Drinker's Chasers - Rings of Power Humiliated: Only 1/3 Of Viewers Finished It

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  • čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
  • The recent news that barely a third of viewers watched Amazon's Rings of Power all the way to the final episode, evoked an outpouring of non-surprise from us. And a fair bit of laughter.

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  • @_GOD_HAND_
    @_GOD_HAND_ Před rokem +694

    Journalists: "Toxic fans are abandoning Amazon's smash hit Rings of Power, and that's a good thing"

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +66

      Can’t abandon something I’ve never watched and will never watch.

    • @chipsterb4946
      @chipsterb4946 Před rokem +99

      “Toxic fan” is one of the most absurd oxymorons I’ve ever encountered.

    • @floridaman6982
      @floridaman6982 Před rokem +27

      Gonna be hard to sell this genre to non fans

    • @Jadty
      @Jadty Před rokem

      Something something straight white males, something something the alt right, something something ist ism word salad.

    • @xrosso6515
      @xrosso6515 Před rokem +8

      @@chipsterb4946 toxic fan exist,everyone have different reason of why they like something,a toxic fan could be someone who like only an element and until there is that element is ready to destroy everything else, another toxic fan could be the one which workship a show ecc ecc,the problem is the people that are calling the fan toxic are people that are toxic and not fan, you can't destro/change every things about something and making something else and thinking you are in right,that is just being....i don't know crazy?bastard?stupid?everything wrong and more?

  • @JoshuaKevinPerry
    @JoshuaKevinPerry Před rokem +457

    1/3 of people probably died of boredom and were included in the count due to autoplay features

    • @BellaRigelOrion
      @BellaRigelOrion Před rokem +13

      Ahahaha, this comment is solid gold! I couldn't understand how they got 1/3, you helped it make sense. 😉

    • @inthefade
      @inthefade Před rokem +1

      😂

    • @Zachary_s
      @Zachary_s Před rokem

      Ha!

    • @Thrawn23.
      @Thrawn23. Před rokem

      Those are the content creator

  • @JCredible-has-a-lovely-bottom

    I don't know if those 1/3 viewers deserve a medal or medical attention🎖🏥😁

  • @alexfriedman918
    @alexfriedman918 Před rokem +504

    I like that Salke admitted she doesn’t know the difference between real life and her own “internal dialogue” - tells us all we need to know!

    • @slimbombur7922
      @slimbombur7922 Před rokem +61

      in medical terms that is called schizophrenia

    • @gridley
      @gridley Před rokem +12

      A lot of people in the entertainment industry are analogous to artistic-creative versions of Alvin Bragg.

    • @giulizpaviz6381
      @giulizpaviz6381 Před rokem +17

      Let's be honest, who work at Hollywood (well, pretty much every celebrity in the world) seems to live in another planet when they talk about "reality" like they care about it

    • @IBriefcase
      @IBriefcase Před rokem

      Her delusion is borderline psychotic, it's almost impressive. She has got to go.

    • @denkerbosu3551
      @denkerbosu3551 Před rokem +1

      ​@@giulizpaviz6381 this is the producer though, so even worse.

  • @TheWarmachine375
    @TheWarmachine375 Před rokem +412

    Tolkien Lore: *exists*
    Amazon: "I'll ignore that."

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +9

      Peter Jackson and JRR Tolkein : 😡😡😡

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk Před rokem +26

      Funny how as soon as this series appeared a whole raft of "Tokien was racist" articles and research appeared.

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +23

      @@6581punk Damage control aka propaganda.

    • @sebastiancruz-ts1qq
      @sebastiancruz-ts1qq Před rokem +9

      In Hollywood you go upwards if you fail

    • @scionofdorn9101
      @scionofdorn9101 Před rokem

      Much like KK ignored the Star Wars EU. To quote Star Trek, "The sheer fucking hubris," of these producers, executives, and directors.

  • @AHersheyHere
    @AHersheyHere Před rokem +393

    When your show has a worse survival rate than the Bataan death march.

  • @TheWarmachine375
    @TheWarmachine375 Před rokem +541

    It is ironic that PETA bashes Amazon over the death of a horse during Rings of Power production and they deserve it.

    • @digiblak997
      @digiblak997 Před rokem +96

      PETA will now try to put the horses down to save them from amazon

    • @lonewolf9578
      @lonewolf9578 Před rokem +26

      The one and only time I’d support PETA

    • @BrassChuckles
      @BrassChuckles Před rokem

      Amazon are trying to flog(sell) a dead show, so it's rather apt that they have a dead horse to flog.

    • @wither5673
      @wither5673 Před rokem +20

      @@Sciuridae at this point this is not even a joke lol.

    • @All_Hail_Chael
      @All_Hail_Chael Před rokem

      Laughs in charge of the light brigade
      czcams.com/video/aKchwAWMpDA/video.html

  • @Batman_94
    @Batman_94 Před rokem +697

    I'm pretty sure more than half of those were just hate watching

    • @silverhost9782
      @silverhost9782 Před rokem +63

      Right, my parents watched it all the way through and they're STILL complaining about how shit it was lmao

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +11

      @@silverhost9782 Your parents are the best and I think my parents would be the same way.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +15

      @@silverhost9782My Grandmother grew up in the 50s with the LOTR books and I think she would despise this show

    • @gingerandbroke1402
      @gingerandbroke1402 Před rokem +4

      I was hate skimming through it

    • @lindsay1989
      @lindsay1989 Před rokem +6

      Yes including me!

  • @matthewboehler2540
    @matthewboehler2540 Před rokem +85

    I got up to the episode where Galadriel happens to find the dude on the raft as she was swimming across THE ENTIRE FUCKING OCEAN.

    • @desmondjefferson2127
      @desmondjefferson2127 Před rokem +11

      Yup, I turned it OFF right when she just started swimming. I was gobsmacked that they decided to shoot that......how did the director just say, NO I'm not doing this, is beyond me.

    • @mkeogh76
      @mkeogh76 Před rokem +23

      When I told a relative that Galadriel just jumped into the middle of a vast ocean and started swimming and then later took a pyroclastic flow blast right in the face but got up no worse for wear except for a Cheeto dusting, she said: "Why didn't they her make her capable of flying as well?" Guy-ladriel may be worse than Rey as Mary Sues go.

    • @libertas5005
      @libertas5005 Před rokem +3

      I didn't even know they did that in this show lmfao... that's so fucking bad hahahha

    • @doomsdaybooty1072
      @doomsdaybooty1072 Před rokem +8

      She randomly finds a raft, in the middle of the ocean. Then, the next day, a Numenorean ship randomly finds the raft in the middle of the ocean. Coincidence stacked on coincidence

    • @4203105
      @4203105 Před rokem +6

      She finds *Sauron* on a raft, after swimming across an entire ocean... completely by chance.

  • @jeffcleghorn1223
    @jeffcleghorn1223 Před rokem +331

    As to Galadrial's strength. She was MUCH MORE powerful in the books than here. Naturally it's been a few millennia but she was always regarded for her magical prowess not swinging a sword like nearly anyone else in Middle Earth. By the War of the Ring, she was instrumental in breaking the northern pincer of Sauron's army (Battle of Lonely Mountain/ not Five Armies/ I wish it was in a film somewhere.) By this time it was stated that Sauron's minions avoided her forests because nothing less than Sauron himself could hope to overcome Galadriel's power. Power you don't get by swinging a sword like everyone else.

    • @sexistspaghettios
      @sexistspaghettios Před rokem +39

      Yep. 2 completely different types of power.

    • @Jadty
      @Jadty Před rokem +77

      It’s a delicate, feminine way of exerting your power. Not saying that using magic is feminine, but for someone like Galadriel, a delicate feminine princess, this would be proper for her character.
      These wackos however, think that strong = masculine qualities, while at the same time criticizing those same qualities. Truly the work of mentally unwell people.

    • @BertoxolusThePuzzled
      @BertoxolusThePuzzled Před rokem +8

      ​@@Jadty These writers are the types of person who severely criticize what they are mad they don't have themselves...

    • @grapeape888
      @grapeape888 Před rokem +1

      Mary Sue must swing sword and jump from horse! Hoorah!

    • @zephyrerazortail5478
      @zephyrerazortail5478 Před rokem +14

      Wow. I did not know that Sauron's forces didn't want to mess with her cos of her magic prowess.
      That scene in The Hobbit makes more sense now. The one she blasts an orc into oblivion. Yeah, seeing or hearing about that kind of power would make me run in the other direction as well.

  • @TheRedThirst
    @TheRedThirst Před rokem +546

    I warned my wife going into it that it’d be woke crap and would be complete trash… “oh Red, you’ve just been watching too much EFAP and Nerdrotic” said the missus… she called it quits 3 episodes in hahahaha

    • @lanz228
      @lanz228 Před rokem +28

      bruhhh, as someone who haven't seen the show, id like to know what made her stop at the 3rd one 😭 😭

    • @TheRedThirst
      @TheRedThirst Před rokem +99

      @@lanz228 mainly the fact that Galadriel, one of the most ethereal and feminine icons in fantasy fiction, was now a warrior girl-boss who don’t need no man

    • @floridashawn7317
      @floridashawn7317 Před rokem +21

      Yep. Me and the wife made it through 2 episodes. Still better than Wheel of Time, we couldn’t make it past the first episode.

    • @TheRedThirst
      @TheRedThirst Před rokem +53

      @20xitysix no, but whenever I’m right about these sort of things I play her the clip of Razorfist spinning around shouting “Fuck You, I was right!”

    • @lanz228
      @lanz228 Před rokem +7

      @@TheRedThirst LOL

  • @damitcarl3942
    @damitcarl3942 Před rokem +66

    "Boats are sinky" Yes, thats how mythical eternal beings talk

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 Před rokem +9

      "No! Stone go sinky, boaty floaty." -- Finrod, called Felagund ("Hewer of Caves") and Nóm ("Wisdom"), king of Nargothrond, also dubbed The Faithful and The Friend of Man, boon companion of Beren and Luthien in the quest for the Silmarils, fairest and most beloved of the house of Finwë, according to amazon.

    • @damitcarl3942
      @damitcarl3942 Před rokem +2

      @@harbl99 "Unga Bunga (oops, yes) DamitCarl, likely an elf from Valinor

    • @MollyHJohns
      @MollyHJohns Před rokem

      ​@@harbl99 I'm just a passerby but your sarcastic quote is too poetic to sound stupid and I love it 😂

    • @The_Ronin1
      @The_Ronin1 Před rokem

      😂😂😂

  • @eurodoc6343
    @eurodoc6343 Před rokem +57

    The first episode told me everything I needed to know about this show. In that scene in the snow and ice, Galadriel is showing point by point that she is the very definition of a toxic leader. Yet the writers think the very things that make her toxic are actually commendable attributes.

    • @oblivionsa7973
      @oblivionsa7973 Před rokem

      Unless she was a man, then they'd immediately scream "toxic masculinity".

  • @wehrwolf8538
    @wehrwolf8538 Před rokem +292

    I'm surprised that 1/3 of the viewers actually finished it. The wife and I didn't even last an episode. Don't feel like we missed out on anything.

    • @Treizez34
      @Treizez34 Před rokem +2

      i regret that I'm part of that statistic, but only because the wife insisted on pushing through to the end where I checked out by episode 3

    • @johnhughes2124
      @johnhughes2124 Před rokem +4

      I confess to lasting the whole thing....... but like Disparu said it was on the side monitor

    • @Elaborance
      @Elaborance Před rokem +1

      I think 1/3rd sounds pretty good to be honest. I don't finish a third of the shows I start, not even close.

    • @nalublackwater9729
      @nalublackwater9729 Před rokem

      Those where probably some shills and the valiant content creators who sacrificed part of their sanity to deliver their video reviews.

    • @Chris-gw2xg
      @Chris-gw2xg Před rokem +1

      You didn‘t miss anything

  • @malekiththeeternityking5433

    I'm amazed 1/3 people finished it, I never watched an episode

  • @geekmastermind
    @geekmastermind Před rokem +167

    I'm a little surprised that so many people are hyped about the announced Warner Bros. remakes. What in the past few years especially gives them the idea that Hollywood is going to do anything but make an absolute hash of it?

    • @sexistspaghettios
      @sexistspaghettios Před rokem +33

      Yeah. Idk how people can even be "cautiously optimistic" anymore.

    • @davids8127
      @davids8127 Před rokem +18

      Warner bros has been horrible the last 10 years like most of the big studios.

    • @ElhajMahmoud
      @ElhajMahmoud Před rokem +23

      Watch Aragorn turned into a bisexual black man who’s in a romantic relationship with Legolas

    • @grapeape888
      @grapeape888 Před rokem +13

      Pakistani trans activist Aragorn would be better.

    • @TheFourthWinchester
      @TheFourthWinchester Před rokem +1

      @@grapeape888 He/she/they would be bludgeoned to death there.

  • @ragnartheshiz3153
    @ragnartheshiz3153 Před rokem +65

    I am so embarrassed to say that I did watch way too much of the Rings of Power.
    I watched the entire first 20 minutes of the first episode.
    I’m still kicking myself for not turning it off after ten.

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +7

      Shame on you.

    • @pingpong1727
      @pingpong1727 Před rokem +2

      Hopefully you don't repeat this lapse in judgement

  • @aurasedge5580
    @aurasedge5580 Před rokem +13

    "You're not supposed to be representing our world, you're supposed to represent Tolkien's world." Spot on brother. That hand gesture from Mr. Magnus there is a perfect symbol for how we all feel on that subject. The core problem with Hollywood is that they keep taking these ideas from great writers and twisting them to say what they want them to say.

  • @frogletx
    @frogletx Před rokem +101

    Jack Black as Tom Bombadil, Lizzo as Galadriel .. ....what could go wrong?

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +16

      About as bad as seeing them on Mandalorian S3

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +15

      Jack Black deserves better.
      At least he’s Bowser on Super Mario Bros

    • @grapeape888
      @grapeape888 Před rokem +7

      Why does everyone hate Jack Black all of a sudden in these comments? guys hilarious and seems like a bro. Lets not sweep Jack up with Lizzo, he isn't in charge of Disney casting.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +1

      @@grapeape888 Jack Black is legit legend

    • @xanderabbey8529
      @xanderabbey8529 Před rokem +5

      @@grapeape888 Nothing wrong with him as a person or actor, but it's a wildly absurd casting choice to have him in Star Wars. Maybe they might make it work, but I have no faith in Disney Star Wars.

  • @tsutsuji1
    @tsutsuji1 Před rokem +237

    I was among the tribe that stopped watching ROP after only a few episodes (because the ones I saw were so boring), but I kept up with the plot of the episodes I missed by watching CZcamsr reviews like Drinkers, Disparu and others. The negative reviews of ROP were far, far more entertaining than the show itself.

    • @joeterzio7175
      @joeterzio7175 Před rokem

      You are the definition of a loser. I'm glad you were entertained by the weekly Klan reviews, though.

    • @Claego
      @Claego Před rokem

      Exactly the same for me. Don't think I'll ever watch the rest of it

    • @kevinmccabe7263
      @kevinmccabe7263 Před rokem

      I did the same thing lol

    • @drixc1
      @drixc1 Před rokem

      I'm actually used to do so as well with all the new marvel and star wars movies/series since a few years already.
      It's more fun , and it's wasting less time.

    • @Lonovavir
      @Lonovavir Před rokem

      On the plus side we now know where Sauron got all his human allies from.

  • @barryf7253
    @barryf7253 Před rokem +22

    What was Amazon thinking? "Let's take a classic work of literature and turn it into a stupid TV show on the same intellectual par with Gilligan's Island, only not funny".

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem

      More like “We’re not gonna make a profit off of this, but at least we’re brainwashing the younger generations with our anti-male and pussy worship propaganda.”

  • @theresearcher253
    @theresearcher253 Před rokem +88

    If they're going to go in this direction, they may as well go all the way: Hire Dylan Mulvaney to play Galadriel in season 2 - 'Orcs? love' em!'

    • @salinium
      @salinium Před rokem +26

      It'd be about as believable as his larp as a woman haha

    • @whos-the-stiff
      @whos-the-stiff Před rokem +7

      Imagine the slowed down horseriding images with that tool riding a horse !

    • @grapeape888
      @grapeape888 Před rokem

      Im jealous and angry I didn't think of the scam before Dylan, especially since im a minority, woulda worked even better. Bud Lite paid him 100k for that bubble bath ad...I'd drink Bud Lite out of Lizzo's crack for that kinda money.

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před rokem +1

      I might actually consider watching the show then to see how bad they can make it.

  • @alexfriedman918
    @alexfriedman918 Před rokem +36

    Never watched a minute on Amazon, but I’ve seen at least 20 hours worth of videos roasting RoP, and thoroughly enjoyed most of it!

  • @awildman69
    @awildman69 Před rokem +31

    If Hollywood remade "The Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Liz would be on the ships telling Raleigh what to do 🤡

  • @mrfafaa96
    @mrfafaa96 Před rokem +64

    My guess is that this series will go the same way as the Fantastic beast series. Fantastic beast was planned to be 5 movies, but each movie was a disaster after another until the series eventually died uncompleted. Rings of Power has planned to have 5 seasons. I'm guessing that we'll get a season 2, but it will die either after season 2 or 3 and it will be left uncompleted.

    • @VincitOmniaVeritas7
      @VincitOmniaVeritas7 Před rokem +16

      It’s not like they had any 5 seasons long arch. They are probably writing along as they go like Disney’s Star Wars

    • @TheDisgruntledImperial
      @TheDisgruntledImperial Před rokem +6

      I don't know, they have plenty of funding and virtues to signal. See: Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek Picard.

    • @eagleofceaser6140
      @eagleofceaser6140 Před rokem +11

      Season 2 will be the same length as season 1. When it bombs season 3 could be cut into thirds released a few months apart labeled as seasons 3-5. That way they can still have five seasons and cut their losses after season 3.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +5

      First Fantastic Beast movie was
      Good at least

    • @TitanKaiju75
      @TitanKaiju75 Před rokem

      Same. I'd be floored if that wasn't the case honestly.

  • @DizzyMamba
    @DizzyMamba Před rokem +116

    How in the hell is Amazon justifying a second season?

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +24

      “WEVE GOT TO HAVE…. Money!
      - Amazon, probably

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk Před rokem +6

      They see it as something to attract customers? haha.

    • @blatherskite3009
      @blatherskite3009 Před rokem +48

      The sunk-cost fallacy, basically.

    • @y_s4021
      @y_s4021 Před rokem +10

      Probably trying to fool investors that everything is just...fine....see? We'll have a season 2

    • @Rabbithole8
      @Rabbithole8 Před rokem +2

      Amazon already paid for a second season and more, and as blatherskite3009 stated, the sunk cost fallacy.

  • @calebhamm8531
    @calebhamm8531 Před rokem +110

    I’ve had people recommend this show to me so many times because the original Jackson films are my favorite movies of all time. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the first episode though.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +41

      Just stick with the Jackson films

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk Před rokem +41

      Not a single second of it is Tolkien. I wouldn't even call it fan fiction because that would imply the writers are fans when they're not.

    • @nilesraeadams
      @nilesraeadams Před rokem +5

      Same. 15 minutes was all I could stomach.

    • @the_absurd_hero
      @the_absurd_hero Před rokem +18

      Watch the Jackson films. And if your morbid curiosity about RoP is ever piqued, watch Disparu’s reviews; they’re really funny

    • @Darkstar_Dayne
      @Darkstar_Dayne Před rokem +14

      Don't do it

  • @Caredroia
    @Caredroia Před rokem +29

    WHY would I trust them with Fantasy, when they can't even understand reality!

  • @WinstonSmithGPT
    @WinstonSmithGPT Před rokem +23

    If you fall asleep Amazon keeps playing.

  • @mattdesroches3219
    @mattdesroches3219 Před rokem +30

    i watched the first episode... when she came in twirling her sword to kill the troll i gave up

    • @desmondjefferson2127
      @desmondjefferson2127 Před rokem +6

      Oh, in episode 2 she did something even worse.

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +2

      A woman ruining an action scene? That’s unusual.

  • @desmondjefferson2127
    @desmondjefferson2127 Před rokem +20

    😂😂😂 CALLED IT!!!!!
    They wrote, read, and decided to shoot EPISODE 2...... Where the main character decided to jump into the ocean and SWIM across it. I stopped at that episode and my review was,"Who TF wrote the 'SWIM ACROSS THE OCEAN' episode and why do they have a JOB!!!!!?????"

    • @williamjpellas0314
      @williamjpellas0314 Před rokem

      They have a job because they obediently signal their phony leftie 'virtue' which is what opens the magic valve that leads to the money bin. It's as simple as that. Well, until and unless reality, especially financial reality, reasserts itself. But until then, it's all about political hacks maneuvering and trying to position themselves to get money. It has nothing to do with objective skill whatsoever. Absolutely zero.

  • @floridaman6982
    @floridaman6982 Před rokem +29

    One thing I’m realizing… they are writing these things in a group setting just basically setting up a checklist of tasks and trying to string them together.
    Most of the greatest stories that got to this level on Merritt were the vision of one single writer and once the book was done they went through editing with others.

    • @Jadty
      @Jadty Před rokem +9

      They get an email from Blackrock telling them exactly what to do.

    • @robertsmith6529
      @robertsmith6529 Před rokem

      It is very difficult to take on a Tolkeins work and turn it into a TV show or a film. Due to creativity and filming limitations.

  • @SadfaicMusic
    @SadfaicMusic Před rokem +31

    I wish there was a way to quantize what percentage of people watched mainly to join in the collective Schadenfreude experience.

  • @greebo7857
    @greebo7857 Před rokem +49

    I'm amazed that 1/3 of viewers started it.

    • @danabnormal5988
      @danabnormal5988 Před rokem +1

      As a lifelong Tolkien fan, I felt it was utter garbage as soon as I heard of it.

    • @lukeball4937
      @lukeball4937 Před rokem +2

      Many Nascar fans aren't there for the races, they are there for the crashes. I think it's the same thing. :)

  • @MioRaem
    @MioRaem Před rokem +21

    I did watch all episodes like Drinker, but I only did so because I was caught in a perpetual loop of weekly disbelief, anger, sadness and, like Drinker, morbid curiosity.
    THIS SHOW IS ABSOLUTE DOGSHYTE

  • @xepharnazos
    @xepharnazos Před rokem +6

    I had a hearty laugh at the cutaway to the Numenoreans doing their best to kill their horses before even arriving at the Southlands village. When I was a kid I read something, a commentary on Charge of the Light Brigade or something idr, that said historically cavalry charges like the aforenamed were actually more like fast trots until they got really, really close to the enemy--only then would they start running. Otherwise the horses would get tired too early. Managing horse-endurance is a plot point in "The Name of the Wind" and "The Searchers" too.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      A hefty part of The Two Towers after they defeat Saruman is spent on the stealthy march of the Rohirrim towards Gondor taking care of the horses so they could arrive rested to Minas Tirith.

  • @thagomizer8485
    @thagomizer8485 Před rokem +18

    I only finished it because I thought the girlfriend wanted to watch it. Asked her later, and she only finished it because she thought I wanted to! 😅

    • @libertas5005
      @libertas5005 Před rokem +7

      There's your lesson for the success of your relationship: communicate with honesty to each other, and don't wait until it's too late!

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      A match made in Valinor

  • @saar144
    @saar144 Před rokem +15

    Rings of Power hate is still strong, even though it ended 6 months ago

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +7

      Still not hated enough.

  • @truefitness2622
    @truefitness2622 Před rokem +27

    Damn, I can only imagine those who managed to watch it to the end are also victims of domestic violence

  • @scatterthewinds3126
    @scatterthewinds3126 Před rokem +7

    it still blows my mind...this source material should've produced a blockbuster generation defining show.

  • @genemcgeehan9435
    @genemcgeehan9435 Před rokem +21

    There is no way this show makes it all 5 years

  • @MJT409
    @MJT409 Před rokem +15

    The only people who finished watching the whole thing were Amazon employees who were paid bonuses for their time.

    • @RS-ls7mm
      @RS-ls7mm Před rokem +2

      I am imagining the scene in Clockwork Orange where he is forced to watch.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      ​@@RS-ls7mmyou might be joking, but life imitates art more often than not ..

  • @sillypuppy5940
    @sillypuppy5940 Před rokem +8

    What got me was that their version of Galadriel was 1000 years old, yet still considered immature.

  • @zacharyyoung8432
    @zacharyyoung8432 Před rokem +10

    That was probably the most profound statement about remakes: we’re making Tolkien’s world not ours.

  • @WhitefoxSpace
    @WhitefoxSpace Před rokem +27

    Dude Disparu's articulation of the audience's feelings are just absolutely dead on, bullseye every time.

  • @joelt2002
    @joelt2002 Před rokem +3

    My wife and I started it as she is a huge nerd of Middle Earth. We quit after the second episode, it was so bad.

  • @alexfriedman918
    @alexfriedman918 Před rokem +8

    Sometimes I fall asleep watching an episode of something, and when I wake up, the season’s over and the screen says something like “Are you still watching?”. Are we sure that’s not what happened to those unfortunate 37%?

  • @jeanclaudealexo2167
    @jeanclaudealexo2167 Před rokem +3

    “Prepare to have your expectations subverted” 😂 Oh Drinker! 😂

  • @theglanconer6463
    @theglanconer6463 Před rokem +16

    Rings of Woke was 95% identity politics and 5% story
    House of the Dragon was 5% identity politics and 95% story

    • @Captain_Insano_nomercy
      @Captain_Insano_nomercy Před rokem +5

      Eh I think HoTD was like 20% woke but that's just my take

    • @markomuric1221
      @markomuric1221 Před rokem +1

      Definitivno of woke is when identity politics take priority over story, hotd keept the story priority

    • @Captain_Insano_nomercy
      @Captain_Insano_nomercy Před rokem +2

      @@markomuric1221 eh, did you read the book? I'd question that Criston Cole became an incel stereotype where in the books he wasn't, Rhaenyra and her entitlement was downplayed, etc. But it's definitely not the most woke thing made

  • @StefanoBorini
    @StefanoBorini Před rokem +18

    Don't worry, they will blame toxic fans and renew it for another season. Because that's what they will do.

  • @chasehedges6775
    @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +15

    I can only imagine what the cast of the Jackson films feel about this abysmal show

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 Před rokem +5

      Wonder if the Hobbit boys regret wearing those elf ear tshirts yet.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +1

      @@harbl99 I wonder what Elijah Wood and Sean Asten felt when they heard this was greenlit.

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před rokem +4

      Viggo Mortensen has a ton of respect for Tolkien and his world. He refused to appear in the Hobbit movies because it wasn't lore accurate. Bernard Hill also shat on Rings of Power recently.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem

      @@GeraltofRivia22 Bernard Hill is a legend

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem

      @@GeraltofRivia22 Bernard Hill was even in the Scorpion King(2002) and that was a decent movie

  • @danabnormal5988
    @danabnormal5988 Před rokem +7

    Disparu is exactly right. I read Tolkien to *escape* from RL drama. I'm tired of "progressives" projecting their own rage and frustration onto entertainment I value.

  • @Prudencia67
    @Prudencia67 Před rokem +5

    The only way is making season 1 a Nightmare from Galadriel. She wakes up in the real Tolkin universe and amazon get to start over

  • @ct-cdn7967
    @ct-cdn7967 Před rokem +5

    I didn’t know who Jennifer Salke was so I looked her up on google. Then was like, wait a minute, I’ve seen her before. Did she play Galadriel on that show? Hmm.
    I may be stretching this, but it seems like “Guyladriel” is an avatar for Salke. Sort of like how Kathleen Kennedy has inserted herself into her movies.

  • @Robwithakick
    @Robwithakick Před rokem +4

    The “internal“ situation at Amazon reminds me of the big car companies problems before they collapsed. No one had the guts to say to management, “we have a lot of internal problems. Therefore, our product won’t sell.“ A cult of personality will stoke the ego temporarily, but will eventually fail.

  • @doug1066
    @doug1066 Před rokem +1

    Tolkien was my first experience of "high fantasy". It is near and dear to my heart. I am sure I am not alone.

  • @TheWarmachine375
    @TheWarmachine375 Před rokem +9

    Lord of the Rings fanfiction is more enjoyable than Rings of Power.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +5

      Same with Star Wars and the EU

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk Před rokem +8

      Fans stick to the lore. This show is written by people who despise Tolkien and think he was racist.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +4

      @@6581punk Star Wars fans and LOTR fans are not so different, it seems

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem

      @@6581punk They despise Tolkien and all white men, in general. Being white is only ok if you have a tw@t.

  • @aldunlop4622
    @aldunlop4622 Před rokem +2

    I only lasted about ten minutes. As soon as Mary Suladriel did the acrobatic flip and kill the giant, I was out.

  • @Kscoyote80
    @Kscoyote80 Před rokem +5

    Fun fact: 100% of the 33% were reviewers.

  • @asdf-bm4df
    @asdf-bm4df Před rokem +2

    I love that you keep at it still. This series could've been fantastic. Hopefully a new attempt is made in a decade or so, with your points in mind.

  • @conwayfitzgerald
    @conwayfitzgerald Před rokem +4

    Trying to write the Lost Tolkien Pages is like trying to write the Lost Mozart Sonatas. It is a fools errand. That's why it cant work, even if you throw 2 billion dollars at it. Just remember 'Boats float because they look up' and 'The Sea is always right.' Tolkien would never even think up lines so stupid, let alone write it down.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      If that's an actual quote from the show, I'm really glad I never got anywhere near it.

  • @PeJota615
    @PeJota615 Před rokem +12

    I don't think we'll ever have an adaption with the same level of care as the PJ trilogy ever again. At least not any time soon. That trilogy was a totally unique moment in cinema history. A nobody, genre director from New Zealand, who was a huge lifelong fan of LOTR, managed to take control of an adaptation and put an entire country's film industry behind it. It was a passion project on a scale we've never seen before. It was also an underdog story the whole way through until the release of Fellowship proved everything PJ and his team did was the right thing.
    You gotta remember before Fellowship LOTR as a franchise was relegated to only fantasy nerds, literary nerds, and academics. Sure it had a few animated adaptations and radio plays, but at most the general public was mainly familiar with The Hobbit at most. And only because it may have been a book they read for school as children.
    At this point any studio attempting a LOTR adaptation is trying to ape PJ's LOTR. It's no longer a labor of love from one director and his passionate team of Hollywood outsider nobodies.

    • @KrazzeeKane
      @KrazzeeKane Před rokem +1

      The LotR trilogy was the last true Epic of our time. It was on a literal "epic" scale, the bigatures and extras and crew and just sheer love and effort put in. All the practical and CGI blended perfectly, it's the last epic film series ever made imo. Avatar and such try, but it's not even close to the level of effort and skill that the LotR trilogy was.

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před rokem +1

      You're wrong. Lord of the Rings was a cultural phenomenon long before the movies.

    • @PeJota615
      @PeJota615 Před rokem

      @@GeraltofRivia22I'm not wrong. I'm talking about LOTR in at that point in time right before the movies. LOTR was a literary classic, yes, but it wasn't a hot property in the eyes of the general public. It wasn't a cultural phenomenon like let's say the Harry Potter books were. Nobody was lining up for LOTR books in 1999/2000.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      ​@@GeraltofRivia22yet, Harry Potter gets defaced and nobody bats an eye. Tolkien's work gets defaced and it's a call to arms. I'm surprised nobody has challenged some Amazon showrunner to a duel...

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      Also, Jackson started the woke trend when he killed Glorfindel and turned Arwen from Evenstar to wArRiOr PrInCeSs. I could never enjoy them because they deviated from the books in stupid Hollywood ways. If he was such a hardcore he wouldn't have deviated at all. Stop-worshipping-his-ass.

  • @phillower8806
    @phillower8806 Před rokem +2

    I literally watched 1 minute past the paper boat scene and I just couldn’t 😅

  • @CMCAdvanced
    @CMCAdvanced Před rokem +3

    I had a dream to get in the entertainment business and entertain once. Once.
    The fact that people can still keep their 6 figure salary jobs after making a show like this is just another nail shot from a seemingly endless, rapid fire Gatling nail gun in an incredibly battered and nail riddled coffin

  • @mrsickukxx1332
    @mrsickukxx1332 Před rokem +5

    Dunno what everybody’s complaining about. One of the better comedies of recent times.

  • @matthewmckinnon7654
    @matthewmckinnon7654 Před rokem +3

    And this proves big budgets alone don't make for good entertaiment.

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem

      It does for gaming… like 40% of the time. lol

  • @zacharymcmillan2788
    @zacharymcmillan2788 Před rokem +1

    "It's dog water!"
    - Eric July/Young Rippa 59 -

  • @Killerduck0213
    @Killerduck0213 Před rokem +1

    So happy I waited for the show to be out in the wild and reviewed before I watched it. Saved me a lot of time.

  • @bastadimasta
    @bastadimasta Před rokem +5

    I finished it, but skipped 95 percent to make it more bearable. In the end, I had no idea who's who.

  • @oldjoe2776
    @oldjoe2776 Před rokem +4

    A lot of those 1/3 are normies who don't know Tolkien's lore and, frankly, don't recognize the wrong nor the simply bad. Neither of my brothers are very knowledgeable about the lore beyond the Peter Jackson trilogy. They both asked me if I saw RoP. When I said, "No", they said it was really good and I should watch it. It's because they don't know any better and thus found it entertaining, if only for the fantasy veneer. I didn't even try to respond to what they said.
    I've heard speculation that if the story presented in Rings of Power was not attached to Lord of the Rings, at least in name, then it could have been a passable, generic, ultimately forgettable fantasy series. Not great by any means, but at least not offensive to Tolkien's legacy. Rings of Power wouldn't have had nearly the backlash it received, though I think the woke-ness of it all would have drawn enough ire on it's own.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      It's intellectual imposture. Terry Gilliam had a movie based on 1984, but was more of a freelwheeling than an adaptation, so he called it "Brazil". Likewise Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium is loosely based on Brave New World. That's intellectual honesty.
      On the other hand, you got RoP, and better products like Guy Ritchie's King Arthur, which would've been a decent popcorn fantasy flick have it been named anything but the Arthurian saga to which it bears no resemblance.

  • @redwolf92
    @redwolf92 Před rokem +1

    Tyrone was so shocked that he can't even speak.

  • @Elerad
    @Elerad Před rokem +2

    Love the lineup here. Always enjoy the content of Tyrone, Disparu, and Echo.

  • @donakahorse
    @donakahorse Před rokem +3

    I wonder how many episodes you had to start before it counted, I know I didn't even make it through the first episode. I feel like there are a lot more people like me who never made it far enough in to be part of the numbers.

  • @jackielogan9104
    @jackielogan9104 Před rokem +5

    i admittedly sat through the entire first season of Batwoman out of curiosity. i gladly saved myself from watching the later seasons.

    • @marbellaotaiza801
      @marbellaotaiza801 Před rokem

      This comment is perfection.
      It will be, when it's written by a whamen.

  • @katg-gk5ox
    @katg-gk5ox Před rokem

    First time I've seen the Drinker's Chasers panel and it's Hilarious (and good!). The thread of comments are fantastic too! Hey, Bud Light should sponsor the show haha.

  • @xuedalong
    @xuedalong Před rokem +1

    1/3 of those people can turn to others and say "YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WHAT I HAVE SEEN"

  • @nothingtoseaheardammit
    @nothingtoseaheardammit Před rokem +5

    I'm not humiliated that I never watched that dungheap of a show.

    • @6581punk
      @6581punk Před rokem +2

      Anything with Lenny Henry in it is going to be rubbish.

    • @JohnDavidSullivan
      @JohnDavidSullivan Před rokem +2

      Clocked out after five minutes. Couldnt bare guyladriels voice

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +1

      @@JohnDavidSullivan You have not seen what she had seen.

  • @y_s4021
    @y_s4021 Před rokem +3

    I guess cancelling after just 1 season is too much of a bad PR. They'd rather renew it for a 2nd or 3rd season and cancel it when no one cares about it anymore. Or so the story goes in my head. They might as well be thinking "what? We put our souls into it! Was the audience not yet prepared for such greatness? Let's give them a season 2"

  • @gbenselum
    @gbenselum Před rokem +1

    I felt asleep at 10 minutes and my tv binge watched 3 eps by itself.

  • @ssvensic
    @ssvensic Před rokem

    I just finished watching The Fellowship of the Ring a few minutes ago and I see this video, perfect. Jesus, I can watch the Peter Jacksons trilogy on repeat for the rest of my life. I watched one episode of Rings of power and called it a day.

  • @chriswilson3126
    @chriswilson3126 Před rokem +4

    This sounds about right. I never bothered with it but my mates watched thr first 2 and never went back to it.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +2

      I knew it would suck from the just the trailers

    • @desmondjefferson2127
      @desmondjefferson2127 Před rokem +2

      In the 2nd episode they wrote a scene where an important character DECIDED to swim across an ocean.

    • @kaj7135
      @kaj7135 Před rokem +1

      A moment of silence for your mates’ fallen brain cells.

  • @charc0al_tv
    @charc0al_tv Před rokem +3

    1/3 of viewers fell asleep with autoplay on

  • @Jadty
    @Jadty Před rokem +2

    1 billion dollars worth of ESG money and THE MESSAGE. Serves them right.

  • @ChaosChanneler
    @ChaosChanneler Před rokem +2

    I have a boss named Jennifer and she acts EXACTLY like how Jennifer Sulky acts when it comes to managing. She wont hear any negative aspects of the job and will circle the conversation away and around from criticism of how she handles things as MUCH AS POSSIBLE so she doesn't have to deal with changing things for the better. Some people are in power for that very reason because they know how to manipulate people into think tanks that are only insular for the bosses benefit and fragile psyche.

  • @theviewer1423
    @theviewer1423 Před rokem +5

    This is what is best in life. Cancel the Rings of Power, see the crew driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women.

    • @ronaldthompson4989
      @ronaldthompson4989 Před rokem

      They dont know what women are, because they are not biologists XD

  • @Nava9380
    @Nava9380 Před rokem +4

    I wonder how many of the 1/3 viewers were hate watching it? I surely did.

  • @Running-withscissors
    @Running-withscissors Před rokem +1

    Great to see Tyrone Magnus back! I have to admit, with recent great gets like Russel Crowe I didn't know if Drinker would still pursue promoting small channel content creators. Cheers and good on you mate!
    Echo Chamberlain is also great to see. I was just craking up on his eloquent description of the state of affairs at mouseland ;)
    Mauler, of course. Great panel. Sorry I missed it.

  • @CASFRM
    @CASFRM Před rokem +2

    The reason so many people watched all the episodes is because there are so many reviewers that had to do it for work.

  • @MauricePKerry
    @MauricePKerry Před rokem +3

    Internally? Like in your mind? To yourself?

  • @chasehedges6775
    @chasehedges6775 Před rokem +14

    While Tv and cinema May being going downhill, movies like Top Gun Maverick and The Animated
    Super Mario Bros. Movie give me hope.

  • @fredtott4684
    @fredtott4684 Před rokem +2

    I watched the whole thing (huge Tolkien fan here) AFTER I watched the 2 reviews from The Critical Drinker going "It cannot be THAT bad. Can it?" And boy, was I for a ride or what?
    What's even sadder is despite "Reflect on the world we live in today" is destroying all the cool IPs, no one seem to do anything about it in fear of backlash and it'll bring the end of entertainment. Guess we should go outside and entertain ourselves like we did in the 80s.

  • @toothgrinder2760
    @toothgrinder2760 Před rokem

    This makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

  • @BilbaoBaggins9
    @BilbaoBaggins9 Před rokem +3

    Amazon acquired The Expanse and gave it a satisfactory conclusion. I'd love to see a compare-contrast. How did Amazon not screw up The Expanse, but did screw up Tolkien? Was it an Andor situation where they didn't care enough about it to meddle, or something else? I'd be interested to learn more.

    • @randommcranderson5155
      @randommcranderson5155 Před rokem +3

      I think amazon bought expanse to bring viewers of the existing show to their platform and since it had existing seasons didn't want to meddle - the show included production staff, writers, etc already.
      But Wheel of Time and Tolkein they bought rights for and started fresh, so they chose the direction, and it sucked.

    • @L1VE3V1L
      @L1VE3V1L Před rokem +2

      The expanse is owned and made by Alcon entertainment. Amazon only funded it. Their film studio didn’t touch it. Thank fuck.

    • @randommcranderson5155
      @randommcranderson5155 Před rokem

      @@L1VE3V1L I think by funding it they could have influenced it if they wished. They just didn't want to meddle since it was "working", whereas on amazon properties they have to start from scratch and the direction from the beginning is in a trajectory fans of the properties hate.

  • @advosan
    @advosan Před rokem +4

    Watched *or* slept in front of the screen.

  • @dustyhammer7569
    @dustyhammer7569 Před rokem +2

    Disparu cuts in every millisecond to talk. Want to hear more from Drinker and other guests

  • @alexfriedman918
    @alexfriedman918 Před rokem +1

    Salke ran a self-diagnostic, like Data on TNG, and found no software or hardware damage!

  • @Hecarim420
    @Hecarim420 Před rokem +4

    In third episode I started laughing (Hartfoots storyline) and episode 8 was the greatest pinnacle of CREATION xD

  • @Edd25164605
    @Edd25164605 Před rokem +4

    I couldn't stop watching out of horror.
    I had to see how badly they continued to butcher the lore while pushing THE MESSAGE

  • @wretchardkimball9049
    @wretchardkimball9049 Před rokem +2

    There is a parasite in me!

  • @somethinganonymous1723

    12:48 The way Chamberlain says negativity here reminds me of that one trending TikTok video with that old dude