The Rings of Power is Historically BAD | Amazon is 'Patently Evil'

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  • Amazon is in full Rings of Power Damage Control as we reach the penultimate episode of what may go down as the most expensive flop in history. The Rings of Power is still bad, boring, forgettable, and a desecration of Tolkien's work.
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  • @thinkwithurdipstick
    @thinkwithurdipstick Před rokem +2821

    Isn’t it interesting how Tolkien, a man born 130 years ago, could manage to write Galadriel as having a healthy family while also having agency and a commanding presence, yet a whole board room of modern ‘writers’ thought it couldn’t be done

    • @samblack5313
      @samblack5313 Před rokem

      AND that he’s a racist, AND all his fans are racist.

    • @markmathisen3908
      @markmathisen3908 Před rokem

      That's what happens when the studios prefer hiring retarded check marks instead of actually talented writers. 🙄

    • @debanydoombringer1385
      @debanydoombringer1385 Před rokem +278

      Shhhhh. They are too busy claiming the fandom doesn't like strong female characters and are misogynists. Just don't actually read Tolkien's books or remember the movies which showed a woman killing a Nazgul.

    • @wetincornwall6882
      @wetincornwall6882 Před rokem +140

      Education was obviously better back then.

    • @pogan1983
      @pogan1983 Před rokem +38

      The present is a mere shadow of the past. The opposite of what the past envisioned for the present.

  • @scotthollas3816
    @scotthollas3816 Před rokem +909

    It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, wisest and fairest of them all. The rights were then given to Jackson, a great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desired quality
    But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop
    And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film
    One show to ruin them all.

  • @JapanJuan
    @JapanJuan Před rokem +194

    I thought it was funny how Adar showed more care and compassion for his Orcs than Galadriel did for her former squad members.

  • @marinawolf
    @marinawolf Před rokem +220

    I read LOTR when I was a teenager, and then again in my 20s, and then again, and again. As a woman, I never once felt this epic needed more female representation. The characters, lore, lessons, conflicts, morals, reversals etc., are meaningful and relevant to all human beings, regardless of plumbing and varnish.

  • @dirkjefferson6202
    @dirkjefferson6202 Před rokem +685

    Remember when TV shows had 25 low budget episodes with amazing story telling? that was nice.

    • @bkondrk
      @bkondrk Před rokem +34

      Yep. As an example, the old BBC series Blake's 7 had a budget of about 4 million pounds per season, adjusted for inflation. While the special effects looked very cheap, both the writing and the characters were head and shoulders above the junk that is RoP.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před rokem

      Paul Darrow’s Kerr Avon - the realist anti-hero who might save you or kill you as the circumstances dictate.
      They can’t write them like that anymore.

    • @Byrvurra
      @Byrvurra Před rokem +52

      Yeah you could afford to have a few duds when you're making 26 episodes a season. If you're making 8, every single one had better be a banger, and there's no excuse if they aren't.

    • @odeleon24
      @odeleon24 Před rokem +13

      @@Byrvurra so true.

    • @eddyd63
      @eddyd63 Před rokem +24

      It's the way things have gone for video games as well. Previously only so much could be done with graphics so the story and characters had to be interesting. Now, graphics and mechanics hide average storytelling and repetitive games. Exactly the same tactic has been used in RoP. It's the corporatisation of art.

  • @atalcot1
    @atalcot1 Před rokem +1520

    The irony of Amazon calling anyone else patently evil is just too much 😂

    • @jackjohn4156
      @jackjohn4156 Před rokem +32

      The irony they say “where it is written that we can’t write this” lol

    • @rmmj7james293
      @rmmj7james293 Před rokem +31

      Iron law of Woke projection never fails

    • @HerculesBallsInc
      @HerculesBallsInc Před rokem +49

      @@jackjohn4156 Tolkien never wrote that Galadriel didn't have a lightsaber! OMG!

    • @PineappleBaconPizza
      @PineappleBaconPizza Před rokem

      I guess they forgot their workers have to piss in bottles and shit in bags while on the job lmao. Oh, wait, they totally don't do that since Amazon made a tweet saying that it is false. They tweeted, saying, "You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one."
      Crazy how so many people don't go after Amazon and even shill for them plus defend them, and this show when they treat the workers like trash. Big corps got so many free shills doing the work for them now.

    • @Manco65
      @Manco65 Před rokem +24

      Amazon: The Soy is always right.,😛🙄

  • @shadowshockwave
    @shadowshockwave Před rokem +363

    Gigantic global corporations calling people "fascists" to silence them is the epitome of irony.

    • @matthillard9363
      @matthillard9363 Před rokem +15

      What about being a racist for not liking it

    • @adamt.7376
      @adamt.7376 Před rokem +4

      Yup, you're right.

    • @tyrelladkins5200
      @tyrelladkins5200 Před rokem +1

      @@matthillard9363 how was this relevant, at all?

    • @guitarmanatee8528
      @guitarmanatee8528 Před rokem +4

      @@tyrelladkins5200 because it's also something they screech at fans. Dude says it in the video too.

    • @raiden5176
      @raiden5176 Před rokem +2

      The irony of begging the fascist to support their 2nd season 😂

  • @BKOLewis
    @BKOLewis Před rokem +66

    This morning, 10/10/2022, I watched My Little Pony S1 E9 with my daughter before driving her to school. It was delightful. Clever dialogue, interesting story, charming characters, funny, great voice acting, effective pacing. NOTE: I am a 50+ retired veteran and a long time Tolkien fan. My Little Pony is superior to Rings of Power in every way except visuals. I am not joking. I swear on my life I am telling the truth. This should not be possible! I want to rant some more but simply stated,: more talent, thought, and care was applied to a 22 minute episode of a My Little Pony than I have seen in the tragedy titled the Rings of Power. I'm saddened by the missed potential of this show.

    • @redmercurylondon
      @redmercurylondon Před rokem +5

      Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @thelittlemoonling
      @thelittlemoonling Před rokem +4

      No honestly rings of power visuals are pretty horribly fake. Im sure my little pony is more creative visually given what they have to do to make cartoons and how absolutely fake and atrocious rings of power is compared to what peter jackson/weta did for instance.. with actual care..

    • @OhSayWhatIsTruth
      @OhSayWhatIsTruth Před rokem +5

      I didn't think MLP was anything special, at all. Still better than the insult that is Rings of Power.

    • @KororaPenguin
      @KororaPenguin Před měsícem

      And Derpy Hooves would have some VERY harsh words for Not Galadriel.

  • @NickNapoli
    @NickNapoli Před rokem +387

    The scene where Guyladriel revealed herself to be Maximus in front of Caesar sent chills down my spine.

    • @masamune2984
      @masamune2984 Před rokem +42

      When she said “There is entertainment in me. Are you not entertained?,” I cried soy tears.

    • @primmakinsofis614
      @primmakinsofis614 Před rokem +16

      Rings of Power show runners: "Are you not entertained?"
      Audience: "No, we are not."

    • @jackjohn4156
      @jackjohn4156 Před rokem +4

      @@primmakinsofis614 The funny thing is that they proved their logic is “it isn’t written that we can’t write that” lol

    • @stagalgiz1097
      @stagalgiz1097 Před rokem +9

      I nearly cried as they carried Guyladriel on their shoulders while female Frodo shouted, "she was hero of Rome! Honor her!" Tears of soy.

    • @RmDIrSudoSu
      @RmDIrSudoSu Před rokem +6

      I did prefer the scene where Guyladriel started jogging all round middle earth without purposes. That was intense.

  • @Shadowhunterbg
    @Shadowhunterbg Před rokem +651

    I find it truly disturbing that they didn't include Celeborn because they saw him as an obstacle to her. Just imagine, a woman is in love with a man, he completes her and she him, makes her happy and those SJWs just cut him off like a parasite who in their eyes was in Galadriel's way. This is how they view marriage and family. My god... their hearts are the blackest of poison. And they talk about love and understanding? They are the anathema to it!

    • @Parasmunt
      @Parasmunt Před rokem +51

      How could lesbians see themselves in her if she was with a man? The show must reflect the world as it is today and everyone must see themselves in it.

    • @darkthorpocomicknight7891
      @darkthorpocomicknight7891 Před rokem +8

      I find Gary's Nazism disturbing. I'm glad we're focused on the real enemy - anti-racists
      the real enemies of the lore lolol

    • @BasedNeptune
      @BasedNeptune Před rokem +5

      Well said

    • @nickthebold
      @nickthebold Před rokem

      this is easily one of the dumbest comments i've ever read

    • @joshyaash
      @joshyaash Před rokem +5

      uh they're clearly going to bring him into the story later

  • @dougkimzey4518
    @dougkimzey4518 Před rokem +113

    Tolkien spent many years of his life crafting Middle Earth. He read and reviewed his work to an informal literary group called "The Inklings". Members included C.S. Lewis, Hugo Dyson, and other literary scholars. The only mistake that can be made with source material of this quality is to ignore it. This is exactly what the writers of "Rings of Power" have done. Tolkien's works are widely considered to be masterpieces of literature. Rings of Power was released to a large population who have read and re-read Tolkien's work. The writers of Rings of Power changed the biography of Galadriel, one of the most respected characters in Tolkien's written work. Rings of Power subordinates Tolkien to current race and gender politics to "reflect the world we live in".
    This is like taking the Mona Lisa and handing it to a grade-school class with instructions to give her a new wardrobe, paint a smartphone in her hand, and don't forget the earbuds.
    Jackson's trilogy was well received because it respected Tolkien's work. There were omissions in the films that the audience would love to see. Still, the Jackson trilogy is a solid favorite with a large number of people. If Rings of Power had been developed as episodes describing the significant events in the second age and remained close to Tolkien's work, it would have been well received. The maturity and grace in Tolkien's work is absent in The Rings of Power. Galadriel in Tolkien's work is respected for her wisdom, maturity and grace. Galadriel in Rings of Power is simply insufferable. The misandric scripts that take every opportunity to portray men as idiots is tiresome. Most audiences dislike mysogany and misandry equally. There is a very real quality problem with the writing of Rings of Power. It does not take a deep dive to see the many, many issues with the writing. Most of the issues with Rings of Power are floating on the surface in plain sight . There were many bad decisions and wasted opportunities in the development of this show. People who point this out are not automatically racists, facists, or mysogonists. They are your clients and audience responding to a poorly made and insulting adaptation of a work that they hold in high regard.

    • @pasalasaga
      @pasalasaga Před rokem +5

      My mind: your comment
      My mouth: this is sh¡t

    • @jeffagain7516
      @jeffagain7516 Před rokem

      I'm confident that Payne and McKay were selected because they are young, naive, easily manipulated and untested. With these aspects, the true "Showrunners' could get them to write whatever type story they envision and it most assuredly would have nothing to do with Tolkien, for they despise the Author and simply want to cultivate his Fanbase.
      That, is 2022 era Sauron proudly on display.

    • @davidcatlett4052
      @davidcatlett4052 Před rokem +2

      Excellently put!

    • @NuTfielDRobErT
      @NuTfielDRobErT Před rokem +2

      Very well said

    • @Dadolphinsmakemecry
      @Dadolphinsmakemecry Před rokem +1

      Well said,just next time read your post as others would and make paragraphs. Otherwise you just drone on,and ik in rl you dont talk like that. No offense just sayin.

  • @vernonmodglin5502
    @vernonmodglin5502 Před rokem +81

    The part where Galadriel was a hotshot banker wrongly imprisoned for murder and said, "Get busy living, or get busy dying" truly changed my outlook on life.

  • @logansfury
    @logansfury Před rokem +272

    "Again, this is all meant to silence our criticism, so without further ado, let's get to the criticism." This statement absolutely made me feel warm inside! Don't stop doing what you do.

  • @CCCCC40
    @CCCCC40 Před rokem +155

    The Balrog was woken up because of the greed of the dwarves. Not by dwarves being selfless and digging up mithril to save the elves.

    • @benthornhill7903
      @benthornhill7903 Před rokem +26

      I thought it was woken up by the leaf

    • @coolstorybro6076
      @coolstorybro6076 Před rokem +13

      Haha my thoughts exactly... it ruins the point of the Fall of Moria.

    • @joeuser637
      @joeuser637 Před rokem +40

      The Balrog was woken by the greed of Bezos.

    • @jsavage86
      @jsavage86 Před rokem +6

      The Fall of the One Leaf

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před rokem +13

      Third Age Dwarfish greed driven by one of the Seven rings but, as there’s no rings yet, I guess the Balrog might just have a leaf allergy.

  • @stephenreed5091
    @stephenreed5091 Před rokem +25

    This is what happens when you put people in charge who don't care about the source material. Amazon made this show for a cash grab, but abandoned everything that made Tolkiens work great. Now we are left with this really expensive terrible show.

  • @nejcsila4196
    @nejcsila4196 Před rokem +86

    when queen regent says " i see "
    and elendil says " do you "
    i totally lost it, i couldn t stop laughing

    • @kasimirdenhertog3516
      @kasimirdenhertog3516 Před rokem +2

      Elendil was pretty much the only character I could relate to. And perhaps Adar.

  • @pariah87
    @pariah87 Před rokem +129

    The worst part of this show is how they keep saying it's a Tolkien Epic

    • @dmtaboo_truth7052
      @dmtaboo_truth7052 Před rokem +9

      It's like spilling paint on the Mona Lisa and calling your contribution "a da Vinci epic"

    • @termy_3926
      @termy_3926 Před rokem

      Even worse, according to those jackass showrunners this story is on the same level as Tolkien 🤣

    • @nottolkienculturalvandalis6451
      @nottolkienculturalvandalis6451 Před rokem +2

      More like ectopic.

  • @heraldofwar
    @heraldofwar Před rokem +290

    I'm still rooting for Sauron this season as he is the one who is less evil so far.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před rokem +23

      I like Adar. He seems a sweet man damaged by a great evil and driven by circumstances, obeying impulses that he would rather not have but cannot deny.
      He’s a great tragic hero!

    • @jacksimpson8529
      @jacksimpson8529 Před rokem +18

      @@clogs4956
      Potential memes and/or jokes aside, he is literally a torture victim since the first Orcs were created from some of the first Elves that Morgoth managed to steal away and corrupt via brutal mental and physical torture. Adar even confirms when he's captured that Sauron's experiments forced him to breed and then murder his own kids repeatedly for who knows how long.
      The worst part is that, for Adar, the torture and 'evil' programming hasn't quite taken all the way, since he looks more Elvish than any of the Orcs under his command and is still in touch with that Elf side of him, what with planting the seeds before the fight.
      He's also fighting for a home for him and his followers, rather than just out of a desire for violence or at the behest of a dark lord, even if he's using incredibly violent means and doesn't care about anyone else other than his Orcs. There are still pieces of light in him that Morgoth and Sauron's torment didn't manage to drive out.
      I genuinely think that Galadriel as written in LOTR, described having compassion and kindness enough that only Faenor didn't get any from her, would show this poor man a bit of sympathy and try to reach out to him. At the very least, she wouldn't gloat about emotionally torturing him by murdering every single Orc out there to make him suffer before killing him.

    • @marychocolatefairy
      @marychocolatefairy Před rokem +6

      Indeed, Team Sauron! ::shakes cheerleader pompoms::

    • @rubenlopezusa
      @rubenlopezusa Před rokem +4

      Because he hasn't appear. Maybe he grants some land to the orcs and gives them a free rent, so they can raise their children, and be happy, not having to loot other kingdoms, lol.

    • @rubenlopezusa
      @rubenlopezusa Před rokem

      @@clogs4956 he said he "killed Sauron", lol.

  • @darkwarrior6102
    @darkwarrior6102 Před rokem +27

    While it's true Galadriel was called Nerwen because she was a bit feisty in her youth, there are 2 ways of showing it. One would be to subtly show her as a young, enthusiastic adventurer who sometimes commits mistakes due to her desire for exploring new lands -- finally mellowing down as the Galadriel we know. The other one would be to go full girl power with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Guess which path the 2 Amazon hacks took.

  • @gianna526
    @gianna526 Před rokem +57

    They literally had no reason to delete Celeborn. They could have simply introduced him, and then he stays behind and she'll see him again later. Healthy, loving relationships only add more depth to your character. Like Aragorn in the movies, I love book Aragorn as well and think he's very well written, but we don't get to know the different sides to him. Movie Aragorn, we get to see more which I really like. Maybe we could see Galadriel actually being kind and caring to her husband, that might make us not hate her as much?? Just a weird writing decision.

    • @clipartstudio_baerlin
      @clipartstudio_baerlin Před rokem +3

      I think this Celeborn stuff is just preparation for that: Guyladriel and Sauron/Halbrand are about to kiss, then the not-dead husband shows up - and she is forever guilty of almost-forever cheating with the most evil of all evil.

    • @rubix4195
      @rubix4195 Před rokem +5

      @@clipartstudio_baerlin If they actually write this - and I truly believe they might - they truly hired the most fringest of CW writers to write this show.

    • @clipartstudio_baerlin
      @clipartstudio_baerlin Před rokem +1

      @@rubix4195 I bet it will come to this. Look at Ep. 6. After Guyladriel had this little torture talk with Adar, Halbrand and Guyladriel are sitting together talking about what? He tells us 1:1 the ring theme. But she? She had this "Uhhh I feel for him"- mood. And we should think, too, its a "twinkle-twinkle little heart"- scene, but its just him preparing her for the following "I want rings!" stuff. And at last, 2 rich, privileged white boys runs the show, so in the end the woman will have dirty hands and mouth. No matter how much diversity they are hanging on the christmas tree. If I am wrong I will write 100 times: There is no school but Yale. 😉

  • @SilvaF0X
    @SilvaF0X Před rokem +74

    "We didn't like Celeborn depriving Galadriel of her agency......so we instead chose to deprive the mythos of its important lore and structure" -Amazon
    This show has been an utter joke 😂

    • @mitchellpolinop7650
      @mitchellpolinop7650 Před rokem +1

      Celeborn is literally in the FoTR. How is he possibly dead/missing ??????

    • @nurityalieva3852
      @nurityalieva3852 Před rokem

      Celeborn lore is complex, sometimes is a Teleri sometimes a Sindar

    • @nurityalieva3852
      @nurityalieva3852 Před rokem

      @@mitchellpolinop7650 in the movie

    • @mrmittenns5728
      @mrmittenns5728 Před rokem

      @@nurityalieva3852 in my knowledge you can be "both", since sindar is a division of teleri. Every sindar could be considered teleri, but not every teleri would be considered sindar. However I could be wrong, my lore understanding is quite wide but I'm no scholar

    • @gianna526
      @gianna526 Před rokem

      @@nurityalieva3852 he's also in the book....?

  • @sewaprolo
    @sewaprolo Před rokem +199

    The scene in which Guyladriel said: "Get those nuts away from my face!", was a masterpiece. Literally shaking, right now.

    • @MelbourneArchviz
      @MelbourneArchviz Před rokem +5

      She's into fruit, not nuts.

    • @esquilax5563
      @esquilax5563 Před rokem +4

      @@Muck006 sounds like the same breed of lawmaker as those who wanted to declare pi equal to 3

    • @jaychimera372
      @jaychimera372 Před rokem +4

      what nuts?
      Disa Nuts!

  • @shanegooseman1060
    @shanegooseman1060 Před rokem +140

    Love your videos, you missed out the most brutal attack that made me jump the TV, when I saw it.
    Professor Tolkien dedicated his whole life to create this mythology, so rich, so full of details, it moved generations of readers, including me.... so much spent on it by the brilliant mind and when all things have to pass, it is the last and eternal reference to it, inscripted on J.R.R. and Ediths Tokiens grave, Beren and Lúthien.
    It brings tears to my eyes when I write this right now, it so fucking moves me...
    "Beren first saw her from a distance in the evening under a full moon, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside lake Esgalduin."
    And these people did this? Galadriel to Theo, boy she just met:
    "And my husband."
    "Husband?"
    "Celeborn. Celeborn was his name. We met in a glade of flowers. I was dancing and he saw me there."
    "You? Were dancing?"
    Yeah right, McKay and Payne, true lovers of Tolkien... What would the late Christopher Tolkien have said to this?
    Stealing the Beren and Lúthien tale that was so important to him that he immortilized it and referenced it even beyond death on their gravestones, the tale of the love of J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, and they shoved it over in some insiginficent setting, a from PJ stolen scene to this perversion of what Galadriel is supposed to be telling about her husband for the first time?
    I hope their career wont survive this fiasco and that they never again touch something that means so much to others.

    • @awereal
      @awereal Před rokem

      Well said. The writers are ...no not children, even children are better than that-- no, these people are demons, torching all that is good and right. I truly wish the Tolkien estate had gone with some random normies for a production rather than any of these big media companies.

    • @SinnMaschine
      @SinnMaschine Před rokem +2

      Amen.

    • @dime_with_a_mind
      @dime_with_a_mind Před rokem +5

      This is almost the lowest they can go, at least it can't get much worse. Right...? It won't get worse than sullying Tolkien's own personal love story??

    • @tonycezar1645
      @tonycezar1645 Před rokem +2

      if this is not a clear case that they are trying actively to shit on JRR work, idk what it is

  • @lloron6
    @lloron6 Před rokem +7

    I truly hope those bastards just directly cancel the serie.
    That while seeing all their results of the first season, they just say "you know what? Screw it. Better to suck our current looses than risk it more"

  • @davesilkstone6912
    @davesilkstone6912 Před rokem +223

    I empathise with Elendil, I too cried when I realised that there will be a second season.

    • @Ackalan
      @Ackalan Před rokem +9

      Just do what I do, focus on the image of Guyladriel swallowed up by a pyroclastic cloud and convince yourself that it's the ending of the show.

    • @djokealtena2538
      @djokealtena2538 Před rokem +16

      I am rooting for the Balrog at this point and I am expecting them to make Sauron fuck Guyladriel cause you know dramaaaa. I can't wait for the reveal on that one. As for the Balrog, I hope it eats Disa first.

    • @jlpowell51
      @jlpowell51 Před rokem +8

      He probably cries every time he reads the next script.

    • @gilbertwalker3222
      @gilbertwalker3222 Před rokem

      Shame he’s such a terrible, terrible actor.

    • @jennyjustjenny7634
      @jennyjustjenny7634 Před rokem

      I think Miriel got blind on purpose cause she just can't stand this sht anymore.

  • @Arigost
    @Arigost Před rokem +249

    The thought of Halbrand pumping Guyladriel when he's secretly Sauron is disturbing to me. Imagine having to explain to Celeborn you cheated on him with Sauron lmao.

    • @SergioLeonardoCornejo
      @SergioLeonardoCornejo Před rokem +33

      Cheaters should never be depicted as heroes or even sympathetic characters tbh

    • @Apollo890
      @Apollo890 Před rokem +46

      In professor Tolkien's eyes Galadrial is like the Virgin Mary. So to have Sauron shagging her is like the scene in The Exorcist where the statue of the Virgin Mary is obscenely desecrated.

    • @dirkjefferson6202
      @dirkjefferson6202 Před rokem +7

      thats hot. love triangle! im gonna buy so many primes subs to get those 5 seasons. i gotta see it.

    • @Gorbz
      @Gorbz Před rokem +8

      With Guyladriel as a strong independant girl-boss of agency, you know it will be her pumping him.

    • @HerculesBallsInc
      @HerculesBallsInc Před rokem +16

      @Naru the narcissist No... they have not had a sex scene. Yet. But they are clearly laying the groundwork for a relationship, with Sauron saying that the only time he felt comfortable is fighting with Galdriel, and Amazon did hire an 'intimacy coordinator', and there are literally no other teased relationships.

  • @PepitoBasado
    @PepitoBasado Před rokem +11

    The scene of the queen talking about the Numenoreans returning was quite poetic. She was essentially breaking the fourth wall to tell the audience a second season will happen and then they zoom over to a guy crying which represents the audience.

  • @grdoreza
    @grdoreza Před rokem +10

    It is obvious, the writer of this show is Sauron, laughing as he rewrites the works of Tolkien.

    • @gabrielescaringi9444
      @gabrielescaringi9444 Před 7 měsíci +1

      He would write better

    • @KororaPenguin
      @KororaPenguin Před měsícem

      @@gabrielescaringi9444
      And with the Ring melted, he doesn't even have the strength to steer a Ouija board.

  • @wolfman7284
    @wolfman7284 Před rokem +169

    The way she says "my husband" with a blank, emotionless stare and no warmth in her voice like she had for her brother...you know they are going down the whole "no love, marriage of convenience, required betrothal," route.

    • @canaldecasta
      @canaldecasta Před rokem +17

      Cerseiladriel

    • @ardisgreenwater857
      @ardisgreenwater857 Před rokem +6

      I read "required brothel" 😅

    • @wolfman7284
      @wolfman7284 Před rokem +25

      @@ardisgreenwater857 they are prostituting Tolkien's work so.. you're not wrong haha

    • @ethansnyder3401
      @ethansnyder3401 Před rokem +27

      This is going to go over some heads but in the meta they deliberately make the relationships between "white" people passionless unless it's some aberration like incest then demonstrate something like the coupling of the white human female and black elf as sexy and avante garde.

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před rokem +4

      @@ethansnyder3401 realistic, stunning and brave.

  • @justanotherviewer7117
    @justanotherviewer7117 Před rokem +257

    I'm going to miss ROP when it is over... but only because I have really enjoyed watching the Tolkien Fandom take it down. It's ironic that the showrunners could only dream of being this entertaining!

    • @faervas1234
      @faervas1234 Před rokem +29

      One hour a week gets me 10+ hours a week of shitting ROP entertainment. ROP writers have made the most entertaining show in history.

    • @justanotherviewer7117
      @justanotherviewer7117 Před rokem +18

      @@faervas1234 Ha ha ha! That's so true! Who could have known...?! 😀

    • @treasurehunter3369
      @treasurehunter3369 Před rokem +1

      Got 5...5...5...5...5 whollle seasons!

    • @matthewstone1362
      @matthewstone1362 Před rokem +2

      It took itself down. All the fans had to do was watch the shitfest.

  • @Arsha136
    @Arsha136 Před rokem +38

    The scene where Disa try to convince Durin. That scene screaming "she's evil". The voice and dialogue so villainy.

    • @legatedrengr
      @legatedrengr Před rokem +4

      Aye, Disa just goes full on Lady Macbeth there - and I bet the writers don't even realise the comparison they're making

    • @MushookieMan
      @MushookieMan Před rokem

      Her yellow eyes are creepy

  • @irisamanda3922
    @irisamanda3922 Před rokem +13

    The ROP showrunners remind me so much of David Benioff and DB Weiss of Game of Thrones, especially during seasons 7-8 when they were the sole writers. Amazon got themselves D&D 2.0 for their Game of Rings show 😂😂

  • @jimbubbatube
    @jimbubbatube Před rokem +339

    Gary, why is it that your reviews of this show are infinitely more entertaining than the show itself? I’m so glad you are doing this.

  • @lucbauer
    @lucbauer Před rokem +38

    After this disastrous season, Galadriel will be fired and will have to create an OnlyElfans page to survive financially

  • @greggeiger7532
    @greggeiger7532 Před rokem +19

    I think they missed a great opportunity to keep the queens blindness a secret. It could have been used in all kinds of ways later or in season 2. These writers man…

  • @3vilSid3
    @3vilSid3 Před rokem +16

    Assuming that everything in this series is predictable, the eminem trio are on a mission to help non-gandalf on his mission, but they see Froda and the rest of hoobots as an obstacle to be removed, causing hilarious misunderstandings until they all become friends.

  • @thelonelydragon8768
    @thelonelydragon8768 Před rokem +80

    Well, to my knowledge Tolkien never said that Galadriel _specifically_ *wasn't* a superpowered man-destroying soulless psychopathic driven by bloodthirst and revenge who likes flirting with Sauron and slaughtering orcs and doesn't give a dang about her allegedly dead husband, so.... yeah, 10/10 show guys

    • @Ackalan
      @Ackalan Před rokem +15

      That's true, I've also never read the books, so I too can confirm and join the writing staff on those credentials. I can even do a slightly different show for the cheap cheap price of 700 000 000 dollars, I have some sock puppets laying around somewhere, I'm sure.

    • @politicallycorrectredskin796
      @politicallycorrectredskin796 Před rokem +4

      This was also the concept for my pantsless, Donald Duck iteration of Lord of the Rings until someone pointed out to me that Bombadil does in fact mention pants at one point. My show got cancelled shortly thereafter. I still haven't gotten over it.

    • @darkthorpocomicknight7891
      @darkthorpocomicknight7891 Před rokem

      He also didn't specifically Gary was a racist Nazi but he is

    • @MikeDchy25
      @MikeDchy25 Před rokem +1

      I feel the same way about joy riding and robbery. Nobody mentioned these things so I guess it's OK. 👍🏼

  • @robg1151
    @robg1151 Před rokem +195

    The scene where Galadriel had both her arms and legs chopped off and said “tis but a scratch” was brilliant, having them grow back again for the next episode was pure Tolkien.

    • @josephbassey1501
      @josephbassey1501 Před rokem

      The scene where Guyladriel has to fight her clone was really epic
      Clone dressed in leather suits n sunshades. Fighting at night in a heavy rain. Tolkien's ghost had an erection from the scene

    • @adelabendova2912
      @adelabendova2912 Před rokem +4

      I love this fandom 🤣

    • @lordmaur180
      @lordmaur180 Před rokem +8

      To me the part when she says: what is so funny about the name Biggus Diccus? I have an elf friend called Biggus Diccus, its a common elf name!
      And all the humans and darfs laughted their a** out and she got all pissed: I WILL KILL WHO LAUGHT AT MY GOOD FRIEND'S NAME, BIGGUS DICCUS!
      damn that is a classic, Tolkien would love it

    • @garypipe1770
      @garypipe1770 Před rokem +1

      The moment Guyladriel returned from the bog declaring 'The tempest inside me has been quelled for now,' just hit me. I felt I could really relate to her struggle.'

    • @mineduck3050
      @mineduck3050 Před rokem +1

      Was working one hot summer afternoon, driving a portable toilet pump truck on an army base. I pulled down the range and there was a mock assault on a fake little town going on. I parked on the road in that towns street of the buildings and pumped toilets while all around me feet away soldiers were throwing grenades, shooting machine guns, assaulting the buildings while I worked. It was the most Monty python real life moment I've ever seen.

  • @didierfavre2356
    @didierfavre2356 Před rokem +8

    Creating boredom is expensive. Paying one billion dollars to make it happens tells me so. I never ever wrote a story but I doubt I'll be able to be that boring.
    Mr Nerdrotic, you made a great job at showing how painful it is to watch the "Rings of Power". I could feel it in my bones and it's painful.

  • @CircusOfFur
    @CircusOfFur Před rokem +6

    I, actually, admire the writers. Tolkien wrote TLOTR on a typewriter using only two fingers. The current writers wrote this by banging their heads onto an iMac keyboard covered in jam. And sh*t. Then their printer vomited out all the scripts and jumped out the window. I salute them..

  • @saladinbob
    @saladinbob Před rokem +470

    I'd just like to correct you on one thing, Gary. This is not the most expensive show of all time. It's the most expensive _failure_ of all time.

    • @faervas1234
      @faervas1234 Před rokem +6

      correct "friends was 1 million an episode for each of the main cast members. that is for 22 minutes a week for 20 weeks. There are others shows where the members of the cast got the same or more.

    • @PineappleBaconPizza
      @PineappleBaconPizza Před rokem +17

      @@faervas1234 huh? I'm confused. What does this have to do with Friends, and how much money they got per episode? Rings of Power cost around 462 million for the production budget alone for the first season. They spent 250 million on the rights to make this show, and marketing brings it close to 1 billion spent in total so far, and only 1 season has been made. The main cast of friends all got 1 million an episode for the final 2 seasons, but the show itself was pretty damn cheap to shoot and film/edit compared to Rings of Power. The OP is saying that this isn't even considered the most expensive show because it sucks, so it's better to call it the most expensive failure since it doesn't meet the bar even to be called a show. (but RoP is the most expensive show ever made if you were confused by what the OP said)

    • @steffanyschwartz7801
      @steffanyschwartz7801 Před rokem +6

      @@faervas1234 except friends was at least funny, with some times a good story

    • @3characterhandlerequired
      @3characterhandlerequired Před rokem +11

      @@PineappleBaconPizza It feels like they spend less than a million / episode to shoot things. Besides CGI, acting sucks, actors are nobodies, scenes are poorly made, clothing is something they have spent practically no money at all... Where did they manage to spend that much money? Like someone said it feels like some sort of money laundering project. Maybe 454 million of that 462 million is used to forge and pay for positive reviews and get MSM create positive articles about the show. Show is stupid, illogical and boring.

    • @davidransom4703
      @davidransom4703 Před rokem

      he says it enough times i forgot

  • @Mister_Clean
    @Mister_Clean Před rokem +46

    "She wants to subvert Harfoot tradition"
    Well, that describes the entire show, doesn't it

  • @jsimmers2374
    @jsimmers2374 Před rokem +5

    Last night I took the time to start reading the Appendices to Lord of the Rings. I am so confused how they are going to achieve what the Appendices lay out with Sauron, sorry, Halbrand, as he is in this show. As I read I could not help but think, what if Amazon hired competent people, who said the hell with THE MESSAGE, and focused only on one thing: Making a show that fits with Lord of the Rings that people would want to watch it before watching Lord of the Rings because it was the PERFECT lead into those movies. Instead we got a SERIES, nothing more and nothing less, using established lore, story, and language and twisting it so achieve an AGENDA driven goal. Not set to make greatness, but to put out content. If I were Bezos, I would fire everyone right now, put out a message of apology to the fans, and announce they are going back to the drawing board. I know this would never happen, but man, the respect he would get from the fans would pay off in the end.

  • @angellondian7628
    @angellondian7628 Před rokem +16

    this was more entertaining then watching the most expensive show in history

  • @liamdenise246
    @liamdenise246 Před rokem +358

    List of fuck ups they've done so far:
    -Compress the timeline of thousands of years into literally a year at most
    -Make Numenoreans hate elves because they might take their jobs
    -Add a sister to Isildur despite her doing nothing and you know she will not make it off Numenor,
    -Make Celebrimbor into a lazy old man, completely forgetting his friendship with dwarves
    - Make Gil Galad into a slimy person, completely shitting on him when in lore he fought alongside Elendil against Sauron, was not fooled by him even in his fair disguise, and was a great and beloved king, often said to be one of the best rulers ever
    -Make a completely farcical story of mithril being essentially a needed vitamin for elves, despite Mithril being just a very rare metal the dwarves used to achieve their greatest triumphs during the second age, and because it was able to create incredibly durable weapons and armour.
    -Make everyone morally grey, not Tolkein who stressed good vs evil, there is no room for morally grey actions'
    -Try and make orcs sympathetic, yeah no, they are evil corrupted beings who desire to destroy other races and hate the light, they literally gave a bit of water to a elf prisoner only to slit his throat for a laugh while he drank.
    -Make all elves look dumb, stupid, and just like people, you can't tell they are elves at all, and there is no uniqueness to them, Arondir is probably the only elf who acts like one, even though he doesn't look elvish with his shaved 2010's haircut and his odd armour(Seriously who put the green man symbol you find in pubs in the uk on his armour?)
    -Make Disa actually alright, until she becomes Lady Macbeth which is also wrong, again dwarves are good guys, they don't go killing their own.
    -Make Galadriel suddenly anti violence and sympathetic to orcs, saying how vengeance against orcs is wrong?(WTF)
    -Having the Balrog awaken, despite it canonically being asleep until late in the 3rd age, where it kills Durin and his son, so are they gonna go all retard and say it happened in the second age now, which makes you question how anyone wouldn't know about the Balrog not even Thorins grandfather who led the attempt to retake Moria.
    -Making the hobbits full irish stereotype hobos who are so cutthroat and cruel they make me want them all to die, despite them never appearing in 2nd age nor doing anything big before Bilbo
    -Having the bullshit to try and say Celeborn might be dead, so essentially she's cheating on him and also doing this with Isildur despite everyone knowing they are alive, but acting like it's a big suspense.

    • @butkusaurelius3419
      @butkusaurelius3419 Před rokem +25

      God bless ya for this list.

    • @tomfox6219
      @tomfox6219 Před rokem +9

      Couldn’t right it better myself

    • @sarbnitrof4663
      @sarbnitrof4663 Před rokem +16

      Don't forget Disa the Invented confirming that female dwarves have beards while she simply doesn't.

    • @wheelmanstan
      @wheelmanstan Před rokem +12

      orcs used to be pure evil, scary pig-faced foes..that needed to die, but this show has me thinking about their children and feeling bad for them having to live in the shadows while elves live in wonderland, here's some questions I have:
      What's with the Dwarf Princesses eyes?
      Why does he ride when his injury is so bad that he needs elf medicine?
      Why doesn't the queen get Elf medicine?
      Why are chairs and tables burning while Galadriel doesn't even have red cheeks?
      Why was the hippie pushing that tree over on top of those hobbits?
      Why do hobbits keep standing on top of hot embers?
      How does a white woman have a black mother?
      What's with that dwarf princess's eyes?
      Why didn't Elrond calculate how much mineral is needed, why no amount asked?
      Who's giant boot print was that and why did she leave her bucket for Slim Shady people to see?
      If someone did things only a God could do like put out a torch with their bare hand and blow the embers to your homes to set them on fire, wouldn't you drop to your knees to worship them? Evil or not, you would drop to your knees and do their bidding.
      Why do I still don't give a damn about these characters, even when they die or cry or saddle up or receive a sword?

    • @gandalf8216
      @gandalf8216 Před rokem +10

      You're forgetting the cross-wiring of foreshadows and red herrings, as a feeble attempt to insult the intelligence of the viewer by making the better foreshadows red herrings, and the shitty red herrings the actual foreshadowing. "Haha, you didn't expect that!" when we did, we just dismissed their foreshadowing as red herrings because they are the only predictions that makes sense. The writing is so aweful, I laugh at it, as if it's The Room by Tommy Wiseau or a movie by Neil Breen.

  • @barondavisiscool
    @barondavisiscool Před rokem +63

    LOTR Fans: "So how much could Amazon mess it up?"
    Amazon: "Yes....
    Oh and all of you LOTR fans are evil."

  • @parapendejadas4913
    @parapendejadas4913 Před rokem +17

    I loved the part where Adar went to his 1995 Windows and wrote the Southlands and Mordor screensavers! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @shaneryan9076
    @shaneryan9076 Před rokem +3

    house of dragon had a scene of a dying king walking to a throne, it was better than the entire season of rings of power

  • @kobaianvagabond1344
    @kobaianvagabond1344 Před rokem +149

    I love when Galadriel explains how they made it from Numenor to the Southlands in less than 12 parsecs.

    • @starimadari4031
      @starimadari4031 Před rokem +15

      Yes, the Milennium Galadricon

    • @IThinkICare
      @IThinkICare Před rokem +7

      I thought parsecs was distance not speed. I did wonder how they got there so fast.

    • @politicallycorrectredskin796
      @politicallycorrectredskin796 Před rokem

      @@IThinkICare I thought so too. The distance between Vagina Rings and quality, maybe?

    • @Yemeth42pis
      @Yemeth42pis Před rokem +3

      @@IThinkICare It is in our world, not in Star Wars though.

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před rokem

      I haven't seen the show and it feels like it's taking a lightyear! /s

  • @goidogoi
    @goidogoi Před rokem +137

    Wait... did Guyladriel just said the Elves did not know how to forge an armour properly? The Elves whom study smithing and crafting directly from Aule himself. The Elves whom crafted the Silmarils. The Elves whom, Mairon (Sauron) arguably the greatest of Aule's Maiars himself went to fashioned the 19 Rings of Power?
    Those Elves? Don't know how to fashion an armour proper for Celeborn?
    "Word will spread. Before long, every soul in Middle-earth will know..."

    • @strongsuccessfulweeb1400
      @strongsuccessfulweeb1400 Před rokem +2

      Haha yeah Elves also made a talking sword. Smh Amazon..

    • @Hunpecked
      @Hunpecked Před rokem +1

      Maybe Celeborn lost weight after the armor was fitted? 🤔

    • @fabien9765
      @fabien9765 Před rokem +6

      Yeah, it's not like Feanor is considered the greatest smith ever :D

    • @lelouchlives8930
      @lelouchlives8930 Před rokem +5

      Oops, looks like the writers forgot to read that part of Tolkien's works.

    • @MMCUSN
      @MMCUSN Před rokem

      You can't expect a bunch of woke slumber party rejects high on ice cream and chocolate to actually read any of Tolkien's works. They would have to subject themselves to the designs of a toxic male who fought in WWI (at the Somme), survived the blitz, married his sweetheart his "Luthien" (which lasted 55 years at her death), Fathered four children, was an orphan (his Father died when he was three and his mother when he was 12) and loved stories about Native Americans. That would be too much.

  • @melvinloyalist6758
    @melvinloyalist6758 Před rokem +7

    My favorite part was when Halbrand was explained to be on death’s door, only for our expectations to be subverted when he proclaimed, “It’s just a flesh wound!”
    Then, when he stood, walked, and galloped away while shouting to the wind, “‘TIS BUT A SCRATCH!!!” I completely bawled my eyes out.
    Pure logic. Incredible writing. Magnificent storytelling. Payne and McKay are truly two of the showrunners of our time. Not even Tolkien himself could have crafted something so unpredictable.

  • @daves9355
    @daves9355 Před rokem +2

    It was completely ridiculous that when Mt. Doom erupted not one major character died. So it totally weakened the impact.

  • @armandblake
    @armandblake Před rokem +172

    I loved the scene when Galadriel puts her finger in Halbrand’s mouth and says: “if you don’t lick the Cheetos dust, you miss half of the pleasure”.

    • @xycap8351
      @xycap8351 Před rokem +7

      Guyladriel sounds like a ventriloquist , her lips ( if you can call the edges of the dry hole that) NEVER MOVE..

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Před rokem +5

      Truly one of the scenes ever

  • @alexshahverdian3353
    @alexshahverdian3353 Před rokem +81

    Of course the first episode where Celeborn is referenced, he is ridiculed and belittled by not Galadriel…

  • @constantchange1145
    @constantchange1145 Před rokem +5

    I was so excited when this series was announced what, 5 years ago? But in these last 4 years I have started practicing Vipassana. I learnt it on a 10 day course. Its the hardest thing ive ever done, and the most rewarding by far. After practicing for 4 years every day, and taking more 10 day courses, I have finally started to reach a place of genuine inner peace and love that permeates through into every moment of my waking and sleeping life. I can actually understand what the monks and nuns are talking about through my own experience.
    And yet... This god awful show upsets me deeply

  • @MarcelNL
    @MarcelNL Před rokem +6

    QUESTION: could they not have used Galadriel's armor or one of the wooden huts to destroy The One Ring? Since everything seems to be able to witstand the lava of Mount Doom, and the ring couldn't.Wooden huts are stronger than Mount Doom's wrath, and thus could be used to destroy Sauron.

  • @burn89
    @burn89 Před rokem +249

    Im noticing that instead of waiting excitedly for a new ROP episode each week(which is usually the case when a show is good), I'm actually looking more forward to the upload from Nerdrotic that comes aftwards, so much more entertaining.

    • @lpsoldin3162
      @lpsoldin3162 Před rokem +3

      Pretty much how I've felt about everything coming out of Hollywood for the last decade or so.

    • @shaow1789
      @shaow1789 Před rokem

      for me is angry joe show. it all needs a better writing ffs

    • @mfmcycledesigns1961
      @mfmcycledesigns1961 Před rokem +2

      Same here. I really didn´t feel like watching this slog after watching the teasers, the trailers, the "Superfans" and all that dross that came aforehand. But I am having a blast watching Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, Disparu, Little Platoon et. al. tearing Amazon another one.

    • @BuddahMafia
      @BuddahMafia Před rokem +2

      I’m pretty much just watching to better laugh with this channel haha.

    • @bensutherland5209
      @bensutherland5209 Před rokem +1

      Could name half a dozen CZcams channels here, but the sentiment is accurate. The reaction videos are far more entertaining than the show itself.

  • @captbuckyohare5585
    @captbuckyohare5585 Před rokem +222

    The bit where Galadriel tanked the fires of Mount Doom right in the face and realised her scowl was the greater force, then hopped in the DeLorean, crashed the Council of Elrond and screamed "IT'S TEMPESTIN' TIME!!" before slamming her face into the One Ring and blowing it into a million pieces was such an epic subversion of expectations I near shit my pants.

  • @incognitusjones
    @incognitusjones Před rokem +5

    Can't wait for Adar to be revealed as a corrupted Celeborn that Guyladriel has to save

    • @cthonisprincess4011
      @cthonisprincess4011 Před rokem +1

      A common joke in the fandom is that Celeborn is just chilling in Eryn Galen with King Oropher and Thranduil, living his best life, free of Galadriel.

    • @incognitusjones
      @incognitusjones Před rokem

      @@cthonisprincess4011 hopefully that's the case and we can all wish the best for him, free of the wicked witch of Middle Earth.

    • @cthonisprincess4011
      @cthonisprincess4011 Před rokem +1

      @@incognitusjones Funny thing is that, if my memory is correct, Galadriel and Celeborn weren’t married until the very early years of the Second Age, AFTER the War of Wrath, having Celebrían in 300 SA, and Sauron’s stirrings occurring in 500 SA.
      Galadriel should have an adult daughter by the time that Sauron begins to appear in Middle Earth again.
      Meaning, as usual, the show has once again gotten the lore wrong.

    • @incognitusjones
      @incognitusjones Před rokem +1

      @@cthonisprincess4011 we'll, they only had a billion dollars to spend, so you can't really fault them for not paying that close attention...

    • @cthonisprincess4011
      @cthonisprincess4011 Před rokem +1

      @@incognitusjones 🤣🤣🤣
      Should just given it to the fans to make, they make higher quality content at a minuscule fraction of that amount.

  • @SpaceMike3
    @SpaceMike3 Před rokem +4

    To be fair its a nice font used for "Mordor". I like how blind lady of numenor stands at the front ship as if watching the ocean.

    • @DVFHAFYT
      @DVFHAFYT Před rokem +2

      If she didn't stand at the front it would give away the fact she's blind see, the writers thought of everything.

  • @hexenhammer483
    @hexenhammer483 Před rokem +183

    I'd love to see someone do a break down of all the contradictions in Season 1. Or how evil Guyladriel really is.

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway Před rokem +31

      Celeborn figured that out a thousand years ago, went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Swam to Valinor, I think.

    • @markmathisen3908
      @markmathisen3908 Před rokem +14

      Would take about 5 seasons to just cover season one's contradictions and instances of Galadriel's inherent evilness. 😂

    • @Losantiville
      @Losantiville Před rokem +14

      Wait til she beds Halbrand/Sauron.

    • @I_Don_t_want_a_handle
      @I_Don_t_want_a_handle Před rokem +11

      @@Losantiville I know you are joking but ...

    • @chriswood1054
      @chriswood1054 Před rokem +10

      I STRONGLY recommend @Disparu channel... He's excellent. And covers just those things.

  • @couldnotbereachedforfurthe2647

    I'd like to see hashtag "patently evil" trending on Twitter to see just how many people hate that damn show.

  • @TheLateBoyScout
    @TheLateBoyScout Před rokem +5

    I want to go back an episode and pretend like this one didn’t happen. When the volcano erupted last episode, we all got it… that’s Mount Doom, and the Southland is turning into Mordor. But they still made a whole follow up episode just to “reveal” it to us. And honestly, the best they could do was put text on the screen? Adar could have just said “This is now Mordor”, and it would have worked better.

  • @ito2789
    @ito2789 Před rokem +5

    That font change had me and my GF laughing our asses off

    • @bebatov11
      @bebatov11 Před rokem +1

      Same...my husband and I were in tears. We 💯 think they added it post production.

  • @DaBigArmyDude
    @DaBigArmyDude Před rokem +215

    Tolkien believed an obsession with origin stories turns one into a Gollum:
    “The most inquisitive and curious-minded of that family was called Smeagol. _He was interested in roots and beginnings;_ he dived into deep pools; he burrowed under trees and growing plants; he tunnelled into green mounds; and _he ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air: his head and his eyes were downward.”_

    • @Dee-nonamnamrson8718
      @Dee-nonamnamrson8718 Před rokem +13

      Golem was a CRT follower confirmed?

    • @jangolub8240
      @jangolub8240 Před rokem +2

      What are you implying with that?

    • @targard.quantumfrack6854
      @targard.quantumfrack6854 Před rokem +39

      @@jangolub8240 obviousely that Smeagol is a rock

    • @skaarlet1449
      @skaarlet1449 Před rokem

      He also delved into peoples secrets and brought them to light, using them against some, blackmailing others in his family and clan/village, if I'm not mistaken. This, in the end, got him banished by the matriarch of his people who also happened to be his grandmother.
      So maybe that's it. Maybe we need to start banishing these Gollums. No. We definitely need to. Definitely.

    • @AnnaMarianne
      @AnnaMarianne Před rokem +14

      @@targard.quantumfrack6854 God damn it, I was about to make that joke and you beat me by a literal minute.

  • @SockPuppet80
    @SockPuppet80 Před rokem +286

    Did anyone catch how Durin explains to Elrond what the word "family" means?
    He goes, "We dwarves reveal our secret names only to family: wives, parents, sisters, brothers..."
    Thanks for that, big D, I'd always wondered what that word meant.
    Also, "parents"? You reveal your names to... your own mom and dad?
    It's almost as if the word "parents" was jammed in there to replace the word "husbands".

    • @rubenlopezusa
      @rubenlopezusa Před rokem +19

      Lol, and a dwarf, strong like a rock, crying like a baby.

    • @dissent6494
      @dissent6494 Před rokem +29

      The "secret name" sound like a gender reveal party lol

    • @compostsmurf5519
      @compostsmurf5519 Před rokem +2

      ​@@rubenlopezusa begging for the meat also

    • @kneau
      @kneau Před rokem +5

      Parents can mean the in-laws, parents of the wives. Durin does not have a husband, nor does Durin have experience talking about husbands being husbands.

    • @beekah992
      @beekah992 Před rokem

      I mean the character doesn't have a husband so that probably is why he didn't say it.

  • @vikingcathq
    @vikingcathq Před rokem +5

    I was somewhat interested in what convoluted reasoning they would have for the main characters surviving the volcanic eruption, and now discover they went with 'no explanation at all'.

  • @marceljenschke101
    @marceljenschke101 Před rokem +13

    My Girl described it perfectly. She said the Show reminds her of Hercules and Xena, 2 shows airing in the 90's. I couldn't stop laughing bc its so accurat, the costumes, the dialogs, everything reminds me of those shows.

    • @jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
      @jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Před rokem

      The movie The Room had better acting. 😂

    • @joshuahman
      @joshuahman Před rokem +1

      Rings of power your girl is spot on! House of the dragon however is brilliant. Very entertaining but also smart and thought provoking. Loving it so far

    • @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS
      @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Před rokem +2

      That's an insult to both of those shows, which were at the very least two things that ROP are not, self aware and entertaining.

    • @marceljenschke101
      @marceljenschke101 Před rokem

      @@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS u are totally right i loved those 2 shows, and there Budget was nowhere near 750 Million per season. But they were much better than ROP

  • @Rogue428
    @Rogue428 Před rokem +43

    Three were forced upon the Trekkers, who went where none had gone before,
    Three were forced upon the Star Warriors, who had come a long, long time ago.
    The Bad Robot turned its Eye aside and sought other franchises to destroy,
    And the passionate breathed a sigh of relief.
    But they were all of them deceived, for a Ring of Power was made, directly attacking the Greatest which all had thought secure.
    And though the Dark Lord was not directly involved, he chose those who would craft the perverted Work,
    And into them, he tutored all of his mediocrity, mystery devices, and derision for the Source and its Fellowship.

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před rokem +3

      All these copy pastas are infinitely more entertaining and well written than this garbage show.

  • @haleyschreiter9746
    @haleyschreiter9746 Před rokem +124

    Exactly, Gary! If Tolkien intended a character as important as Galadriel to be anything like she's portrayed in this abysmal show, he would have told us in very clear terms. I mean, the man was only the greatest fantasy writer who ever lived; clarity in written communication is kind of his specialty. Meanwhile, the show runners blatantly ignore what he actually did say about her.

    • @darkthorpocomicknight7891
      @darkthorpocomicknight7891 Před rokem

      He did.
      Her being a warrior is in the canon
      And why are we pretending Gary "knows" Tolkien. He's just a moronic white racist nothing more

    • @Crydus
      @Crydus Před rokem +1

      Because the Tolkien Estate who sold the rights to Amazon did sell the television rights for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Which means that everything Amazon can use for the second age has to come from these two.

  • @crowtein677
    @crowtein677 Před rokem +2

    I hate to live in a time where the things i love are destroyed. It started with comic books, now lotr. You hate to see it

  • @bulbasaurbrutal5137
    @bulbasaurbrutal5137 Před rokem +2

    How the fuck did Nerdrotic miss the hilarious line where Durin says about Elrond it's "as if he'd been fired in my own mother's womb" which I think his father interpreted the way I interpreted it because he screams "HOW DARE YOU!!!"
    This was set up perfectly into a dwarven misunderstanding because we earlier saw Durin Sr state a flowery metaphor, only to be taken literally by Durin Jr who then says another flowery metaphor about Elrond his friend is drowning and his father is asking him to swat away his helping hand. I told my friend "considering how they misunderstand each others metaphors, it would have been great if Durin Sr takes it literally and rushes to rescue Elrond thinking he's in the water. 'ELROND IS IN DANGER? WE MUST SAVE HIM AT ONCE!'"

  • @hanesbarbosa
    @hanesbarbosa Před rokem +194

    I stopped watching the show in the second episode. However, I found this channel and I’m now enjoying Rings Of Power! 😂

    • @WaxTheDolphin
      @WaxTheDolphin Před rokem +5

      Weaponize your anger and make a yt channel dunking on ROP. I believe in you.

    • @tctyt
      @tctyt Před rokem +7

      Suffering for 6 episodes straight should be awarded for dedication and sheer will.

    • @KellysAdventures305
      @KellysAdventures305 Před rokem +3

      ME TOO! Did the same for Picard. SciFy Fantacy is dead.

    • @maryamtaherpour3946
      @maryamtaherpour3946 Před rokem +1

      Same here😄

    • @darkthorpocomicknight7891
      @darkthorpocomicknight7891 Před rokem +1

      @@WaxTheDolphin Thanks for confirming Gary and you are encouraging things Tolkien despised - please show me where he thought encouraging hatred was actually good
      I believe in your lying. Please cite evidence

  • @LordJakobofHouseBabrick
    @LordJakobofHouseBabrick Před rokem +89

    So happy I can know what happens in this show without having to watch it. I couldn't even hate watch after the first episode. The level of cope they need to pretend this abomination is good is the highest I've ever seen. Hail the Fellowship!!!

    • @SergioLeonardoCornejo
      @SergioLeonardoCornejo Před rokem +1

      I'm glad you broke the habit.

    • @evilchaperone
      @evilchaperone Před rokem +3

      Ahhh... "hate watch". I knew there had to be a name for what I'm doing to myself. Lol.

    • @Dookie6891
      @Dookie6891 Před rokem

      @@evilchaperone Please don't do that... Wash your hands of it. They had to have known what they made was garbage, so they also had to have known that people will still watch it, boosting their metrics. Capitalistic entities don't make garbage without reason.

  • @PeterDB90
    @PeterDB90 Před rokem +2

    Tolkien takes his time because he uses it to develop the locations, the setting, and MOST importantly THE CHARACTERS. This show has done ZERO of that!
    I'm sorry, but changing "Southlands" text into "Mordor" IS NOT A DEVELOPMENT OF A LOCATION!
    Honestly, the thing that probably pissed me off the most was the daft Harfoot leader telling his wife "why you gotta be right, like, ALL the time" AFTER SHE TOLD HIM TO TAKE THE WHEELS OFF NORI'S CARAVAN TO LEAVE THEM TO DIE!!! Guess she was right then too.

  • @jimjammers2453
    @jimjammers2453 Před rokem +3

    The only good thing that came out of this dumpster fire of a show is the CZcams reviews. I stopped watching the Rings of Power after episode 2 but continue to watch your videos. Much more entertaining. When I was a kid I watched the lord of rings trilogy in my room after school on a weekly basis. I wasn't excited for Amazons take, but they casted it into oblivion and I feel offended.

  • @TimeBandit99
    @TimeBandit99 Před rokem +53

    The scene where the old man asked Adar about the new name of the land and Adar said: "just Look at the damn screen" was so epic!

  • @tHeWasTeDYouTh
    @tHeWasTeDYouTh Před rokem +2

    1:23 that missing persons background music is sick. hopefully someone added it to youtube
    7:24 harfoot tradition forever

  • @shawnn7502
    @shawnn7502 Před rokem +1

    Galadriel could have went to Numenor because Tolkien never directly said she didn't. That has to be one of the stupidest answers I've ever heard. By that reasoning, ANYTHING could be considered lore.
    It reminds me of my favorite part in Return of the King, when Frodo and Sam got to Mount Doom only to find a Balrog guarding it. Fortunately, Sam pulled out a shotgun and blew the Balrog's head off. Greatest moment in LOTR, and you can't tell me it never happened because Tolkien never said it didn't!

  • @hapticgaming
    @hapticgaming Před rokem +35

    I wonder if the writers at least ever heard about what happened in *Pompeii* ... because aside from few burns, mutilated legs and burned retina, everybody was fine from being hit by the volcanic ashes...
    I bet they will kill During next season.

    • @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623
      @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Před rokem

      Science matters not to the extreme Left, unless it conveniently fits their narrative, upon which they call their detractors science deniers.

    • @knotengajin7359
      @knotengajin7359 Před rokem

      Definitely not and they were too full of themselves to do a quick Google search. Which, if that had done, they would have discovered that the pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius traveled 6 miles to Pompeii before the people could flee and killed them where they stood or fell and the overall eruption buried the city in around 20’ of ash and debris. And we know people were instantly killed because their bodies were captured in various mostly normal poses leaving voids in the volcanic deposition that archeologists discovered and filled with concrete/plaster to create scary real statues.

  • @Christiand2821
    @Christiand2821 Před rokem +1

    Elendil was just crying at the end because instead of being a 7 foot tall beast, with the mightiest armada that has ever sailed, leading what amounts to super-soldiers into battle... he is stuck trying to carry out the orders of the 3 amigas while leading a pitiful "army" of untrained and inexperienced teenagers in a glorious conquests to... Battle a small band of orcs that took over a town of 5 buildings...

  • @imtoxiclol9141
    @imtoxiclol9141 Před rokem +3

    We’re now at episode 8 and we haven’t seen anything to deal with the rings of power 😂

  • @MrCovi2955
    @MrCovi2955 Před rokem +130

    Things we wanted to see in a series named "The Rings of Power": The forging of the rings of power
    Things we couldn't care less about in a series named "The Rings of Power": The origin story for Mordor's volcano

    • @karmelomarin9592
      @karmelomarin9592 Před rokem +21

      Even that is wrong since Morgoth made Mount Doom in First age 😁

    • @gabriele3665
      @gabriele3665 Před rokem +17

      And the volcano is activated by Sauron's will not some magic key and engineering shananigans

    • @englishlady9797
      @englishlady9797 Před rokem +12

      @@gabriele3665 Yup, since Sauron is a fallen angel. They seem to have forgotten that these lazy inconsistencies make the later story illogical. If Sauron was just some mortal wizard who could be killed with a blade and could not even do magic, why did Frodo have to throw the Ring into the mountain? Elrond could have just sent a crack team into Mordor to take him out.

    • @bengoacher4455
      @bengoacher4455 Před rokem +3

      @@englishlady9797 stop doing the thinking thing. You are meant to consume product, not think. You just hate the show because you're racist/sexist/homophobic (delete as appropriate). If I gave you a billion dollars you couldn't make something as bad as this! It takes real skill to take the single greatest work of fiction ever created and turn it into a forgettable mess.

    • @frocat5163
      @frocat5163 Před rokem

      @@karmelomarin9592 Uh...wut. Is that sarcasm?

  • @Noodles.Doodles
    @Noodles.Doodles Před rokem +170

    Galadriel: When he went to it, I chided him. His armour didn't fit properly. I called him a silver clam. I never saw him again after that.
    ----
    Celeborn: Oh hey, fancy seeing you here. Party's over girls, this is my wife.
    Galadriel: You're alive! Why did you let me believe you were dead?
    Celeborn: All you ever did is chide, nag, insult, and disrespect me. Would YOU have come back to that?

    • @wisdumb47
      @wisdumb47 Před rokem +22

      LOL, seriously. Galadriel is the least likable character in a show since Joffrey Baratheon and I'm supposed to be rooting for her? Oh, and we are supposed to believe that Celeborn is dead? Then where the fuck did Celebrian come from? Without Celebrian how do we get Arwen? Its just cheap cliffhangers and shit characters. WE KNOW CELEBORN IS ALIVE, AND NO ELF WOULD EVER HAVE MALFITTING ARMOR, especially one as revered as Celeborn. How about the Isildur cliffhanger in the burning building? WE FUCKING KNOW ISILDUR LIVES HE CUTS THE RING OFF OF SAURON'S HAND. I hate RoP so much.

    • @meal_team_six
      @meal_team_six Před rokem +13

      @@wisdumb47 She liked by a lot of Karens I know. But if it helps, no one likes them either.

    • @Jizzlewobbwtfcus
      @Jizzlewobbwtfcus Před rokem

      LMAO!

  • @mrc4912
    @mrc4912 Před rokem +1

    Trying to resurrect and redeem this dumpster fire would be as daunting a task as re-assembling Humpty Dumpty, restoring the Titanic to 'ship shape' and getting the Hindenburg to fly again....

  • @wisdumb47
    @wisdumb47 Před rokem +1

    So the fires of Mordor are the only thing that can destroy the One Ring, the single object of focus for all evil in the third age of Middle-Earth, but fembot Galadriel face-tanks a head on collision with a literal river of Mordor magma and it just doesn't even phase her? I hate this show so much it hurts.

  • @rockencook
    @rockencook Před rokem +39

    I lasted 4 episodes and now admittedly watch the reviews for schadenfreude. This show is a gold mine for CZcamsrs.

  • @bboyandi82
    @bboyandi82 Před rokem +108

    what I found amazing is how much inspiration they took out of the movies:
    - Elven - human lovestory like Aragon - Arwen
    - Funny friendship of elf and dwarf
    - sorcerer is friend of the hobbits or hafoots
    - horses riding in slow motion
    - flowers for leaving soldiers (Minas Thirit)
    - the "only elven magic can heal the wound" phrase
    - a big ass dam breaking (without magic key but with brute force)
    ...and much more. They kinda tell the same stories🤔

    • @dominantwolf4593
      @dominantwolf4593 Před rokem

      In a shit and terrible way. It looks like a fucking b list porn parody.

    • @truesoulghost2777
      @truesoulghost2777 Před rokem +24

      But badly

    • @jennyjustjenny7634
      @jennyjustjenny7634 Před rokem +28

      They rip off the story from LotR, yes. But they do it so poorly and dumb.. it's literally like the Star Wars Sequels. 😂

    • @ryuuronin9852
      @ryuuronin9852 Před rokem +11

      Evil cannot create, only destroy and corrupt what good has made.

    • @MikeDchy25
      @MikeDchy25 Před rokem

      Just in an incredibly shit way.

  • @AlexanderEVtrainer
    @AlexanderEVtrainer Před rokem +1

    To be fair, Tolkien never *said* that he didn't want his stories turned into steaming piles of shit by billion dollar corporations just looking to make a cheap buck.
    No wait, I think that one he did actually say!

  • @betonde
    @betonde Před rokem +2

    I'm so happy that I haven't watched a single second of this abomination to Tolkien, and nor will I ever, am I patently evil for not giving a damn about it?

  • @greymark420
    @greymark420 Před rokem +57

    Tell you what Gary, every time you say " Totally not Gandalf" i just start laughing. If only Rings of Perverseness had this level of writing.🤣🤣

  • @richardneufeld545
    @richardneufeld545 Před rokem +52

    I love the cloth fencing around the Numenorian camp and how close the tents were to each other. One archer with fire arrows could take out the entire group.
    When the Stygian witches burned the Harfoot camp, is that an origin story for the creation of the hobbit hole? These evil Harfoots will discover that dirt doesn't burn, so they dig into hillsides. Then they discover tracking dirt into the home and that leads them to discover the art of washing.

    • @coolstorybro6076
      @coolstorybro6076 Před rokem +1

      LOL

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 Před rokem +3

      You see, you have far better comprehension of soldiery field encampments than the writers.

    • @debanydoombringer1385
      @debanydoombringer1385 Před rokem +8

      Some channels have pointed out the lack of guards for the Queen. That a guard was outside when she went into a burning building and didn't try to stop her. There's so much of that just so she doesn't have to listen to men it's ridiculous given the situation.

    • @magnusrex579
      @magnusrex579 Před rokem

      @@debanydoombringer1385 A man trying to stop a woman from doing something and robbing her of her agency, what, we can't have that in 2022.

    • @Ackalan
      @Ackalan Před rokem +2

      I was just hoping for some orcs with some boulders to roll down the slope since they were also cleaver enough to build their tent castle in a valley, right next to a forest.

  • @JKPippa
    @JKPippa Před rokem +1

    So, my theory is this show was a long con. The showrunners conned Amazon out of all that money, with no intention whatsoever of making a good show. Their plan was to grab as much money as they could and run, and now Amazon is ashamed of having fallen for a con for this much money and are desperate to cover it up. This show was never meant to be good, it's just an excuse for the "showrunners" to get their hands on the money.

  • @WillieBloom
    @WillieBloom Před rokem +2

    A magical silvery metal which only has the bestest of properties and is also radioactive, but only the kinder, gentler form of radiation. Hmm, where have I seen this before?

  • @TyrionCypher
    @TyrionCypher Před rokem +28

    What is your opinion on them butchering the dwarves? The second age should be a great age of trade and friendship between elves and dwarves. As you pointed out, Celebrimbor being one of the key players, being involved in great shared projects like building the western gate of Khazad Dum with Narvi. The dwarves are being dumbed down to a painful level and barely recognizable, where it not for the beards. If Tolkiens dwarves wanted to keep Mithril a secret, no elf would have learned of it's existence. Though rare, Mithril was traded frequently between the two folks. And of course there was no existential thread to the elves, only redeemable by Mithril.
    Throughout the second age, that friendship thrived, as did Khazad Dum. Durin IV never saw his realm fall. The Balrog did not wake until the year 1980 of the third age, during the reign of Durin VI.
    Yet, Amazon thought, we need that cool Balrog. And woke him up with a leaf. A leaf...
    Not the dwarves driven by greed, digging too deep. No. A leaf. More than 2000 years too early. The downfall of Khazad Dum had simply nothing to do with the creation of the rings. Yet, we have to watch it's beginnings. Amazon shreds the history of middle-earth's dwarves to pieces, cutting most ties into what the dwarves are during Hobbit and LOTR...
    Yeah... that.

  • @andreasgoransson
    @andreasgoransson Před rokem +64

    I got goosebumps when Galadriel were put in the smoldering fire so that Skynet couldn't win the war. She was brave and strong for humanity's sake.

    • @josephbassey1501
      @josephbassey1501 Před rokem +4

      Loved the part where Guyladriel's husband said he was going to get a pack of cigarettes and was never seen again

  • @TheBelieveit1
    @TheBelieveit1 Před rokem +1

    That's the beauty of canon. If the creator (Tolkien) didn't say something happened, then it didn't happen. Tolkien never stated that Galadriel went to Numenor, therefore she never went to Numenor. Dude is demanding we prove a negative because he knows he can't prove the positive

  • @terryhill5509
    @terryhill5509 Před rokem +3

    I'm utterly sad. Dejected. Depressed. Now that the ROP is done for another couple of years, and She Hulk will be done soon, wherever will I get the entertainment I crave? All I can say is, Nerdrotic and his pals will, I'm sure, figure out how to keep us laughing in the meantime

  • @rexhutchinson7763
    @rexhutchinson7763 Před rokem +32

    The scene where Kirk Douglas stands in his chains and says " I'm sauron " then everyone around him stands and says " I'm Sauron" apart from helbrand for some reason!
    brought a tear to my eye !

    • @samblack5313
      @samblack5313 Před rokem +1

      A real ‘I guess we’ll never know’ moment.

  • @jneumy566
    @jneumy566 Před rokem +1

    The Mordor reveal is even stupider than the Sauron one because they literally told us straight up in the episode when they look through the Numenorean archives to find out what Sauron's symbol was. They find out it's a map and literally anyone who has seen a map of Middle-earth would've instantly known that it was a map of Mordor. And there you go, you just ruined your entire big reveal. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This show is literally only for people who have no knowledge of anything regarding Lord of the Rings, maybe not even the movies. That's how ridiculously dumbed down it is.