Oh, but there is so much worse than this. "The Fellowship of the King" by 'Demetrious Polychron' is so bad it cannot even manage unintentional comedy. You have not read what I have read.
May I also say, as a horseback rider, the DIFFICULTY of riding like that when trying to save Frodo, means they went to the difficulty of hiring an expert double.
They did; her name is Jane Abbott. I believe she did all of the actual horseback riding in the chase scene; Liv did closeups on a horse dummy mounted on a vehicle. Much safer.
I saw a comment from a ROP defender who said we shouldn’t expect ROP to be as good as the Jackson films and my response is why shouldn’t we? It’s easy to forget but Peter Jackson and the cast and crew worked incredibly hard to make those movies what they were. Technology wasn’t as sophisticated as it is now and yet they came up with all these creative techniques, bigatures, props etc. to make Middle Earth real. When paired with stellar writing, the rest was history. Yet this sad sack of a series can’t even bother to properly light a nighttime scene yet alone have any depth with its characters. Seriously, it’s insulting this series cost so much and is handled to two showrunners to make Dan and Dave from Game of Thrones look better. At least those two could adapt material decently.
Because Jackson's LotR was lightning in a bottle, as the saying goes. All the ingredients came together, often by accident, to produce this masterwork. Even Jackson could not duplicate the feat in the Hobbit films-not even close. Few people expected TRoP to be anywhere near as good as Jackson's films. But even those with reduced expectations have been sorely disappointed for the most part.
I didn't expect Rings of Power to be as good as Peter Jackson's LoTR trilogy but I also wasn't expecting "dark" elves with modern "from the hood" hair-cuts.
"You shouldn't wait for it to be as good as one of the films" He just straight up implied that they can't make something half as good with more money than the WHOLE TRILOGY in ONE FUCKING SEASON Edit: Also, isn't like we waited that much, we just waited for them have any MINIMAL CAPABILITY AND BE MID, respecting the OWN RULES AND FONTS
Dude nothing about the rings of power show has any fucking weight to it. It's all hollow and vapid. Not a single scene has any narrative theme or overarching emotions it's just so flat with scenes happening
The best part about the _Lord of the Rings_ scene is that in the book, Arwen wasn’t in it at all. Instead, it’s a male elf named Glorfindel. Despite that, Peter Jackson & co. found a way to introduce Arwen earlier in the story, in a way that felt organic and didn’t detract from any of the other characters. I doubt Tolkien would have approved, but it’s a far better adaptational choice than anything the _Rings of Power_ idiots are capable of.
Sigh. PJ used Arwen literally at the detriment of Frodo. In the book at the Ford of Bruinen Frodo defied the Nine, refusing their summons: the fact that he was able to defy them on his own, while being severely injured for two weeks, showed his resilience. Jackson's Frodo however is near-unconscious and worthless, and his Arwen says a stupid one-liner.
@@reek4062in the movie isnt it stated that It has been days since Frodo was stabbed when Arwen arrives? If my memory is true then that solidifies his resilience to the wound. Showing the passage of time when adapting words to a screen is incredibly difficult, and PJ did an extremely good job at it throughout the series. When you looks at RoP, the passage of time is shown very poorly
@@Dayman98 Some people really don't understand the difference one various types of storytelling methods. That's why most people are complaining about Arwen saving Frodo.
In Lord of the rings, Galadriel didnt need armour or to act like a toxic man. She was feminine and just her presence was so powerful the entire fellowship, grown men,were quiet and bowed their heads down. She didnt need to start naming her titles or punch holes into a wall or be condescending jerk. A very feminine female character was the most powerful character in the movie. If thats patriarchal to woke people, then they must be crazy. Btw. Thank you for another video. I love these comparisions.
Cate Blanchett's portrayal perfectly captures the kind of woman who leaves men speechless and fumbling when she enters a room. All men know that feeling, and it's one of respect and admiration. Men are, however, absolutely incapable of taking seriously a woman like this iteration of Galadriel by the actress whose name I frankly couldn't care enough about to look up.
In the Lord of The Rings movies Galadriel is the most powerful being on Middle Earth, she can project her power at great distance, unlike the limited AoE wizard Gandalf.
I also compared this scene with another one in LOTR, when thinking about choices and consequences for the plot. In LOTR Gandalf is fearful of going through Moria and advices against it. Getting there, they are confronted by the Balrog, and Gandalf's fear is confirmed. Gandalf was fearing something truly terrible, something the Fellowship could not fight, and he sacrifices himself to save the team, and they flee. So going through Moria had a real and IMPACTFUL consequence. In ROP, when Elrond and Galadriel are going to Eregion, they find that broke bridge. Galadriel advices against going through the south path. Elrond chooses it anyway, since he doent the trust the ring. Getting there, they are confronted by the Undead, and Galadriel's fear is confirmed. But are they truly terrible? Can't they face it? At first it seems like it. They are unkillable. So what is gonna happen? Will everyone but Elrond and Galadriel die? Will Elrond or Galadriel be mortally wounded? Will this make Elrond rethink about his trust in Galadriel, as she was right this time? So what happens is thar one undead kills one of the elves. Then 20 undead appear. The elves cant kill them, but then Elrond recalls a way to do it, and then they just destroy all the undead one by one. And it seemed really easy. And the big consequence is that one of the elite elves died. Might seem like a big deal, but is not impactful at all. The audience doesnt even know the elf's name, he was just introduced, how can we care? Not even his teamates seemed to care all. And the whole situation was so easily solved after that, i wonder if it really was that much of a trouble going that path Galadriel adviced against.
I will tell you something that really annoyed me with that episode. Elrond was specific in the roles of the elves he wanted to accompany them. Why? what did these elves and their specific roles offer in the journey? They just bring up stuffs to make it look serious and calculated but, in the end, none of these elves and their roles mattered. This show really annoys and frustrates me.
I never watched past episode 1 of season 1. How Galadriel was portrayed was just too terrible for me. I only seen reviews and criticisms to see if it improved. Nope. After some thought, I think I figured a good way to describe Galadriel in Rings of Power. Orc-like. She lets her friends get beaten, she fights and threatens allies, she asserts her position with screaming and yelling. She’s like an orc chieftain, nothing like a true leader as Tolkien writes. Actually, does anyone willingly follow her, like 100% have her back? First scene is her soldier’s mutinying, after she let the troll beat them bloody.
The guy getting randomly one shot by an arrow as his team of crack warriors turns away from him to look is fucking hilarious. The elves were so one with the forest that they could seemingly appear from midair in LotR. Yet here they cant hear or see a rowdy hunting party, until one of them gets accidentally shot? Seems Bezos Bucks cant buy good writing.
These side by sides really show just how lacking the Amazon fan fiction really is. There was so much love and detail that went into the movie trilogy to where it never feels like you're watching a movie. Where as in Jeff Bozo's Money Pit everything just has this layer of cheapness and disinterest to it. The designs of the world and the characters look like they were made by a group of larpers on a shoe string budget but the character are portrayed without the passion a dedicated larper would give it.
If you think Tolkien would turn in his grave over TROP, you have to also admit he would do the same for the Peter Jackson's LOTR's trilogy. For some reason people are just on a mission to tear the show to threads.
@@TangoNevada The Jackson films were great movies that needed to make some changes in adaptation. ROP is just awful storytelling. Tolkien knew the difference, and so should you.
@@barrannugrahakodri8695 Shill opinion? Come on. You can do better than that. How exactly am I a Shill and who is paying me to be one? Or do you just like inflammatory comments?
Love the scene comparisons - I rewatch them in fact. Whether intended this way or not I find them an excellent way to learn, seeing a good example against a bad. The structure of presentation into analysis helps too. I can even see a hoodie / t-shirt / mug in the future: "But why is it well written?" I don't know, maybe :)
It is funny because anytime I see posts anywhere online pointing out the terrible writing of The Rings of Power; the goblins that defend ROP come scurrying along and say "well, the Lord of the Rings films did not completely follow the books and you love them, don't you?" as if that somehow doesn't point out to the fact that if LoTR was badly written, people would dislike that also 😂
The fact is that Peter Jackson adapted 95% of the source material and made up about 5% of the movies to make them 'work' (No book can be adapted perfectly faithfully for a ton of reasons) Amazon adapted 5% of the source material (the names, the ... rings.... Orcs I guesss) and made up 95% of the rest. But not only that. What they made up is garbage and written like shit. They have like 1/20th of the audience Got had.
@@Stephen64138 It's not just that they made up most of it. It's that what they made up completely destroys fcking everything about the world building and the existing characters, and makes a mockery of Tolkien's work
That may be so, that Frodo was "useless" in this scene and that Glorfindel was actually here instead of Arwen... ...but you gotta remember Peter Jackson and co. saw the whole script and the whole three movies by their timeline and constraints. I think this was a good choice despite it because it ties everything together throughout the movie series. THE MOVIE SERIES. It's more than just "oh, this needs to be truthful to the books". It's about the whole picture that Jackson and co. saw and had to make work in the favor of the limits and restraints of a MOVIE. I truly understand why, as a book fan myself, why the movies aren't 100% truthful. Imagine if it had been a TV series; can you imagine how AMAZING it would have been in Jackson and co.'s hands back then?? RoP, however, is NOT a movie series. It's a TV series. It is atrocious, ugly, asinine, and insulting as not only a TV show, an adaptation, and as anything remotely related to Tolkien's work, but it made changes that don't make sense throughout its runtime-and let's not even talk about their own lil' fanfic world, the creators' obscene hubris, or the things that pull you out of Arda. It's just....you literally cannot compare the two, LOTR and RoP, when they are two different mediums, for one, made for two different reasons, for two (one being an as-faithful-as-POSSIBLE-considering-the-challenges adaptation and the other being a soulless, nonsensical "DEI" cash grab), and have two completely different mentalities in their make. I really do get why diehard Tolkien fans may (not always) be disappointed in anything Tolkien that's been adapted in the past 40, 50 years because none of them are truly faithful, including the LOTR movies. But there's a difference, I think, between "being faithful scene-for-scene", which is nearly impossible (especially, again, as a movie) and carrying the FEEL of faithfulness, as is what Jackson and co. did. Spiritual faithfulness, so to speak. My favorite book of the trilogy is Two Towers, so I was anxious when the movie came out. But I was blown away by how incredibly moving and true the story, the world, the acting, the sounds, the music, the sets, the FEEL of it all was. It FELT like something Tolkien may have approved of despite everything that was different. It FELT like I was in a new world. It FELT like it was, and was documented TO have been, made with love and care. Sacrifices had to be made, but they managed it and captured it beautifully. Epicly. Sincerely. And timelessly! Rings of Power?? The FUCK outta here. It feels soulless, even down the music and sounds! Listen to the Balrog for instance. One sounds like a furnace, a monster furnace come to life, and the other sounds like...a generic monster roar. Bleh. No imagination. No innovation. Newbie 15-year-old writers can make a better fanfic and be more truthful than this POS. I'm tired of people not understanding, even after all this time, why TLOTR works and RoP doesn't. Gotta remember, first and foremost, they are two different mediums with different constraints. Sheesh. Get over yourselves, die-hards. You're embarrassing us. 😔 Thank you for this amazing video, Jedi!! I agree 1000000% percent.
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good. -J.R.R. tolkien edit: i know this is not actual tolkien qoute sorry.
It was always a bad idea to take an otherworldly and mysteriously powerful character like this and dump her into the muck, remove the magic, and make her a stone-faced swashbuckler. They would've been much wiser to reserve her the way she was in the books and Peter Jackson movies, and maybe utilize her in specific moments, like creating a mist to hide an army or show up to magically send something like the proto-Ringwraiths packing.
I find it hilarious that the writers of rings of power try so hard to diminish every male character and make their galadrrrrrrriel a girlboss slay queen and in doing so strip her of maybe her greatest achievement in the lore only to give that very same achievement to elrond, a man. In the lore Galadriel was the only one that Sauron could never deceive. In rings of power galadrrrrriel is the first one to be deceived by sauron.
That's what makes no sense to me. In the actual lore that Tolkien wrote, Galadriel was the first elf to say there was something wrong with Annatar and told the others not to trust him. Gil-Galad and Elrond heeded that warning and would not let him enter Lindon. This should be the easiest thing in the world to write, you just have her not have a good feeling about him even though everyone else in Eregion loves him, and away you go. Why they changed it is beyond me.
@@pittland44 I suspect that they thought this type of empathetic power is too feminine. And in the minds of many of these hollywood type feminists a "strong women" is a women that is stripped of all feminin traits and has them replaced by masculin traits. It's kind of ironic how they seem to view classical feminine traits as inherinitly inferior to classical masculine traits.
@@Jamespwickstromw because Netflix is known to change white characters in Movies and series to other ethnicity’s all the Lord of the Rings movies every character was white fast forward 15 years and the main character is a black man with a crisp line up then if you point it out everyone starts calling you a racist
Even though the Weathertop/Arwen at the river scenes were outside the canon/lore, they did well to adapt the story to screen. Introducing Glorfindel as well as Tom Bombadil would’ve complicated the films. The tv show not only needlessly fills out the cast but adds more non-canonical characters and non-canonical and mostly unpleasant additional characteristics of existing characters. In the end none of the main characters are likable and there are too many of them. The show feels like a giant frat/sorority party that the audience feels like we’re the only ones not invited.
No they didn't. Frodo is butchered at Weathertop and the Ford of Bruinen; he's stripped off his courage, resilience and inner strength. Of course, Peter Jackson had contempt for Tolkien's story and characters. The Hobbits couldn't be the heroes, so he degraded the Hobbits, Frodo in particular, in favour of Aragorn (who he also butchered).
@@reek4062 Bro, if you are so convicted, then answer why PJ cutted off Sauron in the final fight and substituted him by an ogre when all was already filmed?
They could have been better if they stuck with Celebrimbor and Annatar being the primary focus instead of Galadriel. I mean from the very beginning and not season 2. Halbrand should not have existed as a Sauron disguise. Really, they would have been better off following the canon in the Unfinished Tales/Silmarillion. It’s more heartbreaking though. :/
I was so excited when I got your new video notification! I love your comparisons because you really pick some great scenes highlight how the themes, characters, relationships etc. make them so wonderful. Your scene breakdowns are succinct and to the point. 👌 If I still took Film Studies I'd totally share your channel with my old professor so we can watch your videos in class. 😂 Hope you've been well Jedi Brooks! 🌞
TH-cam displays only a few hundred views when any video first drops. Even on channels with millions of subscribers, it's just how their servers "work".
This was a great video like always! The way you speak and present your analysis is really unique which makes me wonder why your channel doesn’t have way more subscribers. Also, could you maybe make a Video to John wick?
Another fascinating thing about Arwen‘s portrayal in this scene is that it’s a change from the source material. In the book Frodo is riding alone! But Jackson wisely gave Arwen more of a role in the story. Changing the source material with good writing, she becomes one of the best characters in the trilogy! Unlike Guyladriel. Just because you change the source material that doesn’t make it bad, in fact it can be BETTER! You just need to do so in a way that makes sense. Where have all the good writers gone? “How did it come to this?”
Adding extra Arwen to the films gave the audience the ability to see the weight Aragorn carried with his part in the war against the Ring, and the blending of their personal short story into the films just built the characterizations that much better. So the audience is respected as is Arwen rather than just be the pretty chick who's just there for eyecandy, she hones in Aragorn's reason for fighting so hard, helps him and supports him as a partner should in a relationship and in turn his qualities is why Arwen likes him in return as he fights for THEIR future together.
Glad you're doing a part 4 of this series and sparing me from ever watching that monstrosity. Also, if I may so humbly request, could you do an episode less focused on action scenes and more on the dialogues and subtleties of the acting in both shows? You have of course already touched on some of it, but an in-depth analysis would be really welcome.
I have loved TLOTR since coming across it only days before Tolkien died. I was most impressed with Jackson’s adaptation, we all had to accept some episodes would have to be left out. This recent debacle has left me apoplectic. I really thought it must be me during the first season. I tried three times to make sense out of it. To no avail. DEI multi-racial proto-Hobbits wearing harvest festival headgear. Pushing a shite cart Mother Courage would have pissed her pants at. I’m going to have to stop before I either spout more obscenities, have an aneurysm or both and then some. What a sinful waste of money. Lucas read Hero With a Thousand Faces and created Star Wars ( also now fucked-up proper) The Rings cohort read Wanking For Dummies - written in fist-held crayons. Christ! I need a drink. Of paraquat! 🐝 John Kennedy. UK
Tolkien's masterpiece will never be matched or surpassed especially not by Amazon for his legacy is protected by the massive fandom that he and his son(Christopher) inherited.
We are now 14 episodes into the series--- that is over 14 effing hours of content. Think about that...The entire LOTR extended series is less than 12 hours long, and think about the magnificent journey that unfolds in that time, for dozens of characters. It is criminal how wasteful the screen time is spent on this show. Instead of telling a story and taking us on an adventure, we are forced to watch pointless slow-motion drivel and arguments. They have all of Middle Earth to explore, and they choose to waste screentime on people like Isildur's dumb friend getting stabbed (that was only 1 episode ago, and already everyone has forgotten about it, and his death had zero consequence. It was just a cheap "emotional" moment, as if we are supposed to care that he's gone. Oh no, what will we ever do without... hmm... what was his name again? I mean he was so talented at... hmm.. well... he helped Numenor do... hmm... okay maybe he didn't really do anything....but you're supposed to care dammit!). Okay let's cut back to another scene of Durin and his dad bitching at eachother for the 14th hour straight jfc. Or how about Celebrimbor still not knowing that "Halbrand is Sauron" despite being 6 episodes into the season after Galadriel found out? So, Durin can just teleport to and from Eregion multiple times per episode, but Galadriel and her motley crew can't get the message to Eregion within 6 episodes worth of time? TF?? I'm cheering for Sauron at this point. If everyone in Middle earth is this incompetent and gullible they deserved to be enslaved by the darkness. Also why should I care if Numenor has a threat of an impending flood when everyone on that island is a bland insufferable clown (also the sea is always right, so shouldn't they proudly accept that fate?)
PLEASE address Isildur's horse (Berek) saving Isildur, traveling a crazy distance, and beating up spiders. That scene was so stupid Idk why the horse had to become a main character, maybe we'll get a little dumb side story with Berek's adventures too. Love your ROP vids, watch them with my family. Great jokes and humor.
Despite being non canon Eltariel is a better person than Galadriel because like Gal she’s full of herself and cocky but she isn’t perfect her greed overtakes her in the end as she takes the ring offered to her but she doesn’t do it for no reason she believes that the power of Gal and the ring will destroy Sauron but it doesn’t work and unlike Gal she ACTUALLY HELPS PEOPLE she rescues Talion from the wraiths she is an ally and helps him destroy multiple wraiths and orc captains (this is all from shadow of war in case you don’t know what I’m referring to)
Well, LOTR made Galandriel seem mystic, great, amazing, powerfull and so on and on. Even The Hobbit did it so, in their own way. Meanwhile here, they make her look annoying, insufferable, and too arrogant and narcissistic. Something I wouldn't expect from a great wise elf, that was amazingly portraid in LOTR. Basically, from a great amazing character, they turned her into one I don't even wanna look at. PS: Also, where is the mysticism of the wise elfs, that make them seem like otherwordly angels on earth. Here they seem like random humans with pointy ears.
@@BehuraStudio What a joke. The elder races being worse than humans. Glad I didn't bother watching that series, saw MANY videos about it, and overall not worth it. All I will get is rage from it. Sad, cause I had HIGH hopes for it, when it was first announced. Same with The Witcher, so many hopes, since I loved the books and games. Then saw the series, and only saving grace was Cavill. Gave up on S2. Not touching it again.
You should do commentary on their segments after the show where the producers & directors all pat themselves on the back for how much they girl bossed slay queened that week
I watched a video essay about how Amazon only created Rings of Power as a big advertisement for Amazon to get people buying on their website, and to me it all makes total sense now. He said that's why they didn't hire high-end actors or writers b/c they didn't need to. It just needed to look good enough in a trailer to reel people in and then they get hooked on other things. So sad we couldn't get an actual quality product. :(
If the creators/scriptwiters/producers wants viewers believing that guyladriel is so powerful, then the whole premise of the fellowship of the ring is pointless. She could have easily gone into war through the trilogy, waging war against the orcs and goblins in each and every conflict. The flaming eye dude has no response to her unilateral strength and powers
Much respect for actually watching Rings of power. Incredibly boring and mundane, no respect for any characters with no team work, plot armour, poorly written, a pathetic Gandalf Saruman Sam and Frodo and not to mention its pitch black for like every action shot. I struggled to watch ep 1 and wont bother watching the rest.
I just find it funny that the show is explicit in showing that their awesome girlboss Galadrrrriel who don't need no stinky men is the one who doomed Middle Earth for the next Age.
Man I love these comparisons you are msking. Another thing besides the writing and casting is the actors themselves. They insulted Tolkien and his works alongside the writers. A book, a story is a life with its own universe, begginings and ends. When you write you must cherish character, lores, histories and locations. And everyone involved in RoP proved they do not love the real characters or read a single word of Tolkien in their lives. May I ask you to compare Celebrimbor with what the source material and Shadow of War portrayed him? I really want more people to see the potential the writes had with only one character and got it ruined.
Rings of Prime was written by women and as such, they don't know nor understand how guy stuff works, hence the reason they fail so poorly at writing guy stuff and that's even putting aside their total and utter dismissal of all of the lore and having made her a Mary Sue.
It's so insulting to Tolkien's Galadriel that she was manipulated by Sauron, when she was named the only one who did not trust Annatar when he came to Eregion.
Season 1 was really bad, will never watch it ever again. This season is an "improvement", but it's still boring, the Harfoots still suck, the Numenor stuff is still vapid and bad and over acted, the Tom Bombadil stuff makes zero sense. I'm watching this show for 3 reasons at this point: I wanna see Numenor be destroyed, which I have no idea how that's going to happen since in the books they try to sail to the Undying Lands, but there is no reason for them to in the show. Two, I wanna see Eregion be destroyed. Three, I'm just waiting for the Balrog to raze Khazadum. It's 2 seasons of waiting for significant things to happen instead of watching Harfoot/Numenor filler.
There is literal fanfiction better-written than The Rings of Power.
I bet there is better written pron of lotr than Rop is 😆
Just as star wars acolyte😂
Pretty sure this is some pre-teen's cruddy fanfiction, they just happen to be buddies or a relative of an Amazon executive.
It helps that they were actually written by fans of LotR.
What? it was actually written? I thought they just slammed on the keyboard and wrote random letters.
Oh, but there is so much worse than this. "The Fellowship of the King" by 'Demetrious Polychron' is so bad it cannot even manage unintentional comedy. You have not read what I have read.
May I also say, as a horseback rider, the DIFFICULTY of riding like that when trying to save Frodo, means they went to the difficulty of hiring an expert double.
They did; her name is Jane Abbott. I believe she did all of the actual horseback riding in the chase scene; Liv did closeups on a horse dummy mounted on a vehicle. Much safer.
@@nuranarViggo (Aragorn) bought the horse Jane rode because she fell in love with the horse.
I saw a comment from a ROP defender who said we shouldn’t expect ROP to be as good as the Jackson films and my response is why shouldn’t we? It’s easy to forget but Peter Jackson and the cast and crew worked incredibly hard to make those movies what they were. Technology wasn’t as sophisticated as it is now and yet they came up with all these creative techniques, bigatures, props etc. to make Middle Earth real. When paired with stellar writing, the rest was history.
Yet this sad sack of a series can’t even bother to properly light a nighttime scene yet alone have any depth with its characters. Seriously, it’s insulting this series cost so much and is handled to two showrunners to make Dan and Dave from Game of Thrones look better. At least those two could adapt material decently.
Somehow Hollywood is creatively bankrupt that they making dumpster fire out of hundred millions.
Because Jackson's LotR was lightning in a bottle, as the saying goes. All the ingredients came together, often by accident, to produce this masterwork. Even Jackson could not duplicate the feat in the Hobbit films-not even close. Few people expected TRoP to be anywhere near as good as Jackson's films. But even those with reduced expectations have been sorely disappointed for the most part.
Peter Jackson showed contempt for the book. The props, miniatures and cgi of those films are great, but the writing is terrible.
I didn't expect Rings of Power to be as good as Peter Jackson's LoTR trilogy but I also wasn't expecting "dark" elves with modern "from the hood" hair-cuts.
"You shouldn't wait for it to be as good as one of the films"
He just straight up implied that they can't make something half as good with more money than the WHOLE TRILOGY in ONE FUCKING SEASON
Edit: Also, isn't like we waited that much, we just waited for them have any MINIMAL CAPABILITY AND BE MID, respecting the OWN RULES AND FONTS
"Girl Frodo, girl Sam, Saruman the brown, totally not Gandalf and Sauron the sack of shit" BRAVO 😂😂😂
LOL!!
Dude nothing about the rings of power show has any fucking weight to it. It's all hollow and vapid. Not a single scene has any narrative theme or overarching emotions it's just so flat with scenes happening
The best part about the _Lord of the Rings_ scene is that in the book, Arwen wasn’t in it at all. Instead, it’s a male elf named Glorfindel. Despite that, Peter Jackson & co. found a way to introduce Arwen earlier in the story, in a way that felt organic and didn’t detract from any of the other characters. I doubt Tolkien would have approved, but it’s a far better adaptational choice than anything the _Rings of Power_ idiots are capable of.
Sigh. PJ used Arwen literally at the detriment of Frodo. In the book at the Ford of Bruinen Frodo defied the Nine, refusing their summons: the fact that he was able to defy them on his own, while being severely injured for two weeks, showed his resilience. Jackson's Frodo however is near-unconscious and worthless, and his Arwen says a stupid one-liner.
But Arwen does appear in the books. She just doesn’t take big part in the story but it is a meaningful part
@@reek4062 That sounds absolutely riveting and I so wish I read books.
@@reek4062in the movie isnt it stated that It has been days since Frodo was stabbed when Arwen arrives? If my memory is true then that solidifies his resilience to the wound.
Showing the passage of time when adapting words to a screen is incredibly difficult, and PJ did an extremely good job at it throughout the series.
When you looks at RoP, the passage of time is shown very poorly
@@Dayman98 Some people really don't understand the difference one various types of storytelling methods. That's why most people are complaining about Arwen saving Frodo.
In Lord of the rings, Galadriel didnt need armour or to act like a toxic man. She was feminine and just her presence was so powerful the entire fellowship, grown men,were quiet and bowed their heads down. She didnt need to start naming her titles or punch holes into a wall or be condescending jerk. A very feminine female character was the most powerful character in the movie. If thats patriarchal to woke people, then they must be crazy.
Btw. Thank you for another video. I love these comparisions.
Beautiful and terrible. Honestly her monologue is up there with my favourite moments in the trilogy
''A very feminine female character''
Tolkien gave her the name Nerwen (= man-maiden) and described her as of Amazonian disposition.
Cate Blanchett's portrayal perfectly captures the kind of woman who leaves men speechless and fumbling when she enters a room. All men know that feeling, and it's one of respect and admiration. Men are, however, absolutely incapable of taking seriously a woman like this iteration of Galadriel by the actress whose name I frankly couldn't care enough about to look up.
In the Lord of The Rings movies Galadriel is the most powerful being on Middle Earth, she can project her power at great distance, unlike the limited AoE wizard Gandalf.
@@reek4062 she was still very feminine. Being strong and tall like a man, doesn't make a woman unfeminine.
The logic of: we must warn celebrimbor that halbrand is sauron as fast as possible so we go on foot
I also compared this scene with another one in LOTR, when thinking about choices and consequences for the plot.
In LOTR Gandalf is fearful of going through Moria and advices against it. Getting there, they are confronted by the Balrog, and Gandalf's fear is confirmed. Gandalf was fearing something truly terrible, something the Fellowship could not fight, and he sacrifices himself to save the team, and they flee. So going through Moria had a real and IMPACTFUL consequence.
In ROP, when Elrond and Galadriel are going to Eregion, they find that broke bridge. Galadriel advices against going through the south path. Elrond chooses it anyway, since he doent the trust the ring. Getting there, they are confronted by the Undead, and Galadriel's fear is confirmed. But are they truly terrible? Can't they face it? At first it seems like it. They are unkillable. So what is gonna happen? Will everyone but Elrond and Galadriel die? Will Elrond or Galadriel be mortally wounded? Will this make Elrond rethink about his trust in Galadriel, as she was right this time? So what happens is thar one undead kills one of the elves. Then 20 undead appear. The elves cant kill them, but then Elrond recalls a way to do it, and then they just destroy all the undead one by one. And it seemed really easy. And the big consequence is that one of the elite elves died. Might seem like a big deal, but is not impactful at all. The audience doesnt even know the elf's name, he was just introduced, how can we care? Not even his teamates seemed to care all. And the whole situation was so easily solved after that, i wonder if it really was that much of a trouble going that path Galadriel adviced against.
I will tell you something that really annoyed me with that episode. Elrond was specific in the roles of the elves he wanted to accompany them. Why? what did these elves and their specific roles offer in the journey? They just bring up stuffs to make it look serious and calculated but, in the end, none of these elves and their roles mattered. This show really annoys and frustrates me.
Totally agree. That one Elf should have worn a red shirt.
I never watched past episode 1 of season 1. How Galadriel was portrayed was just too terrible for me. I only seen reviews and criticisms to see if it improved. Nope.
After some thought, I think I figured a good way to describe Galadriel in Rings of Power. Orc-like. She lets her friends get beaten, she fights and threatens allies, she asserts her position with screaming and yelling. She’s like an orc chieftain, nothing like a true leader as Tolkien writes. Actually, does anyone willingly follow her, like 100% have her back? First scene is her soldier’s mutinying, after she let the troll beat them bloody.
I should have done what you did. Each S1 episode was even worst than the Previous one. At least I didn't watch season 2.
That horse chase was probably the only chase that captured the adrenaline of a car chase
Masterful
Damn, so she got force healing too now. Learned that from Rey Palpatine. Writers ripping off not only lotr movies but star wars sequels too
Lol oh god, if you are ripping off the star wars sequels you know you dun fucked up
@@fatalshore5068 😂😂😂
The guy getting randomly one shot by an arrow as his team of crack warriors turns away from him to look is fucking hilarious. The elves were so one with the forest that they could seemingly appear from midair in LotR. Yet here they cant hear or see a rowdy hunting party, until one of them gets accidentally shot? Seems Bezos Bucks cant buy good writing.
The idea of a successful show without putting in the effort or passion is Bezos “One Ring”
I've never clicked on a video this quick. I'm addicted to these scene comparison. I find you very observant and eloquent in your critique.
These side by sides really show just how lacking the Amazon fan fiction really is. There was so much love and detail that went into the movie trilogy to where it never feels like you're watching a movie. Where as in Jeff Bozo's Money Pit everything just has this layer of cheapness and disinterest to it. The designs of the world and the characters look like they were made by a group of larpers on a shoe string budget but the character are portrayed without the passion a dedicated larper would give it.
If you think Tolkien would turn in his grave over TROP, you have to also admit he would do the same for the Peter Jackson's LOTR's trilogy. For some reason people are just on a mission to tear the show to threads.
@@TangoNevada The Jackson films were great movies that needed to make some changes in adaptation. ROP is just awful storytelling. Tolkien knew the difference, and so should you.
@@TangoNevadashil opinion, sure.
@@barrannugrahakodri8695 Well how could anyone argue with that opinion.? I mean it's so rock solid. Maybe you just have a stupid opinion.
@@barrannugrahakodri8695 Shill opinion? Come on. You can do better than that. How exactly am I a Shill and who is paying me to be one? Or do you just like inflammatory comments?
Love the scene comparisons - I rewatch them in fact. Whether intended this way or not I find them an excellent way to learn, seeing a good example against a bad. The structure of presentation into analysis helps too. I can even see a hoodie / t-shirt / mug in the future: "But why is it well written?" I don't know, maybe :)
0:34 Old Isildur and Young Isildur are oceans apart. ;-)
So glad I'm not watching this dumpster fire, keeping my memories of the movies uncorrupted
The movies themselves are corrupted
Don’t worry about that. The two are so far apart that my love for the movies was unaffected. If anything the show made me love the films even more.
It is funny because anytime I see posts anywhere online pointing out the terrible writing of The Rings of Power; the goblins that defend ROP come scurrying along and say "well, the Lord of the Rings films did not completely follow the books and you love them, don't you?" as if that somehow doesn't point out to the fact that if LoTR was badly written, people would dislike that also 😂
Read that again but slowly
The fact is that Peter Jackson adapted 95% of the source material and made up about 5% of the movies to make them 'work' (No book can be adapted perfectly faithfully for a ton of reasons)
Amazon adapted 5% of the source material (the names, the ... rings.... Orcs I guesss) and made up 95% of the rest.
But not only that. What they made up is garbage and written like shit. They have like 1/20th of the audience Got had.
The PJ movies are badly written and regularly disregarded the books. But most people are movie-only fans and therefore have no standards.
@@reek4062 Blocked.
Persist in mistake if you want. I won't engage in it little piece of.
@@Stephen64138 It's not just that they made up most of it. It's that what they made up completely destroys fcking everything about the world building and the existing characters, and makes a mockery of Tolkien's work
That may be so, that Frodo was "useless" in this scene and that Glorfindel was actually here instead of Arwen...
...but you gotta remember Peter Jackson and co. saw the whole script and the whole three movies by their timeline and constraints. I think this was a good choice despite it because it ties everything together throughout the movie series. THE MOVIE SERIES. It's more than just "oh, this needs to be truthful to the books". It's about the whole picture that Jackson and co. saw and had to make work in the favor of the limits and restraints of a MOVIE. I truly understand why, as a book fan myself, why the movies aren't 100% truthful. Imagine if it had been a TV series; can you imagine how AMAZING it would have been in Jackson and co.'s hands back then??
RoP, however, is NOT a movie series. It's a TV series. It is atrocious, ugly, asinine, and insulting as not only a TV show, an adaptation, and as anything remotely related to Tolkien's work, but it made changes that don't make sense throughout its runtime-and let's not even talk about their own lil' fanfic world, the creators' obscene hubris, or the things that pull you out of Arda. It's just....you literally cannot compare the two, LOTR and RoP, when they are two different mediums, for one, made for two different reasons, for two (one being an as-faithful-as-POSSIBLE-considering-the-challenges adaptation and the other being a soulless, nonsensical "DEI" cash grab), and have two completely different mentalities in their make.
I really do get why diehard Tolkien fans may (not always) be disappointed in anything Tolkien that's been adapted in the past 40, 50 years because none of them are truly faithful, including the LOTR movies. But there's a difference, I think, between "being faithful scene-for-scene", which is nearly impossible (especially, again, as a movie) and carrying the FEEL of faithfulness, as is what Jackson and co. did. Spiritual faithfulness, so to speak.
My favorite book of the trilogy is Two Towers, so I was anxious when the movie came out. But I was blown away by how incredibly moving and true the story, the world, the acting, the sounds, the music, the sets, the FEEL of it all was. It FELT like something Tolkien may have approved of despite everything that was different. It FELT like I was in a new world. It FELT like it was, and was documented TO have been, made with love and care. Sacrifices had to be made, but they managed it and captured it beautifully. Epicly. Sincerely. And timelessly!
Rings of Power?? The FUCK outta here. It feels soulless, even down the music and sounds! Listen to the Balrog for instance. One sounds like a furnace, a monster furnace come to life, and the other sounds like...a generic monster roar. Bleh. No imagination. No innovation. Newbie 15-year-old writers can make a better fanfic and be more truthful than this POS.
I'm tired of people not understanding, even after all this time, why TLOTR works and RoP doesn't. Gotta remember, first and foremost, they are two different mediums with different constraints.
Sheesh. Get over yourselves, die-hards. You're embarrassing us. 😔
Thank you for this amazing video, Jedi!! I agree 1000000% percent.
Beautifully said 💯👏👏👏
"They were once men"
This shows more foul than Bill Fernys front porch
"Putting the black elf in chains for a second season in a row" holy hell lol @7:06
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.
-J.R.R. tolkien
edit: i know this is not actual tolkien qoute sorry.
Commenters cannot say anything new; they can only use the same spurious Tolkien misquote over and over.
Jackson fans cannot quote Tolkien; they can only use fake quotes from tvtropes.
@@majkus True. That's a C.S. Lewis quote fyi
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Jackson fans cannot quote Tolkien correctly, they can only use distorted quotes from tvtropes.
I'm at work and clearly have to take a break as a new Jedi Brooks video finally dropped.
It was always a bad idea to take an otherworldly and mysteriously powerful character like this and dump her into the muck, remove the magic, and make her a stone-faced swashbuckler. They would've been much wiser to reserve her the way she was in the books and Peter Jackson movies, and maybe utilize her in specific moments, like creating a mist to hide an army or show up to magically send something like the proto-Ringwraiths packing.
I find it hilarious that the writers of rings of power try so hard to diminish every male character and make their galadrrrrrrriel a girlboss slay queen and in doing so strip her of maybe her greatest achievement in the lore only to give that very same achievement to elrond, a man. In the lore Galadriel was the only one that Sauron could never deceive. In rings of power galadrrrrriel is the first one to be deceived by sauron.
That's what makes no sense to me. In the actual lore that Tolkien wrote, Galadriel was the first elf to say there was something wrong with Annatar and told the others not to trust him. Gil-Galad and Elrond heeded that warning and would not let him enter Lindon. This should be the easiest thing in the world to write, you just have her not have a good feeling about him even though everyone else in Eregion loves him, and away you go. Why they changed it is beyond me.
@@pittland44 I suspect that they thought this type of empathetic power is too feminine. And in the minds of many of these hollywood type feminists a "strong women" is a women that is stripped of all feminin traits and has them replaced by masculin traits. It's kind of ironic how they seem to view classical feminine traits as inherinitly inferior to classical masculine traits.
lol oops
Saying this show sucks is the understatement of the century
“Elite squad of Elvon Warriors” 2 white guys and Asian women and a Black man boy they checked the Diversity list off all at once😂😂😂
how... elven...
@@Jamespwickstromw because Netflix is known to change white characters in Movies and series to other ethnicity’s all the Lord of the Rings movies every character was white fast forward 15 years and the main character is a black man with a crisp line up then if you point it out everyone starts calling you a racist
@@dannyo.5540 well seeing asian and black elves just makes it look like a parody
Why can't anyone see that it's made bad on purpose? They are TRYING to ruin the lore of Tolkien.
Good thing I'm stubborn and won't let this adaptation ruin my love for Tolkien's work.
@@RoseBaggins Spoken as a true Baggins!🏆
tolkien is rotating in his grave faster than earth's roatation around the sun
"Give up the halfling she Elf"...that scene sent shivers down my spine...a faceless enemy stares into the camera
Even though the Weathertop/Arwen at the river scenes were outside the canon/lore, they did well to adapt the story to screen.
Introducing Glorfindel as well as Tom Bombadil would’ve complicated the films.
The tv show not only needlessly fills out the cast but adds more non-canonical characters and non-canonical and mostly unpleasant additional characteristics of existing characters.
In the end none of the main characters are likable and there are too many of them. The show feels like a giant frat/sorority party that the audience feels like we’re the only ones not invited.
No they didn't. Frodo is butchered at Weathertop and the Ford of Bruinen; he's stripped off his courage, resilience and inner strength.
Of course, Peter Jackson had contempt for Tolkien's story and characters. The Hobbits couldn't be the heroes, so he degraded the Hobbits, Frodo in particular, in favour of Aragorn (who he also butchered).
@@reek4062 Bro, wtf, have you WATCHED the movies? The Hobbits WERE THE HEROES AND STILL ARE
@@CanetaErrante No they aren't. PJ treated them like idiot children, and constantly focused on his idol Aragorn.
@@reek4062 Bro, if you are so convicted, then answer why PJ cutted off Sauron in the final fight and substituted him by an ogre when all was already filmed?
@@CanetaErrante that’s not on the internet approved list of gripes against Jackson, so he’s not gonna have an answer for you
They could have been better if they stuck with Celebrimbor and Annatar being the primary focus instead of Galadriel. I mean from the very beginning and not season 2. Halbrand should not have existed as a Sauron disguise. Really, they would have been better off following the canon in the Unfinished Tales/Silmarillion. It’s more heartbreaking though. :/
Looking forward to Part 5. Good videos. Keep up the good work
I was so excited when I got your new video notification! I love your comparisons because you really pick some great scenes highlight how the themes, characters, relationships etc. make them so wonderful. Your scene breakdowns are succinct and to the point. 👌 If I still took Film Studies I'd totally share your channel with my old professor so we can watch your videos in class. 😂 Hope you've been well Jedi Brooks! 🌞
299 views after 24 min? Your channel is much better than that, TH-cam sucks. Keep up the good work Jedi.
TH-cam displays only a few hundred views when any video first drops. Even on channels with millions of subscribers, it's just how their servers "work".
@@ryanrussell6954 that is bullshit
Elves are so difficult to turn into effective protagonists. Their ethereal nature works better when they are used sparingly
agreeddddd
What a disaster of a TV show. The scene comparisons are a great way to highlight the idiocy. Thank you!
Guyladriel is the highest travesty. Never has a character been portayed so poorly
It would be funny to see a group of 9 tall wraiths and single midget wraith.
Whenever a new season comes out I get hyped to watch the extended editions again lol.
Damn I love these videos thank you for doing another one
This was a great video like always! The way you speak and present your analysis is really unique which makes me wonder why your channel doesn’t have way more subscribers. Also, could you maybe make a Video to John wick?
Why do I have the strange feeling we'll need Jedi Brooks to do scene comparisons for War of the Rohirrim....
We may, we may ...
Omg PLEASE keep making these videos. They’re so entertaining 😂.
Another fascinating thing about Arwen‘s portrayal in this scene is that it’s a change from the source material. In the book Frodo is riding alone! But Jackson wisely gave Arwen more of a role in the story. Changing the source material with good writing, she becomes one of the best characters in the trilogy! Unlike Guyladriel. Just because you change the source material that doesn’t make it bad, in fact it can be BETTER! You just need to do so in a way that makes sense. Where have all the good writers gone? “How did it come to this?”
Adding extra Arwen to the films gave the audience the ability to see the weight Aragorn carried with his part in the war against the Ring, and the blending of their personal short story into the films just built the characterizations that much better.
So the audience is respected as is Arwen rather than just be the pretty chick who's just there for eyecandy, she hones in Aragorn's reason for fighting so hard, helps him and supports him as a partner should in a relationship and in turn his qualities is why Arwen likes him in return as he fights for THEIR future together.
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
Imagine if the knights of Ren were portrayed like the Nine in Disney’s sequel trilogy instead of lame extras.
That's what I was thinking about those guys.
I had really missed the scene comparisons🔥🔥
Galadriel being shown building hills of the helmets of the slain is the perfect display of a most insane control freak.
Babe wake up Jedi brooks posted another RoP comparison
I love when you called Guy-ladriel a "Miserable Munchkin." LOL!
Glad you're doing a part 4 of this series and sparing me from ever watching that monstrosity.
Also, if I may so humbly request, could you do an episode less focused on action scenes and more on the dialogues and subtleties of the acting in both shows? You have of course already touched on some of it, but an in-depth analysis would be really welcome.
I always get chills when you show parts of the fellowship and feel nothing when you show TROP.
I have loved TLOTR since coming across it only days before Tolkien died. I was most impressed with Jackson’s adaptation, we all had to accept some episodes would have to be left out. This recent debacle has left me apoplectic. I really thought it must be me during the first season. I tried three times to make sense out of it. To no avail. DEI multi-racial proto-Hobbits wearing harvest festival headgear. Pushing a shite cart Mother Courage would have pissed her pants at. I’m going to have to stop before I either spout more obscenities, have an aneurysm or both and then some. What a sinful waste of money. Lucas read Hero With a Thousand Faces and created Star Wars ( also now fucked-up proper) The Rings cohort read Wanking For Dummies - written in fist-held crayons. Christ! I need a drink. Of paraquat! 🐝 John Kennedy. UK
The elf dying in the battle scene at the beginning cracks me up every time
And here I was just hoping for another scene comparison to be made. This is gonna be good.
Tolkien's masterpiece will never be matched or surpassed especially not by Amazon for his legacy is protected by the massive fandom that he and his son(Christopher) inherited.
“After putting the black elf in chains for the second season in a row…”
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Rings of Power is about as good as the typical fantasy story written by a high school teen, without any planning.
We are now 14 episodes into the series--- that is over 14 effing hours of content. Think about that...The entire LOTR extended series is less than 12 hours long, and think about the magnificent journey that unfolds in that time, for dozens of characters. It is criminal how wasteful the screen time is spent on this show. Instead of telling a story and taking us on an adventure, we are forced to watch pointless slow-motion drivel and arguments. They have all of Middle Earth to explore, and they choose to waste screentime on people like Isildur's dumb friend getting stabbed (that was only 1 episode ago, and already everyone has forgotten about it, and his death had zero consequence. It was just a cheap "emotional" moment, as if we are supposed to care that he's gone. Oh no, what will we ever do without... hmm... what was his name again? I mean he was so talented at... hmm.. well... he helped Numenor do... hmm... okay maybe he didn't really do anything....but you're supposed to care dammit!). Okay let's cut back to another scene of Durin and his dad bitching at eachother for the 14th hour straight jfc. Or how about Celebrimbor still not knowing that "Halbrand is Sauron" despite being 6 episodes into the season after Galadriel found out? So, Durin can just teleport to and from Eregion multiple times per episode, but Galadriel and her motley crew can't get the message to Eregion within 6 episodes worth of time? TF??
I'm cheering for Sauron at this point. If everyone in Middle earth is this incompetent and gullible they deserved to be enslaved by the darkness.
Also why should I care if Numenor has a threat of an impending flood when everyone on that island is a bland insufferable clown (also the sea is always right, so shouldn't they proudly accept that fate?)
Thank you for these videos, man!
This is a blessing to see in my feed, love these vids, gj.
Just seeing those few scenes from lotr made me re watch extended editions of lotr 😅
Please continue this series! Binge watched all four parts!
Imagine this shoe with experienced showrunners like Noah Hawley (Legion), or Jon Spaihts (Dune)... Emmys everywhere.
1.welcome back never stop making these you did it better than space ice 2.0.32 to 0.034 alright that was kinda amusing i will admit
he's back bois
The legendary Jedi Brooks has returned once again!
"Legolas! What do your elf-eyes see?"
*arrow hit*
Love these kinds of videos that you put out!
You cannot tell me that Gayladriel gathered up that mountainous pile of helmets by herself.
PLEASE address Isildur's horse (Berek) saving Isildur, traveling a crazy distance, and beating up spiders. That scene was so stupid
Idk why the horse had to become a main character, maybe we'll get a little dumb side story with Berek's adventures too.
Love your ROP vids, watch them with my family. Great jokes and humor.
Despite being non canon Eltariel is a better person than Galadriel because like Gal she’s full of herself and cocky but she isn’t perfect her greed overtakes her in the end as she takes the ring offered to her but she doesn’t do it for no reason she believes that the power of Gal and the ring will destroy Sauron but it doesn’t work and unlike Gal she ACTUALLY HELPS PEOPLE she rescues Talion from the wraiths she is an ally and helps him destroy multiple wraiths and orc captains (this is all from shadow of war in case you don’t know what I’m referring to)
Well, LOTR made Galandriel seem mystic, great, amazing, powerfull and so on and on.
Even The Hobbit did it so, in their own way.
Meanwhile here, they make her look annoying, insufferable, and too arrogant and narcissistic. Something I wouldn't expect from a great wise elf, that was amazingly portraid in LOTR.
Basically, from a great amazing character, they turned her into one I don't even wanna look at.
PS: Also, where is the mysticism of the wise elfs, that make them seem like otherwordly angels on earth. Here they seem like random humans with pointy ears.
There are scenes in the show where Elf folk are freaking out over Orcs and are stumbling over each other and panicking 💀 💀 💀
@@BehuraStudio
What a joke. The elder races being worse than humans.
Glad I didn't bother watching that series, saw MANY videos about it, and overall not worth it.
All I will get is rage from it. Sad, cause I had HIGH hopes for it, when it was first announced.
Same with The Witcher, so many hopes, since I loved the books and games. Then saw the series, and only saving grace was Cavill. Gave up on S2. Not touching it again.
Spot on JB. Couldn't have said it better myself. 10/10 video. Keep it up 👍
3:34 Is that shot a reference to the poem Erlkönig?
These videos are great. It really explains perfectly why this show is so bad.
Working on part 5 and 6
"Legolas! What does your elf eyes sees?" *get's struck by an arrow* 🤣
You should do commentary on their segments after the show where the producers & directors all pat themselves on the back for how much they girl bossed slay queened that week
I watched a video essay about how Amazon only created Rings of Power as a big advertisement for Amazon to get people buying on their website, and to me it all makes total sense now. He said that's why they didn't hire high-end actors or writers b/c they didn't need to. It just needed to look good enough in a trailer to reel people in and then they get hooked on other things. So sad we couldn't get an actual quality product. :(
If the creators/scriptwiters/producers wants viewers believing that guyladriel is so powerful, then the whole premise of the fellowship of the ring is pointless. She could have easily gone into war through the trilogy, waging war against the orcs and goblins in each and every conflict. The flaming eye dude has no response to her unilateral strength and powers
Much respect for actually watching Rings of power. Incredibly boring and mundane, no respect for any characters with no team work, plot armour, poorly written, a pathetic Gandalf Saruman Sam and Frodo and not to mention its pitch black for like every action shot. I struggled to watch ep 1 and wont bother watching the rest.
I laughed out loud when that elf was shot because the acting was so bad.
In the name of inclusivity best franchises are ruined
I just find it funny that the show is explicit in showing that their awesome girlboss Galadrrrriel who don't need no stinky men is the one who doomed Middle Earth for the next Age.
forced diversity, crap writing, woke ideology ruined the show
Man I love these comparisons you are msking.
Another thing besides the writing and casting is the actors themselves. They insulted Tolkien and his works alongside the writers.
A book, a story is a life with its own universe, begginings and ends. When you write you must cherish character, lores, histories and locations. And everyone involved in RoP proved they do not love the real characters or read a single word of Tolkien in their lives.
May I ask you to compare Celebrimbor with what the source material and Shadow of War portrayed him? I really want more people to see the potential the writes had with only one character and got it ruined.
1:22 Haven't watched this show but please confirm that did I just see an Asian and a Black Elf?
Dafuq is going on here?
Don't forget the part where Isildur gets into a little tussle with a Chihuahua sized spider that eventually grows up to become Shelob
My fav Jedi after Obi and Luke
Rings of Prime was written by women and as such, they don't know nor understand how guy stuff works, hence the reason they fail so poorly at writing guy stuff and that's even putting aside their total and utter dismissal of all of the lore and having made her a Mary Sue.
I'm watching this right after watching the trilogy in cinema
I'm a conservative. There weren't enough fat characters to represent people like me.
Real Galadriel is much, much older then 3 thousand years old. As to this imposter not sure if shes even 13
It's so insulting to Tolkien's Galadriel that she was manipulated by Sauron, when she was named the only one who did not trust Annatar when he came to Eregion.
the random horse standing so obligingly still amidst the noise and chaos so Gabs could jump on and perform awkward manoeuvres atop it.... smh.
Your 4 videos on this show are excellent. I had to click on this video.
Season 1 was really bad, will never watch it ever again. This season is an "improvement", but it's still boring, the Harfoots still suck, the Numenor stuff is still vapid and bad and over acted, the Tom Bombadil stuff makes zero sense.
I'm watching this show for 3 reasons at this point: I wanna see Numenor be destroyed, which I have no idea how that's going to happen since in the books they try to sail to the Undying Lands, but there is no reason for them to in the show. Two, I wanna see Eregion be destroyed. Three, I'm just waiting for the Balrog to raze Khazadum. It's 2 seasons of waiting for significant things to happen instead of watching Harfoot/Numenor filler.
Second season is so bad, im not gonna even finish watching, the pain is ubearable...