The Rings Of Power - A Billion Dollar Nightmare
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- Sometimes TV shows exceed our expectations, other times they meet them exactly. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power from Amazon is the latter.
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As a woman, I honestly find it more insulting when writers make the women 'strong and flawless' and all of the men beta and pathetic, because to me it just looks like they're saying 'we can only make women look strong when they're standing next to a weak, totally useless man'.
@The wock thx
really?!
I would've been insulted if I were a woman because they think you're so pathetic that if they show you as anything less than perfect you'll break down, cry and will never be able to amount to anything ever in your life, because you're also such an NPC that you can only be something if you've seen another woman do it in film
its really demeaning.
That's exactly the unintended message they are sending by including those tropes!
YES. there have been many memorable women in movies who kicked ass and didnt require the supporting cast to be useless/weak/stupid. they played to their strengths... Sarah Conners determination and Ripleys intelligence and resourcefulness spring immediately to mind. its a hollow victory when you cheat to win and thats what todays writing is basically doing with their female characters.
The part where I didn't watch the show at all was truly inspiring.
Me too, I shed a tear from not having seen any of it and it's something I'll always be grateful for.
I was looking forward to it for over a year but the second I saw the one single Dwarf and one single Elf of Peace I knew it was going to be composted garbage. They literally had their finger hovering over the POST ABOUT RACIST BACKLASH ARTICLE before the first trailer even aired
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😄😄!
That was the best part.
The part where Gandalf tries to kill the Nazgûl king and the king says “no man can kill me” and Gandalf says “did you just assume my gender!?”
Truly inspiring
And that scene proves that the Nazgûl was merely a corrupted human, while Gandalf was a maiar.
I used to do that to people online. It's so funny when it lands and they get uncomfortable and start apologizing
this isn't an actual scene in the show is it?
JFC
@@duuuuude1526 It is. By identifying as a young blonde lady, Gandalf is able to kill the Nazgul.
@@letswaveabook3183 Not entirely correct. He doesn't KILL the Nazgul, he drives the Nazgul to killing himself.
The part where Galadriel screams "Black Lives Matter" and charges at Sauron was awe-inspiring
you mean 'charges at Kanye' (see his new t-shirt)
@@pigeonpoo1823 When Galadriel and Kayne West dethroned Donald Trump I was In tears 😭 It was so inspiring!
This doesn't feel ironic
@Classic Tate Lmao you think you win? Jokes on you dude! Now I know how to make Air Fried Potato Wedges!
I loved the part where Morgoth was revealed to be a misunderstood trans black woman, who was totally betrayed by the white men around her. That hit me right in the feels.
The part where Amazon said "It's not about the money, it's about sending a message" as it lit a massive money mountain of $1 billion on fire was the most shocking thing I ever witnessed.
@Be Straight She certainly has the acting skill of a potato while lacking the appeal thereof.
*spending a message
Like the Joker lighting his share of the cash on fire, Jeff Bezos just wants to watch the world burn.
@@OscarSchneegans I think he wants to deliver the matches too
Some writers just want to see the show burn.
I loved the part where the Dark Lord Bezos wasted a billion dollars. So stunning. So brave.
favourite part
But he saved a bunch of money by using security footage of a Fulfillment Center as a stand-in for Mordor. :D
lmao, Bezos dont wasted a dime on it and will be perfectly fine anyway, his corporate management (aka saurons) will be able to cover any losses from hardship of desperate and cornered amazon workerdrones legion and government shady tax cuts. Like they always do.
*laundered
Good one! :D
When Galadriel screamed “protect trans kids” I broke down crying-
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I have a funny feeling - more people watched Critical Drinker's review than finished the actual 1st season.
Critical Drinker's review currently sitting at 3,600,000 views. So I would say that was one accurate prediction. 😃
Just finished it now, have to say it, its not as bad as he makes out to be, i actually liked it a lot.
@@drbru8307I feel like you wont remember any of it by next week
@@drbru8307I’m sorry that you like garbage…
About This garbage in particular, Sometimes its nice, sometimes its not, i admit that its not perfect, it takes a long time to get somewere and when it gets there, it gets out fast, but its not that bad, not like he makes it look anyway@@Gunnar001
The part where Sauron acknowledges his fault and agrees to reduce his carbon emissions by using the ring of wind power was a beautiful redemption arc
This is the best comment. I literally Lol'd
I can just imagine a geothermal generator slapped into Mount Doom.
This sort of implies that by the third age, he'd determined that a full switch to renewables was infeasible while meeting his economic objectives...
Windmill on the Eye when?
@@HasanKhanDDS I too, did lol
The really strange thing about this show is that the writers expect you to know the source material without actually using it themselves.
Here is the full clip : night of ring best scene
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It's a deliberate poke in the eye for people who know the lore, but doesn't bother the normies (so long as they aren't bothered by low quality storytelling). Precision guided munitions, taking out the target with minimal collateral damage.
Someone should probably have told them mithril was also on fond on Numenor and Aman.
1:13 What movie/series is this scene from?
Man, it's funny how Peter Jackson's crew made a masterpiece with a fraction of a budget of what Rings of Power had
And speaking of those rings: What kind of a forging job is that? Did they actually want to insinuate that the mithril pushes the properties of gold and silver over that of pure mithril? Because those tiny three rings they ended up with out of material saving worries look like they could have just made them out of the pure mithril nugget they had. No need to melt an elven dagger and its whole not-gold-or-silver blade into it that they surely had to separate out again somehow.
It's just one more of so many careless writing/directing decisions. "Don't think about it" is that show's mantra, and that's obviously bad.
@@Dowlphin Actually for a company that threw billions at attempting to make anything near what Jackson did, using Mithril as some kind of magical element is not only lazy writing it is frighteningly accurate for them as a group. They have absolutely no ability to understand that Tolkien had written that the 3 rings were imbued with the power of their creators. Elvish magic as well as their characteristic soulful love of nature, and the world itself, and therefore the main power of preserving life, nature, and preservation of the world itself, and holding back that which attempts to destroy nature, and the natural world in favor of everything unnatural and dare I say monetary. The fact that they try to use Mithril as some kind of replacement for the elvish magic, and elvish spiritual connection to nature by using some trumped up (see the irony in the term "trumped" ) story line that Mithril wasn't a "naturally" occurring metal with it's own characteristics that was "found" by the dwarves, but was somehow imbued with it's existence from the trees of light is just a really poor attempt at creative writing. === Because the trees existed in Valinor, the undying lands...NOT in Middle-Earth...Mithril for one would NOT have come to existance in Middle Earth the way they try to write it did...it just isn't in any way good writing...it is so lazy, and "short cut" like writing it is SICKENING!
@@brianmatthews1736 Elven.magic isn't explained in Tolkien's writing, it's more something that is felt. The elves are the place, and the place is the elves. Lothlorian is gone when the Elves are gone. In a sense it's a bit like the force - certainly inspired by Tolkien.
Say whatever you want about the Hobbit trilogy. But at least Jackson tried to remain true to the spirit of Tolkien and LotR when he made them, and he didn't deliberately try to wreck the story behind it. Yes, they could have been done better, I know. But I'll take the Hobbit trilogy over RoP any day of the week.
I believe there's a negative correlation between budget and quality...but that's just me.
I've always loved the phrase "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" Because if Orcs know what menus are, then they know what restaurants are. The implications regarding the service industry in Mordor are staggering.
Mind blown
Fuck off XD
I not once have ever thought about that, yet it makes sense. I’ve seen the movies more times then I can count (yes the extended) but I’m glad I saw your comment because it’s made me laugh for a good 20 seconds before actually thinking about the civilian/military logistics of Mordor/Isengard.
🤣 you're not wrong 👍🏻
but for some reason that ball drop in the script didn't bother me.
@@john-ic5pzIt was definitely meant to be a funny line, in fairness to the movie 😂
I went to the Dark Tower: Las Vegas and lived on gloom-service for a week.
The biggest insult about the quote, "it felt natural to us that the script should reflect the world we live in today," is that Tolkien was a veteran of the hellish trenches of WWI. The world he lived in was bleak, industrial, cruel, and deadly. The story and world he made was about the good in people burning brightly against the darkness that threatens to extinguish it. It is where noble souls struggle against impossible odds and, through the triumph of valor, selflessness, and comraderie, push the darkness that threatens the world back. It ultimately does not defeat darkness forever, but we get this beautiful view into a world that could be. Middle earth was never a reflection of the "modern world" but rather an escape from it.
If I recall correctly, he enlisted with his friends and got typhoid so he had to go back home. When the war ended he'd found out that each and every person he'd fought with had died. He wrote his stories not to justify war, but to show its true cruelty and unnecessarily high death tolls. It's a rotten shame that people are interpreting his stories differently now. And the amount of gore they put into TRoP was unrealistic. People don't bleed like that, ask Christopher Lee, the actor for Saruman. Stupid corrupt Amazon and their immediate purchase of Middle-Earth's rights instantly after Christopher Tolkien's death is also incredibly angering. They were waiting for him to die, and weren't in the slightest sorrowful that the successor to arguably the greatest fantasy author of all time had passed. It was a cash grab to them from the beginning, and ended up being a pocket-emptying failure.
"Tolkien is for everyone."
Rings of Power is for no one.
@@daniel4412 You're clearly a zoomer with absolutely zero understanding of Tolkien's work. Quick, call me racist for disagreeing with you.
Their heads would explode if they attempted to read and understand what you wrote
Absolutely perfect description.
The part where Guyladriel looks at the Ring and confidently anounces "It will be perfect, when it fits a woman", well, it truly brought me to tears.
That was truly one of the moments of modern cinema of all times!
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It needed more morbing.
It did shrink from Sauron's size (giant) to Isildur's size in the movie.
The ring is literal perfection.
The part where the group of orcs are discussing their mental health because they’re all non-binary and then a white orc shows up with a new vagina and says “I’m a real boy” was utterly heartbreaking.
azog, the politicaly correct orc
what? 🤣🤣🤣
On the floor 😂😂
I love the fact that the showrunners/producers know that Rings of Power is so popular. They can troll these snowflakes by casting a man of Asian descent as Annatar. It's hilarious.
The scene where Galadriel twerks in front of Sauron to show how empowered she is was truly inspirational.
Everyone, please ignore the bot above.
Edit: The bot has been banished to the shadow realm.
Sauron was nothing to the power of them crap flappers! 😄
I would watch that
I can't tell if this is a reference to She-Hulk or Turning Red.
I like the part she starts an onlyfans and gets mad when her nudes get leaked
My dad is a diehard LOTR and Tolkien fan, he's the one who introduced me to this universe, and to see his expressions of literal physical pain while watching the show is honestly heart breaking, he had such high hopes for it
Bots suck my udders
Why? Why did he have high hope for this?
He should've known what it would be from the pictures and trailers. That was enough for me. And yet people are STILL giving it eyeballs and money. That's what gets me.
I feel his pain. My children (and wife) politely avoid mentioning this travesty anymore. My daughter instead suggested to rewatch the original trilogy with me to ease the suffering. She even asks questions about the lore and is interested in my explanations about the movies. :)
@@benjiwis5228 because they spent 100 million dollars on each episode! they made the entire LOTR trilogy with 300 million! This show should be so good.
I like the part where Gandalf slams his staff in the ground and yells, "I am a servant of the social justice, wielder of the flame of feminism. The patriarchy will not avail you, flame of man. Go back to the shadow. YOU SHALL NOT DISCRIMINATE!"
I like how they try to make everything more “diverse”, but LOTR already has humans, dwarves, elves, etc. Sounds pretty diverse to me!
By now I hope you realize that by "diverse" they mean "with fewer white people" and especially "with as few white men as possible".
And now it has women and black people. Who gives a shit. The diversity was not the problem of this series. In fact the extremely white elf was the most obnoxious thing of them all. There is plenty wrong with rings of power and a black elf and dwarve queen are not the problem
Fr, & if they wanted racial diversity, they could've focused on the lands of the Easterlings & Haradrim.
I never get emotional with any show or movie, but when Galadriel looked back at her army, smiled, and said, “For George Floyd” before charging, I actually shed a tear.
FOR GEORGE!
I loved the part where a
Adar says Master Suaron, you must know; I am not a slave. I shed a tear.
That scene took my breath away
Hahahaha 🤣
Walmart appreciates your advert.........i mean support.
"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only spoil and destroy what good forces have invented and created" - J.R.R. Tolkien
not an exact quote but fair enough for paraphrasing
Germany invented rocket engineering(axis)
USA invented nukes (ally)
Who's better? LOL
@@amazingsrilanka7358USA needed the Germans to build those nukes. If it was a 1 on 1 fight USA would've lost badly.
@@vaultboy4710 Ok I’m sorry but the US wouldn’t have lost 1 on 1. The Nazis were very powerful, but they had a whole host of issues like a lack of natural resources and having Hitler be involved in making military decisions. The Nazis also lacked the industrial output to keep up with the US. Logistics wins wars and we had the ability to produce so many weapons that if a tank or truck was destroyed, we’d just roll in a new one instead of trying to repair it. This is in comparison to the Nazis who still had to use horses as they lacked motor vehicles.
With the technological advantage standpoint that the Nazis had, most of it could be summed up with too little too late. While they made many advancements, with the first serviceable jet aircraft, first assault rifle, first cruise missiles, they could not produce them in enough numbers to have an effect on the war. Along with this, the cruise missiles were not employed effectively and were used in a terror campaign instead of against actual military targets.
Back to Hitler’s incompetence, his obsession with wunderwaffe took away precious manufacturing capabilities from things that were proven and easier to make. He also spent a ton of resources to ramp up the speed of the Holocaust, prioritizing his terrible genocide over the war effort.
All in all I feel like I wrote too much here, but even if the Nazis weren’t essentially shooting themselves in the foot, the amount of weapons produced by America and the amount of soldiers America could bring to the fight, along with the geographical safety of being an oceans length away from their enemy made it so Germany was almost guaranteed to lose.
Also if you want to say that the Soviets were the ones who beat the Nazis, American industry produced almost all of the supply trucks the Soviets had throughout the war. Again, logistics win wars.
@@vaultboy4710 it wouldn't be a world war then though xD
One writer fought in WW1 trenches, and probably based Mordor on the hellscape he could see everyday, the other ones...finished college.Pretty big difference in life experience ;p
Yeah but Tolkien never had to listen to his mother encouraging him to get married before he was barren. Obviously he never faced such fear and anxiety in his lifetime.
But Tolkien never had to deal with The Male Gaze, or being called "sweetheart," that's the true horror! He only had to deal with seeing the flailing disembodied limbs of comrades and literal pools of blood in the cold trenches.
Now looking back I realized that GoT handled diversity right in its storytelling, it never felt forced and out of place.
Basically GoT did exactly the same way Tolkien did, modeling the peoples based on their geographical setting, loosely based on England/Northern Europe and it's surrounding countries to the East and South...
Yeah because most of the people are white lol. That's the best way to do diversity. There's more diversity within the white race than in all the other races, save perhaps the Asians.
The strongest woman cannot beat the strongest man. Game of Thrones is box-ticking woke crap
It's called GEOGRAPHY you can't have a multi-racial fantasy setting without explaining who is from where and why they are here
Skyrim does it
Lotr does it
GOT does it
You can have outsiders and people from far off lands but acknowledge they are a MINORITY
Yep - GoT written by a real writer, and produced by a real TV company.
Literal chills when Sauron looked away and said “it seems, in my lust for power, I have become the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power™"
"I... I finally understand, I am the Ring."
You forgot ™
The TM killed me.
😎 YEAHHH!
@@aca456456 thanks for the reminder
This guy gets credit for the TM
I got chills when Galadriel said “my body my choice” and proceeded to abort Sauron
LOL
I'm crying. Best one yet
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I just feel bad for Bezos’s son. What an epic way to find out your father is a disappointment.
Brutal and true😂
I have watched LOTR over (probably) 100 times in my life. The whole trilogy, to this day, still makes me weep. Literally a masterpiece.
The part where Galadriel is stoppd by an old lady and is asked "Galadriel who?" and she smiles and says "Galadriel Tolkien" moved my bowels to involuntarily evacuate .
Underrated comment.
this comment made me cry of happiness
@@LuisSierra42 Thanks, your comment made me cry too..but..but it also made me think, and think about the world we leave for our children.
I hope you were wearing the somehow expandable clothing that she-hulk wears to account for the sudden expansion 🤣
helloo, i did a review too about the rings of power :))
This the first time that I actually wanted the villain to win 100%
The part where they finally "found" Sauron because a random character decided to identify as him was pure gold.
My favourite part of this show is how accurately it reflects the world we live in today
It shows how awful everything is becoming.
And it also reflects how nobody likes it
Nothing provides me some escapism from the world we live in today, than bland fantasy that reflects the world we live in today 🙃
I mean it does doesn't it? The world we live in today is shit and so is this series.
Not enough green hair and nose rings and gay nighas
The writers: "The ideal modern woman is like our Galadriel!"
The audience: "... An entitled sociopath?"
Unfortunately true.
No lie detected
So Amber Heard
@@tylergannon7398 lol thats hilarious its literally amber heard and johnny depp
Uhhhhhhhhhh............yeah.
When Galadriel activated her Ring of Power and bellowed "It's Morfydd Time!" to become even more empowered, I got goosebumps!!!
Underrated comment 😂
You look at Galadriel from the Peter Jackson films and even though she has little screen time when she is there you can tell she is powerful, wise, and menacing. Her personality shows she is not someone to be messed with but is also beautiful and feminine. In the books she is the oldest and wisest of all the elves and still wants the Ring for herself. In this show, she is just a boss lady who is a dick. She hates everyone and they put up with her shit. If I was the diverse Queen lady I would have allied myself with Sauron to kill her and take her kingdom. Thats how politics works in real life. You talk down to a monarch they will find other monarchs to fight against you and kill you.
When I read the book and met Galadriel, first I was like, "Oh, she and this world are so pretty and lovely." Then I read the part where the Fellowship felt like she was secretly offering them what they desired if they abandoned the mission, and I was like, "Holy crap, she could kick my butt if she wanted to." All it took was her mind, not her sword or her fist.
I like the part where Sauron was about to hit that guy with his sword, but then Galadriel came up behind him and said, "Hey Sauron!" Then Sauron slowly turned around, and Galadiel said, "Saur on this!" and blew him away with a shotgun.
@RR nah
Please upload
Here is the full clip : night of ring best scene
czcams.com/video/mCfYi7634rU/video.html
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and then sauron said:"she's right behind me isn't she" 😂😂😂 lol
The part where sauron agrees to stop deforestation around mordor to reduce his armies carbon footprint was stunning.
Super funny comment 😂 😂
Stunning.....
And brave!
Sauron is an inspiration
Funny you should mention that, as Tolkien was an environmentalist at heart, and LOTR was explicitly anti-industrialization.
@@smyers9052 Not exactly. Tolkien was anti industrialization, and his highest respect was for small traditional English villages. And you are right, he would hate seeing the west with hugely increased population due to migration, which is causing destruction of the environment, and the loss of animal habitat. we have the same problem in the US, with our populations doubled since 1970, all du to immigration as well. Its causing the destruction of wilderness for housing.
The part where galadriel told sauron "Get to da chappa" was so thrilling
Nothing could have more true to Tolkien's vision than when Elrond told Galadriel women can't code, yet within hours she made a Square Space website for selling her feminist cooking recipes.
The part where Sauron yelled "For the patriarchy!!" was so triggering and really cemented him as the villain.
Yea I mean to not even check his privilege let me know the depths of his evilness.
I was literally shaking when he said that, it was good that they had a realistic villain but they should have had a trigger warning for all of us who suffers everyday from the shackles of patriarchy
Comments like this just play into Amazon’s ‘race card’ cop out as an excuse for the incredible FAIL it put out. As much as it’s cheap bait Nobody realllly cares about women or a black elf dude. Unless ur pretty dry in real life. The plot. Writing. Everything bar cgi was so lame
How predictably clone like. Its like the entire human race has been reduced to a single mould. You embarrass yourselves and don't even realize.
Wait. Was this actually a line or are you f***ing with us? (It IS funny!)
House Of The Dragon showed five children fighting in a hallway and it had better fight choreography than ROP’s battle scenes.
Interesting
I hate that this unironically true
What's worse is that GOT ended badly- so you'd think House of the Dragon would not be able to outmatch a billion dollar endeavor like Rings of Power. The fact it able to do is a testament to how god-awful this thing is written. Tolkein is spinning in his grave.
Those kids were total savages. I wouldn’t have expected much to hear about the plot summary on paper, but the child actors nailed it. Credit where it’s due cuz usually I can’t stand kids in movies and shows.
Facts
The part where Galadriel yells "There can be only one!", right before she chops off 1 of Elrond's testicles was so intense, it made my balls cringe.
That comment section have better writing than the show
The part where Galadriel tells Halbrand that her pronouns are "he/him/they" was truly awe-inspiring and took a lot of courage.
i love it when galadriel said “save martha!” and sauron spared her life because of the emotional connection they had by their mothers having the same name. great writing.
Sauron: "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME??"
Nicely done. Maybe when they release the special edition Amazon can put a horrific looking CGI smudge where her mustache would be, if Galadriel had one, just to tie it in nicely. Someone should have let the writers of Dawn of Justice read Frank Miller's Dark Knight returns. Don't know what they could have done for the writer's of this show, other than hire other writers.
That was my favorite part
I loved it when Sauron identified as a black trans-woman and Galadriel hat no other choice but to side with her because they must destroy the patriarchy of c*ck-rings.
@@joshevans3421 HAHAHAHAHA. 😆 *_" WHY DID YOU SAY THAT PRONOUN?! "_*
The part where Galadriel said "No Sauron, I am the Lord of the Rings" was a masterpiece.
Or when Sauron said “It’s sauronin time” and sauroned everyone. Truly one of the scenes of all time
Now THAT's a Star Trek!
I CRIED AND I CLAPPED 👏
Lawd o dem Rangz
@@unclephillymya I cried and got the clap, truly a masterpiece of shit.
watching this show is like watching someone you love struck down by an aneurysm.
That points when you realize Sauron treats his soldiers better than the “good guys” treat everyone.
The part where someone tells Galadriel she's bleeding, and she answers: "I ain't got time to bleed". Truly stunning and brave.
Hey, this was Predator.
Brunning and stave!
What about Galadriel doing her epic shake with Gandalf after saying "Gandalf!! You son of a bitch."?
@@punk3900 lol true haha
Well, does she have time to duck?
The part where Galadriel tells her wife "I am the danger" really showed how powerful and brave she has become.
I am vengeance.
I guess shes now Walter White.
helloo i did a review too about the rings of power :))
Given the hard core fan I have been my whole life of Tolkien's writings, and how much I enjoyed Peter Jackson's LOTR adaptation, which despite the significant changes made from the books, remained more faithful than not to the source material and was made by a filmmaker who was himself a fan and who wanted to make the films for fans of Tolkien...this review of the complete abomination that is The Rings of Power remains one of my favorite reviews of The Drinker's, well done and much needed good sir, I raise my flagon to ya!
The part where Galadriel announced to Sauron “I protect trans-rights” and charged at him in a trans way brought me to tears
The writers of the show: The show should reflect the world around us.
Tolkien: I don't like allegories and I stay away from them at all cost.
@@TheBlueArmageddon yeah you're right, skin tone is irrelevant and shouldn't be a factor to judge a choice of an actor for a certain role...
let's make a Martin Luther King movie and Ryan Gosling will portray him and see how it goes...
@@TheBlueArmageddon I simply said that the way the writers approached the story is sort of contradicting Tolkien's view when it came to his novels. If the actors are good or not I cannot really comment on that, since I could not get past episode 1. Even that 1st episode was a struggle to watch really. The biggest question that it left me with was how and when did the elves discover the technology to have buzz-cuts.
Don't get me wrong: modern day issues, diversity, economic and social questions can be added to fantasy, if it's done in a way that makes sense and if it mixes well with the environment of the story.
@@TheBlueArmageddon well... to be fair my comparison is at the level of your comment, sad attempt for a sad comment, no more or less than you deserve.
also about your argument, go at 16:05 and watch like 20 seconds... that would save us some time.
btw MLK was more than that!
@@TheBlueArmageddon I have read it. This is why I gave up after 1 episode. This has very little to do with "The Silmarillion", even in episode 1, especially since the writers of the show do not own the rights to that book, so they cannot use it. The reason why I said that the biggest question the first episode left me with was the haircut is because it illustrated the lack of my interest in the rest of the story. I remember watching "The Fellowship of the Ring" all those years ago, the magic, the beauty, the mystery, the adventure that that movie had to offer. This show is like cheap imitation, despite of the fact that it cost a ton of money. I would love to believe that it gets better after episode 1, but not as an adaptation of "The Silmarillion".
@@user-qj9en1kp1m your comment transkated: "The original movie is nostalgic to me and anything new is therefore garbage"
I recommend giving the show a try, they depict a lot of interesting and important points in the Simarillion.
The part where Galadriel and She-Hulk joins forces to smash the Patriarchy was really stunning and brave.
The short version of this scene: czcams.com/video/DKP16d_WdZM/video.html
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Down with elf priviledge!
Enough with the dwarfsplaining!
Orc lives matter!
I love the part where Suaron says if she bleeds we can kill it.
Wait, what? Galadriel is She-Hulk? WoW dint see that coming.
"I feel thin, like butter spread over the world we live in today." -Bilbarn Blagginoph
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made, so it could reflect the world we live in today"
- J.R.R Tolkien as he he slogs through the trenches of ww1
The Part where Galadriel updated her Twitter profile to spell out her pronouns was moving and epic.
Brave
#saurondidnuffinwrong that’s how bad they broke it, the villain seems justified now
The actress displays her pronouns on her Instagram account for real
4 real?
i was sooo upset they waited until the second episode for the reveal. like i literally wanted to cry. then the actual BOMBSHELL they/them reveal dropped and I was SCREAMING 🥹🥹🥹
The part where Galadriel says “Somehow Palpatine Returned” sent chills down my spine
Palpatine to Galadriel while smiling:"Oh i m afraid Mount Doom will be quite operational when your friends arrive."
The parts where Morfydd Clark is Galadrevil are a little underwhelming though. Hopefully her romance with Sauron will salvage this brave and stunning show of alltime.
11/10
Everytime I read that Palpatine quote I just wanna call a jihad on Disney.
😂😂😂
Captain Marv-Elf
I liked the part where Gandalf teams up with Eddie Haskell and tricks the Beaver into building a meth lab in the bedroom and Wally ends up being blamed and goes to prison for 50 years.
I love the expression on Elendil's face at 5:51. It suggests incredulity from the actor at the quality of dialogue being delivered.
If ever an expression epitomized "I may have made a terrible mistake."
The part where Galadriel says "I am inevitable" and blows up the Death Star while flying a DeLorean at 88 mph truly brought me to tears.
Brooo 😂😂😂😂
The part where Sauron tells Galadriel that he's pregnant brought a tear to my eyes.
this comment is purely underrated
😂comeback Gold
Absolute gold
😹😹😹🤣🤣🤭🥲 *clears throat and regains composure* Well said Ser
😂😂😂😂
It's not even fanfiction, the producers aren't fans. If the were they would care more about the source material.
I liked the scene where Galadriel said "it's Galadriel time" and Galadrielled all over the place.
This comment section has better writing than a billion dollar franchise.
I wholeheartedly endorse this statement and/or sentiment...
True
That would be a matter of opinion.
@@grimuk3817 some "opinions" are objectively correct. A meal from a Michelin starred restaurant tastes better than dogshit
@@FirstnameLastname-zh9hd Is that so? "Objectively correct" : in an objective rather than subjective or biased way : with a basis in observable facts rather than feelings or *_opinions._*
Also don't forget Galadriel threatened that corrupted elf leader that she would kill every single one of his children, make him watch, and kill him last so he would die with his kind. That elf then says her search for Sauron should have ended when she looked in the mirror. I'm kind of with the corrupted elf here and that Galadriel is pure evil. I don't know how they made their hero so dislikable to the point they would threaten genocide. It's incompetence on a scale I've never seen before.
They took the antagonist and made him the one character that we actually have sympathy for and then took the protagonist and made her the villain. This scene proved it.
It's just bizarre for a character who (at least from the source material) is very coveted and beloved by her people to behave like that. She was akin to a goddess to them. Feel like if she WAS going to make a threat like that, she'd have someone else do it so she could secretly remain 'neutral'. She's 1000s of years old, she knows how to play the politics game ffs.
Threatening to murder children is TIGHT!
Necessary evil is a great idea if done right. And there certainly some in real life examples of that, like Abu Deraa ( here’s a Wikipedia page if anyone‘s interested en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Deraa ), he’s essentially a cold blooded “retaliatory” murderer and criminal. One time there was a corrupt official who’s known to have helped terrorist but nothing could be done to him because of corruption. He put a reward in the head of Abu Deraa. After some time, that politician’s son’s head was delivered to him with a message “drop off the reward or your next son is next”
So, such characters have a root in real life. But the one from Rings of Fire is just a terrible execution of that idea.
Orc genocide? Sounds ok to me! lol
Be it Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Charlie's Angels... I really feel like the people "writing" the reboots and sequels have no familiarity with the original works and that they are filled with some bitterness that leads them to believe that their work is to "teach" the fans "a lesson," to "make a point"... what point? They don't know.
Guyladriel's brother: "Do you know why Rings of Power exists?"
Guyladriel: "No... why?"
Her brother: "Because shit can float"
LMFAO 😅😅😅
You’re hired.
Same reason she didn't drown
Therefore it floats in sea. So the sea is saying, "look at this monstrosity, it so dense that it will not sink rock bottom". The sea is always right.
Shit floats because it seeks the light
The part where Galadriel saves the two kids from the cars crashing into them with her webs and tells them to eat their vegetables.
Truly wholesome.
I cried bro, reminded me of my childhood
It's like the Next generation episode where Riker ends up on a similar themed planet, where the men are all beta. These socialists always seek their matriarchical society...but it doesnt exist...as Camille Paglia stated...if civilization were left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.
As one of the most persecuted demographics of the current year, aka *'straight white male'* I must say one thing about the _"new"_ Galadriel. 😒
And that is that she is very, very, veeeeeery toxic and hysterical. And this is a turn-off even if you have pointy ears. 🤗 My first Vanilla fantasyrace too are pretty much Elves and especially because they tend to embody characteristics I do *NOT* see predominant more in Humans.🤫
Like; Mostly wise, calm, in control of their emotions and inspiring. Compelling people. Which was very important for me to see especially for a world like the one Tolkien had created. But this woke Galadriel version is just the complete opposite of it. 🙄
Her personality is as forced as her script, how she hysterically forces herself through life.
Like an adult manbaby to which getting older almost equals getting more immature against instead of growing up. 🤨
She is not inspiring but just disgusting and embodies charactertraits that I have seen in myself when I had viewed myself as much less mature and wise. 🤔
This is horrible!! 🤢
And just absolutely demoralizing!
If I would be myself as a Human in middle-earth with around the same level of insight and understanding that I have in our own reality right now and would be confronted as part of the fellowship with either the *ORIGINAL* Galadriel 😘 and this new sh°tshow ripoff of her, then this would make all the difference in my motivations to even start the journey.
Cause I am approaching my late 30's now and I am just sick and tired of disrespectful people who seem like they are not even trying to actually understand the people around them. 😐
Just barking orders, forcing expectations on others and making pathetic visages of contempt and anger when they something they don't like. Just pathetic.
I have so often just abandonded people who did not resonated with me because of such traits. 😮💨
And now _"those"_ types are taking over cinema.
Oh hell no!! 🤮
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@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly hey when a woman exhibits toxic masculinity, she's being brave and strong feminist. Such courage.
Evil cannot create, only reflect the world we're living in today.
When Sauron forged The Rings of Pronouns and transitioned to a gender neutral dark lord, that was classic Tolkien.
The part where Tolkien made a cameo and said “I didn’t want any of this shit.” Was heartwarming
lol.
_If there's a shit you didn't take part in, stand up and claim that you didn't want this._
- Sun Tzu, probably.
Wonder if he'd like Mareysuedriel character...
Gotta wonder if Colbert still wants a cameo in this.
helloo i did a review too about lotr, the rings of power :)
Look how they massacred our fantasy land. How can you fuck up when the source material is a timeless masterpiece.....
the part where Galadriel skipped forward in time, took Sauron's ring for Isildor and chucked it into Mount Doom was so stunning and brave, that's how you build a story to reflect the times we live in.
We are officially in the dark ages of storytelling.
the dark ages were brighter than that my friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Try “The Stupid Ages”.
You can't find a Kangz fo dem Rangz in duh dark doe!
thats bullshit. i see great movies all the time. it just aint this. we are in the dark ages of people paying attention to great storytelling because they would rather watch shit like this channel, would be more accurate. nothing against this. hes right. but people would rather get mad at this then see a great story. its just easier to consume.
@@markheinle6319 No No No! That's not totally accurate. People get mad because they want to be told what they want to see and the companies say this is what you want and it's just plain bad. They consistently market stinkers like LOTR
Consumers don't want to take the time to look deeper than what is shoved in their face they want easy and accessible. There are many great original movies usually in the independent scene. Like I said you have dig to find those. I can name many gems from the past few years.
People seek out commentary channels like this because they are angry over products that are easily accessible
The part where Galadriel screams "meats back on the menu boys" after leaving one of her soldiers to freeze to death, really demonstrates the diversity of her character
It is definitely the scene of all time
Did someone give her the meat, and give it to her raw?
@@joshroehl6098 Not really.
It was stiff. Stiff as an icicle.
@@cortholiopezorama8879 So...he cold-cocked her?
Amazon. If your marketing is basically "look at all the colors!!"
You dont have a show.
The whole prison cheered when Galdariel said "Hey! Don't touch me there! This is my no-no square!". Truly an iconic moment.
That part where she accused Saruron of stranger danger and punched him sent chills up my spine.
The part where Galadriel realises she was actually Tyler Durden all along literally shocked me.
Loved that movie
There are many who argue that Galadriel is the most plausible villain in this movie... so maybe she WAS Sauron all along...
I loved the bit where Galadriel said "I AM NO MAN!" and then Gandalf came up and took off her wig and said, "That's a man, baby!"
Rule Number One: Never talk about Middle Earth.
@@HerculesBallsInc revealing galadriel to be sauron would actually make more sense than most of the plot nonsense in this flop.
The part where Galadriel stabs Donald Trump in the chest and then looks at the camera and winks reflects the world we live in today.
If you’re a die hard fan of the Tolkien books, You know how heartbreaking this is.
“Look at how they massacred my boy!”
The part when galadriel stopped all the bullets with her mind and elrond said “shes starting to believe”, had me in tears
F off bots
That shit was 🔥🔥🔥🔥
She is the One...
that would be more accurate then whatever they're shitting out now
That's extra great as elrond was played by agent smith in the real LOTR
The part where Galadriel leads a cavalry charge against a Make Mordor Great Again rally was so inspiring and accurate to Tolkien's work
I prefer the scene where Sauron has Glade Plug-in at his mercy, then strips off his weapons, armor and ring to make it a fair hand to hand fight, then Glade Plug-in completely wipes the floor with him before smashing him with a log and blowing him up.
Amazon: I’m going to make a strong empowered woman!
Tolkien: I made a shieldmaiden vanish the foe not even someone who killed a balrog was able to get rid of.
My favorite scene was when Sauron realized the patriarchy and denounced the wage gap so his female orcs would make the same pay as the males
Orc lives matter
The part where Galadriel told Sauron “Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.” was classic Tolkien. He couldn’t have written it better himself.
You said it man, nobody f*cks with the Jesus
Galadriel abides man…
I bet she has a nice rug.
@@somebloke3869 I pissed on it and started a sequel 😢
While puffing on a fine blend of Longbottom leaf
The part where Galadriel says in a lost binary language "I can morph into any of the 52 genders at will" was an Oscar caliber performance.
I cackled out loud at this, kudos.
Funniest thing I read all day god damn😂😂
Yep. Fantastically incredible when she morph into 52 genders at will while _still sporting the one same damn expression._ Twas a miracle!
"lost binary language" 🤣🤣🤣
Loved that part. God the comments in here are really funny and beautiful!
You guys and your memes are to much haha!
Daily reminder that canon-wise, the Numenoreans are 7-8 feet tall super-men who lived for centuries at a time, with enough physical strength as to be able to make use solid steel longbows on horseback, let alone on foot. Even when they got morally corrupted they were still the most powerful mortals in existence. A single numenorean could probably take out at least 50 orcs before going down. And here we have scrawny teenage boys wearing armor ordered from Wish, when they should be built like a Greek statue (see the "Riace bronzes" for what they would probably all look like). I guess showing the Numenoreans as they were described would be thought of as to idolize "toxic masculinity".
it was also interesting to see that somehow plastic surgery and uncanny lip fillers were offered in this universe
I completely changed my whole outlook on society after Galadriel cried out, "Mermaids can be any color, because they are fictional creatures!"
No you actually learnt a lot about yourself. You cannot accept a black girl playing a mermaid.
Now go and write an essay about why you are a closet door racist.
When Sauron appeared and said “Orc Lives Matter!”, I got chills. Truly inspiring!
bro im dying
I loved the part where a
Adar says Master Suaron, you must know; I am not a slave. I shed a tear.
One thing I missed; elves killed other elves only three times in history, in the Silmarillion. Ardar would have CERTAINLY been remembered like the other three instances, even though it was just one guy...
I LOVE the clip from aboard the ship taken to Numenor, and we get a view of what the people from Numenor look like, and they just look like people from Chicago. The zoom in of the one single soldier and it's clearly just an East Asian man. Literally the only one in the entire civilization lmao.
I like the part where Galadriel drunkenly slurs, “Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for today. Go away now.”
Whoa man. Too real!
So meta.
The part where Galadriel shouts “THIS IS MIDDLE EARTH” and Spartan kicks Sauron made me want to call my ex-wife and say “I see your point, I was wrong”
Talion would be proud
Ahem - you mean "...Elven Queen kicks..." Clearly, the Spartans were emulating her, yet mansplaining how to do it "right".
> "Which is a problem because Galadriel is the closest thing to a protagonist that this show has".
Correction:
> "Which is a problem because Galadriel is the closest thing to a protagonist that this shitshow has".
This comment section is off the rocker! I refuse to watch this show, but I will read these comments all day
Lindsey Webber: "It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of Tolkien's work would reflect what the world actually looks like."
Peter Jackson: "We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. ... In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves."
Spot the difference.
Nail on the head 👍
End of the discussion.
But Peter Jackson is a man! /sarcasm
*Sipping of Starbucks Cup in the background
And of course, when these as*holes say "we want to show the world we live in", they actually mean "we want to show you the world we are going to force you to live in, like it or not".
The story the acting by most are so bad I am in awe as to how these issues were not seen in early production.
I honestly think they don't care at all.
The part where Galadriel learned karate by waxing Mr Miyagi's car was so inspiring
Here is the full clip : galadriel scene
czcams.com/video/mCfYi7634rU/video.html
That was good, but surpassed in splendid fashion, by the scene where she dressed as a Stormtrooper, and took out Darth Vader - that blew my tiny little mind
I found the part where Mr Miyagi got to wax Galadriel more interesting.
I love when Galadriel grabbed the microphone and said Halbrand... totally not Sauron I'm coming to get you!!!!! and proceeded to beat her Soviet captors. Gripping cinema.
the scene where Galadriel asks one of her injured men "can you fly Bobby?" epic cinema right there....
Looks like rings of power took a page out of disneys star wars franchise book; discard the entire identity of the past, insert new ideologies and plots completely contrary to the already set universe, piss off the entire fan base and expect them to worship the polished turd they created by relying entirely on the franchise name to carry it with no creativity or hard work put into it.
Well, you gotta give one thing to the writers and the actress.
They really managed to deliver on that "everybody hates elves" trope.