Afraid this is STILL NOT the final part of the S1 series, as it's had to be split once again to get past copyright. I'll dump the concluding part Sunday and then we can get on with our lives... until another S2 video drops next week.
That coupled with Electric Callboy vlogs tides me over. A coupling of Let The Hate Flow Through You (poetically) and Metal Band That is Both Raunchy and Wholesome is helping me deal with the onscreen betrayal. 😅 Balcanced, as all things should be, if you will.
@KorporalNoobs Apologies, I think I was a bit high when I wrote that. I think I was trying to make categories or rename things in capital letters? 😅 kind of confounded myself, sorry for throwing that word salad at you!
Galadriel was wearing armor during that pyroclastic flow. That's like wrapping your potato in aluminum foil, before chucking it into the blast furnace.
They read a wikihow article on how to bake potatoes while writing this script, and mashed some of the phrases in the script. Even the part of "let the potato rest for 5 minutes" made it into the script, which is what Isildur was doing.
Platoon, you silly little british man. The reason characters like the Queen weren't physically scarred by the volcano erupting in her face, pause, is because that would require expensive makeup and stuff. This show is an Amazon show on a budget, they can't afford such things. Wait, what was the budget of the show again?
250 million - buying the rights 10 million - paying actors 10 million - travel to set locations $127.53 - costumes $1000 - Spirit Halloween surplus plastic "armor" 600 million - buying positive reviews & advertising
given that it's Rings of Power, the answer is more likely "but if we ugly her up nobody will ship her online anymore..." sadly it's now a known fact that such considerations actually did factor in to the writing of season 2.
Its amazing the Lil Platoon took a heartbreakingly terrible and disrespectful Tolkien IP and managed to make from it something I actually enjoy and look forward to seeing. The man actually took shit and turned it to gold. He is an international treasure.
I love the fact that LP can dissect the show with knowledge, humour, wit, insight and logic. Entertain us mere viewers for hours on end over a show most of us fall asleep to or half watch because Clash of Clans or similar is more interesting
Well now I am excited! Today happens to be my birthday, and the absolute last thing I thought was going to happen was a birthday gift video from Platoon!! Let’s go!!
I don't watch this show, obviously, but I'm so glad you highlighted the pyroclastic flow, I just know the writers thought that was so badass. Like you can't convince me these people aren't dumb, they don't interact with physical reality at all and especially don't understand tropes or Tolkien. "So there's this volcano and after the key is turned it erupts and kills a bunch of villagers but Galadriel is fine because she's super strong and tough" "You do know that being strong and tough won't protect you from a firestorm" "Yeah but it's magic, so she doesn't get burned" Well what about the choking toxic chemicals?" "She held her breath..."
Starting off the review of a fantasy show with a mini science lecture on the destructive power of volcanoes? MADNESS, HERESY I SAY! ;) Great to see your release schedule picking up Platoon. Here's to 200k subs!
Releasing multi-hour videos two years after the episodes aired is an awful way of crawling to the big 200k, but I had to finish this damn series at some point!
@@Matt42MSG Sure, that is why they call it that. Khuzdul just means Dwarf Language or Dwarvish. They could have used Dwarvish and the audience would understand, or how about simply "our language" as in you learned some of our language. Rather than that, the writers come up with the awkward and artless phrase "stone tongue." It is the same hack writing as "The sea is always right."
@@Matt42MSG Payne McKay said in an interview, “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit.” Lord of the Rings, Appendix F is titled "The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age" and includes most public knowledge of Khuzdûl. It does explicitly state the name of the language and that the tongue is secret and never taught to non-Dwarves. I had to look it up myself. It would be nice if they had an excuse and weren't just hacks. But no. Hackery is all we've got.
@@Mereologist this also raises the question of why there's such stupidity about "proto-Hobbits" and pretending Harfoots are so dirty, not living in established holes, lighter than Stoors or y'know, not a subset of actually Hobbits.
It felt like a sucker punch to the gut when you compared the death of a friend scene to Tolkien's letter. A sort of sickening numb hatred at just how little care they give their storytelling.
Mighty Morfydd Power Elf: "You shouldn't take joy in killing, even beings as foul as orcs. It darkens the heart!" Also Mighty Morfydd Power Elf, maybe a day previous: "I'm going to keep you alive while I hunt down and exterminate all of your 'children' before I finally grant you death, Adar!"
@@TheLittlePlatoonA promise is indeed a promise!!! And we all know your word is your bond. Book of Boba Fett Book of Boba Fett Book of Boba Fett … please :)
Well, I'm a multiplier. I've watched seven or eight channels talking about each episode, - episodes that I largely skipped through just the once, because they're so boring and cringe.
I haven't seen one episode and i have watched many hours of content. Despot and Woke Critic and Robot Head are the best. After LP, but i consider him in a class of his own.
It's funny how they wanted to science the $#!t out of the Volcano -created-Mordor , but then you tell them taking it in the face looks silly and breaks immersion, then "come oooonnnn, it's a fantasy show!!" Brother, you introduced realism into this scene first!!!
Going through the comments, I'm happy to find that the Angry British Man (TM) has incredibly pleasant, if painfully sarcastic, fans. Well done on creating a great community Platoon!
I love the context via Tolkiens life and writings outside of LotR that Little Platoon brings to these videos. Not only am I entertained at the destruction of this evil show but I leave educated, in a better state than before I tuned in. You have my thanks, Little Platoon.
This video made me actually look up why the elves were fading, and it turns out they were just too magical for their own bodies. Also, they were originally meant to just make Middle Earth all nice for the humans and then go away.
Just watched latest interview with show-runners. It's so obvious that they just dont care. They laugh, casually comment about LoTR universe as it is some brazil drama. It reminds me the seriousness of Peter Jackson's interviews, when it was clearly he put his soul and hard-work in the movies. When your directors and producers dont give a damn, the show will reflect it and look poorly too.
They're very good at BSing a corporate board room though apparently, not much else to explain why they or anyone else involved with season 1 didn't get fired for abysmal ratings and barely 1/3 of the opening audience making it to the end. Or, Amazon doesn't care how much money they burn in their pursuit of 'film prestige'.
It hurts my brain to see Durin sr and jr go from pretty decent writing to “I hate you you’re a fascist! -Then you’re no longer my son!” levels of stupid apocalyptic conflict within a couple of seconds.
22:24 This was hilarious. The flashback to Skyrim where the leaders would tell the PC (someone they just met) to go on a very important diplomatic meeting.
The thing I love the most about the horse in the scene where Elendil is explaining horses to his son is that they clearly put a treat in his pocket and the horse is trying to get it.
When faced by some fearsome character ending move like a volcano to the face, never underestimate the absolute power of plot armour. Something even the finest of elven blacksmiths can only dream of creating with that much desired mithril.
3:04 You see, the way she survived the volcanic eruption was the director and writers saw Chris Pratt successfully run from one in Jurassic World. But, shes a strong female lead who has to go on to ruin middle earth, so they one upped it.
@@GideonRavenor712 Kingdom was plagued with all sorts of terrible choices, including them seemingly excluding a character and then just shuffling the lines amongst the remaining cast.
@@bluicarys732 Oh yea, I remember loads: -How the 'betrayal' made no sense and none of the Protagonists had any reason to believe they'd been lied to until later but yet thought so anyway -Acting like an Activist intern knows better of how to care for genetic science projects than people they'd have brought in to where she can bargain that (and proceeds to leave Chris Pratt's character there to die from lava) -How a 9mm Glock effectively crippled Blue in 2 shots yet this series STILL wants us to pretend they have military applications? Oh yea, because we'll have the bad guy spout off nonsense surface reading of historical usage of animals in war.
@GideonRavenor712 Theres also the line "I never thought i would see one in real life" spoken by the woman with a PHD in dinasaur vet. Supposedly, they had cut her girlfriend from the movie for china and just gave her all of the lines.
Thank you for giving voice to the heartbreaking story of the TCBS that, inter alia, conveys the calibre of those four young men, of which only two would "...survive the bombs and bullets... " and one go on to create the monumental source material for the matter at hand. I will leave it to people better than I to posit if the creators of ROP are Tolkien's betters, his equals or lessers. What I will say, or more accurately, lament about their current works is that given the great privilege and opportunity to present a part of aforesaid source material and to do so with seemingly limitless resources, what they have thus far given the world is in every way possible the antithesis of Tolkien's works not fit to be connected with that name. ROP is such a departure from the source material, one wonders if it had been produced without acquiring the rights, would a claim for breach of copyright succeed?
"Durin the 4th's... Not your brother's, not some other dwarf lord's" Oh, wow. So they DID mention the brother in Season 1. Yet another sibling mention that went by so fast everybody forgot it came up. Maybe if they put more emphasis on it, both this scenario and the Season 1 Anarion reference would have actually made more sense and not felt like they came out of completely nowhere.
Its so bad, because they waste so much time on made-up characters who don't matter at all, versus barely mentioning these known characters who SHOULD arguably be more important.
I did a course on volcanology for some reason as part of my degree and nodding along to these videos about Mordor is the best use out of it that I've had
almost every frame of Peter Jackson's trilogy is like an Alan Lee painting, it's gorgeous from the first frame to the last. Rings of Power by comparison looks like snaps of some cosplay. Many images from it, you woudn't even be able to tell what film or soap opera somebody was watching. People's eyes being ready for a feast because of Peter Jackson, instead got ambushed by Amazon
Which is funny since Rings of Power clearly stages things to look like paintings - it’s trying so very hard - but it completely fails. It’s a real poser of a show.
5:23 the thing that I find the most amusing is that the queen lost her vision from a few sparks hitting her face from a burning timber, but the pyroclastic flow didn’t harm anyone seriously. The deceased seem to have been knocked over by collapsing buildings or were already slain. Couldn’t you even have had Galadriel scream turn around cover your face and drop to the ground so that when the ash cloud rolls over them, they are taking cover, but the queen looks in horror at the volcano and is blinded. I guess you could argue that they’re at the edge they’re they’re barely at the outside edge of the effective range. It wasn’t as deadly.
If only all the characters melted in such a horrifying way that the first couple minutes of this video described. Would have been such a fitting finale!
I haven't watched a minute of the actual show. After seeing your first video on it I didn't bother. And every video after has just confirmed I would have been pissed trying to watch it.
THANK you---the part when Meagan Markle was talking to Duren felt sinister af. Other than her dialogue, the lighting in the scene and her evils eyed did not help!!!
May God grant peace to JRR Tolkien, flawed for certain (like all of us) but an inspiration to those who with sincerely, and with no little surprise, entered into his art to experience it and ultimately learn from it. For those who seek to subvert his work for fame or profit or politics, you have failed and shall certainly fail in your perversity, like his Melkor and Sauron.
Very educational about the importance of a Tolkien letter to his friends during WW1. Adds a LOT to the overall analysis and makes me despise Amazon and its show-runners even more. They just took a shit for the sake of money grabbing and "modern audiences"
I love this guy. I would love to have him with me at all times to speak to my enemies for me. Also, anyone else watching this show just to know why all this shit is being talked on it? 😂 I feel like this is the only method that makes this show bearable. Well, that and a lobotomy.
Edit: I just got to the part of the video where you say exactly this. What's incredible about Galadriel's "redemption" is that all of her actions should lead to the opposite - she nearly prevented the creation of Mordor, so all of these events should in fact make her doubly vengeful. Since, you know, she was proven completely right.
great video as always volcanic boulders can indeed sometimes be thrown hundreds of miles, some times even thousands of miles. it takes a supervolcano, like the yellowstone caldera. boulders from that were found i believe in parts of south dakota, many hundred miles away.
52:41 I suggest that we make the chap Galathil, Celeborn 's brother . I think the show is too "straightforward," and it will spice it up a bit. Also, it will bring a special meaning to Galadriel's & Elrond's kiss.
Season 1 had so many plots that are just horrible. The orc tunnel that got dug and sword hilt to open a dam, which then restarts a volcano is just one of the worst.
17:20 I don't know, friends being casually left behind for the flimsiest of reasons does bring to mind the not-Hobbits, does it not? The connection is definitely there I think
Afraid this is STILL NOT the final part of the S1 series, as it's had to be split once again to get past copyright. I'll dump the concluding part Sunday and then we can get on with our lives... until another S2 video drops next week.
This is our lives. A thin and cursed existence, like the Nine. We were once men.
It's like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lol
Homey all of your ish is the best ish
Thank you for your diligence and determination in getting these out. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we greatly appreciate it.
YAY you’re spoiling us!!!
*in gilgalad’s voice*
I shall savour these sweet hours of content as a fat man savours a pack of Oreos whilst on a diet
Like a certain lolcow basking in scam money and Diet Mountain Dew 😉
It’s so poetic it could come straight from the show.
Peter Jackson said the dialogue was the hardest part of adapting Lord of the Rings for a good reason.
Like a certain disgrace basking in scam money and Diet Mountain Dew 😉
Ok Gilgadaddy.
Ahh yes, the best way to watch Rings of Power. A 2-4 hour video by Platoon or RFT instead of watching the 40 minute episode.
those two channels !
*the ONLY way.
never saw single episode but binging Platoon
Exactly 😂
I've just started, feels like Yule!
- Adûnâi
Watching Platoon softly and calmly tear RoP apart is the only thing that brings me joy in life
That coupled with Electric Callboy vlogs tides me over. A coupling of Let The Hate Flow Through You (poetically) and Metal Band That is Both Raunchy and Wholesome is helping me deal with the onscreen betrayal. 😅 Balcanced, as all things should be, if you will.
@@zarinaromanets7290The use of capitalizations confounds me: Are that weird names or sentences?
@KorporalNoobs Apologies, I think I was a bit high when I wrote that. I think I was trying to make categories or rename things in capital letters? 😅 kind of confounded myself, sorry for throwing that word salad at you!
@@zarinaromanets7290 Can't have been too bad. The description of Electric Callboy is pretty on point. Perfectly sensible now lol
Galadriel was wearing armor during that pyroclastic flow. That's like wrapping your potato in aluminum foil, before chucking it into the blast furnace.
They read a wikihow article on how to bake potatoes while writing this script, and mashed some of the phrases in the script. Even the part of "let the potato rest for 5 minutes" made it into the script, which is what Isildur was doing.
Platoon, you silly little british man.
The reason characters like the Queen weren't physically scarred by the volcano erupting in her face, pause, is because that would require expensive makeup and stuff.
This show is an Amazon show on a budget, they can't afford such things.
Wait, what was the budget of the show again?
Like 5 million or something
250 million - buying the rights
10 million - paying actors
10 million - travel to set locations
$127.53 - costumes
$1000 - Spirit Halloween surplus plastic "armor"
600 million - buying positive reviews & advertising
Yeah that seems about right.
given that it's Rings of Power, the answer is more likely "but if we ugly her up nobody will ship her online anymore..."
sadly it's now a known fact that such considerations actually did factor in to the writing of season 2.
If they can afford blackfacing a pale princess, they can afford to make her even blacker.
Its amazing the Lil Platoon took a heartbreakingly terrible and disrespectful Tolkien IP and managed to make from it something I actually enjoy and look forward to seeing. The man actually took shit and turned it to gold.
He is an international treasure.
Damn you're right, he's an alchemist. But what price did he have to pay because of the Law of Equivalent Exchange? Probably his sanity.
I can believe Galadriel is frigid enough to stop a volcano.
😂
Platoon: "Do you ever wonder why you're here?"
Rings of Power: "It's one of life's great mysteries."
Platoon: "No, why are YOU here?"
Welp...time to go rewatch all of RvB...
@@CoolStoryEC I'll get the Warthog.
I love the fact that LP can dissect the show with knowledge, humour, wit, insight and logic. Entertain us mere viewers for hours on end over a show most of us fall asleep to or half watch because Clash of Clans or similar is more interesting
Well now I am excited! Today happens to be my birthday, and the absolute last thing I thought was going to happen was a birthday gift video from Platoon!! Let’s go!!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday internet stranger!
@@TheLittlePlatoonThank you!
@@ProjeKtWEREWOLF😂
I don't watch this show, obviously, but I'm so glad you highlighted the pyroclastic flow, I just know the writers thought that was so badass. Like you can't convince me these people aren't dumb, they don't interact with physical reality at all and especially don't understand tropes or Tolkien.
"So there's this volcano and after the key is turned it erupts and kills a bunch of villagers but Galadriel is fine because she's super strong and tough"
"You do know that being strong and tough won't protect you from a firestorm"
"Yeah but it's magic, so she doesn't get burned"
Well what about the choking toxic chemicals?"
"She held her breath..."
Starting off the review of a fantasy show with a mini science lecture on the destructive power of volcanoes? MADNESS, HERESY I SAY! ;)
Great to see your release schedule picking up Platoon. Here's to 200k subs!
Releasing multi-hour videos two years after the episodes aired is an awful way of crawling to the big 200k, but I had to finish this damn series at some point!
@@TheLittlePlatoon I'm still in awe of the fact you somehow edited together a 5-hour video. how did your computer survive such a task?
@@marhawkman303 My computer is… a little bit absurd.
@@TheLittlePlatoondouble 4090 in a 14900k
@TheLittlePlatoon as are your fans- I'm a 45 y/o from the midwest of America- explain that!
"Don't judge me for wanting to be Sauron's midnight ale call! You just h8 strong elves who don't NEED no elfs!"
Stone tongue? STONE TONGUE?! The language already HAS A NAME, but THEY renamed it STONE TONGUE!
Would that the writers choked on their tongues.
Perhaps that name isn't used in the books the show has the rights to.
@@Matt42MSG Sure, that is why they call it that. Khuzdul just means Dwarf Language or Dwarvish. They could have used Dwarvish and the audience would understand, or how about simply "our language" as in you learned some of our language. Rather than that, the writers come up with the awkward and artless phrase "stone tongue." It is the same hack writing as "The sea is always right."
@@Matt42MSG Payne McKay said in an interview, “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit.”
Lord of the Rings, Appendix F is titled "The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age" and includes most public knowledge of Khuzdûl. It does explicitly state the name of the language and that the tongue is secret and never taught to non-Dwarves.
I had to look it up myself. It would be nice if they had an excuse and weren't just hacks. But no. Hackery is all we've got.
Choked on stone tongues. From both directions.
@@Mereologist this also raises the question of why there's such stupidity about "proto-Hobbits" and pretending Harfoots are so dirty, not living in established holes, lighter than Stoors or y'know, not a subset of actually Hobbits.
It felt like a sucker punch to the gut when you compared the death of a friend scene to Tolkien's letter. A sort of sickening numb hatred at just how little care they give their storytelling.
Mighty Morfydd Power Elf: "You shouldn't take joy in killing, even beings as foul as orcs. It darkens the heart!"
Also Mighty Morfydd Power Elf, maybe a day previous: "I'm going to keep you alive while I hunt down and exterminate all of your 'children' before I finally grant you death, Adar!"
She's just quoting 7 of 9 from Star Trek Picard season 1.
It was clearly my constant insufferable angry floor boy-esque moaning over the last 2 years that inspired you to finish s1.
It's science.
@@jspthesecond0723 Unironically, yes! Multi-hour videos 2 years late to the party are a terrible way to do TH-cam, but a promise is a promise.
Leave the man a SuperThanks then
@@TheLittlePlatoonYou won’t get a complaint out of me!
😂❤
@@TheLittlePlatoonA promise is indeed a promise!!! And we all know your word is your bond.
Book of Boba Fett
Book of Boba Fett
Book of Boba Fett
… please :)
I'm willing to bet that across youtube viewers for ROP-critiques well surpass the total amount to viewers of the actual show.
Show of hands. Who even watched an episode?
@@SporkyMcFly I never watched any of this trash! Only youtube vids.
Same
Well, I'm a multiplier.
I've watched seven or eight channels talking about each episode, - episodes that I largely skipped through just the once, because they're so boring and cringe.
I haven't seen one episode and i have watched many hours of content. Despot and Woke Critic and Robot Head are the best. After LP, but i consider him in a class of his own.
“Stop stealing Waldreg’s thunder!”…lmao 😂
"Mighty Morfydd Power Elf" kills me every time. What can I say, I'm easily amused.
"Morphin" bubba
I find it genuis- how simple am I?
@@BiscuitsOfWrathBAPPA it's a play on her name MORFYDD
@@DSPHistoricalSociety no its a play on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
It's funny how they wanted to science the $#!t out of the Volcano -created-Mordor , but then you tell them taking it in the face looks silly and breaks immersion, then "come oooonnnn, it's a fantasy show!!"
Brother, you introduced realism into this scene first!!!
Going through the comments, I'm happy to find that the Angry British Man (TM) has incredibly pleasant, if painfully sarcastic, fans. Well done on creating a great community Platoon!
Galadriel face tanking a pyroclastic flow is still one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
It’s up there with SW LightSpeed ramming.
So incredibly dumb,
When your face is incredibly tight, and you have no lips, it's like wearing a thin metal mask. 🤖
Maybe she was only saved by having a tempest in her 🤔
She's immune to the Patriarchy and that volcano was started by a toxic white man.
Congratulations, Galadriel now has pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Welsh strain of COVID-SA 1000
This. Is the best comment. You win. This is the best one, and no one can convince me otherwise.
The LONG form spelling instead of the short pneumonocosis. Applause, sir!
@@vespenegas261 LMAOO
"... elves are quite obviously grass types and so weak to fire." And further, this happened during the day, when Fire moves get an attack bonus.
I love the context via Tolkiens life and writings outside of LotR that Little Platoon brings to these videos. Not only am I entertained at the destruction of this evil show but I leave educated, in a better state than before I tuned in. You have my thanks, Little Platoon.
This video made me actually look up why the elves were fading, and it turns out they were just too magical for their own bodies. Also, they were originally meant to just make Middle Earth all nice for the humans and then go away.
Just watched latest interview with show-runners. It's so obvious that they just dont care. They laugh, casually comment about LoTR universe as it is some brazil drama. It reminds me the seriousness of Peter Jackson's interviews, when it was clearly he put his soul and hard-work in the movies.
When your directors and producers dont give a damn, the show will reflect it and look poorly too.
They're very good at BSing a corporate board room though apparently, not much else to explain why they or anyone else involved with season 1 didn't get fired for abysmal ratings and barely 1/3 of the opening audience making it to the end.
Or, Amazon doesn't care how much money they burn in their pursuit of 'film prestige'.
Your Tolkien quotations have encouraged me to reread the Lord of the Rings. Thank you, sir!
It hurts my brain to see Durin sr and jr go from pretty decent writing to “I hate you you’re a fascist! -Then you’re no longer my son!” levels of stupid apocalyptic conflict within a couple of seconds.
22:24 This was hilarious. The flashback to Skyrim where the leaders would tell the PC (someone they just met) to go on a very important diplomatic meeting.
The thing I love the most about the horse in the scene where Elendil is explaining horses to his son is that they clearly put a treat in his pocket and the horse is trying to get it.
*ASH NAZG RATATOUILLE*
New content yeagh let's go! And more to come?!! Thank you Little Platoon you scholar and gentleman x
Wow, listening to the letter Tolkien wrote after hearing his friend died, compare that to anything we have today
When faced by some fearsome character ending move like a volcano to the face, never underestimate the absolute power of plot armour. Something even the finest of elven blacksmiths can only dream of creating with that much desired mithril.
3:04 You see, the way she survived the volcanic eruption was the director and writers saw Chris Pratt successfully run from one in Jurassic World. But, shes a strong female lead who has to go on to ruin middle earth, so they one upped it.
OMG, you reminded me of that stupid film.
That was just one scene too, there's dozens of ridiculous scenes in Fallen Kingdom.
@@GideonRavenor712 Kingdom was plagued with all sorts of terrible choices, including them seemingly excluding a character and then just shuffling the lines amongst the remaining cast.
@@bluicarys732 Oh yea, I remember loads:
-How the 'betrayal' made no sense and none of the Protagonists had any reason to believe they'd been lied to until later but yet thought so anyway
-Acting like an Activist intern knows better of how to care for genetic science projects than people they'd have brought in to where she can bargain that (and proceeds to leave Chris Pratt's character there to die from lava)
-How a 9mm Glock effectively crippled Blue in 2 shots yet this series STILL wants us to pretend they have military applications? Oh yea, because we'll have the bad guy spout off nonsense surface reading of historical usage of animals in war.
@GideonRavenor712 Theres also the line "I never thought i would see one in real life" spoken by the woman with a PHD in dinasaur vet. Supposedly, they had cut her girlfriend from the movie for china and just gave her all of the lines.
Thank you for giving voice to the heartbreaking story of the TCBS that, inter alia, conveys the calibre of those four young men, of which only two would "...survive the bombs and bullets... " and one go on to create the monumental source material for the matter at hand. I will leave it to people better than I to posit if the creators of ROP are Tolkien's betters, his equals or lessers. What I will say, or more accurately, lament about their current works is that given the great privilege and opportunity to present a part of aforesaid source material and to do so with seemingly limitless resources, what they have thus far given the world is in every way possible the antithesis of Tolkien's works not fit to be connected with that name. ROP is such a departure from the source material, one wonders if it had been produced without acquiring the rights, would a claim for breach of copyright succeed?
The copyright dogs may bark at Platoon's content, but they cannot bring it down.
Hello algorithm! Please bring lots of people to the party later tonight!
It worked!
@@tmcgrath Posts for the post god!
Words for the word throne!
"mighty morphin power elf" - you have earned a forever sub for that good sir.
“You could-“
DEI Hires: Sounds like too much work.
Welcome to New Mordor! Formerly Southlands. Plenty of scenic rubble. Take a left at the sign of the burning horse.
Sung to Shreks "Welcome to Dulac"
@@JoesCaribbeanVanLife nice
Watching LP rip RoP a new one in his seductive British voice is one of the few bright spots in my life
He ain't dead. He waldreckt that warg and left to make himself a pimp coat for season 3.
The LOLcows would soon have Mighty Morphin Power Elf shouting that Sauron TWITTED MY TIPPLES.
LMAO! Loved the jab at Hello Future Me
"Durin the 4th's... Not your brother's, not some other dwarf lord's"
Oh, wow. So they DID mention the brother in Season 1. Yet another sibling mention that went by so fast everybody forgot it came up. Maybe if they put more emphasis on it, both this scenario and the Season 1 Anarion reference would have actually made more sense and not felt like they came out of completely nowhere.
Its so bad, because they waste so much time on made-up characters who don't matter at all, versus barely mentioning these known characters who SHOULD arguably be more important.
I did a course on volcanology for some reason as part of my degree and nodding along to these videos about Mordor is the best use out of it that I've had
This is one of my favorite pastimes…sipping GT and listening to LPlt…Thanks ❤
Your annotations cover up the ending gag, the funniest moment in the show
Your editing is hypnotic, love it
"suddenly eagle", platoon.. "suddenly eagle"..
"suddenly fu*king eagle" has quite a different ring to it don't you aggree lmao..
Thr birttish man mocking sports for having more than 1 point for a goal.
Meanwhile Wimbledon:
You can blame the French for that.
Well it ain't the most interesting sport...
I laughed way too hard at the comment over stealing Waldreg's thunder ❤ 55:30
almost every frame of Peter Jackson's trilogy is like an Alan Lee painting, it's gorgeous from the first frame to the last. Rings of Power by comparison looks like snaps of some cosplay. Many images from it, you woudn't even be able to tell what film or soap opera somebody was watching. People's eyes being ready for a feast because of Peter Jackson, instead got ambushed by Amazon
Which is funny since Rings of Power clearly stages things to look like paintings - it’s trying so very hard - but it completely fails. It’s a real poser of a show.
5:23 the thing that I find the most amusing is that the queen lost her vision from a few sparks hitting her face from a burning timber, but the pyroclastic flow didn’t harm anyone seriously.
The deceased seem to have been knocked over by collapsing buildings or were already slain.
Couldn’t you even have had Galadriel scream turn around cover your face and drop to the ground so that when the ash cloud rolls over them, they are taking cover, but the queen looks in horror at the volcano and is blinded.
I guess you could argue that they’re at the edge they’re they’re barely at the outside edge of the effective range. It wasn’t as deadly.
No you can't argue that, there are burning horses, houses and corpses all around.
Could you imagine if they used the flammable horses as a mechanic?
I dunno about that, but I remember seeing the Flammable Horses open for the Steve Miller Band in '79 ... it was epic
Imagine, took a pyroclastic flow to the whatever and survive without mark but got burned and blind by some wood ash.
The blindfold is another reason I think this was written by ai. It's a secret but she walks around blindfolded.
"slower than a paralympic with a puncture" is better writing than anything $1b could come up with
25:50 Imagine if someone asked me why they should trust a black person, and I said, "You shouldn't, but I'm only HALF BLACK! So it's cool."
Oh thank God it is real. You referenced this in your first Season 2 video and I had no idea what you were talking about.
Ha the buff comment. You need to add an RPG skill tree with rotating character to your videos showing progression.
Hey Chato!😃
If only all the characters melted in such a horrifying way that the first couple minutes of this video described. Would have been such a fitting finale!
“My house sank” is not a lament one hears often.
"not done with the dumb" and "one more egg of solid fuck to lay" is now on my list of favourite expressions
Casting into the fire
Ok the fixes he proposed for the script was actually amazing. Upvote out of respect.
I haven't watched a minute of the actual show. After seeing your first video on it I didn't bother. And every video after has just confirmed I would have been pissed trying to watch it.
Really appreciate you finishing the S1 review, Platoon!
THANK you---the part when Meagan Markle was talking to Duren felt sinister af. Other than her dialogue, the lighting in the scene and her evils eyed did not help!!!
May God grant peace to JRR Tolkien, flawed for certain (like all of us) but an inspiration to those who with sincerely, and with no little surprise, entered into his art to experience it and ultimately learn from it. For those who seek to subvert his work for fame or profit or politics, you have failed and shall certainly fail in your perversity, like his Melkor and Sauron.
"Strap In, Lads." - Lee Pace accent
Naw, we're taking no football slander from anyone that knows any Cricket rule..
Very educational about the importance of a Tolkien letter to his friends during WW1. Adds a LOT to the overall analysis and makes me despise Amazon and its show-runners even more. They just took a shit for the sake of money grabbing and "modern audiences"
I love this guy. I would love to have him with me at all times to speak to my enemies for me.
Also, anyone else watching this show just to know why all this shit is being talked on it? 😂 I feel like this is the only method that makes this show bearable. Well, that and a lobotomy.
Edit: I just got to the part of the video where you say exactly this.
What's incredible about Galadriel's "redemption" is that all of her actions should lead to the opposite - she nearly prevented the creation of Mordor, so all of these events should in fact make her doubly vengeful. Since, you know, she was proven completely right.
20:08 what Lenny Henry’s gran did know was that no matter what the schools say, Cleopatra was black
A dark psalm, the bit about the Somme...The somme of all things...
great video as always
volcanic boulders can indeed sometimes be thrown hundreds of miles, some times even thousands of miles. it takes a supervolcano, like the yellowstone caldera. boulders from that were found i believe in parts of south dakota, many hundred miles away.
To betray someone is saying they were once allies.
Extraordinary letter.
We may like unusual sports, but at least we drive on the right side of the road (see what I did there?). Looking forward to season 2's commentary!
53 minutes in: Our Best Boy recognized and mentioned!
Night sorted, cheers Platoon
Platoon, I love all your videos but especially appreciate the occasional (naughty) double entendres. Probably a sign of my prurient nature. 😂😈
The ending gave me a right laugh.
52:41 I suggest that we make the chap Galathil, Celeborn 's brother . I think the show is too "straightforward," and it will spice it up a bit. Also, it will bring a special meaning to Galadriel's & Elrond's kiss.
I would love if you could make a video talking about the first age.
Absolute fucking cinema, that would be
3:22 not the KSI new song reference 😂😂
Everybody knows, horses are more flammable than Elves. Pruno
The world physics in ROP is possibly worse than in The Hobbit movie, and they had magical barrel boats and falls of 100s of feet
I need to say that getting s2 vids released ahead of concluding s1 ones is a subtle authors statement on the plot of the show.
Anyone else bawl their eyes out for that letter from tolkien?
Season 1 had so many plots that are just horrible. The orc tunnel that got dug and sword hilt to open a dam, which then restarts a volcano is just one of the worst.
It really is a very special kind of dumb, that’s for sure.
“Temporary wisdom buff”… i died.😂
17:20 I don't know, friends being casually left behind for the flimsiest of reasons does bring to mind the not-Hobbits, does it not? The connection is definitely there I think
galadriel is god empress meaning she is sss god tier no' pyroclastic flow. no nukes .no knifes. no sharp sticks can harm her🤣🤣🤣