The Rings of Power: An Epic FAILURE | Amazon DESTROYS Tolkien and It Gets WORSE
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- The Rings of Power's worst episode yet. Amazon has been caught deleting reviews for this abomination, AGAIN! They should just delete the show! it's an embarrassment. Bad cosplay mixed with fan fiction written by an algorithm. The worst lead character in living memory, major players from the Tolkien's 2nd Age as c-list morons. Bad acting, shots, fight choreography, and editing. At this point I'm not sure who is worse, Elves or Harfoots. The worst crime of all? It's boring. A show that started on the bottom still managed to go downhill.
The best bit, 'The Superfans' aren't watching the show!
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The "super fan" not watching the show is the funniest thing I've ever seen
How to say Amazon paid you without saying Amazon paid you.
Fake fans they are.
This isnt funny at all! They are doing this all the Time, especially on kids who did not notice the lies...
@@sabsinoname Right. It's outright deceitful.
I had to rewatch to check it was the same person haha
A billion dollar budget and thousands of professionals collaborating on Rings of Power, and their combined creativity still can’t compete with Tolkien’s individual brilliance
So,so true!!!
or Peter jacksons works either.
While it's fair to assume that combined creativity of the whole Amazon team can't match Tolkien, making a creative work by committee always seems to suck the magic out of it. That old saying too many cooks in the kitchen. Of course in this case they were fast food chefs.
I think $500million found it's way into friends and families pockets. Only explanation, Hollywood nepotism.
apropos
The funny thing is that Galadriel, in all her "girlpower" (according to the showrunners) glory, perfectly incarnates every single toxic mascunility trait to have ever existed.
insightful observation
Guyladriel is your basic Etsy Lagerta, made in Xinxua
She's portrayed as a selfish bully. Interesting that it's viewed as a virtue by the writers. Her grin as she kicks the crap out of the (completely hapless) Numenorians is textbook "bad guy" behavior. Makes you wonder where the money went...
@@1176Lucius I laughed my eyes out
But it's only wrong when men do it! Just like with everything else. "Feminists" claim to be proud of being women, but they want to erase everything that makes women different from men. Like so many women call themselves "actors" instead of actresses now, like acknowledging their sex in their job title is somehow bad. They want so bad to be seen as exactly the same as the sex they do nothing but shit on that they are becoming the very thing they claim to hate so much.
It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire quality. But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop. And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film. One show to ruin them all.
Ohhhhhhh! Well done you! So true and wittily said.
well that was 👍
Amazing lol
yours is a meme to rule them all.
Pmsl very good,maybe you should have been a script writer on this very poor show,good wit
Amazon isn't destroying Tolkien, it is destroying Amazon.
Naaaahhh there’s more where they came from. Alot more.
Doubt it. Amazon is huge so it's more like a misstep
Perfect!
Bezos would just get them a bailout. You can do that when you know the people that print money.
Maybe Tolkien destroying Amazon?
The "superfan" admitting she hasn't even watched the show yet pretty much sums up this show.
Pretty much sums up "social media influencers" ... they'll wh0re themselves for anything
Wasn't she supposed to be a "scholar"?
@@samblack5313 since she isnt watching the show maybe she really is a scholar :)
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"But to be fair, they only had 60 million dollars an episode." that killed me🤣🤣
This show is a billion dollar virtue signal. Amazon is a $700 billion dollar company. 1 billion is a drop in a bucket. It’s a shame that they chose Tolkien to bastardize, but that’s what’s happening. Really want to punish Amazon? Boycott.
Dude I’m still trying to figure out what a hadad activist is haha. He keeps referring to Bronwyn the girl boss as that and I’m so lost. It’s actually been a more interesting mystery for me than the whole damn show itself haha.
Imagine spending a billion dollars on a TV show but not spending any of it on decent writers.
writers, or choreographers, or costume-designers and fabricators, or extras, or special effects, or maybe even better actors, or.... Come to think of it, what DID they spend that money on? Hmm....
It is not in vain, clearly there is a plot to twist the cultural basis of western civilization. Nobody, no company gives a billion dollars to such a trash if it have a no real meaning behind. You can see the same in Star Wars. It is the end of western world.
You'd be an idiot not to see that the "conspiracy theorists" are correct. This is Propaganda in the form of entertainment.
or good costume designers, or actors, or cgi. no way those things are elveses hobbitses or orcses, among many many other issues like no precious!
@@Chamdar17 diversity propaganda
Director: "We need a fight choreographer"
Producer: "I got a friend from college who graduated with gender studies degree....she'll do perfectly!"
the sword fighting scene with galadriel and 4 numerenoors was awesome, way more realistic than a typical sword fight in a movie
best friend: "hey lets watch rings of power together"
you: "nah my echo chamber said its bad and i hate myself so im not going to try to enjoy life and just hate everything and make up dumb jokes that have zero correlation with the show cause im a loser whose jealous of people with gender studies degrees... lol"
@@jacquelinefolguera7841 Are you trolling? 😂
@@IncredibleMet lol just a little bit. i just find dumb chatbots and expose them
@@jacquelinefolguera7841 Unless the original critique was authentic, and a valid objective observation. Then you are what, exactly? A lying troll?
I don't understand your point here.
Ring of Power is serving its purpose....making the Lord of The Rings trilogy even more legendary
... and making people like The Hobbit more, yes? :P
I admit, after watching the first two episodes of RoP, I re-watched the Jackson trilogy AND started to re-read the books. I had to re-affirm that Tolkien wasn't really crap!
True, I gave up midway through episode 3 and watched the 6 lotr movies instead xD
This episode was the best one yet, or am I mistaken?
@@omsaxena116 Do you mean Nerdrotic's episode - or that god-damn-awful show?
The cut to Aragorn beheading that Uruk-hai really shows the contrast in quality between these two productions
The shows crying out for Viggo, not the cast they got off Etsy
Don't forget him blocking the arrow wasn't planned. In ROP you can tell that they had to make it a "safe," environment for the actress. In reality, the fight choreography is performed slowly and then sped up. Hence the editing choices. If they had cast the actress properly, they could take more risks and she'd be down to doing more hard-core feats, which are typically reserved for men. Making a female character strong by making all the men around them apparently weaker is the main reason why this girl boss sh!t comes across so foul.
The Rings of Power is managing to be a story without a protagonist. Pretty impressive writing achievement if you think about it.
A real world story about failure.
I was actually thinking earlier how crazy it was that it seems like the show is actively trying to make the viewer hate EVERY protagonist so far. Especially the main character
Elrond? Galadriel?
Whatever you think of RoP as a whole, Elrond & Arondir are really well written characters, with excellent actors. If you dont agree, your opinion on anything can be safely discarded bc you are objectively wrong and have no ability to judge anything right.
Liar liar
Rings of Power is the best example of anti-fanfiction I've ever seen.
A billion dollar lesson in why fanfic is for the fanfic realm and canon and it shall never cross paths.
Lest we forget the halo TV series 😂 just to be clear I am in no way defending this garbage but the halo show was really the definition of abomination
Anti-Canon, and Anti-fan insult to the good name of Fan Fiction, namely competent fan-fic.
@@ffs6158 Despite the colloquial Monolith-ing of things, of which fan-fic is a thing Monolith'd, there is such a thing as competent and well written fan-fic. It is possible to find work only a step or two away from being published fiction on it's own
I think it's a bit harsh to call it fanfiction, because it doesn't matter how inept a piece of writing might be, true fanfiction is written by actual fans because they LOVE a book, show or movie. It's pretty obvious that the Amazon team don't even LIKE the Lord of the Rings.
I just can't imagine Amazon Showrunners treated Numenoreans like some bunch of ordinary men who aren't capable to fight. Tolkien wrote that, they are more than your average/normal men. Numenoreans are descendants of the Edain of the First age ,the most noble race of Men in the first age), who were granted a gift of island of Numenor by the Valar.
Even in the books. Numenoreans were able to crush and inflict a devastating defeat on Sauron's and his forces, turning the tide of the War of the Elves and
Sauron. They are described as strong in both body and mind ( they are tall on average around 7ft tall, Elendil himself described as nearly 8ft tal.
That scene showing Guyladriel kind of mocking and teaching them are just another level of hubris, These men fought enemies far worse than orcs.
Indeed, the Numenoreans were so mighty, being a Numenorean is the closest you can be to being an elf(who are the mightiest of Iluvatar's Children)
@@Xevos701 yes both Elves & Men ( Quendi & Atani) are Children of Illuvatar, Elves being the first born and Men as second born ( second people) though this only applies to Edain- Which were the three houses of Men who fought along side Elves in the Wars of Beleriand.
Only cos Galadriel taught them how to stab things with swords, apparently.
But they have not seen what she has seen
Are you telling me that the huge, impressive force that they have created in Numenor is not "quite" as imposing as Tolkien wrote about
Dude the super fan not watching the show and laughing at just the thought of it, absolutely brilliant. My TV show friends are solely discussing house of the dragon, I've not heard one person mention rings of prime.
Well, i loved Lotr movies, but it literally took me 2 scenes from the first RoP episode to close it and never think about it again... So i think many ppl are on the same boat as that fan...
This fight scene makes me appreciate the fact that Viggo actually learned sword-fighting for his role so much more... Imagine if Aragorn fought the way Galadriel does. Hell, everyone from LORT and The Hobbit was better at fighting than this. And that says a lot considering The Hobbit had pretty bad fighting scenes.
Viggo didn't just learn sword fighting for the role, he became sword fighting. literally went to sleep with his sword and almost got arrested by australian police. Different times man...
The best thing about Rings of Failure are Gary's videos, far more entertaining.
@Ostia Hermes 👍
Gary is the only reason I endure this trash every week!
I totally understand Gary's perspective. But i don't think its that bad. Its very poorly paced that's for sure. But ive been a fan of worse tbh. Its better than she hulk that's for sure
@Ostia Hermes I’m convinced Gary, Shad, Eric, and Rippa can all write the best tv show since early GOT
I keep watching his reactions but will never watch the actual show.
"There is a tempest in me!" My favorite new fart warning phrase!! 😬
I've always used the Bible for it. Jeremiah 4: 19-21
Makes me laugh every time.
Lol
"There is a tempest in me"
*Green smog escapes your ass*
"Break like the Wind"
"There is a tempest in me"
Got it. You are on your period.
Can you tell me at what moment after what event Galadriel says that?
Having the characters lie and keep secrets is the only way Amazon writers know how to progress a story. I have watched three Amazon originals and they are all about married couples lying to each other to create a problem. But it is the dumbest thing they are hiding and creates needless drama instead of making a compelling story
Strangely I think thats the simple reason why shows like Firefly were loved. Everyone on the ship was on the same team.
It gets tiresome when you're presented with a group of people who are ALL hiding something/have an agenda/have a ton of secrets/have a plan against another team member/have huge problems with another team member.... etc etc etc.
Watching this show is akin to watching a billion dollars burn
I am appreciating “The hobbit” more and more each week.
The hobbit is awesome idgaf what anyone says. Sure, compared to LotR, it fails alot. But Hobbit still has great characters, dialoge, acting, music (my god the music) action scenes, special effects and overall great story.
I watched the trilogy yesterday, and honestly, I enjoyed almost all of it except for Alfrid.
The hobbit is amazing
Even with the creative liberties Jackson took with it it's still by no means terrible. Far better than the Tampons of Power.
Honestly I watched the Hobbit (the Tolkien cut) this weekend, and it improves the film a lot, mostly by deleting 3 1/2 hrs of unnecessary padding. Still not perfect by any means, but a solid 6.5/10.
It is absolutely amazing how Amazon is trying to manipulate the perception of this show on social media.
it's more amazing how poorly they are doing that.
Not as amazing as the tantrum menace doing the same thing 😉 oh wait it's only okay if you're apart of the hive mind
What? Big tech attempting to manipulate public perception? Surely not.
Its Putin-esque.
I don't do social media (FB/twitter/etc) but I'm curious. Other than making an account, are there any examples to be found, or shared?
Deleting reviews like that of any product should fall under the false advertisement statues.
AMAZON needs to pay Peter Jackson to REDO their mess and allow him to do all of the Tolkien's works. Lets grieve ( I am still crying) over the WORST series EVER!!
The "Elendil asking Galadriel to train his men" thing was so absurd that I seriously needed a moment to process it. If someone had hit me across the face, I would have needed less time.
no one asked
@@atomicgaming1238 more people agree with his comment than yours.
@@atomicgaming1238 Cope and seethe.
And enjoyed it more. Probably not soul-scarring at all.
That was the worst scene of the entire show
Why is Adar the only elf in the show who actually looks like a Tolkien elf? Facial scars aside, he immediately looks like an elf vs the pointy eared "One Tree Hill" characters they claim are the other elves.
You mean he doesn't go to SuperCuts like the rest of them? (gasp)
I think Gil Gilad looks pretty good, but they turned him around 180 degrees from his actual character and made him a bad guy. He was such a noble and honest man in the books, finding Sauron and warning everyone, then building an army to defeat Sauron, and in the end sacrificing himself to the good of the realm for his spirit to never be seen again in Mordor.
Ironically, the only Elf that acts like a Tolkien Elf is the Afro Latino Elf.
He looks like Salazar from Pirates of The Caribbean 5
Gil gallad looks like he's from a 80s rock band with his mullet esque hair
The fight sequence with Galadriel is one of the crappiest fight scenes I have ever seen. Galadrial beating the Numenoreans alone is a joke, but beating them as if they were a bunch of clowns is a real excrement show.
The fight was to show Galadriel's fighting prowess, but only showed she is ridiculous pathetic character.
Numenoreans are the greatest human warriors ever seen in all of Tolkien's work. No Galadriel cannot beat them at all!!
On the bright side, this dumpster fire had been making ppl( myself included) go back and rewatch the original trilogy with the extended cuts. It's really gave me a renewed appreciation of how much of a masterpiece lotr was. Stare at a turd for while, it really makes the flower next to it seem that much more beautiful
People* Use actual words.
Goodness, the Star Wars shot for me is personal. Frankly, I don't think Star Wars' serious fans went hard enough, and let them get away with savaging that franchise. I tapped out long ago when I saw the direction things were going, and felt like alot of serious fans were not going to fight them to the death. And now they've moved on to Tolkien which has a much bigger following and meaningful story.
I keep saying this everytime now: don't let them get away with what they did to Star Wars, as well as franchises like Star Trek, with Tolkien and LOTR. They're already calling everyone racist, mysoginists, and all sorts of ists, phobes, isms, and ad hominems.
Gatekeeping is good.
Did the Nelson Brothers wrote this abomination?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hate 'em back, works for me. And vote with your wallet - with Star Wars, make sure you're not a DisneyMinus subscriber. Never pay for anything from Disney. Likewise with LOTR, make sure you're not an Amazon Prime subscriber and be loud about your dislike for it. Rate it on Metacritic, IMDB, etc.
@@happyhammer1 Agreed in terms of fans vs. creators.
The Westfold fell, because fans weren't strong, and didn't fight as well as they can, because they didn't know how bad things would be if they lost.
Helm's Deep holds because fans saw the burning of the westfold and now we fight to see it never happen again.
Never forget what Tolkien truly wrote. A mythology for the English, more than that it was for everyone to enjoy. What Amazon has done to his work is something I will NEVER forgive. True middle earth transcends corporate greed and temporary identity politics.
It literally is just a trendy thing and it will die out eventually ...unless stupidity is a generational thing
Translation :"Too many black people in muh fantasy series"
@@quercus3290 Like that wasn't always the case. How do you think fantasy series are produced and advertised? Go fund me? Charity? News flash my man. Movie studios are billion dollar corporations.
@@elijaharvinger1178 I'm curious why you made it about race? Is there something you'd like to share with everybody?
@@ledfloyd9035 The original post made mention of identity politics. Do you know what that means? He also said the original mythology was for English people. Because he threw identity politics in there I'm assuming he wasn't referring to Englishmen who happen to be non white.
That and one of the main criticisms of the show is
"oH mY GoD bLaCk ElVes"
Probably one of the most lore breaking scene to Tolkien beloved works - though the visual of it looks nice, too bad is a non canon.
the Silmarils and Mithril scene :
AMAZON VERSION ( completely made up lore which has nothing to do with Tolkien whatsoever):
an odd and obsucre legend of an Elf and a Balrog fighting over a tree containing one of the Silmarils. The event leads to a lightning strike that turns the roots of the tree into light-infused mithril - a single vein of which runs down into the mountain. The story is a bit odd, as is the need for the Elves to literally soak in the light of the Valar to avoid fading.
TOLKIEN VERSION:
The Silmarils were created by Fëanor in Valinor.The gems/jewels were crafted of the hard crystalline substance silima, which Fëanor had devised, as their shell, and were named after it. In their heart burned some of the Light of Valinor from the Two Trees. Their exact nature and the manner of making the Silmarils were known only to Fëanor, and none other succeeded in making gems of comparable greatness and beauty. There are 3 silmarils. all of them were stolen by Morgoth but later on, one of them ended up in the hands of Eärendil; it was its light that guided him through the Shadowy Seas and he found his way to Valinor. The Valar then set this Silmaril as a star in the sky, bound on Eärendil's brow as he sailed through the sky. The other two gems remained in Morgoth's hands, and were taken from him only at the end of the War of Wrath. However, soon afterwards, they were stolen by Fëanor's two surviving sons Maedhros and Maglor. But because of their crimes in order to reclaim the jewels, they were unworthy of them, and the jewels burned their hands, in refusal of their rights of possession. In agony, Maedhros threw himself and his Silmaril into a fiery pit, and Maglor threw his into the ocean.
With Mithril, it is just a precious, silvery metal, very lightweight but immensely strong. Amazon somehow, tried to link it with the Silmarils. It doesnt come from an epic fight between elf vs balrog that somehow fuses goodness and evil into a light infused metal. The story that was told in ROP is just made up story that Tolkien never wrote. The show is just a boring parody, and its already more than half way through of season 1. Such a waste of billion dollars all for this to flop.
to be honest this is actually one of those scenes related to what the Showrunners said in many interviews, the story that Tolkien never wrote and they really did it lol.
am not surprise, its Amazon, they had to do it I guess.
the worst part is they had every chance to make this if not successful then at least a respectful addition to the greatness of the books, lore and original trilogy. They went full 180 with it, and it's very saddening.
Tolkien Untangled on youtube - is doing a great series on what rings of power (2nd age) could have been. It is several hours long and is far more entertaining than the $60m episode ROP from amazon. Why because it is a good story based on what Tolkien spent a lifetime building. I only hope that Embracer Group makes something better down the road. I do have to say these videos are too funny, keep up the good work
Five hour-long episodes already. In _HALF_ this run time PJ's films had given us prologue, set up, Bilbo's long-awaited party, Frodo's call to adventure, Bree, Weathertop, Gandalf's capture and escape from Isengard, the Ford of Bruinen, the entire Council of Elrond, Saruman calling the storm on Caradhras, the Watcher in the Water, Moria, the troll fight at Balin's Tomb, the Balrog and "You shall not pass!", and was charging towards Lothlorien, the Argonath, the breaking of the Fellowship, Boromir's redemption, etc.
That's the difference between a production that cares about what they're doing, and a bunch of hacks extruding content to fill their streaming service.
The entire Council of Elrond? He just gave a parody of children arguing.
Excellent summary, really puts things in perspective
Not really fair to compare movie and series. They are different formats with different pacing. For example, most movies go only 90 minutes, and still deliver more story than 1 or 2 episodes of a comparable show. A show just has more time to ideally develop characters and the world.
(Not defending RoP, but your argument is weak)
All true, BUT Jackson didn't have any diversity, and that just totally ruined those movies and caused their failure.
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@@535phobos then lets compare RoP with House of the dragon and other good series. Hotd has a lot happening every episode, the happenings build up the characters and the plot, and it does it well. Characters are taking decisions that move the plot forward and the dialogue is written well.
The world of the married, a kdrama, also does all the character and plot set-ups efficiently, the 1st episode pulls you in and there's a lot happening in it and the episodes that follow. Everything that is happening in this kdrama is essential to the plot and its characters. It's also entertaining, as in it makes you feel tense knowing that in any moment the characters might make a bad decision, find something scandalous or deal with consequences of their actions.
one of my biggest lore beefs (amongst many) is how shite they've made the Numenorians look. As you said they should all be tall, powerful and imposing - yet they've cast a bunch of people who look like out of shape university graduates. Not sure the byzantine theme is working either.
Oh boy, you just look at her face during "a tempest" scene, she tries soooo hard to mimic Kate's performance and falls flat on her face, its laughable.
The show will give whole new meaning to the phrase get woke go broke.
What is woke about this show?
@@Ootini4 Woke is code for blacks and gays or women leads. Three things fans of this genre usually hate to see in their fantasy properties.
@@Ootini4 Clearly you haven't watched any of it. Good on ya!
@@elijaharvinger1178 depends on the source material. Making characters black or gay etc. contrary to the lore and character in the source material is total nonsense and should be rejected. With a new IP you can do what you want. So cry me a river.
@@raskolnikov6443 No it doesn't depend on the source material. Any property with a black ,gay or female lead is subject to being labeled as woke or tokenism or diversity for diversity sake. Unless it's being produced by a black,gay, or female. Captain Marvel was labeled as woke for having too strong of a female empowerment message. In a freaking movie about one of the most powerful females in the Marvel universe!!! So cry me a river. Even in properties where race, gender and sexuality don't do dik to change the lore or character people still cry about it being woke if it's not some white man in the lead.
oh my gosh the "its not about brute force" line followed by Aragorn killing the orc was hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing
not only that fight, many fights show the LoR characters relying on strenght to the point of becoming exhausted from fighting
Not even an orc an uruk which is harder than an orc but still a funny clip
Lurtz wasnt just any uruk-hai, he was sarumans second in command aswell
It also showed the failure of Guyladriel's strategy as Totally Actually Aragorn stabs, twists, and guts the Uruk-Hai, who then does't die the way he was supposed to, forcing Totally Actually Aragorn to behead him.
Npc comment
Was reading original Lotr today, and it struck me how well Morphydd clarke, and the writers writing her character have captured the character of gollum!
self-obsessed, believing she's the centre of the universe, constantly playing the victim card to manipulate others, getting those around her to do dirty work so she doesn't have to, and never entering a fight that she isn't sure she can win?
A perfect gollum alright!
You silly thats Galadriel
Beruthiel is way better. Lenny Henry's character can be gollum.
@@veiregor
That's not Galadriel. That's Beruthiel.
That's all liberals
@@agg-ig8tx ... So dumb playing sides. The two wings of the same carrion bird pick on the carcass of the tax payers, and you're spending your time worried about which wing is worse.
As a gay couple (my husband and me), we totally hate this "everything has to have diversity" and this woke bs... we watched 3 episode aka we tortured ourself through the cringe, after that we decided just to watch your recaps and discussion points. I could not survive another cringefest episode on its own. Thank you for your recaps. I still pray that they never used that nude/sex instructor.
Woke= Anything with gay ,black or women leads.
Ironically any movie or series featuring one of these three will be labeled as woke
@@elijaharvinger1178 Not in its beginnings. Before it was an alert to injustice in society, especially racism. Now it is used as a tool for virtue signaling and shove politcals agendas into someone. Checking boxes in movies was not the goal of the initial idea of woke, yet here we are. humans corrupt everything they touch because of power. Ironically that was the exact message of Tolkien
“As a gay couple “…. So because you lead in with your comment about being a f@g and taking it in the ass, your opinion has more validity. Good job.
@@elijaharvinger1178 woke= white people are evil (there are direct analogies to that in RoP), labeling a male lead as toxic only to have the female lead do the same things and be labeled as stunning and brave. Changing characters for legitimately no reason etc...
@@IowaHawkeyes267 I ONLY hear white people complaining about wOkEneSs though so I'm confused about how
woke=white people evil
Weird, your take on it is becoming the single reason why I keep watching the rings of power. This is just too funny and spot on.
The transition between "It's not about brute force" to Aragorn brute forcing an elite orc commander was gold!
Lets not forget about the Rohirrim army brute forcing their way, charging through the ranks of orcs at Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields. Definitely not a good tactic, probably just got lucky those times.
it wasn't an orc it was an Uruk-hai .. which were bigger and stronger than regular orcs
@@MrXennhorn exactly lol
@LTNetjak I didn't even think about that. In a duel footwork is super important. In formation, not so much.
@@hzuiel Ever since recorded history everyone would be in a tight formation. They would dance back and fourth, taking a break and evaluate their chance of winning. But once in a while a guy would stand out and challenge the opposition. He would take a stand either in a blood rush, to gain respect or to end the fight early. But I digress. In the story Numenour was a military power rivaling the Elves. The show acts like they knew nothing about military training.
it was weird seeing the Aragorn vs Lurtz fight spliced in between rings of power footage... like a gold nugget buried between turds
Yes, I thought the same. What a difference! The colors, the fighting, just that bit was a breath of air in hell.
It brought home the point perfectly: Guyladriel spouting nonsense about "swordsmanship being about balance, rather than strength" showing Aragorn power through and using his strength to behead the orc...
Man, that stood out to me as well.
Asked my girlfriend if she'd watched any of it, "Nah, everybody at work said it was some woke shit" . . .
they can dump a billion dollars on this but we still have people making 7dollars an hour. Disgusting.
I grew up in a family that's huge on Lord of the Rings. My grandfather read The Hobbit to my mom in the sixties. She read the trilogy of books to me when I was 6. And within my family who talks about shows a lot... complete radio silence. They didn't even bother to watch it.
Imagine being so brainwashed by propaganda on youtube that you don't even make up your mind to watch a show and decide for yourself, but instead just let other people think for you - people on youtube who have never read a book in their lives and think Peter Jackson wrote LOTR or are just seething racists...
How embarrassing.
Your mother read the trilogy out loud to you? That's impossible.
Same story here, grandma read the hobbit and LOTR to my Dad, who in turn read them to me and my five siblings. Only one of us five gave the show a shot and she hated it.
And your family did the right thing.
The essence of Galadriel is that she is so the epitome of serene. That's why it means something when Frodo rattled her cage by offering her the ring.
The actress who plays her one the show is awful and on top of that they gave her awful dialogue and ridiculous fight scenes.
@@stefan6412 I'm essentially making that point so I agree.
The funniest thing is, the OG Galadriel could probably kick this fake Galadriel's ass.....without even lifting a finger!
@@tsnophaljakarax9963 well of course, with the power of her gracious and powerful voice
I hope it doesn’t get canceled. The YT reviews are so entertaining
The “there’s a tempest in me” edit killed me 🤣🤣
I loved how galadriel and numenorians decided to “train” with metal blades instead of wood sticks
I literally was like... Were they trying to kill her 😂
@@TheJoker-jv3ou they tried but failed.
I love how even when Galadriel stabs fresh air, there's a sound of metal on metal clashing!
Not that it makes the scene any better, but you know that there are dull metal blades, right? Training with wooden swords makes no sense, as the weight would be way off.
@@stromstans Training with wooden swords does make sense, and was used historically. In europe wooden wasters were a thing, and japan has their oak bokken. Swords are not that heavy, and oak swords are a lot thicker, while they are still lighter then steel swords, it's not as much as you might expect. The weight of the pommel make most swords very well balanced, and they are really not front heavy. A wooden sword is good enough for most training.
Dull training swords like a federschwert do exist, they can be used to practice positions, and for some very careful sparring, or serious sparring in full plate armor, bot not for serious, barely armored sparring. In the show the swords are clearly sharp though. And that's just a recipe for disaster. Even a master swordsmen cannot predict the future movement of their opponent, and sooner rather then later someone will be hit, regardless of skill level.
But frankly, the training with sharp swords trope is so common that I don't even blame this show for it. The LOTR, the witcher, GOT all have scenes like that. It's still a dumb though.
I noticed when you were talking about the training scene you showed Aragorn beating Lurtz. Even in a cut up fashion, the swordsmanship, power, tension and camera work are all amazing. Especially when he cuts his head off and the sword is in the camera! Truly stunning and another example of how this show is a mockery of what came before
My thoughts too. Fight scenes from 2000-2005 far surprised this with a much higher budget per episode and time frame. Horrific directing
Viggo Mortensen and the other actors trained with a veteran fencer/ swordmaster/fight choreographer for the movies, the late Bob Anderson.
Bob Anderson worked in Hollywood for decades, on movies like the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the OT of Star Wars, Princess Bride, the Antonio Banderas Zorro movies, Highlander etc. etc.
He passed away in 2012, RIP.
I watched that scene and momentarily was swept from my anger to joy - in 5 seconds we went from score -10 to score +10..and then we were back..... Viggo Mortensons final half second facial expression in that scene conveyed more than everyone has thus far in ROP.
@@notatrollll but why is that ? I dont understand, its like the Last Jedi fight scenes so badly choreographed as well, has Hollywood just gone well its shaky cam so people wont know whats happening anyway so who gives a damn, and just have stunt men falling over for no reason, why are directors not going I want the most awesome fight scene in my show/film that kids are going to be repeating in playgrounds for years to come.
@@awavey The reason is very simple: a lot of those guys who really know how to teach techniques to be used for good fight scenes are conservative. So they "swing the wrong way" ideologically.
As for the Sequel Trilogy... they wanted to avoid prequel style fights but forgot that proper sword fighting stances and techniques were still used.
No matter how much money Amazon throws at it, it still looks like television.
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In LOTR, The one ring was a character. It was not a MacGuffin. It altered the behavior of anyone who came into contact with it. It sang a siren song individual to each person it was attempting to seduce eg Aragorn near the end of FOTR, Faramir in TTT.
The ring has a will of its own and is actively trying to return to its master.
Source: Peter Jackson interviews and the prologue montage of FOTR, and the books themselves.
A guy I work with asked me if I was watching, I told him no… he said he likes it because he “loves that time period.” That was the moment I realized he should be wearing a helmet everywhere.
Pretty sad how this normal person has to deal with a pseudo-intellectual nerd who is such a disingenuous loser that they have to twist people's normal conversations into something where they are intellectually deficient.
The irony here is incredible. He means he loves medieval fantasy. That's so clear, but you're so dim that you think he thinks LOTR is historical.
I get that you're likely young and work at Taco Bell, but holy crap dude - you cannot be more insecure and disingenuous. No wonder you love this youtuber who tells you how to think.
😂😂
if this is true, maybe eugenics isnt such a bad thing
Can you clarify "work with"?
bit late for that helmet...
Ever since this started I've been dreaming of what Jackson could have done if you'd given him the $2Billion and said "Go for it!". What wonders to behold... Such a dream.
I don't think he would have taken it, LOTR was a huge production that took several years to put together and make all the sets and armor. I doubt Amazon would have the patience for that. This is thrown together garbage with bits and piece of the lore, I don't think anyone could have saved this. Even Shippley said it was going to be very difficult to not step all over the timeline.
He wouldn’t hire these zoomer actors, thats for sure. Can you imagine telling 40 year old Viggo “Nah you too old to be aragorn, fack off boomer”
He is too tired after making the best masterpiece trilogy we ever had, he made the Hobbit and it was not the best, but not his fault. For the hobbit he was already so done with the LOTR universe, they didnt gave him any choice to direct it and stretch it out for cashgrab, you can tell in the behind the scenes. Let the man just rest
I mean, he did make The Hobbit, which was pretty awful.
@@kimvarki He was rushed to make it after the studio delayed production for years, causing the original director (Guillermo del Toro) to quit. Jackson also didn't want it to be a trilogy, but 2 films, which also would have been the better route. The surprising part of all of that is how little power Jackson had in the matter, after he'd pulled off one of the greatest trilogies of all time, even scoring some Oscars.
This wasn't 1 billion dollars, its tax evasion. It has to be.
when life gets you down always remember, rocks sink because they look down and boats look up...
They got that quote from Wile E. Coyote!
@@Thomas.Wright its the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Doesn't even make sense
12:19 Remember Aragorn and Boromir teaching the hobbits how to fight on Fellowship? That was a nice moment. Slow paced. Fun and wholesome. A moment that made sense (Because Boromir and Aragorn are veteran fighters and hobits are not). Realistic, believable (Basic. Don't dance around, just show how to use a sword). And that at the end... the scene even advanced the plot. yet the scene looks so simple!
And they didn't feel the need to have Aragorn or Boromir show off how badass they are. Pippin and Merry basicly got a win, when they threw Boromir to the ground and they started to grapple with him. They did show us how good natured Boromir was when he let it happen and took it in good fun.
I love that scene! It's my favorite of the more casual scenes, it advances the plot, shows us Merry, Pippin, and Boromir's bond, and it's just really cute!
@@AnarchHive Yes exactly. Boromir wasn't so insecure as to need to get a win or to flex on beginners.
Such a cute scene. Of course, it was weird that they were using real swords, but there was so much heart in that scene. The playfulness and camaraderie just shone through.
And it shows how the hobbits have managed to hone their fighting skills, rather than just having them spontaneously leap into battle as if they haven't just spent their whole lives in the shire. It's nicely done character development for all of them.
I’d like to personally thank Amazon for providing us with such entertaining CZcams content…..now I’m off to finish my weekend Jackson binge with Return of the king.
That's my fav movie of all times!!!! Including making off... enjoy!
On rotten tomatoes most of the 5 star reviews are written by accounts with only one film/tv series reviewed and they all sounds the same.... sounds like someone is trying to lift the score 🤢
I also heard that Viggo Mortensen was one of the best natural swordsman taught for the movies
The man that taught him said that Viggo was one of the best that he has trained.
LMAO the part where the "superfan" admits she hasnt watched it at all and instead says HOTD has won her attention
Well, she definitely WAS superfan. Just not a superfan of Tolkien, a superfan of the money Amazon gave her to lie about this festering turd of a "show.'
And all of them are Harry Potter superfans. It just keeps confirming to me that Harry Potter IP is from the devil.
Wow that was crazy.
none of those "superfans" have any LOTR or ROP content in their stuff.
These gay 'superfans' were sickening the first time they invaded my space
My favourite part was when Galadriel went back in time to steal the almanac from Biff.
Such an amazing twist.
A masterpiece.
The part where she goes to the graveyard and discovers Celeborn's tombstone was shocking.
@@Beardshire Not as shocking as the scene where Jack (the harfoot) draws her like a french girl!
Or when Sauron turned out to be Guyladriel’s father. So, what Gil Galad told her was true, from a certain point of view.
@@melvinloyalist6758 oh my gosh, what about when she sees the sketch of the man who fell from the sky, and realizes HE was Keyser Soze all along?!?!
Topped only by the Morbius cameo! There's vampires in Middle Earth, right?? Probably...
It’s not really a flex that “Guyladriel” beat all those Numenorians she was “training” because she only taught them to stab
Episode 5. Elrond discusses with Celebrimbor how torn he is feeling about breaking his oath with Prince Durin, by revealing the existence of Mithril to others, especially King Gil-galad, who has questioned Elrond about it, all while literally breaking his oath to Durin, by admitting Mithril's existence to Celebrimbor and showing him the sample piece he was permitted to keep. Absolute stellar writing!
It was masterful
Pulitzer prize winning writing. Noble prize for literature nomination
They're really making Elrond out to be a bad bad elf!
Mithril is the Everlasting Gobstopper from Willy Wonka.
Also the revelation that the elves will run on mithril batteries is something special. That is, it requires writers with particular level of mental infirmity :)
_The Rings of Power_ moving steadily toward being revealed as the biggest accounting sham in entertainment history. Which is really quite an achievement, considering Hollywood is notorious for its shady accounting.
Somewhere, Max Bialystock is smiling with pride, and composing this song for the musical adaption of _The Rings of Power:_
_Springtime for Sauron and the Orcs_
_Winter for Harfoots and Elves_
Moving all that money around is pretty astonishing. They do it right in front of everyone. It's a magicians wet dream.
@@sixupsprite5501 This is why this show has 20+ producers and executive producers. Especially the latter is just the official title of someone getting money for doing nothing. Executive producers do nothing other then collect a paycheck. It is how Hollywood greases palms. You do me a solid, I'll give you an executive producer cred and paycheck.
This is so clearly money laundering. Show me where the money is in the show.
Yeah, Max is going "Now this, THIS is how you do a flop! Genius!"
Springtime for Sauron??
🤣🤣🤣
"There are many ways to kill Tolkien's lore, but for this show I'll keep it simple. Stab. Twist. Gut"
I just don't understand how they didn't see this problem in the scripts!!
One of the british newspapers said watching ring of power was like eating rancid cat food. I think that says it all.
After it passed through the cat.
It's amazing how the ships can sail in a totally enclosed bay with 500 foot high walls. and the wind always seems to be coming from behind.
It'S fAntAsY
Yup, magic winds indeed.
And those "millenial" chinese junk rigs...they suck big time :)
@@nswmeeuwes89 Fantasy has its in-universe laws, too. It doesn't mean lacking in laws of physics without a reason already established (like using magic with visual cues). That being said sailing without wind is the least of this series' problems.
@@Spankki i think they are being sarcastic
The wind has to come from behind, because these stupidly designed ships can only run before the wind, even though this is a very slow/inefficient form of sailing.
Strange how Galadriel, formerly shipwrecked with nothing, now appears on deck in wonderfully tailored elven armour. Must have been some spares in town.
This show is a billion dollar virtue signal. Amazon is a $700 billion dollar company. 1 billion is a drop in a bucket. It’s a shame that they chose Tolkien to bastardize, but that’s what’s happening. Really want to punish Amazon? Boycott.
Wheel of Time was the canary in the coal mine for Rings of Power. Amazon's ability to completely fail when the story was already completed for them and the arcs of the main characters already existed should have been a warning.
Yeah its just insane. Why it is so difficult to simply adapt existing story, and characters while been faithful to the original work? They would have made so much money
Wheel of Time was unwatchable. i did'nt finish the first episode , it was just too cringe. It felt like I was sucked into some gender study depressed student wet fantasy. It was like reading a twitter thread and not being able to tweet back.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -1984
Totally butchered…
@@backintimealwyn5736 the hard "gender studies" reworking wasn't just cringe, it was unnecessary! This isn't Tolkien, multiracial women were already right there in the story! All they needed to do was stay true to the book and they'd have all women rulers and power wielders they'd ever need.
This show makes last Jedi look like citizen Kane
11:44 Is Guy-Galadriel really trying to say, "Stick 'em with the pointy end?"
I wonder where she GOT that from?
Its funny, Nerdotic and his video editor have better visual story telling than a BILLION dollar franchise.
Pretty sure that's Quarter Black Garrett.
Thank you so much for these reviews so I don't have to waste any brain cells on this horrible show. Also, the Celeborn unsolved mysteries cut away was pure gold!
lol if you had any you would watch the show instead of just hating like a dumb bot
Lol. I agree with his stance against the woke, but did he seriously bleach his hair? He dyed it blond. That is some frosty tip f@gitry stuff if I have ever seen. Everyone i have ever met personally with bleached hair has been a total dbag. I bet this youtube personality is no different. Even if he has my views the dbag energy is bright on him
What I've always understood was Elves would live forever unless killed in combat or consumed by despair. Despair turned Elves from being pure and immortal into dark and twisted beings. Morgoth would take Elves captive and cause so much distress and despair that they slowly became something other than Elves and through this process they lost their identities and became Orcs. Morgoth then corrupted their minds further and made them into his warrior slaves as their all-consuming despair made them destructive and vindictive, evil beings. So, no, Adar didn't create the fucking Orcs.
Did they really retcon the creation of the Orchestra?
Kinda like Trump with MAGA cultists!
But is there a moment in the show where they say Adar created them? I must've missed it...
I'm guessing he's first generation? A corrupted elf who was one of the orcish precursors?
Through despair and unrelenting torture as well, yes, you are correct... It was Morgoth, who was a dark God, not an elf, that is not a God... Morgoth created Orcs... Amazon is the worst...
I have come to the sad realization that literally my whole family, minus my wife, are a bunch of entertainment normies. I try to show just how bad this show (and others) are and they just refuse to see it. I can't watch shows with them. Thank God I'm married and my wife and I have the same tastes and takes on films, comics, and shows.
Everyone knows the best way to produce a faithful adaptation of a classic fantasy is to make it seem as similar to today as possible. Because different is bad… wait I mean…
5:00 Took me a few seconds there to realize Gary and team added the whistle to avoid being struck, but I honestly believed for those few seconds that Amazon actually had that off-key whistle as part of the score.
...and yet, it somehow enriches the scene!
At this point, I'm honestly cheering for Sauron!
Me too. Good thing we know he survived and rebuilds in the Third Age. But the time Amazon gets to that maybe we can get a few woke mole writers in to change the ending so Bezos I mean Gollum runs off with the Ring and lives forever.
adar gets a cheer or two also LOL!!!
At the moment, I think the writers - due to their lack of nuance - will say that Morgoth and Sauron were the same entity and split so they will introduce a figure that is a bit of both: Mor-Ron.
@@rubix4195 LMAO! :D
Thank you for your honesty.
I fled Hollywood in 2007 - I could no longer stand the horror of it all.
Now?
I am very glad I was always nothing in Hollywood.
I realized today that the CW Channel / Batwoman level of dialog and writing we seen in Rings of Power was totally predictable back in 2003 when the Return of The King movie was released. Compare and contrast two scenes and associated speeches:
First, Theoden before the charge on the Pelennor Fields. There is some liberty taken with timing, but Theoden's words in his brief speech to the Rohirrim are lifted from Tolkien's writing directly. It is brief, but truly heroic sounding:
Next, contrast it with Aragorn's speech before the Black Gate.
In the book, there was no speech by Aragorn. This means the movie writers had to write something themselves for the character to say. Aragorn's speech, while not exactly cringe, is obviously the work of people who were tasked with writing something that sounded 'inspiring'. The result is a monologue that sounds like the writing of people who think that's what someone would say to inspire soldiers, rather than something that IS actually inspirational. It was probably written by committee and voted on, and it sounds like something that would be written as such.
Now image an entire TV series written by such people, without any real source material to draw on, who didn't even like the source material to begin with, and who are really tasked with making a relabeled Game of Thrones knockoff. The results are before you now on Amazon. Totally predictable.
I just want to know how did the galadriel cosplayer get her armor and giga sword hilt when she jumped without it! It was painfully repeated for a hundred scenes that she only had her brothers dagger on her. Also those ships apparently are magically enlarged from the inside (like in harry potter) and are able to carry 100 people each, AND have stables...
Not mentioining that the mighty Numenor here sends to battle ~300 barely trained volounteers. The Numenor that had the most revered army of men of all the ages.
@@firestarter000001 but they had to add that volunteer scene and the galadrail training scene bro.
“Giga sword hilt” LMFAO 😂
yah swords are not everywhere in this show wow how did she get it lol. worst complaint yet. reprogram yourself bot
@@firestarter000001 seems you werent paying attention but those numenor men live hundreds of years. barely trained in numenor means well past a regular humans full life training.
I think we need an embargo from woke chicks writing anything… forever
''it's woke'' - many incels
Agreed. That would go a long way toward getting solid narratives again.
just women in general
@@Izzy-nm1qw We aren't all idiots and arrogant smug twats. Some women actually have sense.
@@Izzy-nm1qw hey there are good women writers too
Sound effect from Bushido Blade on PS1 at 12::34?
He took it back to old school crime tv 15:20😂😂 “have you seen this elf”😂😂😂
I would like to kindly point out, one episode of this costs just as much as the Joker movie from 2019. Seems like someone else spent their money wisely.
Definitely not a case of "throwing money at the problem" and achieving nothing better in the end... definitely not...
If I were Amazon, I'd be asking for a forensic audit....
can i get a "corruption" from the crowd?!
the 15+ executive producers spent that money wisely I'm sure
@@Songbirdstress If I were Bezos I would do the defenestration meme in real life with all the executive producers and writers
The copy/paste crowd scene in episode 5 has to be seen to be believed. 😄
still better than the Jackson movies
Proof there is a whole lot of money laundering going on. Because there is NO WAY $1B is actually being spent on this tripe.
Someone call Ramsay Bolton.His plaything has left it's cage.
@@reek4062 you'll have to explain that one, mate.
@@celozzip yeah it’s not better than the hobbit so definitely not as good as lotr
The thing that pisses me off more then anything is that I was so looking forward to this series when first announced.
I still watch every episode and still want to throw a brick at TV ever time I see Galadriel and that Boss lady who says she's not their king.
No shit. For one thing you would be a queen and one that everyone hates.
God I hate this freaking series but yet I still watch it for some dumb fuckin reason.
I'll just make a suggestion for you: everything you need to know about the show, you can gain from watching critic's reviews. Save your sanity; watch people ripping it to shreds instead.
Galadriel teaching Numenoreans about how to fight orcs is like a Frenchman explaining to US recruits how the US doesn’t know about fighting in WW2, or even what it was.
Adar: “As a teenager, elves, men, & hobbits made fun of my acne, calling me pizza face. Only the orcs were kind to me. So, now I get my revenge!”
LOL!
I've got to say - God bless the fans. To stand up against one of the biggest, richest companies in the world and actually make it panic is genuinely hope-inspiring. Keep up the good fight.
Imagine being a Tolkien fan and getting a job on this show, being SO excited and then slowly growing more and more horrified when you realized what an abomination it is.
I love Nerd 's funny editing! It is really good! I know it probably takes a while to get the right and apt clip or meme reaction but they are REALLY ON POINT!! 👍👏
Yeah, dropping 2022 into a quasi-medieval setting makes so much sense. Legolas is searching the internet for a good deal on a new bow, Theoden can't afford gas prices so has gone back to horses, the Rings of Power will be made using wind power not fire, and Galadriel will be on Dancing with the Stars next week. Yeah, it's definitely the novel that Tolkien didn't write.
Robot Chicken sketch there
I would watch that lol. ROP is not anywhere near that proposal
@@Muck006 she will be paired with a good superstar, That Vegan Teacher. Or with Oprah Winfrey or Ezra Miller.
@@BananLord only if Ezra appears as Reverse Flash.
Galadriel trains Numenoreans, it's like the Virgin Mary training Spartans. That was just brilliant, I laugh soooo hard on that one!
Mary was a pretty tough woman. I get the intent behind joke, but it's stupid non the less.
I too get the joke but Galadriel, REAL Galadriel wouldn't stoop that low. She could drop them all with moving her feet
@@jrob4795 being tough doesn't give you a lick of qualification to train a military force, what you said is nonsense*
@@Carlos-ui5dx Never said she was qualified to train Military, I just said she was tough, and I didn't like the joke.
This was an example of the hubris of the writers thinking that they have created a Super Galdrrrrrriel and that everyone will be wowed by her words ....and then none of them bothers to even research at least a decent sword move....nope ..we get....and wait for it....because this shit is pretty fucking advanced..........you stab them...........Fuck me!!!! Swordsmen and fencers across the planet are right now watching that scene for tips on how to use these pointy weapons - up until now I personally always used my throwing crossbow for stabbing people - not once had I even considered to use one of my swords for such a revolutionary act.
I have Amazon prime I get quite a bit of use out of it at this point I could literally watch it for what is basically free. I still don't want to watch it not even to do a review on it.
This guy just doesn’t miss. Wtf is this show!?! How is this even possible
I was especially moved by the writing, Galadriel saying "This is Sparta!"