Amazon LOST! Rings of Power: One FAILURE To Rule Them All
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I'm glad Nedrotic went from a relatively small channel to being talked about in mainstream publications, this is all thanks to the unrelenting efforts of modern entertainment executives, I say we should all thank them for this: "Thank you brainless Hollywood executives for creating new personalities in the entertainment industry, you truly deserve everything that is said about you".
Brainless is the right word for Nerdrotic fans
Funny statement coming from you reek
@@reek4062 that or incel might be more accurate.
@@brianbetts5637 'InCeL'
@@reek4062 If the nerdrotic fans are this bad, I can't imagine what kind of mindless worms are the fans of rings of power then
“Will any corporations take responsibility for their failures?”
No.
They will fire some innocent employees and move on.
"*Cast it into the fire!*"
@@thetavibes9021 DO IT!
@@t.kersten7695 they will fire some innocent employees and then raise their own salaries and pay themselves huge bonuses
This is why some level of government regulations on big corps are always needed, even under most open-minded democratic liberal rule.
“Winners do not vilify the paying customer.” NAILED IT.
You know there is a problem when Tolkien's most evil villain becomes the shows most sympathetic character.
It speaks to the current culture, the vast majority of people don't understand what it means to be a hero, or good, or decent, so of course the villains they write come off as sympathetic.
@@mpsorrentino Ikr, it's crazy that there's still people who think that DJT for example is a good or did a good job despite being an obvious criminal and charlatan.
@Hooch Smeeth sauron was just misunderstood. As we all know. Fallen angel afterall
Who? Eminem?
@@realtsarbomba you don't mean Trump right?
I cant stomach paying for or even watching all of these shows anymore. I come to you guys to fill me in on them, thank you for your service. And all the laughs.
Ditto
Same here.
I am Spartacus
Yup, stop going to the theater, pirate everything you want to watch, that list has become less and less. HOTD is the only show I watch
Same
I'm Nigerian. They have been doing a lot of marketing in Nigeria for Prime Videos in general. They gathered a bunch of "influencers" (who are clearly not fans of the books or even watched the original 3 movies) to watch the finale. Let's see how long they can hold the attention of the Nigerian market
@Nogent Yes its nice you're assuming there are no black fantasy authors
@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 They didn't though? That was their exact point. Read again
@@solidway there’s always one
@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530
lol I have seen this guy he is a secret show runner for ROP
I'm 1% Nigerian. That practically makes us brothers. Lived in off campus housing during my Junior year in college. It was almost entirely African. They were a scream. Two of them were Nigerian. James Madozie who I played soccer with was a great guy. Quiet most of the time, but when he said anything it was always worth listening to. His roommate was Benny Chuks (I don't recall the full spelling). I got along with him just fine but he didn't seem to like the other black Africans in our house. He seemed to think he was better than them. I later found that both of them were Ebo and that Benny's attitude was not unusual.
Notice how there’s no discourse like this in regard to House Of The Dragon? That’s what happens when a show is actually good, it’s just good. There’s no need for endless articles telling us why it’s good and why people are wrong to dislike it. The show just speaks for itself.
In Season 2, they want Guyladriel to "respond" to the sexual attraction to Sauron, which since she is supposed to be married, would make her into a lying, cheating, manipulative, adulteress. Durin IV is a traitor to his king.
The writers believe that the ENDS justify the means, which not only shows their lack of a moral compass but is also an evil philosophy. The so-called good guys are actually the bad guys.
The Mystery box is about subverting any, and all expectations. Unfortunately, when the events are already known this storytelling ploy doesn’t work.
With great power comes great victimhood - Amazon and Disney
Aegon 3 eventually becomes king.
@@reek4062 Seek help.
And great fan-blaming.
@@reek4062 you need professional help
Switch that around to "with great victimhood comes great power" and you have basically the motto of an entire generation
The fact that all of my friends/relatives/co-workers can't stop talking about HotD, yet none of them are watching RoP is all the proof I need that Amazon's garbage failed.
Like Gary says, successful shows don't have to defend themselves. They don't have to respond to critics. Their success always speaks for itself.
HoD was slow this season but by the end of it, I wasnt mad I invested my time in it. Looking forward to the next season.
Tell everyone you can not to watch it so it just drops off the ratings and view count.
@@ClockRadio25 it was world building and character building and yes you’re right it was slow. And even that, it was leaps and bounds ahead of RoP.
Your proof is ... a few friends
Very scientific ...
There is so much of Tolkien’s universe that had never been explored. They had all of middle earth to play with and create new characters but, they decided to “ reimagine “ established characters without even understanding the source material.
You are mistaking malice for ignorance. The creators of the show know how to read and they have reading comprehension. Identity politics has poisoned the entertainment industry and attracted the most wretched and forsaken individuals in managing positions. The show was specifically made to polarize the audience. It was made to mock the author. It was meant to be controversial and gain notoriety. You were meant to feel attacked as a fan.
It was also intended to have more views. Gain notoriety, divide the audience and make one half watch it by making it feels like they're fighting the nazis and sexists by doing so. However this is like what... the 100th show in the last 5 years to do this? People got tired of it. Everyone is a sexist nazi now and it doesn't feel as exciting anymore. So what happens is that half didn't show up and the other half is bashing your show relentlessly.
It's over.
@@itstime5138 I agree, this is just another attempt to destroy our culture and civilization. Well, they don’t want to really destroy the civilization they simply want to take control of it and mold it in their image. They are too narrow minded to create anything themselves.
Rings of Power was such a huge, unmatched success that they have to write media articles criticizing specifically Nerdrotic for saying bad things about it 🤣🤣👌
How else would I know not to like it?
/s
that is all the prove anybody should need.
Their reaction. If there was actual success they wouldn't have to say anything, the fans of the show would do that.
But there aren't many.
Gary puts more thought into a 30 second intro than Hollywood puts into a billion dollar project.
Aegon 3 ends up on the Iron Throne.
Rhaenyra conquers King's Landing, but more of her sons die, so she becomes mad.
She orders Daemon's lover to be killed. Daemon abandons her. He and Caraxes fight Aemond and Vhagar at Harrenhal: the dragons kill each other and Daemon kills Aemond.
What is Amazon claiming - 100 million views , and it cost them 1 billion $? So $10 per view?
Gary makes a video that gets 75,000 views in 3 hours , and he and Mr Chan make the at their home studio, at a cost of a few thousand bucks - if that?
It really is a David vs Goliath situation, and I back the little guy all the way.
@@reek4062
So you're saying by the end of this PREQUEL, everyone dies?
Damn...that's heavy...
No that’s just his inherent white straight male privilege. It’s all for free y’all.
@@reek4062 You forgot that Aegon 2 feeds Rhaneyra to her own dragon as her son watches, but yeah, fun times.
You quoted Forbes at the end of this video. I follow Erik Kaine and it's been interesting seeing him do a 180 flip on this show. After the first two episodes, he was gushing that this was the LOTR show he always wanted. By the end, he was calling it an unmitigated disaster.
I feel like a lot of people felt the same, that this was going to be a good show but as we went on, everything begun falling apart rather fast
Amazon stopped paying him after episode 2 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He’s a bought and paid for turd, just like all the Forbes writers. Not an original thought between them all.
All said and done, I'm still amazed at how they wasted the opportunity to have the biggest hit in the history of television. It was RIGHT THERE!
it was difficult... they only had the rights to the appendices.... and LOTR, which is already filmed.... They should have tried to get the rights to The Silmarillion.... this was the first insurmountable mistake
Yeah, I know. But even with what they did get the rights to they could've done something much much better than this. Even if it was a completely original story that happens to take place in the universe created by Tolkien. Create new characters and follow a timeline that don't bastardize so egregiously what the man wrote. That's my only gripe about the show, how they twisted what Tolkien so lovingly an laboriously created. I don't give a damn about woke agenda or whatever.
@@marianogabriel8139 yes, you are right...such a waste.....
One of your greatest points always stands true; we don't want to be shown failures, we want good content. We're not sitting here hoping shows will fail, we want them to be better
At this moment, it is all lost cause. We'd rather see them just fail at this point than they devolve further.
They shouldn't dig a grave and reanimate a corpse, pretending like the corpse is looking even prettier than its hayday.
...Especially when the corpse is rotting further as we speak.
I root for every Star Wars show/movie/game to fail. I'd like to see all Disney Star Wars be seen as one big failure by fandom so it can be forgotten.
But yes! We are starving for just good content and we wish to be respected by people who are suppossed to deliver us entertainment.
personally ive stopped watching ANYTHING other than youtube and twitch in may 2016 and never looked back....as the years pass i see that was the right call since its just getting worse by the month
Amazon could have used a cardboard cutout as Galadriel and evoked more emotional range than they got out of Morfydd.
Which says the directors are awful because Morfydd was extremely capable in Saint Maude.
@@tpac28 I'm sure she's very talented in other things.
@@tpac28 Hopefully your mother will get a r@ped
To be fair, she apparently gave the showrunners what they wanted.
@@tpac28 Which says that Morfydd was simply horribly miscast in this role. She simply has zero elven qualities. Even Peter jackson couldn't have made a convincing Gladriel out of her, perhaps a decent background extra at most.
Thank you, Nerdorotic, and all other youtube creators and youtube users who spoke loudly and firmly against the atrocity that is Rings of Power.
In the words of Théoden: "We have Victory!"
I hope that it will be a long, long time before Tolkien fans need to unite in this way again.
Also in his words : how it came to this?
Nerdrotic you were a razor on this vid. Thanks for giving us a rational voice against insane corp marxist that piss down the backs of fans and claim its raining. Love you and will always stand in the breach with you, because a healthy pop culture is something worth fighting for. I can feel a change is coming.
“corp Marxist”? WTF is that?
@@pumasheen Corporate Marxist
I miss the days when the news had to report things accurately, honestly, and unbiased or they'd face sever punishment. Now they can blatantly lie and get away with it unless someone calls them out. And even then they're never forced to correct their reporting or apologize.
Life is about detecting bullshit and avoiding it. And this bullshit is blatant, to your point.
They never did.
The only thing that has changed is that social media/the internet allows us to get a better understanding of the truth of things. It was always nothing but lies and propaganda. We’re still brainwashed on WWII, JFK assassination, Vietnam, Waco, even 9/11 to an extent, etc.
You can thank Obama for legalizing blatant propaganda. Only independent media now has standards applied to them, and only if you can weaponize the legal system against them (Jones). If you're CNN, MSNBC, HuffPo, NYTimes or anyone in their incestuous little cadre you can say whatever you want if it promotes the agenda properly. There's no burden of proof, truth, morals, integrity or anything else. Just blatant lies. They're lying. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying and they're still lying.
@@ConsiderFirstCnE Lefties are not adults by definition. It's a childish and feminine ideology.
Glad that you and this community have worked hard. They've finally stopped ignoring you all, calling y'all out by name. They realize they're losing, and I'm grateful for your contributions to pop culture abd truthful reporting in media. Well done friend. 👏
*** Fellowship *** 😉
it's been more than a year and yet i still rewatch all of Nerdrotic's Rings of Power videos. Haha he's just on another level when it comes to anything related to LOTR. and i love it.
When Game of Thrones came out everyone was talking about it. Peeps at work, friends, family it was a thing. I haven’t heard a thing about Rings of Power, that says a lot to me
“We’re gonna make our first season so bad that season 2 will be amazing”
That’s a bold strategy, let’s see how it plays out
Haha. It all makes sense now….
Stockholders: does it ?
Dodgeball!
On strategy:
Kid: I got in a fight today (whimpering)
Mom: Oh that's horrible, are you ok?
Kid: Well, I hit the other guy's fist with my face, so I guess I'm better off than him.
It's all about optics. When you've hit rock bottom, you either stay there or go up. At least that's how they're gonna spin it for the share holders.
@@modolief That analogy is 100% accurate. They wasted one billion dollars, and are willing to waste even more. Just to make a point
This show helped me with my insomnia. Thanks amazon 🙂
I'm the type of person that if I'm watching something I can't turn my head or go to the bathroom without pausing. Cuz I don't want to miss anything. But with Ring of Power I could walk away, pee and get a snack and I would still be fine. I've walked away multiple times throught the first season and I have not regretted walking away. Nothing is lost when you walk away.
I really like the way Nerdrotic formats his content and the “flow” in his videos. Other channels that give commentary can sometimes get boring, annoying, or repetitive. He’s really good at explaining his opinions, peppering commentary when reading articles that don’t distract or bore you. He doesn’t yell or curse anyone out lol and he even gives people the benefit of doubt, really wanting people he criticize to do well and listen to the fans.
100 percent
There are two reviewers who I think do a really good job and seem to be very organized and informative.
Disparu is the British version while Nerdrotic is the American version.
Both fit the characterization you gave in that their reviews have a flow and structure that is hard to find anywhere else.
It shows how good these two are when people find their reviews more entertaining than the series itself.
i hate the generic border some of these youtubers have, with all their social media constantly showing, and then they'll put themselves in the corner of the screen while the focus is on some news story in the center? very lame. i like nerdrotics clean presentation
Garry is a real one
@@SI00000 Disparu has become a go-to in the past two months for me!
The Rings of Power sustained cinematic production levels for eight episodes. Unfortunately it also sustained a modern-Hollywood approach to story-telling and characterization.
Man I loved the opening. I was shocking from laughter. Especially when Jeff laughed
That intro was 10/10: it's simultaneously hilarious & sad while also getting to the point in 20 seconds.
Couldn't agree more!
I want that intro by itself
If only they could hire people who could understand the source material intimately, not to mention veteran writers.
There's probably some additional point to make about the fact that the original clip is from a movie that's 33 years old.
" GENTLEMEN! Let's broaden our minds ... Laurance?"
Calling rings of power one of the most successful tv shows of all time is gaslighting at its finest.
Of course ROP is a runaway hit, just like She-Hulk, because some guy wrote an article that said so, referencing Salke who, um, said so! 🤔
@Guy Incognito Well, with how much money Rings of Power costs compared to their viewership, their show was a flop. HotD costs $20 million per episode and is doing much better with viewership and audience scores everywhere. RoP costs around $60 million per episode, which has been a waste of money...since they lost money. If you thought Peter Jackson's movies were cheesy, then you will die of a cheese overdose from watching Rings of Power. It does help you fall asleep if you have insomnia. (really tho, it's just dull and poorly written) There's a reason why the two showrunners will be sidelined for the 2nd season. If you're a hardcore Tolkien lore fan, you will lose your hair by the season finale. Even if you don't know anything about the lore, the show is still boring and even takes lines and scenes right out of the Peter Jacksons LOTR trilogy.
No.They happen to have huge viewership. You guys constantly forget the vast population of people on the Left! They live in Metro America and Europe. Huge cities full of millions upon millions of people. Since as you guys say, it's geared towards that "woke" audience, why wouldn't it have huge numbers. They don't need you when they have them.
@@PineappleBaconPizza Why would Bezos care about tens or even hundreds of millions when his children and ex wife wanted this done? The man is worth between 150 and 200 BILLION DOLLARS, what's merely one Billion to him? I wouldn't mind losing 1/150th my net worth to make loved ones happy, nor would he.
@@jonathancummings6400 copium
When Friends re-run in UK, the show got more views than Rings of Power.
And that was in the top ten on Netflix, and trending for weeks. And there was a re-run on TV as well.
I watched the first episode and decided my brain was not strong enough to watch anymore and would just let you take the pain for me. My friend, you bow to no one.
I was talking to my brother about this over the weekend.
As a primer, he only watched one episode of it and dropped it as it was boring. He’s more nerd-adjacent as he has a life to keep him occupied.
And when I told what happens in the series, even he thought it was stupid. And when I told him about some of the more ridiculous cope that’s been happening, he went, “Or maybe, the show just sucks.”
It just goes to show they don’t have a shield to hide behind when normal people see right through them.
Daemon kills Aemond at Harrenhal, while their dragons kill each other
@@reek4062 Nice try. I already know what happens dick.
@@reek4062 Look, I get you're unhappy that people pointed out you like the taste of windows and how you're offended that we don't want to taste the windows either but, no need to be an a** about it.
@@reek4062 Seek help.
somehow my own mother made it through the whole thing, but she's more normie than normies
Galadriel: discovers that the guy who told celebrimbor to make super powerful rings is actually the single most dangerous and evil being alive
Also Galadriel: "nah they don't need to know, anyway lets make MORE rings"
Galadrlie: *_"N A H, I T ' L L B E F I N E . . . "_*
Elrond in Rings of Power: Yup, stunning and Brave.
Elrond in Lord of the Rings: Wait, wat?
and she was searching for him for hundreds of years but without knowing how he looks like? No way for her to recognize him if she was to find him anywhere?
So she can't even feel that she is being rescued at sea by him, then is sitting next to him for days alone on a raft. And plotting with him in Numenor, sharing a cell with him for days. Finally she is traveling on boat again and fighting along the most evil creature alive in their world?
Yes just the guy she had dedicated her whole life to find and kill, to avenge her brother. Her nemesis for whom she lost the favor of her king, the respect of her subordinates and peers, renounced to Valinor...and bam that was him! Right there!!! But she couldn't know....????
WHY WOULD SHE LOOK FOR HIM FOR 100s OF YEARS THEN ????
@@MrPloopi That is actually a very good point. And one that, I'm sure, showrunners would have no answer to give.
"Yeah, that makes sense!" 😏
The hype and the excitement over flashy scenes, and conversations with characters we remember and love, tend to bewitch us into handing over money, keeping our brains distracted, until that peters out. Then we start to see the cracks and hear the voice of the man behind the curtain pulling strings. The producers just look at the early viewing numbers, and then walk away, and learn the wrong lessons. So I would agree if you refer to whether it stands the test of time, no diminishing returns. The illusion needs to hold just as strong as it was the first time. With Rings of Power, Amazon had only a fool's hope of continuing that trend. No characters in the forms that we remember, or love. Flashy scenes that are undercut by the actors shuffling around and looking dumb so that the "stars" can look great, and in some cases even the laws of physics break themselves for the payoffs, and we can all see it. Like a child hiding under a cloak - we can see your fucking feet!
Dude your videos are legendary. You speak for us all and make such concise videos.
First they ignore you.
Then they will mock you.
Then they have to acknowledge you.
And at that moment, you win the game.
Aegon 3 eventually becomes king.
Daemon kills Aemond.
Aegon 2 feeds Rhaenyra to a dragon.
You should upload this intro seperately or make en even longer version, that was pure gold 😂
You should take the “The culture war surrounding ROP was more interesting than the series itself” headline as a dogwhistle of a compliment to your channel 😂
One unbiased method of gauging a show or movie's popularity is piracy websites. For example, during the whole season of House of the dragon, the show never disappeared from the most popular torrent section of 1337x. In contrast, rings of power never appeared there except for the first one or two episodes
Most piracy websites are accessed in countries like India. Here Game of Thrones is massively popular while very few know Lord of the Rings. Also, Disney comes with Hotstar in India and Hotstar has the idea of how marketing works for Indians. Very few knew about Rings of Power in India and that's why it never appeared. Having said that, even if it would have had appeared, it would have disappeared in a few weeks because the show is actually crap. I hated episode 3 so much that could not watch beyond that.
Guys Take It Easy You’re Sharing Too Much Remember This Is CZcams
YEP. This was also mentioned in George Giant Slayer's channel too.
You have to consider that Amazon Prime has far more users than HBO, so their piracy numbers will be lower than HBO. But for the sake of it, here are some stats. A qbittorrent search comparison for "Rings of Power" and "House of the Dragon". The top 3 most seeded results for RoP are episode 6, 7 and 4, each with around 3,000 seeds. For House of the Dragon it's episode 10, 10, and 10 again, each with over 9,000 seeds. RoP's top 3 most leeched result are Episode 3, 6 and 7 with around 900 each. While for HoTD has nearly 5,000 leeches for each of its top 3 most leeched results. Episode 10, 10 and 10 again. HoTD has over 15,000 leeches for it's finale, across the top 3 results. While RoP has just 1,500 leeches for its finale, across the top 3 results.
@@monkfishy6348 As someone else pointed out, most piracy happens in countries like India, and here I would say that HOTD had more penetration than rings considering it's available on hotstar and hotstar is the most popular streaming app here. Also, we forget that HBO is also a tv channel
I found it a little amusing and frustrating when I logged into Prime the other day to find Rings of Power on my "Continue Watching" list when I have actively avoided watch even 1 second so it doesn't get falsely added to their ratings.
The show was too too slow. Literally, they would take 5 second pauses between sentences. Also, 8 episodes to tell us who is Sauron, a Wizard, and craft 3 rings…😵
@@hightide1500 I wouldn't call that a problem with the show. The lord of the rings is slow, the silmarillon is slow, Tolkien's works in general take a lot of time to tell you all the details. From the mountains and valleys and the elven family trees to the way a hobbit prepares their second breakfast. It's all these details and slowness that make the world believable and immersive. Sure, modern cinematography requires action to grab the viewer's interest in the first five minutes, but that's just not what Tolkien's stories are about.
The problem is that rop dumped all that and decided to build their own world that was just a mockery of Tolkien's world. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and watched the first three episodes. The show showed the same level of knowledge and understanding of middle earth that an elementary schooler would have after explaining it to them once. Especially when Valinor wasn't a visible island in the ocean even though Numenor still existed.
@@hightide1500 no they created the whole name of it the rings of power in 5 minutes which should have been the main plot
Wow!
Don't listen to the online nerds, it's worth a watch.
Surprisingly my 18 year old daughter has yet read the LoTR given she's got remarkably good taste in books. She has started watching Peter Jackson's films with me and half way through she's loved every minute ...she's even going to read the Silmarillion etc in spite of my warning that it's heavy going having heard my extremely brief summary. - her friends want her to watch RoP with them so I'm more than happy Tolkien is going to get a look in first.
So much for 'today's young people' not being interested in Tolkien, it's RoP the stats show they aren't interested in.
The audience was 35 or older when the show started, but they felt much older when it was over.
Here in Latin America there are many fans quite pissed off. Even we see terrible cheer accounts coming from Spain, we had also been saying all this, in CZcams. The good thing about this disaster is discovering your channel
Salke: "You need ambition, scope and confidence to deliver on that!"
I notice "competence" didn't make the list. Perfect example of malignant narcissism. 🤣
🤣
What a roast ouch.
I also didn't see in there any respect towards the source material being adapted. Also no knowledge of it beyond the most superficial.
An idea just ran through my head, like lightning through a storm cloud. Could the increasing rate of functional illiteracy (poor reading comprehension) be correlated with poor understanding of written source material in show runners making modern adaptations?
There's a thought to ponder...
@@mirceazaharia2094 Very likely since no one knows how to speak or write proper English anymore and by that, I don't mean American. I mean good English and not some water downed version of it. In my young days, we would get a spanking if we dare use some slang just because it is trendy or sounded cool. We were expected to write and speak proper English and my teacher God bless her soul was in her late 50s already and strict and not some young attractive sex graved modern teacher with blue hair. From Shakespeare to Tolkien you can see the difference in quality when you compare it to modern English slang even Rowling seems a bit on the more classical style.
As a shareholder of amazon i am furious! risking the future of the platform on one trainwreck then doing the stereotypical gamergate type cope to try and gaslight people into watching it is a reckless abandonment of the company’s feduciary responsibilities!
I watch TLOTR trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy twice a year.
I got 3 episodes into Rings of Power before I literally couldn't stay awake and I haven't even looked up the ending.
I’m from Nigeria. There are Rings of power billboards and all that fluff everywhere you look, especially on highways.
Nobody is talking about it though. House of the Dragon is the topic of discussion.
Ps…my sister has been on episode 2 of Rings of Power for over a week…she puts it on when she wants to sleep. It’s digital Valium 😂😂
😅😅
Omg that’s exactly what I did the week I was struggling to sleep! 😭😭😭
I still on episode 1 🤢🤮
@@pamelathompson6783 😂😂😂 that’s crazy
“But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.” - Samwise Gamgee to Frodo, and Tolkien fans to each other after getting through this ridiculous show.
Whats being pirated is a better indicator of what is actually popular these days.
e.g. Kenobi dropped from 3k to 1k, between episodes 1- 3.
Thank you for covering these subjects.
Imagine being an “activist” and being a sell-out for a trillion dollar conglomerate! How do they live with the shame?
You think those self-proclaimed activists have enough self-awareness to feel shame?
Bad guys/girls don't feel shame. It's part of the psychology of being a bad guy. Sauron never felt shame.
All it took was white text on black background Twitter posts to convince them.
@@praetorian3902 Sauron was a good guy. All he wanted was to bring peace and prosperity to the world.
@@cleanerben9636 Sauron tried joining an art school and got rejected.
Rings of Power had such a powerful halo effect it made viewers watch "anything but this" within minutes. Truly, we have succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
Such show, much accomplishment
I can believe it because I opened the application and then went to Smallville instead.
The "halo effect" is actually people falling asleep and registering autoplay views.
It definitelly had a HALO effect, it sucked as bad as the HALO show.
I think Tolkien fans will have the last laugh somehow. The date is October 30th 2022 and I just got back from a LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE MARATHON. IT WAS AWESOME! At the end of the last film EVERYONE CLAPPED. Can you say that about any of the Rings of Power episodes? Of course not. I'm just spitballing ideas here everyone but what say we organize a GLOBAL LORD OF THE RINGS EVENT ON TOLKIEN'S BIRTHDAY NEXT YEAR? Happy to hear your thoughts and feedback. Tolkien isn't spinning in his grave, he's laughing his head off because as long as the FELLOWSHIP exists i.e. the fans then there will always be people who want to see content THAT IS TRUE TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL... Anonymouse out. Salty Army is LEGION.
Count me in!
@@Wolffur Damn it, it seems like I missed it this year. So Tolkien's birthday is January 3rd but on the positive side that gives us almost a year to prepare for next year lol.
Trust me, no one watched Rings of Power in Nigeria either. Massive billboards on the streets of Lagos and yet people could not give less of a f**k. We saw House of the dragon instead.
Don't let them forget this either:
On the American ID podcast mentioned on the last FNT on the second episode, marked as a bonus episode at around 18:10 at the end of their reasons for why the woke casting was good and justified they then end with this:
"Even if none of those things were the case, this is fantasy and we can whatever we want. Tolkien is dead and he's not coming for us."
That leaves us fans as the ones who should come after them. And they deserve all the criticism they get.
I'm of the opinion that just not patronizing them is the right move. Trying to give any feedback just gets you dismissed as an istiphobe, so why bother. Let the hugbox shrink organically through your absence and eventually the access media will lose the ability to move the needle. See also black adam getting savaged by the politically correct reviewers and yet making bank.
They timed the premiere to Tolkien ‘s death anniversary. That says it all
@@RN1441 Agreed, time to go Galt on these woke idiots and just walk away, along with our $...
@@RN1441 nah, they will continue to say whatever they want without a voice to oppose them if we just give up on talking about it. i'll continue to call them out untill only their ashes (or mine) remains. i wont let what i love getting destroyed or perverted in total impunity, and yes each person calling themselves a fan should at least oppose a bit of resistance with their words AND actions, otherwise that just means you were just not that invested in it to begin with.
What all of that diatribe will hopefully amount to is the familial organisation that hold the rights to Tolkien's IP and legacy being a lot less willing to allow licencing of the IP without far more extensive vetting of the people who are to be handling the material from the offset.
If they're not someone like Jackson who (outside of say The Hobbit movies, but I am more of the opinion that his hand was forced in that instance) treated the parent materials with a degree of reverence in the process of making the LOTR movies, then by the make up of the license agreement, they should be able to step in and essentially put a stop to whatever modern agenda (regardless of its makeup) they're trying to inject into the narrative.
At this point Nerdrotic is unstoppable he’s going to keep gaining traction. His stalwart committing to our fandoms and nerd culture has earned himself the notoriety that he is now getting.
Keep it up bro 👊
sadly, nice payment from amazon studios and he is a goner from youtube, this is the world we live in
yes he is indeed king cuck
He is the head figure of our resistance against hollywood.
Dude this is fake nerd culture. And you fell for it. HARD. 👊
nah seems like just hating just to hate, hard pass.
Jeff Bezos: “I didn’t lose any money on S1 of R of P. It was all paid for by the $30 increase in the Prime membership fee. When S2 is released, I’ll increase it another $30.”
That video at the start was INCREDIBLE!!! Why isn't that released as a separate short?
I love how mainstream media and all these companies don’t realize most people get their information from people they watched for years or a trusted source
That’s what rotten tomatoes serve! They’re selling their trustworthiness nowadays.
Everything is on the market, including love🤦♂️
That was beautiful when Jeff Bozo knocks over the Tolkien statue laughing..... perfect!
Great to see the channel doing so well Beeks! Keep it up and never change!
Wait! We weren't supposed to be apathetic yet? I was apathetic nearly the entire time. I saw the trailers and thought, "Wow, this looks like crap. I am going to make the conscious decision to avoid watching it." Then Amazon started its little pissing and moaning like Disney Marvel over the mean and nasty and hateful fan "MINORITY," and I came to a realization. "Amazon is full of crap." I saw the trailers and had the same concerns as many other fans of Tolkien's literary works. Am I hateful? I don't think so. I'll just go ahead and vote with my money and time. My money went to buying the Peter Jackson trilogy on Blu-Ray and my time went to watching them. Suck it Amazon.
A standing ovation for Gary. If only the writers of rings of power had your talent, the show would be a success. Perfectly said. * Applause *
Pressing F increasingly
For a moment, I thought you wrote "A standing ovulation for Gary".
@Guy Incognito Gary has the talent of wording beautifully his thoughts. He has amazing ideas and he is loyal to the fandom he loves and he would never ill treat a show he would be working on. Sometimes the best talent to direct are not always those that are directing the shows made from books. Gary has my respect and I think he would be good at directing and even helping with scripts. I do not think i am wrong.
@Guy Incognito kinda dumb ngl
@Guy Incognito Because you have no real response
LMAO “5D chess. We’re gonna make our first season SO bad you can’t help but like season 2”.
Nailed it!
Great work Gary. The intro was one to remember. Having had to replace worn copies of Tolkien's work more than once, it was nice to see you rip amazon's version limb from limb. Frankly the industry stuff is so bad now, it wouldn't surprise me if it was merely a money laundering scheme
Thank you Gary for your great reviews and inside news.
I’m almost impressed with how bad they messed up and how much they are coping
Rhaenyra is going to conquer King's Landing.
Daemon kills Aemond, while Caraxes and Vhagar kill each other.
Aegon 2 reconquers King's Landing for a short time.
Aegon 3 ends up on the Iron Throne.
I don't _want_ shows to fail: I thought HotD would be bad because the early stills and interviews didn't paint a good picture (and on the back of GOT S8), but it turned out really well. I'm happy for it and really happy I was wrong.
I didn't want a TV show about Middle-Earth to fail, but from that first Vanity Fair article to those superfans... I knew this would fail.
Which that's really sad for me, because i wasn't interested in GoT so seeing it as the only success leaves me going "but, but what about me?" As i slink back to watch K-dramas and Anime until hopefully another show or movie for sometime I'm interested in comes about again.
Exactly.
I was biassed AGAINST HoD... and they managed to overcome my bias, by making me feel smart after each episode, instead of feeling my IQ drop ten points... if that makes me a misogynistic fascist, well...
As soon as the marketing for ROP focused on "diversity" and fan-baiting, I was done.
@@codyraugh6599 At least when it comes to anime, we're in Peaktober! Chainsaw Man debut and more Spy x Family and Mob Psycho 100!
@@codyraugh6599 Come to think of it, an anime adaptation of Tolkien's works could be great if good writers who actually love Tolkien were involved.
Thanks for the update! I refuse to watch Rings of Power, knowing they would ruin it. When will people learn not to mess with the original. I binge watched Andor on someone else's account because I refuse to support a company who ruins things. It was ok. As usual, I watched because I saw a known character, whom I liked in Rogue One. I kind of liked the backstory. Does not change my mind that Disney has been making bad decisions though.
The absence of any mention in the article of how well HotD has been received is very surprising, unless the "writer" doesn't want RoP compared to it for some reason.
Gee, I wonder why that might be. Maybe because Amazon doesn't want us to notice Matt Smith's bootprint on their backside.
Your intro skits are funnier & more entertaining than the entire seasons of both shows combined
Ty for your passion for the fandom and good storytelling.
Gandalf: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
Bezos: (knocks Gandalf off the ledge with a briefcase full of cash)
Minutes watched in total is actually a way better metric since one can deduce how many viewers watched the whole thing and that's the least number that would come. It doesn't paint anything good if the numbers are low. This is why I like Netflix openly announcing the metrics unlike others.
Game of Thrones Season 8 is a masterpiece compared to this crap 😂
That mash up in the beginning was hilarious… Bezos’ laugh. 😂
"They're making the elves gay!" --Alex Jones
LMFAO
Boils down to "It's pretty, but it's also pretty boring and inaccurate Tolkien that does not inspire."
Gary, Az, Drinker and Co. are the best way to follow the shows and avoid the migraines and blood pressure spikes.
The intro to this Nerdrotic update was more entertaining than the whole of season one of ROP!
this just makes me constantly repeat in my head how successful sonic was after listening to the fans
Or how well the PR team for sonic knows that rage brings on fans
I personally believe that Sonic never looked that bad, but making the effor to make the first trailer look like that made the entire internet do the advertising for free
It's shocking how Amazon didn't even take lessons from that PR team. Their just that moronic and arrogant to think they'd handle the backlash from a globally wide fanbase. Their egos are larger than any blackholes in the universe.
Jim Carry's poor fucking spine, carrying that whole movie and it still sucked lmao
@@more-reasons6655 No sir. Absolutely not. Their visual effects supervisor was on Corridor Crew and no, that is not the way things play out. It'd take an otherworldly genius to predict the audience's initial reaction, its perception, and finally, the fact that the movie would surely be a success. We'd like to think we've connected the dots but it's not always as straightforward as we might think.
@@klyxx8990 nah it was a fun family friendly movie
Gary, congrats on the recognition! You’re the only reason I know what happens on that crapshoot ROP. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
i love that joker scene. so cheesy but so good
Awesome Gary. Thank you for this video.
Amazon can say it's a success, congratulate themselves for this production, praise the massive audience who tunes in to watch their masterpiece, rejoice at the critics who applaud it and denounce the unfair and biased harassment from internet trolls and fascist fans. They can do that. But afterwards, they can check their bank accounts to see how this success materialized. And then, daddy Bezos can look in the mirror and remember how he silenced critics, manufactured artificial views and dirty streaming tricks to hide his tremendous failure. He can lie to us, he can't lie to the mirror.
Eventually, despite all the lies, narrative control, media spin, inflated numbers, Reality doesn't go away. And the Truth makes itself known.
Exactly lmao we know you lied and so do you
@@TheMASTER4real this is so stupid from Bezos, it's like silencing the guy who spotted the Iceberg on the titanic and then go enjoy the party in the main dancing hall. This is such a foolish and losing strategy.
Bezos, a piece of advice : when people don't like your show, improve your show.
I'm certain if it were up to Amazon, they'd probably strap us all into chairs as if it was the taser chair to force you to watch just to try and recuperate the cost of the show. Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos ain't nearly rich or powerful enough for that. Maybe if he knew how to just stick to having good products instead of trying to "get creative," he wouldn't be in this mess.
Lol whatever, alls I want is to know the crap (most of it) from the actual good shows so's I don't waste my time and money on dung like ROP. And I started ignoring the worthless critics long ago.
Ah, our "runaway" successes of She Hulk and RoP. Out of curiosity I went on reddit to look at the numbers on those shows' main fangroups and compare them with similar ones. RoP has 192k followers (in its main fan group, Lotr_on_prime), compared to 590k for HotD. The Boys has 541 k. Stranger Things has a million. As for She Hulk, its group has just 14k, vs 160k for WandaVision (which was out a year and a half ago). Loki has two main groups with about 110k between them. Make of that what you will, lol.
Hard to even classify the followers as fans. I doubt im the only one that follows shit because of how bad it is. They probably are curated subs though.
Considering all the Marvel shows and movies are mainly spoken about on the Marvel Studios subreddit, the individual shows would never have high reddit users
I took a look at Lotr_on_Prime and it feels like it's made up of bots. They seem so insincere and fake.
@@tiaaaron3278 Much like those fake 5 Star reviews on RT. Usually non-specific praise mixed with something odd, like enjoying the choreography or leaving the theater (?!) happy.
Just because rings of power is bad, doesn’t mean everything on Amazon is bad
“Koff koff” The Boys anyone
That intro was amazing! One of the best.
Man that "Cast it into the fire......DESTROY IT!" at the end always cracks me up 😂
That "Just Stop Oil" riff on Luke's painting was inspired.
The animation at the start of this vid is award winning quality, bloody great work mate
@Guy Incognito it was good and you’re mad lmao.
@@killeryhiltons8499 Don't bother with him, he's just trolling comments.
Whoa…I forgot totally that Disney had Kenobi …
lol, love your intros, if only Amazon had such good writers with a bit of creativity..
Damn after watching that intro I wanna go watch Batman.
Nicolson and Keaton were great in that movie.
Didn’t watch the rings of bore. Not interested.
I mean they had good writers for the expanse,the boys, and even reacher their new show which is pretty good
@@saktigong1645 reacher is so good i agreed
@@saktigong1645 the boys > hotd
Omg, that opening was fracking perfect! We need more memes of Jeff Bezos as a laughingstock. He deserves it and maybe it will make him think twice before attacking Nerd culture. Plus it has the potential to be hysterical! Penis rocketman has outdone himself in comedy gold.
Amazing as always Gary thank you! I partly watch this for Elrond at the end, reminds me of happier times 😂
Maybe by "halo effect" she meant what happened to Paramount with the Halo series; a cry for help she sneakly embeded in her fluff piece?
I need to thank rings of power.
My whole family was in a coma for 25 years and they woke up simultaneously to turn it off
😂
Nerdrotic doesn't shy away from saying what we all think but so many feel be can't because we'll be criticised. Love your videos. keep fighting the good fight
Lmao. Always entertaining to see manbabies cry over stupid movies or series
@@reek4062 MANbabies?! did you just assume my gender???!!! 😂
Yes that's true laughing at black people for being ... black is kinda racist
Glad you feel he's expressing your racism
@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 nobody really ca
@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 nobody would care if they actually made a good story in fact nobody cares about house of Dragon but nice straw man
In my office, people are watching and discussing the dragon streamer show not the others.
Agree. Honestly, since when attacking your clients is the solution? They are insane. Let them burn.
It is very simple. When they start going after the fans, and after the online critics, it is a dead giveaway that things went very badly, and probably are getting worse. Successes ignore you, failures attack you.