The Rings of Power: Ep. 6 - A BATTLE! SOMETHING HAPPENS! - Angry Review
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AngryJoe, OtherJoe & Alex review the 6th episode where SOMETHING FINALLY HAPPENS! A Battle! But does the writing and the rest of the episode live up to the hype? Find out!
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The worst thing about this episode having no Hartfoots is YOU KNOW the next is gonna be like 60% Hartfoot
What the fuxk is a hartfoot?
You're being too kind, I bet it'll be 80%
horror foot's
you mean herpes?
The gods will bless us with 80% durin&elrond
This episode made me realize the orcs are actually the good guys. Think about it, the orcs just want somewhere to live in peace, "just as worthy of the breath of life, just as worthy of a home" meanwhile you've got this racist, genocidal, Elven commander who wants to wipe out every single orc. "Your kind was a mistake... and even if it takes me all of this age I vow to eradicate every last one of you" - Galadriel.
They are actually running with the existential comics LOTR orcs analyses lmfao.
Orcs exist because the Valar let Morgoth capture and corrupt large numbers of early elves. Really they are the victims of the story.
Considering the current trend, this was hardly surprising. Just look at the Skrulls in Captain Marvel, the Sand People in Boba Fett or the Drows in modern D&D. It would be shocking if, for once, the band of supposedly violent evil savages were actually violent evil savages.
if they were peaceful you'd be right. the orcs are murderous and enslave other beings. if they were like Ratbag from Shadow of Mordor they'd be the good guys
Well yeah, because of how ships float. Sometimes to know which direction the light is, you have to touch the dark...duh
The part when SS-Obergruppenführer Galadriel proclaimed her “Final Solution of the Orckish Question” to Adar was really “amazing”
So the Orcs are Jews in your analogy? Might wanna rethink that one
@@foxape12 that's not the point of the joke, the point is Galadriel is a genocidal maniac.
@@foxape12 you're not the sharpest aren't you?
That's pretty funny my man. Lol
@@foxape12 you don't get the joke 🤓
We have set the bar so low for this show that we are giving it a 7 just because something happened after 5 episodes. Honestly this feels like they had a billion dollars for vfx and a dollar for writers.
A 7? Out of what? 50? This show is a 3 at best.
Doesn't even look close to a billion worth of vfx.
Yeah I feel like Joe is giving it a high score in its own universe not compared to other shows
Demm straight
You guys should try watching a slower-paced show like Better Call Saul or Mr Robot. Seems like most people want action all the time when watching shows these days. Anything less and it's boring, apparently.
Galadriel in every episode : I can't stop I want revenge!
Galadriel in this episode when someone else wants revenge: Revenge is bad
so mordor was created by a peasant named pete
She was just saying that cuz she needed to torture him later for info on Sauron. do not besmirch my sexy queen Galadriel further.
Absolutely hilarious when she tells Halbrand "to be free" after dragging him an ocean away into a war that he didn't want to be a part of and just wanted to have a respectable middle class job. Smh.
"You can't drink sea water!" 🤣
@@CybershamanX yeah got tired off hearing that. Once was too much. The second time I just died a little inside due to the bad writing.
I’m surprised they forgot about their remark on their last episode review when they said how goofy it would be if the tower was blown up and fell on the climbing orcs in the next episode, when that’s exactly what happened.
Yeah I laughed as this was what Alex said would happen
@@nosoul4233 😂
@@nosoul4233 he got a early premier.
@@ThyDrunkenSailor uh no he didn't 😂
@@jhamer18 please tel me you noticed the woman get shot with 2 arrows but the writers forgot so when in the keep they pull the one arrow out of her
I love how the writers forgot the Bronwyn gets hit by 2 arrows but in the next scene it was just 1 😂
so the one who created mordor is a peasant named pete
Was one a graze? I thought it was 2 as well.
The whole series feels like someone went on lunch break and passed the work over to someone completely new. There's just so many disjointed conversations, continuity errors and inconsistencies throughout.
My favorite moment was, when Halbrand rode after Galadriel, overtook both her and Adar and swooped around coming up from the front of Adar. Brilliant. Maybe he would like share his teleportation technology with the rest of the cast.
so the one who created mordor is a peasant named pete
RIGHT???? I was like... when the fuck did he have time to outrun them, make a U-turn and then come back fro the front? Plus, the way he tripped the horse while he was holding a spear with one hand? Are you fucking kidding me? The spear would have flown out of his hand, probably decapitating a few fingers as well... The physics doesn't fucking apply at all... Why would Adar's horse even trip that way? I get it if there was a wire that is hung from two opposing trees but like.... Fuck me...
@@sergiohalaby I mean is he not supposed to be sauron in disguise? If so it can all be hand waved away for that reason.
@@kaliskonig Agreed, but if the story is going in the direction of Halbrand able to do this because he is Sauron, then Galadriel should have questioned how he moved so fast. The fact that it was not mentioned by anyone shows that within the rules of the show, what Halbrand did is normal for a human being to do.
He didn’t overtake them, he anticipated the direction they would go (obviously not a straight line) and took a shortcut to intercept them. It’s similar to what Jon Snow did when he was chasing Ygritte in season 2 of GOT.
My favorite part was when all of the orcs paused their raid outside of the tavern to allow the villagers to cauterize Bronwyn’s wound. And then burst in as soon as she’s good to go. Very kind of them
Ahaha, yea. The entire scene I was like : Are you sure that this is the right time to have an emotional moment with your loved one ? There is like a hundred orcs outside. Then nothing happened from outside and I am like : Gee, maybe the orcs really ARE the good guys.
Very considerate orcs
Cant take down the archers first, nah that is not how tower-defense games work.
They had to get the battering ram, you goober. Did you miss literally the next scene where they brought in a battering ram?
@@Dot_Executables A battering ram. For a tavern door. You act like saying that makes it any more believable 😂
I actually laughed out loud when Galadriel was speaking with Isildur and starts telling him about how it's better to be humble when she sees he's upset about being relegated to stable duty. This from Galadriel? Really? Didn't she essentially tell the entire Numenorian court to come at her during their first meeting? Such terrible writing...
Can u do better writing Andrew Adams?
@@population-_-420 no he cant. and thats exactly why you HIRE writers on a billion dollar budget. but its still ass
@@jare2067 Given what we have seen so far from the current writers im willing to let Andrew take a shot he couldnt be worse
@@population-_-420 any1 can do better than this. We have the source material, we have the story written for us. All we need to do is compress it a bit, and make sure to show important bits. THATS ALL.
@@population-_-420 Could I write a show that is worthy of the lord of the rings name? Almost certainly not. Could I write a story that is more logically consistent than this show with better character development? Probably, especially if I had the budget that they did to hire a team of professional writers for support. This wasn’t just one person‘s mistake; this was a whole team of people that do this for a living that put this together, and no one questioned the total dissonance of scenes with Galadriel telling other people to be humble or that they should stop trying to get revenge.
I like how the village repaired itself after the battle
The problem is, you assume the writers aren't retarded.
Harry Potter magic 👌👌
I like how the entire fate of the Southlands was decided by like 50 orcs and 50 men in a small village.
a king for 50 men :D haha!
Alex comparing The Rings of Power to butt plugs made from Michaelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel is comedy gold.
And that comparison to that ancient Jesus fresco that was destroyed by an amateur "restoration" was a great comparison as well.
Ok, marbel butt plugs from a painting ...
You are comedy Gold!
Poetry!
Cringe, Alex is such a negative nancy
"The Butt Plugs of Power" - AleX
How is Galadriel saying to Adar she wants to kill all Orcs "but you shall be kept alive" and 30 seconds later she wants to kill him. The writing makes no sense.
1000+ old and still gets triggered by slight provocation :D
She’s a genocidal maniac. If I was an Orc, I’d fight for life too
Even Faramir would not trap an orc with a falsehood
He said something that pissed her off in those 30 seconds and since galadriel is an unstable murderer who wants to do a genocide she almost did another murder
I literally laughed at that part and loudly said "stupid" lol
The butt plug comparison is so spot on and I could not stop laughing or stop the smirk that just stayed on my face the entire time after Alex graced us with those words😂.
the battle for a 40 people village, what an epic battle lol
I’ve seen larger battles amongst European football hooligans during the World Cup. This was like your average UK Saturday night pub fight 😂😂
@@oscarb7772 there was an incident right now at some indeonesian football match and 125 people died, bigger death toll then the entire Rings of power series
@@oscarb7772 lol
The battle of the bakers shed
@@Gregoses 200 died
I really love it when the Queen of the most powerful nation shows up with a few hundred guys to fight like 40 orcs over the fate of Mordor. Man this show actually has no idea what stakes are.
The Gondorians at the start of Fellowship, Elendils armour, the elves. All looked fantastic. Numenorians look embarassing as do elves in this. They should all be tall. Numenorians should be strong of stature. They should keep their strength in old age. Stronger and nobler than ordinary men. Numenor is so unspectacular and non-monumental. No colonies, the capital city streets are awful and the same little part all the time. The diversity stuff. If it looked like grander scale Gondor from LOTR and exactly with Peter Jackson's look we'd all have been happier. Numenor should have a vast fleet.
@@JohnnyZenith everyone looks like cosplayers
Remember those 50 peasants are all of the southlands a "kingdom"
Might have been cooler for 40 Numenorians killing 3000 orcs
@@JohnnyZenith Whaaaat 1 billion dollar budget giving you the very real ability to cherry pick 7 foot tall Swedish men as Numenorian extras? Yeah the diversity in this show is a bit wacky too. I like how they even had to make both men and women be soldiers (which is hardly even a thing in modern times let alone a medieval fantasy world where that's specifically written to not be the case).
The Southlands is supposed to be the size of a whole country and there's no more than 30 of them and a village with three houses. Ladies and gentlemen the most expensive show ever made.
Wouldn't surprise me if the lion's share of that budget went into CGI. Zero lessons were learned from the OG trilogy, least of all where money should best be spent.
Very apropos that Amazon (and by extension, Jeff Bezos) thinks the solution is just to throw money at a problem. All the dollars in the world can't buy you a soul, which it appears is the key factor missing in this show.
@@ethicalcheeze1407 they were even caught copying and pasting people in the crowd to increase it from 25 to 30! lol.
@@ethicalcheeze1407 i'm being pedantic but missing more than a soul. missing writing. missing coherent plot. missing good direction. missing good acting.
didnt even know that, always thought it was just one little village
Why are you surprised when the city of ship makers only has 3 ships
I think Halbrand does know he's Sauron and he's on some ridicolus arc where Sauron doesn't want to be evil anymore and just wants to live in peace. He's been making comments throughout the entire series alluding to his past as Sauron "I finally found peace, for both of our sakes let me have it" "When the Southlanders and you find out what I did you will cast me out" then asking Adar "Do you know who I am". These writers have been trying to humanize the Orcs so why wouldn't they do the same with Sauron. The arc is, Sauron was betrayed and struck down by Adar so Sauron was like, you know what, fuck it, I don't want to be evil anymore, so he meets Galadriel floating on the raft, he feels bad for that he turned her into this vengeful cunt, they go to Numenor, he feels like he can live in peace there and noone will ever know what he did, Galadriel convinces him to go back to the Southlands, he doesn't want to at first but then he realizes he can go be the king of the Southlanders and do right by them and make up for some of the evil shit he's done and get his revenge on Adar. Galadriel and the Southlanders will eventually find out he's Sauron and he will be like, no wait, I'm not evil anymore I just want to live in peace and make up for the evil shit I've done but Galadriel will be like, no fuck that i'm a vengeful cunt I won't have it and he will eventually turn evil again. You have to think how idiotic these writers are and then you will realize what they are doing with Halbrand/Saurons character arc.
Fuck, I think you're right
I knew it was halbrand the whole time so I kind of thought he was trying to gain the trust of everyone to manipulate them but uhh... Yeah, didn't happen.
I could see that working, in the hands of actual competent writers.
Sauron was a servant to Aulë, the craftsman-god, who disobeyed Eru and created the dwarves because he was so filled with the need to fulfill his purpose as a maker and shaper that he couldn't restrain himself.
Sauron had the same sort of temperament, but unlike Aulë, he didn't have the absolute, unshakable faith in Eru which made Aulë beg forgiveness and rededicate himself to carrying out Eru's will.
Sauron saw the Undying Lands, where the elves were free to rejoice and learn and _create_ under the protective eyes of the Valar. Sauron saw the newly made Middle Earth, a blank canvas waiting to be painted.
And Sauron saw Eru, wagging his finger at him and demanding he sit and wait until he was called upon, that he do nothing but obey and sing praises to Eru.
With Morgoth banished and his armies scattered, I could see a compelling alternate take where Sauron just sets up in a remote corner of Middle Earth and makes an attempt at living quietly.
Now, given that he's still a goddamn Maia, 'living quietly' probably still involves reshaping the landscape and creating servant-creatures, but hey.
I’m not going to lie. I’m enjoying these episode reviews more than the actual episodes themselves. 😂
same!
Lmao same, I look forward to these over the actual episode for a good laugh😂
Good hopefully less people like you watches them so i can stop hearing cry babies because its not like a book
nah. i love this show. sorry guys. i love it for what is. but then i enjjoy the exploration of characters. others want more explosions. i get it. Marvels got that covered.
@@louiscarrillo5873the character are the worst part 😂
My favorite part was when Elendil told Galadriel that his wife died by drowning and she replied, "The sea is always right." Poetic.
😕😲
hahaha, touche
And then it’s also water that makes Mt Doom erupt
Yes, she was a little sunshine in kindergarten!🤣
"The she is always right" - JRR Token
Fuck me, if I have to hear "Commander of the Northern Armies" another ten times...
OMG this^^^
ONE MORE TIME
My favourite part was how halbrand got in front of guyladrial and the guy she was chasing. Man must have a bugatti horse
There is a shot when you see the Numenoreans riding over the top of the hill, Galadriel at the lead, slow motion, with the morning Sun directly behind them, a copy of Helm's Deep when the Rohirrim charge over the hill, Gandalf at the lead, with the morning Sun behind them. However, in their desire to copy they forgot they were traveling East into the morning Sun, not riding West away from it, which would be back to the sea. Later we see they're still riding, but East again to the village. It seems they didn't know where to go so they were out there just charging full speed in big circles towards the Sun, away from the Sun, back towards the Sun until someone stopped and said "Galadriel where the fuck we goin'? Let's just check out that village."
Elf Orc guy is easily the most compelling and interesting character on the show by a mile.
I know right. Its hard to believe these writers came up with him. I'd say he's one of the more interesting tolkein villains in general. Tolkein is usually very "corruption = evil!" yet here you have this guy whose honestly just looking for a place for his progeny to survive. Yes, he does bad things, but some of that is just being pushed for survival.
@@Janx14 I don't think Tolkien intended to wrote "Evil = Unredeemable"
@@Janx14 Yea someone in the team has a nugget of creativity as there's an intentional choice painting galadriel as a bit of a genocidal xenophobe while the orc leader is sort of spitting truth - I also like the dwarves but the rest is just baffling awful.
I don’t know. Those Harfoots are pretty cool
@@CaseyWeaver22 it's interesting the harfoots seem to be the most divisive - people hate them or love them, they certainly have character but they utterly rub me the wrong way.
Adar has more personality than everyone else put together. Except for Durin, he's boss!
It's a shame too because Galadriel could have been a great character, instead they wrote her like a strong independent woman that don't need no man. Where is her husband Celeborn?
Galadriel is one of the strongest elves alive in the lore because of her age, knowledge, she witnessed the light of the Two Trees, and her ring of power.
She's beyond wearing plate armor and swinging a sword around.
Where's her husband? Lol
@@travisspazz1624 no husband, no daughter. They didn't have the budget to hire them😂 or they just didn't know how to write that and said fuck it
@@PineappleBaconPizza Amazon: No wahmen needs a family!!! they are goddesses to be worshipped!11!1!1
Seriously the two best characters in the show are Durin and Adar. Everyone else is trash, incompetent, or downright evil AKA Galadriel!
Galadriel is a legit villain. The queen was running around trying to help her people while Galadriel is just standing there for trying to be badass wtf
Your last sentence Sums it up
And she helped Salbrand rise into power. Galadriel sucks.
I can't believe ign gave this episode a 10 and called it a masterpiece.
How can you not believe it? IGN are fucking scumbags that are bought to give good reviews, they give 10/10 to literally everything if it comes from a company with a lot of money.
lol you can't believe that IGN will say a turd is great for the right price? Where you been?
LOL
Well …IGN 10/10 . Its a meme for years
i can lol
Homicidal, genocidal, single mindedly seeking for vengeance at all cost, Galadriel has all the hallmarks of a classic Bond villain
So I guess… Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas etc all were bond villains as well as they wanted to kill all the orcs too
They didn't go out of their way to kill orcs
I don’t get this argument. Does Joe just tune out what the orcs do in this universe or does he really just need something to complain about? Talking about Galadriel committing genocide as if the orcs aren’t planning to kill everything in their path to awaken Mt Doom
@@Spleenzorio personally I like this idea. The orcs do terrible shit but the idea they are more complex than mindless evil is awesome.
@@Spleenzorio That's the thing. The hero should not be just as evil as the freaking orcs. She literally wants to commit genocide and rubs it in Adar's face. Legolas and company realized that the orcs must be stopped and their death was necessary, not something they would enjoy. Galadriel really seemed eager that she could justify genocide. She is written like a villain.
Before I was rooting for the tidal wave. Now I’m rooting for the volcano.
lmao
Lord of the Geological Events.
Both.
Both is good.
Im rooting for sauron after watching thr elves, men, dwarves and ESPECIALLY the harfoots. Those vile bastards
Beavis and Butthead: FIRE, FIRE, FIRE hahuhhahuh.
Honestly tho, for the sake of my beloved books, a wonderful-rich-story filled-epic fantasy, and a movie franchise while not perfect I have always enjoyed them....FIRE, burn them all and end this abdominal off shoot. Why buy the rights and not use the timeline? Why spend all this money and not make it a grand masterpiece? Just burn this shitshow down and do a slowly zooming in close up of everyone (what is there maybe couple 1000 people total according to amazon?) Screaming im burning it hurts (cause duh) into the camera. Then let sauron look into the camera and say fire cannot hurt me because one day it will be as if im made if it and the tidal wave just obliterates his ass. THE END
My favorite part is when Galadriel tells the bad guy that she knows the orcs were made the way they are against their will, and then gleefully discusses torturing and committing genocide on them anyway. Our hero.
This isn't a story. It's a character assassination.
They took the lessons from GoT where Dany being evil was too subtle. They are making sure now it's not too subtle.
Ah yes, Elendil the Tall, 7 foot 11 inches beast of a man who, together with Gil-galad, defeated Sauron at the height of his power while he was wearing the One Ring in melee combat, gets overpowered by a couple of Vampire Orcs and almost killed by them.
'I was at the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor, where we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil, Aeglos and Narsil, none could withstand.'
The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 2, Ch 2, The Council of Elrond
Isn't this the first time ever he was in an actual battle? Both in Amazon's version as well as Tolkien's version? You can't be a badass warrior who never fought.
I mentioned this in my own review:
Galadriel is so stupid that she had the bundle of cloth with the "hilt" inside it for at least a couple of hours from capturing Adar to giving it to Theo and in that time SHE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT ABOUT UNDOING THE BUNDLE AND CHECKING ITS CONTENTS.
Our Heroine!!!
This is a common Trope bro
That part was actually funny.
You realize that she didn't knew anything about the hilt, right?
Alive. For. THOUSANDS. Of years.
Fooled by something a 10 year old could overcome
@@bjornlothbrok3604 what? What the fuck does that have to do with anything
“I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story.” -Tolkien
“What’s distance?” -Amazon
Tolkien’s attention to detail is exactly why LOTR is so beloved. It’s just high quality.
I mean Amazon does have overnight delivery to nearly anywhere... so can you really blame them for not getting this concept the rest of us is bound to. 🤔🙃
I mean, Peter Jackson never cared one whit about distance or time either. The weirdest ROP criticisms are the hypocritical ones where this becomes A BIG DEAL now, but not at all an issue with the precious movies people grew up with.
@@drewowl1309 Yes the LOTR trilogy is trash and the RoP is great blahblahblah I love Amazon and their AMAZING writers so much 🤣
@@Don9872 If you're complaining about the timeline here, but not about Saruman building an entire industry in a week, elves teleporting to Helm's Deep, or Gandalf riding from the Shire to Isenagrd in like a day... that's a tad hypocritical, isn't it?
Was no one bothered when they threw a party with re-spawned villagers right after almost the entire village was slaughtered? Shouldn't they have a funeral or ceremony instead? Or that they compressed about 400 horses and numenorians on 3 ships? Or that the tower would have been way more defensible than a crummy wood/straw village with no walls? Or that bronwen was perfectly okay the day after getting hit in the shoulder by an arrow? Or that the entire kingdom of the southlands seems to consist of one old tower and one shitty village? I could go on forever with this...
I loved when Galadriel gave a pep talk to Captain Kirk when he was about to depart on his journey to fight the Cylons on the shores of Normandy in 1944.
Thanks, Amazon.
This was funny …. Did anyone else notice the woman got shot with 2 arrows but once they get her in the keep they only pull one arrow out
What did you expected ,for them to pay attention on a show that costs 1 billion .
The woman was only hit with one arrow, the first arrow nearly missed her. When Arondir carries her inside, only has one arrow in her back. You would had notice that if you paid attention to what was on the screen. And that's really funny.
@@hectorrodriguez9382 I’ll go back and watch it but I’m sure she gets hit twice
@@hectorrodriguez9382 We hear the whistle of an arrow, followed by her groaning and falling to one knee. Then another whistle and groan, she falls further to the ground. We only ever visually see one arrow in her. But why does she groan and fall twice?
@@ryanslattery9340 I'm just throwing ideas here, but maybe she gasped and tumble, or she thought that the first arrow hit her and that was a reflex. I remember the fist time I heard a gunshot (they are not common where I'm from) and I instinctively took my hands to my chest, logic? no, just a fear reflex.
Totally agree with Alex, some of the worst script writing I have ever seen and that is without taking into account the writers are BUTCHERING JRR Tolkiens' work. I think Alex is rating this show correctly, OJ and AJ are rating it to generously imho though.
Agreed
Agreed
Agreed
Honestly surprised Joe gave the highest rating for this one. Whenever my friends ask me to rate episodes of this show I give them 2 numbers. One is my rating of the show based on it's own "merits", and two, my rating as a lover of Tolkien's world. They usually have a difference of 2-3 points, but I agree, even on it's own this show is bad.
@@Chas-OTE AJ has to be more of a shill for the algorithm these days. He can't bite the hand that feeds anymore. That's why OJ and Alex tend to be more accurate and correct, and their scores are conventionally not displayed on the screen at all.
I'm just re reading the Silmarillion and I weep at what could have been. It's such an epic tale and this show feels so small scale.
The Gondorians at the start of Fellowship, Elendils armour, the elves. All looked fantastic. Numenorians look embarassing as do elves in this. They should all be tall. Numenorians should be strong of stature. They should keep their strength in old age. Stronger and nobler than ordinary men. Numenor is so unspectacular and non-monumental. No colonies, the capital city streets are awful and the same little part all the time. The diversity stuff. If it looked like grander scale Gondor from LOTR and exactly with Peter Jackson's look we'd all have been happier.
I agree but I don't particularly care about the diversity stuff. It doesn't really bother me.
@@amolb7952 I think it's absolutely vital to the lore, integrity, and story that diversity isn't forced. All my friends are massively varied ethnicities and nationalities. None of them agree with it. It's upsetting to all of us that we'd be labelled bigots and racists despite our love of all rich tapestry of humanity. It's just not understood by many that rules and logic should hold true in a rich, long standing fantasy world. Absolutely not criticising you.
They don't have the rights to the silmarillion itself. That's why is so different
@@loseimaginationtv We know that man. If you don't have it, don't make it.
I love how every Alex sentence somehow finishes with Joe.. xD
How long have you been on this channel?
The time of day constantly changing at the end is unforgivable. It's so freaking jarring, and only an idiot could have let that slip by the editing room. That or a committee of bigwigs.. which is what I'm assuming happened.
yeah I even got lost, I said ok it's dark orcs village, then horses day, then night then morning, wtf is going on lol
You call that a BATTLE? I call that a circus
The 20 Ring American circus. Get it?
This made me laugh.
AJ - "You like it now Alex?"
Alex - "It's complicated. "
Another note, I love how Orcs attack a village... made of wood.. and not BURN it with all their torches.
I like how they tried to break down the door SWAT style instead of burning the fuck out of them
@@moonman8450 funny how it took them long enough for them to save the "lady leader" for them to break in.
@@FlakoPR im pretty sure the writing and dialogue was done by Amazons new AI and this show is like a test run
Having Joe FINALLY pronouncing Galadriel right brought tears to my eyes.
Gala-N-driel lol
Anyone else notice when Adar went in the tavern it was completely dark outside, and when he left it was completely light? He was only in there for like 5 minutes lol
I was wondering about that too.
I heard that happens a lot during this battle.
The sun only takes like 2-3 minutes to rise
So it makes sense
Am I missing something or did Arondir not tell Galadriel, commander of the northern armies who would know more about the item than he does that the corrupted Elf dude is running away with a MAGICAL AND REALLY DARK DARK ARTIFACT. Even if it was a fake, why did Galadriel hand him the fake item as if it's a picture of his family or something? And he took it without telling her...boy just say, "oh nah that's for you idk wtf that is but it's Saurons."
Because the writers are terrible
yeah all the passing on the dumb artifact makes no sense you would think Galadriel would keep that artifact because of how dangerous it could be. Also only an idiot hands an evil artifact back to a teenager! But in the end everyone is an idiot because nobody noticed that it was an axe! ug!
No? Waldreg had the sword the whole time.
@@AvatarTTfan Don't you dare insult my teenage boy!! He was the only one with enough brains to recheck what they'd got. The 1000 year old elves didn't think to check
@@arifadnan3224 when did I insult him? I was insulting the incompetent adults. Also, "Your teenage boy" dude cringe
Well... the battle was also quite awful:
1-Their "fortress" is a 360º open village, with 0 geological barriers in any of the sides and wood huts that can be easily set on fire even at distance (Straw roofs).
2-Bronwyn "the orckiller", who needs soldiers if you have this florist who can kill orcs like it's nothing, no fear, no doubts, straight to the kill.
2.5-The "wall of fire" from the cart is as thin as a paper, anyone can jump over it and won't even get a single burn if he doesn't fall.
3-Villagers are now somehow can overpower orcs, and with 2 words from a bad speech they lose all the fear from being attacked by monsters somehow.
4-Arondir duels the ONLY orc that doesn't have a sword/axe/dagger on him, maybe he overslept that day and forgot the tools for the work XD, otherwise Arondir would have been killed at least three separate times. And Bronwyn "the orckiller" saves the day.
5-Numenorians (who in the lore NEVER used cavalry in battle, said by Tolkien himself) come and use a chain to trip the orcs, do this showrunners know how physics work? Those men would have tripped from the horse at the 3rd orc hit.
6-Arondir and the boy somehow know of Galadriel, they must have seen the battles she participated (invented) on their phones in stream or something like that.
7-Isildur asking for permission to join the battle like a teenager in a football team to his coach... Numenorian "army"
8-Halbrand somehow teleports in front of Galadriel and fake Sauron despite starting the chase way later.
9-Halbrand attacks the horse to trip Adar from it, but of course they have to show that the horse is completely ok. Killing people -> OK, hurting a horse in a battle -> NOT OK
Now compare this to ANY of the battles in LOTR films.
I love the part when the credits came up. What an ending.
Me too! I wept as the credits rolled. My 3 year old daughter said that the character of Galadriel, the writing team and the representation in casting was an inspiration for her and was literally saving lives. As she pointed out to me over her breakfast seaweed mocha latte, strong wahmen were woefully underrepresented in modern day entertainment prior to this shows bravery and smashing of the glass ceiling.
So true!
It was pretty bold of them to definitely 100% kill Galadriel at the end of the episode with a pyroclastic flow. For all intents and purposes she is dead to me now you do not survive that
Exactly! That's instant death!
Everyone will just get up off the ground and dust themselves off like nothing happened in the next episode. I guarantee it.
the preview was right after the episode lmfao
No. Galadriel at the last possible moment will jump behind a large stone wall and survive.
@@isaacg90 In a pyroclastic flow that would still kill you instantly. You can't hide from or dodge that. Ask every person who died in Pompeii💀 The air in a pyroclastic flow is so hot your skin vaporizes, you're petrified in place, and your brain turns to glass.
Anyone know why they decided to abandon the fortress & instead chose to defend a tavern where they can be attacked from every direction
Because dumb dumb thinks dumb dumb idea is perfect
That's why you don't make your town apothecary your general.
Abandoning the fortress wasnt that stupid, they clearly did not have the manpower to defend it, it would have just been a doomed last stand. (Remember no one knew there was reinforcements coming.)
Trying to defend the town was dumb tho, why didnt they just run away while the orcs are distracted.
Abandoning the tower was so they could set the trap that let them thin out the orc forces. Why the tower that was the main elf outpost for at least decades was so fragile that one rope snapping was enough for it to fall apart is anyone's guess.
Im still wondering why they didn't leave the "fortress"
"Once upon a time, there was a girl lost in the woods. The girl heard a noise and looked up in the sky and saw a bird. The bird was flapping its wings and saying 'bock bock bock'. The girl could not understand the bird, and was like, '...what?'."
The end.
I bet this story kept you all more entertained than Rings of Power.
It's entertaining to me for all the wrong reasons. I laugh my ass off everytime I watch it. Except when Guyladriel is on screen. I simply can't stand her. That's the only part of the show that I actually hate. Guyladriel. Not even the hartfoots. Guyladriel.
You pulled a jj Abrams here. You set up a mystery box but you yourself don't know what's in it. You know it that this trick works in getting eyeballs on screen until the end that's how he's been scamming Hollywood for years.
Alex saying he was ‘cursed with context’ makes me realize he had gone full thanos on rings of power
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Judging by the way that distance is measured in this show, I estimate that the Harfoots have travelled no more than 500 yards or so.
On the contrary, the Harfoots have actually circumnavigated the globe 8 times over lmao. If it takes 30 seconds to go from Eregion to Moria the Harfoots have traveled INCREDIBLY far
The Harfoots will show up at the right instant in the next episode so they and Meteor Man can save everyone.
You forget that the Harfoots can teleport, just like the Numenorians and Halbrand did in this episode! ROFL
there feet's weigh them down an they can not go very far unless on a man horse
@@Roon3808 that is exactly what i am thinking is going to happen lmao.
The part where the volcano said, "There is a tempest in me!" and morbed all over the Southlands and Galadriel brought me to tears. 11/10 would watch again
well i do blow wind from my back side as well
And the Award for "best acting" goes tooooo..! :
Mount Doom!
No one talks about the fact that if the Orcs and Adar hadn't dug the tunnels, the whole hilt thing would have essentially just created a cute little swamp around the volcano ? I start to think that the hilt was just an over complicated irrigation system for Morgoth to water his daffodils back during his summer in Mordor
strange how this episode felt like it was the episode where the story actually starts
And it's still horribly written
Dude when you feel that you not a writer can write better than this. It just shows how bad it is
Buckle up, people. We're getting FIVE seasons of this.
@@RabbitShirak There is no way they won't pull the plug after this. It's SOOOO BAD.
@@Hawkeye83627 They actually will continue 100% even if only for one more season just to spite lol
Amazing how enjoyable an hour of watching Joe and the boys talk about the show is, it flies by so much faster than an episode of the actual show. Just listening to them has become my preferred way to “watch” the show.
One more thing to observe is ~ Galadriel try to train Nuemanor ppl to fight ORCs right but .. the villager ppl with clubs and pointy sticks almost defeated ORCs by themselves without armor or good weapons or training.. its like even in video game.. the common item barely does any dmg to level 50 something enemy. while u have no passive skills. but here Neumanor = Villagers with no battle training & no good armors or weapons ?
Crazy how true this is. I do it for this show and She Hulk rather than bother to watch.
I never watched a second but I watch Joe's, Nerdrotics and Drinkers' reviews :p
Galadriel could perceive the thoughts of other people. The real Golden Lady wouldn’t need to torture a prisoner, she could just look at the orc and know what was in his mind
Frodo: *Takes months to get the ring to mordor*
Galadriel: *Gets to the southlands in 30 minutes with an army*
it's strange listening to people complaining about something for about 25 min and then given it a 7/10
Its automatically good because at least something happens in this episode + no haarfoots
The fact that Joe said he will reduce this score if the series gets better is stupid. That means he's scoring each episode in relation to the other episodes, and not to a universal scale of quality.
@@lobsterminion693 You know there are diffeent scales?...what doesnt work for you works for others...
@@lobsterminion693 if it was like a universal scale every individual episode would be a 0/10 each
The best episode by default simply because something actually happens in the story
worst episode by far. The Mt Doom on switch really was the last straw in this shit fest. As for the Southlanders an entire country consists of 30 people and three houses lol
@@purefoldnz3070 that's why I said the best episode by default, just because the story finally moved from a standstill lmao (the writing is still absolutely garbage)
@@kenneth905 garbage is right. At least no Harfoots in this episode.
@@purefoldnz3070 petition for Sauron to get rid of the evil harfoots 🤣
If is that to happen, the best episode is actually turn off the tv. This one was garbage exactly like the other. A lot of non sense and even worse, because non sense in battle is much harder to watch
Battle for nothing, the smallest village with 50 villagers... the whole Numenor army went there from the other side of the world to save this one village... right on time of the attack of course... this show is written by 5-year-olds... some scenes were like jaw droppingly bad...
7/10 ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 just because it had a "battle". Well done Joe 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Reallyy... like wtf when did he become a softhearted teddybear? All he has done sofar is defending every corner of this show when possible(except last one).
Come Back ANGRYjoe.
I really loved how Galadriel embraced her inner Sauron and is going to do ethnic purification and torture orcs and adar. Such a great hero. I mean Adar is the good person and hero of his people. He is doing all for his family, even destroying world.
Also... Gala got exiled so why would she still be commander of Northern armies?
Arondil never got the memo about the exile prb
@@lv83bloodknight no way. The elves must have been all sent to all parts of middle earth top announce her exile, im sure many were sent to numerion too. They definitely sent atleast half their army to spread the news.
Even if he doesnt know she got exile, the lord commander fighting without her elf army protection her but only humain army while he know elf and humain are in conflict. Where is the ❔on his face?
Blah blah blah something “instead you would have a queen as terrible as the dawn”
She went full on Elder Scrolls High Elf. Straight Thalmor-Nazi
So if Mt Doom has an on switch does it have an off switch?
Sauron "I can't seem to start my evil empire
tech support; have you tried turning mt doom off then on again."
You cannot put Pandora back in its box...
So the glorious charging cavalry of Numenore consists of young unemployed seamen with no fighting experience?
Also, what if an orc scout happened to see the hold was evacuated by hundreds of very visible villagers?
also; horses can't gallop for a very long time with an anmored dude on top. whch reminds me, Galadriel uses magic to restore her mare's strength, but how did Halfbrand get so far ahead?
I just thought it was baffling to see Galadriel tell Halbrand not to kill Andar, then a few moments later she is about to kill Andar and Halbrand stops her from killing Andar moments later.
The show really wants me to believe that this is the same Galadriel we see in FotR
Dude Alex's remarks for every rings of power episode is golden. LOL That is just what amazon did too. Bash fine art and made every piece into buttplugs. LOL Awesome!!!
Galadriel wanted to see the volcano's manager.
My favourite moment was when Guyladriel yelled: ''GET TO THE CHOPPA'' and they all did and almost escaped but the choppa had weapons on it so Predator saw them as a threat and killed them all. Totally a 6/7 would watch again!
this is my edition of a perfect season 1 ep 1 of the rings of power, enjoy
season 1 - ep 1:
Elrond and Elros discuss matters about death, and Elros tries to convince Elrond that death is a gift
Elros calls over his family to his death bed, and he passes away peacefully
Elrond boards a ship to leave Numenor, and he looks at it one last time before departing
[CAMERA CUTS TO LINDON]
Gil-Galad is introduced discussing matters with Galadriel about her wanting to found her own kingdom
Gil-Galad says that the orcs are edging closer to his borders and Galadriel should discover why when she departs
Elrond arrives at the scene and talks about Numenor and its current might
Galadriel comforts Elrond, telling him that Elros chose to die and for him it was a gift
Elrond still does not understand since Elros has departed from him forever
[CAMERA CUTS TO A FIELD OUTSIDE LINDON]
A small force of cavalry (50 or so) is lead by Gil Galad to an open field with orcs running
They begin to loose arrows and drive spears into the orcs
an unnamed elf is dragged off his horse and falls on to the ground
Gil-Galad aggressively throws a spear at the orc but is too late to save the elf from being stabbed
All the Elves surround the fallen soldier and throw a cloak over him and mourn his death
Gil-Galad is reminded of death and how it still can take the lives of the immortal elves.
[CAMERA CUTS TO KINGDOM OF EREGION]
A great kingdom is shown, with the architecture of both Elves and Dwarves intertwined within the structures
Celebrimbor is introduced talking to Durin about the construction of the western gate of moria
Durin thanks him and promises great returns of mithril for Celebrimbor to enchant his kingdom more
dwarves and elves compete in archery which clearly establishes Elven marksmen ship is superior which angers the dwarves
the great streets of the capital are shown, showing the great might and joyfulness of the inhabitants.
[CAMERA CUTS BACK TO LINDON]
A mysterious elf speaks to Elrond and Gil-Galad promising an addition of power to their kingdoms which are then rejected
Galadriel speaks to this elf privately and is promised her own powerful kingdom to rule
She is suspicious of him and rejects him respectfully
The elf leaves and heads to Eregion
[CAMERA CUTS TO one of EREGION's cities]
Celebrimbor invites this figure to his capital city and is amazed by his exterior look (armour)
The elf explains that he is a great craftsmen and has lots in common with Celebrimbor.
He gifts Celebrimbor a great forge hammer as a token of friendship and reveals his name to be Annatar
Annatar promises Celebrimbor Eregion will become even greater if his plans are completed
[CAMERA CUTS TO Eregion's main capital Ost-in-Edhil]
Annatar reveals a plan to forge rings of power
Celebrimbor does not hesitate and is fascinated by the plans
Alex's face when Joe cuts him off at 12:48 tho lmao
Bro once I saw that I was looking for this comment like dude 😂
Seriously I love their reviews but im struggling to watch their LOTR review. The way Joe constantly cuts off Alex is just cringe and disrespectful. Watch the part at 8:28
Joe sighs as soon as it's time for Alex to speak and he's not even trying to hide it. Bro you have been speaking for 8 mins straight why is it so hard to give him his chance to talk. It's not that bad if Alex steals the spotlight for one show. You can see Joe is used to being the center of the attention and as soon as he is not, he starts to baby rage like a 12 yo lol.
@@gernou92 It wouldnt be so bad if Joe didnt go on these tangents about the books and the lore when you can tell he isnt really that familiar with it. Like he pronounced Udun wrong in the very beginning lmao. Like idk if Im just a nerd, but he cant pronounce anything correctly from the actual lore and it just signals to me that probably didnt even give the PJ trilogy a good watch. Or at the very least, he never found the lore interesting enough to care about it.
Why does Alex never say 'hold om hold on lemme finish'
Someone on YMS said that you could just watch the weekly recap for every episode and you’d basically miss nothing. Thought that was funny.
That's how I consume media outside anime. XD.
Facts.
Flower girl: "Let's leave our defensible keep and instead fortify a wide open village."
Villagers: "This is why we follow you!"
Sauron will reveal himself and Celebrimbor will take the one ring. Celebrimbor then leads a rebellion of orcs against the dark lord and is defeated, he wanders Mordor as a wraith until a Lone Ranger named Talion seeks vengeance for his murdered family and is possessed by the spirit of Celebrimbor . 😂
Im still upset about this , a hundred year old elf , hides the blade in a tavern under the floor . That’s was his hiding spot 😑. And nobody thought to check the weapon that whole time 🙄
So true
And he says, “I’ll hide it where no one will find it.” 😂
Didnt changed the Sword after he fleed?
Not before the elf hide it?
@@samuelaritan3766 he could just throw it in a pit in the forest. Or freaking run away with it. He's an elf with exceptional stamina.
Very lazy , my mother has better hiding spots than this . Something this important you would think he would of made it with traps and not easily found or accessible. That the fact that nobody opened up the cloth to see the weapon but the kid is crazy . A little ax couldn’t have felt the same as the hilt of that sword . Or the shape . This is some 1980’s cartoon writing
I still managed to fall asleep about 20 minutes into the episode. I'm so sad, only because I wanted to love this series.
- Humans in village find orc, go hide in tower. Orcs go to tower, humans go hide in village. Took 6 episodes to get nowhere.
- The evil men go fight and it's a big shocking moment. Why is it shocking? The joined the orcs didn't they? The show made a big deal out of it for some reason.
- Numenoreans travel the equivalent of Hawai to Las Vegas and arrive at the precise moment (remember they were going to set off a day earlier but a ship exploded). Not even half an hour early or late. Sure, why not.
- They shipped Galadriel and Sauron. Of course they did.
- The evil sword is a lever. All it does is to lower a slab of wall. Why did they even want it? The orcs digged miles of canals and made a tunnel through a mountain. Bringing down a wall is a minor job in comparison.
- So Mordor came about as a housing project for orcs. Listen, we've seen orcs can dig. Why don't they just dig caves to sleep during the day? Then they get to live in a place with trees and lovely starry nights and stuff, not just lava and smog. It just sounds like a dumb plan, you know?
The very circumstances of the battle sound unacceptably dumb--(1) the people chose to abandon a stronghold and instead make their stand at an unfortified village where they can be attacked from 360 degrees, and (2) the tower was SO fragile that Arondir made it collapse with a trick shot. Even without mortar, a competently stacked stone tower will not fall over.
Nobody can survive that pyroclastic flow, i hope the series ends in next episode, that would actually be the best ending and we can all have a laugh at this parody of Tolkien's work.
It’s sad that this is actually the best way to end it lol
For real, have people never heard of Pompeii? They are all dead. I bet they just stand up and dust themselves off in the next episode.
You know damn well that next episode, bronwyn, isildurs friends and the main cast will be fine
@@thepeps101 Yup. I just know they are.
I feel like you are just accepting bad television with your 7/10 rating. You should rate the writing/story, characters/acting, visiuals, action each separately, then average them for your score. I think you will find your score is far lower.
What even would be the point of that sword opening the dam if there were no tunnels leading up to the volcano for the water to follow? It's like a prerequisite, without which the water just floods some woods and villages. Oddly convenient.
I like how joe says it's Alex time to speak because everybody wants that, Then continues to speak 95 % of the time 😝🤦♂️
One of the worst on screen battles I've ever seen in any entertainment. It doesnt save anything.
Thank you, this doesn’t redeem jack shit
better than Season 8 of game of thrones battle and the battle of five armies battle
😂😂😂
@@francissellerdude The battle is decent compared to other adaptations, I mean even compared to other fantasy shows
@@hugofernandes2930 raise your standards please!
you’re bringing the rest of us down with you
The timeline is not just condensed, its cherry picked...if Celembor is her husband right now then her daughter should exist who would be with Elrond and the daughter of Elrond and her is Arwen who is pretty damn important..this story is basically outside the books and movies its its own trash fire and is the epitome of "turn your brain off to enjoy" entertainment, its literally meant for the same people who enjoy greys anatomy.
"Hey, I know you're just a child, and I'm a 200 year old + Elf, but you, young child, must be the one to burn your mother to save her! It can't be me, or any of the other grown adults just standing there, IT MUST BE YOU!" Oh, needlessly traumitizing children for life is TIGHT!
I cant comprehend how Amazon hired such incompetent writers for something they invested 1B$.
I really cant understand why or how it came tho this...
These guys reviewing the show have more emotional range than Galadriel in TROP.
In Episode 7, the opening scene shows Galadriel waking up from a nightmare as Mt Doom erupts from a safe distance...
All I can think of every time we are told the Orcs deserve a place to call home and live their lives is the "LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK IN THE MENU BOYS" scene in The Two Towers where they murder and absolute cannibalize one of their own cuz they are hungry.
Angry Joe's theory about Sauron being split into two distinct halves bares similarities to The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino which is awesome. The show has been brazenly uncanonical thus far but I'd be OK if they actually made this choice for the character.
Don't worry IGN gave it a 10/10 🤣🤣🤣
Masterpiece!
that was dumb even for ign
IGN gave this a 10 lol. This was definitely the best episode so far but thats not hard considering every episode before this was very mediocre.
I mean it's IGN who cares what they think let's be honest it got 10 because they don't want to piss off Amazon
a 10? For the worst episode?
They also just gave fifa 23 a 7.
IGN is legit embarrassing if you look at the reviews they make you think rings of power is great show and yes it’s reviewed by a woman
Because they get paid to shill Amazon has contracted multiple companies to hire influencer to sponsor this crap
I’m an archaeologist who works around Mt. Vesuvius. A pyroclastic surge travels an average of 62 mph/ 100 kph (but can reach speeds of 435 mph/ 700 kph), and can reach temperatures around 390-1300F/ 200-700C. FUN FACT: most of the people who died in Herculaneum were killed by a pyroclastic surge. At those temperatures, you brain fries like an egg. INSTANTLY. And at Pompeii, one of the surges came up to the city wall, so the heat didn’t kill people. But people *still* died from it, because it released toxic gases into the surrounding area. So they choked to death.
TL;DR- they should *all* be DEAD, even if they managed to “dodge” the surge, because there’s no damn way they outran it.
My favorite part was when Guyladriel survived a pyroclastic cloud from a class 5 volcano eruption
It was a double edged sword. They took away harfoots. But we also didn’t get to see Elrond and durin either 😭😭😭
when you think the show cnt get any dumber they somehow still surprise me
the Mt Doom on switch was beyond stupid.
@@purefoldnz3070 im still confused as to who built the whole dam system and why like.. it dsnt make sense for either side .. why ? just Why ?
@@Lycan3303 does it mean Mt Doom has an off switch? Sauron has all the mod cons. I think the switch also changes the map from Southlands to Mordor.
@@purefoldnz3070 also the elves have been patrolling there for 100s of years but some how none of them ever found the shrine, dam, or sword ....and also if the people could destroy the tower why didnt they destroy the shrine or even worse how the the falling tower that looked like it destroyed everything not destroy the shrine ? none of this makes any sense
@@Lycan3303 that's a good point. God damn this episode hurt my brain.
Did anyone notice right before Arondir fought the big orc, after he fell from the roof he took the time to undo his sword before getting up so he was helpless during that fight?
So about the teleportation thing... I get that they want to hurry the story along but it seems they forgot that the two main Tolkien stories are about characters going from a to b... if only Tolkien knew about fast travel, he wouldn't have had to subject his poor heroes to so much... peril... and... adventure 🤤