Beta Male Sauron REVEALED in Rings Of Power FINALE! Episode 8 Review
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2022
- The finale episode of The Rings Of Power is here. And sadly, it's a weak finish to an overall lackluster reason.
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I laughed way too hard at "Was this all a big money laundering operation?"
I honsetly would not be surprised if it was.
Of course Halbrand was supposed to be Sauron, he is the only normal and tolerable character in this series. He behaves adequately, does not annoy you to hell, does not behave like a complete sociopath, so who else, if not him, can be an evil overlord?
In this series, the characters who were supposed to be good guys have been turned into complete idiots, sociopaths and Karens, so by this logic, the bad guys should be perfectly normal sensible beings.
true, i dont understand this at all, theyre either incompetent as fck at writing things, or theyre purposefully trying make all the protagonists insufferable whilst making the antagonists actually likeable, like some "oh not all blatantly evil people are that bad!!!", like theyre about to excuse hitler for all his evil doings in an interview or some shit lmfao.
Sadly,verytrue
@@apan990
What's they're not to understand? This same type of stuff was happening pre-WW1. It's been going on for more than 100 years.
Socialist, communist, marxist, fascist.... It's all fundamentally the same, with different management styles.
They destroy everything that doesn't fit their agenda. This is what they do. Cultural subversion and replacement.
That's how Sauron is supposed to be in the books; aggreable and likeable. A brave, down to earth character that the elves would like and trust before he fucks them over royally. And they did a great job portraying that on TV.
@@phishcatt They did a great job of portraying everyone else as total jerks.
My favorite part is when Galadriel kills John Connor with her lightsaber.
Mine is when sauron started twerking with the nazgul.
*Mines is when Optimus prime shows up & transforms into a planted carrot*
😂😂👍👍
When Sauron said "It's Sauring time!" and Saured all over the place, truly one of the moments of all time.
I missed that. Must have fallen asleep. Oh well
He told her that he found the object on a dead man. That clearly it wasn’t his. She made up everything in her own head.
And he did nothing to correct her mistakes, so he was deceiving her and everyone around them the whole time. Dude was playing her from start to end.
@@Alexisking222 Wtf are you smoking
@@lexnight8345 lol am I wrong? He deceived her in the show and was deceptive in the lore.
@@Alexisking222 First , this show has nothing to do with the lore . Second he literally told her that he found that " king symbol " on a dead man ... than he refused to leave Numenor but she forced him to go to the Southlands also she didn't even killed him when she found out... and let the elves build the rings.
@@lexnight8345 Nothing to do with the lore? You must be trolling because you're just wrong. The two trees giving light before the sun and moon... Sauron... Morgoth... Maiar... those are all part of the lore, so you're clearly too pissed to reason effectively. You're just objectively wrong on that point.
He didn't "refuse to leave Numenor", he left... He's Sauron. He's stronger than Galadriel, as was displayed in the finale, so he could have easily overpowered her and said no, just like the finale. Galadriel did assume too much and trust too much, but Sauron never corrected her when she was wrong, which is lying to suit his own ends.
This show completely massacred the character of Galadriel. She's supposed to be one of the wisest elves who was always suspicious of Sauron when he disguised himself as an elf named Annatar to manipulate the elves into making the rings. This Galadriel just completely fell for his tricks, and then DOESN'T TELL ANYONE that he's Sauron. It's ridiculous.
This Galadriel presents Sauron to Numenor and Elves , basically brings in the enemy and ends like a big meme .
“In Eregion Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, sent by them to Middle-earth ("thus anticipating the Istari") or ordered by them to remain there to give aid to the Elves.”
Sauron also named himself Aulendil (“Pupil of Aule the Vala of Crafting”). “Galadriel was not deceived, saying that this Aulendil was not in the train of Aulë in Valinor."
Source: Unfinished Tales, History of Galadriel and Celeborn
Sauron did not disguise himself as an elf, that is common misconception, Tolkien states Sauron presented himself as full-blown angelic emissary from the west. After all, master Noldor smiths who surpassed even elves of Valinor with their craft would not listen to any elf that would come to them.
that was the worst part, she didnt tell anyone XD, the story telling and characterization is just non existent
Yeah, but you forget Amazon Galadriel is a younger version of Galadriel we knew from the Lord of the Rings. It is a younger version... who is way, way older than Elrond, Gil-Galad and Celebrimbor.
Now that I am thinking of it, you are right, it is ridiculous.
@@ghyslainabel yeah I tried rationalise the change in character aswell, ok lets make her an angry teen 24/7 ( it gets annoying very quickly) but shes supposed to be older than some of the more reserved characters in the show that behave more mature and elegantly XD
best moment by far was when galadriel screams "i'm a woman, hear me roar" and slashes the patriarchy neck with one swing. it was a little bit overdone when she said "you bleed now, but i bleed every 28 days", but it doesn't take away from the awesomeness of the first scene.
😂😂
Gold....
Some of us could see that Halbrand was Sauron _before_ Episode 1, from the trailers and other marketing.
Bravo and you welcome to our channel, Join us for our counter ROP series. Mae G'ovannen! Now the evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Take heart for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of Tolkien's Canon displayed out of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
The Sauron & Galadriel “romance” makes perfect sense in this show!
I can see Sauron wanting to be with Galadriel, because he’s actually found a woman more evil than he is!
When she was threatening to kill all of Adar’s “children” orcs first, just to make him suffer before she killed him.
I can see Sauron like “you had me at genocide”.
I will also forgive ROP for leaving out Galadriel’s husband Celeborn, but only if they reveal that he faked his own death to escape that insufferable woman!
not to mention they are not even the same kind of being, Sauron being a maiar and Galadriel being an elf
Sauron be like: Ma Gurl Galadriel! 😍
🤣🤣🤣
Sauron looking at Gahlahhdrrieehll on her steed: *You so. Fucking. Special. When you. **_SMILE._*
Sauron did nothing wrong this entire season. He was being honest about any questions and never even tried to hide he was Sauron when she asked him directly. He assisted the Numenorians. He saved Galadriel and Elendil, meanwhile genocidal Galadriel tried to kill him before she tried to drown herself in the pond for the second time this season...
#SauronDidNothingWrong
... He was being deceptive the whole time, he's just really good at it. So good in fact that he's called Sauron the deceiver. He was doing evil things long before, during and after the show's timeline.
he literally wanted to start a new life in numenor and said to galadriel: "Let me keep my peace, for both our sakes"
Galadriel forced him into this conflict every chance she got, because she always needs to manipulate people into doing what she wants.
@@theamorphousflatsch2699 She doesn't 'manipulate' in the slightest, she out-and-out bludgeons people into doing what she wants.
@@Ass_of_Amalek amen bro. prayers up for sauron 🙏
How did they manage to write a main character for whom you’re supposed to root, but you can’t help yourself hating so bad, because she makes the villain look like the good guy?!
Because everyone involved in this shyte show, are complete and utter amateurs. When Amazon fired Thomas Shippy, that was the end of this project.
He never would’ve allowed such atrocious dialogue and writing, especially when they copied lines from PJ’s LOTR trilogy? It’s embarrassing, how bad they messed up.
@@crazyralph6386 that so true the two show runners spent 10 pitching shows and none of them got one then they give and incompetent pair a billion dollar show😊
I'd be following Sauron if I were in that show.
Isn’t that the point of making Galadriel a flawed hero
He's a strong man, therefore he's evil, come back to reality and WOKE UP !
Galadriel shrewdly manipulates Sauron into joining her quest, but that's exactly what Sauron wanted?! So she has all the power but it's all his fault. This is how to be the aggressor and the victim at the same time.
its the modern whaman ideology ,
they want to be the strong independent whaman that need no men while being the victim of men as well .
gaslighting ... ?
This shit was written by two dudes and you're commenting on a video by a woman tearing the show apart for those exact reasons............................................
Pretty standard behaviour for a lot of women.
He manipulated her from the very beginning, doofus.
Isildur being dead or alive is a masterfully crafted cliffhanger... oh wait
uuuuuhhhm it's not like you know if isildur is a common name mkay
@@Ass_of_Amalek it was his son nimrod
It really is. Maybe the one who chops saurons finger off is his enpowered cousin Isildura
Wait until they ‘subvert expectations’ and genuinely kill off Isildur and have his big tiddy sister cut off the ring 😂
@@marte1081 maybe they just killed off Isildur? I mean its not like the writers care at all about Tolkiens work. They might just kill off Isildur and change the lore even morez by making Nori be the one to cut of Sauron's fingers and ring.
"I would hope you'd have some plan to fight him off"
Plan? This is the woman who jumped off a ship in the middle of an ocean and started swimming.
She's Mary Sue. Her Plot Armor is impenetrable! No matter how idiotic her decisions, Grrrl Power means never facing the otherwise inevitable consequences of such decisions. See also blithely standing still *facing* an approaching pyroclastic flow.
#TeamAdar
She's not much of a Mary Sue after all the ways she failed throughout the show.
Well, one cannot out run a pyroclastic flow, so standing still and facing it is as effective a strategy as any. She's bwave you see.
She's so frigid, the pyroclastic heat freeze around -him- her
she's more like Karen Sue.
I found it particularly funny that the elf, Elindel? Already forgot his name. Told strong single mother that elfs dont have doctors. But a couple episodes later halbrand who is lying in bed dying. Needs to brought to the Elves for medicine. So dying Halbrand climbes on his horse and drives 6 days to the elves....who dont have doctors. Powerfull script guys..
Really I'm rooting for Sauron at this point. At least he's honest, understandable, not a complete Idiot or sociopath. I personally like the change in the acting from Vickers, intense. Of course in comparison to the general bad writing in the show.
He's the most, actually, only charismatic and like-able character in the whole shite-show.
The person who labelled Halbrand as a king is the same person who discovered that he is not a king. These writers are complete trash. No wonder JJ Abrams promoted them.
I'm hoping for a Sauron spin off. He's the best part of ROP.
Nah Adar and his orcs the most likeable characters :)
@@nemo99nemo83 i wouldve enjoyed adar and his orcs had they not been tied to bronwyn or watever her name is and the black 'elf', durin and elronds scenes are still best for me, and even then they were just about average lol.
He could go around Middle Earth teaching dwarves how to mine, and elves how to craft stuff and Numenoreans how to fight and regular humans how to... uh, do human stuff, because apparently no one in this show knows how to do anything they should know how to do so he has to teach them.
The villains are often the best part of the story.
"the dirty vagrant hobbits"
Still laughing.
I really wish those wraith women had torched the entire parade of diverse midgets. Ah well, rabid warg attack in season two 🙏
Should have thrown "hippy" in there somewhere.
@@buybuydandavis That would be insulting to hippies.
So it turns out Sauron could have been a good guy, healing the world and making it a paradise, but instead we got thousands of years full of terror, deaths and sorrow just because stunning and brave Galadriel refused to bend down to the patriarchy as a Queen to a King. Got it!
True story,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So shit Thanos? They can't even do something original making shit up.
He would have been evil either way. Sauron wanted to rule long before he met Galadriel. Fude was alive before the world was created and is a fallen angel of sorts and aligned with Morgoth. He was trying to turn her to his cause, he wasn't even close to being turned to good. He's been toying with her the whole time. Sauron the deceiver.
@@Alexisking222 You're giving the show way too much credit, it has no depth or complexity or heart.
Three times, it was her fault! Halbrand just wanted to retire in Numenor. She forced him to go to the Southlands. There, he was mortally injured. She made sure he got elven healing to save him. Then he offers to rule the world in peace with her as his queen. She goes, "nah uh", and shuts him down, creating the monster we now know as Sauron! Thanks Galadriel!
I love how they just made three rings and cut out all the others, I love how the main character is the most unlikable person on the face of the Earth. I like that everyone and they're dog knew Halbrand was Sauron and the meteor man was Gandolf from the moment they were introduced. Just BUTCHERED wow the creators must HATE Tolkien and his legacy
Lambchoppa - you realize that because the 3 elven rings have now been forged (forged in 1590 S.A.), that Pharazon (and indeed the show) will now have to live on another 1729 years before Numenor falls? It was Pharazon building a great armament and sailing to the undying lands that led to the downfall of Numenor, but that happened in 3319 S.A., a full 1729 years later - Numenoreans were long lived, as long as 400 years, but 1729 years? No way!
@@chriswilkinson8062 Yeah, they're basically compressing two thousand years of the Second Age in to five years or so.
Meteor man/Gandelf is a buffoon while Sauron is elegant and sensible. While Galadriel is neither elegant or sensible, is a buffoon, but is more evil than Sauron.
Let's praise our Karen Queen! wooooooooooooo!
Best part of the show was Galadriel trying to attack Sauron and him casually stopping her because even this show thought that would be ridiculous.
When Galadriel donned the mech loader and yelled at the Balrog to get away from Elrond I literally clapped
_"Send women away, don't listen to them; bitches be crazy and troublemakers."_ -Lauren Chen
In conclusion: Sauron is a good guy who wants to make up for his past mistakes and save the world
Everyone has their own spin on "what's wrong with Rings of Power", and it is enjoyable (and addictive) to watch or read everyone's take. My own view is that -- while all the individual problems are worth discussing in detail -- the CORE problem with the series boils down to a single small but critical issue. The overhead shot of the three rings confirmed this to me, so much that I shouted at my computer screen. If they were selling these things on ShopChannel for $9,95, Id think it was a rip-off even WITH the blended-in Mithril. How could the finest craftsmen and smiths in the whole of Middle Earth make such cheap-looking trash?
Everything wrong with this series boils down to the same thing: Nobody in the production - neither cast, crew, writers or ANYONE -- bothered to pay any real attention to THE DETAILS.
That is what makes the RoP disaster so obviously NOT Tolkien. The Details!
The scent of hay in the meadows after the fall mowing ... The taste of strawberries and cream ... Rosie Cotton dancing ...
Nobody cared about the details when making this elaborate farce. And it shows in every single dimension of the show.
People have commented on the cheap-looking costumes, but have you ever considered the fact that Celeborn has been wearing exactly the SAME CLOTHES for the entire eight episodes? I think the same is true of Gil-Galad. And Im not even gonna comment on the filthy hobbittsses. Little things -- like the fact that nobody walks around in metal armor unless they are expecting to be in battle at any moment -- are what ruins the show. How come the villagers accepted Halbrand as their "lost king" if there actually had been no King of the Southlands for 1000 years? Meh. Details. How could mithril be absolutely essential for the survival of every elf in Middle Earth, and we are facing imminent death ... but a few little chips of ore mixed with pure gold and silver is enough to save the entire race? Meh. Details. Ships arent big enough to hold the required number of cavalry and supplies? Meh. Details. The sun rises in the west? Meh. Details.
"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. These are the things that matter."
Nobody ever really LOVED this show. And it is obvious. Its also obvious that nobody ever will.
To this day the horrendous jewelry is the most offensive thing to me. Espacially the cheap gold plated things the dwarven wear.
‘What’s an Alloy?’
~ Celebrimbor, *WORLDS GREATEST SMITH/CRAFTSMAN*
Not only do they not love or understand it, I think they actively scorn it, with the stunning arrogance to believe they can do better than Tolkien. So they gave us mousy, vengeful Karen, had her shriek for the manager, then drag a reluctant and obvious Sauron to the elves, because she’s not very bright.
I remember when Galadriel was donned in full armor while boarding a Numenor ship. And she still is wearing the armor on the ship even when she was far from Numenor land. I was wondering why she hadn't taken it off yet. If only the writers knew what everyone else knows: how heavy and uncomfortable metal armor is...
@@Nopeasaurus She was wearing the same metal breastplate from the time they left Numenor until AFTER she and Sauronbrand arrived in Eregion. Even with the show's crazy timeline, that's probably more than a month.
Eeeeeewwwwwwwww!
'You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.' - Dennis, Monty P. and the Holy Grail.
The money went directly to Sauron, who played Galadriel
You are right about Galadriel not informing the others. Which by the way allows Sauron to walk free for weeks to Mordor.
I think this show is something else than woke or plainly stupid. Something must have happened during the production process.
It happened way before the production process. It happened when J.J. Abrams drew on the power of nepotism and literally handed two of his friends the career opportunity of a lifetime. Those two people happened to be the showrunners Mckay and Payne. That's right. J.J. Abrams suggested these two guys for the job. They weren't hired, because they somehow had good vision or for their merits, but only due to their connections.
Everything these days seems to be some kind of money laundering scheme
@@whitegoose2017 Welcome to how the world has always worked.
Huge money laundering operation. The entire project was made to fail so that it could be a tax write off.
@@whitegoose2017 J.J Abrams is already known to reboot and destroy franchises while inserting peak wokeness. So his recommandations must be even worse.
That line about this show being a huge money laundering operation. OOF. So true because, also true, this show looks straight out of the CW. I'd been screaming about the costumes and sets, especially the costumes since we started getting our first glimpses of the show through promotional images. I'm just baffled how a show with this amount of money can be this bad, and why they seemingly went out of their way to defecate all over Tolkien's lifelong work. The disrespect and the hubris. None of these people should ever be allowed in Hollywood ever again after this trash.
but the defecation was the whole _point_ of creating Rinks of Powder. It's the whole point of every reboot and remake in current era.
The point is to destroy western civilization, besmirch its past, sever people's ties to its culture and heritage, and replace it with socialist slavery. That's why "diversity" means "stick sub-Saharans everywhere they don't belong and condemn anyone who opposes it". That's why Guyladriel was made an iconic Karen Sue. Why every male, especially the European-derived stock, was an incompetent p-ssy.
I’ve been saying that about the costumes too, some armor looked like it had been made for a school project..
I agree that I don’t see the chemistry between Galadriel and Halbrand (& she supposed to be long since married to someone else). Also, the logic is missing when it comes to Galadriel continuing to make the rings & Halbrand not killing Galadriel.
To be fair, Halbrand was one of the few strong possibilities to be Sauron (apparently the books describe his appearance during this time as “fair”) “He’s Sauron” “Why do you say that?” “Cause he’s hot” 😂
Yes, Galadriel of those times continuing with anything related to Annatar's (aka Sauron) plan is nonsense. Yet Sauron not killing Galadriel on those many occasions he had is quite "by the book". The logic behind it is... OK. 1. Every male creature either falls in love with Galadriel or worships her (if he is her close relative or has another love interest), 2. Mayar can fall in love with Elves and they can respect and even admire Elves (and not only), 3. Sauron is a Maya, usually wearing male body. Never underestimate Mary Sue's created by great authors 🙂
He is described as "fair" in this time, and his name is Annatar. He arrives at the Elven kingdoms stating he was sent by the Valar. The real Galadriel (also Elrond) is immediately distrustful of him. He then moved on to Celebrimbor who he flattered, taught his ring-lore to, and helped forge the rings for Men and Dwarves. It was only after he left that Celebrimbor forged the 3 Elven rings, which were not able subject the wearers to Saurons dominion, since they were not forged by him, but were made using his ring-lore, and so were weakened and made unusable when Sauron crafted and used the One ring. The show throws all of this in the trash for their useless fanfic.
"Look how they massacred our girl Galadriel."
I hope the writers don't have a message for us because if they do they're gonna be teaching our young that the sea is always right and that the stone doesn't float because it looks down.
And how not to answer a question someone just asked you.
I don't watch this show but the reviews entertain me. What you said about the costumes is spot on 🤣 can't believe you are the only commentator I have heard pointing that out.
What I'm getting from the reactions I've seen is that they made galadriel so unlikeable that people are on Sauron's side
Yes, I’ve developed Stockholm syndrome as a side effect of awful acting
I liked Galadriel in the show tbh. I don't get all the hate towards her.
It’s also beyond weird that Sauron pretends to be her dead brother when trying to seduce her To The Dark Side, and NOT her actual husband - the one she forgot to mention for 7-8 episodes.
Jeff Bezos did say he wanted to make the next Game of Thrones using Tolkien's IP...
That observation on the intended message and the real message... genious!
I've not watched the show, but people saw these twists coming when they announced Galadriel was going to travelling with some mysterious stranger lol.
Bravo and we have done the same...not watch it, and Join us for our counter ROP series. Mae G'ovannen! Now the evidence is clear, and none can deny that "ROP" is not of Tolkien. Take heart for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN that makes robustly clear the heresy of Tolkien's Canon displayed out of the showrunner's mouths and hearts. They probably know nothing of Tolkien's masterpiece, as evident from their interview in the Vanity Fair Article. For "they who proclaim to loveth Tolkien, yet understandeth, not his world view can neither hope to create a new film, show, or series of his secondary world." "Auta i lóme!" and" Aurë entuluva!"
I love that every reviewer has their own pejorative nickname for the Harfoots.
They are nasty little creatures, I'm guessing the scriptwriters based the Harfoots on themselves.
Seems that’s the status quo. It sucks that I was raised to see absolutely no difference in Human Beings based off skin color. Hell I raised my children the same way. Now they are confused because people like me are the scourge of the world. 😢
I live in a homogenous nation where everyone around me are pretty much white. I think that Black people are an oddity around here to the point that if you see one they stand out from the crowd and you know what? That's okay. It's even the same for Asiatic people. My brother has a Japanese wife. She stands out from the crowd. She looks different, she is much shorter than everyone else. There's this weird ideological aspect about western culture today where the MESSAGE is as follows: "treat everyone as if you're all the same"
..But we're not the same. Never have been. You can treat others differently, but still be respectful about it. We do this all the time with family, friends and strangers. We do this to foreigners too.
Rings of Power fails on first sight, because it is essentially amalgamation of all modern political (and consumerist) viewpoints in a single package. None of the human settlements we see in the show have any culture of their own. Even the Elves seem like they're just humans with longer ears, so in essence, they are just all the same. All the varying races or ethnicities are represented in the show in all of the 'factions' present in RoP as if it is completely normal. No one stands out, because 'we are all the same' according to the people making this show. The only faction in this show that seemed to have a semblance of culture were the sociopathic troglodytes called Harfoots, but sheesh..
I could write a four or five pages long essay alone on why ethnicity is important in casting the show, but then I would be immediately called a reishist for doing so. I'm reminded of a movie called The Last Samurai. How authentic would that movie feel if 'Hollywood modernity' was imposed on it and you'd have that random African Samurai out there fighting as if he belonged to the crowd? Meh. Why do people even have to ask these questions as if this was not something completely obvious in the first place?
@@whitegoose2017 The majority of people today are extremely stupid. It may sound strange but yes they really are. I don't know if its due to the conditioning and brainwashing or just nature trying to weaken humanity and it's society. Yes, they tells us that we are all the same and yet my eyes and facts tell me otherwise. Why do people believe those lies? I really don't know. What i do know is the intentions behind the lie - to wipe out Europe and the rest of the West as a civilization. This is why they constantly assault our pride, culture and identity not shying from censorship and public ridicule on you and your loved ones for standing up for your people. The other assault is on our people as a different ethnicity. The EU for example intentionally makes our life worse, not taking any measure to ease us or to promote european families. Instead they flood us with dangerous people from other countries who actually hate us, to let's just say it, replace us. They rationalize like Edward Longshanks from Brave Heart - If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
Ethnicity is VERY important when it comes to worldbuilding and in real life. Them ignoring key biological and societal facts like indigenous people is intentional. If they cared about making a compelling world they would make different people and cultures to stand out but this is against the message they are trying to push down our throats. It is not about the money or art, it is about sending this message. Those people are Leftist activists who hate white people especially white families. This is the lore breaking reason why Celeborn was removed, a key character. Because in the lore Galadriel and Celeborn are happily married, this is a no no for them. White men should be demonized. But what to do more? Oh, invent a sister for Isildur that complains how white men hold her back because she is a woman...
Don't expect anything good from such blackened hearts. White men for years are portrayed as unlikable, hostile and weak people. The only romance couple out there? A blackwashed elf and a white woman. I literally called it even before this show started. I know how those scum operate. It is like they are following instructions from someone. Let me tell you, nothing is a coinsidence and this push is too organized and coordinated to be one.
"Evil cannot create it can only corrupt that which is good".
Bruh. Sauron was always supposed to be a white male in the lore of the second age
@@Alexisking222 So were the elves and dwarfs.
@@Adam-sd2ow Elves I can understand because they're described as fair, but I don't know of any Tolkien writings that specifically make Dwarves pale.
This is what happens when one billion dollars is cast into the fire.
Straight to mount doom
In the book Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien there are 2 women who perform glorious deeds and equal or exceed anything done by men, elves or dwarves. Eowyn and Galadriel are powerful and amazing female characters who steal the scenes when they appear in the story. Even Aragorn and Gandolf must bow to these incredible women. Why would anyone want to diminish and trivialize them for a buck? Vandalism!
Eowyn is a selfish, self-centered, glory-hunting brat. There's nothing powerful, and especially nothing amazing about her, except that Tolkien managed to write a 21st century female in the middle of the 20th.
Yes, Galadriel is a powerful and amazing being... and the epitome of femininity.
I loved that scene where she shows up to the battle and shows everyone why she doesn’t need a sword and armor to kick ass….oh wait that didn’t happen. I guess they didn’t have enough money in the budget to hire creative writers who could tell her story in an exciting way.
ill be honest i think they paid more to NOT have creative writers, otherwise it would go against their anti-tolkein message theyre forcing down our throats. no way would any respectable writer stand for whats happening, even simply putting lore aside on that matter. so they had the money to get better writers, its just they chose not to instead they chose puppets who they can control and shove their crappy message into the show.
@@apan990 Its like they aren’t interested in making an enjoyable story, their only interest is preaching their woke religion. I wouldn’t really care about them making the story woke if it was entertaining but they just took their generic woke script and put a Tolkien skin on it. Watching this feels just like watching the wheel of time or the woke star war’s trilogy.
Their only defense being "but millions of people watched it" is not actually a defense. It doesn't mean anything, because most of the people are normies who just sit in front of the TV and just look at their show list to choose somth to watch. They've watched much shittier things, so of course they would watch something which is on the main page and which they've seen the ads everywhere. It doesn't mean the show is good. Did they actually get Amazon subscription just for this show? That would show the quality.
Millions of people watched Hitler speeches
They way they " sampled " those millions of views tells us all we need to know
Galadriel: "where's Sauron! I've been looking for him for a thousand years and I'm sure he's up to no good! I must find him to avenge my brother and protect my people!"
halbrand: "guess what! I'm Sauron, I killed your brother, I'm now going to use your people to make deadly weapons! How about joining me in bed for a little ultimate power?"
Galadriel: "Can't you see I'm powerful enough already! you foolish man!"
Halbrand: "booohoo! she wouldn't sleep with me! Now I'm off to destroy the world!"
Elrond: "who was that guy who just left?"
Galadriel: "nobody important, by the way those ultimate weapons he wanted? Why don't we make even more of them! I'm sure that would be good for our people!"
Let's also acknowledge the fact that Galadriel is the oldest elf in middle earth. The king is literally her nephew and she acts like an angry 20 year old Karen.
No, Cirdan is older.
Hey! First time watcher, absolutely awesome! Very diverting and amusing 😆 It's genuinely funny to see you try to put it all the suck into words or a coherent context. Top Drawer appraisal Miss!
Cheers!
The showrunners announced that they want to make Sauron a tragic character like Walter White of Breaking bad. This tells us the kind of insight they have on this character. Sauron is a Maia. He is akin to an angelic/ semi divine being. He doesn't act up when rejected in romance . He doesn't have base human frailties. His characterization was set in stone by Tolkien .This guy waged over middle earth for thousands of year , you are telling me he did all for a failed romantic relationship with Galadrial?
The showrunners obviously wanted something of a mix between Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, because these shows were successful. They probably didn’t even read the books or the material they got the rights to, just had some cliff notes on names and places. Discard the mythology in order to fit in their bad GoT-BB crossover fanfic. And are surprised at the backlash 🙄 just shows how clueless, arrogant and ignorant they are
The thing I am seeing now looking back after watching the show was that way way too many coincidences had to happen for this plot to happen:
1) Galadriel decides to literally jump ship and thinks she can actually swim back to land across a ocean basically
2) In the midst of that, she just so happens to find a raft and who else just so happens to be on it (Oh Sauron!)
3) Sauron decides to save Galadriel when he probably knew full well who she was!
4) Galadriel assumes he's the right person to be King of the Southlands due to something he has (Sauron by the way told her that he got it off a dead man!)
5) They just so happen to then get rescued by Numenor and Elendil of all people to survive being adrift at sea
6) Halbrand/Sauron tells Galadriel he's content with staying in Numenor, but Galadriel somehow convinces the Numenorians to go war for her without any political grace/prowess whatsoever so that Halbrand/Sauron can be the King of the Southlands. Reminder, she has no real proof why he's the right man to be King of the Southlands!
7) Halbrand/Sauron still doesn't want to go, but once Galadriel plays the emotional blackmail game on him, he decides to go (Galadriel forced Sauron to go to war!)
8) Halbrand/Sauron gets severely wounded (off-screen by the way) to where he needs medical attention, but can survive a 6 day horse ride to Eregion of all places
9) Celebrimbor just immediately trusts this guy who literally came out of nowhere to forge the rings of power and Sauron knows what to do with the mithril in a matter of days
10) Once Celebrimbor says a few choice words, Galadriel then finally starts to wonder who Halbrand really is instead of when they were in Numenor
11) When the truth is revealed, Sauron decides to let Galadriel live when it seems he had the opportunity to at least kill her before he fled
12) Also, we only know the 3 rings of power were forged for the elves, but what about the 7 and the 9 rings Sauron helped forge with Celebrimbor?
I rest my case on this show relying to heavily on coincidences if you made it this far LOL!
Some of those can be explained by Sauron being an expert manipulator, but the whole deal of Galadriel trying to swim back across the ocean and randomly running into a raft containing Sauron is just plain stupid. Really once you get to that point, the writing is already so bad that it doesn't matter.
@@taragnor the shows a total shit show!
Liked the video at the beginning when you said this was a Herculean effort to get through, wish I could like it again towards the end when you asked if this was a money laundering operation lol
It’s more disappointing than watching the Chicago Bears on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football.
Fell asleep on that too…
@@nvillajuan Andor does numbers for a good night sleep
I thought Gladriaiel was gonna be Sauron. Oh, well, she'll always be Sauron in my heart.
We all know it will be Trump as Sauron by season 3 or Elon Musk.
@@TempoLOOKING That's how the media will betray it... but we all know it's really Biden. (The dark lord and destroyer of worlds.) =].
That's the thing with trying to force fake ideologies into every form of media. It has the opposite effect in the end
They should have never shown that shot of Halbrand as Sauron walking to Mordor, then they would have left it open for us to think maybe Galadriel (post being saved by Elrond) is actually Halbrand shapeshifting as Galadriel and helping forge the Elves rings. I was excited about that idea until they showed Halbrand walking to Mordor then its like oh.. lame.
Great review and analysis! Top CZcams channel! Keep it up!
I dropped my entire Amazon account over this. I've been biting the bullet, and paying more when I want to order stuff.
Das tegrity
"....bitches be crazy..."😂😂😂😂
They turned one of the most legendary and epic parts of Tolkien’s Lore into an absolute polyglot of putrefied and boring plot holes and forced contrivances, and somehow crammed it all into one episode. The rest of the season was absolutely pointless... I cant wait to continue not watching it.
No more meat or killing hardfoots?
By episode 3 this was the show I put on when I was napping or going to bed. Nothing kept me engaged, but hey, I got through the series.
Same, I was watching it to fill empty hours
Galadriel was right all along yet she hung out and promoted Sauron for 7 of the 8 episodes. And this is after she was searching for him for what, a 1000 years. Cognitive dissonance.
I know what their ultimate plan is. Guyladriel is the real Sauron and Halbrand was just a decoy. She acts evil and cruel. She pushed for the making of the elven rings. She already led to the death of hundreds of people. Guyladriel is Annatar.
My theory makes more sense than the entire Rings of Gurl Power.
Its so painful, I hoped this series would be something to help out with living in this world right now. This failure is beyond the pale. We all needed something to pick us up, and instead, we got this pathetic poopoo. Listening to the two guys that ran this show, in an interview explains it all, superficial egomaniacal nonsense. These guys have no depth no character, what else could we expect.
The only relief and stimulation I get from this bazilion dollar flop is that I have a new appreciation for the word woke. Now I can see why so many people are disgusted with the left.
The idea that Amazon can try to blame us for being racist is enough to inspire a revolution.
And I would consider myself a tree hugger
10:20. My speculation is that most of the money went into the CGI. Mostly because the show uses it so often as well as the fact that almost a 1/4 of the end credits on the show is nothing BUT staff that worked on the CGI. I also suspect the marketing for this show must be obscene, with the amount of "positive spin" some YT channels have been generating for this show, as well as the mass negative review purges and the "superfan" events and associated costs to the special screener for this show probably also took a chunk out of the budget.
I'd want to know what the cost breakdown for this show actually was. Should be an interesting analysis. :/
well it didnt go on costumes they are terrible the orcs had exactly the same white plastic helms on when attacking the village they didnt even paint them lol. also alot of the crowds are copy and pasted so im thinking a few people took the lions share of that money
That’s probably why the hobbits are so dirty - dirt is a free makeup! 😂 gotta cut corners somewhere in a billion dollar production!
Cost breakdown - $127.30 on creating the show, the rest on trying to wipe the unfavourable reviews and negative backlash from existence, and paying the woke enablers to tar any critics with the ----ist brush
It's ok if they want to pretend Sauron is a representation of evil white men.
Me, what I gathered from the show is that Galadriel - even though you would think a 1000 years old being would be composed and wise - was a petty, arrogant irrational and manipulative brat, and she enabled - was even essential to - the rise of evil Sauron. LOL.
11:51 that's so true... Hollywood really seems like the paradise of failing upwards, the amount of writers who still get very high profile jobs after working on terrible projects is staggering. I guess understanding the intricacies of writing for movies and TV is a very rare skill and they have to hire the same people because no one else can do it?
I love All the Laurens! All of them, but you're the best Lauren to me. Love your work, and your honesty. Sorry my nose got a little brown.
These writers are not fans of Tolkien.They were hired to do a job. Borings of power is insulting in its very existence.
maybe the real Sauron was the friend we made along the way
Why are the shareholders not demanding to see the Financials for this mess ?
I watched several female run review channels to see their take on this, and they all hate Galadriel. It reinforces my belief that your normal average everyday person regardless of skin color or gender really hates the identity politics in today's entertainment.
Also the "strong female character" archetype takes traits from other male characters but not their arcs making them mismatched and infuriating. Need them to be a leader always taking charge of the group? Make them show actual leadership and motivate the team and not treat them like they're just extras. Want them to be a jerk to people? You need to make them ending up having to choose between their own goal/wants or the wants/welfare of others. Actual choices that villains would seem as a trivial one with going along with their selfish natures without a second thought.
the problem with this with strong female character is that they would do the same things a lot of times that villains do but it's used as a good thing instead of making it the more morally complex action that it is. It only works for fools or for the first time until you think about it then it becomes irritating when you see it again.
Absolutely. She doesn’t come off as strong, anyway. She’s mousy and petulant and kind of… evil. Hollywood doesn’t understand women. (Or anyone, regardless of gender or race or anything).
Dr. Evil ( pinky in corner of mouth): ONE BILLIIIOOONN DOLLARS!
The jab at the costumes made my day
I think they should’ve made The Rings of Power a series of shows and movies that fits into the timeline and tells many stories which would tie together but also be independent
Here's what amuses me...
When the Peter Jackson trilogy came out, I hadn't read the books in decades...
And I got real pissed off that Gandalf, a wizard... used a _sword_ .
I got pissed that _Gandalf_ used a sword... then Rinks of Powder said, "Hold my soy-beer".
Earned my 'like' this video when you pointed out "none of the characters are likable" because I took notice that about a lot of modern media. My hypothesis is that the writers are morally, mentally and ethically garbage as human beings with heads filled with narcissism and insane ideology, who are not likable themselves, do not understand what makes a person relatable ( _in_ _the_ _actually_ _real_ _sense_ _of_ _shared_ _humanity_ , which the writers have scrubbed away with ideological self-brainwashing) likable, and takes all the trash of traits they and their "friends" identify with as what 'representative' or 'relatable'
It's funny about the Stranger being Gandalf because the wizards didn't appear in Middle-Earth until the third age, after the Last Alliance that temporarily defeated Sauron. He had nothing to do with the making of the rings or that story.
So....Bottom line is:
Sauron is a good fellow hoping to embrace the light and to save the world and Galadriel is a psycho with killer instinct...well, if a twist is what they were looking for, that’s indeed a twist.
I wonder....do the “writers” proofread their scripts once they are done, or we are watching some sort of drafts put together for the sake of finishing a job on time? Like, seriously, there are middle graders fully capable of writing way better than that as a schoolwork
"None of these characters are likeable"
#TeamAdar would like a word.
And the three sorcerers..who set the halfoots homes on fire..and killed Lenny Henry.. lol best peeps
For the episodes I did watch, I was #TeamOrc all the way. :/
@@sigmacademy
We prefer #TeamUruk.
Anyone going to bring up the fact that Galadriel is MARRIED this entire time?!!
Sauron the 2nd act of evil in the 2nd age. Idiots make Sauron a simp for GUYladriel. Sorry Sauron isn't capable of simping for any woman. He loves himself and his mission and his obedience to Morgoth, so he cannot fall in love like a love sick moron. Sauron is the ultimate evil, a symbol of masculine power, but Amazon couldn't wait to turn him into a woman.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
So, it's over, thank you for reviews. Any fan adaption of this tomfoolery needs a counter for lore-breaks and a laugh track (possibly non-stop) to put this in proper context.
Gala had one of her peoples check Hally's social media and found out she was getting played but she thought she was playing him. Playa got played !
Amazon did this for a HUGE tax write off.
Souron literally stated that he got the crest from a dead man. The elven rings are the ugliest and gaudiest rings I have ever seen. It also seemed strange that they had three gems and then considered making two rings.
I think Galadriel is just wanting Middle Earth to be saved for her, not for him...."and that is why I will never be at your side."
What's bad and funny about the finale is that they made Guyladriel a villain in this show and not Sauron.
This is the best review of Rings of Power I have seen.
Friday night tikes
imagine if halbrand kissed galadriel and then told her, btw, im sauron
LOL
"Belongs on the CW". 😅🤣😂 Boom! 💥 You nailed it!
I've yet to see Sauron's cousin Zordon.
Where did you get those paintings behind you?
They got anymore?
They ruined Galadriel. I mean massacred her character. And they should have acquired rights to Annatar.
She liked his mojo. “I know you’re bad for me, but I’m crushing on you…” Timeless…
1:46 yep... everyone called it since day 1. The writing assumes the audience is as incompetent as the writers.
Galadriel you silly goose. You created Sauron.
On purpose. Their enemy is not Sauron. To the producers against the Patriarchy, post modernists all, the enemy that must be defeated is the West. Aragorn most symbolized the West in LoTR; so the most Aragorn-like character in this show must be...Sauron.
Contrast him with:
Elrond the Friendzone
Elendil the I Understand
Islidur the Oops
Gil Galad the Huh?
Galadriel the PrimeMoverBestestEva
and the Nazgurls
And you have your post modern endeavor. Their professors are proud
I posted my last comment before watching this video because I was impressed by your title. But this is to say that if there was ever a show that doesn't deserve one's full attention it's this one. I can barely cope with clips shown by reviewers, wouldn't touch the show itself for anything in the world.
In fact lately I would just play reviews to give Tolkien defenders the clicks, but I couldn't even watch them in their entirety.
The official guy for Amazon That was supposed to look over admitted he fell asleep to it
At first I was afraid the show wouldn't be faithful to the source material, until I saw Galadriel in Numenor speaking in the local AAVE dialect while skateboarding and dunking a basketball.
That's when I knew the show was in good hands.
I remember that moment in Disney SW where I started rooting for the discount empire too.