Note: This was originally 1 video, but it was clear to me when completed that it’s better as 2. This is the full analysis about the entirety of the debacle that is Rings of Power, and the 2nd video is the review of episodes 4-8. Combine these with my first video going over episodes 1-3, and we have ourselves a trilogy. The next video is nearly complete and will be out in the next 4-5 days.
We didn't have such high expectations back then and they weren't putting movie grade SFX into TV shows so I doubt anyone but SFX snobs were concerned with the SFX. Starship Troopers:Roughneck Chronicles is probably the best example I can think of computer animation being cringe worthy and being thought as cringe by the fans. The storyline however more than picked up the slack and because of that it's still rewatchable even today.
Good Sir well said, and We called this in Exsurge Tolkien, since 25 March, now its a full apostasy of power, The evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
Correction ... @ 5:20 Isildur DID NOT defeat Saruon ... Elendil and Gil-Galad did that. Isildur merely cut the ring from Saruon's hand after he was dead. Let's keep the lore straight shall we ...
@@spirittoo This is supposed to be a prequel series to Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings, not that canon matters much in any circumstance regarding Rings Of Power.
@@spirittoo It was always my understanding that Gil-Galad and Elendil had (for all intents and purposes) mortally wounded Sauron but given that he is a maiar (and so much of his life force had been poured into the one ring), he would have been able to quickly recover from the wounds. It was the act of cutting the ring from his body that caused Sauron to be vanquished for thousands of years until he could slowly rebuild his strength without the one ring.
Go back to the first age and you’ll see… she only cares about ruling. Didn’t even care she was stealing Teleri ships and didn’t feel sorry that it was paid with elves blood.
Galadriel is the niece of Feanor. You know, the most self righteous elf to ever exist. The one that made history by renouncing the Valar and butchering the Teleri. Not to mention Morgoth directly or indirectly killed her father, brothers, uncles, and tens of thousands of other Noldor (her tribe). It's in her blood to be this way, and the portrayal of her through lines and incredible acting is spot on.
@@cdtstrong1 Galadriel was in the third party that left Valinor under Fingolfin. They were behind Feanor and did not take part in the Kinslaying at Alqualonde, nor did she take part in the other two.
They were so tryhard with "The Sea Is Always Right". They seriously thought it'd be the next "Winter Is Coming" or "The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors."
@@end.olives you will find a girl someday, and you two will be happy if you both are kind and respectful. It'll happen. Just be patient and enjoy your life until then
Son of a Gun, so brutally true. Furthermore, you loved it when Dolly Parton said it, and see it really as totally applying to Rings of Power. VERY freaking astute Mr. Matt Collins!
"Imagine what good movies and video games could have been made with this show's budget." You could have bought bionic limbs for people who need them, repaired cleft palates and cleft lips, bought life-saving surgeries, brought clean water to poor people all over the world, provided food and shelter for the homeless, helped people in disaster areas, adopted thousands of cats, dogs, and other animals, paid the salaries of thousands of mental health and hospital workers. Instead, Jeff Bezos paid for The Rings Of Power.
@@budakbaongsiah It really isn't. It cannot possibly be worse than this. Turning Shelob into a sexy human is still not as bad as turning everyone black and making Galadriel a narcissist powerhouse bossbitch.
And even with the 1 billion dollar budget they still cheaped out on purchasing rights. They bought the rights to the Return of the King appendices instead of the entire trilogy. But since they know virtually nothing of the original LotR books, they only ended up purchasing names and names of places. Had they bought rights to the whole trilogy they could have used most of the actual story of the forging of the Rings as it was summarized and told by both Gandalf and Elrond
You could build a village with that. For a few thousands of people. Or develop multiple tank designs. It costs around 300 million to design a modern tank. Or you could build 2 power plants, each could support 2-3 million households in europe. The german Isar 2 nuclear power plant was 800 million, and they had a billion plus 250 million to buy the rights for LotR, and they were willing to increse the budget if it's successful. You could plant a whole forest, hundreds of thousands of trees. Each could compensate the CO2 emissions of at least 10 cars. It would be enough for a forest larger than New York City. If you would have to spend 5k for each tree, it would be 250k trees. They started to build the central park in ~1857. Costs until today, for over 150 years maintenance is less than 700 million dollar. So if it's about nature and CO2, such an amount of money could do a lot. There would be a lot of things you could do with that. NASA had a mission to Jupiter in 2011, costs 1.1 billion. So it's enough to make a mission to Jupiter and a show. More than enough to fly a rover to the moon, or to build and lauch the kepler space telescope 2 times. It comes close to a rover mission to mars. Especially chinas mission wasn't much more expensive, and NASA's Mars missions were just around 2 times the costs. So enough for exploring the moon or other planets and their moons, to develop space telescopes. And if you just want to stream and just a few instruments for science, not the most expensive ones, it's enough to explore Mars with a rover for at least 10 years. Without the most expensive instruments something like the Mars missions would be possible for 1 - 1.5 billion. But they decided to insult Tolkien and the fans with that, and to damage LotR 🤷♂️
I am so sick of them turning well-thought-out lines that make sense in the context of the scene (your example- Gollum explaining how he likes to eat what he's hunted, without cooking them while fighting with Sam about him cooking the meat) as catchphrases! Gandalf doesn't run around randomly saying "follow your nose" like he's trying to sell Fruit Loops! This is maddening!
The one thing that still baffles me is the line about 'taking the wheels' of the Harfoots who fall behind. So, you’re not only abandoning them you’re going out of your way to actively sabotage them to ensure they’ll never catch up with the main band again. It’s an appalling perversion of everything thing these little bastards are meant to hold dear.
And then to top it off by the end of the seasons they completely shift on their a whole way of living just because Nori thinks this guy can help. COME ON man dumbest stuff. They hide when they hear a sound but they can accept a completely different creature into their ranks who does not even resemble them or speak their tongue. Dumbest show ong
Really, that's all you took from it? Only one person said that AND they didn't do it did they ? That's like saying Nori wants an adventure therefore ALL harfoot want to go on an adventure.
The true mystery boxes are: 1. How could Galadriel and the other top persons survive the pyroclastic flow when the whole village starter burning and a few unfortunate no name people really looked liked people from Pompeii ... Even a horse caught fire, but not Galadriel. 2. When did Sauron or who ever it was ... build the key mechanism that open the damm? And why didn't the elves finding it out after some hundreds of years in the watch tower? Who built the watch tower? 3. How come a trained warrior elf considered a village with grass roofed wooden buildings in a valley is an advantage against an orc army? 4. What stupid builder built a tower that falls down if some one cut a rope? 5. And when did the hobbits become good people and not the evil ones leaving the wounded behind and laugh at the dead ones years after? ... there are more mystery boxes ... But I do not want to know the answers ... I want the series to be cancelled.
My boss was watching this show, said it was alright. He thought for sure that Halbrand couldn’t be Sauron, I knew he was wrong and didn’t even watch the damn thing. My boss is a smart guy at work so I have no idea why he likes this show and didn’t see the obvious reveal coming. I guess if you’re a casual watcher, all of these new shows don’t seem all that bad, even if true fans know better.
@@ryankornacki9918 I've heard the same from a casual watcher of the witcher series who commented on another video like this but for the witcher. "It ain't that bad." Are the words the studio will bank on you to say so they have an excuse to produce more of the same crap. It's the typical fallback of the mindless consumer and the fuel for the exploitative producer.
@@ryankornacki9918 I'd say for me it was more of a hope that it wasn't halbrand and denial and because I somewhat believed they'd do something stupid like make the wizard sauron as for my opinions on the show I'd say it was at best an alright eh show wouldn't really recommend it to people but also wouldn't say don't watch it I would recommend house of the dragon if someone was looking for something at the time of them coming out
"The writers fall into the the trap that most modern shows do. Trying for force us, as an audience, to accept and like a character that they don't even try to make likable in any way". Yeah, that pretty much covers it.
A lot of fantasy comes from history and Tolkien was obviously engrossed in history. Modern TV writers are engrossed in TV and movies. Their works are a parody of themselves because they don't even have the slightest clue what Tolkien based his own works on
But why is it important to like a character. I didnt care at all and tried to focus on the lore and story instead, too bad there was no story just air :(. 90% random people, random occurense 10% meaning
Hollywood, Disney, Netflix and prime are being overrun by writers who have the mental age of 12 and character building skills of a brick. With actors being chosen to tick boxes rather than skills it's probably the worst time of film making that I've ever known.
Representation doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. The way house of the Dragon cast the Velaryons as Dark skinned with platinum blonde dreadlocks actually improved the story and made the theme of Blood of the Oath vs Water of the Womb more poignant, and the family relationships easier to keep track of. There’s a smart way to do it that adds to the story. TRoP put no thought into it so it came off as forced Tokenism. (Lady Alicent, Send Feet pics.)
@@isidoreaerys8745 I really don't care what they look like, I'm not one for keeping it original to the books. What I do think is the acting skills of so many now is terrible. So whoever is casting is doing a terrible job themselves, there must be a big enough pool of talent to find actors that tick their representation boxes, if not then they've got a big systemic problem in the film making world. Just get good actors and then they can deal with the juvenile writing next.
Maybe they choose random writers who used to write web novel fan fiction with bad quality. I like read bad web novel and RoP are like really bad web novel fan fiction
One thing that really made me laugh was how the "Harfoot" dad got a sprained ankle and everyone else was contemplating whether to put him down like you would with a horse with a broken leg! At this rate, it's surprising they didn't go extinct or maybe they did because of such practices... hence why we never heard about them before!
My friend and I had a good laugh about how Middle Earth went from diverse pre-Hobbits to pale, Anglicized Hobbits. We figured there must have been some kind of Hobbit-caust.
@@scambammer6102 you're both right, in a way: the line from GoT is a corruption of Lovecraft's mantra of the C'thul'hu cult, which Metallica sample in "The Thing That Shpuld Not Be", the title of which is s reference to Lovevrafts "At The Mountains of Madness". The original mantra goes: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die". George RR Martin is clearly a fan, or at least paying a clumsy sort of homage. 😇
I'm calling it right now, if this show ever gets to the battle where Sauron gets his fingers sliced off it's gonna be Isildur's sister that actually cuts the ring off but it's still gonna be Isildur that gets corrupted by the ring.
The common rebuttal of "Oh, so it's fine when Peter Jackson changes something but not when Amazon does it" is just as lazy as the writing in Rings of Power. No it was NOT always fine when PJ changed stuff. I'm still completely pissed off at how he handled Faramir. The difference is that in almost all the cases, the changes that were made were done so in an effort to best serve the story in the medium of film. RoP changed stuff just to subvert expectations and "modernize" the story. Jackson's changes were done for the right reasons at the core, so even when I didn't like specific changes, on balance they are overall acceptable.
Yea I'm so sick of that weak ass rebuttal. To compare PJ's trilogy with Amazon's abomination is disingenuous at best. The showrunners flat out say that they were excited to use Tolkien's characters and world to tell their own stories. This is literally the opposite approach to PJ's
this, the book purists tend to complain about certain small changes. but they are movies and her wanted the Characters to have arcs and the story to flow. the books couldn't literally just be done as is in live action, there's just too much fluff.
Exactly. PJ made minor changes, he didn't significantly alter the text and deviate so far from Tolkien's work to the point it was unrecognizable. RoP is more like bad fanfiction than an adaption. RoP takes the canon characters and twists them until they're only recognizable by name. RoP creates an abundance of non-canon characters (Earien, Arondir, Bronwyn, Theo, Disa, Adar, all the Harfoots) and gives them so much importance and screen time at the expense of canon characters. RoP creates a toxic romance between two characters no one wanted to happen (Sauron and Galadriel). RoP makes up most of the dialogue, opting to rarely lift or slightly alter the words directly from Tolkien's work, which results in the characters speaking in convoluted purple pose. It's clear that they wanted to use Tolkien's IP to create their own story rather than adapt his story. That was their purpose all along.
@@Nopeasaurus yea it's like literally the opposite of LotR. It's kinda shocking the showrunners have the audacity and confidence to rewrite Tolkien's 2nd age, especially considering what the fans want, and how amateurish their writing was.
It just occured to me that the writers almost certainly don't know that Elrond is actually a half elve. One of only two half elves in the entire history of middle earth. However, after the war of Wrath the Valar gave him and his twin brother a choice wether to be human or elve. Elrond chose to be elve while Elros (his brother) chose to be human. Also by the way, Elros later became the first King of Numenor and thus the distant ancestor of Aragorn. Also as a Side note, in the bloodline of Elros and Elrond is the last blood of the greatest human kings from the first age, the human kings that faced off directly with morgoth and were instrumental in bringing him down.
Not true. There's literally a line where Elrond says don't trust elves but trust him because he's half-elven to the dwarf king. Also there's not two half-elven. Both Elrond's parents are considered half-elven. Elrond's children are also considered half-elven and he has at least 3 children. That's at least 7 half-elven, not 2
@@gerisaccomanno7422 right. And Dior was the father of Elwing. And Elwing had siblings too. Though only Earendil, Elwing, and their own descendants were given a choice or man or elf I think
@@fangiscool1 Anyone who has a mix of mortal/elven blood is considered half-elven. That's Dior, Elúrin, Elured, Elwing, Eärendil, Elrond, Elros, Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen. And then there's the curious case of the children of Imrazôr the Númenórean and Mithrellas of Lórien. Their children were half-elven, too, but were apparently never given a choice and were just mortal by default. Fun fact: Someone on the internet actually broke down how much elven, human and Maia blood Elrond "Half-elven" actually has. He's nowhere close to being a half-elf XD
@@iansavage2382 nah, books lack the overall richness of Tolkiens prose in its literative form, but just as Tolkien was a master of the pen, PJ was a master of film who respected Tolkiens work as he worked to mould it from prose, to film. I mean compare PJ’s films to RoP. Even his Hobbit trilogy, that the studio interfered with to the point of making parts of it comical… are treated as side pieces to the PJ adaptation… compared to RoP dropping trou and squeezing a steaming Bezo’s on Tolkiens manuscripts.
@@davfree9732 Dude the weird cringe orc in the return of the King made it worse with the giant burn facs it was cheezy and so was the steward of gondor plotline
One of the things I remember from the special features of Jackson's movie DVDs was when the director of Weta Workshop addressed his troops. He talked about how important the task was that they were embarking on and how important it was that they all make sure they felt they were worthy for it. I remember that word "worthy."
Yes. It's the real reason we all adore Richard Taylor, and all the leads (and people on) of the teams that created for those movies. They really understood the effort.
Because that's exactly what the showrunners are. Infantile boys suffering from deferred maturity without any real skills. Also graduates of JJ. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman's woke school of murdering franchises via bad reboots and general ineptitude. Everything bad about modern day film and tv springs forth from this secret hideout of bad robots and woke hacks. It's the Mordor of modern media.
This video review also contains the best review of "LOST" that I have ever seen. We watched "LOST" for years and then were "rewarded" with a final episode that ignored the countless "mystery boxes" that were set up. There were no answers. I was so disappointed.
If you'd like a gloriously detailed deconstruction of LOST, including documentation of the meta aspect of the dirtbag creators repeatedly lying to their paying fans, check out reetae47's 8-part review. (I think he might have change his channel name to Velodious or some such)
I watched the first couple of seasons of Lost and, it was interesting. However, as a want to be writer, I realized all the mysteries they were piling up were ultimately unresolvable in any believable form. Especially in the medium of video. I stopped watching and was not at all surprised that people condemned the ending. I see the same problem with Game of Thrones and I believe George R. R. Martin cannot finish the book series because of the same complexity issues compounded ten-fold by the TV series. Money can buy a lot of things....But, it cannot buy creative integrity.
@@r.blakehole932 You were wise to quit the show while you were ahead! I'm trying to learn to have similar powers of discernment, but it takes hard work. It will be interesting to see what Martin does, if he ever actually releases the final books. While he may have created too many threads of too much complexity, he also has the advantage of seeing exactly what went wrong in the TV series -- perhaps he can learn from it.
When Galadriel pointed at Saurons face and said "it's my show and it's clobbering time you poor travesty of a wizard!" I got so many goosebumps and chills I had to go to the ER and they said stop watching that show.
I will never forgive them for what they did to Galadriel. In her small bit of screen time in the films, she shows incredible heart, charm, wisdom, and power. She has depth. They turned her into an abrasive caricature of an obsessed lady detective from a 90s TV procedural. It’s just pure vandalism.
I’ve been seeing this happen a lot lately, where show-runners and writers actually take pride in the fact that they know or care little to nothing about the source material. It astounds me that they keep on doing this despite the fact whenever adaptions diverge from the source material they garner extreme blowback and it always ends disastrously. People love to shit on GoT for getting shit after book material ran out but the truth is that D&D started abandoning major book plot-lines long before the books ran out and the decline in show quality started becoming apparent to book readers around season 4. This is why HotD is kinda revolutionary (at least with the current state of things) because the show runner is actually a fan of the books and wants to do a faithful adaption, and fans love him for it. Like it’s such an easy formula: show people you care about the source material and about making a faithful adaptation and they’ll heap praise on you. It’s like all the other writers want to be hated or something.
House of the Dragon is the best show I’ve watched in years. And I Gave up on Game of thrones midway through. House of the dragon literally had me laughing screaming and crying at my television screen week after week.
Not hated. In fact I would posit that it's the opposite. They want to show that they can write the better stories and be given garlands and great praise for their out of this world abilities. Sadly they're very misguided.
To be fair, even without the writers pulling what you'd call a "writer move", running out of material was inevitable. GRRM has a lot of trouble finishing any of his stories, even when he's not being sidetracked by writing a dark souls universe.
The Jackson trilogy was loved by 95% of the fans... The Rings of Power was loved by people who think Ghost Busters 2016 and The Last Jedi were good movies.
Dude, I don't think this is as bad as The Last Jedi, not even remotely. This show at least kept me entertained, I didn't even wanna finish The Last Jedi.
@@universe.factory "by not being able to read the text properly." Give me a break. I could read the "text" perfectly well, notwithstanding its being written in crayon.
I'm a lifelong Tolkien Fan, having as proof, an original First British Edition of the Lord of the Rings from the 1950s. I only made it through the first four episodes of this freaking atrocity. To be fair, I originally had GREAT doubts about Peter Jackson's take on The Lord of the Rings. He won me over despite a still lingering few strong grips (I cannot forgive crashing mountains of skulls in the Extended Edition). But, despite a few strong gripes, Peter Jackson respected the original work of J. R. R. Tolkien and brought it to life on the screen. The complete freaking dolts that Amazon hired have zero respect for, or knowledge of, Arda. I spew them from my consciousness.
There's a scene that didn't make the edit after this where Disa catches Elrond and Durin III in flagrante delicto. They should have left it in (no pun intended).
I'm about 90% convinced the reason they didn't straight up say that strange guy was Gandalf is that maybe they don't actually have the rights to Gandalf's name, so whilst they clearly want it to be Gandalf, they're leaving it open so it can be whatever wizard they do end up with the rights for.
This, She-Hulk, The Witcher... why are these people who actively hate the source material they're supposed to be adapting even signing up for these projects? All of these could have been good if the writers in charge respected the original media
Hear Hear, and Join us for our counter ROP series. Mae G'ovannen! Now the evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Take heart for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of Tolkien's Canon displayed out of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
because those are the yes men from film college who never questioned anything, got their participation trophies and got indoctrinated from a young age, it all starts there, literally
if i had to guess i’d say it’s because pre exisiting IPs are literally the only content being greenlit at this point, it’s either do an IP you don’t care about or do nothing
I love the reuse of extras in the crowd scene. Pause at 4:31 and you can see that they cut and paste extras to make the crowd look bigger. Where exactly did the budget go for this?
I love to think about Jeff Bezos watching all of these overviews about how horrendous TROP is, and bawling his eyes out. He deserves it, for hiring these clowns to write it and choose the actors. Poor Jeff. wah wah wah
Rings of Power is one of the worst executions of an IP in a long, long time. It was clearly written by people who not only have no love for Tolkien, but actively dislike or even hate his creation. There's no other reason for them to constantly be shitting all over every bit of his lore and world building. There are SO many things they did wrong, it's impossible to fully list them all. Terrible acting, even worse writing, godawful world-building, everything that happens is 100% contrived and powered by plot armor and deus ex machina, and a world where the writers can't even keep a coherent narrative of how far apart things are, despite constantly showing a map. Seriously, how far is it from Numenor to Middle Earth? It SHOULD be about 1600 miles. Yet the Numenorians sail that distance in two days. Then ride from the coast to Mordor in a couple hours (it's around 300 miles, on the normal ME map), while the orcs take around a full day to travel the couple miles from the elven watch tower to the village (since the villagers can SEE it on fire and collapsing from their village). It's just insane.
Yet oddly enough the Kept the weird white supremacist Nazi ideology tones and made the elves into self righteous chosen people/Mormons. You’re right. The geography made no sense at all. This series was nothing more than a reason to appreciate how fucking good HOTD is each week.
I hate how purposefully suspicious Not-Sauron acts after fully recovering from a gaping wound. And no one worries about this Hal-Pass guy’s knowledge, allowing him to partake in the creation of those rings also doesn’t raise any red flags? Why is he helping anyone.
The only other thing I remember seeing Morfyd Clark in was Crawl, a movie about the guy from Battlefield Earth and his daughter caught in a hurricane while being hunted by the most unrealistic alligators in film history. Clark was the older sister. She had two scenes, both where she appeared on a phone screen while she was holding a baby and using a horrible American accent. I can totally see why she was selected to lead a show in one of the biggest franchises in entertainment...
she wasn't that bad in RoP compared to the rest of the cast. You could have given Nicole Kidman or Margot Robbie the role, the writing would have made it shit
@@timlamiam At least they would have worked hard to put some personality into their character, something Clark totally doesn't. I think Margot Robbie's acting skills are limited, but at least she knows it and does her best with what she has (although her performance in that dreadful Birds of Prey movie kind of contradicts that). Clark doesn't even try, she just goes with the horrible script and all her "acting" consists of her showing her "resting bitch face", "smug superior bitch face" and "little girl who wrinkles her nose to show how angry she is" face.
Next season Gladriel guests on an episode of SheHulk where they team up to bring lawsuits against any that dare question their decisions. They spend all episode arguing whether their duo should be called the Caring Karens or the Suing Mary Sues.
@@dronesclubhighjinks I agree. How would be silent, baffled wherever even begin. If you see, how thoughtfully he answered all questions in interview, even the simplest ones, he would be completely overwhelmed by question "what went wrong".
@@ilfirinms he could probably write 12 trilogies worth of what was wrong with the lore and the characters whose names were used. Also, what about the Amazon-created characters? Another 10 trilogies. Timelines, including in each storyline? 15 trilogies. As Tolkien probably knew very little about filmmaking, we could have others (LOTR trilogy workers) point out the deficiencies such as costumes, armour, weaponry. At least 5 trilogies there. The gratuitous amount of borrowing scenes from the LOTR trilogy, LOTR video games and other movies seems to have also been present in the Star Wars series “Kenobi” (with scenes from other SW movies and video games). Kenobi also suffered from a very weak plot, many gaps in logic and contradictions to the source material. The channel “Little Platoon” has some very funny videos about this.
One thing I really liked in the movies that weren't in the books was when the elves arrived in Helms deep. Although it wasn't in it felt like the books. Long ago, an alliance between elves and men existed, and we have come to honor that same alliance again. Thank you, Peter Jackson.
And that was partially because they didn't have the budget to film Lorien and Mirkwood battles that were happening at the same time,so he needed to show the elves were fighting somehow.
My wife is the type that say's "it's only a movie" when i complain about bad writing/storytelling/breaking canon etc. She is a very forgiving critic who thought Rings of power was fine.. but when the scene with Galadriel riding the horse in slo-mo came on, even she let out an OMG.
look at House of Dragon, no one raise a single ruckus over it. Everyone loved it and while there are criticism, it's all very well received. Ppl gotta stop associating media with their identity, otherwise corporation will keep churning out soulless junks like this.
It's really quite remarkable how inept this show is in just about every way that counts. Not surprising, perhaps, given that Amazon put Tweedledee and Tweedledum in charge of their billion dollar show based on a good word from Papa JJ, but given the source material, and given that the Tweedle bros worked for a decade as script doctors, you'd think that they would have accidentally created some good moments in eight+ hrs of TV. But...nope. The only really good scenes in this show are wide, sweeping landscape shots. The ones where no one has to speak, or act, or try to progress the plot in any way.
Yup. The whole family should honestly be tried at The Hague and exiled to that place we sent Napoleon. Before they endanger any more of our collective culture.
I loved the part where Galadriel Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Targaryen faced off against the germans, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Sauron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing T-shirt that read, "Ask Me About My Translucent Agenda." Then all the N*zis got blown up when the Gay Engola dropped two nukes: Body-Positive Man and Little Transboy. All Game of Thrones scholars agree that the scene where Rhaenyra whispers in Celeborn's ear “I hate pee on the toilet seat when I go to use it.” and then disconnects the machine that keeps him alive, perfectly delivered George JRR Martin's message of hope and healing for all wahmankind. Then Galadriel jumped into the ocean with Dory and started singing, "Just keep swimming." I have to admit, I did not like the part where the authot race swapped the ents. Ents are clearly White Birch, but those ents were OAK. Remember, Arboreal Pollen is Tree ejaculation, so the Ent orgy counts as interracial and should have the appropriate tags. I loved the part where Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." And then Halbrand said, "YEW TUKE ARR JERBS!" and Kicked a Harfoot into a well while shouting, "THIS. IS. NUMENOR." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat." I laughed, I cried, I kissed 18 bucks goodbye. 10/10 Would edge to it again. Much Stunning. Much Bravery.
My fave is when Halbrand proposed to Hagrid, saying "Resistance is futile" then gave Hagrid his ankle-monitoring bracelet as an engagement ring of power. I swooned.
@@dronesclubhighjinks AHEM. The Engagement Ring of Power + Privilege. Maybe you need to buy another ticket to Wokanda Forever and give it to a black person.
@@TheEldritchGod I tried but they were offended! I referred them to the young lady with big glasses who told white people to find “poor Black people” to give tickets to so they will take the matter up with her directly.
@@dronesclubhighjinks AHEM. It is, "MAP-Attracting-Person Womb-Person with the Body-Positive Glasses" and "Broke-ass N****r" You are just as bad as the devil himself Trump. You should flog yourself and then beg Our Lord And Savior Biden, praise be upon his name, for forgiveness. It wouldn't hurt to bring some hair for him to sniff.
I can't help but think of the Sphinx from the Mystery Men when these bad lines come up. They really sound like their trying so hard to sound wise and enlightened when it comes off so empty and shallow. At least the Sphinx was a character that was meant to do that!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who purchased all 3 of the Jackson extended versions thru Amazon video. I wonder how much the watch percentage went up on the films after each episode of ROP it was like eating sushi the Jackson movies were the ginger to cleanse your pallet
Whenever I was watching any reviews of the episodes (Polish or English) I had the same feeling. That the show was made on the go. Episode from the episode they were coming up with the script. Like there is nothing so far that would cover any longer time-line in the series. In one place they talk while in another ship covers thousands of miles over sea...ideas written in the subway on a knee as you head to the office, just to not show up empty-handed.
I don't mind the "give me the meat" line. "calling a dwarf dishonest in her own home is a recipe for strong gravy" makes no sense to me? Why do dwarves like weak gravy? Why is strong gravy a punishment? Is gravy a euphemism?
Whenever there's a close-up of the "elven" rings, I'm reminded of that episode of Brooklyn 99 where Jake says "I spent a whole dollar on this ring!" And that ring looked better.
So they gave a side note mention of Galadriel's husband in ... episode 7, with that goofy conversation with Theo. Given that Celeborn and Galadriel had a daughter, Celebrian, that later goes on to marry Elrond. They'll probably introduce her as a full-grown elf in another oh-this-is-my-daughter kind of way when she materializes, played by a late teen actress. I mean, she's integral to the future of ... whatever lore they think they are creating. She marries Elrond at some point and they have 3 children. A set of male twins and Arwen, who later goes in to marry Aragorn. I wonder if the idiot show-runners just forgot about her...
This Galadriel actually came across as more Sauron-like than Chad, King of da Souflands. Absolutely detestable character. Generally the whole show felt paper thin and lacked any sense of depth. literally the only compelling character was Adar, who was threatened with genocide just for seeking a homeland for his “children”.
I honestly didn't even know the first season was supposed to be revealing sauron. Had no clue what the plot was building up to and it was cheesy and made no sense at all lol
When galadreil from 2001 lord of the rings gave three pieces of hair and gave it to gimil son gloin is more likable than whatever strong woman elf who wants revenge and will be a total beaotch to get it in the eight episodes she is in.
Oh right, Cate Blanchett is being showered with praise from her latest gig where she plays a genius composer/conductor that gets cancelled for being a horrible person. I just realized it almost feels intentional to release that movie now, because it only puts this young new actress playing """Galadriel""" to shame in comparison.
The dialogues are excruciatingly cringe and dull and I thought it was just me, so I was completely surprised when I went to youtube and everyone said the same thing. The acting is so bland (like Galadriel only got like 2 facial expressions: brooding mad and glaring mad), the plot armor is very thicc (everyone except the queen came out of the volcano eruption unscathed? MADNESS), and what is the purpose of the Harfoots storyline? Nothing, except to introduce the not-Gandalf and his three pursuers whom we don't know a thing about. I swear I haven't watched a show this bad and it is such an insult it's like Amazon is making this while thinking the audience have no freaking brain.
I haven't watched it but I have been loving the roasting by you, Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, George the Giant Slayer and other excellent reviewers. Thank you so much for telling the truth.. The thing is, the masses only have bread and circuses. If we want preaching we have plenty of religions to choose from. When you take away circuses, well that just sets us off.
This is what happens when you take a professor's masterpiece & put it in the hands of kindergartners & this is what happens, this is the result. Utter nonsense. The show runners should had honor the original lore, Tolkien's original story. Like Peter Jackson did.
Funny you mention "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - I just started watching it for the first time, and only a few episodes in. Much of the visuals and special effects are indeed funny and silly all at once, but the characters grow on me so quickly it's easy to ignore the aged visuals!
mystery boxes can be good when a) they aren't a lazy crutch and b) the pay-off is well executed. See mr robot and attack on titan. But here, nah chief. Pure shit.
Just to mention the fight at the Tower between Villagers vs Orcs, suddenly the Villagers had got down to their village while the orcs reached the Tower, even though they before made it obvious there is only 1 narrow path up to the Tower. But hey, they needed a full fucking Village of people to just sneak by the army of orcs, it was just needed for the story I guess...
Well now you guys know how I felt about the force awakens and luckily you joined me by the last Jedi but fuck I thought from the beginning that this shit was going to get the Disney Star Wars treatment
She is horrible. The actress has zero charm and less range. And when factoring in her lack of attractiveness, I'm hard-pressed to figure out why they thought she was the best choice for a primary role.
4:35 When bad boy Sauron sailed off with psychopath Galadriel I guessed that bad boy would be Sauron. I also guessed that there should be chemistry between the two as they left their shipmates to their fate. No chemistry ever ensued, at least not in the four episodes I watched.
When someone explains to me in details how one can tank a fiery volcanic eruption straight in the face and survive it with no burns, only then I will take this show seriously. And don't tell me it's because she's an elf or it's just a fantasy show! That's just lazy writing there.
Buffy did look fine in the 90s. Tech has evolved so fast and we are so spoiled with it we easily forget how c-tier (by todays standards) it was back then. Its not like Buffy would ever win any awards for visual effect but its wasnt bad... For the 90s.
I probably would like Celebrimbor if he was more like the shadow of mordor/war version (admittedly I haven't read the books but I did love those 2 games)
Note: This was originally 1 video, but it was clear to me when completed that it’s better as 2. This is the full analysis about the entirety of the debacle that is Rings of Power, and the 2nd video is the review of episodes 4-8. Combine these with my first video going over episodes 1-3, and we have ourselves a trilogy.
The next video is nearly complete and will be out in the next 4-5 days.
We didn't have such high expectations back then and they weren't putting movie grade SFX into TV shows so I doubt anyone but SFX snobs were concerned with the SFX. Starship Troopers:Roughneck Chronicles is probably the best example I can think of computer animation being cringe worthy and being thought as cringe by the fans. The storyline however more than picked up the slack and because of that it's still rewatchable even today.
Good Sir well said, and We called this in Exsurge Tolkien, since 25 March, now its a full apostasy of power, The evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
Correction ... @ 5:20 Isildur DID NOT defeat Saruon ... Elendil and Gil-Galad did that. Isildur merely cut the ring from Saruon's hand after he was dead. Let's keep the lore straight shall we ...
@@spirittoo This is supposed to be a prequel series to Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings, not that canon matters much in any circumstance regarding Rings Of Power.
@@spirittoo It was always my understanding that Gil-Galad and Elendil had (for all intents and purposes) mortally wounded Sauron but given that he is a maiar (and so much of his life force had been poured into the one ring), he would have been able to quickly recover from the wounds. It was the act of cutting the ring from his body that caused Sauron to be vanquished for thousands of years until he could slowly rebuild his strength without the one ring.
Who'd have thought portraying Galadriel as a raging narcissist would be a bad idea?
holy moses on a rocket powered pogostick - never would have guessed that.....
Go back to the first age and you’ll see… she only cares about ruling. Didn’t even care she was stealing Teleri ships and didn’t feel sorry that it was paid with elves blood.
Galadriel is the niece of Feanor. You know, the most self righteous elf to ever exist. The one that made history by renouncing the Valar and butchering the Teleri. Not to mention Morgoth directly or indirectly killed her father, brothers, uncles, and tens of thousands of other Noldor (her tribe).
It's in her blood to be this way, and the portrayal of her through lines and incredible acting is spot on.
@@Bdubuc0401 you are totally right but the Acting still isnt good. You can buy many Things but you cant buy Charisma
@@cdtstrong1 Galadriel was in the third party that left Valinor under Fingolfin. They were behind Feanor and did not take part in the Kinslaying at Alqualonde, nor did she take part in the other two.
They were so tryhard with "The Sea Is Always Right". They seriously thought it'd be the next "Winter Is Coming" or "The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors."
Which would be an incredibly stupid thing to expect. Its like me ever ending up with the girl i like
I see it that way too, you just felt it immediately. Like children who suddenly imitate something because the cool one did it
@@end.olives you will find a girl someday, and you two will be happy if you both are kind and respectful. It'll happen. Just be patient and enjoy your life until then
I'll throw one of my favourite from the Witcher (not the show). "You mistake stars reflected in a pond for the night sky".
isnt this a quote from spongebob when he finds a shell?
“It cost a lot to look this cheap”
- Dolly Parton
Thats brutal
Son of a Gun, so brutally true. Furthermore, you loved it when Dolly Parton said it, and see it really as totally applying to Rings of Power. VERY freaking astute Mr. Matt Collins!
@@mayanboricua But it's true!🤣
I love this comment
Still laughing :D
Imagine what good movies and video games could have been made with this show's budget.
Lore-wise, Shadow of Mordor is a worse bastardization of the world than this show. But it's a good game.
"Imagine what good movies and video games could have been made with this show's budget."
You could have bought bionic limbs for people who need them, repaired cleft palates and cleft lips, bought life-saving surgeries, brought clean water to poor people all over the world, provided food and shelter for the homeless, helped people in disaster areas, adopted thousands of cats, dogs, and other animals, paid the salaries of thousands of mental health and hospital workers.
Instead, Jeff Bezos paid for The Rings Of Power.
@@budakbaongsiah It really isn't. It cannot possibly be worse than this. Turning Shelob into a sexy human is still not as bad as turning everyone black and making Galadriel a narcissist powerhouse bossbitch.
And even with the 1 billion dollar budget they still cheaped out on purchasing rights. They bought the rights to the Return of the King appendices instead of the entire trilogy. But since they know virtually nothing of the original LotR books, they only ended up purchasing names and names of places. Had they bought rights to the whole trilogy they could have used most of the actual story of the forging of the Rings as it was summarized and told by both Gandalf and Elrond
You could build a village with that. For a few thousands of people. Or develop multiple tank designs. It costs around 300 million to design a modern tank. Or you could build 2 power plants, each could support 2-3 million households in europe. The german Isar 2 nuclear power plant was 800 million, and they had a billion plus 250 million to buy the rights for LotR, and they were willing to increse the budget if it's successful. You could plant a whole forest, hundreds of thousands of trees. Each could compensate the CO2 emissions of at least 10 cars. It would be enough for a forest larger than New York City. If you would have to spend 5k for each tree, it would be 250k trees. They started to build the central park in ~1857. Costs until today, for over 150 years maintenance is less than 700 million dollar. So if it's about nature and CO2, such an amount of money could do a lot. There would be a lot of things you could do with that. NASA had a mission to Jupiter in 2011, costs 1.1 billion. So it's enough to make a mission to Jupiter and a show. More than enough to fly a rover to the moon, or to build and lauch the kepler space telescope 2 times. It comes close to a rover mission to mars. Especially chinas mission wasn't much more expensive, and NASA's Mars missions were just around 2 times the costs. So enough for exploring the moon or other planets and their moons, to develop space telescopes. And if you just want to stream and just a few instruments for science, not the most expensive ones, it's enough to explore Mars with a rover for at least 10 years. Without the most expensive instruments something like the Mars missions would be possible for 1 - 1.5 billion. But they decided to insult Tolkien and the fans with that, and to damage LotR 🤷♂️
Whenever you feel you wasted money for something unimportant, remember than the Rings of Power exists.
You should have seen the "Stop the Steal" rally, talk about a waste of money for something unimportant...
The watcher 😭
Words of wisdom.
Rings of Power sill much better show than House of the dragon
@@redharrison894 You would be denying reality lol.
I am so sick of them turning well-thought-out lines that make sense in the context of the scene (your example- Gollum explaining how he likes to eat what he's hunted, without cooking them while fighting with Sam about him cooking the meat) as catchphrases! Gandalf doesn't run around randomly saying "follow your nose" like he's trying to sell Fruit Loops! This is maddening!
Don't you remember? Sam was only mad at Gollum because he kept trying to steal Sam's Pebbles!
@@robertbryant4669 🤣
@Robert Bryant More like his Lucky Charms.
Netflix: I've successfully destroyed Witcher's lore and made bearly watchable fantasy series out of a great source material.
Amazon: Hold my beer.
Both are absolute shite but Witcher offended more than what ROP did.
Honestly the Witcher show looks like fine art compared to this
I'd watch the witcher on Netflix back to back than sit through the rings of power again
I stopped watching The Witcher after episode 1, it was terrible from the beginning.
@@Nopeasaurus The first season was good for someone who has no knowledge of the lore or video games
The one thing that still baffles me is the line about 'taking the wheels' of the Harfoots who fall behind. So, you’re not only abandoning them you’re going out of your way to actively sabotage them to ensure they’ll never catch up with the main band again. It’s an appalling perversion of everything thing these little bastards are meant to hold dear.
Nasty stinky bastards
Seemed like a plot contrivance to give a reason for "The Stranger" to contribute to the family's travels.
And then to top it off by the end of the seasons they completely shift on their a whole way of living just because Nori thinks this guy can help. COME ON man dumbest stuff. They hide when they hear a sound but they can accept a completely different creature into their ranks who does not even resemble them or speak their tongue. Dumbest show ong
I laughed every time they said we leave no one behind lol
Really, that's all you took from it?
Only one person said that AND they didn't do it did they ?
That's like saying Nori wants an adventure therefore ALL harfoot want to go on an adventure.
Gyladrial is the projection of the showrunners, thoughtless, abusive, power hungry etc.
Ooh good summation
Amazon in the flesh
Don't forget stupid.
don't forget "manipulative" ...they learnt from the best in that regard (JarJarAbrams in full effect)
Yeah, she'd make a great candidate for the GOP for sure.
The true mystery boxes are:
1. How could Galadriel and the other top persons survive the pyroclastic flow when the whole village starter burning and a few unfortunate no name people really looked liked people from Pompeii ... Even a horse caught fire, but not Galadriel.
2. When did Sauron or who ever it was ... build the key mechanism that open the damm? And why didn't the elves finding it out after some hundreds of years in the watch tower? Who built the watch tower?
3. How come a trained warrior elf considered a village with grass roofed wooden buildings in a valley is an advantage against an orc army?
4. What stupid builder built a tower that falls down if some one cut a rope?
5. And when did the hobbits become good people and not the evil ones leaving the wounded behind and laugh at the dead ones years after?
... there are more mystery boxes ... But I do not want to know the answers ... I want the series to be cancelled.
That's a few very good ones to start I would say :D. And yeah, they leave you headscratching
The Rube Goldberg machine. Literally at this point I became so disinterested that I fell asleep and decided not even to finish the last episode
Very correct. Cancel the show
Yeah the budget should have been used to revive good shows like Sarah Connor Chronicles or Firefly
first time I've heard someone saying "YOU are the target audience for this show" in a way that sounds like an insult lmao
My boss was watching this show, said it was alright. He thought for sure that Halbrand couldn’t be Sauron, I knew he was wrong and didn’t even watch the damn thing. My boss is a smart guy at work so I have no idea why he likes this show and didn’t see the obvious reveal coming. I guess if you’re a casual watcher, all of these new shows don’t seem all that bad, even if true fans know better.
@@ryankornacki9918 I've heard the same from a casual watcher of the witcher series who commented on another video like this but for the witcher.
"It ain't that bad." Are the words the studio will bank on you to say so they have an excuse to produce more of the same crap. It's the typical fallback of the mindless consumer and the fuel for the exploitative producer.
@@ryankornacki9918 It's boring for a casual viewer and I'm one of them
@@ryankornacki9918 I'd say for me it was more of a hope that it wasn't halbrand and denial and because I somewhat believed they'd do something stupid like make the wizard sauron
as for my opinions on the show I'd say it was at best an alright eh show
wouldn't really recommend it to people
but also wouldn't say don't watch it
I would recommend house of the dragon if someone was looking for something at the time of them coming out
😂😂😂 Great comment. Yeah those are fighting words in that context
"The writers fall into the the trap that most modern shows do. Trying for force us, as an audience, to accept and like a character that they don't even try to make likable in any way".
Yeah, that pretty much covers it.
A lot of fantasy comes from history and Tolkien was obviously engrossed in history. Modern TV writers are engrossed in TV and movies. Their works are a parody of themselves because they don't even have the slightest clue what Tolkien based his own works on
But why is it important to like a character. I didnt care at all and tried to focus on the lore and story instead, too bad there was no story just air :(. 90% random people, random occurense 10% meaning
Gagladrial constantly looks like she's pissed off about something that smells bad. It's her "Blue Steel".
Robert you mean magnum or is it Latigra
@varalder freyr I know that's the joke
Hollywood, Disney, Netflix and prime are being overrun by writers who have the mental age of 12 and character building skills of a brick. With actors being chosen to tick boxes rather than skills it's probably the worst time of film making that I've ever known.
Representation doesn’t always have to be a bad thing.
The way house of the Dragon cast the Velaryons as Dark skinned with platinum blonde dreadlocks actually improved the story and made the theme of Blood of the Oath vs Water of the Womb more poignant, and the family relationships easier to keep track of.
There’s a smart way to do it that adds to the story.
TRoP put no thought into it so it came off as forced Tokenism.
(Lady Alicent, Send Feet pics.)
@@isidoreaerys8745 I really don't care what they look like, I'm not one for keeping it original to the books. What I do think is the acting skills of so many now is terrible. So whoever is casting is doing a terrible job themselves, there must be a big enough pool of talent to find actors that tick their representation boxes, if not then they've got a big systemic problem in the film making world. Just get good actors and then they can deal with the juvenile writing next.
Soo trueee, its like how did these people even get jobs in media period???
Tiktok Generation makes movie for tiktok Generation
Maybe they choose random writers who used to write web novel fan fiction with bad quality. I like read bad web novel and RoP are like really bad web novel fan fiction
Best thing about Rings of Power is all the videos ruthlessly dissecting it. Evidently it's a masterclass on how NOT to make a show.
If you're got no life, those videos can be satisfying...
One thing that really made me laugh was how the "Harfoot" dad got a sprained ankle and everyone else was contemplating whether to put him down like you would with a horse with a broken leg! At this rate, it's surprising they didn't go extinct or maybe they did because of such practices... hence why we never heard about them before!
The black Hobbits certainly did go extinct, hence why we don't see them.
"Our hearts are bigger than our feet."
@@Nopeasaurus That would lead to some serious heart conditions :))
🤣🤣🤣
My friend and I had a good laugh about how Middle Earth went from diverse pre-Hobbits to pale, Anglicized Hobbits. We figured there must have been some kind of Hobbit-caust.
"The sea is always right" is just ROP writers' trying to copy the Iron Islanders' "What is dead can never die"
Like that Metallica song, The Thing that should not be.
@@mayanboricua That's Lovecraft
@@scambammer6102 maybe but there's a Metallica song called The Thing That Should Not Be. And you should face it.
@@scambammer6102 you're both right, in a way: the line from GoT is a corruption of Lovecraft's mantra of the C'thul'hu cult, which Metallica sample in "The Thing That Shpuld Not Be", the title of which is s reference to Lovevrafts "At The Mountains of Madness". The original mantra goes: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die". George RR Martin is clearly a fan, or at least paying a clumsy sort of homage. 😇
I'm calling it right now, if this show ever gets to the battle where Sauron gets his fingers sliced off it's gonna be Isildur's sister that actually cuts the ring off but it's still gonna be Isildur that gets corrupted by the ring.
That scene clearly lacks female energy, so... sure.
Nah his sister will come out as trans and become the real Isildur.....
@@skychieftain Also a distinct possibility^^
Nah! Isildur will be a female. Swapped genre is common now in the new woke adaptations, like in Asimov's Foundation.
Omg, genius. You might be right!
(secretly crying at the possibility of it happening)
The common rebuttal of "Oh, so it's fine when Peter Jackson changes something but not when Amazon does it" is just as lazy as the writing in Rings of Power. No it was NOT always fine when PJ changed stuff. I'm still completely pissed off at how he handled Faramir. The difference is that in almost all the cases, the changes that were made were done so in an effort to best serve the story in the medium of film. RoP changed stuff just to subvert expectations and "modernize" the story. Jackson's changes were done for the right reasons at the core, so even when I didn't like specific changes, on balance they are overall acceptable.
Yea I'm so sick of that weak ass rebuttal. To compare PJ's trilogy with Amazon's abomination is disingenuous at best. The showrunners flat out say that they were excited to use Tolkien's characters and world to tell their own stories. This is literally the opposite approach to PJ's
this, the book purists tend to complain about certain small changes. but they are movies and her wanted the Characters to have arcs and the story to flow. the books couldn't literally just be done as is in live action, there's just too much fluff.
Exactly. PJ made minor changes, he didn't significantly alter the text and deviate so far from Tolkien's work to the point it was unrecognizable. RoP is more like bad fanfiction than an adaption. RoP takes the canon characters and twists them until they're only recognizable by name. RoP creates an abundance of non-canon characters (Earien, Arondir, Bronwyn, Theo, Disa, Adar, all the Harfoots) and gives them so much importance and screen time at the expense of canon characters. RoP creates a toxic romance between two characters no one wanted to happen (Sauron and Galadriel). RoP makes up most of the dialogue, opting to rarely lift or slightly alter the words directly from Tolkien's work, which results in the characters speaking in convoluted purple pose. It's clear that they wanted to use Tolkien's IP to create their own story rather than adapt his story. That was their purpose all along.
@@Nopeasaurus yea it's like literally the opposite of LotR. It's kinda shocking the showrunners have the audacity and confidence to rewrite Tolkien's 2nd age, especially considering what the fans want, and how amateurish their writing was.
And as a non-LOTR reader but over two-decade LOTR fan, Faramir is still a great character.
"Adapted for a modern audience" is the most culturally appropriative phrase I've ever heard.
😅
Not to mention, the most all-embracingly insulting
Your problem is skin color out of everything?
@@vertigo2894 How the Hell did you interpret that?
I still don't know what they even MEAN with this!!!
The one thing I'll give credit to this "show" for is that it gave me an excuse (as if one was needed) to rewatch the Jackson extended trilogy...
My thoughts exactly
No surprise inbreds love the Jackson movies
“Discount Legolas and Little House on the Patriarchy” is the best description I have heard of those cardboard cutouts haha! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It just occured to me that the writers almost certainly don't know that Elrond is actually a half elve. One of only two half elves in the entire history of middle earth. However, after the war of Wrath the Valar gave him and his twin brother a choice wether to be human or elve. Elrond chose to be elve while Elros (his brother) chose to be human. Also by the way, Elros later became the first King of Numenor and thus the distant ancestor of Aragorn. Also as a Side note, in the bloodline of Elros and Elrond is the last blood of the greatest human kings from the first age, the human kings that faced off directly with morgoth and were instrumental in bringing him down.
Not true. There's literally a line where Elrond says don't trust elves but trust him because he's half-elven to the dwarf king.
Also there's not two half-elven. Both Elrond's parents are considered half-elven. Elrond's children are also considered half-elven and he has at least 3 children. That's at least 7 half-elven, not 2
@@fangiscool1 Beren and Luthien's son, Dior is technically 1/4 elven
@@gerisaccomanno7422 right. And Dior was the father of Elwing. And Elwing had siblings too.
Though only Earendil, Elwing, and their own descendants were given a choice or man or elf I think
@@fangiscool1 Ok, point for you. I forgot that Beren and Luthien actually had children.
@@fangiscool1 Anyone who has a mix of mortal/elven blood is considered half-elven. That's Dior, Elúrin, Elured, Elwing, Eärendil, Elrond, Elros, Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen. And then there's the curious case of the children of Imrazôr the Númenórean and Mithrellas of Lórien. Their children were half-elven, too, but were apparently never given a choice and were just mortal by default.
Fun fact: Someone on the internet actually broke down how much elven, human and Maia blood Elrond "Half-elven" actually has. He's nowhere close to being a half-elf XD
This is a show that I’m absolutely glad to have never seen.
At least we still have the Peter Jackson movies.
Try reading the books. The films are poor in comparison.
@@iansavage2382 nah, books lack the overall richness of Tolkiens prose in its literative form, but just as Tolkien was a master of the pen, PJ was a master of film who respected Tolkiens work as he worked to mould it from prose, to film.
I mean compare PJ’s films to RoP. Even his Hobbit trilogy, that the studio interfered with to the point of making parts of it comical… are treated as side pieces to the PJ adaptation… compared to RoP dropping trou and squeezing a steaming Bezo’s on Tolkiens manuscripts.
@@davfree9732 Dude the weird cringe orc in the return of the King made it worse with the giant burn facs it was cheezy and so was the steward of gondor plotline
Nah its just that your taste is absolutely awful lmao
@@Randomov7xx Wym
One of the things I remember from the special features of Jackson's movie DVDs was when the director of Weta Workshop addressed his troops. He talked about how important the task was that they were embarking on and how important it was that they all make sure they felt they were worthy for it. I remember that word "worthy."
Yes but now your dealing with a giant corporation like Amazon. They have replaced the word worthy with the word greed.
Yes. It's the real reason we all adore Richard Taylor, and all the leads (and people on) of the teams that created for those movies. They really understood the effort.
I really think my favorite part was the cut and paste green screen crowd for the tower battle ... it's really like high school kids produced this
Because that's exactly what the showrunners are. Infantile boys suffering from deferred maturity without any real skills. Also graduates of JJ. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman's woke school of murdering franchises via bad reboots and general ineptitude. Everything bad about modern day film and tv springs forth from this secret hideout of bad robots and woke hacks. It's the Mordor of modern media.
the single scene of Arwen calling the river to her aid has so much power and magic than the freaking trailer of RoP..
That scene sucks. It degrades Frodo. No surprise people like you have low standards.
This video review also contains the best review of "LOST" that I have ever seen. We watched "LOST" for years and then were "rewarded" with a final episode that ignored the countless "mystery boxes" that were set up. There were no answers. I was so disappointed.
Fuck you, Lost was great.
If you'd like a gloriously detailed deconstruction of LOST, including documentation of the meta aspect of the dirtbag creators repeatedly lying to their paying fans, check out reetae47's 8-part review. (I think he might have change his channel name to Velodious or some such)
I watched the first couple of seasons of Lost and, it was interesting. However, as a want to be writer, I realized all the mysteries they were piling up were ultimately unresolvable in any believable form. Especially in the medium of video. I stopped watching and was not at all surprised that people condemned the ending. I see the same problem with Game of Thrones and I believe George R. R. Martin cannot finish the book series because of the same complexity issues compounded ten-fold by the TV series. Money can buy a lot of things....But, it cannot buy creative integrity.
@@r.blakehole932 You were wise to quit the show while you were ahead! I'm trying to learn to have similar powers of discernment, but it takes hard work.
It will be interesting to see what Martin does, if he ever actually releases the final books. While he may have created too many threads of too much complexity, he also has the advantage of seeing exactly what went wrong in the TV series -- perhaps he can learn from it.
I stopped watching LOST after season 3 as I finally realized I was being conned. Haven't been near a JJ product since. They guy is a hack.
When Galadriel pointed at Saurons face and said "it's my show and it's clobbering time you poor travesty of a wizard!" I got so many goosebumps and chills I had to go to the ER and they said stop watching that show.
I would love to see a breakdown of the budget for this show. I feel like Amazon Prime subscribers deserve it, especially after the price hike.
So would I!
Diversity Officer: 100000 Dollars per consultation.
@@ldshasnobrain yep. Good job nowadays...
I will never forgive them for what they did to Galadriel. In her small bit of screen time in the films, she shows incredible heart, charm, wisdom, and power. She has depth. They turned her into an abrasive caricature of an obsessed lady detective from a 90s TV procedural. It’s just pure vandalism.
I just love this new age of film where everything feels like it was just pulled off webtoon.
Please don't insult Webtoon like that. Those folks can alteast write compelling stories.
Shit, I've read better webtoons.
Rings of power is written by twitter and reddit
@@Needler13 That's like Doomsday meeting Armageddon and supping together during Ragnarok to use as inspiration for their writing.
I’ve been seeing this happen a lot lately, where show-runners and writers actually take pride in the fact that they know or care little to nothing about the source material. It astounds me that they keep on doing this despite the fact whenever adaptions diverge from the source material they garner extreme blowback and it always ends disastrously.
People love to shit on GoT for getting shit after book material ran out but the truth is that D&D started abandoning major book plot-lines long before the books ran out and the decline in show quality started becoming apparent to book readers around season 4. This is why HotD is kinda revolutionary (at least with the current state of things) because the show runner is actually a fan of the books and wants to do a faithful adaption, and fans love him for it.
Like it’s such an easy formula: show people you care about the source material and about making a faithful adaptation and they’ll heap praise on you. It’s like all the other writers want to be hated or something.
House of the Dragon is the best show I’ve watched in years. And I Gave up on Game of thrones midway through.
House of the dragon literally had me laughing screaming and crying at my television screen week after week.
Not hated. In fact I would posit that it's the opposite.
They want to show that they can write the better stories and be given garlands and great praise for their out of this world abilities.
Sadly they're very misguided.
To be fair, even without the writers pulling what you'd call a "writer move", running out of material was inevitable. GRRM has a lot of trouble finishing any of his stories, even when he's not being sidetracked by writing a dark souls universe.
The Jackson trilogy was loved by 95% of the fans...
The Rings of Power was loved by people who think Ghost Busters 2016 and The Last Jedi were good movies.
Nailed it
or start trek discovery
Dude, I don't think this is as bad as The Last Jedi, not even remotely. This show at least kept me entertained, I didn't even wanna finish The Last Jedi.
@@universe.factory "by not being able to read the text properly."
Give me a break. I could read the "text" perfectly well, notwithstanding its being written in crayon.
Imagine having opinions? Do you believe your opinions are supreme?
I'm a lifelong Tolkien Fan, having as proof, an original First British Edition of the Lord of the Rings from the 1950s. I only made it through the first four episodes of this freaking atrocity. To be fair, I originally had GREAT doubts about Peter Jackson's take on The Lord of the Rings. He won me over despite a still lingering few strong grips (I cannot forgive crashing mountains of skulls in the Extended Edition). But, despite a few strong gripes, Peter Jackson respected the original work of J. R. R. Tolkien and brought it to life on the screen. The complete freaking dolts that Amazon hired have zero respect for, or knowledge of, Arda. I spew them from my consciousness.
Truly, a crime against humanity
The writers of the show need to be sentenced to the halls of Mandos for their atrocities
@@annatar6453 They need to be sentenced to a wrestling match with Tulkas, but without rules, judges, time limit, or a referee.
@@annatar6453 No chance. I'd cast them into the void along with Morgoth. For eternity.
"Just give me the meat and give it to me raw" was by far my favourite line 😆
I laughed out loud and will now use that line around the house
When porn parody of LOTR shows more respect to the source material than a licensed tv show...
Meme worthy
Means entirely different to me. Plus it's 2 guys talking to each other! 🤣🤣🤣
There's a scene that didn't make the edit after this where Disa catches Elrond and Durin III in flagrante delicto. They should have left it in (no pun intended).
I'm about 90% convinced the reason they didn't straight up say that strange guy was Gandalf is that maybe they don't actually have the rights to Gandalf's name, so whilst they clearly want it to be Gandalf, they're leaving it open so it can be whatever wizard they do end up with the rights for.
This is a show that should be selling subscriptions singlehanded…it’s a million miles away from doing that!
You had me at, "Little house on the patriarchy".
Perhaps they should have titled this, "Mary Sue does a thing" and modeled it after a Dr Seuss novel?
This, She-Hulk, The Witcher... why are these people who actively hate the source material they're supposed to be adapting even signing up for these projects? All of these could have been good if the writers in charge respected the original media
Hear Hear, and Join us for our counter ROP series. Mae G'ovannen! Now the evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Take heart for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of Tolkien's Canon displayed out of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
Wheel of time, Obi-Wan, it's endless.
because those are the yes men from film college who never questioned anything, got their participation trophies and got indoctrinated from a young age, it all starts there, literally
if i had to guess i’d say it’s because pre exisiting IPs are literally the only content being greenlit at this point, it’s either do an IP you don’t care about or do nothing
I love the reuse of extras in the crowd scene. Pause at 4:31 and you can see that they cut and paste extras to make the crowd look bigger. Where exactly did the budget go for this?
They legit repurpose lines as vile skin suits that they use to dress up their carboard characters with. Like a macabre circus freak show.
That is a hideously appropriate simile!
This is like one of those D&D puzzles that front-loads a ton of detail in an attempt to mesmerize, when the solution is simply to not watch the show.
I love to think about Jeff Bezos watching all of these overviews about how horrendous TROP is, and bawling his eyes out. He deserves it, for hiring these clowns to write it and choose the actors. Poor Jeff. wah wah wah
You get what you f*cking deserve! by Joker maybe
* Initiating tear duct leakage protocol *
- I think you give this guy too much credit, he's not capable of genuine human emotion.
You greatly underestimate the ego and dilusion of Bezos. Lol
I very much doubt Jeff has anything to do with prime video production hiring. His money mountain has raised him too high to see back down here.
Oh yes, and remember he said his son was a Tolkien fan who told him not to screw it up, lol.
Rings of Power is one of the worst executions of an IP in a long, long time.
It was clearly written by people who not only have no love for Tolkien, but actively dislike or even hate his creation. There's no other reason for them to constantly be shitting all over every bit of his lore and world building.
There are SO many things they did wrong, it's impossible to fully list them all.
Terrible acting, even worse writing, godawful world-building, everything that happens is 100% contrived and powered by plot armor and deus ex machina, and a world where the writers can't even keep a coherent narrative of how far apart things are, despite constantly showing a map. Seriously, how far is it from Numenor to Middle Earth? It SHOULD be about 1600 miles. Yet the Numenorians sail that distance in two days. Then ride from the coast to Mordor in a couple hours (it's around 300 miles, on the normal ME map), while the orcs take around a full day to travel the couple miles from the elven watch tower to the village (since the villagers can SEE it on fire and collapsing from their village).
It's just insane.
WampusRat You forget. You are supposed to be a completely brain dead consumer. How dare you actually think while you consume. How dare you!!!!!
Yet oddly enough the Kept the weird white supremacist Nazi ideology tones and made the elves into self righteous chosen people/Mormons.
You’re right. The geography made no sense at all. This series was nothing more than a reason to appreciate how fucking good HOTD is each week.
Well, the creators of RoP did accomplish something grandiose - this will be studied as what not to do in cinema production
"This is a bad show..."
-Aragorn
Rings of Power was eight weeks of comedy gold. #TeamSauron
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The ''so bad it's beyond so bad it's good and thus is still not good'' category of TV.
"You have not seen what ive seen" Me when my coworkers asked me if Ive watched anything good lately.
"You have not seen what I have seen" is the new "Oh hi Mark".
I hate how purposefully suspicious Not-Sauron acts after fully recovering from a gaping wound. And no one worries about this Hal-Pass guy’s knowledge, allowing him to partake in the creation of those rings also doesn’t raise any red flags? Why is he helping anyone.
Omg yes it was so rushed and heavy handed
The only other thing I remember seeing Morfyd Clark in was Crawl, a movie about the guy from Battlefield Earth and his daughter caught in a hurricane while being hunted by the most unrealistic alligators in film history. Clark was the older sister. She had two scenes, both where she appeared on a phone screen while she was holding a baby and using a horrible American accent. I can totally see why she was selected to lead a show in one of the biggest franchises in entertainment...
she wasn't that bad in RoP compared to the rest of the cast. You could have given Nicole Kidman or Margot Robbie the role, the writing would have made it shit
She was really good in Saint Maud, though. I guess she is as good as the writing and directing she gets.
I thought you were gonna say she played an alligator. And that she was very convincing in that role!
@@timlamiam At least they would have worked hard to put some personality into their character, something Clark totally doesn't. I think Margot Robbie's acting skills are limited, but at least she knows it and does her best with what she has (although her performance in that dreadful Birds of Prey movie kind of contradicts that). Clark doesn't even try, she just goes with the horrible script and all her "acting" consists of her showing her "resting bitch face", "smug superior bitch face" and "little girl who wrinkles her nose to show how angry she is" face.
she was the lead in St Maud and did a respectable job there. but I think she has a small amount of acting talent and spent it all on St Maud.
Next season Gladriel guests on an episode of SheHulk where they team up to bring lawsuits against any that dare question their decisions. They spend all episode arguing whether their duo should be called the Caring Karens or the Suing Mary Sues.
I truly wonder what Professor Tolkien would say about this attempt at an adaptation
Words would not be necessary 🤮
@@dronesclubhighjinks I agree. How would be silent, baffled wherever even begin. If you see, how thoughtfully he answered all questions in interview, even the simplest ones, he would be completely overwhelmed by question "what went wrong".
@@ilfirinms he could probably write 12 trilogies worth of what was wrong with the lore and the characters whose names were used. Also, what about the Amazon-created characters? Another 10 trilogies. Timelines, including in each storyline? 15 trilogies.
As Tolkien probably knew very little about filmmaking, we could have others (LOTR trilogy workers) point out the deficiencies such as costumes, armour, weaponry. At least 5 trilogies there.
The gratuitous amount of borrowing scenes from the LOTR trilogy, LOTR video games and other movies seems to have also been present in the Star Wars series “Kenobi” (with scenes from other SW movies and video games). Kenobi also suffered from a very weak plot, many gaps in logic and contradictions to the source material. The channel “Little Platoon” has some very funny videos about this.
His grandson was among the makers.
Peter Jackson is groaning in pain.
One thing I really liked in the movies that weren't in the books was when the elves arrived in Helms deep. Although it wasn't in it felt like the books. Long ago, an alliance between elves and men existed, and we have come to honor that same alliance again. Thank you, Peter Jackson.
Peter Jackson turned the characters of LotR into dumbed down action heroes.
And that was partially because they didn't have the budget to film Lorien and Mirkwood battles that were happening at the same time,so he needed to show the elves were fighting somehow.
The true show was never Rings of Power, but the roasting, cringe and laughs.
And it was brilliant. Haven't that much fun since JJ Star Wars,
My wife is the type that say's "it's only a movie" when i complain about bad writing/storytelling/breaking canon etc. She is a very forgiving critic who thought Rings of power was fine.. but when the scene with Galadriel riding the horse in slo-mo came on, even she let out an OMG.
look at House of Dragon, no one raise a single ruckus over it. Everyone loved it and while there are criticism, it's all very well received. Ppl gotta stop associating media with their identity, otherwise corporation will keep churning out soulless junks like this.
It's really quite remarkable how inept this show is in just about every way that counts. Not surprising, perhaps, given that Amazon put Tweedledee and Tweedledum in charge of their billion dollar show based on a good word from Papa JJ, but given the source material, and given that the Tweedle bros worked for a decade as script doctors, you'd think that they would have accidentally created some good moments in eight+ hrs of TV. But...nope. The only really good scenes in this show are wide, sweeping landscape shots. The ones where no one has to speak, or act, or try to progress the plot in any way.
Yup. The whole family should honestly be tried at The Hague and exiled to that place we sent Napoleon. Before they endanger any more of our collective culture.
All flash, no substance, just like everything else Jar Jar's ever done.
"If you didn't guess it was this guy by episode 4, you are the target audience of this show" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i'm glad you said that.
Making sure everyone knew they spent a Billion dollars is money laundering 101…
Yeah hahaha when the product is a HUGE 💩, you begin to wonder, where did the money go?
@@Langley_Ackerman19 Cue "The Producers"
@@solicitr666 closest anyone has come to making this make sense.
The most colossal train wreck. A billion dollars pissed away.
Now I wonder what Jeff Bezos's son thought of RoP 🤔
Sadly, the actual, Lore-based friendship, was the one between Celebrimbor and Durin, not Elrond and Durin.
I loved the part where Galadriel Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way Targaryen faced off against the germans, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Sauron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing T-shirt that read, "Ask Me About My Translucent Agenda." Then all the N*zis got blown up when the Gay Engola dropped two nukes: Body-Positive Man and Little Transboy.
All Game of Thrones scholars agree that the scene where Rhaenyra whispers in Celeborn's ear “I hate pee on the toilet seat when I go to use it.” and then disconnects the machine that keeps him alive, perfectly delivered George JRR Martin's message of hope and healing for all wahmankind. Then Galadriel jumped into the ocean with Dory and started singing, "Just keep swimming."
I have to admit, I did not like the part where the authot race swapped the ents. Ents are clearly White Birch, but those ents were OAK. Remember, Arboreal Pollen is Tree ejaculation, so the Ent orgy counts as interracial and should have the appropriate tags.
I loved the part where Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." And then Halbrand said, "YEW TUKE ARR JERBS!" and Kicked a Harfoot into a well while shouting, "THIS. IS. NUMENOR." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat."
I laughed, I cried, I kissed 18 bucks goodbye.
10/10 Would edge to it again.
Much Stunning. Much Bravery.
My fave is when Halbrand proposed to Hagrid, saying "Resistance is futile" then gave Hagrid his ankle-monitoring bracelet as an engagement ring of power. I swooned.
@@dronesclubhighjinks AHEM. The Engagement Ring of Power + Privilege. Maybe you need to buy another ticket to Wokanda Forever and give it to a black person.
@@TheEldritchGod I tried but they were offended! I referred them to the young lady with big glasses who told white people to find “poor Black people” to give tickets to so they will take the matter up with her directly.
@@dronesclubhighjinks AHEM. It is, "MAP-Attracting-Person Womb-Person with the Body-Positive Glasses" and "Broke-ass N****r"
You are just as bad as the devil himself Trump. You should flog yourself and then beg Our Lord And Savior Biden, praise be upon his name, for forgiveness. It wouldn't hurt to bring some hair for him to sniff.
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I can't help but think of the Sphinx from the Mystery Men when these bad lines come up. They really sound like their trying so hard to sound wise and enlightened when it comes off so empty and shallow. At least the Sphinx was a character that was meant to do that!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who purchased all 3 of the Jackson extended versions thru Amazon video. I wonder how much the watch percentage went up on the films after each episode of ROP it was like eating sushi the Jackson movies were the ginger to cleanse your pallet
The movies were made for lowlifes like you
"Comments are subjective."
-Bilbo Baggins
Whenever I was watching any reviews of the episodes (Polish or English) I had the same feeling. That the show was made on the go. Episode from the episode they were coming up with the script. Like there is nothing so far that would cover any longer time-line in the series. In one place they talk while in another ship covers thousands of miles over sea...ideas written in the subway on a knee as you head to the office, just to not show up empty-handed.
I don't mind the "give me the meat" line. "calling a dwarf dishonest in her own home is a recipe for strong gravy" makes no sense to me? Why do dwarves like weak gravy? Why is strong gravy a punishment? Is gravy a euphemism?
What I took away from this essay is to watch Austin Powers again
You have said all the things I couldn't put my finger on why I hated this show so much lol. This brought me peace overall haha
Whenever there's a close-up of the "elven" rings, I'm reminded of that episode of Brooklyn 99 where Jake says "I spent a whole dollar on this ring!" And that ring looked better.
They should have bought the rights to Forgotten Realms and made a series off of the Icewind Dale trilogy, or the Avatar trilogy.
OMG! Why do you hate those titles?
Your little cutaways are freaking hilarious 😂
So they gave a side note mention of Galadriel's husband in ... episode 7, with that goofy conversation with Theo. Given that Celeborn and Galadriel had a daughter, Celebrian, that later goes on to marry Elrond. They'll probably introduce her as a full-grown elf in another oh-this-is-my-daughter kind of way when she materializes, played by a late teen actress. I mean, she's integral to the future of ... whatever lore they think they are creating. She marries Elrond at some point and they have 3 children. A set of male twins and Arwen, who later goes in to marry Aragorn. I wonder if the idiot show-runners just forgot about her...
Lol. Jeff Bezos's son saying to his father, "Dad, please don't f this up."
This Galadriel actually came across as more Sauron-like than Chad, King of da Souflands.
Absolutely detestable character.
Generally the whole show felt paper thin and lacked any sense of depth. literally the only compelling character was Adar, who was threatened with genocide just for seeking a homeland for his “children”.
The return of the member berry munchkins, that voice gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another awesome review!!!!
I honestly didn't even know the first season was supposed to be revealing sauron. Had no clue what the plot was building up to and it was cheesy and made no sense at all lol
When galadreil from 2001 lord of the rings gave three pieces of hair and gave it to gimil son gloin is more likable than whatever strong woman elf who wants revenge and will be a total beaotch to get it in the eight episodes she is in.
Oh right, Cate Blanchett is being showered with praise from her latest gig where she plays a genius composer/conductor that gets cancelled for being a horrible person.
I just realized it almost feels intentional to release that movie now, because it only puts this young new actress playing """Galadriel""" to shame in comparison.
"Sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away." - Galadriel, Rings of Power
🤣🤣💀 this comment made me actually LOL
The dialogues are excruciatingly cringe and dull and I thought it was just me, so I was completely surprised when I went to youtube and everyone said the same thing. The acting is so bland (like Galadriel only got like 2 facial expressions: brooding mad and glaring mad), the plot armor is very thicc (everyone except the queen came out of the volcano eruption unscathed? MADNESS), and what is the purpose of the Harfoots storyline? Nothing, except to introduce the not-Gandalf and his three pursuers whom we don't know a thing about.
I swear I haven't watched a show this bad and it is such an insult it's like Amazon is making this while thinking the audience have no freaking brain.
I haven't watched it but I have been loving the roasting by you, Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, George the Giant Slayer and other excellent reviewers. Thank you so much for telling the truth..
The thing is, the masses only have bread and circuses. If we want preaching we have plenty of religions to choose from. When you take away circuses, well that just sets us off.
Glad you care so much about "the truth"
@@Applebanger ok boomer
This is what happens when you take a professor's masterpiece & put it in the hands of kindergartners & this is what happens, this is the result. Utter nonsense. The show runners should had honor the original lore, Tolkien's original story. Like Peter Jackson did.
Peter Jackson fans like you haven't read the books. I doubt inbreds like you are even literate
Funny you mention "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - I just started watching it for the first time, and only a few episodes in. Much of the visuals and special effects are indeed funny and silly all at once, but the characters grow on me so quickly it's easy to ignore the aged visuals!
mystery boxes can be good when a) they aren't a lazy crutch and b) the pay-off is well executed. See mr robot and attack on titan. But here, nah chief. Pure shit.
Just to mention the fight at the Tower between Villagers vs Orcs, suddenly the Villagers had got down to their village while the orcs reached the Tower, even though they before made it obvious there is only 1 narrow path up to the Tower.
But hey, they needed a full fucking Village of people to just sneak by the army of orcs, it was just needed for the story I guess...
I personally think the mystery box was pretty good, it reminds me of that from Superman and Klark Kent I never knew who was that guy before.
"Give me the meat and give it to me raw" that line is just insane.
Well now you guys know how I felt about the force awakens and luckily you joined me by the last Jedi but fuck I thought from the beginning that this shit was going to get the Disney Star Wars treatment
In season 2 it will take4 episodes for Galadriel to realize the tree just needs water. Go Sauron!
Morfydd Clark's acting runs the gamut from A to B.
I disagree. It runs the gamut from A- to A+.
She is horrible. The actress has zero charm and less range. And when factoring in her lack of attractiveness, I'm hard-pressed to figure out why they thought she was the best choice for a primary role.
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I agree with pretty much everything you've said, but tbf "I'd sooner kneecap a stallion" is a pretty dope line 😉
The bad TH-cam reviews are better than the show 😂
Even the good reviews happen to be more entertaining than the series itself 😅
4:35 When bad boy Sauron sailed off with psychopath Galadriel I guessed that bad boy would be Sauron. I also guessed that there should be chemistry between the two as they left their shipmates to their fate. No chemistry ever ensued, at least not in the four episodes I watched.
When someone explains to me in details how one can tank a fiery volcanic eruption straight in the face and survive it with no burns, only then I will take this show seriously. And don't tell me it's because she's an elf or it's just a fantasy show! That's just lazy writing there.
Buffy did look fine in the 90s.
Tech has evolved so fast and we are so spoiled with it we easily forget how c-tier (by todays standards) it was back then.
Its not like Buffy would ever win any awards for visual effect but its wasnt bad... For the 90s.
This shows dialogue cringe has permanently disfigured my spine ♿
I probably would like Celebrimbor if he was more like the shadow of mordor/war version (admittedly I haven't read the books but I did love those 2 games)
He’s not in the LotR books.
@@saar144 celebrimbor is canon, but he's only mentioned in lotr
@@elverlyrivergrace Yep, in a couple of sentences, and none include character traits.