemy that Annatar instigate Celebrimbor and the Jewelers to stage a coup d'etat on Galadriel and Celeborn. Númenor is a moral and theological story about life vs death vs immortality vs human nature.
The biggest problem they have as writers is that if the audience knows something, every character knows it too... just poor writing plus the teleporting of characters is wild
The most potent example of this is Gil-gadaddy's "cowardly traitors" line. There's no way he could know the Orcs betrayed Adar, and even if he did, why in the world would he give a toss?
The orcs being hard working family men that don't want war.....the dwarves mocking their prince for having soft hands after he literally defeated elrond in a multi day stone breaking contest....theo quite literally having no point in being in the show.....the elves turning their back on their lord and then immediately turning back to him when galadriel shows up and says a few words......Gandalf being "grand elf"........this show is objectively bad.
@@Adelina-293when did the dwarf army teleport? I was under the impression that the west gate of Khazad-dum was like a day’s walk from the capital of Eregion. They’re literally right next to each other on the map
Understanding that different people actually have different instances of conciousness, and therefore operate under different levels of knowledge, motivation, and context, is called the theory of mind. Healthy human being develop it by age 5, a milestone in human cognitive development. Meaning, the writers of this show appearantly not having by adulthood can actually be an indicator of either autism, schizophrenia, or (more likely with hollywood) signs of severe cocain and/or alcohol abuse, as well as anorexia. In lamens terms, they are brain damaged to the point a 5 year old outperforms them in terms of thinking.
I always go back to how Sauron was shown in the Peter Jackson movies. This giant armored figure killing half a dozen men and elves with each swing of his mace then one-shotting Elendil the Tall before his son gets a lucky, desperate cut. Or, he nearly gets killed by a bunch of evil orcs that just want to live happily evil after.
even tho i understand ur point and the PJ version is far better indeed, i actually dont like it still, mostly because of the way isildur cut the ring of sauron, its kinda dumb sauron go for a "high five" to isildur with the ring hand, in the books is a 2v1 to the death where everybody dies and isildur cut the ring from saurons "corpse"
@@vickdinvick5485now that's story telling. I almost trew my popcorn at the screen when I saw this god of war reach to a virtual nobody with his Achilles heel finger. Just use the god damn mace FFS. Hit him so hard there only gore and a crater. As much as I love the PJ trilogy... Stay of the lore. Show us fucking sauron instead of that eye.
@@jeffssttI think the idea was that Sauron was going to burn Isuldur to death in the same way he did to Gil-Galad. But I do think that they should have included more detail about Elendil and Gil-Galad fighting Sauron during the prologue.
@@dallinadams9422 They actually filmed a lot of the battle with Gil-Galad, so much so the actor who played him was stunned that he only got a fleeting shot of him in the movie. I'm still holding out for an extended extended cut.
@@jeffssttHold up, seriously? That puny thing designed for a normal human head supposedly belonged to the freak’n titan who left craters when he hit the ground? There is no end to the anti-epic these people manage to puke out
5:36 it’s so dumb too because if the city wasn’t under attack there would have been no reason for Sauron to put him under a spell which means the spell couldn’t have been broken revealing the destroyed city. If there was actual peace he wouldn’t need to trick him and Celebrimbor would have gone on making them.
It comes across as a spoof without the intended comedy, I would say it is a kindergarten production but that would be an insult to kindergarten productions.
Shad yours and other's videos have provided way more entertainment than I would have watching the actual show so thanks for producing all these videos! And with a less than $1 billion budget too! Have you done an armor and swords critique of the show? Like how well or poorly designed they are? I'd watch it.
Crap. It’s all crap. For half a billion they could’ve hired WETA and had real custom-designed, hand-crafted weapons and armor designed by experts like Peter Jackson did. Instead they hired Jane the bag lady from down the street to design the costumes and apparently sourced materials from the bargain bin at Party City
Rings of Power is probably one of the worst shows I've ever seen! And just like the writers of Rings of Power i will steal from the Jacksson trilogy when I write this: And some things that should have been never made were made. The Rings of Power became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half years, the Rings of Power passed out of all knowledge(hopefully). Until when chance comes it ensnares some new writers! Rumors grew of a shadow! Whispers of a nameless foe! They will try to cover all the lands with a second season! But there were some who resisted! A vast fan base of all free people of the internet gathered together and called out their BS!
Mate, I really appreciate this review. Happy to watch 10-30 minute videos and reviews, but not really longer stuff. This seems a lot more focused and on point, well done
My favorite part was when a Dwarf army magically appears in the right place at the right time to save the elves as if the Orcs didn't have any scouts. Did Kirk beam the Dwarves into Eregion? Also, the unnecessary Elrond/Galadriel kiss (Celebrian's mom has got it going on) after he hands her the key in sight of an Orc. The best move is to cancel this series, if Celebrian had been the protagonist it could've worked.
What I don't get is why would they not fibda way down and get the ring from her body. It came be impossibly far if she lived. But he's just like "damn, she jumped and it would be really inconvenient to go down after the ring. So whatever, we will just forget it".
It clearly shows her falling into a tree, which broke her fall somewhat. Add to that that 10 people have survived falls of over 4,000 feet and I think your conclusion is demonstrably false.
The whole plot with Morgoth's crown is beyond stupid. Even if we forget that it was reforged in chains that shackled Morgoth himself, the bloody thing was the size of a building, since Morgoth's form was a really Big Guy.
"And he descended upon Arda in power and majesty greater than any other of the Valar, as a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold. " - The Silmarillion I'm not sure "size of a building" is even large enough.
@@ImminDragon "as a mountain" is a simile, not literal (and the rest of the quotation too). But as far as we can tell from the fight with Fingolfin and the reclaiming of one Silmaril from Beren and Luthien, he must have been like 10 meters tall at least.
@@5quepasa that has to be the most strawman argument I have seen in a good while. My good sir, you won the internet today. And by internet I mean whatever garbage Amazon will push out of them, because we surely don't want it.
This video is much appreciated. I have a hard time sitting through the 3 hr streams, so a fast paced review is much welcome, and all of the points are valid.
The worst part of this show is even if it was not part of Lord of the rings, it wouldn't make sense. I find it impossible to believe that elves are not invincible after taking a pyroclastic flow to the face without any negative repercussions(not even burnt hair), but then I'm also expected to believe they can be easily stabbed to death, and also that falling from terminal velocity is fine. Part of me really does wonder if this is just money laundering, because it is so incredibly bad it is unbelievable that people think what they're putting out is good.
Most w0ke productions are likely money laundering because they're dei check box shovelware vs artistic vision visual novels and character driven stories.... They literally say in w0k3 remakes that they can't relate
"They don't realize how stupid this all is." That is the best summary of the entire show. They ACTUALLY think this is good. Why? Because they made it, so it must be good. Or something
For fun, let's calculate the theorical range of the orcish "trebuchets". First, no sling so I won't assume a perfect transfer of energy to the projectile (that's how trebuchets reach such a mighty range) but will simply look at the velocity done by freefall of the counterweight. I'll suppose the mass of the arm + projectile is negligible compared to the counterweight. Looking at the size relative to orcs, the counterweight seems to drop maybe 4 metres. The arm will demultiply the speed by a factor of 3, looking at the design. Assuming a freefall of the counterweight, that means the counterweight reaches a speed of around 9 metres per second at the bottom, so the end of the arm has a velocity of 27 metres per second (spoiler alert it's quite pathetic). Let's round up to 28 out of laziness as it's convenient 20*sqrt(2). If you neglect drag, the optimal launch angle is at 45 degrees up, and at this angle the boulder has an horizontal velocity of 20 m/s and a vertical velocity equal to that. It will completely fall back on the ground after 4 seconds under 1g, after which it will have travelled a grand total of... 80 metres. I'm not counting the height of the arm at launch which is maybe 10m over the ground but that will at most mean an extra 10m of range (after already falling 45 degrees down), so the total range of their catapults is still less than a football field.
You just can’t understand the utter GENIUS of Saurrrrrrron’s plan because his intellect is so far beyond that of mortal men. You see, if the show SAYS that Sauron is a genius, master manipulator, than he is!
Same lazy writing we had in the final seasons of GOT. being told how smart Tyrion is and Sansa while they simultaneously become as dumb as every other character in the show.
This is the worst show I have ever seen . Even fan fictions have love and respect for the lore . I’m convinced what Amazon is doing here is destroying great and moral story writing and turning away the modern generation from JRR 👀🤘
. LOTR will go down in infamy, remembered, and maybe even studied on how NOT to do a show. Because the Only aspect that this show got right, I mean, the ONLY thing that wasn't bad, was the cinematic landscape shots. I watched an hour long documentary on the formation of glaciers that had no people, few animals and tons of water and ice. The only person was the narrator, and this Glacier Documentary had more of an emotional payoff then anything In this show.
I suffered the first 4 episodes of season 01 and actively avoided it ever since. I've watched LOTR trilogy at least 4 times since RoP launched and that's all the screen LOTR I need.
In regards to the writers: “A mouth-breathing halfwit with severe cranial trauma and live shark jammed so far up their backside you can hear the Jaws theme coming out their nostrils could still have done a better job. To say this story smells a bit fishy would be an insult to aquatic life everywhere.”
Between you, Disparu, EFAP, Little Plattoon and Movie Amphs (German channel), I may actually have watched Rings of Prime at least once. But with the commentary, it was manageable.
Even if you remove the fact this was supposed to be a Tolkien adaptation, this show is one of the greatest piles of garbage ever created The plot is utter contrived nonsense The dialogue is horrendous as it desperately strives to sound intelligent The few good moments of acting cannot save the sheer travesty of the performances The score is generic as anything from other modern fantasy productions The camera work and cinematography for the most part is just stock standard coverage The props and effects look beyond cheap and nothing should look cheap in a BILLION dollar production It is all just an abomination to the art of filmmaking
Totally agree - the show is bad because the story and writing are very poorly done. If this were a unique story unconnected to any existing IP, it would still be confusing, slow, and uninspiring. Connecting it to Tolkien's world makes it even worse - Middle Earth deserves much, much better.
It's not just the side stories that are pointless. The whole episode with Elrond and Guyladriel with the Barrow wights can be thrown out and nothing in the main story is affected.
Great breakdown Shad. What hurts me most of all is that so many young people who like fantasy and literature will probably have their view of creative writing skewed by this abomination. Let your kids read the classics, keep them away from this slop.
Shad, did you notice that the trebuchets Adar uses have buckets instead of slings like they are supposed to? This would lessen their performance quite a bit.
Let's examine brimby's forge for a second. Look how far the molten metal has to travel to be poured. I'm pretty sure that the true physics of the matter would be that it would cool far too fast to even make it to the mould
Yep that was my first reaction in season one. Especially since at no point is there anything obviously magical about the process in the way it is depicted here
Season 3 shocker. Sauron returns in the form of Celeborn and a bundle of maiar/elven of joy later Celebrian. Celeborn is then released from a Mordor dungeon. Cue elven angst.
Well said my fair man. I stopped at episode 3 season 1, I have read TLotR 13 times and the other books edify Christopher Tolkien numerous times as well. This crap produced by The Evil Lord Jeff B, will be forgotten, but it will also be remembered as being utter useless nonsensical crap. Middle Earth is safe from the invasion of the modern American ethos.
the orcs that are burning the scrolls during the battle in the last episode of season 2 of rings of power is the show itself burning the Lord of the Rings books. has me thinking of a quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Professor Henry Jones: [through his teeth] "It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!" Ironically disney has removed the first 4 Indiana Jones movies from disney+
Great video Shad! More of these types of videos with specific criticisms and a positive fan focused message is a great way to talk about modern media and it's failures.
This show is not worth the spittle I'd have to muster to even talk about it. You do a great service to the fandom. And remember if this is a war, we fight FROM victory, not FOR it.!!
Remember in the "Solo" movie when Han Solo was given his name by a recruitment officer who associated Han being an orphan with a word from a language in a distant galaxy in the distant future? Who thought that wasn't completely nonsensical? A Rings of Power writer apparently.
Shadow of Mordor at least tried to tell a compelling Middle Earth story even if it wasn't canon. Rings of Power pretends to be canon while 💩 ing on Tolkien and telling a 💩 story. They could have COMPLETELY deviated from Tolkien and still told a good story. But it's complete crap. So it's crapping on canon and it's crap. It could crap on canon and still be good. Peter Jackson proved that was possible.
I am so thankful I did not have to watch the show, I looked at reviews to know how bad it was. I watched the videos you made of the fight in the first season and I laughed so much when you described Galadriel hanging upside down on her horse beheading an orc or her fighting lesson. I loved your season two review of the battle in Eregion, it was really good. This show is an abomination, you are right Shad. I just do not understand why they bought the rights to the work of professor Tolkien only to desecrate it and spit on his writing. I cannot stand when the show runners repeat they wrote the book that professor Tolkien could never write. How much ego can you have to say such garbage. Amazon will never cancel the show, they will never admit their show is bad, they will lose money and continue until they have done their five seasons. Poor Shad, you have three more seasons. I hope you sometimes bring in guests to do the reviews, maybe The Lady. I enjoyed her reviews with you for the wheel of time. Keep up the wonderful work, Shad. See you on your other channel and on Friday Night Tights.
This video has inspired me to re-watch the stone cold classic "Blazing Saddles." I first saw the film at my friend's house on New Year's Eve when I was 11; my friend's mom put it on for us while the adults partied downstairs. My friend's mom very correctly figured "Blazing Saddles" was a movie that would hold the attention of a group of 10-12 year olds for a couple hrs so we didn't bug the adults. It's disturbing to think that such a film would never be permitted to be made today. And that there are parents at my kids schools who'd legitimately report another parent to dcfs if they screened "Blazing Saddles" for 10-12 year old kids.
Tbf, Elrond was the only person who had a reasonable reaction to the rings. Sure, he doesn't have any 'evidence' that they're evil beyond that they're made with Sauron's help, but that really should be more than enough. Galadriel should've been tarred and feathered and exiled the second Gil-Galad found out, she's just evil in this show.
If these rings can somehow bring elves back to life (Galadriel, the messenger to the dwarves, Arondir apparently), why did they leave that herioc Asian she-eft and Celebrimbor behind? :)))))))))))))
5:09 He also has no reason to go to Eregion in the first place anyway, since in this show's twisted version of the lore, the only rings made for the rlves are already made, and as far as he knows at the time they should all know who he was and not trust him, so he should just go to Kazad Dum and Numenor to make rings for the dwarves and men without the elves. But they wrote themselves into a corner and need him to be Anatar, so whatever. I swear they wrote the show one episode at a time with no thought for how the events of each episode would play out later and refused to go back and edit anything when they realized they were stuck, so they just said screw it and ignored everything that came before.
In the last episode, the Dark Wizard (Saruman??) proposes Gandalf to join in fighting (and succedint to) Sauron. But being Ruhr so remote and far away and being Saruon, until now, just being undercover and without an army (until taking the Orcs of Adar), how do they even know that Sauron is a menace??? do they have omniscience?
I might of misunderstood something but the elven rings in the Silmarillion didn't have mind control powers, right. Plus they were made last if I remember correctly. Also did he make the dwarven rings already or did the show forget about those? Google keeps, correctly leading me to what happens in the Silmarillion and I don't want to watch the show to find out.
The three elven rings--as ROP seems entirely UNAWARE--were created *after* Annatar had deceived Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mirdain to 1) first peacefully overthrow the wise original rulers of Eregion--the elf-SORCERESS-*not*-“warrior” Galadriel and her **HUSBAND** Celeborn (who had not trusted this “stranger bearing gifts” and who went on, after being exiled, to found Lothlorien)--and to 2) then make the 7 Dawrf-lord rings and the 9 rings for great human kings, warriors, and sorcerers. At THAT point, Sauron/Annatar returned in secret to Mordor to forge The One Ring, but while he travels there, the Gwaith-i-Mirdain MAKE THE 3 Elven Rings **LAST** (not first), untouched by Annatar’s/Sauron’s hands: THAT is why there is NEVER any question about whether Nenya, Narya, and Vilya are “good” or “bad.” The show’s *appalling* disregard for the actual lore on which Tolkien laboured for most of his life is insulting to true Tolkien admirers. Never mind that the program is also poorly written; illogical; poorly acted; inconsistent; and foolishly trying to follow FAR too many characters and plotlines simultaneously: GOT tried the same thing, and--though doubtlessly INFINITELY more adept at doing so than ROP, the ASOIAF novels appear to be unfinishable as a result of this “dendritic” approach to plots and characters; and we all know how UBER-DISASTROUSLY the last season of the tv show ended…With considerably less writing talent and an arrogant disregard for source-material, ROP has NO chance of ending successfully: in fact, with a mere 15% of its original audience still watching it, IT SHOULDN’T EVEN BE **CONTINUED.**
Did they even bothering reading the book. Gandalf wasnt remotely the first name he ever used. They try to be so clever and yet all their reveals dont work...because it was obvious from the beginning, and even their red herrings didnt work
I realized, when watching the latest Star Wars travesty, that these aren't 'Member Berries'. If they were, they'd be done better. Many of these products are written as Prequels to the originals, meaning that when new generations watch them "in order" they will see these moments first occur in the Disney (Amazon) timeline and it will seem like the Original Films are referencing them (and their ideas).
-"Did you see that Pharazon was made King?"
-"Yeah, I heard the old king died. Did he name him as his successor?"
-"Nope. An Eagle did."
-"What!?? The Eagle called him that?"
-"Nooo don't be stupid. It landed near him, so...."
-"But, what about Queen Muriel?"
-"She's a traitor now, or was. She had a trial and everything. You'll never guess who the judge was."
-"I dunno, one of the elders?"
-"Pffft no. Sea monster"
-"Are you drunk?"
"No, cause the Sea is always right."
Yeah, Numenor politics are weird.
@@LuckyStar2516 Unless you have a letter saying otherwise
Why yes. Yes he is, VERY drunk indeed.
that's what you call outer directive people =] I thought the place had some class
Next the not hobbits will be like “that’s a sour man over there”
😂😂😂
i think amazon will try hire u if they see this
@@marainema28 they will save millions if they do🤣
What I'm thinking of calling him Sauron man -> Saruman 😂
@@DarthEvilicus ™️ this!
At least if Galadriel had said “you want this ring? It’s Nenya business” I could’ve lived with that.
*2 minutes later*
Orc: What happened to the elf?
Sauron: I let her go.
@@Adelina-293 Stabs elf to the tree: Stick around
You know, if Sauron was played by Arnold, and all his dialogue consisted of one-liners, this show would've been briliant.
Kinda like that Hamlet trailer with him from "Last Action Hero".
Tanking a volcano to the face is a great metaphor for the viewer experiencing this crap.
A pyroclastic flow... but made of shit
Everyone in that writing room was so used to taking massive shots to the face, that they just assumed the Super-Elf could survive the big one!
BAR
Lol!
@marcussawyer4751 no point trying to run from it 😂
A flow like that, missing you by 30ft still turns you into a statue made of ash, at the very least your now crying your eyes down your face
Abomination? It's an insult to intelligence.
I’ve never actually use the word abomination, but it actually might fit here
Indeed. It’s even offensive to amoebas, and they don’t even have brains.
10 min of watching I was thinking the same
This series is a missed opportunity. Sauron was supposed to be a pseudo Promethean figure generating religious engineering in Harad and Rhûn with the metallurgical revolution he made in the east and south. He was like Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust or Azazel from the book of Enoch or Lucifer from Paradise Lost.
Galadriel supposed to be a sage and a political opponent of Annatar's reformist ideas. She could be like a philosopher-queen archetype. She was such a fierce enemy that Annatar instigate Celebrimbor and the Jewelers to stage a coup d'etat on Galadriel and Celeborn.
Númenor is a moral and theological story about life vs death vs immortality vs human nature.
The biggest problem they have as writers is that if the audience knows something, every character knows it too... just poor writing plus the teleporting of characters is wild
Teleporting Dwarf army in fact. Kirk better give Scotty a pay raise for that amount of work.
The most potent example of this is Gil-gadaddy's "cowardly traitors" line. There's no way he could know the Orcs betrayed Adar, and even if he did, why in the world would he give a toss?
The orcs being hard working family men that don't want war.....the dwarves mocking their prince for having soft hands after he literally defeated elrond in a multi day stone breaking contest....theo quite literally having no point in being in the show.....the elves turning their back on their lord and then immediately turning back to him when galadriel shows up and says a few words......Gandalf being "grand elf"........this show is objectively bad.
@@Adelina-293when did the dwarf army teleport? I was under the impression that the west gate of Khazad-dum was like a day’s walk from the capital of Eregion. They’re literally right next to each other on the map
Understanding that different people actually have different instances of conciousness, and therefore operate under different levels of knowledge, motivation, and context, is called the theory of mind. Healthy human being develop it by age 5, a milestone in human cognitive development.
Meaning, the writers of this show appearantly not having by adulthood can actually be an indicator of either autism, schizophrenia, or (more likely with hollywood) signs of severe cocain and/or alcohol abuse, as well as anorexia. In lamens terms, they are brain damaged to the point a 5 year old outperforms them in terms of thinking.
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery...
Sure there is. The word is "crap".
Shit. They all call it shit.
That's exactly how I'd describe it. It's a hate crime against intelligence
I always go back to how Sauron was shown in the Peter Jackson movies. This giant armored figure killing half a dozen men and elves with each swing of his mace then one-shotting Elendil the Tall before his son gets a lucky, desperate cut.
Or, he nearly gets killed by a bunch of evil orcs that just want to live happily evil after.
even tho i understand ur point and the PJ version is far better indeed, i actually dont like it still, mostly because of the way isildur cut the ring of sauron, its kinda dumb sauron go for a "high five" to isildur with the ring hand, in the books is a 2v1 to the death where everybody dies and isildur cut the ring from saurons "corpse"
@@vickdinvick5485now that's story telling. I almost trew my popcorn at the screen when I saw this god of war reach to a virtual nobody with his Achilles heel finger. Just use the god damn mace FFS. Hit him so hard there only gore and a crater. As much as I love the PJ trilogy... Stay of the lore. Show us fucking sauron instead of that eye.
@@jeffssttI think the idea was that Sauron was going to burn Isuldur to death in the same way he did to Gil-Galad. But I do think that they should have included more detail about Elendil and Gil-Galad fighting Sauron during the prologue.
@@benghiskahn3673 Very good point there. Yeah, more time in that fight would have been much appreciated.
@@dallinadams9422 They actually filmed a lot of the battle with Gil-Galad, so much so the actor who played him was stunned that he only got a fleeting shot of him in the movie. I'm still holding out for an extended extended cut.
"Sauron stabs her with his hat" 😂
Melkors hat. That would have maybe fit around Melkors pinky finger. Everything about this show is infuriating
@@jeffssttHold up, seriously? That puny thing designed for a normal human head supposedly belonged to the freak’n titan who left craters when he hit the ground? There is no end to the anti-epic these people manage to puke out
@@WillFredward7167 it's just the worst thing I have ever seen period
Well her son-in-law got to kiss her, Sauron was getting jealous.
@@jeffsstt Melkors hat turned into his collar... why is that thing even in Middle-earth...
They will fade into a cursed and forgotten obscurity. For their ilk, a fate most dire.
5:36 it’s so dumb too because if the city wasn’t under attack there would have been no reason for Sauron to put him under a spell which means the spell couldn’t have been broken revealing the destroyed city. If there was actual peace he wouldn’t need to trick him and Celebrimbor would have gone on making them.
Eol and Maeglin looking at Amazon’s Elrond and Galadriel surviving from falling off cliffs from the Halls of Mandos and absolutely seething…….
Elves are light weight they don't land hard like man just saying
It comes across as a spoof without the intended comedy, I would say it is a kindergarten production but that would be an insult to kindergarten productions.
Have you tried Bored of the Rings a spoof book from the 70’s I believe.
@@c.r.broken_human nah i haven't, I'll check it out sometime. cheers
Shad yours and other's videos have provided way more entertainment than I would have watching the actual show so thanks for producing all these videos! And with a less than $1 billion budget too! Have you done an armor and swords critique of the show? Like how well or poorly designed they are? I'd watch it.
He did
Crap. It’s all crap. For half a billion they could’ve hired WETA and had real custom-designed, hand-crafted weapons and armor designed by experts like Peter Jackson did. Instead they hired Jane the bag lady from down the street to design the costumes and apparently sourced materials from the bargain bin at Party City
Rings of Power is probably one of the worst shows I've ever seen!
And just like the writers of Rings of Power i will steal from the Jacksson trilogy when I write this:
And some things that should have been never made were made. The Rings of Power became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half years, the Rings of Power passed out of all knowledge(hopefully).
Until when chance comes it ensnares some new writers!
Rumors grew of a shadow! Whispers of a nameless foe!
They will try to cover all the lands with a second season! But there were some who resisted! A vast fan base of all free people of the internet gathered together and called out their BS!
I have gotten a lot of entertainment out of it...by watching reviewers tear it apart.
Surviving a pyroclastic flow? I have no words....
Mate, I really appreciate this review. Happy to watch 10-30 minute videos and reviews, but not really longer stuff. This seems a lot more focused and on point, well done
Deus Ex Laziness is a terminal disease for any fictional work.
Not enough rolling of the R's in this video Shad. Like in the word, RRRRReeeeeeeeeeetttttTarrrrrrrd
LOL!
My favorite part was when a Dwarf army magically appears in the right place at the right time to save the elves as if the Orcs didn't have any scouts. Did Kirk beam the Dwarves into Eregion?
Also, the unnecessary Elrond/Galadriel kiss (Celebrian's mom has got it going on) after he hands her the key in sight of an Orc. The best move is to cancel this series, if Celebrian had been the protagonist it could've worked.
Doesnt Elrond cannonically marry Galadriels daughter? Lot awkward dinners with the in laws.
You are wrong. Kirk didnt beam the dwarves in...
...Scotty did!
Falling from such height would break everything that could be broken and liquify everything that could not.
Yh but have you considered the fact that she's stunning and brave??
@@ItsSchmexy Ahh, that explains everything. This is what was missing and everything makes sense now.😋
Maybe next time if we’re lucky 😂
What I don't get is why would they not fibda way down and get the ring from her body. It came be impossibly far if she lived. But he's just like "damn, she jumped and it would be really inconvenient to go down after the ring. So whatever, we will just forget it".
It clearly shows her falling into a tree, which broke her fall somewhat. Add to that that 10 people have survived falls of over 4,000 feet and I think your conclusion is demonstrably false.
The whole plot with Morgoth's crown is beyond stupid.
Even if we forget that it was reforged in chains that shackled Morgoth himself, the bloody thing was the size of a building, since Morgoth's form was a really Big Guy.
"And he descended upon Arda in power and majesty greater than any other of the Valar, as a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold. " - The Silmarillion
I'm not sure "size of a building" is even large enough.
@@ImminDragoncould work, the building would just need to be a warehouse.
@@ImminDragon "as a mountain" is a simile, not literal (and the rest of the quotation too). But as far as we can tell from the fight with Fingolfin and the reclaiming of one Silmaril from Beren and Luthien, he must have been like 10 meters tall at least.
What a weird thing to get hung up on? So some of the metal was removed in the reforging process so that it could fit Sauron. How is that stupid?
@@5quepasa that has to be the most strawman argument I have seen in a good while. My good sir, you won the internet today. And by internet I mean whatever garbage Amazon will push out of them, because we surely don't want it.
Thank you for the summary and for your encouragement at the end there, Shad!
This video is much appreciated. I have a hard time sitting through the 3 hr streams, so a fast paced review is much welcome, and all of the points are valid.
The worst part of this show is even if it was not part of Lord of the rings, it wouldn't make sense. I find it impossible to believe that elves are not invincible after taking a pyroclastic flow to the face without any negative repercussions(not even burnt hair), but then I'm also expected to believe they can be easily stabbed to death, and also that falling from terminal velocity is fine.
Part of me really does wonder if this is just money laundering, because it is so incredibly bad it is unbelievable that people think what they're putting out is good.
Elvish resistance works a bit like Accidental Damage Insurance.
If people can believe in God and that Politicians are there for the good of "people" they can believe ANYTHING
Most w0ke productions are likely money laundering because they're dei check box shovelware vs artistic vision visual novels and character driven stories....
They literally say in w0k3 remakes that they can't relate
Amazon could never do what JRR Tolkien did in his spare time.
I still haven’t watched a single episode of this show but thank you Shad for providing us with so much entertainment……I salute you sir!
Gilgalad making this face while saying "DWOOOORVES" makes the entire billion dollars spent worth it XD
"They don't realize how stupid this all is." That is the best summary of the entire show. They ACTUALLY think this is good. Why? Because they made it, so it must be good. Or something
I prefer this video format over your usual.
Great Work!
Haven't been coming for a while because I got bored of the channel but this was actually good! Glad that TH-cam has recommended it this time.
Please, Shad, stop torturing yourself like this. We're all worried for you.
Nahh, he’ll be fine.
Eregion is the region. Ost-in-Edhil is the city ("the fortress of the Elves"). They cant even get this basic fact right.
Thanks Bro! Fell to sleep during the 1st epispde and couldn't make myself to turn it on again... Thanks to you it will stay this way... 😉
For fun, let's calculate the theorical range of the orcish "trebuchets".
First, no sling so I won't assume a perfect transfer of energy to the projectile (that's how trebuchets reach such a mighty range) but will simply look at the velocity done by freefall of the counterweight. I'll suppose the mass of the arm + projectile is negligible compared to the counterweight.
Looking at the size relative to orcs, the counterweight seems to drop maybe 4 metres. The arm will demultiply the speed by a factor of 3, looking at the design. Assuming a freefall of the counterweight, that means the counterweight reaches a speed of around 9 metres per second at the bottom, so the end of the arm has a velocity of 27 metres per second (spoiler alert it's quite pathetic). Let's round up to 28 out of laziness as it's convenient 20*sqrt(2).
If you neglect drag, the optimal launch angle is at 45 degrees up, and at this angle the boulder has an horizontal velocity of 20 m/s and a vertical velocity equal to that. It will completely fall back on the ground after 4 seconds under 1g, after which it will have travelled a grand total of... 80 metres. I'm not counting the height of the arm at launch which is maybe 10m over the ground but that will at most mean an extra 10m of range (after already falling 45 degrees down), so the total range of their catapults is still less than a football field.
You just can’t understand the utter GENIUS of
Saurrrrrrron’s plan because his intellect is so far beyond that of mortal men.
You see, if the show SAYS that Sauron is a genius, master manipulator, than he is!
Same lazy writing we had in the final seasons of GOT. being told how smart Tyrion is and Sansa while they simultaneously become as dumb as every other character in the show.
when greed gets it's hands on anything good, the result is abomination
This is the worst show I have ever seen . Even fan fictions have love and respect for the lore .
I’m convinced what Amazon is doing here is destroying great and moral story writing and turning away the modern generation from JRR 👀🤘
. LOTR will go down in infamy, remembered, and maybe even studied on how NOT to do a show. Because the Only aspect that this show got right, I mean, the ONLY thing that wasn't bad, was the cinematic landscape shots.
I watched an hour long documentary on the formation of glaciers that had no people, few animals and tons of water and ice. The only person was the narrator, and this Glacier Documentary had more of an emotional payoff then anything In this show.
4:00 let alone inform them that the actual devil got closer to redemption than her...
I suffered the first 4 episodes of season 01 and actively avoided it ever since. I've watched LOTR trilogy at least 4 times since RoP launched and that's all the screen LOTR I need.
In regards to the writers:
“A mouth-breathing halfwit with severe cranial trauma and live shark jammed so far up their backside you can hear the Jaws theme coming out their nostrils could still have done a better job. To say this story smells a bit fishy would be an insult to aquatic life everywhere.”
Between you, Disparu, EFAP, Little Plattoon and Movie Amphs (German channel), I may actually have watched Rings of Prime at least once. But with the commentary, it was manageable.
First Lightsabers became useless and now Swords are useless
Amazon logic on Guyladriel :
can solo a troll, swim an ocean, tank a volcanic eruption, survive a 30-40 feet fall😂
She's the DMs girlfriend.
Even if you remove the fact this was supposed to be a Tolkien adaptation, this show is one of the greatest piles of garbage ever created
The plot is utter contrived nonsense
The dialogue is horrendous as it desperately strives to sound intelligent
The few good moments of acting cannot save the sheer travesty of the performances
The score is generic as anything from other modern fantasy productions
The camera work and cinematography for the most part is just stock standard coverage
The props and effects look beyond cheap and nothing should look cheap in a BILLION dollar production
It is all just an abomination to the art of filmmaking
Totally agree - the show is bad because the story and writing are very poorly done. If this were a unique story unconnected to any existing IP, it would still be confusing, slow, and uninspiring. Connecting it to Tolkien's world makes it even worse - Middle Earth deserves much, much better.
Everything in this series is so broken that the showrunner used half of the money on Duck Tap and hoped no one would notice.
Shad, they were cheering it was over for another two years.
10:08 Great moment for everyone. A soldier trying to drink stagnant water.
It's not just the side stories that are pointless. The whole episode with Elrond and Guyladriel with the Barrow wights can be thrown out and nothing in the main story is affected.
Great breakdown Shad. What hurts me most of all is that so many young people who like fantasy and literature will probably have their view of creative writing skewed by this abomination.
Let your kids read the classics, keep them away from this slop.
Shad, did you notice that the trebuchets Adar uses have buckets instead of slings like they are supposed to? This would lessen their performance quite a bit.
Let's examine brimby's forge for a second. Look how far the molten metal has to travel to be poured. I'm pretty sure that the true physics of the matter would be that it would cool far too fast to even make it to the mould
Yep that was my first reaction in season one. Especially since at no point is there anything obviously magical about the process in the way it is depicted here
The show is so utterly bad it's difficult for me to explain to my friends why. thanks god this kind of video exists.
Season 3 shocker. Sauron returns in the form of Celeborn and a bundle of maiar/elven of joy later Celebrian. Celeborn is then released from a Mordor dungeon. Cue elven angst.
Damn, well summed up. Didnt think you could do it in 16 minutes
I knew this show was bad, but I didn't know it was "Sauron sends an army to attack the city he needed to make the rings" bad.
Well said my fair man. I stopped at episode 3 season 1, I have read TLotR 13 times and the other books edify Christopher Tolkien numerous times as well. This crap produced by The Evil Lord Jeff B, will be forgotten, but it will also be remembered as being utter useless nonsensical crap. Middle Earth is safe from the invasion of the modern American ethos.
They took on the greatest nerddom of them all, and lost.
Suck that, Jeff.
the orcs that are burning the scrolls during the battle in the last episode of season 2 of rings of power is the show itself burning the Lord of the Rings books.
has me thinking of a quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
Professor Henry Jones: [through his teeth]
"It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!"
Ironically disney has removed the first 4 Indiana Jones movies from disney+
I own them on DVD for a reason.
Great video Shad! More of these types of videos with specific criticisms and a positive fan focused message is a great way to talk about modern media and it's failures.
This show is not worth the spittle I'd have to muster to even talk about it. You do a great service to the fandom. And remember if this is a war, we fight FROM victory, not FOR it.!!
Remember in the "Solo" movie when Han Solo was given his name by a recruitment officer who associated Han being an orphan with a word from a language in a distant galaxy in the distant future? Who thought that wasn't completely nonsensical? A Rings of Power writer apparently.
14:28 after that fall even Celeborn should have all his bones broken...
Thank you for finally making the points about why it’s insulting to the mind! Not enough pinpoint it
Amazon has no power here
When Shadow of Mordor made more believable reasoning and better story for why Celebrimbor forged the rings you know you done failed as a writer.
Shadow of Mordor at least tried to tell a compelling Middle Earth story even if it wasn't canon.
Rings of Power pretends to be canon while 💩 ing on Tolkien and telling a 💩 story. They could have COMPLETELY deviated from Tolkien and still told a good story. But it's complete crap. So it's crapping on canon and it's crap. It could crap on canon and still be good. Peter Jackson proved that was possible.
Great conclusion to your video.
Cast it into the fires of Mount Doom!
I am so thankful I did not have to watch the show, I looked at reviews to know how bad it was. I watched the videos you made of the fight in the first season and I laughed so much when you described Galadriel hanging upside down on her horse beheading an orc or her fighting lesson. I loved your season two review of the battle in Eregion, it was really good. This show is an abomination, you are right Shad. I just do not understand why they bought the rights to the work of professor Tolkien only to desecrate it and spit on his writing. I cannot stand when the show runners repeat they wrote the book that professor Tolkien could never write. How much ego can you have to say such garbage. Amazon will never cancel the show, they will never admit their show is bad, they will lose money and continue until they have done their five seasons. Poor Shad, you have three more seasons. I hope you sometimes bring in guests to do the reviews, maybe The Lady. I enjoyed her reviews with you for the wheel of time. Keep up the wonderful work, Shad. See you on your other channel and on Friday Night Tights.
This video has inspired me to re-watch the stone cold classic "Blazing Saddles." I first saw the film at my friend's house on New Year's Eve when I was 11; my friend's mom put it on for us while the adults partied downstairs. My friend's mom very correctly figured "Blazing Saddles" was a movie that would hold the attention of a group of 10-12 year olds for a couple hrs so we didn't bug the adults. It's disturbing to think that such a film would never be permitted to be made today. And that there are parents at my kids schools who'd legitimately report another parent to dcfs if they screened "Blazing Saddles" for 10-12 year old kids.
Amen my lor friend😊 ...I'm down for canceling the show ❌
even in the clips i can tell that i'd always be aware that i'm watching actors. it's not a window into another time/place, like lord of the rings was.
Tbf, Elrond was the only person who had a reasonable reaction to the rings. Sure, he doesn't have any 'evidence' that they're evil beyond that they're made with Sauron's help, but that really should be more than enough. Galadriel should've been tarred and feathered and exiled the second Gil-Galad found out, she's just evil in this show.
The unbelievably of the situations really pull you out of the story...
"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good." -J.R.R. Tolkien.
Evil will never win unless we let it. Thanks Shad
Remember, according to a ‘Tolkien Professor’ ‘there is no canon in Tolkien’…..😂😂😂
I hate Amazon so much.
I like these formats. Keep going
Can you say something about how the Arondir character draws the bow hooking the string with one finger?
If I was Bezos,I would go mental and say; What the hell did you do!!!!I I want my money back !!!!!
If these rings can somehow bring elves back to life (Galadriel, the messenger to the dwarves, Arondir apparently), why did they leave that herioc Asian she-eft and Celebrimbor behind? :)))))))))))))
"It's resolved like a fart in the wind, blue balling the audience because nothing matters in this show." ROTFLMFAO
Lord of ring franchise rest in peace 1937-2024 🤴👸👑🧝♀️🧝♂️🧙♂️💍🪄🔮
5:09 He also has no reason to go to Eregion in the first place anyway, since in this show's twisted version of the lore, the only rings made for the rlves are already made, and as far as he knows at the time they should all know who he was and not trust him, so he should just go to Kazad Dum and Numenor to make rings for the dwarves and men without the elves. But they wrote themselves into a corner and need him to be Anatar, so whatever. I swear they wrote the show one episode at a time with no thought for how the events of each episode would play out later and refused to go back and edit anything when they realized they were stuck, so they just said screw it and ignored everything that came before.
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In the last episode, the Dark Wizard (Saruman??) proposes Gandalf to join in fighting (and succedint to) Sauron. But being Ruhr so remote and far away and being Saruon, until now, just being undercover and without an army (until taking the Orcs of Adar), how do they even know that Sauron is a menace??? do they have omniscience?
I've introduced my kids to the Rankin animated version. They love it.
Shad being a fan of Spy x Family was certainly unexpected but not unwelcome.
We might need a Shad review of Spy Family now.
The scene from blazing saddles explains it all. They saw something like that, dident realize it was satire and decided to steal the idea.
I might of misunderstood something but the elven rings in the Silmarillion didn't have mind control powers, right. Plus they were made last if I remember correctly. Also did he make the dwarven rings already or did the show forget about those? Google keeps, correctly leading me to what happens in the Silmarillion and I don't want to watch the show to find out.
The three elven rings--as ROP seems entirely UNAWARE--were created *after* Annatar had deceived Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mirdain to 1) first peacefully overthrow the wise original rulers of Eregion--the elf-SORCERESS-*not*-“warrior” Galadriel and her **HUSBAND** Celeborn (who had not trusted this “stranger bearing gifts” and who went on, after being exiled, to found Lothlorien)--and to 2) then make the 7 Dawrf-lord rings and the 9 rings for great human kings, warriors, and sorcerers. At THAT point, Sauron/Annatar returned in secret to Mordor to forge The One Ring, but while he travels there, the Gwaith-i-Mirdain MAKE THE 3 Elven Rings **LAST** (not first), untouched by Annatar’s/Sauron’s hands: THAT is why there is NEVER any question about whether Nenya, Narya, and Vilya are “good” or “bad.”
The show’s *appalling* disregard for the actual lore on which Tolkien laboured for most of his life is insulting to true Tolkien admirers. Never mind that the program is also poorly written; illogical; poorly acted; inconsistent; and foolishly trying to follow FAR too many characters and plotlines simultaneously: GOT tried the same thing, and--though doubtlessly INFINITELY more adept at doing so than ROP, the ASOIAF novels appear to be unfinishable as a result of this “dendritic” approach to plots and characters; and we all know how UBER-DISASTROUSLY the last season of the tv show ended…With considerably less writing talent and an arrogant disregard for source-material, ROP has NO chance of ending successfully: in fact, with a mere 15% of its original audience still watching it, IT SHOULDN’T EVEN BE **CONTINUED.**
Did they even bothering reading the book. Gandalf wasnt remotely the first name he ever used. They try to be so clever and yet all their reveals dont work...because it was obvious from the beginning, and even their red herrings didnt work
I realized, when watching the latest Star Wars travesty, that these aren't 'Member Berries'. If they were, they'd be done better. Many of these products are written as Prequels to the originals, meaning that when new generations watch them "in order" they will see these moments first occur in the Disney (Amazon) timeline and it will seem like the Original Films are referencing them (and their ideas).