can we all take a second to be mad about Galadriel's brown hair roots showing? I am not trying to be picky, but it's a billion dollar show! They couldn't find a few hrs to color her freaking hair in between episodes??! It's distracting. I want to ponder the ''genius" of Sauron's smolder sttack, but I can't ...bc I'm distracted by the stupid over-grown hair roots...
It isn't 'moral relativism' except as an inevitable consequence of making everyone ordinary. Elves are just humans with pointy ears. Orcs are just humans with ugly faces and a skin allergy that only flares up when the plot requires it. Ents are big people with bark who like trees (but are otherwise unremarkable-no long memory, and downright hasty, even comparing them with other humans) . Gandalf is just this puzzled old guy with superpowers he is still learning. Sauron is just a guy with super powers, especially mind control, but very human motivations. The Dwarves are ordinary people who like to mine (I think they make stuff too, but there is little of that). There is no gleam of grandeur to any of them. 'Moral relativism' is the result, because everyone is just human, and we humans are neither gods nor demons. Good people sometimes do bad things, and often for complex reasons. Bad people maintain virtues like loyalty or love of family. The writers do not realize that Tolkien was portraying legend, not biography. Why would anyone enjoy a 'fantasy' that is determined to show us a world just like our own?
Totally, we need to make the personification of evil, a being that exists only to destroy everything of beauty relatable and a cry baby. He wasn’t so bad after all he just didn’t get to know the elves and was misunderstood🥲
@@DutchPlanDerLinde main difference between the two that morgoth wanted to destroy everything while sauron wanted to control everything. So what you want him to be? Comical evil?
@@alihorda Just evil lmao. Dude has been murdering for centuries, his cruelty is limitless but he get sad because he impales a guy he spent a while with. Yeah, right. Its just so stupid I can’t bear with this show, I’ve been giving it so many chances but it’s almost as if they keep trying to exceed their previous stupidity and test how much more can they disrespect their audience. Some villains aren’t meant to be relatable, but this show doesn’t get that, just as it doesn’t get tolkien’a world.
OK, just some fan pedanticism since this error is reaching pet-peeve levels of frequency: Sauron is a Maia, singular, not the plural Maiar. Like Lúthien's mother, Melian the Maia.
▶️ Up next in 'Rings of Cringe' 🤦♂️ Sauron (looks into a mirror): "Why I'm feeling so empty? " Sauron's reflection: "What is it, my precious? Are you losing your mind?" Sauron: "No, never! I want to rule over Middle-earth and all beings ... but together with Galadriel." Sauron's reflection: "And we will, my precious, we will. The rings are ours. We are the Lord of the Rings!"
if you were to be like some others and classify this show as a soap opera the female lead falling for the big baddie happens all the time Galadriel and Sauron are the new Buffy/spike aka Spike turned good for her originally not by choice then he sacrificed himself for her and her friends/the world
I enjoy humanized, nuanced, complex, and humanized villains and gray characters with motivations and explanations for their evil. BUT not every villain has to be or should be. I also think there are many villains who are just pure evil and chaos and should be left as such. The Joker, Judge Holden, etc. Sauron is like Satan, he's the personification of pure evil. By making Sauron like this, the writers deviated far too much from the essence of the character and who Tolkien intended him to be.
Well, in low quality fanfics everybody must love a Mary Sue, including villains, so it's not much of a surprise, that Sauron is simping over the Mousegirl.
Oh, no, shipping villains and heroes has always been popular. It's just that it's a FANON thing for a reason. Corporations appealing to that minority of the fanfic crowd is, for lack of a better term, cringe. That aside, whoever made this trash seems to have no concept of context or basic critical thinking. I've seen plenty of fanfics made by 12-year olds with a better grasp of how people act. Even if their writing also involves forcing two people to kiss (often themselves and whatever character they have a crush on) there's SOME semblance of cause and effect. This is nothing. It's chatGPT levels of nuance.
Trying to humanize Sauron is so insulting! That's like trying to insinuate that there is a serial killer among the Hobbits. That's not something that exist in this lore, just like trying to potray Sauron having feelings for Galadriel like he's some high schooler experencing puppy love. It's just disgusting!🤮
but harfoots in this show display some serial killer traits. They're leaving their weak comrades behind and have a record of those indirectly left for dead as some sort of a trophy.
@@andrabook8758 I was attempting to keep it classy for once. lol! But the truth is. During the war, Sauron was the commander of the Fortress that guarded the escape route from Morgoth's fortress and only survived because the Elves didn't search the rubble! Because no one and nothing important was supposed to be there. The only reason Sauron was there, was because Morgoth didn't trust him and he was weaker than the Dragon's and Balrog's and that spot let Morgoth keep Sauron directly under his thumb!
This show is trash of the highest quality. I heard that Charlie Vickers improvised the crying . It wasn't scripted. And when he was asked why the character was crying ,he didnt give a clear answer. 1 billion dollar show writing
I don't think 'just good v evil' can be that flat, my friend. It will involve politics and more cerebral themes unless it's chess and you just equate the colors to good or evil, BUT; they didn't execute it well here just from a plot-structure POV.
I'm perfectly fine with a more nuanced, sympathetic Sauron(crying included), but I feel like it wasn't that well handled in ROP. VIckers though was a knockout in many ways as was Edwards. Welp, that's why fanfic exists. Well, er, different fanfic from ROP.
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can we all take a second to be mad about Galadriel's brown hair roots showing? I am not trying to be picky, but it's a billion dollar show! They couldn't find a few hrs to color her freaking hair in between episodes??! It's distracting. I want to ponder the ''genius" of Sauron's smolder sttack, but I can't ...bc I'm distracted by the stupid over-grown hair roots...
He cried because he realized he had to rewatch the entire season later!
It isn't 'moral relativism' except as an inevitable consequence of making everyone ordinary. Elves are just humans with pointy ears. Orcs are just humans with ugly faces and a skin allergy that only flares up when the plot requires it. Ents are big people with bark who like trees (but are otherwise unremarkable-no long memory, and downright hasty, even comparing them with other humans) . Gandalf is just this puzzled old guy with superpowers he is still learning. Sauron is just a guy with super powers, especially mind control, but very human motivations. The Dwarves are ordinary people who like to mine (I think they make stuff too, but there is little of that). There is no gleam of grandeur to any of them. 'Moral relativism' is the result, because everyone is just human, and we humans are neither gods nor demons. Good people sometimes do bad things, and often for complex reasons. Bad people maintain virtues like loyalty or love of family. The writers do not realize that Tolkien was portraying legend, not biography. Why would anyone enjoy a 'fantasy' that is determined to show us a world just like our own?
Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in Sauron!
Rings of Powers in 7 words "Galadriel about Sauron: I can change him"
do THEY make women look bad and insane on purpose?
yes. imho, yes.
Totally, we need to make the personification of evil, a being that exists only to destroy everything of beauty relatable and a cry baby. He wasn’t so bad after all he just didn’t get to know the elves and was misunderstood🥲
Shippers...
Personification of evil is morgoth, not sauron lol
@@alihorda My bad, they should make Sauron build a preschool for baby hobbits
@@DutchPlanDerLinde main difference between the two that morgoth wanted to destroy everything while sauron wanted to control everything. So what you want him to be? Comical evil?
@@alihorda Just evil lmao. Dude has been murdering for centuries, his cruelty is limitless but he get sad because he impales a guy he spent a while with. Yeah, right. Its just so stupid I can’t bear with this show, I’ve been giving it so many chances but it’s almost as if they keep trying to exceed their previous stupidity and test how much more can they disrespect their audience. Some villains aren’t meant to be relatable, but this show doesn’t get that, just as it doesn’t get tolkien’a world.
A sparkly dark lord.
According to the writing team, the only time Sauron WASN'T soft was during his alone time with Celebrimbor 👀
Er, why am I sensing a double entendre?
@@doravee Because of the weird tension between them
OK, just some fan pedanticism since this error is reaching pet-peeve levels of frequency: Sauron is a Maia, singular, not the plural Maiar. Like Lúthien's mother, Melian the Maia.
I'd appreciate it if they would remove "the Lord of the Rings" from the show's title.
So do I. I think it would have worked better if they'd said the show was very loosely based on Tolkien's work and if they'd not acquired the IP.
▶️ Up next in 'Rings of Cringe' 🤦♂️
Sauron (looks into a mirror): "Why I'm feeling so empty? "
Sauron's reflection: "What is it, my precious? Are you losing your mind?"
Sauron: "No, never! I want to rule over Middle-earth and all beings ... but together with Galadriel."
Sauron's reflection: "And we will, my precious, we will. The rings are ours. We are the Lord of the Rings!"
If you put in "AI Sauron" into TH-cam, you will get a far more accurate picture of what Sauron looks like.
For free.
That character is Sauron in name only.
A worthless name... a name someone just gave him, not one which was earned. "Simp" is the name he EARNED! >:) :P
if you were to be like some others and classify this show as a soap opera the female lead falling for the big baddie happens all the time
Galadriel and Sauron are the new Buffy/spike aka Spike turned good for her originally not by choice then he sacrificed himself for her and her friends/the world
Thanks Elaine
I enjoy humanized, nuanced, complex, and humanized villains and gray characters with motivations and explanations for their evil. BUT not every villain has to be or should be. I also think there are many villains who are just pure evil and chaos and should be left as such. The Joker, Judge Holden, etc. Sauron is like Satan, he's the personification of pure evil.
By making Sauron like this, the writers deviated far too much from the essence of the character and who Tolkien intended him to be.
Ming the Merciless would be suicidally depressed and crying non-stop if written by these showrunners.
Elaine, I think you meant simpathetic.😂
Well, in low quality fanfics everybody must love a Mary Sue, including villains, so it's not much of a surprise, that Sauron is simping over the Mousegirl.
Sauron is a cry bully.
Oh, no, shipping villains and heroes has always been popular. It's just that it's a FANON thing for a reason. Corporations appealing to that minority of the fanfic crowd is, for lack of a better term, cringe.
That aside, whoever made this trash seems to have no concept of context or basic critical thinking. I've seen plenty of fanfics made by 12-year olds with a better grasp of how people act. Even if their writing also involves forcing two people to kiss (often themselves and whatever character they have a crush on) there's SOME semblance of cause and effect. This is nothing. It's chatGPT levels of nuance.
Trying to humanize Sauron is so insulting! That's like trying to insinuate that there is a serial killer among the Hobbits. That's not something that exist in this lore, just like trying to potray Sauron having feelings for Galadriel like he's some high schooler experencing puppy love. It's just disgusting!🤮
but harfoots in this show display some serial killer traits. They're leaving their weak comrades behind and have a record of those indirectly left for dead as some sort of a trophy.
@@espritfort9890 - I think "take his wheels" is a euphemism for eating him. They call dying "wandering off the path".
He's more like Satan's left foot! Sauron was Morgoth's Capt. of the back door.
Satan's 💩......... just saying...it was right there....💩💩
@@andrabook8758 I was attempting to keep it classy for once. lol!
But the truth is. During the war, Sauron was the commander of the Fortress that guarded the escape route from Morgoth's fortress and only survived because the Elves didn't search the rubble! Because no one and nothing important was supposed to be there. The only reason Sauron was there, was because Morgoth didn't trust him and he was weaker than the Dragon's and Balrog's and that spot let Morgoth keep Sauron directly under his thumb!
@@12crows1 They literally made him come back to life as a furry poo monster-blob...it's too late for ''classy".
This show is trash of the highest quality.
I heard that Charlie Vickers improvised the crying . It wasn't scripted. And when he was asked why the character was crying ,he didnt give a clear answer.
1 billion dollar show writing
I don't think 'just good v evil' can be that flat, my friend. It will involve politics and more cerebral themes unless it's chess and you just equate the colors to good or evil, BUT; they didn't execute it well here just from a plot-structure POV.
All this crap is written by people who cant get laid.
Simp-Pathetic Sauron
Glug did nothing wrong. #OrcFamilyValues #OrukLivesMatter #JusticeForGlug #StopOrcBullying
I'm perfectly fine with a more nuanced, sympathetic Sauron(crying included), but I feel like it wasn't that well handled in ROP. VIckers though was a knockout in many ways as was Edwards. Welp, that's why fanfic exists. Well, er, different fanfic from ROP.
In a Christian based fantasy world, this show wants you to have sympathy for the devil
it’s just lazy writing,in the Hollywood of today,there’s no good or evil,just shades of gray,that says a lot on their take on morality 🤔
Hi, Nerd Cookie Rant. where are you? Miss your contents. Would you consider commenting on shows like [ From] ? I think it's a pretty good show.