Rings of Power FALLOUT Journalist's INSANE Defence
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2022
- Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been released with episodes 1 and 2 on Amazon prime video. But the media embargo dropping didn't prepare anyone for the launch reviews, or the LOTR hype that they were determined to push. With the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly disagreeing, alongside various actor interviews like Morfydd Clark as Galadriel coming forwards. Can Rings of Power impress the fans enough to continue its 5 season run profitably?
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I watched 'Return of The King' last night and saw Eowyn run the gamut from gentle, feminine and elegant to utterly badass. She was clearly terrified to go into battle (as any sane person would be) but was determined to fight - which is what true bravery is I think - and ended up killing the Nazgul Witch King. She's a great character, who I appreciate all the more after this two dimensional cardboard cut version of Galadriel.
Yeah that's honestly one of my favorite parts. You can see nothing but pure fear and dread on her face in all of the charges but she still does it. That's true courage and strength.
Eowyn was front runner for worst character is the lotr triology😂
nope the MOST badass moment was from the fellowship when Arwen had to outrun the nazgul with frodo on the horse...the emotions !i really was like "f@&k yeah girl"
Her screaming death and charging with the riders was epic. Rop writers missed the whole point
No man can kill me!!!
I'm not a man
Dope moment
Morffyd Clarke is about as intimidating as a Labrador pup with mild constipation. Cate Blanchett could silence a room with a glance.
this is true.
Yep - and Cate Blanchett played Galadriel 5000 years later, which can let you head spin
N she is uglee too
I was watching Robin Hood the other day and Cate plays Marian in it, was surprised that she was just as intimidating as Russel Crowe in some of the scenes, and Russel Crowe happens to be a commanding actor on the big screen, but she held her own.
Absolutely spot on!
"Any woman can be a female, but not every woman can be a Lady." Well said, Disparu!
Some women aren't female, BIGOT!
classic incel.
I dont think you understand what that word means kiddo
@@madmantheepic7278 Shhhh, you're gonna scare the redditor. They collapse and disintegrate when not in their SAFE SPACE. Leave *insert made up pronoun* alone..!
Man has audacity to think some women are less than perfecr = incel
Cate Blanchett has a very intimidating and even somewhat evil looking face, but in LoTR (as in all other films she acts in) she has enough range to be able to deliver softness, compassion and hope just as convincingly as anger, greed and fierceness. She has perfect control over her expressions, just as any good actor is supposed to
@@billy-the-butcher ok incel
ROP is atrocious, the end.
Blanchett needs to slap some galadriel into morfyyd Clarke
What I really hate is the gas lighting. If you want to rewrite Tolkien to fit the current year, then just say so. If you want to just capitalize on the LOTR name to push your message, then JUST SAY SO.
But no, they have to insist this is faithful to the lore, and if we disagree, or if we don’t like it, it’s our fault.
I’m not to blame for your delusions and incompetence.
I guess they did say so? All those quotes about "reflect the world as it is today" were not subtle. Also ROP doesn't even push the message as hard as most other franchises these days. Many of the changes are just baffling for no reason.
@@alexr6092 They also said every single decision was based on whether if it was faithful to the lore. So which one is it? It's not like they pulled off a genius move and satisfied both conditions.
@@alexr6092 I dunno, they are pushing the feminist agenda pretty hard... every female character is all powerful and wise and don't need no man to open no jar for her thank you very much; and the men are all weak, unlikeable politicians, who just can't handle how wise and empowered the women are. If only the men could realize what the women have known all along everything would be fine but nooooo, the men have fragile egos and weak personalities. Except Halbrand, who will turn out to be evil of course because he's a white man, and Arondir, who is stunning and brave because he's an elf of colour
This, so much.
C'mon man can't make em do that just see it for what it is and then just enjoy what they put out. No one will ever have full rights to make an exceptional LOTR series or movie at this point
We were so lucky to have Jackson's version of LOTR. We can't expect to get that lucky twice.
I agree with Tolkien (from the grave) that the Jackson version was mostly terrible.
@@emsnewssupkis6453 you are in the extreme minority. Worthless opinion
@@emsnewssupkis6453 I love the books. I have read them several times. But I thought the movies were very good.
This definition of Lucky... To hope people are hired for their ability to do their jobs.
Didn't need to get lucky just needed standards.
hell i'd take the cartoon movie and the rackenbash or whatever the name is' third movie - over rings of power.
The galadriel in PJs films is beautiful. When Frodo was near death, she came as an apparition and gives a heartwarming smile and pulls Frodo up to keep going. She is like a beautiful yet terrifying angel. I am missing that from this show.
lol no
@@henkhenkste6076 Hell yeah lol..
@@ped0ph1LeCZcams if you are into genderbending aliens i guess
but now she slays trolls and is the bestest ever, it must be good!
@@TheL0ngbeard She has become another Captain Marvel type of character that is so far removed from the Galadriel created by Tolkien. Same boring, annoying, one dimensional, and crass female character that we've seen over and over again in recent years. Meh.
I don't understand what the hell these people hate about Tolkien's writing so badly that they want to piss on it like this. The dark lord was directly defeated by a couple of hobbits and his right hand man was killed by a woman (with the help of another hobbit). None of those people were warriors and its a very inspiring story.
They didn't get where they went by insulting Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and every other warrior man they saw and have every scene written to belittle them. Everyone helped each other, because that's what heroic people do.
They, like the master they serve, hate anything that is good and beautiful and want to destroy it. Simple as that. They're a bunch of literal orcs.
What? How is it inspiring if a bunch of nobodies defeat the big threats? It makes the said threats look like fools.
@@skychieftain It means that the little people matter. You don't have to be a big warrior to save the world, as long as you do your best, and all together then can defeat evil.
@@535phobos what a laughable message. In reality, what you really require is for the evil forces to be nerfed and stupid in order to win. That's the real message that LoTR depicts.
@@skychieftain So, if you yourself arent a big hero warrior, you should just sit back and let the important people do their thing? Cause that seems to be the message you are after. That only great people can do great deeds.
Whereas Tolkiens message is that everyone can help do great things, and be his own part ever so small.
The angry look is the only convincing expression Clark has. The advertising is a problem, the writing is a problem, but the actress is also a problem.
but you have to admit ,we she do that"face" when she piss off ,it very funny .the eye twitch ,the lip curl pure gold
@@kjelllindbergh8163 true, but I highly doubt that's what they were going for.
The cares is great - Galadriel is a show!
Many modern females think smiling or otherwise looking pleasant is bowing to the patriarchy.
it's 'Reva' all over again. The actress is terribly miscast since she doesn't have the screen presence to be the character they want her to portray, which results in her being just a cartoon character
Whether the director is constantly telling her 'resting bitch face' or that just the limits of her range, i have no idea... but in the end a failure is a failure
"We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies." Peter Jackson
"Shut up racists" Amazon
Well most of the Disparu stuff IS pretty racist which JRRT is not. So not a good assumption.
Also PJ promised not to put his own politics or themes or messages so he eliminated key characters, changed key plot points, killed off people TOlkien never did, and made Legolas into a surfriding superhuman
Yeah he honored Tolkien lmao
@@thomasmuandersontheneousul4184 Tolkien wouldn't have liked PJ'S adaptation, its true - pretty sure even Christopher said it was a poor reflection of his father's work.
However, as an adaptation that brought Middle Earth to the big screen and millions more people, it was and still is incredible, and the people behind it changed as little as they could whilst still making it a compelling and coherent film trilogy.
Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wights needed to go because it would have killed pacing and tension.
Glorfindel was replaced with Arwyn to add weight to her's and Aragorn's relationship, as well as keep the tension up since Glorfindel is an absolute beast.
Haldir and the elves were added to Helm's Deep, again for tension maintenance reasons and as a nod to the themes of cooperation and solidarity being essential in overcoming evil.
Eomer replaced Erkenbrand for plot coherency reasons.
And finally the Scourging of the Shire was cut because it would have added an extra hour to the film and been somewhat anticlimactic after the defeat of Sauron.
Considering the source material, the PJ films are some of the best book adaptations ever brought to screen, in terms of faithfulness and quality. Not perfect, but damn close to it. Rings of Power didn't even try to respect what little source material they had access to, changing everything they could in order to tell their own story and inject their own messages instead of keeping JRRT's.
Also, Disparu isn't racist just because he points out glaring flaws in plot, character and general production studio fuckery
Frodo: "I wish 'The Rings of Power' had never come to be. I wish none of this had happened."
Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times."
Best we can do is stop watching it and keep honestly explaining why we don't like it, until someone understands that customers do matter
AWESOME!!
I do wish Rings of Powers had come to be, just not the way it did!
Like when you expect to seen an Elf and instead it's on Orc!
Wow. When I heard that reading The Hobbit put the writer off from novels when he was a kid my jaw dropped to the floor. The Hobbit was the book that made me as a kid interested in fantasy novels. I bet he just doesn't read novels, full stop. Not liking The Hobbit as a kid if you like to read is just absurd.
The Hobbit was the first full-length novel I ever read when I was a child. My parents bought a huge artbook that had the full novel in it, along with pictures from the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit movie. It got me hooked on both fantasy and reading.
Same thing for me too. Not only did 'The Hobbit' spark my interest in fantasy novels, but also my interest in tabletop RPGs in general.
Thank you Professor Tolkien!
Have to agree, absurd sums it up; the writer is a blatant liar.
For real. I had to pause the video and make a comment it was so absurd. This guy is talking about "being forced" to read The Hobbit is wild! I was LUCKY to have the opportunity to read The Hobbit as a kid, and it was the book that moved me from short novellas into actual full-length novels. It was that good. I can't believe that Amazon would even be okay with having somebody with that opinion making a Lord of the Rings show, unless they were deliberately trying to drag the IP down.
Shame on you Disparu. Can't you see how stunning and bold this series is? Clearly this is how Middle Earth is supposed to be represented! If only Tolkien could see this improvement to his work.
(There are Amazon drones outside my window. Please send help...)
bahahaha
*buys RC F-14 Tomcat model*
🎶 *plays Danger Zone* 🎶
"Talk to me Goose."
what i find funny Tolkiens works is perfect there is no room for improvement
Ha ha what a funny comment 😂
This series is a Shame for the Tolkien-Universe. A Woke disaster.
Peter Jackson, in his WWI documentary, wanted to bring a contemporary soldiers' ditty to life, so he went out and got honest to goodness Brits to sing the lyrics for his documentary, not wanting to diminish or disguise the song's origins by having Aussies or Kiwis sing it. THAT is professionalism guided by love and respect. You won't get anything like that coming out of California, the center of American ethnocentrism and didactic self-loathing of anything that could ever be described as "white," the color that embodies evil in the mind of these cultural vandals and demagogues more than anything Sauron or Morgoth ever did.
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They Shall Not Grow Old was absolutely fantastic. I remember that story, too, where he got the embassy staff to do it, if I recall correctly
Very accurately and eloquently put good Sir.
Can't disagree.. Hollywood is the epicenter of this. Sauron could kill the body but he couldn't kill the soul, The kingdoms of men proved that.
Hollywood is slowly destroying the American soul and while despising America, they have this weird ethnocentrism that seems to say everyone, everywhere, of European White origins, has to feel the exact same way. They can't even allow Europeans to have their own myths and legends.
What I despise most is how they think they have to build women up by tearing men down. That is disgusting.And their hatred for family life and normal sexual relationships. Nuts.
I might look up that documentary.. never heard of it. I've always found WWI an interesting topic.
@@tonyt.r.5313 Beautiful
We were actually supposed to buy into the idea that this catastrophe of a show was the real example of 'empowerment'???
In the film trilogy, we have Arwen, introduced with a sword in her hand, volunteering to take heroic action, and looking nothing less than fierce all the while. We have Eowyn, devoted to Rohan and her King. Determined to fight, and doing so impressively. Up to and including the defeat of Sauron's greatest commander. And finally there is the real Galadriel. Barring celestial beings, the most powerful person in all of Middle-Earth. Strong enough to face any foe, and yet wise and compassionate enough to take real interest in the well-being of a single Hobbit. The literal embodiment of grace, wisdom, and beauty.
@@banhammer3904 Yeah, that's one I left out. And her Mom as well I suppose.
@@banhammer3904 Considering she was evil and "pegged" Frodo, I think by Lefty standards, you're actually right lol.
Even Galadriel in the Hobbit Trilogy was badass. Temporarily defeating Sauron with a powerfull spell (instead of sword fighting)
Well said. Wish I was as smart as the true Tolkien fans.
And there is Morfydd- a distant relative to Morgoth himself no doubt.
Arwen had a sword, Eowyn had a sword and killed the witch king of Angmar, Tauriel had a sword and Bow/arrows (not exactly lore but was still there), all very strong and powerful women while fitting into the universe. But is there nothing that says power more, than an individual who can manage without having to wield a weapon as Galadriel (the real one) did. She went to rescue Gandalf from the clutches of Sauron/necromancer in the Hobbit, "without a sword"!! how brave and powerful is that? People are so shallow when they think that strong women have never been represented before and the only thing that shows power is to wield a weapon.
Wielding a weapon AND being arrogant, self-righteous, brutish, uncouth and despicable. That's how they see "strong" women. Pathetic brat losers.
It's just infuriating how they're straight up bragging about ravaging, rewriting and ideologically annexing Tolkien's work because he and his son aren't around to defend it.
Agree. Nauseating. Nobody in the beginning EVER ASKED for woke Middle Earth. If someone were going to redo Robin Hood, is anyone's first thought let's make Robin a short Asian woman? Anyone? The Three Musketeers as set in the 'hood? NOBODY asks for the classics to be FIXED.
@@2012sonora Indeed. And her 'merry men' are a rap group. And the villain they steal from is the owner of their building who wants them to pay their rent. No, I'm not kidding.
@@cherryfireice8216 Robin Hood was originally a John Doe name for bandits. So in theory there actually could have been a short Asian Robin Hood. Unlikely but possible.
@@2012sonora i'm also kind of wondering why they use the word 'fix' when actively making things worse... that's generally the opposite of a fix....
Tolkien's work will never fall to woke so long as the fans are around to defend it. They may push woke crap in our direction, but we'll never let it pass.
Superficial reference, I know, but I need people to get it.
The problem with the Kubrick Stare is that is traditionally only done once to show change in perspective or personality, when done in every scene just shows a lack of character development and broken idea of personality.
*cough*Bella Swan*cough*
That's right! Ya'all being too hard on Norma Bates!!
Bella Lugosi was doing it in the 1930's Frankenstein movie.
Agreed and it loses it's effectiveness when it's EVERY scene.
That stare is a favorite of real psychopaths. Tells a lot.
Hahahaha! Agree. Am "waiting not waiting" for Asian representation. I am Filipino and discovered Tolkien back in 1984. I thoroughly enjoyed the books long before any film adaptation. The values are timeless and totally resonate if people use some sense to be drawn into real story telling. They Prime and the showrunners have no ability to create only to corrupt - so very modern. Keep up the great work! Really appreciate your videos.
I can't tell you how much I love listening to you totally dismantle these morons in the entertainment industry. You rock, Disparu!!
People defending the show: “there is not a single thing in this series that Tolkien would not like!!”
Me: “since he was a linguist.. I’m pretty sure he’d take issue with the dialogue”
I'm told that some of the examples of foreign script in the show aren't even the elvish, dwarfish, or any of the dozens of other languages Tolkien created whole-cloth... they're just gibberish. So lazy.
And the many, many changes in the plot.
Did any of these people actually know Tolkien himself? No? Then they're just talking out their ass trying to defend Rings Of Power.
Just Some Guy pointed out the writing on the map is literal scratches.
Also, the allegories to modern day issues....
She looks like she wants to challenge everyone she meets to a staring contest...but she realized she has too poop and now regrets her decision.
I cheered when that woman shoved her back into the ocean... lol
The tempest within her is just her feeling constipated.
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the second part of this happened to me at the grocery store today
@@ericfrancisco6615 The Tempest came from Taco Bell.
“Does ‘Rings of Power’ live up to the hype?”
Well, given that the “hype” for this show among fans has been subterranean for months, then yes, I’d say it did indeed live up to it: it’s every bit as atrocious as we thought it’d be, and then some.
I love the Irish Times review! Famine cosplay, brilliant! Someone on the Middle Earth Facebook page commented that the Hobbits' accent sounded like the voice coach made the actors watch an episode of 'Derry Girls" and told them "Do that accent".
Finrod: "Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot?" Child Guyladriel: "Nope."
Finrod: "Because any object, totally or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object."
Child Guyladriel: "So that means both that pumice-stone or a properly sculpted stone totally could float. And your riddle is nonsense!"
@@HerculesBallsInc
If only Galadriel had been portrayed thusly.
Don’t you know that stones look down and ships look up? It’s science!
@@peterandjunko And you wouldn't want to question THE SCIENCE(tm)!
The stone sinks because it looks down...
The paper floats because it looks to the stars...
The scissors fly because it doesn't give a shit...
I love that Clark's pathetic little lip quiver of teen angst has become the most well-known meme from the show.
I just realized Emilia's surname is also Clarke.
@@zoebaggins90 at least she's attractive. I'd hit it in a heartbeat, dragons and psychosis be dammed!
@@zoebaggins90 So is the surname of Arthur C. Clarke, so your point? :):)
@@zoebaggins90 so is Jason Clarke. And?
@@tonyg3091 nothing. I just thought the coincidence of two major shows' protagonists having almost the same surname in real life.
In letter 348 Tolkien states that in Sindarin “Galadriel” means “maiden crowned with gleaming hair” and that the name was a secondary one given to her in her youth when she was then of ‘Amazonian disposition’ and ‘ bound up her hair in a crown when taking part in athletic feats’. Tolkien elsewhere noted that Galadriel was unusually tall and possessed of a proud nature. So the “Amazon” part may not have the warrior meaning that some would impart. It could of course. But it could also just mean that Galadriel was a strong willed young female elf who enjoyed physical exercise in the first age. In the start of the second she was already 1500 or 5000 years old married to Celeborn and living in Lindon.
I've noticed that they've basically erased Celeborn from the story. Can't have the Strong Female Protagonist(tm) weighed down by anything "feminine" like being married! Or god forbid having a child!
Yes! Make her formidable tall woman with some strength in her lithe body but don’t put her into clunky armor! She doesn’t need any sword with the mastery of Osanwe and elven magic and grace
@@LoliLikesPedobear yes she is already powerful not to need armor and sword in the 2nd age.
@@mrfry3 I would actually like seeing her having physical feats like running or even tumbling with her daughter when she (Celebrian) was young, because there’s a thing about elves turning into weightless spirits and leaving their bodies near the end of their long life cycle, and Galadriel being some 5 thousand years younger, in her second phase/cycle of life, could have this stark contrast expressed in lively motion for pleasure rather than function.
She was basically a tomboy, hence her other name Nerwen 'man-maiden'
I just can’t get over the fact that she needed therapy after filming her fighting scenes! So friggin weak!
Why? Why on earth does a company pay $250 million to gain access to an existing fan base ... and then tell that existing fan base to go f*ck off? Can someone please explain that to me?
It's not about the money it's about the message (destroying everything that is dear to us) When you know who rule hollywood you'll have the answer (clue : they don't work on saturdays)
Little rich post moddies with an ideology in which they pretend to play god, when in reality they should have had the fate of Kirillov from Demons, though instead, they project their neurotic depression on the world.
In other words, they dont believe in the concept of 'sense', and I am saying this in all seriousness.
We're not throwing rocks *at* them. We want the rocks to look up at the stars.
You win the interwebs today. xD
Flipping rocks. 😂
"there is no evidence of any Irish actors having been involved"
Well there is no evidence of any genuine Tolkien fans being involved either, so no surprise there :P
Let's not forget the scottish dwarves as well...take a Welshman and give him a Scottish accent!
Perhaps Amazon would have done well to spend that billion quid on improving the wages for their workers rather than destroying a cultural legacy. Everyone would have been better off.
I can just imagine kindly old Professor T finishing up the Return of the King and going back to work on the Silmarillion, thinking to himself,
"In sixty years or so, they're going to need a bigger television to watch this."
“I hope someone with minimal TV and film experience will write the Tolkien masterpiece that I never could!”
@@ikept_the_jethryk2421 The sheer fucking hubris.
I wish someone would have the courage to actually DO the Silmarillion for the Screen. That would be epoch!
Kudos to you. That made me actually laugh out loud (not just a casual LOL).
"You'll want to buy a bigger TV to watch this. From Amazon, of course." - Paid Journo Hack.
I was truly amazed how badly they managed to f up the lore and history in just the first episode.
It only took the opening monologue to take it completely of the rails.
I was done with the show when Galadriel jumped off the ship.
As a intended viewer, im quite insulted by this poor quality of writing.
Wheel of time 2.0
As soon as they attacked white men one... more... time... in the raft scene, I shoved my monitor out the window.
Her jumping off the boat to swim back to middle earth was so, so laughable. I mean, what was her plan here? "I'll just swim 200+ miles. No big deal." And then not one but TWO insane coincidences in order to save her. Jesus, that's terrible writing.
I love how pissed she looks when the man offers a hand to help her on the tiny raft. It's like this show and She Hulk are in a competition to have the most unlikable female protagonist.
As someone who read almost the entire WOT series (I stopped when Jordan died) I was interested in possibly watching it but changed my mind when I heard how badly they screwed it up.
@@johnstrawb3521 Well, I can see your REAL problem right was off the bat: You hated it because you were watching it on a puny monitor and not on a $6500 85" 8K QLED screen like us real Tolkien fans. Oh, and you must be a bigot.
@@wumpusrat Yeah, ironically her son Amroth dies by drowning after jumping off a ship
Well said Disparu! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I have a confession to make. After reading the Irish Times review I went to my daughters and watched the 1st episode on her dodgy box (one of those that's tuned to the 'high seas yo ho ho') Gawd Almighty those accents were BAD! I wouldn't have been surprised if the Knights Who Say Ni had shown up. All that wittering on about inclusivity and toxic 'ist' fans and all the time they were the ones denigrating a whole culture and race. You couldn't bloody make it up lol. My youngest granddaughter (9) thinks Galadriel's brother is a bit thick......... "does he really not know why a stone sinks Grandma?" It all looked pretty enough but it was all style over substance or, as we say up North, all fur coat and no knickers.
$1billion budget and we get genius lines like "do you know why ships can float and rocks cannot?"
I'm more and more convinced that this show was some sort of money laundering scheme.
Probably 😅
This has been my theory for some tine now. It's the only thing that makes sense. Billions of criminal dollars getting rinsed.
😂😂😂👏👏👏
Either money-laundering or designed to fail for tax reasons.
They hired a cast and writers that nobody would hire for a project this big. Their showrunners have never written a single produced television episode. The most well known actor in the cast is Lenny Henry.
You don't spend a billion dollars and hire people like that.
@@Jim-Tuner Someone needs to make a video about this perspective and investigate it logically. As you say, it doesn't add up.
I got chills when Galadriel pick up a grenade launcher and aimed it at Harry Potter and said "Hasta la vista, baby"
That's childish, isn't it.
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 It's funny. 😁
That scene was stunning and brave, it moved me also.
Was that bit before or after Rey Skywalker snapped the Infinity Gauntlet?
Did you see the look on her face when she said that though?
Morfydd Clark one dimensional? I don't think she's got that many dimensions to her acting.
Watching videos like this makes me wish it was still possible to have an actual debate or conversation about things like this online. Imagine Disparu sitting down and actually talking with someone that was involved with the show, or just one of the people writing positiv articles about it. Both sides telling their opinions in a calm reflected manner and listening to the other side. It would have been so interesting to listen to.
I'd love to live in such a world. Nowadays, you bring up good arguments and the other side bashes you calling you names
The moment where Galadriel and Míriel bonded over some mead was such a special moment.
Just two girls, one cup.
So simple yet beautiful. Thanks amazon GG
I just snorted. XD
What. The. Hell.
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You fucking killed me with that. Internet win of the day, Sir Jay
*bestows honours and titles of respect*
That scene Gary from Nerdrotic kept playing of Guyladriel where her face all of a sudden twitches uncontrollably. The director saw that and said “Cut! That’s a wrap” and moved onto the next scene.
CONFLICTED?!
Ga-rat-driel
@@harbl99 Guy-lad-drivel
GaladREEEEE-el.......
Reminded me of a gerbal lol
The show: “LOOK!! We are so progressive!!!”
Me: “you could have made a show centred on the south in Harad or the east with Rhûn!! But oh no you wanted to make token black characters... doesn’t look very progressive to me.. I thought we were past that kind of thing
A lot of bad reviews can be expected when you mishandle an IP with a huge international fanbase. Seems like these companies only want to protect themselves from negative reviews.It's almost as if creating a Tolkien level epic requires hard work and talent.
Obviously she isn’t the same character. One is a sorceress and the other one is Rambo.
first blood!
And not even a believable Rambo. No physical development or presence.
Even Rambo has more likeable character traits than her.
@@MephiticMiasma first period
Rambo had a conscience and was deeply troubled by his war experiences. She has been clear that she loves war and cannot think of a life without war. She also is a terrible leader and doesn't value the lives of those who follow her.
She is more like Colonel Killgore from apocalypse now.
How can you claim openly to be all about representation and not hire Irish people to play your Irish speaking roles.
According to modern Leftism, white people have no culture or identity or rights. That's why it's completely okay to erase and replace white people, and it's NEVER appropriation to take their life's work and warp it to anything you want.
Yeah, they were proudly talking up their "global" cast...and yet no Irish people.
Representation doesn't apply to white people unless they're gay or trans - otherwise, we're all completely interchangeable
Because ANYBODY can pretend to be a white character - including actors of any colour but white - but only black actors can play black characters, only gay actors can play gay characters (you get my point). White Irish character?… piece of piss, says Denzel Washington.
Representation, yes. But definitely not of white Irish people. No way.
Cate Blanchett was calm, graceful, and put off an aura of millenniums' worth of wisdom and kindness.
Morfydd Clark comes across as a stuck-up, angry, brash Karen that thinks everyone else stinks.
Maybe because she is a stuck-up, angry, brash Karen who thinks everyone else stinks?
Cordova: Tolkien’s appendices DIDN’T state elves with fades we’re not present
Fans: Elves were very specifically described as having hair depicted accurately in Jackson’s films
go woke go broke
What’s so woke about it exactly?
OMG. IT'S GET WOKE GO BROKE! GET! GET. GET. GET. JESUS CHRIST! LOL
@@mellewillems Did you not see the woke campaign before the show aired? That fat black woman was all over the place talking about how life changing it was for black females and she's barely in it.
As a proud Irishman, I was quite offended with the accents. I have never turned off a tv show quicker! Though amazon probably thought I had to clock in at the Tír Na NÓg clog factory for my 35c an hour, or deliver coal to naughty children...
Congrats on 70k matey! Loving the content since the start!👌
Jesus, this article. As a bit of a writer myself, I will straight up say you can make any character you want into your hero, but they need to fill three conditions at minimum:
1. Be logical. A female fighter is easy enough to justify if she has proper background and history with the training and such. But if they randomly pick up a sword they've never touched before and defeat a man with years of experience, you're doing it wrong. I've written a story in which one of the main heroes was a sorceress capable of annihilating entire armies or cities with a few words, but she had a lifetime of work behind her to achieve that kind of power, as well as the will to NOT use it, which was an important part of her character itself.
2. Be entertaining. A one note personality with no expression or variation gets boring quickly, man or woman. They have to be someone people actually WANT to follow the story of, either through a relatable event/tragedy or just being that much fun. And that leads to
3. Be likable. A hero character needs to make the audience like them, so the audience actually wants them to succeed. This is by far the most important part of a fictional hero, man or woman, because if they're a complete jerk the whole time they're around, people aren't going to stick around to see how it turns out. There is a possibility of making them a likeable jerk, but that's a tightrope to walk, because the jerk and likable behaviors have to be carefully balanced.
Can you imagine being so out of touch with reality that you believe that this is a good show full of good performances?
with some collage grads not knowing how many eggs are in a dozen, yes I can.
We have a billion dollar show and we are going to cast it with complete unknowns. Except for Lenny Henry.
@@Jim-Tuner I have no issue with the unknowns. Despite what people say and who they now know of; the Peter Jackson films were cast with a bunch of unknowns at the time. Remember, Ian McKellan was the 'big name'. Viggo hadn't done anything Hollywood-wise (and wasn't even cast initially), neither had Hugo Weaving nor Karl Urban and Liv Tyler wasn't even an actress really... Blanchett was sort of known for Elizabeth, Sean Bean for always dying, Christopher Lee hadn't been in much in years, despite his Hammer 70's heyday, similarly Iain Holm.
There wasn't a lot of star power attached to the casting in 1998/99.
LOTR, X-Men, Iron Man, Apocalypse Now, Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers, Buffy, do go to show that a cast of well-coordinated good yet mainly unknown actors, can elevate a production way above one of 'stars' and 'names'.
Nothing wrong with casting a buch of complete unknowns, even in a major production, film or TV show; what matters is the acting ability, direction and script.
This show has none of those.
Can you imagine being so out of touch with reality you let a fantasy show piss you off? With all the shit that's going on in the world. Rising energy prices, war in Ukraine, tensions in the south China Sea. I come on these videos for a laugh, to laugh at the people so upset over the show. Simply because the world needs a laugh at this moment.
@@coolperson962 And here you are to defend it. What are YOU doing?
I really loved the part where she demanded to speak to the manager. Err wait king. The part where she demanded to speak to the king
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LOL, that's exactly how I saw that scene also.
Yes demanded to speak to her grand nephew
@@ulrichkristensen4087 and talking down to her son in law. It's all so ridiculous.
@@zoebaggins90 well, everything about this show is ridiculous, established lore timelines, places, names all out of thr window.
The must stupidest thing was Galadriel jumping in the ocean wtf, and she is an elf lord, where is her retinue, in fact she has a higher claim on the position as ruler of the Noldor than Gil Galad, it is just bad bad bad
My favorite part is when she does the Kubrick stare at the camera and says, "it's Morfydd time!" and then just kicks ass!
The ultimate comedic effect, during watching this, halfway through and up pops a video of Guy-ladriel telling Granpa Elrond how much she's seen, Great..
Brill vid...
"just think about it, they took one of the most majestic, most magnificent female character written in modern literature, the embodiment of grace on middle earth. the person whom her mere presence changes the very nature of the earth itself and makes it magical and peaceful, the person whom her hair was considered more valuable than all the jewel beneath the earth. and they turned her to an idiot, heartless, vengeful Mary Sue! if you really understand, respect and love Tolkien's writings, this is enough to hate the show. it's kind of like depicting Gandhi as a warrior flame thrower in WW2, who laughs when people are burning! and at the end claim that its true to real Gandhi's biography. then when people and historians say: this is a disaster and an insult. accuse them as anti Indians and racists. this is exactly what amazon is doing. there is power and authority in non violence. the most powerful characters in Tolkien legendarium are non violent, Tom Bombadil is considered as thee most powerful being in meddle earth, and his childish and playful and sings songs and gather flowers! Tolkien understood this the most. the showrunners don't. every character in the legendarium represents something, for example Gollum is representation of self pity and depression. Sauron is FEAR and Galadriel as I mentioned is the embodiment of grace. and this representations of values and plagues of human life and psyche, forms the root structure of all of the Tolkien's story. we love it because of them, because we recognize our own grace when we see Galadriel or our own hopefulness when Samwise can find a star in the darkness of Mordor or in the ring and the burden that we all have in our lives. this representations are all part of a whole, together they form the soul and essence of what we call the Lord of The Rings. this is why we love it so much, because it represents our psychology, humanity and life. and it is ageless, colorless and genderless, because it wants to represents us as human beings not a mere identity. you cannot change them. Tolkien himself could not change them. it does not matter if you own a house, if you remove a break from its foundation it will crumble. and amazon just removed many. and this rule is true for any art whether it is a symphony or a book or a painting." I beg you, please point out what here I say that is wrong for I believe what I believe based on this reasonings and if you can logically prove them wrong, then by all means I shall change my mind.
Well put
Not gonna lie I'd watch Ghandi flamethrower warrior movie bc it's cool. Same way i just watch this show because it's simple and absurd
@@mitchellpolinop7650 lol true. A "Inglorious Basterds" version of Indian history would be dope. Show Ghandi breaking white people's necks right before sitting down for a nice, gentle bowl of vegan lentils
Paragraphs are your friend.
Wow, that was beautifully put. Thank you so much for taking the time. It brought a tear to my eye, because it reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from the TT movie when Sam is taking to Frodo about the power of the stories that really matter, and how they can move us so deeply, even when we don't understand why.
When Sam told Frodo, "Mr.Frodo?! Goonies never die!"
And Frodo responded with,"But I'm not a Gooney Sam!"
I had chills.
And gandalf says "HEY YOU GUYYYYS!"
Goonieladriel.
When Sauron busted through the wall and said 'It's Sauron time' it gave me chills.
Lady Galadriel, daughter of Finarfin, grand-daughter of Finwë (one of the original elves created by Illuvatar and the first High King of the Noldor), probably one of the only living beings in Middle Earth that was born in Valinor during the Age of the Trees: she looks like a random unknown human warrior girl, fighting trolls to revenge her brother's death, Finrod (who is actually resurrected and waiting for her, drinking mojitos in Valinor).
Also Elrond, twin brother of Elros "Tar-Minyatur" (first King of Numenor), son of Earendil (a Star in the sky!), grand-grand-son of Turgon (King of Gondolin), grand-grand-son of Beren and Luthien, grand-grand-gran-son of Elwë "Thingol" (original elf created by Illuvatar and King of the Sindar) and Melian the Maïa: an amateur "politician"/architect, barely allowed to attend Gil-galad's meetings.
Gil-galad, son of Fingon, grand-son of Fingolfin and grand-grand-son of Finwë, therefore Galadriel's nephew twice removed: looks much older, looks dumb, but still addresses Galadriel like a random warrior (which she actually is in the show), never seen Valinor and still indirectly under the Ban of the Valar, but can decide to send random elves there.
Celebrimbor, grand-son of Fëanor, grand-grand-son of Finwë: looks like an old grubby politician, left at the door of Khazad Dum like a tramp.
Deranged is how I describe Galadriel. Many times when people are talking to her you can see she's seething with anger. The scene with Elrond where the famous "You have not seen what I have seen" line is from shows her going mental.
She's shaking, twitching and her eyes are bulging at times. You can see the tops of her iris many times in that scene. Normal people have the tops of their iris covered by their upper eyelid. Her facial twitches and shaking make her appear totally insane.
Is this bad acting? Bad directing? Both? Or just that the actress is really an unhinged far left weirdo? It's very possible it could be all of the above.
She is the ultimate Karen Mary Sue.
SSRIs cause SSREyes. Pay close attention to any female relatives you have that take prescription antidepressants and you'll see the same expressions.
@@talesofgore9424 Wow, is that true? The actress did say she needed therapy after doing the fight scenes. “I would flinch a lot when people came at me. So they did exposure therapy with me, where I would have all these huge, huge men running at me, screaming with swords. To stop me from looking frightened. Because I’ve definitely been cast as the victim. And Galadriel is not that.”
She has a far more convincing "mad queen" arc than Daenerys had in season 8 of GoT...
Yes, she's definitely ready to burn down a city with everyone still in it with her dragons!
@Mr_Batsu She's not 'far left,' friend. Being a loon on a handful of social policies without reference to the far larger penumbra of economic and foreign policy positions doesn't make her 'far left' any more than being wildly racist makes someone 'far right.' Cheers,
as an american, I am so sorry that the tolkien legacy has been "tarnished" by ignorant Hollywood asswipes.
I grew up being more of the film type, I grew up with an imagination being touched by the peter jackson films.
so much it had inspired me to read Tolkien's works.
And as an American, bookworms over here always believe the books vastly outclass the movies.
Don't feel to bad he cries about american wokness like London isn't a woke shit hole
Bet you were touched by the Peter..am i right lol
They do outclass the movies, but that doesn't make the movies any less great.
Something I haven't seen mentioned is that eowyn was good with a sword. She was ok, but it was heavy. She didn't come across as this super strong woman lifting everything like it was nothing, but she persisted, she had courage, she kept fighting even though it was clear she had no chance, and that was her true strength, that's why she beat the witch king.
I really hope your channel grows. You have a fierce logical way to to your criticism that is mind blowing .😊😊😊
If I had a Billion dollars i’d give half of it to Peter Jackson as thanks and the other half to the Amazon factory workers
Id spend it on Time Machine research so I can have a chat with George Lucas about 35 years ago
Only Hunter cares about coke and hookers these days. How times have changed.
Why can't you give your own money ?
The way her nose twitched when she said "Conflicted" was hilarious. 😂
do not watch that crap woke show !! that is the most effective way to get rid of it !!
@@loiusnyez5009 Don't worry. Not a dime is going to evil lord Bezos from my pocket. I only saw clips from other people's reviews. XD
It never occurred to me until you pointed it out that this show is engaging in blatant anti-Irish racism.
It’s hard to blame the actress for many of the problems with Galadriel. Much of this comes down to the show runners.
The show runners are simply out of their depth. They have never written an episode of television before this show. Their only film work was additional uncredited writing on the film Star Trek Beyond. They have no experience in either writing or organizing a show on any scale.
They are simply NOT the people any sane person would hire to show run a billion dollar series.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
For decades I've been fighting against the habit people have of calling anything with a vagina "lady"... even animals.
Thank you for pointing out that not every female is a lady.
Morffyd Clark didn't look unnerving she looked constipated.
Looked like she was taking some tweaker drugs.
In all the pictures I've seen of her as her Character she looks full of rage and anger. Cold as ice. Bitter as vinegar. Its meanness and spite just under the surface. Is that all an act or is it the actress? who knows? I've seen every picture of this show I can find. All I haven't done is fork out the money to watch the darn thing.
It's a classic case of 'resting bitch face'.
Awful character, really bad actress.
You're finest yet. Thank you for your service.
I was legitimately surprised that guy talking about seeing Rings of Power on a bigger screen being more important didn’t have an affiliate link to a wide screen television on Amazon.
The actors deserve the script. Absolutely talentless on every front.
True, true. She looks about as frightening as a Karen getting mad because Target won't accept her expired coupons.
Explains why Mr H said Clark is a great actress but anyway...
These weirdos can say whatever they want, they can’t have Tolkien or his works. To quote the greatest wizard ever…
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!! 🧙♂️
Im pretty sure he never said that in the books :-p
we have it. cry harder
@@lilmovieperp3599 where? I saw no Tolkien in those episodes..just some bad fan fiction based loosely on very little of his writings
@@1Mutton1 read it again
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Didn’t realize it till he showed the pic but guy looks like Malcom McDowell from Clockwork Orange. Also, keep up the great work!
You’re take on Colonization had me in stitches, as I pictured Suri from Black Panther calling out “Colonizer!” while pointing at the person. In this case, American writers. Lol
'What is this: Famine cosplay?' Best line in the review.
I want to watch it simply to pick the shit apart, but I know what Tolkien is and isn't.
And I'd rather NOT fund the monster that disrespects Tolkien, his son Christopher, and my intellect.
Amazon has done their damnest to shred the legendarium and spit in my ale at the same time. I think one episode was enough for me.
doesn't need your funding. already the biggest premier for amazon. your little hate rages did nothing lol. go virtue signal how hard you're not gonna watch now, chief lol
@@lilmovieperp3599 You Really Enjoy Being Penetrated By Amazon's "Writing" Pencil Huh?
@@lilmovieperp3599 somehow big companies want all money in the world except for his money specifically. Sounds reasonable. Btw, he can just fucking pirate it so I have no idea what his rant is about in the first place.
@@lilmovieperp3599 150 Million LotR books sold worldwide. 150 Million Hobbit books sold worldwide.
Your Master, Bezos Bauglir does not impress me.
@@lilmovieperp3599 damn right amazon doesn’t need my money. It’s seriously fucked how so many people who claim to care about human rights, inclusion and living wages would throw money at a company that routinely lands on OSHA’s worst. Breaks any attempt at unionizing. Let alone the blatant use of slave labor in China.
You should go shill for a billion dollar shit scam someplace else.
"Rocks and boats have feelings"
-Galadriel's brother
I would sincerely love a gag reel of all the Disparu clips that end up on the cutting room floor. I think that would be equally funny.
I loved the part where the harfoots danced and playing xylophone on stormtrooper helmets!
Did they also sing Yub Yub?
again
the way to deal with people like Mr Cruz is to say something like this
"Oh dear, you really can't connect with a character if he doesn't share you skin colour? Okay.
Uh, quick question, do you connect with Galadrials struggle even though she's a white woman?"
if he says no, he's a sexist misogynist, if he says yes he reveals the lie of his argument, but if he just calls you racist you say "So asking you if you connect with a struggling woman is racist now, oh well...that makes all the sense."
Intersectionalism was fated to fall flat on its face.
@@kaizokujimbei143 yeah it's such an easy thing to manipulate to get useless advantages and the only thing keeping it there is reluctance to just be the asshole.
remember they always thought you were evil before you even said anything. the moment people realise that, they can shrug at their words because they realise it's just a lie to try and get themselves power/money
Excellent analysis!👍
Critics: Tolkien’s a racist
Fans: Explain the regions he created where he cited Asia and Africa as influences?
Critics: My feelings are more important than your pesky facts. Hold my beer while I speak my truth!
Guyladriel defenders point to Tolkien's choice of word "fight" in several passage about Galadriel, but of course they conveniently forgot being an Elven Noble, Guyladriel should have a named Sword, not just any ordinary sword.
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They bring up a passage from Unfinished Tales about how Galadriel "fought" fiercely to defend her kin the Teleri at Alqualonde. That passage is the SINGULAR instance that the word "fight" is ever used by Tolkien in relation Galadriel's actions. And from that they construct the lie that she is warrior..... somehow.
I always ask them, "So... is there only one way to fight? Does literally every soldier grab a sword and charge the enemy? No? So why do you think Galadriel does?" Other passages point out that Galadriel looked at dwarves with 'the eye of a commander' and many times that she wanted to rule her own land. THAT is the kind of fighter she very obviously was: a strategist and leader of troops, not the guy swinging the sword.
@@kaizokujimbei143
Ironic how the kinslaying didn't even happen in the show so.....they can't have that lol. They can force their headcanon but they can't justify what Amazon have done to Galadriel.
@@kaizokujimbei143 yh in all of the books elves are literally never describes as having pointy ears.
The sole mention of pointy ears in a letter he sent.
There doesn't have to be a swathe of evidence for each character aspect.
This guys rant about the word lady is the same as you moaning about the word fighting.
There are plenty of things bad in the show but they don't need to stay consistent with the movies, it's a different production, a different director, different writers. They have no obligation to be consistent with presentation in the movies.
@@googlygoink Then disconnect yourself from LOTR. Simple.
The fact that I'm already over this whole thing is... Unexpected....
But also not unwelcome...?
"An Unexpected Un-Unwelcoming"
Same, me too. I'm just not even curious anymore. My suspicions were confirmed.
Thank you for your perfect work!
Great video man. PS: it's no Viola, it's Voila (french) hehehe
Fans: we don't like the thing.
Media/"super fans": why???
Fans: Bad writing, script is awful, acting is sub-par, VFX looks cheesy, not faithful to source material.
Media/"super fans": Oooohh so you're racist?
Lee Pace's Thranduil is the best Tolkien's Elf character, tbh, design-wise. Him, and Cate's Galadriel.
Lee pace killed it
Lee Pace is perfection.
And he wasn't in PJ's ear demanding gay representation.
I also think it interesting that I had NO IDEA that Lee Pace is gay. Thranduil did NOT come across as gay at all. And yet, these new folks in charge of RoP seem to think all male elves are gay. They even pointed to Thranduil (because Lee Pace is gay, evidently, again, I had no idea and don't care) as being an obvious identifier that elves are gay. WTF? I agree that Lee Pace absolutely killed it. Reserved but obviously powerful, quiet but menacing, damaged from his past but not a victim, a king who does not need to tell us he is the king!
@@dbf1dware He's a what?
Damn. Ronan didn't even come out with gay reasoning to destroy a planet. He simply wanted it because he's an old school fanatic.
Tbh, he's a good actor.
why everytime the elf guy shows up i think "wtf Vulkans doing in here?"
Good video, thanks!!
I think I will keep my own Galadriel. From the books.
Casting: Yeah we need someone to play Galadriel and be the charismatic lead for the show. How about her her face is unnerving and severe and she looks evil.
Show runners: Is she good actress who can emote?
Casting: Nope.
Show runners: Sold! That’s our girl. Quick surround her with an extreme lack of talent so she really sticks out as bad.
All style no substance, kind of like the Met Gala that celebrities love to go to..
"Stolen Valor" is a term applied to the phenomenon of people falsely claiming military awards or medals they did not earn, service they did not perform, Prisoner of War experiences that never happened, and other tales of military actions that exist only in their minds.
To buy rights to a book for the sole purpose of adapting to screen, and then not including one thing from the book in the screen adaption is not only Stolen Valor, but gaslighting.
Not one thing from the appendix Rings of Power made it to the films. Not one. Ungoliant killing the trees, kinslaying, flight of the Noldor, death of Morgoth, Gladriel leading her kingdom with Celeborn, Elrond finally being born and marring her daughter... nothing. Literally nothing that is in the book made it to screen.
Never ever thought anything would destroy a franchise more than Earthsea. 😡
viola! Ha. Check your pronuncation amigo. 'part from that, love the video as always..
This production team doesn't know what a woman is, they have no idea what a Lady is.
I was watching ep 1 with a friend, and he said Galadriel has “AOC crazy eyes”.
Need a showdown, Good, Bad and Ugly Style. AOC, Galadriel and Gowron the High Chancellor of the Klingon Empire.
Come to think of it, that's probably in Episode 3.
@@shadowjack239 Honor to you...
*Eyes widen to insane size*
...and your house.
Thank you for your wit and wisdom!
This was fuckin HILARUOUS
keep it up my dude🤘
*hilarious trying to type on stairmaster