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To quote the great BigBunjee: "Xanderhal is really good at debating the voices in his head."
That video was mad funny
@@guanglaikangyi6054 "What do you think Mr. Gorzo?"
'OUAGHIGHAIHAIGHSIHITISBĞŒÆ'
"As an Anarchist, he would make a small meal for a guy like me."
He probably wouldn't address their actual arguments either.
Love that guy
I don't understand the Socialist Influencer's compulsion to defend giant corporate product.
They do it all the time.
They serve govment.
Beccause they are unironicly fascists (AKA National Socialists). That's not a smear, one of the definitions of actual fascism is a union of State power and the Free Market, with the power of corporations being restricted and guided by the State.
Giant corporations represent consolidation of power, socialists' favorite thing ever.
Well, you don’t get what socialism is then. It’s just state control of the corporations. Socialists don’t in fact hate corporations, they just hate that the government doesn’t own and run them.
Well it's simple the only way they can live without working is if the giant corporations are redistributing wealth into their bank accounts
The "I am no man" line from Return Of The King was just one line in a 6 hour trilogy.
Modern movies are that line over and over again forever.
Yup. Remember when The Boys made fun of the Marvel Girlboss "Girls Get It Done" schtick, only to turn around and do the exact same thing?
6? You mean 12 right
@@crim1188 Ultra extended director's cut
@@gs4011 Remember when they made the female character calling that idea out a literal nazi?
@@TheSlammurai Subtle. Like a shotgun vasectomy.
I don't have to be right-wing to know when a show sucks. I derive that power from being part of the write-wing.
Apparently, good taste is inherently problematic and, quite frankly, racist /s
I knew it! COMMUNIST! 😂
"these reviewers claim to be reputable"
Same guy: " I have the Lord of the rings DVD box set, guys. I'm a real fan, so don't come at me"
The only reason to insert black elves and hobbits was to pander to a "modern audience" that doesn't exist. It's completely fine to call this out for the corporate pandering that it is. If a show without enough "diversity" hurts your precious little feelings, then go make your own story instead of changing an existing story.
When you insert races into a fantasy setting without any idea of where that race came from or how they got where they are it's 100% DEI message BS. Diversity has explanations these people haven't given any thought to how these races got where they are or why they haven't been integrated It's weird for a foreign trader to be black but if your neighbor is black and you aren't what the hell is going on? Is your race randomized at birth? Why aren't your races mixing, are you racist? If you're in an isolated community without significant immigration you should be the same mixed race or massively inbred.
Sorry black people in media upsets you so much.
"[Eowyn] doesn't do a backflip off a horse and throw a javelin a hundred feet"
Rings of Power: "Okay so Galadrial rides upside down off a horse and made an orc's head explode"
Yea, but didn't you see when Legolas slid down the stairs on the shield? 😏😏😏
If you don't like all elves you are a racist
I saw something similar to that Galadriel scene when Vaush's porn folder leaked
Xanderhal doesn't seem to realize that him saying, "It got review bombed 1 hour post release. Before anyone had time to watch it, the score had already dropped to 50%!" is also him admitting to love bombing. If people who hated the show were going to RT and giving it low scores before anyone else, then it would not be at 50%, it would be closer to 0%. The reason it was at 50% was because it was being bombed in both directions at the same time, in equal measure.
Real talk, review bombing isn't a real thing. The term is useless.
Hey it’s Slanderhal. Yes this is mean but considering all the BS he’s stated over the years I have zero respect for the guy. And this video really showed just how ignorant he was over ROP.
Why is it mean?
"Nice is different than good" as Sondheim wrote in his musical "Into the Woods" (basically what would happen if Jordan Peterson wrote fairly tales) so it would also make sense that mean is different than bad.
@@gottesurteil3201 It's as simple as the line between cruelty and practicality; functional morality relies on the premise of, "Do better than you have to, be better than you have to, be more patient than you have to be." It's all about giving people an opportunity, sufficient leeway, to do something the right way themselves. Being practical sometimes means people are hurt in order to prevent worse hurt, like letting a girl know you do just want to be friends; her feelings will be hurt now, as opposed to much worse later on.
So cruelty is when the malice IS the goal, as opposed to an interpretation of your behavior the wounded party has. This is pummeling the girl with your testimony to see her cry, or in the case of debate, insulting or belittling people simply because you want to see it happen. Both are mean, but only one intends to be mean against all other options
Being mean will often lead others to (tactically, for their own good) assume you're malicious, but the lack of being mean allows the many human predators among us to invade spaces and harm those attempting to be good by using their innocent intentions as room for a sort of sneak attack.
It's far better to be purposeful and mean, all day long, than it is to be unimposing and victimized for it.
"yeah this is mean"
What are you, 12?
@@Wolf_ManJack We are indeed too nice these days. Being rude is often treated as worse than being bad, so if someone is politely screwing you over, you're supposed to just smile and take it, because calling them what they are would be "causing a scene."
The thing the writers of ROP don't understand about Galadriel is the concept of how fcking ancient she is. Yes there might have been a point when she was more of a tomboyish or free spirit but it certainly wasn't within the timeframe of the second age when she was thousands of years old. At that point she was married, had a daughter, is the leader of a nation and has seen a lot of awful events. She is one of the wisest beings in Tolkien's world but in ROP she's a half-wit.
She was the Mistress of Magic. She was older than Gil-Galad, who talks down to her in the show. Most ironically, she was one of only two elves who saw through Sauron's disguise when he pretended to be an elf and helped to create the rings of power.
Of all the characters that appeared on the show only Sauron and probably not Gandalf were older. They bring in the Grey Havens, I think that is what it is called, elf that would be a third person older than her. I guess they assumed they could get away with it because not as many people would be that familiar with the timeline. Hell I am not I just know coming over from Valinor would make you old in the second age.
All I can say about Xanderhaul is that his girlfriend is a drug addict and spent all his money on crack.
"I can fix her"
BigBunjeeee Gang rise up
How does that reflect on him? Why bring up gossip, essentialy? Criticize the person's shit takes, praise his good ideas and logic. everything else is fallacy and gossip.
@@morganseppy5180 I am making a reference to a funny video. I'm not here for debate bro cringe.
And he stores all his money in his Steam wallet
Xanderhal : "There's absolutely no way that people have consumed enough of the show to negatively review it if it's only been out for an hour."
Also Xanderhal : "Yeah, I knew this show was great about 2 and half minutes into it."
It hurt itself in its confusion!
Just a reminder that Xanderhal’s gf spent their rent money on heroin, and he lost his life savings because he stores everything in pay pal and steam
I'm a bad person for liking this comment and I can live with that
@@vincetyler8416 its ok mate be the villain. I love being a villain
@@Fauwkes Is it villainy if its against a socialist?
@@ManCheat2 nah
@@vincetyler8416 doesn't make you a bad person to laugh at fools
First time I've ever heard or seen this guy and I already don't like him.
Lucky you lol
His wife spent all of his money on crack
Glad to see it took you longer than me. I’ve known of this guy for years and every time I see his name my blood boils.
U mean Mauler or the other one?
I hope and EFAP don't cover him, 1h is pure pain 6h will be suicide
Fringy on the Squirrel comment (18:14) : Hey, look alright. Squirrels are neat li'l critters, running around collecting nuts. Look at 'em go!
it’s “look at them gough”
@@atpyro7920Gough? From Dark Souls?
@@WaifuWielder sure, let's gough with that
Holy shit, you’ve got him nailed.
Fringy seems to love animals and gets annoyed when ppl talk negatively about them (e.g. calling pidgeons 'flying rats')
Then again, he's Australian, so every animal that can't instakill a human is probably a 'neat li'l critter' to him.
mr wolf, man, you're doing God's work. Clipping EFAP crew appearances on different podcasts is REALLY helpful. I'd never see this gem otherwise
I second this. Mauler spends a good 25 hours a day on different podcasts, it's impossible to keep up with sometimes, so clips like this are definitely welcome
"Underdeveloped era of Tolkien's world" - there are NO underdeveloped eras in Tolkien.
Yeah, that's kind of the whole point of Tolkien's work, the sheer mountain of history he wrote that wasn't included in his published books (the rest being published from his notes posthumously).
the only underdeveloped thing here is Xanderhal's brain
@@marcogenovesi8570assuming that he has a brain might be too generous.
This is who people should take their media and economic opinions on. A guy who likes a show purely from the flashy effects and puts all their money in their paypal and steam wallet.
Fun fact he bought a six thousand dollar PC only to brick immediately by installing a shit ton of malware
Dunning Kruger is a VERY real phenomenon
Xanderhal’s also been gassing up Assassins Creed Shadows so you know it’s okay to disregard his opinions.
So he is just a racist straight up. Good to know.
He’s a corporate shill, get money from them
@@gbalfour9618 Nah, why would they waste a cent on him, he'll do it for free because the "wrong" type of people are criticising it.
@whiskeyhound
True, still say he’s getting paid but your right doesn’t need to be money; praise from who he admires is payment
@@gbalfour9618 I guess you could call it getting paid, I'd rather keep the people getting amazonbucks and political morons like xanderhal as separate but equally as stupid and corrupt groups.
House of the Dragon destroys his argument
MauLer always crushes it on political content appearances. He is an attentive common sense guy who can formulate arguments and follow trains of thought. It's all you ever need.
Yeah. Man looks like some form of genius or something when you look at most of his opposition. It's like an adult arguing with a baby.
most political commentators can't handle real arguments and complex thought, they rely on fleems
He seems more able than most to really focus purely on the argument made rather than get entangled in all the personal bullshit and ego that so often takes over. Perhaps, that's also why he spends most of his time not engaging in politics whenever he can avoid it, because so much of it turns into petty nonsense that he has no interest in.
Xan is a borderline lolcow. I recommend BigBunjeeee's video on him, it's sums him up pretty well
I saw that video BigBunjeeee is a great creator.
I love that little autist.
MentisWave would have a field day with this guy
All commies are lolcows by default
All socialists are lolcows by default
Mauler in attack mode, glorious
Technically it‘s an Adam and Sitch highlight and not an EFAP highlight, but the presence of a Longman makes it at least one third EFAP, and that’s enough.
A&S have way too many bad takes to salvage decent highlight content. They may be able to make a "lowlight" channel that would be overflowing with content.
It's part of the Efap EU so it counts, longman is in many places at once due to his longness
My rationale for keeping that part in the title is because it still included MauLer (same with the time that he, Fringy, and Rags went on their show and discussed why they don't talk about politics on EFAP). However, if it causes enough confusion, I can remove it from the title
@@ViolentMessiah666 Longman's longness is truly unfathomable
@@EFAPHighlightsEUFAP?
Tolkien never said that Sauron couldnt raid a USSR nuclear sub and blow all of Gondor to bits with a nuke.. They should do that in season 2.
What a stupid argument to make.
Arguably, Xanderhal is claiming to be reputable by bringing up what a big LotR fan he is. He's not, which actually serves as a good example of "claiming to be reputable" in the way he uses the phrase.
Xanderhal making an annoying voice to portray his enemies while his natural voice is annoying af.
Xanderhal ways *“tHe ChUdS”* so often it starts sounding like it’s not real
To be fair it’s a deliberately vague thing to call people solely because you have no way to logically counter their arguments, making it a fake thing to say anyway
it's not real, that's why he repeats it so much. To convince himself and his audience that they exist
Never heard of this guy in my life. Zero discernable cultural footprint. He probably still makes more than my monthly rate in a week too.
He would if his girlfriend didn't blow it all on narcotics.
Unless he got his paypal back, he doesn't make a cent, also doesn't have any life savings due to that.
@@whiskeyhound and that's a good thing
It honestly shocks me that Xanderhal is able to have an audience, especially after he defended Balenciaga for their child BDSM ad.
“You just watched a segment from a podcast called EFAP”
I don’t think I did Wolfe, I’m pretty sure I just watched a segment from a podcast called the Sitch and Adam Show
I assume he just reused the line from the other videos
Any show with Mauler becomes EFAP automatically, that's the rules
@@marcogenovesi8570... And what's the expectation of that rule...
Or something I can't remember it exactly.
"Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm (Eowyn in men's armour) laughed.... 'But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.'
......
'Éowyn! Éowyn!' cried Merry. Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The sword broke sparkling into many shards. The crown rolled away with a clang. Éowyn fell forward upon her fallen foe. But lo! the mantle and hauberk were empty. Shapeless they lay now on the ground...; and a cry went up into the shuddering air, and faded to a shrill wailing..., a voice bodiless and thin that died, and was swallowed up, and was never heard again in that age of this world."
Literal quote from the book. I hate when the 'never would be made today' line is used in connection with that scene.
It wouldn't be made today because no one would write it like that. Not saying it is bad far from it but writing quality doesn't quite reach that. At least in my probably limited experience.
Xander seems to have a purely superficial world-view. Sarah Connor exists in Terminator 1 & 2 and that character is no different to him in Dark Fate because he only sees Sarah Connor as the physical presence of the same actor playing the canonically same character.
Reminds me a little of how Organized Chaos seems to see characters in movies. Whenever Rags criticized Black Widow for the obvious "Why didn't she call the Avengers to prevent this villain from literally mind controlling the entire world?" and OC seemed to take it as some kind of criticism of Scarlett Johansson's star power and ability to carry a movie. He heard that criticism and translated it into "Why do you think that a movie about a woman needs male superheroes in it to be successful, dude?". It's as if he doesn't see films as stories or as a medium of creativity, but just as popcorn-flicks with famous actors to shine their faces at the camera
@@TOONYBOY it's all stories about wizards in space, for kids -- OC, coping about the movies don't make sense
@@marcogenovesi8570 Whenever they try to use that argument, they'll almost always try to make up a flaw with the older thing that either doesn't exist or is explained, or is already accepted to be a flaw by the actual fans anyway
I can understand how people would react to the “I am no man” scene today, because a lot of people are on the defense with all the crap being pushed by Hollywood nowadays.
It’s an interesting one because The King absolutely flattens her and is about to I always assumed snap her neck. Then merry a male hobbit stabs him with a special sword so she can then strike the killing blow
But would it even be done that way today or would she defeat him easily with no help?
Who would expect a hobbit to be their doom bringer?
@@Shiro_Amada he was no man.
Yeah, that's the thing; it's not that something happened, it's that the same thing keeps happening over and over again. Making Nick Fury black? Sure, Samuel L. Jackson is awesome, why not? Repeated race and gender swaps, always to get rid of white people/men? Now it's annoying. Especially when they not only do it, they shove it our face--look, look what we did, we included more melanin and vagina!
"Look, I have the dvds!", "look, I have a black friend!"
I couldn't finish this. The dummy they are covering is NOT a Tolkien fan. There's literally 0 accuracy to the lore in Rings of Poop. Show is trash.
I only know about him from his tantrums against Mauler on twitter. This might give me more in depth knowledge of his body of... 'work' sounds inaccurate... body of attempts at work.
The left and left leaning having a stranglehold on almost all media and entertainment institutions has made them incredibly bad at actually making an argument.
Xanderhal: *decides he loves RoP in the first couple of minutes*
Also Xanderhal: They decided they hated it before they could even watch the full episode!
“The head of the Corlys’ house”. These people don’t care about IP’s and lore.
I may have massive confirmation bias, but whenever I see exceptionally stupid people using exceptionally stupid arguments to defend things I don't like, it makes me feel more self assured that I have decent taste lol
I don't know who Xanderhall is, but he doesn't look old enough to even know what "Gargoyles" is.
Just WB Kids in general
You're going way too obscure and long ago, he probably doesn't know what Futurama is.
I hate Xanderhaul's smug face
Me too!
Who doesn’t?
@@henryjenkins2839Xanderhaul doesn't.
Always be inclusive to shitty opinions.
Political brain rot.
I know both sides want to mock the hate for female leads thing, but that's literally because of being burned so many times. That's not just a hatred of women, that's media after media of female led or created content devolving in bad writing/cringe relationship drama and most important, one-sided divisive idpol lecturing on either how hard it is to be a woman or how evil men are. TLOU part 2 and She-Hulk being my last straw on ever giving female led media anymore chances and so far I haven't been wrong lol.
In a single comment, you cut through the bullshit and voiced the irritation that I feel, as do others, so much with these media outlets. They’re just the same parasitic, para-social, dishonest organizations they’ve always been; they’ve just jumped onto more targets than celebrity beef and victim stories.
The Bunjee video on him is hilarious. 😅
Deep cut wolf, I saw this one live 😂
I’m going to rewrite the lyrics to “Somewhere Out There” so it references us watching Sitch & Adam at the same time
@@METALFACEROZEE ✊
"You could never make TLOTR" today!"
Hollywood has been Desperately trying to recreate the powerhouse of cinematic success that was LOTR since it came out.
Countless vacuous fantasy movies adapted from niche sources, everything has to be made as a trilogy, and none of it touches LOTR, because no matter how much money they pay for properties, they can't grasp that the people making it have to care about and like what they're creating.
Early MCU was the only success, because they weren't trying to shallowly emulate LOTR's trilogy fantasy model.
They had a passion to create this universe, and just like LOTR, the same hollywood honchos that scoffed, denied awards, refused recognition of its success, come back with unlimited money offers to own this thing, discard everyone who loves it, slap their slime all over it, then blame fans when they go broke.
Also Star Wars.
and most of the time it's hollywood saying "we can do it better" that caused many of the attempts to fail there are so many book series that received mangled adaptations that only got one movie because the stories were changed so terribly ROP falls into this as well
Weird activist writing was fairly common in the 90s, but the head writers and script doctors with final say tended to curb it because they needed the show to stay on the air.
This isn’t helped by the fact that extreme left wingers have always tended to run on moon logic, so editing was always needed.
They wanted Sisko to be “African in SPAAAAAAAAAACE” but various people on staff thought it would be more uplifting to not bring attention to it. I think making him more New Orleans than Race Activist was a good revision, frankly.
The same was true of the latter years of Gene Roddenberry, who basically wanted to upset his enemies with TNG between his mircoseizures. They got rid of him instead of letting him crash the show.
Clairmont’s original Phoenix Saga (eighties admittedly) was originally going to have them go back to school and never mention Jean ate a planet while possessed ever again.
The before times were saved by the lost professional of competent editors, I tell you
Yet TNG went downhill once Gene died. I don't know a ton about the behind the scenes stuff of Star Trek but I'm pretty sure they couldn't get rid of him; it was in the contract that he had to sign off on every episode or they couldn't legally run it. It's why he was brought back for TNG in the first place.
@@billjacobs521 Gene was removed during the shooting of Captains Holiday in season 3, but his influence was being curtailed before that. I’d argue the show didn’t go downhill until season 6 when they pulled the best writers for DS9. To my mind, season 4 is probably the strongest season, at least based on the episodes I appear to have rewatched a lot on Amazon.
His lack of interest in the movies thanks to TNG was credited with why Wrath of Khan turned out so well by the crew there, so I’m guessing there’s something to it.
Edit: if he was having seizures on set (apparently he would stand with his eyes rolled back, twitching for sustained periods), they probably had him declared medically incompetent and got his son to approve things.
@@billjacobs521
I mean that requires the most rosy of rose-tinted glasses to not notice how wonky Season 1 was.
Xanderhal's the kind of guy to call my race every slur under the sun if they dare disagree with him.
Dunno who the hell this guy is but his points are the same typical NPC takes as most of that side "sexist, racist, toxic fans" & he clearly doesn't know shit about the lore, they didn't "get around" not having the rights to the Silmarillion they flat out rewrote everything except the opening few mins of the first episode and even that had to be heavily edited (no Flight of the Noldor, no Kinslaying, no burning of the ships). how about debating the actual criticisms about character, plot, dialogue or worldbuilding on their own metits instead of doing the standard bs.
Edit: the Harfoots are not Hobbit ancestors or proto-Hobbits, that's gaslighting from the showrunners. Harfoots are simply one sub-species of Hobbit along with Stoors & Fallohides. There should be no Hobbits til 1106 of the Third Age, that's when they migrated west over the Misty Mountaintop some 3000 years later than the time ROP is set (That's also where they repurposed the "Wandering" song for season 1)
That's what "proto-hobbits" means, my dude. But I do think it's funny that Galadriel talks about needing redemption but won't mention why.
@@billjacobs521 um no, "proto" means original or primitive version of a thing. They're not primitive or original hobbits, they're just, regular plain hobbits. What happened is they wanted hobbits & wizards in the 2nd age for memberberries even tho they shouldn't be there for thousands of years then realised Warner still holds licence on "Hobbit" from when they made "The Hobbit" so they can't say it on-screen
@ViolentMessiah666 just so you know, a subspecies is derived. There would have to have been protohobbits to have been derived from. Modern hobbits are mixed, as Gandalf chose bilbo for his heritage. While you aren't incorrect about the show's motivation, you're complaint is inaccurate.
And honestly adjusting the timeline is fine if it improves the adaptation. Obviously it didn't, but agian the complaint is as lazy and intellectually bankrupt as the show itself. You don't need dogma, the show could never have been a 1 to 1 adaptation because of the medium. It will always be its own thing.
@@alexs7670 You've missed his point. Yes, there assumedly must've been a "proto-hobbit" that the three breeds (because Tolkien would not have called them subspecies) of hobbit all descend from. But it cannot be the Harfoots, because the Harfoots _are_ one of those three. They are no more ancient than the Stoors or the Fallohides.
I like that I can discover all sorts of exciting new voices in this space when I check in with you guys.
Xanderhal is good at keeping plates, that other people started, spinning. Preaching to a captive congregation.
Remember, this man was smart enough to not his money in a bank, so his druggie ex-girlfriend took his money when she left, and he had to move back to his parents... :-P
*put
He’s a good socialist, sharing money with a poor druggie
bruh really? hilarious.
I really find political grouping annoying in debates by people from different nationalities because besides putting people in a box immediately, I also find myself lost in their definitions or views immediately because what is conservative for an American is very different from what is conservative to me as a European. It just adds another layer of assumptions that I will have to first deal with before we get to the arguments often.
It's amazing how Americacentric American internet lefties are. Especially considering how much they seem to hate America and being American lol
Well that's because the argument "isn't meant for you". I swear some mfs make unfalsifiability into a sport and it's so lame.
Like if I say something super stupid and racist, I'm genuinely interested to know what an Indian guy on the other side of the world thinks about my statement; this need to make statements as obtuse and "you can't disagree with me it's my experience" as possible hear makes everything so boring
@@samwallaceart288 Nah. I will get called a liberal, conservative on multiple occasions and I have to ask for clarification and often they don't bother to actually engage in the discussion anymore. This political grouping stuff just poisons the conversation from the beginning.
@@jeroenceulemans3715 oh yeah. I've been called leftist for liking Last of Us and a white supremacist for liking Joker in the same day lol
I try to avoid Euro centric political labels like the plague, especially when discussing media. I mostly adhere to pre WW2 American ideology(stronger States rights, less powerful central government with little to no overreach, etc) but I still get roped in with moderately right to alt right for one reason or another. It really ruins the core point of a discussion when your opponent, whatever their alignment, are simply looking for something to "get rid" of you over or worse, completely slander you and your position.
Breadtube is cancer.
🍞=☠️
1:11:02 Not only that, but with a weapon crafted by the enemies of Angmar. Which is the only reason it was able to harm him. But that's a detail from the books that doesn't get mentioned in the movies, as it's a weapon just randomly given to him by Aragorn.
Yeah, that's one of the more unfortunate changes in the movies, as it does make the Witch King seem kinda wussy.
@@billjacobs521 That was what really confused me in the films, I'm only up to The Two Towers in the books. WK says "No Man can kill me", which I just took to mean he was immortal, that no Human could harm him because of Sauron's magical protection or something, but when Eowyn says "I am no man!", my first thought is "Surely that's not what he meant? Why would being a woman mean he's mortal or something?"
Either WK was referring to his skill and power, in which case Eowyn being a woman wouldn't change anything and just seems like a really out-of-place line.
Or WK was referring to a magical protection/immortality against humans, but if Sauron's made that protection so that it only applied to men and not women, that makes him look like a severely poor world-conqueror
@@TOONYBOY As Sitch explains, there was a prophecy about Sauron that no man could kill him. He though that meant he was invincible, that he would never be killed, but actually the prophecy was referring to the fact that he would be killed by a woman.
Apparently this is because Tolkien read MacBeth and thought the way the "no man, born of a woman" line in that story's prophecy was circumvented (by the killer technically not having been born because a c-section was performed on their mother) was stupid and that person should have been killed by a woman.
@@TheRedHaze3 Yeah, you're still born in a C-section.
It's a shame the whole prophecy aspect wasn't in the films. Surely they could have just worked in the necessary information in the scene where Gandalf introduces him to Pippin (I say that like they're having breakfast or something, you know the scene I mean). Also, where did that prophecy come from and why did the WK believe it?
@@TOONYBOY Not sure, I'm just going off what others have said. You can probably find out by looking at Sauron's page on the LOTR wiki.
My dad is the biggest Hobbit fan in the world. He has the movies on Blu-ray and it's not just Blu-ray, it's actually the 3D extended edition and it has director's commentary, and each box set has an extra disc with behind the scenes. Suck on this, Xander.
Every video mentioning Xanderhal deserves to be flooded with references to BigBunjeeeee. Man got it right when talking about the crackhead gf, complete lack of understanding about finance, and general mishandling of life. More people need to hear about all of the stupid shit he's done.
50 hour season and a billion dollars per episode
To counter his tweet he likes: YES because we've be correct in that criticism lol. That yes in the past with female leads or character of different races, it WAS organic real diversity because their gender was either never mentioned or in passing once and that's it. They're characters first and foremost that HAPPEN to be women or black. WHY they're so beloved, they're actual PEOPLE instead of a message you want to see. Which IS what modern diversity has become, their identity first, who they are as a person last. They are proud black or proud women before an actual induvial human. And when they try, they fail because the underlining goal of "representation" is the main one. Making them actual people who can think for themselves gives the tiny heart pounding thought in leftists that maybe-JUST MAYBE that means those characters wouldn't ideologically/politically agree with them IRL. Mauler explained it as well.
has anything that got review bombed ever succeeded? i dont understand how pointing out the review bombing is a defense for the show.
"Review bombing" is just another one of those phenomena people like this have invented to assuage their egos. They can't fathom that such a vast swath of average people genuinely dislike their (obviously genius, morally unquestionable) storytelling, so they have to convince themselves it's an orchestrated "hit". What's always amusing is that in the very same breath, they'll label all of their detractors as unstable, extremist conspiracy theorists lol
The Targaryens werent a shit house or had no power on Valyria. What had happened was that the current head of the Targaryen house, Aenar, had moved everything from family members to treasures and dragons because his daughter Daenys had a vision about Valyria being destroyed. Targaryens only survived out of *sheer* luck
All of this is in a book called The Rise of the Dragon that was written up for House of the Dragon
I don't know about Xanderhal, but he looks like one of these people who would tell his audience why critical thinking is important while also being extremly superficial
Xanderhal isn't a real fan , it's just an aesthetic
So I've discovered that there are three groups of people. Those who think the Iconography is the thing. Those who like what the Iconography represent. And those who dont even know what the Iconography is.
I can’t take anyone who unironically uses the word “Chud” as an insult.
Apperently the reason Eowyn is able to kill the Witch King isn't actually because she is a women but that the sword Merry used to stab him with had a magical enchament that basically broke the spell protecting him. Thus Eowyn deals the finishing blow. But I haven't read the books, I've only seen the movies. So I don't actually know for sure myself.
Her being a female is more of a dramatic irony. It's a bit vague in the book how much it actually does mechanically.
The deep context is it's a jab at MacBeth, where it's prophesied he'll be killed "not by a man of woman born", and Tolkien thought obviously it should be a woman then, but then it's actually a guy who was born by c-section, and as McB dies he clunkily explains how he's not _technically_ of woman born, cause she was already dead when he was pulled out-- and Tolkien thought that ending was fucking stupid and made it an actual woman in his version.
@@samwallaceart288 Ohh ok. That's pretty neat. I also thought the way Macbeth dies was dumb lol. It's nice knowing Tolkien agrees with me on that lol.
@@RealMrBruh The Ents marching on Isengard was also a MacBeth reference; Tolkien really wanted _the trees themselves_ to march, not guys with leaves on their heads
I hate that clip of Eowyn because it cuts out Merry who helped kill the Witch King by stabbing him from behind. It changes the context of the scene dramatically.
Confidence men come in many forms, this lolbert is one of the least threatening but ultimately most caustic form: Unqualified manlet.
lolbert? Xander is a socialist im pretty sure.
One word "queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeffff"
Don't listen to these people, it DOES change the lore. There's a difference between taking liberties with something being vague or cutting out a line or scene here & there and literally going: "I'm just gonna fxcking make up what I think happened-BLEH!" This isn't Lovecraft's (as much as I love him) tag-along easter egg worldbuilding he did with his group of writing friends lol. Tolkien built a world.
The fun thing with Eowyn is that scene and the March of the Ents are both products of Tolkien despising the solutions to the witches' prophecies in Macbeth, to the point he wanted to put an actual moving forest and _the obvious answer_ to "no man of woman born" in his own story.
More clips of Mauler and the rest of EFAP on Sitch and Adams show please!!
They paraphrased the line from RotK for the movie but it's still a pretty sick mic drop moment. I actually just re-read the whole scene and it's epic in its badassery.
*gets basic lore about lord of the rings wrong followed immediately by explaining his “pedigree” as a lord of the rings expert*
A non-EFAP-hosted highlight? Neat.
This video title makes it sound like mauler is about to perform an epic guitar solo for a full hour.
“Xanderhal” is spelt wrong in the title
Fixed 👍
Bro basically just said "I saw a dragon and a fantasy map and got ROCK hard".
... I can relate
And jay considers this guy a friend lmao
Efap considers shad a friend, and he's been dropping off his mask as a despicable man-child the kind EFAP would have clowned upon like NoBullshit.
But nevermind that, I thought it was fine to be friends with people regardless of their politics(?) are you saying jay should Not be friends with xhander? maybe he's a good friend despite his sh*t politics
I just started watching the rings of power to see what all the hubub was about. The scene xanderhall got hard on, I dont even remember lol.
Dropping this one right after House of the Dragon episode 4 came out is just evil lol
This guy getting all excited over a mediocre 3 seconds of a dragon with no context or setup while we got an actual series with actual conflict using the battles to deliver payoff, not just spectacle (there is tons of spectacle too of course)
The consumer mindset of these kinds of people is proof the NPCs meme is real
@15:12 if that's true then how did you remember that you watched LOTR?
Ending needs to be edited as this wasnt from the podcast every frame a pause
"Hello, youjust lsitened to a segment of the podcast Every Frame a Pause, or EFAP" well that's a lie now isn't it Wolf
Socialists would never argue that big budget tv shows money should be spent on feeding the homeless because they actually hate charity... "Must be done through force of gubmint"
Don't call him a Socialist, because he is not.
He is an unemployed dude in his mid-late 20s.
If we solve the problem, they’ll have nothing to bitch about.
@@abeaconintheofficeso a socialist
@@Fauwkes Oh, shoot can you see what I wrote? I can't.
I think my comment was banned.
@@abeaconintheoffice socialist not having a job, yeah. The people republic of youtube doesnt like socialism being criticized
Yeah, like watching The Act man's fifth video on why Blizzard sucks 0:22
Another big change is that Halbrand exists. In the lore Sauron appeared as an elf named Anatar (probably spelled wrong) to trick the elves.
It all really came together when he pulled out the vape
Woah, we are adding to the EFAP lor by going outside of EFAP
MAULER PLEASE DO UMBRELLA ACADEMY.
Once you watch the first season you will understand why the show deserves to be destroyed.
You should leave that comment on one of Mauler's videos so he can see it
So he says " I'm not in the camp of, it looks bad therefore bad"
No you're in the camp of first three minutes look good so show must be good....lunatic
Hes in the camp of “girlfriend spent all my money on crack.”
Hey Wolf, look at Mauler’s discussion with the Amazing Atheist on S&A you might find some highlights in that video ❤
Wait, Mauler's highlight channel is taking clips from other people's channels to monetize for themselves?
Please tell me y'all got permission to do this lol
MauLer was the one who sent me the video. Prior to clipping it, I followed up again to make sure it was still okay with Sitch and Adam before posting. Anything posted to this channel not directly affiliated with EFAP is only done so with explicit permission.
I didn't know that Gargoyles was trying to trans the kids back in the 90's. I think Progressive politics used to be in addition to a story, not a replacement for a story. And a lot less radical back then.
I liked Captain Planet, but Captain Planet wasn't trying to exterminate humanity, so I think that is why they won't bring back Captain Planet.
18:19 This part reminds me of The Chris Stuckmann and The Red Letter Media trying to appear superior by saying they are not part of any Internet group. They are special because they are different, they are not like other hater watch CZcamsrs
Oh. So Xanderhal is another someone I need to remember to forget.
I mean to be fair, that inconsequential fight scene at the beginning was probably the best looking part of the show. And the main part where I went, huh that's kinda neat.