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. (credits:RegensDominor)
You, Sir, are a master and a scholar. We have all been deceived and have had our minds clouded by the will and desire of our hearts. I hold the lore of the many books closest to my heart. I then (sometimes to my detriment) hold the adaptations by Peter Jackson (miner of lore, forgetter of some) upon my sleeve. His whimsical and attractive visions being my entry into this world many years ago. But utter disgust takes a hold on me when I see this. There is PLENTY of story and lore in the silmarillion that can hold a true and happy audience than this... wargshit. Battles between Elves and Balrogs. Between men and Nazguul. Weapons with pure ancient magic to be forged and whole islands to fall out of existence. Dragons to be slain.... I can go on and on... this is a pure atrocity to the memory of J.R.R. Tolkien. I hope that they enjoy the fleeting monetary gain this gives them. Because it will not last.
Cate Blanchett nailed galadriel. She was feminine yet commanded massive respect. So elegant, graceful, and mysterious. You really get the sense she was an ancient being with great knowledge to the point where she gives off eery vibes. This new girl gives none of that energy, she just wants to be a girl boss.
That could have something to do with the fact that the folks who wrote and directed Cate Blanchett's performance actually cared about producing something other than soulless corporate swill designed exclusively to further their masters' political agenda. Compounded by the fact that Cate Blanchett herself has poise, elegance and gravitas. Welshina Mcwhatshercunt on the other hand, seems woefully out of her depth everytime she's saddled with material that requires anything approaching subtlety. She also appears to be the patron saint of resting bitch face.
You've likely never read the book. I admit Cate Blanchett delivered a good performance as Galadriel. But the movies screw the Mirror of Galadriel scene up.
Well at least how you interpretted it in the book anyways. It is obvious to all that they imbellished the character. @@reek4062
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@@reek4062 You really don't seem to understand at all...there's a difference between being faithful to the books and being accurate to the books, and a good film adaptation SHOULDN'T have the latter fully. Jackson was faithful to the books BUT also did as best he could to be accurate while also making a good film adaptation, because guess what - you have a film be 1:1 to a book because it just doesn't work, the flow won't be proper. The Rings of Power, on the other hand, wasn't faithful to the books NOR were they trying to be accurate in any way at all, plus the actors and directors basically dissed Tolkien in saying that they needed to "update his message for modern audiences", whereas Jackson's goal was to give TOLKIEN'S message and not his own.
I always imagined Galadriel as a character who was queenly, angelic, magical and wise beyond mortal humans. In this travesty she reminds of someone who would serve me beers at the local bar.
Wait, you are saying the young elf doesn't behave the same way as she does 3500 years worth of life later? Wow. Amazin. Lotta good criticisms about the show, then every once in awhile an idiot reaches for the keyboard.
@@my68chevy2 What about my specifically saying there's a lotta good criticisms about the show, and that this isn't it because the criticism presented doesn't make sense, is me defending the show? Shows a steaming pile of shit, but this idiots reason isn't why.
@@Charagrin bruh Legolas is only, like, what, 2800 years old in LotR? he feels way wiser, calmer and more collected than Strong Woman ever does in RoP. Fuck, his most vulnerable moment, basically the elf equivalent of a meltdown, is in Helm's Deep, and even then he barely raises his voice. Strong Woman just feels like a bitter, angry BITCH that lashes out at anyone or anything that refuses to lick her boots till the leather wears off. EDIT: correction, Legolas was 2931 years old
Yeah, they keep forcing taglines (for marketing) but don't have the story to back it up (or in this case do the exact opposite) versus good stories that build up to a line or if it is used for framing or foreshadowing be consistent or have some kind of pay off.
@@tentailmadara2500 thats just not true. "our hearts are bigger than our feet"- "who cant walk will be left behind" - "he died of beestings, hahahahah" like... WTF?!
@@ryancruz1876 That's nothing new to me. So what that her mother name in her youth in Valinor is Nerwen? I bet you'll be mad when you realize that she have other names too and that her name Nerwen was NEVER used again....ever. 🤣 Her ONLY name in the show is Galadriel meaning "maiden crowned with a garland of bright radiance."
But apparently her rendition wasn’t accepted as strong and powerful. Apparently wiping out a battalion of Orcs with a snap of her finger isn’t powerful. She has to become a man hating Karen who insults everyone and likes playing darts at the bar and breeding huskies with her girlfriend named Tannnya who is a welder. That’s strong. That’s brave. So brave. Mmmmmm. So goddamn brave and strong.
It might be worth noting that the Cave Troll scene in Fellowship became a teamwork scene. No one member of the Fellowship was shown to be worthless. They all worked together to bring it down.
That's because they were all useless, pathetic men. If a woman had been there she'd have vaulted off one of Legolas' arrows and cut off the cave trolls head off, then vaulted off the cave troll's flying, severed head to kick off the Balrog's head, then would have put on the ring and have been found to be able to master it easily because women have it so much harder than all men.
Despite the cgi starting to be a bit outdated, that scene give me always such a sense of belonging. The fellowship was working together to survive. Such a strong party.
When you cut to Frodo saying "I wish the ring had never come to me..." I legit started tearing up. You can't rip the heart from a world and expect us to have the same feelings.
My favorite part is where Galadrial used the Elder Wand to knock the T-1000 into a vat of molten steel while shouting "76 CENTS!" So inspiring I voided my bowels.
I liked the part where the dragonborn shows up inexplicably and accidentally genocides all the [redacted] elves and dwarves with his summon storm shout, because after all the [redacted] don't exist in the future.
My favorite scene is when galadriel said to darth vader "That's not a knife", pulled out excalibur from the stone and said "That's a knife". My spine imploded
And also said "Nice light saber. Let me make it even lighter." then sliced it in half and caught the end to fuel her jet back with, and then Vader said....
I just started rereading the books after this show started. All I can say is the disdain I have for the show continues to grow each page I get deeper into Tolkein’s universe. Rings of Power needs to be cancelled. I’m convinced Tolkein is going to haunt Jeff Besos in the afterlife.
If this series could be retro fitted with the sound effects found in this video "Remember Berries" etc. If this was re-released as a comedy then it would be amazing. Add laughter tracks (Eg When she kills the thing at the start or when she jumps)
I'm reading the book for the first time. When I first met Galadriel and read that scene where she seemed to read the characters' hearts and offer them what they desired if they abandoned the quest, I was like, "Holy crap, this woman could kick my butt if she wanted to." To me, it was far better at conveying her power (and making me low-key fear her) than if she fought a troll solo.
No one has appropriately addressed how stupid it was that galadriel jumped ship. They were literally at the shores of valinor and she decides to just swim 5000 miles back to middle earth?!
Galadriel was not allowed to return to Valinor until she rejected the One Ring in the trilogy. she was one of the remaining elves left that led the rebellion in Valinor to pursue Morgoth to middle earth and participated (duped) in the kinslaying at Aquallonde. That was why they were exiled by the gods. The story-arc of the elves in exile is ultimately one of redemption so they can return to Valinor. The House of Feanor, because of the Oath, perished eventually.
@@m33tballa what i'm trying to say is that it is not what happened according to the Lore. They are mixing things off. The rings creation timeline is the 1600's of the second age. Elendill and Isildur are at the War of the Last alliance in 3400's of the second age. They obviously hadn't bothered to even check the history, they are making thinks up, and badly at that...
You all simply misunderstood the movie. This movie is brilliant! It is a brilliant deep sleep ASMR movie! I personally fell asleep on each episode of this wonderful season! Thanks Amazon!
Galadriel is epic. Not because of her acts in the show. The real Galadriel is a princess of the Noldor or High Elves. She founded three elf kingdoms in her time in middle earth. She actually founded Ost in Edhil, the very place the rings of power were fashioned. During this time she was visited by a powerful lord of the Numenoreans who later became the 6. king of that realm. She was a sorceress and a politician. She was married with a poweful telerin prince and mother in law of Elrond. When Ost in Edhil was destroyed she retaliated in kind and sent for help to Numenore and Tar Minastir sent vast fleets at her behest to save Gil Galad and the elves and completely rout the forces of Sauron who afterwards did not have the manpower to seriously challenge the elves and men for almost a century. That was Galadriel! I would not have minded to be shown that Galadriel and not the whiny Mary Sue daughter of Karen we got!
The real Galadriel doesn't have enough of a middle finger vibe for the writers. That's what writing modern women is about. Saying fuck you to everyone who comes near them lol. The largest suspense of disbelief is that show Galadriel has friends.
Peter Jackson's elves: Extremely pretty, almost ethereal, peerless presence, characteristic talk, immaculate in every sense, actually look like immortal beings. Exactly as Tolkien described. Amazon's elves: Cranky humans with pointy ears. By the way, if that truly is Gandalf, that's also absolute BS. None of the Istari came to Middle Earth until half of the Third Age had passed. And Gandalf was the last one to arrive.
Go back and watch one of the scenes with Galadriel in LotR. Then remember that Cate Blanchett was younger than Morydd Clarke when she took the role. Another amusing fact is imagine if they had unleashed what Galadriel was capable of if they followed the lore. You wouldn't get her dressed up as a soldier though... P.s I dont have anything against M.C. she seems like a competent actress but is severely disabled by the writing. I would love to see what she could do with the character if she wasnt limited by the writing and "the message".
So... the Tolkien Estate absolutely loathes Peter Jackson because, they claim, he did not do Tolkien's story justice. I guess they're happy with Amazon's handling of the lore. I can only imagine the producers bringing the script to the lore master and the lore master disagreeing with every decision made. So, instead of figuring out how to use the existing Tolkien story/characters and flesh it out, Amazon promptly fired their lore master, surrounded themselves with yes-men, and said "we can write whatever story we want without consequence"
They waited for the Tolkien Estate aka Christopher Tolkien to die before rushing to Amazon for more money. What is left now is people who don't actually care about Tolkien's work. Just the money they could make from it.
Hollywood has been preying on old IPs, waiting for their protectors to die before taking it over and inserting their junk writing. They did the same with Wheel Of Time only a few years after the author died. Now they did it with Middle Earth right after Christopher Tolkien died. It's obvious the inheriting IP owners care less about legacy and integrity of the respective properties. I'm just wondering what will be next on the vultures' list after the creators die.
@@lovetownsend Its not just Tolkien family but an entite company. They still own most of tolkiens IPs/rights. So if they don't like it, we're not getting any new lotr content. (And rightfully so after adaptations, sorry aboninations like ROP and partly the hobbit)
It's already dated, movie studios have dropped completed projects due to political posturing boring the tits off of even casual audiences, the glaring issue with RoP is that Peter Jackson's movies won 17 academy awards and expectations were high, fans wanted a cohesive authentic and accurate adaptation and Amazon wanted to hire writers with the emotional range of a toddler.
It’s like the theatre where even if the piece is awesome, you still need to appeal to the ideals of the theatre… and the current state of affairs to have a chance with getting funded and chosen to do a run.
By that I take it you mean the dwarf isn't as bland and wooden as the rest of them. But why the Scottish accent? Or is it because he's dour and argumentative, and even in these woke times some stereotyping is okay?
I mean.......he just had to follow the book. This show is a creation based off the lore from his books. None of this shit was ever written by Tolkien, that's why it's not as good.
@@kjax0630 True , but Tolken never wrote about hobbits in this age or black dwarfs or black elves, it is obvious the show producers construct something which is in line with our modern world, very un Tolkinian
A couple of my friends: Before it came out: "just wait until the shows out it won't be as bad as you think!" Now: "there's still only been 3 episodes it will get better" When the first season ends: "that was all just the set up for the real stuff that's coming!!" No. No no no. It's bad. Sorry.
@@CharlesMCFC In anime review community, there's the three episodes rule. If a show can't make you feel interested in 3 episodes, better drop it. And 3 anime episodes only take 1 hour (minus opening, ending and recap).
I can imagine story telling classes saying” remember writers, the fans from the IP you are now adapting have to give you at least 3 episodes for your improvement in the lore and script to re-hook them in. If they don’t all the changes underpinned by shitty writing, that’s where you pull the istaphobe card to silence the critics. That concludes today’s class which will be tested on the mid-term.”
I like when Galadriel was mourning her wife and she gets a dog her wife gave her before she died, but then a group of robbers broke into her home and killed her dog. Theeennn she found out who and started not aliving everyone while being called the boogeyman. Super sick.
I couldn't write anything anywhere near as impressive as Tolkein. The man was an absolutely insane beast at world building and writing. That being said, I have read all of his material enough times that I could have absolutely outclassed these fools and at least have made something that was a pale shadow, rather than a mockery. And this isn't my job. I'm just a huge fan.
You said yourself what the issue is. They're making it for profit. You would make it cause you love it. Wish you could've made the show dude, it really needed some passion.
I think a good collection of Tolkien fans absolutely would have knocked this out of the park. The difference is Tolkien fans would have had humility, because we would understand that we're not the equals of the professor and to use his words whenever and wherever we could. Personally, I would have loved to tackle the story of Annatar coming among the Elves and some of them (Celebrimbor and such) welcoming him and others (Gil-Galad for example) treating him with suspicion. That's where you could have had Galadriel shine, is she's one of the first to have a problem with Annatar and then she sends word to Gi-Galad that something is wrong with this guy and he bars him from Lindon, but they readily welcome him in Eregion. Anyways, that's my two cents. I would have also liked to see Celebrimbor and Elrond go to Khazad-Dum in the days when they and the Elves of Eregion were on good terms and they could literally walk into Moria at their leisure. We could see Celebrimbor know the guards at the gates and as they're walking in he's waving and shaking hands with everyone and the first thing Durin does when they arrive to talk is poor them all tankards of beer and they have to have a drink with him. It could have been fun and charming and beautiful.
You're right... I have no doubt you could do better. I hate people calling it 'fan fiction' as an insult, as literal fan fiction is more dedicated to source material than this shameless cash grab.
@@majorpwner241 yeah as long as it's not one of those real weird fan-fictions where someone does some crazy stuff like making Boromir and Aragorn secret lovers or something. Haha
@@JCTheSniper15 Yeah I totally agree - Those two being secret lovers? C'mon, they couldn't keep that a secret. They'd just be openly kissing in front of the Hobbits n junk. Haha
@@JohnSmith-is4uu why though? We like trashing on woke dumpster fires for entertainment. Watching videos such as these gives me something to laugh at without boring myself watching the actual show.
@@stpbasss3773 uhh I'm saying for them not to stop watching the show so we can have content such as these. I myself will not be touching the show with a ten feet pole. I enjoy these reviews more than the show. Maybe it's you who needs to read between the lines?
You left out the Not-Hobbits: who love and look out for one another other, until one of them falls behind, at which point they leave the slow poke to die. As they reminisce about those they've left behind, the Not-Hobbits also laugh at those who died funny deaths, like being stung to death by bees. They're not just filthy and lack any semblance of individual personality; except gender flipped Frodo, they're despicable. When gender flipped Frodo says of Not-Gandalf, "What was I supposed to do, just leave him?" her entire village should have shouted as one, "Yes, that's what we do, we leave people to die."
And let us not forget their pantomime 'Irish accent' and being 'travellers', schlepping their carts/caravans around. LIving in shanty hovels, half buried in the ground. Being constantly dirty, always rootling in the dirt for anything to eat, always starving and even stealing from any human garden they encounter. Racist much? Did these writers/showrunners never hear of the Irish Potato Famine? How poor Irish peasants, who lived in half buried hovels, were desperately rootling in the ground for their potato crop, the only thing that kept them alive, only to find the blight had rotted them all? Do they know about the one million men, women and children who starved to death and the additional one to two million who emigrated to America, desperate to escape starvation, only to find that they were compared to Blacks by American racists and deemed as low or even lower? Do these people know about the Irish Travelers, also known as 'tinkers' or 'Irish gypsies' (distinct from the Roma)? Oh, I'm sure they have some knowledge about these things, since when they thought 'migratory hobbits', they thought, 'living half in the ground, therefore dirty, secretive, therefore gypsy, always hungry and funny with their love for po-TA-toes, therefore Irish. Someone is racist, but it's not the Tolkien fans!
Remember in Fellowship how it took everyone in the party to beat the troll? Now it's that everybody is incompetent except for the one protagonist. I hate that kind of writing. It's just unbelievable and it reeks of writer's self insert. I despise self insert fanfiction type of writing. It's the equivalent of wanking one's ego
Yes, they wanted to show how badass Galadriel was but if anything they unintentionally made her look worse. She is the leader but all the male elves she took with her on a dangerous mission to find Sauron were so incompetently trained they couldn't even handle a troll. Later, they end up turning against her. What does that say about a leader? They could have Galadriel ordering her men to get in formation when they see the troll, with one member distracting the troll with a torch, the other striking it with arrows, another striking with a sword, and then Galadriel using her magic to deliver the killing blow. It would have shown how excellent Galadriel had trained her men and how effective she is at leading them. She could have also shown them some compassion, maybe healing or tending to their wounds. Maybe one of the men gets seriously injuried and that's when she decides to turn back, for the sake of his health. That would have been a whole lot better than the apathetic, selfish, arrogant Galadriel who was willing to endanger the lives of her men so she can avenge her brother!
And its the exsact opoosite of Tolkiens vision. The whole strengh in the forces of good was the combined might of Elf,, mankind and dwarven kind fucking over Saurons armies. The fellowship is the union of the best of each world, sharing their unique talents and traits to reach a common goal. Overcome odds together. Sacrafice for each other. It was a deep and meaningful story about how union can archieve much. This kind of writing does not belong to middle earth.
The first ten minutes, Galadriel is proving to be more of a villain then Sauron is. And the Harfoots weren't ancestors, they were just another tribe from the 2nd Age.
Thank you. Really tired of it being phrased that way, there are three brands of hobbit. However Amazon has been trying to play it off as Harfoots are ancestors.
I know it's such a small thing but I hate that the elves in rings of power doesn't really feel or look like tolkien/peter jackson elves, they just look and act like humans with pointy ears. The reasons the elves in the other films act and look the way they do is because they can afford to, they are immortals, they have no need for practical (like keeping your hair short) and they are fond of beauty (long hair) and also diamonds and silver, not gold because that is for humans and dwarves
Yeah elves need to act high and mighty imo. They should be very cold for the most part and Galadriel should have seemed divine and wise compared to even the Numenorians.
They look like they were all cast out of a goddamn Calvin Klein catalog. Like what is with the cheekbones in chin of whatever that elf's name is that's gladriel's older brother apparently. Shows you how much love this show just inspires from me
The 3rd episode made me laugh so hard, although it was not intentional. The part where the Harfoots remember "fondly" the people they left behind to die was INCREDIBLY FUNNY, in a tone-deaf kind of way. They are TERRIBLE people! 😂
@@tomwhitworth1560 I don't think it was meant to be so tone-deaf and dissonant with the rest of the story. It presents the Harfoots as terrible people, dirty hillbillies with stage-Irish accents who leave their most vulnerable people behind and laugh about it. They're no better than orcs at this point, just weaker.
Yes AHAH the first guy that got stuck in the fucking snow lmaooo “we wait for you” so fucking ridiculous. I get what they were trying to show but seriously? Ridiculous
Init man! I thought to myself "why didn't you go back and help them you selfish bastards? why migrate at all!? you're clearly capable of above average manufacturing and agriculture ability, you could so easily make a home somewhere" which ironically according to Tolkien they did lol
Another reviewer asked why Lady G didn't just swim back from Numenor. That was her plan anyway. This show is so rough. You've inspired me to Return to Fellowship
She later admids she knew she wasnt gonna make it. But was still ungrateful she was fished out and safed. So our supposed main heroine just jumped to certain death.
The biggest issue in film/tv right now is 99% of the production companies have it backwards. It should be: “I have a great story that needs to be told, let’s get it created in a film/show” Not: “I want to have a film/show made, let’s go create a story for it” Approaching something with the attitude of the latter will always result in an underwhelming creation
The biggest issue in film/tv right now is they think making the same shit over but making a portion of the cast Black or Hispanic is groundbreaking. I'm trying to understand why no Black or Hispanic actor / actress has breached the fact that studio's don't feel they are worthy of their own films/ series
@@drogynturalyon9914 its so bad even depictions of historical settings/events aren't safe, and if history becomes blurred that is quite scary for our futures sake
This can't even be placed in the "So Bad, it's good" movies/series to watch... it's obviously a poorly written rip-off wrapped in expensive golden production. This will be forever remembered for the memes, lol.
It is unbelievably entertaining to make fun of. I'm still in disbelief that the writers actually made Galadriel say she was saved from certain death. "It hurt itself in its confusion" barely begins to give scope to their incompetence. Pure laughter.
It's not even producing good memes. At least we got some memes from GOT S8, but this...this is going to fade into obscurity quickly, and not soon enough at that.
This video does a great job of putting a voice to everything I've felt about this show. Thank you, thank you so very much. Also I read someone on Reddit describe the music as sounding " like it was created by AI" spot on
If the elves didn`t have pointy ears in this show nobody would even know they were elves. Tolkiens elves did not have pointy ears but they were instantly recognizable as elves.
@@eathinnz8925 Most fantasy Elf ear are ridiculously long like a knife, some shape like animals or Goblins while Tolkien Elves ear are small like humans despite leaf shaped a bit more realistic.
@@longwlenguyen4214 you do realize that Elves aren't real right? If you're making a movie or tv series with Elves in it, you can give whatever shaped ears you like 😂
@@eathinnz8925 okay but why are you angry of my description of Elf ears, it's not wrong respecting Tolkien Elves physical description since they are far more interesting in language, culture and history compare to other boring fantasy Elf that acts like humans with humans motivation and humans emotions.
I can’t believe how badly they’ve fucked up this show. Like the amount of people this had to of been approved by on multiple levels…. Somebody thinks they’ve made the next great show… which blows my mind. I mean the casting is shockingly bad idk what these people were thinking
I've watched a few of this videos ripping apart ROP because well, I'm petty as shit and I love the fact that these people who bastardised a series and universe that I absolutely adore are probably gonna actually lose a fuck tonne of money because of sheer hubris and egotism alone. That and I have no life. But I notice a lot of people calling this fan fiction, a rather unfair comparison really. While I admit I have never seen LOTR fan fiction though I'm 100% certain it exists. What I have seen is a lot of star wars fan fiction, another franchise I hold dear to my heart that has been butchered by identity politics and virtue signalling. And honestly some of the fan fiction is infinitely better than anything disney has come out with, the possible exception being Rogue One. Anyway I'm ranting while my dinner goes cold. But yeah, give a little credit to the fans because they produce some proper amazing content.
Omg I 100% agree with not labelling this atrocity as fan fiction - there is actually a fan made movie called Born of hope if I remember the name correctly, which shows the love story of Aragorn’s mother and father - for a fan made movie; it was beautifully done - and in my honest opinion 1000 times better than Rings of Power 👩🏻🦽
There's some pretty interesting Tolkien fan fiction from a number of TH-camrs. "What if Gandalf Took the Ring of Power" is one scenario I've seen explored. There's probably well researched fourth age fan fiction out there. It is my impression that a fourth age would get less magical and focus on geopolitics between the kingdoms of men.
I love the “oh you just hate women main characters” nonsense. No, we hate “already made, poorly written, know it all, love me because I’m me” main characters. Everyone’s completely inept and protagonist is always right and always the strongest. Boring.
Come on. She’s slowly being shown that all these traits (brash, petulant etc) AREN’T strengths. They’re flaws. Usually films/shows want the female character just to be perfect because they say so, Mary Sue. This isn’t the case. She’s literally losing hard because she’s being all those traits. She’s learning that those traits don’t make her strong or a leader. She has to start with flaws, otherwise she won’t go anywhere as a character.
@@matthewbrears2129 The big fucking problem here is that Galadriel was made in to Xena The Warrior Princess. I'm baffled how so many people do not even acknowledge that...O.o
I have chosen to watch the extended edition of LoTR over the same time TRoP is running - what is apparent already is just the difference in the filmmaking art - Jackson and Fran spent a year rereading all Tolkien's source material and lovingly recreating the movies - they only made changes to help the movies flow - not because they wanted to 'be Tolkien' but because they understood how the movies needed to differ from the books (time) but always founded themselves they were writing for for an audience of people who loved the source material. If only Amazon understood that!
2 changes jackson did that might be unnecessary but i understand why they did it: they gave arwen a bigger role in fellowship instead of having glorfindel there, and they extended the usage of the ghosts for the pelennor battle instead of having the dunedain and elrond´s sons there
Pretty much agree with everything you bring up. I didn't have high expectations to begin with. I was able to enjoy some aspects, like the visuals. However, much of the CGI still looks CGI... The main issues are the acting and writing. The one thing that also seemed very silly was that they had 5-10 different ethnicities in a single hobbit tribe, or on a single boat. Like diversity, we get it lol... Why not have a dwarf play an elf and an elf play a dwarf etc. I'm sure Galadriel will turn out as a lesbian.
@timemachine194 Well, if they wanted to have black characters, they could have casted black people for the Southlanders. Or added the Easterlings into the story. Even black elves could have worked if they're Avari who migrated to the far South or east long time ago. I agree that it doesn't make much sense for the dwarves. The only explanation I could have is that their blood mixed with a different humanoid species thats black. But portraying different species like the Harfoots as multicultural when they're, in fact, isolated and live in medieval times, it doesn't make much sense. This show is what you get if you try to apply modern standards from bustling capital cities into ancient fantasy settings.
@@NoxAtlas They just needed the entire cast to be white, have liberals and minorities shut their mouths about it, stick to the proper storyline, and produce a masterpiece that everyone loves kind of like, ya know, 20+ years ago but ya know, woke mind virus... so we have trash.
@@NoxAtlas I don't care about the ethnicity of the actors and think it's a very problematic thing to take issue with. If you can suspend your disbelief for the rest of the fantasy I just think it's weird to focus on that. I read lots of D&D growing up, there's plenty of diversity that's well explained there. Black elves are not a RoP creation. It's not explained here, but whatever - try to use your imagination I guess. The acting and the writing is just extremely poor overall and doesn't inspire imagination.
Yeah she’ll be lesbian but her girlfriend will die and it’ll make her so sad she’ll become straight and it’ll be terrible. That way they can explain why she’s married to celeborn in lotr.
when I watched the first episode i expected a woke dumpster fire but it was just boring. Galadriel is as likeable as a mosquito in the toilette and the elves are basically just humans with pointy ears. not even very competent. mowing the lawn is more exciting than this bs
Yeah I expected it to be kind of decent with a bunch of race-swapping and girl-power crap to make me hate it. Boy was I wrong. It's irredeemably and indefensibly terrible AND woke lol.
Galadriel being unlikeable is mainly bc how woke it is. Galadriel fast and strong and smart, all without a twat are slow and dumb and cowardly and cannot fight lol...
I'm sorry, did y'all miss the scene where a rAyCiSs white guy says "you people" to the black elf in the pub?? It's woke as fuck and insufferably cringe.
Galadriel was supposed to be a witch queen why did they rewrite her to make her a warrior? Why couldn't they just do it with her using magic? I would have loved to see elf magic. The Istari weren't allowed to really use their magic. There's great magic in this world and we touch on almost none of it. None of that came from the ring Nenya either, it was all her. And she's supposed to be wise, have foresight (seeing into the future) and basically entrance all that see her. The elves are absurdly enamored with her and they're normally familiar with such beauty. I think in this she has about as much charm and charisma as a rock thrown in your face.
The problem is once modern feminism gets involved you get the Rey route. Like Liv Taylor actress of Arwen said "You dont need a sword to know a character is strong". Who played a sorceress of sorts with her river Horses flushing out Nazgul unafraid. Its that modern feminism writing means take a position thats usually filled by a man so "Strong badass warrior". In this case they mix Aragorn and Legolas and put a Woman in it. Aka Galadriel. Next step is to fill every position of leadership with a woman or minority if they matter, the elven leader does not cuz Galadriel will be Queen of the elves by the end of it. She is always right, does not struggle and even threatens others and makes demands while unarmed and captured. And somehow does not end executed or inprisoned. Why? Because plot cannot let a mary sue get consequences for her actions. This lack of accountability comes from the personal belives extremists follow who write this shit. A sorceress thats level headed and unites doesnt scream Woman power, rebel against the system do a job better then all men (warrior) and still be the heroine because the plot makes me.
They could have made a new character if they wanted a female ass kicker her she could have just been a cool character to bring out during battles. It would have to have been a different actress though because Clark is too puny for believability
@@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm or you could go with Pippin to Faramir. "I think you have strength of a different kind..." But still, she was supposed to be wise and magical, charming and enchanting. No charm, utter disdain for everyone. "Before she was a queen... before she had a ring... Before she had spells... before she was beautiful beyond compare... before she was respected... before she was powerful... she was a bitch and everyone hated her." oh to be 2000 years old again. You're so manly and impetuous when you're in your 20-100s.
Galadriel having to be shone as a bad ass every single scene is like when legolas was just bouncing around slaying everyone playing some sort of temple run on water in the Hobbit. That scene was HILARIOUS
@@ashleebrown7778 yup it was legit the most ridiculous moment for me on all the hobbit trilogy. Way too far ha especially since it was all made up and legolas was never mentioned in the book version of the hobbit
That brief scene with Thor and Odin was incredibly powerful and heartfelt at the same time. Every time I see that scene, I am left thinking, "oh, crap, Thor, you are going to get punished, big time." Two incredibly powerful and prideful beings, squaring off in an argument... yikes. But in that moment, you can FEEL Odin's power in his voice. Thor is about to get schooled.
If I were watching Band of Brothers and I see a Japanese guy fighting for the Nazis id question it and ask "why isnt he on The Pacific instead?" Its not racist to question that especially when it doesnt seem like it fits.
Yes. Remember that Galadriel is the granddaughter of the king of the elves, and Elrond's mother-in-law. Then have another look at the handmaiden's line "Your friend has arrived." The series is so far from what was writtenby JRRT, and so badly written itself, it deserves every skerrick of the derision directed at it.
Funny because if you go on his breakdown videos about this there's thousands of people defending the show trying to explain how it fits with JRR's books 😂. Just grasping at straws, I honestly don't know how he does legit breakdowns of this show with Easter eggs like it's a good show. Pandering to the woke is a bad idea, I literally unsubscribed after watching one of the breakdowns due to all the woke people in the comments eating it up. I of course re subbed when this came out but man I really thought he fell to the woke side for a minute 😂.
Elrond descended from like 3 different ruling houses. (House Beor, including his Great Grandfather Beren, House Hador, which includes Tuor, his Great Great Grandfather is Thingol, whose wife is the Maiar Melian, his other Great Great Grandfather is Turgon, King of Gondolin. His father is Earendil, who succesfully sailed to Valinor, getting the Gods to intervene against Morgoth, and was then put into the skies as a star together with a Silmaril.) Saying Elrond (who isnt exactly stupid either) cant take part in some counsil because " he is no Elven Lord " is insultingly ridiculous and just plain dumb. He is shown as just some dude, which he clearly isnt. (Also, Elros Tar-Minyatur is/was his Twin brother. If you show the both of them together in some Fresco at least make them look similar, ffs)
I watched 15-20 min. and I fell asleep too! That was enough for me. I actually enjoy these videos ABOUT how truly horrible it is. In what little I saw I thought the acting was HORRIBLE. Just awful awful acting. NOTHING engaging about any of those characters and Galadriel’s brother’s hair cut. Woah. They have hair salons in Valinor??
I also find people don't mention the music enough. While I myself am little more than a layman in the topic, I've seen a few videos detailing all the things Howard Shore does to make the music work so well - and the fact is, just as the music works to enhance the movies, so too do the movies let the music BREATHE. The music isn't just there to tell the audience "YEAH THIS IS EPIIIIIIC" or "boohoo this is so saaad :(", the masterpieces of Howard Shore basically tell the same story the movies do, just in music form. His masterful use of leitmotifs is *legendary* and in contrast, the music in Rings of Power is just... Well, it feels... Basic. It's like they just ripped it out of a free stock music website. Like they wrote "epic free music" in Google and just used whatever showed up on page 2 (they didn't wanna make it too obvious).
It has one huge and welcome advantage over Jackson's (er, and of course Tolkien's) original: it's so shallow and self-absorbed (without absorbing us) that it's easy to answer the door bell, find just that right beer glass lost at the back of the cupboard, phone home, etc, etc, without even pressing pause. Ah... what a relief! No more crossed legs waiting for the dramatic tension to ease off - there isn't any. Well done, Amazon, true content-free content.
It's the most expensive show on television as they say and we fantasy genre fans all hope to see some good cgi stuff in it, but they disappoint us every week with low quality and boring scenes. Biggest scam on TV
In Jackson's trilogy, Haldir gets less than 5 minutes of screentime and yet everytime I watch his death scene I feel absolutely terrible for Aragorn. It's baffling to me that even I as a regular member of the audience can figure out how I get attached to both these characters, but showrunners that are getting paid by AMAZON of all companies, can fucking not.
Yes yes yes. Haldir is the PERFECT example of ancillary character that still creates attachment to the audience. Great great example Edit: and to anyone not knowing who the guy is, re-watch the trilogy, then you will absolutely know who he is, no need to remember the name, you’ll understand from the scene.
Listen, I’m a huge lotr fan, but most people I know didn’t care at all about Haldir’s death. They didn’t even know his name lol. So it’s a bad example imo
@@PhilGerb93 Thanks for your input however I do not think you see my point, just as the Amazon people do not. You need not know Haldir's name, the attachment is created through Aragorn, not him. If you do not care about Haldir's death, you do not care about Aragorn either, which points to something else entirely.
@@PhilGerb93 I beg to differ when there's a horde of Haldir fanfiction and most of it is from thristy writers. Thank God Tolkien ain't around to read that, it's awful.
To be fair the show runners were right about one thing : Back to the books, back to the books, back to the books. And that is what I did, I re read Tolkien from Silmarillion to Children of Hurin, order the last book fall of Numenor and bought the WoT series and it feels like a treat, no woke nonsense - as most of these people don't read fantasy - and great stories from great writer.
The funniest thing about this show is that while THINKING they made Galadriel a "strong independent woman" the actually did the exact opposite. Galadriel already was the STRONGEST most INDEPENTANT and most virtuous character in LotR... Then they made her the ASP, the Anime Shonen Protagonist. Which is SOOOO much less than what she actually is.
But surely that’s the point. Everything you’re assuming that the writers want you to think are strengths (brash, petulant etc) are actually flaws. Shes starting to realise that those things don’t make you strong, and then maybe she’ll become more of what we all want her to be. Cant start her off perfect because otherwise she doesn’t go anywhere.
@@matthewbrears2129 Problem is that she is supposed to be thousands of years old already. That's the thing about Elves. They are usually all so old that their character growth had finished before humans even came into the world. And anyone writing an elf needs to realise that instead of treating them like a human character.
@@matthewbrears2129 but in the book this is based on she isn’t like that im not the biggest lords of the rings fan but I don’t even think she is in the book to much or at all
Finally, a reviewer that understands just how terrible this show is. I know it's getting ripped to shreds all over TH-cam, but most people seem to be giving it about 4/10 and focusing on the race-swapping and lore-changing, and how terrible Galadriel's character is. But the writing and acting are both incredibly bad. It's hilariously 1/10.
Maybe you should watch other reviews. Everyone is mentioning the bad writing, editing, contradictions, horrific acting, cringe lines, etc. Don’t cloud your head in the sand comments as some sort of enlightened above the fray criticism of the criticisms.
I saw like 10 reviews and literally nobody said anything about race swapped elves and dwarfs. You know why? Because nobody doesn't really give a shit simce their characters are dogshit anyway
People don't want CGI, bad actors, bad characters, bad storytelling, LOTR memories, or the butchering of tolkeins story. Quit using CGI, instead, make models, film at real sites, hire background actors, and use costumes. The audience notices. The only thing they did decent was costumes for orcs and some dwarves. Which was already done excellently 20 years ago.
The orcs look terrible, they just look like men with masks, you can totaly tell they are fake. And the dwarfs have plastic armor, the inside of the dwarfcaves look like fucking ikea and the so call "game" against elrond with hitting on the same stone a 100 times was so stupid I had to turn off the tv.
If there is one complaint I feel is unjust about this show, its the CGI. Like, the real sets are honestly some of the best looking ive ever seen on television (waaaaaay better than GoT for example), They got orcs in full make up (unlike the Hobbit movies) and the scenes are generally full of actors milling about. Like, are you talking just background set dressings? like places way off in the background?
CGI is not something bad in-and-of itself. Avatar was almost entirely CGI and it's both much loved AND still looks absolutely astonishing to this day. The problem is awful storytelling, dialogue and character development.
I couldn't finish the second episode. When sister-in-law started it during Thanksgiving "Knowing I'd love it", I had to excuse myself after ten minutes saying, "I actually didn't care for this show, but continue, you might enjoy it." Now I see how I may have insulted her. I should apologize.
Holy crap. This does have a MASSIVE CW vibe to it. There's simply no way they spent all that money for an hour long CW "made for tv" show. Someone is either a liar or they ran off with a fuck load of cash.
In the Fellowship of the Ring Galadriel's monologue gave you a real sense of the evil that was Sauron especially the way the music has that little sinister turn right at the start. There was absolutely nothing like this in the show. A shadowy figure of Morgoth at the start did nothing to portray how evil and warped he was. They really were way off the mark when they made this abomination.
Personally I think this series is vitally important going forwards. From now on anyone involved in teaching creative writing, especially classes aimed at those seeking a career in film as writers, will have the perfect example of how not to do an adaptation. Pretty much everything about this series, the characters, dialogue, scene transitions, costumes, and so on are executed in a way that stands head and shoulders above the competition in awfulness. The amount of money this series stands to lose will also (one hopes) be an object lesson to all studio execs in the importance of choosing show runners with extreme care. Making sure that, when adapting a well-known IP in particular, you select those who both know and care about the original works and are passionate about creating a work that pays tribute to the source material in a way that can be recognised and respected by all who watch the adaptation. The Witcher series was bad (not counting Henry's portrayal of Geralt)....but Rings of power is just so much worse in almost every respect.
I feel sorry for the talented pre vis artists and the technical department who really did well because The shots look great and creative and its obvious that talented people created the scenary. Unfortunately in itself thats not really enough.
I heard a rumor from someone claiming to have worked on the show. Said that they were treated quite bad. Didn't sound fun at all. Dunno if it's true, but I'm sure they worked hard while at the same time they must have had a feeling that the raw material was not very good.
I listened and agreed to all of this, but the thing that gained you my absolute trust, as well as a sub, was that you picked up on the only decent acting that we got to see in the first two episodes. I like it when critics are honest.
Bro, you missed an opportunity, she strait up did a "Crouching hidden dragon off the tip of his sword to smash not only the troll, but the actual successful dragons show everyone is actually talking about."
This is exactly what the show has done for me it has made me wanna re-watch the Peter Jackson trilogy and realize how freaking good it is and not my memory that remember it better than it was. And you can find many scenes in the show that is similar to the movies. So much for telling a different story like the showrunners have said!
Fun fact: the same tribe behind both WW (which were brother wars) are behind hollywood and these amazing new works on LOTR and Star Wars! The merchant tribe rocks! :D
@@thecensoredmuscle563 apart from laughing out loud at your comment, it probably have more true in it then you may even have realized. Mary Sues always act like that same self-righteous modern feminist on Twitter.
When those classic scenes from the Lord of the Rings played with Frodo and Gandalf with Howard Shore’s music in the background....I honestly teared up.
Finished two seasons of 'Dark' (Netflix) and loving it... it really makes you think about why do characters do what they do and how on earth did they come to this.
I really enjoyed that show, though I’m a little embarrassed to admit that a few times I had to rewind just to figure out some character’s motivations. I had a great time watching it and bending my brain 👍🏻
I can never enjoy these “revival pieces” such as this and Disney’s Star Wars stuff etc: the reason being is I just feel “used”. There’s no heart in them and as you said it’s like they only use the IP for cash instead of actually wanting to create good stories.
agreed, feels like Phantom Menace with tons of CGI, starchy acting and no investment in characters.... disappointing. Plus kinda gaslights Tolkien fans (like me) into believing these are events from the original story
I know, I know, on top of eveything to complain about.... All of the helmets are missing padding. They are just shells, as though the armorer never finished making them. Even the burned ones should have charred leather and cloth cladding inside. Peter Jackson, had Weta make fully functional armor, even for set pieces. And he had a fraction of this budget. Then the cheap Spanish Conquistador breastplates? How does this reflect early medieval England?
Time is NOT going to be kind to this production. It's going to get memed, giffed and humorously re-edited to utterly savage proportions. They've dropped this gift right into the epicentre of Nerd Central, and that means programmers, coders and all manner of those skilled in modern media's dark arts....are going to have a field day with it. The true fan abuse and disrespect of this production hasn't even begun yet.....and Rotten Tomatoes and other review sites will be least of the producer's concerns because popular web culture will become utterly flooded with mockery for this abomination....and that mockery is likely to become far more entertaining than the show it's actually mocking once it gains traction!!
I want to see the DM of the Rings/Darths and Droids version of this! EDIT: At least that comic will be funny, and the bad character descision will be the product of the players antics.
I've seen one video..with clips, voiced by funny people, saying funny things..and I can't wait till someone makes a movie like that..like that young hercules(?) ..remember that? A 50's bad movie made funny af.. this show is ripe for it
@@thatONEmachine Bro, watching reviews of the show is literally one of the most entertaining experiences you could ask for. I still can't believe they literally had Galadriel say out loud "I was saved from certain death". It's incredible.
Modern definitions: Villain - the male character with the most (although not much) personality and charisma, who get's punished for his evildoing Hero - the female character with the least (if any at all) personality, who is the biggest asshole in the story and get's away with commiting even more evil than the villain I might just watch this show only to root for DefinetlyNotSauron. Someone has to take a stand against evil, even if it has to be the dark lord, right?
You said it very well what I feel when watching this series. It makes me want to rewatch Jackson's movies. It just lacks the heart, passion and beauty Jackson's movies have.
It's crazy a company can spend so much on a series then put no effort at all into making the first episode interesting and exciting. The first episode should grab hold of the audience!
I dont mind creating a black character every now and then but I think there is too much wokeness in this production at the expense of the the story being canon. Does it really need to have black in everything? A black elf? A black dwarf? A black hobbit? A black Numenorian ruler (whose father is white)? Even Isildur is now half-black. LOL
It would have made more sense if they made the whole race black/Asian imo. These races are so isolated it makes no sense that they're multi-colored imo. Not to mention it's literally one black elf/human/dwarf so it stands out way more.
@@MaestroJericho they do this black thing in other shows too because a certain group of people would be offended by the lack of representation. It ruins some shows like this one. Why dont they just make an original like Black Panther? That would accomplish way better for black people than this silliness.
It feels like they're sort of mixing the vibes of the Hobbit, with LoTR, with SIlmarillion, not understanding that, while all taking place in the same world, each of those works are written in very different tones for a very different purpose, from different regions of Tolkien's mind.
I think you say great because there is such a huge lack of proper storytelling right now. There's hardly any decent television. It's doing a fine job though.
I fell in love with Tolkien at nineteen, the perfect age, back in the early/middle 70's. It's remarkable that you cite Jackson's films as the standard by which this new series is to be judged. When his films originally came out, I enjoyed going to the Tolkien Society website, to read all those intelligent and educated people suppurating with such hatred.
.. and claim that Amazon is copying P.J style to some extent to please the fanbase, completely missing that P.J basically carbon copied the style, feel and sometimes even whole scenes from Ralph Bakhis movie..
but here is the thing: PJ actually kept most of the stuff loyal to the books, the important parts at least, and created some of the best battles ever seen in cinematic history, to this day they compare battles to the one of helms deep and the pallenor fields. the first real battle in this movie is a cheap copy of the pj trilogy battle of helms deep if you pay attention, point by point. i too prefer the books, but the movies AT LEAST payed respect to the trilogy, this does NOT respect the lore in the slightest
I don’t normally comment but this review was spot on. Well done. I literally fell asleep during both of the first two episodes also. I’m not even giving the show a chance anymore.
I literally fell asleep in the middle of episode 2. When I woke up, I'd forgotten I'd been watching it and didn't watch the rest of episode 2 until several hours later. It is literally, the most boring thing I have ever seen on TV or at a cinema (and I've seen plenty of rubbish).
Love LOTR's. Read the book four times, movies a bunch of times, and hours to lore videos on TH-cam. Watched episode one, and never had any urge to watch episode two... that's bad...
Most of my kids have Quenya names. I knew from the trailer release that I wouldn't be able to bring myself to watch any of this show. To be honest, watching review videos like this is just as bad. Nothing against the youtubers, but the show is such a spit in the face, I would probably be happier if I avoided all mention of it's existence.
9:17 🥹🥹🥹🥹 one of the BEST scenes in the trilogy. When I am upset about my situation, I always refer back to this exactly quote from Gandalf. He really was the backbone of The Fellowship. He is a fictional character, but a real encouragement.
I sat down to watch this show with two friends. One was a person who read the original trilogy of books along with the Simarillion and the other was someone who never read the books, and did not even get a chance to watch the movie. I myself am a casual fan, who has researched the books, but have not got a chance to read them proper. After just the first episode, we all stopped, and turned it off. None of us could stand it. None of us cared about the casting choices or the supposed politics that could be within the show. What bothered us is that the show was just hot garbage.
dawg honestly every video saying how dogshit it is and every person complaining about it online makes me want to watch it. You guys look like such a massive hivemind
@@jorgeenchilada --- Because they are. The show is more than fine. It's not exceptional but it also isn't bad at all, it's more than decent for what it is. Nobody expected to have the new Lord of the Rings trilogy, but people are making a very big deal out of the show when there isn't any reason to, the exact same way people behaved when the Hobbit movies came out. What @Jokage13 forgot to add was that everybody clapped when that totally happened. 3 people were watching it, even someone who's never watched any of LotR stuff, and all 3 of them chose to stop after the very first episode ? Get the fuck out.
Lesson 1 for your 'research': The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy - it was one book (but very long, so has often been sold as three separate books).
@@Scyths1 You have misread me in my reasoning. You are allowed to have your opinion on the show. I'm allowed to have mine. I hate this show because of the following 1) the dialogue is awful 2) the pacing is unbearably slow 3) the sub plots don't connect in any meaningful way 4) the show completely disregards the lore 5) the main character is completely unlikeable.
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.
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Lol!!!! Hehehe!!!
Well done! John Ronald Reuel would be so proud!
Good song lol
A MASTER FLOP
You, Sir, are a master and a scholar.
We have all been deceived and have had our minds clouded by the will and desire of our hearts.
I hold the lore of the many books closest to my heart.
I then (sometimes to my detriment) hold the adaptations by Peter Jackson (miner of lore, forgetter of some) upon my sleeve. His whimsical and attractive visions being my entry into this world many years ago.
But utter disgust takes a hold on me when I see this. There is PLENTY of story and lore in the silmarillion that can hold a true and happy audience than this... wargshit. Battles between Elves and Balrogs. Between men and Nazguul. Weapons with pure ancient magic to be forged and whole islands to fall out of existence. Dragons to be slain.... I can go on and on... this is a pure atrocity to the memory of J.R.R. Tolkien.
I hope that they enjoy the fleeting monetary gain this gives them. Because it will not last.
Cate Blanchett nailed galadriel. She was feminine yet commanded massive respect. So elegant, graceful, and mysterious. You really get the sense she was an ancient being with great knowledge to the point where she gives off eery vibes. This new girl gives none of that energy, she just wants to be a girl boss.
acting cant save shit writing
That could have something to do with the fact that the folks who wrote and directed Cate Blanchett's performance actually cared about producing something other than soulless corporate swill designed exclusively to further their masters' political agenda.
Compounded by the fact that Cate Blanchett herself has poise, elegance and gravitas.
Welshina Mcwhatshercunt on the other hand, seems woefully out of her depth everytime she's saddled with material that requires anything approaching subtlety.
She also appears to be the patron saint of resting bitch face.
You've likely never read the book. I admit Cate Blanchett delivered a good performance as Galadriel. But the movies screw the Mirror of Galadriel scene up.
Well at least how you interpretted it in the book anyways. It is obvious to all that they imbellished the character. @@reek4062
@@reek4062 You really don't seem to understand at all...there's a difference between being faithful to the books and being accurate to the books, and a good film adaptation SHOULDN'T have the latter fully. Jackson was faithful to the books BUT also did as best he could to be accurate while also making a good film adaptation, because guess what - you have a film be 1:1 to a book because it just doesn't work, the flow won't be proper. The Rings of Power, on the other hand, wasn't faithful to the books NOR were they trying to be accurate in any way at all, plus the actors and directors basically dissed Tolkien in saying that they needed to "update his message for modern audiences", whereas Jackson's goal was to give TOLKIEN'S message and not his own.
I always imagined Galadriel as a character who was queenly, angelic, magical and wise beyond mortal humans. In this travesty she reminds of someone who would serve me beers at the local bar.
Please, those women are much nicer
Wait, you are saying the young elf doesn't behave the same way as she does 3500 years worth of life later? Wow. Amazin. Lotta good criticisms about the show, then every once in awhile an idiot reaches for the keyboard.
@@Charagrin shows hot garbage why defend it…
I’m sure you understand he thought of her as more feminine…
@@my68chevy2 What about my specifically saying there's a lotta good criticisms about the show, and that this isn't it because the criticism presented doesn't make sense, is me defending the show? Shows a steaming pile of shit, but this idiots reason isn't why.
@@Charagrin bruh Legolas is only, like, what, 2800 years old in LotR? he feels way wiser, calmer and more collected than Strong Woman ever does in RoP. Fuck, his most vulnerable moment, basically the elf equivalent of a meltdown, is in Helm's Deep, and even then he barely raises his voice. Strong Woman just feels like a bitter, angry BITCH that lashes out at anyone or anything that refuses to lick her boots till the leather wears off.
EDIT: correction, Legolas was 2931 years old
"Our hearts are bigger then our feet". Said the people who abandoned those who are ill or cannot keep up.
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Its really cheap
Yeah, they keep forcing taglines (for marketing) but don't have the story to back it up (or in this case do the exact opposite) versus good stories that build up to a line or if it is used for framing or foreshadowing be consistent or have some kind of pay off.
There are like the most weakest creature alive, it like you guys are ignoring that to prove a bad point
@@tentailmadara2500 thats just not true. "our hearts are bigger than our feet"- "who cant walk will be left behind" - "he died of beestings, hahahahah"
like... WTF?!
Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Galadriel is unparalleled.
guyladriel in RoP is just a joke
@@nofarmers_nofood_nox3935 water is wet
@@nofarmers_nofood_nox3935 You’re gonna be real mad when you find out that Galadriel’s mother name in Quenya is “Nerwen” meaning “Man Maiden”. 🤣
@@ryancruz1876
That's nothing new to me. So what that her mother name in her youth in Valinor is Nerwen? I bet you'll be mad when you realize that she have other names too and that her name Nerwen was NEVER used again....ever. 🤣
Her ONLY name in the show is Galadriel meaning "maiden crowned with a garland of bright radiance."
But apparently her rendition wasn’t accepted as strong and powerful. Apparently wiping out a battalion of Orcs with a snap of her finger isn’t powerful. She has to become a man hating Karen who insults everyone and likes playing darts at the bar and breeding huskies with her girlfriend named Tannnya who is a welder. That’s strong. That’s brave. So brave. Mmmmmm. So goddamn brave and strong.
It might be worth noting that the Cave Troll scene in Fellowship became a teamwork scene. No one member of the Fellowship was shown to be worthless. They all worked together to bring it down.
They have a cave troll
That's because they were all useless, pathetic men.
If a woman had been there she'd have vaulted off one of Legolas' arrows and cut off the cave trolls head off, then vaulted off the cave troll's flying, severed head to kick off the Balrog's head, then would have put on the ring and have been found to be able to master it easily because women have it so much harder than all men.
@Alexander Machado are you really implying an elf is more than gandalf?
@Alexander Machado gandalf respected everyone from frodo and bilbo all the way to even denethor.
i´m not saying galadriel isn´t powerful
Despite the cgi starting to be a bit outdated, that scene give me always such a sense of belonging. The fellowship was working together to survive. Such a strong party.
When you cut to Frodo saying "I wish the ring had never come to me..." I legit started tearing up. You can't rip the heart from a world and expect us to have the same feelings.
So do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for us to decide... All we can decide is what to do with the shit adaptations that are given to us.
@@roryslaine7896 the Jackson movies are sh!t adaptations
@@reek4062 There's always one.
After watching this show, "I hope Sauron wins" is something I thought I'd never say.
Exactly why I found myself rooting for the Empire in all the new Star Wars movies
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I'm presuming he'll be played by a straight, white male. So according to identity politics, he's the only one I'm able to identify with.
You don't have to watch it, it's not real.
@@mikepxg6406 excellent rebuttal, well done
My favorite part is where Galadrial used the Elder Wand to knock the T-1000 into a vat of molten steel while shouting "76 CENTS!" So inspiring I voided my bowels.
I liked the part where the dragonborn shows up inexplicably and accidentally genocides all the [redacted] elves and dwarves with his summon storm shout, because after all the [redacted] don't exist in the future.
@@nopetrain5629 I used to be an adventurer like you
I didn't watch that garbage show, but my bowels were moved by the teasers.
I'd buy that for a dollar 😛
My favorite scene is when galadriel said to darth vader "That's not a knife", pulled out excalibur from the stone and said "That's a knife". My spine imploded
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I shed a tear when she did the "head on a stick" on him...
So brave...
🤣🤣 underrated comment.
And also said "Nice light saber. Let me make it even lighter." then sliced it in half and caught the end to fuel her jet back with, and then Vader said....
Damn, now I feel left out because I fell asleep during the first 15 min of the show and did not watch it again.
My favorite part was when Galadriel took out her lightsabre, and smashed the Horcrux, saying "I am no man."
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Nice reference to the v signalling of the Jackson Trilogy.
"It’s Galadrielin' time"
No no no. You mean Mel Gibson with his claymore - "You may take our lives..."
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I just started rereading the books after this show started. All I can say is the disdain I have for the show continues to grow each page I get deeper into Tolkein’s universe. Rings of Power needs to be cancelled. I’m convinced Tolkein is going to haunt Jeff Besos in the afterlife.
Did bezos wright rings of power?
Don't think they will meet in the afterlife. Bezos is heading south to a very different place.
If this series could be retro fitted with the sound effects found in this video "Remember Berries" etc. If this was re-released as a comedy then it would be amazing.
Add laughter tracks (Eg When she kills the thing at the start or when she jumps)
@@DutchVilla Oh! A laugh/bloopers sound effects track for this would be sooooo delicious. Please, anyone?
I'm reading the book for the first time. When I first met Galadriel and read that scene where she seemed to read the characters' hearts and offer them what they desired if they abandoned the quest, I was like, "Holy crap, this woman could kick my butt if she wanted to." To me, it was far better at conveying her power (and making me low-key fear her) than if she fought a troll solo.
I liked the scene where Galadriel said "it's Galadriel time" and Galadrielled all over the place.
No one has appropriately addressed how stupid it was that galadriel jumped ship. They were literally at the shores of valinor and she decides to just swim 5000 miles back to middle earth?!
Welcome to the genre of Fantasy
@@MauriDoval no it's just bad writing. Fantasy doesn't mean illogical
Galadriel was not allowed to return to Valinor until she rejected the One Ring in the trilogy. she was one of the remaining elves left that led the rebellion in Valinor to pursue Morgoth to middle earth and participated (duped) in the kinslaying at Aquallonde. That was why they were exiled by the gods. The story-arc of the elves in exile is ultimately one of redemption so they can return to Valinor. The House of Feanor, because of the Oath, perished eventually.
@@miguelangelortizoliveras1833 ok thats all well and good it, doesn't excuse her jumping ship and swimming across the world.
@@m33tballa what i'm trying to say is that it is not what happened according to the Lore. They are mixing things off. The rings creation timeline is the 1600's of the second age. Elendill and Isildur are at the War of the Last alliance in 3400's of the second age. They obviously hadn't bothered to even check the history, they are making thinks up, and badly at that...
I would’ve paid money just to watch PJ’s reaction to seeing these episodes.
Try Ian McKellen. He was a big advocate on set. He held a LOTRs book throughout the trilogy because he wanted to make sure he got Gandalf right
Sir Christopher Lee must be rolling in his grave right now.
Don’t forget PJ also gave us the Hobbit
@@Therichi1995 what does that have to do with anything
@@aaaaaaaaa6417 well The Hobbit was shit...
You all simply misunderstood the movie. This movie is brilliant! It is a brilliant deep sleep ASMR movie! I personally fell asleep on each episode of this wonderful season! Thanks Amazon!
Galadriel is epic. Not because of her acts in the show. The real Galadriel is a princess of the Noldor or High Elves. She founded three elf kingdoms in her time in middle earth. She actually founded Ost in Edhil, the very place the rings of power were fashioned. During this time she was visited by a powerful lord of the Numenoreans who later became the 6. king of that realm. She was a sorceress and a politician. She was married with a poweful telerin prince and mother in law of Elrond. When Ost in Edhil was destroyed she retaliated in kind and sent for help to Numenore and Tar Minastir sent vast fleets at her behest to save Gil Galad and the elves and completely rout the forces of Sauron who afterwards did not have the manpower to seriously challenge the elves and men for almost a century. That was Galadriel! I would not have minded to be shown that Galadriel and not the whiny Mary Sue daughter of Karen we got!
The real Galadriel doesn't have enough of a middle finger vibe for the writers. That's what writing modern women is about. Saying fuck you to everyone who comes near them lol. The largest suspense of disbelief is that show Galadriel has friends.
Is easier for the writers to do a warrior princess than a smart politician...
You forgot to mention that she's two meters tall and she LITERALLY glows in the dark! ("with a silver radiance like the first stars of Varda")
Hear hear. Very well put.
My girl Galadriel!!!!
Peter Jackson's elves: Extremely pretty, almost ethereal, peerless presence, characteristic talk, immaculate in every sense, actually look like immortal beings.
Exactly as Tolkien described.
Amazon's elves: Cranky humans with pointy ears.
By the way, if that truly is Gandalf, that's also absolute BS. None of the Istari came to Middle Earth until half of the Third Age had passed. And Gandalf was the last one to arrive.
This show is a big scam. Don't expect anything good from it
You nailed it, first thing is saw is there is something off about the elves, you just described it perfectly
Why you care? No one cares, just enjoy the show man. /s
Go back and watch one of the scenes with Galadriel in LotR.
Then remember that Cate Blanchett was younger than Morydd Clarke when she took the role.
Another amusing fact is imagine if they had unleashed what Galadriel was capable of if they followed the lore.
You wouldn't get her dressed up as a soldier though...
P.s I dont have anything against M.C. she seems like a competent actress but is severely disabled by the writing. I would love to see what she could do with the character if she wasnt limited by the writing and "the message".
I think he's one of the blue wizards
So... the Tolkien Estate absolutely loathes Peter Jackson because, they claim, he did not do Tolkien's story justice. I guess they're happy with Amazon's handling of the lore. I can only imagine the producers bringing the script to the lore master and the lore master disagreeing with every decision made. So, instead of figuring out how to use the existing Tolkien story/characters and flesh it out, Amazon promptly fired their lore master, surrounded themselves with yes-men, and said "we can write whatever story we want without consequence"
Yeah but Tolkien estate? lol like saying Abraham Lincoins son's opinion is important, who cares.
They waited for the Tolkien Estate aka Christopher Tolkien to die before rushing to Amazon for more money. What is left now is people who don't actually care about Tolkien's work. Just the money they could make from it.
Hollywood has been preying on old IPs, waiting for their protectors to die before taking it over and inserting their junk writing. They did the same with Wheel Of Time only a few years after the author died. Now they did it with Middle Earth right after Christopher Tolkien died. It's obvious the inheriting IP owners care less about legacy and integrity of the respective properties. I'm just wondering what will be next on the vultures' list after the creators die.
@@lovetownsend Its not just Tolkien family but an entite company. They still own most of tolkiens IPs/rights. So if they don't like it, we're not getting any new lotr content. (And rightfully so after adaptations, sorry aboninations like ROP and partly the hobbit)
@@lovetownsend The Tolkien estate is a legal term you id**t. Do you not know what an estate is?
We had three Pinocchio-Movies in 2022, but still Galadriel was the most wooden protagonist.
It's already dated, movie studios have dropped completed projects due to political posturing boring the tits off of even casual audiences, the glaring issue with RoP is that Peter Jackson's movies won 17 academy awards and expectations were high, fans wanted a cohesive authentic and accurate adaptation and Amazon wanted to hire writers with the emotional range of a toddler.
Thst sounds unfair, toddlers feel very deeply
It’s like the theatre where even if the piece is awesome, you still need to appeal to the ideals of the theatre… and the current state of affairs to have a chance with getting funded and chosen to do a run.
Stray from meritocracy and pay the price!
And the intelligence to boot
the moment i had seen the "rock and boat scene" of rop, i instantly knew to never touch this series with a 10m stick, goddamnit that was cringe
I agree. The dwarf King had to be the best actor or best felt moment in the show yet.
I agree. But isolated I would give those scenes maybe a 7/10. And that should be the minimal baseline for a show like this - not the peak!
The dwarves are anti-Scottish stereotypes.
By that I take it you mean the dwarf isn't as bland and wooden as the rest of them. But why the Scottish accent? Or is it because he's dour and argumentative, and even in these woke times some stereotyping is okay?
@@majorclanger8256 Dwarves having scotish accent is a famous trope.
The original Lord of the Rings, D&D games and World of Warcraft are some examples.
I adore the scene where Sauron T-poses over Galadriel before banishing her to the shadow realm. I got shivers down me spine.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt” - J.R.R. Tolkien
and that statement remains true today
Thanks for the video
damn brother, man defended himself in death
icredable
All this series does is make people realize how dam good PJ's Trilogy is!
eh i personally love the series.
@@CliffJump23 what zero standards does to a nigga
Agreed! They borrowed so much for P.J.'s films.
I mean.......he just had to follow the book. This show is a creation based off the lore from his books. None of this shit was ever written by Tolkien, that's why it's not as good.
@@kjax0630 True , but Tolken never wrote about hobbits in this age or black dwarfs or black elves, it is obvious the show producers construct something which is in line with our modern world, very un Tolkinian
A couple of my friends:
Before it came out: "just wait until the shows out it won't be as bad as you think!"
Now: "there's still only been 3 episodes it will get better"
When the first season ends: "that was all just the set up for the real stuff that's coming!!"
No. No no no. It's bad. Sorry.
I keep finding that “only three episodes” argument ridiculous. That’s longer than Fellowship! It’s a whole three hours of terrible writing and acting.
Get new friends.
@@CharlesMCFC In anime review community, there's the three episodes rule. If a show can't make you feel interested in 3 episodes, better drop it.
And 3 anime episodes only take 1 hour (minus opening, ending and recap).
I can imagine story telling classes saying” remember writers, the fans from the IP you are now adapting have to give you at least 3 episodes for your improvement in the lore and script to re-hook them in. If they don’t all the changes underpinned by shitty writing, that’s where you pull the istaphobe card to silence the critics. That concludes today’s class which will be tested on the mid-term.”
@@CharlesMCFC Three whole hours, and there is so much to judge. I feel bad for the cast.
I like when Galadriel was mourning her wife and she gets a dog her wife gave her before she died, but then a group of robbers broke into her home and killed her dog. Theeennn she found out who and started not aliving everyone while being called the boogeyman. Super sick.
Mr. Wick doesn't deserve this shit...
but did she unalived 3 men in a bar with a pencil though?
@@ersyadiaz 🤣🤣🤣
I’m Dead😂😂😂
@@ersyadiaz No with lembas bread
I couldn't write anything anywhere near as impressive as Tolkein. The man was an absolutely insane beast at world building and writing.
That being said, I have read all of his material enough times that I could have absolutely outclassed these fools and at least have made something that was a pale shadow, rather than a mockery. And this isn't my job. I'm just a huge fan.
You said yourself what the issue is. They're making it for profit. You would make it cause you love it. Wish you could've made the show dude, it really needed some passion.
I think a good collection of Tolkien fans absolutely would have knocked this out of the park. The difference is Tolkien fans would have had humility, because we would understand that we're not the equals of the professor and to use his words whenever and wherever we could.
Personally, I would have loved to tackle the story of Annatar coming among the Elves and some of them (Celebrimbor and such) welcoming him and others (Gil-Galad for example) treating him with suspicion. That's where you could have had Galadriel shine, is she's one of the first to have a problem with Annatar and then she sends word to Gi-Galad that something is wrong with this guy and he bars him from Lindon, but they readily welcome him in Eregion. Anyways, that's my two cents. I would have also liked to see Celebrimbor and Elrond go to Khazad-Dum in the days when they and the Elves of Eregion were on good terms and they could literally walk into Moria at their leisure. We could see Celebrimbor know the guards at the gates and as they're walking in he's waving and shaking hands with everyone and the first thing Durin does when they arrive to talk is poor them all tankards of beer and they have to have a drink with him. It could have been fun and charming and beautiful.
You're right... I have no doubt you could do better. I hate people calling it 'fan fiction' as an insult, as literal fan fiction is more dedicated to source material than this shameless cash grab.
@@majorpwner241 yeah as long as it's not one of those real weird fan-fictions where someone does some crazy stuff like making Boromir and Aragorn secret lovers or something. Haha
@@JCTheSniper15 Yeah I totally agree - Those two being secret lovers? C'mon, they couldn't keep that a secret. They'd just be openly kissing in front of the Hobbits n junk. Haha
The bastardizing of Tolkien aside, this show is still awful. Amazon knows they have a turd on their hands.
Then stop watching it
@@JohnSmith-is4uu why though? We like trashing on woke dumpster fires for entertainment. Watching videos such as these gives me something to laugh at without boring myself watching the actual show.
@@blacklight1104 He's saying stop watching the show not this video 😂 how did you get that out of their comment?
@@stpbasss3773 uhh I'm saying for them not to stop watching the show so we can have content such as these. I myself will not be touching the show with a ten feet pole. I enjoy these reviews more than the show. Maybe it's you who needs to read between the lines?
It is unbelievably entertaining to watch from a distance right now. Pure laughter. I am overwhelmed lol.
You left out the Not-Hobbits: who love and look out for one another other, until one of them falls behind, at which point they leave the slow poke to die. As they reminisce about those they've left behind, the Not-Hobbits also laugh at those who died funny deaths, like being stung to death by bees. They're not just filthy and lack any semblance of individual personality; except gender flipped Frodo, they're despicable. When gender flipped Frodo says of Not-Gandalf, "What was I supposed to do, just leave him?" her entire village should have shouted as one, "Yes, that's what we do, we leave people to die."
"love and look out for one another other, until one of them falls behind" - - a parody of contemporary leftism
Yet they chant “we wait for you” Lmaooooooooooooo
And let us not forget their pantomime 'Irish accent' and being 'travellers', schlepping their carts/caravans around. LIving in shanty hovels, half buried in the ground. Being constantly dirty, always rootling in the dirt for anything to eat, always starving and even stealing from any human garden they encounter. Racist much? Did these writers/showrunners never hear of the Irish Potato Famine? How poor Irish peasants, who lived in half buried hovels, were desperately rootling in the ground for their potato crop, the only thing that kept them alive, only to find the blight had rotted them all? Do they know about the one million men, women and children who starved to death and the additional one to two million who emigrated to America, desperate to escape starvation, only to find that they were compared to Blacks by American racists and deemed as low or even lower? Do these people know about the Irish Travelers, also known as 'tinkers' or 'Irish gypsies' (distinct from the Roma)?
Oh, I'm sure they have some knowledge about these things, since when they thought 'migratory hobbits', they thought, 'living half in the ground, therefore dirty, secretive, therefore gypsy, always hungry and funny with their love for po-TA-toes, therefore Irish. Someone is racist, but it's not the Tolkien fans!
So relatable and inspiring. If you are a woke snowflake that is.
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The scene where she was riding the horse on the beach was just inexplicable.
this is only thing i didnt like about the show. her face just didnt feel right
Seriously made my wife and I uncomfortable.
It looked like a perfume commercial
@@michelerusso9745 haha 😂 yes! So bizarre
@@michelerusso9745 hahahhaha
It's crazy how the LOTR trilogy was made with 94 million dollars per movie and this takes up 715 million.
Remember in Fellowship how it took everyone in the party to beat the troll? Now it's that everybody is incompetent except for the one protagonist. I hate that kind of writing. It's just unbelievable and it reeks of writer's self insert.
I despise self insert fanfiction type of writing. It's the equivalent of wanking one's ego
RoP in summary - Wahmen strong, men weak.
Yes, they wanted to show how badass Galadriel was but if anything they unintentionally made her look worse. She is the leader but all the male elves she took with her on a dangerous mission to find Sauron were so incompetently trained they couldn't even handle a troll. Later, they end up turning against her. What does that say about a leader?
They could have Galadriel ordering her men to get in formation when they see the troll, with one member distracting the troll with a torch, the other striking it with arrows, another striking with a sword, and then Galadriel using her magic to deliver the killing blow. It would have shown how excellent Galadriel had trained her men and how effective she is at leading them. She could have also shown them some compassion, maybe healing or tending to their wounds. Maybe one of the men gets seriously injuried and that's when she decides to turn back, for the sake of his health. That would have been a whole lot better than the apathetic, selfish, arrogant Galadriel who was willing to endanger the lives of her men so she can avenge her brother!
And its the exsact opoosite of Tolkiens vision.
The whole strengh in the forces of good was the combined might of Elf,, mankind and dwarven kind fucking over Saurons armies.
The fellowship is the union of the best of each world, sharing their unique talents and traits to reach a common goal. Overcome odds together. Sacrafice for each other.
It was a deep and meaningful story about how union can archieve much.
This kind of writing does not belong to middle earth.
@@Nopeasaurus I enjoy reading stupid comments.
@@valerivalirian4320 Thanks, you've just taught me how to say 'I have no comeback', without actually saying it 🤣
The first ten minutes, Galadriel is proving to be more of a villain then Sauron is.
And the Harfoots weren't ancestors, they were just another tribe from the 2nd Age.
Thank you. Really tired of it being phrased that way, there are three brands of hobbit. However Amazon has been trying to play it off as Harfoots are ancestors.
I know it's such a small thing but I hate that the elves in rings of power doesn't really feel or look like tolkien/peter jackson elves, they just look and act like humans with pointy ears. The reasons the elves in the other films act and look the way they do is because they can afford to, they are immortals, they have no need for practical (like keeping your hair short) and they are fond of beauty (long hair) and also diamonds and silver, not gold because that is for humans and dwarves
not to mention the whole woke movement they are trying to implement.
Yeah elves need to act high and mighty imo. They should be very cold for the most part and Galadriel should have seemed divine and wise compared to even the Numenorians.
They look like they were all cast out of a goddamn Calvin Klein catalog. Like what is with the cheekbones in chin of whatever that elf's name is that's gladriel's older brother apparently. Shows you how much love this show just inspires from me
Small thing ? That is a huge thing.
The Elves were supposed to be exceptionally beautiful.
So why are those so fking ugly?
They are not good looking even with human standards.....
When Galadriel inspired her soldiers by saying: They can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom, i almost cried.
The 3rd episode made me laugh so hard, although it was not intentional. The part where the Harfoots remember "fondly" the people they left behind to die was INCREDIBLY FUNNY, in a tone-deaf kind of way. They are TERRIBLE people! 😂
That's the point.....
@@tomwhitworth1560 I don't think it was meant to be so tone-deaf and dissonant with the rest of the story. It presents the Harfoots as terrible people, dirty hillbillies with stage-Irish accents who leave their most vulnerable people behind and laugh about it. They're no better than orcs at this point, just weaker.
Yes AHAH the first guy that got stuck in the fucking snow lmaooo “we wait for you” so fucking ridiculous. I get what they were trying to show but seriously? Ridiculous
Terrible people? Like the English?
Init man! I thought to myself "why didn't you go back and help them you selfish bastards? why migrate at all!? you're clearly capable of above average manufacturing and agriculture ability, you could so easily make a home somewhere" which ironically according to Tolkien they did lol
Another reviewer asked why Lady G didn't just swim back from Numenor. That was her plan anyway. This show is so rough.
You've inspired me to Return to Fellowship
Hell, watch 1970's animated movie. It's great as well
She later admids she knew she wasnt gonna make it. But was still ungrateful she was fished out and safed.
So our supposed main heroine just jumped to certain death.
"why didn't she swim back from Numenor"
"Uh, I dunno big guy, why do you use a plane to go to Australia and don't just swim there?"
@@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm This was after she said she wouldn't accept the honor of returning to Valinor, right?
So very wise. What a travesty
5:55 Dude, what you said is literally 100% correct. When rings of power was out, all I did was watch scenes from the original LOTR.
Recommendation: The Expanse. Grown up writing, excellent character development. Best sci-fi series for more than a decade. Maybe longer.
Fantastic show, even if they fucked up the blue goo storyline
Great show- I loved The Expanse.
The biggest issue in film/tv right now is 99% of the production companies have it backwards.
It should be:
“I have a great story that needs to be told, let’s get it created in a film/show”
Not:
“I want to have a film/show made, let’s go create a story for it”
Approaching something with the attitude of the latter will always result in an underwhelming creation
The biggest issue in film/tv right now is they think making the same shit over but making a portion of the cast Black or Hispanic is groundbreaking. I'm trying to understand why no Black or Hispanic actor / actress has breached the fact that studio's don't feel they are worthy of their own films/ series
Agree. Exept Better Call Saul.
you mean the latter?
@@drogynturalyon9914 its so bad even depictions of historical settings/events aren't safe, and if history becomes blurred that is quite scary for our futures sake
It's why Rogue One is the only good starwars movie produced by Disney since it's a complete story from the beginning to the end.
This can't even be placed in the "So Bad, it's good" movies/series to watch... it's obviously a poorly written rip-off wrapped in expensive golden production. This will be forever remembered for the memes, lol.
It is unbelievably entertaining to make fun of. I'm still in disbelief that the writers actually made Galadriel say she was saved from certain death. "It hurt itself in its confusion" barely begins to give scope to their incompetence. Pure laughter.
Of courses. It is for the "So good, it's great" section.
It's not even producing good memes. At least we got some memes from GOT S8, but this...this is going to fade into obscurity quickly, and not soon enough at that.
I’m disgusted by what they did to Galadriel. She’s been my favorite character for years and they made her “human”.
Worst... they made her a "Karen".
All of the Elves in this ridiculous piece of tripe look and act like humans.
We have not a single Elf in this. All elves act and are cast like "men".
i just wannna know, what does CW level mean
@Altusestmieiovis ah, CW is the company, got it
This video does a great job of putting a voice to everything I've felt about this show. Thank you, thank you so very much.
Also I read someone on Reddit describe the music as sounding " like it was created by AI" spot on
Same here, this whole thing is spot on
Damn, you poor fellow have watched this shi... er, show? It seems to be far worse than I expected. My condolences mate.
If the elves didn`t have pointy ears in this show nobody would even know they were elves.
Tolkiens elves did not have pointy ears but they were instantly recognizable as elves.
If I remember correctly doesn't Tolkien describe their ears as leaf-shape not long pointy like other dumb fantasy cliche but shape like small leaf.
@@longwlenguyen4214 have you ever seen a leaf before? Most of them are pointy, like the way elf ears are portrayed in all of the LotR movies....
@@eathinnz8925 Most fantasy Elf ear are ridiculously long like a knife, some shape like animals or Goblins while Tolkien Elves ear are small like humans despite leaf shaped a bit more realistic.
@@longwlenguyen4214 you do realize that Elves aren't real right? If you're making a movie or tv series with Elves in it, you can give whatever shaped ears you like 😂
@@eathinnz8925 okay but why are you angry of my description of Elf ears, it's not wrong respecting Tolkien Elves physical description since they are far more interesting in language, culture and history compare to other boring fantasy Elf that acts like humans with humans motivation and humans emotions.
I can’t believe how badly they’ve fucked up this show. Like the amount of people this had to of been approved by on multiple levels….
Somebody thinks they’ve made the next great show… which blows my mind.
I mean the casting is shockingly bad idk what these people were thinking
I've watched a few of this videos ripping apart ROP because well, I'm petty as shit and I love the fact that these people who bastardised a series and universe that I absolutely adore are probably gonna actually lose a fuck tonne of money because of sheer hubris and egotism alone. That and I have no life.
But I notice a lot of people calling this fan fiction, a rather unfair comparison really. While I admit I have never seen LOTR fan fiction though I'm 100% certain it exists.
What I have seen is a lot of star wars fan fiction, another franchise I hold dear to my heart that has been butchered by identity politics and virtue signalling. And honestly some of the fan fiction is infinitely better than anything disney has come out with, the possible exception being Rogue One.
Anyway I'm ranting while my dinner goes cold. But yeah, give a little credit to the fans because they produce some proper amazing content.
Fair comment....and makes a valid point. Please fill your imaginary pipe with some imaginary Longbottom Leaf (on me...)
Omg I 100% agree with not labelling this atrocity as fan fiction - there is actually a fan made movie called Born of hope if I remember the name correctly, which shows the love story of Aragorn’s mother and father - for a fan made movie; it was beautifully done - and in my honest opinion 1000 times better than Rings of Power 👩🏻🦽
@@thiloshi1990 wait I stand corrected. I have seen that and it absolutely kicked ass.
There's some pretty interesting Tolkien fan fiction from a number of TH-camrs. "What if Gandalf Took the Ring of Power" is one scenario I've seen explored.
There's probably well researched fourth age fan fiction out there. It is my impression that a fourth age would get less magical and focus on geopolitics between the kingdoms of men.
@@BasePuma4007 Really? Might be worth a look actually.
The part where Galadriel said "it's elven time" and performed that 360 no scope bow headshot killing Isildur's horse was awesome tho.
dude grow up.
@@iOwlPro Who hurt you boo?
@@xanderx3788 i love you
@@iOwlPro Me too my friend
No denying that.
I love the “oh you just hate women main characters” nonsense. No, we hate “already made, poorly written, know it all, love me because I’m me” main characters. Everyone’s completely inept and protagonist is always right and always the strongest. Boring.
There are some great female protagonists out there. But this version of Galadriel is not one of them.
I just say 'Princess Leia' to the you hate strong women crowd; everyone knows Leia was the strongest Star Wars character and we loved her.
Xena, warrior princess. The GOAT
Come on. She’s slowly being shown that all these traits (brash, petulant etc) AREN’T strengths. They’re flaws. Usually films/shows want the female character just to be perfect because they say so, Mary Sue. This isn’t the case. She’s literally losing hard because she’s being all those traits.
She’s learning that those traits don’t make her strong or a leader. She has to start with flaws, otherwise she won’t go anywhere as a character.
@@matthewbrears2129 The big fucking problem here is that Galadriel was made in to Xena The Warrior Princess. I'm baffled how so many people do not even acknowledge that...O.o
I have chosen to watch the extended edition of LoTR over the same time TRoP is running - what is apparent already is just the difference in the filmmaking art - Jackson and Fran spent a year rereading all Tolkien's source material and lovingly recreating the movies - they only made changes to help the movies flow - not because they wanted to 'be Tolkien' but because they understood how the movies needed to differ from the books (time) but always founded themselves they were writing for for an audience of people who loved the source material. If only Amazon understood that!
If Amazon understood that they still wouldn't have cared.
@@napoliansolo7865 we gotta stretch it out for money!!!
2 changes jackson did that might be unnecessary but i understand why they did it: they gave arwen a bigger role in fellowship instead of having glorfindel there, and they extended the usage of the ghosts for the pelennor battle instead of having the dunedain and elrond´s sons there
Not me, extended editions are full of fillers, that's more the reason I favour original theatrical version
@@alexanderzack3720
It was unnecessary bringing up Arwen when it should have been Glorfindel. That's my issue
16:08 I found Galadriel pulling on the random pointless rope for a whole scene so funny 😅
My friends and I were so confused watching that. Couldn't stop laughing at it lmao.
Imagine her trying to steal that boat out of Númenor 😂
She's trying to steal the Númenórean sailor's jobs!
@@vade2803 Angry blacksmith was right all along!!
every been on a sail boat..... or a make-shift one.... alot of rope pulling and tying off. lol people are so mad about this show. Just watch it.....
Pretty much agree with everything you bring up. I didn't have high expectations to begin with. I was able to enjoy some aspects, like the visuals. However, much of the CGI still looks CGI... The main issues are the acting and writing. The one thing that also seemed very silly was that they had 5-10 different ethnicities in a single hobbit tribe, or on a single boat. Like diversity, we get it lol... Why not have a dwarf play an elf and an elf play a dwarf etc. I'm sure Galadriel will turn out as a lesbian.
Well... her husband of centuries got in the way of the narrative and they killed him off so.... sure. Why not?
@timemachine194 Well, if they wanted to have black characters, they could have casted black people for the Southlanders. Or added the Easterlings into the story. Even black elves could have worked if they're Avari who migrated to the far South or east long time ago. I agree that it doesn't make much sense for the dwarves. The only explanation I could have is that their blood mixed with a different humanoid species thats black.
But portraying different species like the Harfoots as multicultural when they're, in fact, isolated and live in medieval times, it doesn't make much sense. This show is what you get if you try to apply modern standards from bustling capital cities into ancient fantasy settings.
@@NoxAtlas They just needed the entire cast to be white, have liberals and minorities shut their mouths about it, stick to the proper storyline, and produce a masterpiece that everyone loves kind of like, ya know, 20+ years ago but ya know, woke mind virus... so we have trash.
@@NoxAtlas I don't care about the ethnicity of the actors and think it's a very problematic thing to take issue with. If you can suspend your disbelief for the rest of the fantasy I just think it's weird to focus on that. I read lots of D&D growing up, there's plenty of diversity that's well explained there. Black elves are not a RoP creation. It's not explained here, but whatever - try to use your imagination I guess. The acting and the writing is just extremely poor overall and doesn't inspire imagination.
Yeah she’ll be lesbian but her girlfriend will die and it’ll make her so sad she’ll become straight and it’ll be terrible. That way they can explain why she’s married to celeborn in lotr.
when I watched the first episode i expected a woke dumpster fire but it was just boring. Galadriel is as likeable as a mosquito in the toilette and the elves are basically just humans with pointy ears. not even very competent. mowing the lawn is more exciting than this bs
Yeah it's not really woke it's just horribly written and Galadriel is completely unlikable.
Yeah I expected it to be kind of decent with a bunch of race-swapping and girl-power crap to make me hate it. Boy was I wrong. It's irredeemably and indefensibly terrible AND woke lol.
Galadriel being unlikeable is mainly bc how woke it is. Galadriel fast and strong and smart, all without a twat are slow and dumb and cowardly and cannot fight lol...
I once tried mowing with circles. It was great.
I'm sorry, did y'all miss the scene where a rAyCiSs white guy says "you people" to the black elf in the pub?? It's woke as fuck and insufferably cringe.
Galadriel was supposed to be a witch queen why did they rewrite her to make her a warrior?
Why couldn't they just do it with her using magic? I would have loved to see elf magic. The Istari weren't allowed to really use their magic.
There's great magic in this world and we touch on almost none of it. None of that came from the ring Nenya either, it was all her.
And she's supposed to be wise, have foresight (seeing into the future) and basically entrance all that see her.
The elves are absurdly enamored with her and they're normally familiar with such beauty.
I think in this she has about as much charm and charisma as a rock thrown in your face.
All that money..where did it go? Lol
@@darianstarfrog special effects budget.
The problem is once modern feminism gets involved you get the Rey route.
Like Liv Taylor actress of Arwen said "You dont need a sword to know a character is strong". Who played a sorceress of sorts with her river Horses flushing out Nazgul unafraid.
Its that modern feminism writing means take a position thats usually filled by a man so "Strong badass warrior". In this case they mix Aragorn and Legolas and put a Woman in it. Aka Galadriel.
Next step is to fill every position of leadership with a woman or minority if they matter, the elven leader does not cuz Galadriel will be Queen of the elves by the end of it.
She is always right, does not struggle and even threatens others and makes demands while unarmed and captured. And somehow does not end executed or inprisoned. Why? Because plot cannot let a mary sue get consequences for her actions.
This lack of accountability comes from the personal belives extremists follow who write this shit.
A sorceress thats level headed and unites doesnt scream Woman power, rebel against the system do a job better then all men (warrior) and still be the heroine because the plot makes me.
They could have made a new character if they wanted a female ass kicker her she could have just been a cool character to bring out during battles. It would have to have been a different actress though because Clark is too puny for believability
@@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm or you could go with Pippin to Faramir. "I think you have strength of a different kind..."
But still, she was supposed to be wise and magical, charming and enchanting.
No charm, utter disdain for everyone.
"Before she was a queen... before she had a ring... Before she had spells... before she was beautiful beyond compare... before she was respected... before she was powerful... she was a bitch and everyone hated her."
oh to be 2000 years old again. You're so manly and impetuous when you're in your 20-100s.
Galadriel having to be shone as a bad ass every single scene is like when legolas was just bouncing around slaying everyone playing some sort of temple run on water in the Hobbit. That scene was HILARIOUS
Yeah the hobbit sucked too
@@christiankarrer2618 but let’s remember, sauron was not a giant fireball in the books lol
But in the Peter Jackson trilogy he was
@@UTUBE3JC but it was cool
I genuinely laughed at that scene too. In fact you mentioning it again makes me laugh.
@@ashleebrown7778 yup it was legit the most ridiculous moment for me on all the hobbit trilogy. Way too far ha especially since it was all made up and legolas was never mentioned in the book version of the hobbit
That brief scene with Thor and Odin was incredibly powerful and heartfelt at the same time. Every time I see that scene, I am left thinking, "oh, crap, Thor, you are going to get punished, big time." Two incredibly powerful and prideful beings, squaring off in an argument... yikes. But in that moment, you can FEEL Odin's power in his voice. Thor is about to get schooled.
Loki:father.
Odin:Harrggh!!
It's amazing to see how mcu used to take itself serious in phase 1. Then with each phase it took itself less and less serious.
If I were watching Band of Brothers and I see a Japanese guy fighting for the Nazis id question it and ask "why isnt he on The Pacific instead?"
Its not racist to question that especially when it doesnt seem like it fits.
Well to be fair, those two nations were allies, so it's not too far out that they might find one or two.
@@OmniDan26 Did they ever share military personnel?
@@OmniDan26 No absolutely not 😂. They might have been loosely allies but no way there were Japanese fighting in Nazi groups.
@@OmniDan26 it would literally only make sense if they were in the waffen ss and thats it
@@OmniDan26 no it’s not
They didn’t fight on the same fronts
Yes.
Remember that Galadriel is the granddaughter of the king of the elves, and Elrond's mother-in-law.
Then have another look at the handmaiden's line "Your friend has arrived."
The series is so far from what was writtenby JRRT, and so badly written itself, it deserves every skerrick of the derision directed at it.
Funny because if you go on his breakdown videos about this there's thousands of people defending the show trying to explain how it fits with JRR's books 😂. Just grasping at straws, I honestly don't know how he does legit breakdowns of this show with Easter eggs like it's a good show. Pandering to the woke is a bad idea, I literally unsubscribed after watching one of the breakdowns due to all the woke people in the comments eating it up. I of course re subbed when this came out but man I really thought he fell to the woke side for a minute 😂.
The number of genrations between elves is so small that it makes all their changes in character and presentation impossible to believe.
Or that she is far older than Gil Galad and Celebrimbor but those two elves looked like they could play as her father.
And Celeborn at home, watching Guyladriel get cozy with Halbrauron
Elrond descended from like 3 different ruling houses. (House Beor, including his Great Grandfather Beren, House Hador, which includes Tuor, his Great Great Grandfather is Thingol, whose wife is the Maiar Melian, his other Great Great Grandfather is Turgon, King of Gondolin. His father is Earendil, who succesfully sailed to Valinor, getting the Gods to intervene against Morgoth, and was then put into the skies as a star together with a Silmaril.)
Saying Elrond (who isnt exactly stupid either) cant take part in some counsil because " he is no Elven Lord " is insultingly ridiculous and just plain dumb. He is shown as just some dude, which he clearly isnt.
(Also, Elros Tar-Minyatur is/was his Twin brother. If you show the both of them together in some Fresco at least make them look similar, ffs)
I watched 15-20 min. and I fell asleep too! That was enough for me. I actually enjoy these videos ABOUT how truly horrible it is. In what little I saw I thought the acting was HORRIBLE. Just awful awful acting. NOTHING engaging about any of those characters and Galadriel’s brother’s hair cut. Woah. They have hair salons in Valinor??
Yeah me too. Meanwhile still keep watching the original trilogy every year and never fall asleep. Maybe I am racist just because I think its shit
Bud, better get that checked out. You may have narcolepsy. 😬
@@eaglefreedom5361 probably. ROP induced narcolepsy 😂😂😂
I also find people don't mention the music enough. While I myself am little more than a layman in the topic, I've seen a few videos detailing all the things Howard Shore does to make the music work so well - and the fact is, just as the music works to enhance the movies, so too do the movies let the music BREATHE. The music isn't just there to tell the audience "YEAH THIS IS EPIIIIIIC" or "boohoo this is so saaad :(", the masterpieces of Howard Shore basically tell the same story the movies do, just in music form. His masterful use of leitmotifs is *legendary* and in contrast, the music in Rings of Power is just... Well, it feels... Basic. It's like they just ripped it out of a free stock music website. Like they wrote "epic free music" in Google and just used whatever showed up on page 2 (they didn't wanna make it too obvious).
It has one huge and welcome advantage over Jackson's (er, and of course Tolkien's) original: it's so shallow and self-absorbed (without absorbing us) that it's easy to answer the door bell, find just that right beer glass lost at the back of the cupboard, phone home, etc, etc, without even pressing pause. Ah... what a relief! No more crossed legs waiting for the dramatic tension to ease off - there isn't any. Well done, Amazon, true content-free content.
The original is kind of self-absorbed and shallow as well. But it is great pacing and execution.
Your opinion is ass.
@@hurmur9528 if it's shallow then rings of power is the mariana trench.
It cant be that bad cuz I look forward to every Friday for the next release episode
It's the most expensive show on television as they say and we fantasy genre fans all hope to see some good cgi stuff in it, but they disappoint us every week with low quality and boring scenes. Biggest scam on TV
i misheard "this dialogue makes me wish I was deaf" as "this dialogue makes me wish I was dead" and both are excellent lol
🤣🤣🤣
In Jackson's trilogy, Haldir gets less than 5 minutes of screentime and yet everytime I watch his death scene I feel absolutely terrible for Aragorn. It's baffling to me that even I as a regular member of the audience can figure out how I get attached to both these characters, but showrunners that are getting paid by AMAZON of all companies, can fucking not.
Yes yes yes. Haldir is the PERFECT example of ancillary character that still creates attachment to the audience. Great great example
Edit: and to anyone not knowing who the guy is, re-watch the trilogy, then you will absolutely know who he is, no need to remember the name, you’ll understand from the scene.
Listen, I’m a huge lotr fan, but most people I know didn’t care at all about Haldir’s death. They didn’t even know his name lol. So it’s a bad example imo
@@PhilGerb93 well, your experience and that of the people that you know is not an evidence for the whole world's behaviour...
@@PhilGerb93 Thanks for your input however I do not think you see my point, just as the Amazon people do not. You need not know Haldir's name, the attachment is created through Aragorn, not him. If you do not care about Haldir's death, you do not care about Aragorn either, which points to something else entirely.
@@PhilGerb93 I beg to differ when there's a horde of Haldir fanfiction and most of it is from thristy writers. Thank God Tolkien ain't around to read that, it's awful.
To be fair the show runners were right about one thing : Back to the books, back to the books, back to the books. And that is what I did, I re read Tolkien from Silmarillion to Children of Hurin, order the last book fall of Numenor and bought the WoT series and it feels like a treat, no woke nonsense - as most of these people don't read fantasy - and great stories from great writer.
The funniest thing about this show is that while THINKING they made Galadriel a "strong independent woman" the actually did the exact opposite.
Galadriel already was the STRONGEST most INDEPENTANT and most virtuous character in LotR...
Then they made her the ASP, the Anime Shonen Protagonist.
Which is SOOOO much less than what she actually is.
Hey don’t insult anime like that.
More like isekai
But surely that’s the point. Everything you’re assuming that the writers want you to think are strengths (brash, petulant etc) are actually flaws. Shes starting to realise that those things don’t make you strong, and then maybe she’ll become more of what we all want her to be.
Cant start her off perfect because otherwise she doesn’t go anywhere.
@@matthewbrears2129 Problem is that she is supposed to be thousands of years old already. That's the thing about Elves. They are usually all so old that their character growth had finished before humans even came into the world.
And anyone writing an elf needs to realise that instead of treating them like a human character.
@@matthewbrears2129 but in the book this is based on she isn’t like that im not the biggest lords of the rings fan but I don’t even think she is in the book to much or at all
Finally, a reviewer that understands just how terrible this show is. I know it's getting ripped to shreds all over TH-cam, but most people seem to be giving it about 4/10 and focusing on the race-swapping and lore-changing, and how terrible Galadriel's character is. But the writing and acting are both incredibly bad.
It's hilariously 1/10.
Maybe you should watch other reviews. Everyone is mentioning the bad writing, editing, contradictions, horrific acting, cringe lines, etc. Don’t cloud your head in the sand comments as some sort of enlightened above the fray criticism of the criticisms.
@@TheseColorsRunFromPutin Said the man in the alternate universe where Amazon made a good show.
@@TheseColorsRunFromPutin Go eat your cereal Timmy
I saw like 10 reviews and literally nobody said anything about race swapped elves and dwarfs. You know why? Because nobody doesn't really give a shit simce their characters are dogshit anyway
What are you talking about nearly every reviewer says why it’s bad
People don't want CGI, bad actors, bad characters, bad storytelling, LOTR memories, or the butchering of tolkeins story. Quit using CGI, instead, make models, film at real sites, hire background actors, and use costumes. The audience notices.
The only thing they did decent was costumes for orcs and some dwarves. Which was already done excellently 20 years ago.
The orcs look terrible, they just look like men with masks, you can totaly tell they are fake.
And the dwarfs have plastic armor, the inside of the dwarfcaves look like fucking ikea and the so call "game" against elrond with hitting on the same stone a 100 times was so stupid I had to turn off the tv.
If there is one complaint I feel is unjust about this show, its the CGI. Like, the real sets are honestly some of the best looking ive ever seen on television (waaaaaay better than GoT for example), They got orcs in full make up (unlike the Hobbit movies) and the scenes are generally full of actors milling about. Like, are you talking just background set dressings? like places way off in the background?
CGI is not something bad in-and-of itself. Avatar was almost entirely CGI and it's both much loved AND still looks absolutely astonishing to this day.
The problem is awful storytelling, dialogue and character development.
and without colour people
Yeah it's crazy how none of the orcs look as good as the ones 21 years ago...
I couldn't finish the second episode. When sister-in-law started it during Thanksgiving "Knowing I'd love it", I had to excuse myself after ten minutes saying, "I actually didn't care for this show, but continue, you might enjoy it."
Now I see how I may have insulted her. I should apologize.
Holy crap. This does have a MASSIVE CW vibe to it. There's simply no way they spent all that money for an hour long CW "made for tv" show. Someone is either a liar or they ran off with a fuck load of cash.
What is cw
@@cringystingy8025 who knows, but it was obviously way too long to write out because no other words are abbreviated.
@Gone Awry Which are all better shows than RoP lmaoo
In the Fellowship of the Ring Galadriel's monologue gave you a real sense of the evil that was Sauron especially the way the music has that little sinister turn right at the start. There was absolutely nothing like this in the show. A shadowy figure of Morgoth at the start did nothing to portray how evil and warped he was. They really were way off the mark when they made this abomination.
Yeah, the elves don't feel like elves. They just seem like Humans with pointy ears
Personally I think this series is vitally important going forwards. From now on anyone involved in teaching creative writing, especially classes aimed at those seeking a career in film as writers, will have the perfect example of how not to do an adaptation. Pretty much everything about this series, the characters, dialogue, scene transitions, costumes, and so on are executed in a way that stands head and shoulders above the competition in awfulness.
The amount of money this series stands to lose will also (one hopes) be an object lesson to all studio execs in the importance of choosing show runners with extreme care. Making sure that, when adapting a well-known IP in particular, you select those who both know and care about the original works and are passionate about creating a work that pays tribute to the source material in a way that can be recognised and respected by all who watch the adaptation.
The Witcher series was bad (not counting Henry's portrayal of Geralt)....but Rings of power is just so much worse in almost every respect.
I feel sorry for the talented pre vis artists and the technical department who really did well because The shots look great and creative and its obvious that talented people created the scenary. Unfortunately in itself thats not really enough.
I heard a rumor from someone claiming to have worked on the show. Said that they were treated quite bad. Didn't sound fun at all. Dunno if it's true, but I'm sure they worked hard while at the same time they must have had a feeling that the raw material was not very good.
Can you imagine working on the shows visuals and being a fan and then seeing .. this..
I listened and agreed to all of this, but the thing that gained you my absolute trust, as well as a sub, was that you picked up on the only decent acting that we got to see in the first two episodes. I like it when critics are honest.
Spot on! I watched 10 min of it and then started watching the original trilogy for 3 days straight.
I thought it said you sharted after watching 10 minutes
Bro, you missed an opportunity, she strait up did a "Crouching hidden dragon off the tip of his sword to smash not only the troll, but the actual successful dragons show everyone is actually talking about."
This is exactly what the show has done for me it has made me wanna re-watch the Peter Jackson trilogy and realize how freaking good it is and not my memory that remember it better than it was. And you can find many scenes in the show that is similar to the movies. So much for telling a different story like the showrunners have said!
Haha fun fact: Ngila Dickson, the costume designer for the LotR movies, also did the costumes for Hercules and Xena.
Epic.
Tolkien experienced and fought in WWI. You simply cant emulate the emotions and fears embedded into his writing.
Well, Jackson could and got 17 Oscars for it.......
Fun fact: the same tribe behind both WW (which were brother wars) are behind hollywood and these amazing new works on LOTR and Star Wars! The merchant tribe rocks! :D
Yeah but the writers on this show fought people on Twitter.
@@hyperboreanmustache go touch grass fasc
@@thecensoredmuscle563 apart from laughing out loud at your comment, it probably have more true in it then you may even have realized. Mary Sues always act like that same self-righteous modern feminist on Twitter.
I love the part when Galadriel said "Its powa ringin time!" And proceded to powering all over Darth Sauron
When those classic scenes from the Lord of the Rings played with Frodo and Gandalf with Howard Shore’s music in the background....I honestly teared up.
Same. I’ve revisited those movies this past week and they’re simply amazing.
Finished two seasons of 'Dark' (Netflix) and loving it... it really makes you think about why do characters do what they do and how on earth did they come to this.
I really enjoyed that show, though I’m a little embarrassed to admit that a few times I had to rewind just to figure out some character’s motivations. I had a great time watching it and bending my brain 👍🏻
Dark is my top three shows of all time! Babylon Berlin is on that list too
I can never enjoy these “revival pieces” such as this and Disney’s Star Wars stuff etc: the reason being is I just feel “used”. There’s no heart in them and as you said it’s like they only use the IP for cash instead of actually wanting to create good stories.
agreed, feels like Phantom Menace with tons of CGI, starchy acting and no investment in characters.... disappointing. Plus kinda gaslights Tolkien fans (like me) into believing these are events from the original story
The fact that's a scene about "stealing jobs" in Middle Earth is so painfully transparent and laughable
I know, I know, on top of eveything to complain about....
All of the helmets are missing padding. They are just shells, as though the armorer never finished making them.
Even the burned ones should have charred leather and cloth cladding inside.
Peter Jackson, had Weta make fully functional armor, even for set pieces. And he had a fraction of this budget.
Then the cheap Spanish Conquistador breastplates? How does this reflect early medieval England?
Time is NOT going to be kind to this production. It's going to get memed, giffed and humorously re-edited to utterly savage proportions. They've dropped this gift right into the epicentre of Nerd Central, and that means programmers, coders and all manner of those skilled in modern media's dark arts....are going to have a field day with it. The true fan abuse and disrespect of this production hasn't even begun yet.....and Rotten Tomatoes and other review sites will be least of the producer's concerns because popular web culture will become utterly flooded with mockery for this abomination....and that mockery is likely to become far more entertaining than the show it's actually mocking once it gains traction!!
I want to see the DM of the Rings/Darths and Droids version of this!
EDIT: At least that comic will be funny, and the bad character descision will be the product of the players antics.
I've seen one video..with clips, voiced by funny people, saying funny things..and I can't wait till someone makes a movie like that..like that young hercules(?) ..remember that? A 50's bad movie made funny af.. this show is ripe for it
But hey, atleast we may have funny YTPs from it, that will most likely still have better story than original.
yes... YES@!!! YES!!!
I shalt seek the best ones because the show sucks.
This review is much MUCH more entertaining than the actual show! LOL @ the Sonic rings.
Quit saying thay! I see it on every video review on this show. We get it.
@@thatONEmachine Bro, watching reviews of the show is literally one of the most entertaining experiences you could ask for. I still can't believe they literally had Galadriel say out loud "I was saved from certain death". It's incredible.
Modern definitions:
Villain - the male character with the most (although not much) personality and charisma, who get's punished for his evildoing
Hero - the female character with the least (if any at all) personality, who is the biggest asshole in the story and get's away with commiting even more evil than the villain
I might just watch this show only to root for DefinetlyNotSauron. Someone has to take a stand against evil, even if it has to be the dark lord, right?
You said it very well what I feel when watching this series. It makes me want to rewatch Jackson's movies.
It just lacks the heart, passion and beauty Jackson's movies have.
“A dog may bark at the moon but you can never bring it down.”
What the fuck does that even mean.
It's crazy a company can spend so much on a series then put no effort at all into making the first episode interesting and exciting. The first episode should grab hold of the audience!
I dont mind creating a black character every now and then but I think there is too much wokeness in this production at the expense of the the story being canon.
Does it really need to have black in everything? A black elf? A black dwarf? A black hobbit? A black Numenorian ruler (whose father is white)? Even Isildur is now half-black. LOL
Yeah where is the time of a "pilot" episode, now we are 3 episodes in and i still have no clue what's going on.
@@yoachim91 What's going on is Black Ariel and next is Black Snow White
It would have made more sense if they made the whole race black/Asian imo. These races are so isolated it makes no sense that they're multi-colored imo. Not to mention it's literally one black elf/human/dwarf so it stands out way more.
@@MaestroJericho they do this black thing in other shows too because a certain group of people would be offended by the lack of representation. It ruins some shows like this one. Why dont they just make an original like Black Panther? That would accomplish way better for black people than this silliness.
It feels like they're sort of mixing the vibes of the Hobbit, with LoTR, with SIlmarillion, not understanding that, while all taking place in the same world, each of those works are written in very different tones for a very different purpose, from different regions of Tolkien's mind.
In stark contrast, House of the Dragon is a great show with great writing and story telling.
HoT D is good and very much making up for season 8 of GoT.
HoTD is fantastic but sadly GoT will always be a stain that can never go away.
Stark, I see what you did there
I think you say great because there is such a huge lack of proper storytelling right now. There's hardly any decent television. It's doing a fine job though.
Off screen Crab Feeder death waived a little there...
I fell in love with Tolkien at nineteen, the perfect age, back in the early/middle 70's.
It's remarkable that you cite Jackson's films as the standard by which this new series is to be judged. When his films originally came out, I enjoyed going to the Tolkien Society website, to read all those intelligent and educated people suppurating with such hatred.
.. and claim that Amazon is copying P.J style to some extent to please the fanbase, completely missing that P.J basically carbon copied the style, feel and sometimes even whole scenes from Ralph Bakhis movie..
but here is the thing: PJ actually kept most of the stuff loyal to the books, the important parts at least, and created some of the best battles ever seen in cinematic history, to this day they compare battles to the one of helms deep and the pallenor fields.
the first real battle in this movie is a cheap copy of the pj trilogy battle of helms deep if you pay attention, point by point.
i too prefer the books, but the movies AT LEAST payed respect to the trilogy, this does NOT respect the lore in the slightest
That depends on what you consider the “important parts”.
I don’t normally comment but this review was spot on. Well done. I literally fell asleep during both of the first two episodes also. I’m not even giving the show a chance anymore.
I literally fell asleep in the middle of episode 2. When I woke up, I'd forgotten I'd been watching it and didn't watch the rest of episode 2 until several hours later. It is literally, the most boring thing I have ever seen on TV or at a cinema (and I've seen plenty of rubbish).
same.. i had to rewind twice in episode 3. Didnt really have to though because falling asleep for 10 min doesnt even make you miss anything important
@@sharlizepotgieter2165
I'm not bothering with episode 3 onwards. Do you think you will carry on watching?
"You have nottt sssseeeeeennnn what IIII have ssseeeeeeeennnn!" In fairness, she has seen ALL of the scripts for 'The Rings of Power...'
...My preciouuusssss
Love LOTR's. Read the book four times, movies a bunch of times, and hours to lore videos on TH-cam. Watched episode one, and never had any urge to watch episode two... that's bad...
Most of my kids have Quenya names. I knew from the trailer release that I wouldn't be able to bring myself to watch any of this show. To be honest, watching review videos like this is just as bad. Nothing against the youtubers, but the show is such a spit in the face, I would probably be happier if I avoided all mention of it's existence.
9:17 🥹🥹🥹🥹 one of the BEST scenes in the trilogy. When I am upset about my situation, I always refer back to this exactly quote from Gandalf. He really was the backbone of The Fellowship. He is a fictional character, but a real encouragement.
I sat down to watch this show with two friends. One was a person who read the original trilogy of books along with the Simarillion and the other was someone who never read the books, and did not even get a chance to watch the movie. I myself am a casual fan, who has researched the books, but have not got a chance to read them proper. After just the first episode, we all stopped, and turned it off. None of us could stand it. None of us cared about the casting choices or the supposed politics that could be within the show. What bothered us is that the show was just hot garbage.
LOL, you brought a focus group to your watch party?
dawg honestly every video saying how dogshit it is and every person complaining about it online makes me want to watch it. You guys look like such a massive hivemind
@@jorgeenchilada --- Because they are. The show is more than fine. It's not exceptional but it also isn't bad at all, it's more than decent for what it is. Nobody expected to have the new Lord of the Rings trilogy, but people are making a very big deal out of the show when there isn't any reason to, the exact same way people behaved when the Hobbit movies came out. What @Jokage13 forgot to add was that everybody clapped when that totally happened. 3 people were watching it, even someone who's never watched any of LotR stuff, and all 3 of them chose to stop after the very first episode ? Get the fuck out.
Lesson 1 for your 'research': The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy - it was one book (but very long, so has often been sold as three separate books).
@@Scyths1 You have misread me in my reasoning. You are allowed to have your opinion on the show. I'm allowed to have mine. I hate this show because of the following
1) the dialogue is awful
2) the pacing is unbearably slow
3) the sub plots don't connect in any meaningful way
4) the show completely disregards the lore
5) the main character is completely unlikeable.