Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 reviews are here and while some lesser known critics are big fans, many of the larger media platforms have had enough. While they praised the first season, after completing it and then having to sit through all 8 episodes of season 2 in one go, they've had enough. Calling Rings of Power season 2 everything from pure torture to unendingly boring, it seems like we're getting more of the same. Awful dialogue, meaningless philosophy for faux depth and more destruction of the lore. The real question at this point is how long before they sick the dogs on the audience and start with the slurs again? But what did you think of the reviews? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Not watching that Abomination "Rings of Pander" Eru Iluvitar should accept the Dwarves fully and put Orcs on a probationary period and destroy the Rings of Pander
Powerful women do not make people cross. Arrogant, obnoxious women do. The problem is that contemporary women of Hollywood think strength *IS* being arrogant and obnoxious.
Basically the Hollywood/modern feminist has abandoned actual feminity for "women don't need men, because they can do their role better than the actual men". Of which....is interesting to say the least.
@@chamuuemura5314 except -- the male writers and financiers could not make the women of Hollywood accept, and indeed *love* that depiction of female "strength", which they clearly do. We see it constantly in the glowing terms Hollywood women use to describe that style of female character. Meaning, the males are just following the lead the women have established.
they did that for season 1, they just assumed it would carry over for season 2, clearly they didn't get the memo that you need to keep the brown envelopes flowing otherwise the shill media won't keep shilling your shit.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 I use reviews. If I'm uncertain about watching something, I'll weigh in the following: trailers, directors + cast, writers, review websites, and youtube videos to help me make that decision. Perfectly reasonable for movies/shows that I feel undecisive about. But if it's made by Disney, you have to be careful though. Only look at audience scores; they are much more accurate than the critic scores for who knows what reason.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 you understand that Amazon sellers pay off reviewers all the time right? There are people whose fulltime job is leaving bought and paid reviews on websites because there's no legal precedent at this time. They do the same thing with social media influencers. Amazon sellers will ship the item to the person, pay them to review it or give them gift cards etc, then they ship the item back to the seller when they are done.
Amazon's 40k project totally stalled because they want female Space Marines, you know the MOST xenophobic and uninclusive faction in Warhammer. Whilst ignoring the Tau, Imperial Guard, Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, Elite Human Families who literally own entire Hives, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Chaos and probably 15 other factions you could shoehorn as much 'inclusion' into before your heart explodes... Pretty much says all you need to know. Why invest in the darkest universe you can find if you really want to make a My Little Pony series? It's utterly bizarre. Just make the series and make it good, WTF is wrong with these people?
I'm gay. No I don't "see myself' in Tolkein's writings, because LGBT material is not there, and it doesn't need shoehorning into it. Every piece of media does not need to be everything to everyone or to tick every box imaginable. I don't NEED to see gay or LGBT shit in Tolkein, just give me a good story. Banging on and on about social politics does not make your writing or production good.
@@leon.skennedy9931 Even if you didn't like The Hobbit, the 4K Extended Edition is really way better than the theater release. It's nothing like Rings of Poop.
@@radagast7200 I can’t stand morfydd. She’s so shrill .. I wish the actress that plays helaena Targaryen was playing Galadriel but with hbo producing it and literally no one from RoP involved. The whole show is garbage but the elves.. worst casting I’ve ever see for ALL of them especially geriatric celebrimbor It’s like the tried to do Keebler elves not tolkein high elves who Should all b super tall n unquestionably gorgeous. Not a time for DEI unless they all looked like supermodels from the 90s
The sad fact of the matter is that more of the population should be seeking out independent creators. Some of the work people have done WITHOUT Hollywon't, Didnay, and other corrupt, coined-up creeps is actually astounding. Too bad that marketing doesn't really allow for it. :( Ya either hear about tyrannical trash, or ya hear about nothin'. Most unfortunate. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (book I)
Depending on if stuff is so dumb it's funny again, I might prefer boring over tone deaf and non-sensical. But just being boring would actually be a pleasant surprise to me at this point.
Galadriel was my favorite character, they did her so dirty! In the books shes wise, reserved, feminine, and every young ladies role model, the new Galadriel reminds me more of the mean girls who bullied me in highschool 😭
2nd age lasts 3,441 years Galadriel was born in 1362 in Valinor in the Year of the Trees, before the First Age. Galadriel married Celeborn at the end of the First Age. Celebrian was born in 300 of the Second Age. Sauron rises again in Middle Earth in 500 Mordor, which has existed since the First Age, Mount Doom, being the original fortress of Morgoth, had been chosen as Sauron's stronghold, as Sauron constructed the Black Gate in 1000 Sauron deceives the Ñoldor in Eregion, but Gil-Galad distrusts him in 1200 Celeborn and Galadriel, together with their daughter Celebrían, emigrate from Eregion to Lothlórien in 1350 The Ñoldor under Celebrimbor are instructed by Sauron, beginning the forging of the Rings of Power in 1500; Galadriel has been in Lothlórien for 150 years by this point, in no way involved with the forging or any of the events to come... The One Ring was forged, and the Black Gate was completed in 1600. Celebrimbor also perceives Sauron's treachery at this time. Galadriel is still in Lothlórien... War of the Elves and Sauron began in 1693 Eregion was destroyed in 1697, Celebrimbor died, and Elrond established Rivendell. Rivendell and Lindon were besieged in 1699 but held off the sieges Sauron's forces, nearly entirely destroyed, retreated from Eriador in 1700 Miriel was never Queen of Númenor. Ar-Pharazôn the Golden seized the phone by marriage in 3255 Sauron was taken hostage by Ar-Pharazôn the Golden, not Miriel, in 3261 Sauron was taken prisoner to Númenor and further corrupted the Númenoreans in 3262 Sauron becomes Ar-Pharazôn's court advisor in 3265 In 3310, at Sauron's instigation, Ar-Pharazôn begins building the Great Armament, a massive fleet to assail the Valar across the Sea and wrest immortality from them. In 3319, Ar-Pharazôn set foot on Aman, drastically changing the world; Aman and Tol Eressëa were removed from Arda, Númenor was drowned, and the world was round. This was also when Elendil arrived with his sons Isildur and Anárion. Umbar becomes a stronghold of the Black Númenoreans in 3320 Sauron surprise attacks and seizes Minas Ithil in 3429 and burns the White Tree, beginning the War of the Last Alliance. The Last Alliance of Elves and Men formed in 3430 Sauron's forces are defeated in the Battle of Dagorlad, and the Siege of Barad-dûr begins in 3434 Anárion is slain in 3440 Elendil and Gil-Galad died in combat against Sauron in 3441, and Isildur finally defeated Sauron by taking the shards of his father's sword, Narsil, and cutting the One Ring from Sauron's finger. This destroyed Sauron's physical form and won the war. Why is Galadriel involved in anything beyond 1350? She is supposed to be in Lothlórien. Did anyone on this garbage show know anything about Tolkien's world and Middle Earth?! When are the events of Rings of Power supposed to take place? The Second Age? Galadriel can only be involved up to 1350. Isildur was born in 3209 but is in the show. Ar-Pharazôn weds Miriel in 3255, so again, Galadriel can't be involved since Galadriel HAS BEEN IN Lothlórien SINCE 1350! READ THE LORE!
I found out they don’t have the rights to anything except what’s in LOTR and The Hobbit. The Tolkien estate refuses to licence any other parts of his works. The only reason they can do Rings Of Power is because they bought the rights from the current rights holders. The appendices of LOTR contain a brief sketch of Middle Earth history. Sufficient to get some key points to seem significant. But basically ROP is fan fiction written by people who liked the glittery bits, but have their own agenda which doesn’t fit in any way with the legacy of Tolkien. I was 45 minutes into the first episode of S1, about at the point where the “Hobbits” turned up, and the sulky elf (yes, the black one) had made his appearance sneaking around. It was at that 45min mark that I discovered they didn’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, and I just turned it off. And never watched any more. I’ve been tempted to go back a few times, but I just look at my Peter Jackson box sets, and illustrated Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books and decide I have less wasteful things to do with my life.
I find it hilarious that Netflix and Amazon have destroyed 2 of the greatest IPs in the fantasy genre at the exact same time. The LOTR and The Witcher have been butchered simultaneously before our very eyes.
"Season 2 is a lot like Oppenheimer... minus the acting, cinematography, plot, character arcs, dialogue, and appeal. Otherwise, it's pretty much on-par."
And the right wardrobe, makeup and hairdos for the context. And background music. And... ahem, explosions. I cannot remember any swords in Oppenheimer, so perhaps they win in that category? 😅
7:44 "so many of us in the LGBT community see ourselves in Tolkien's writings" Oh boy, he would be rolling over in his grave. Do they not realize how religious he was? And how the entire fabric of the universe he created was based on Catholicism? Tolkien literally wrote in a letter "Christian marriage - monogamous, permanent, rigidly faithful - is in fact the truth about sexual behavior for all humanity: this is the only road of total health (including sex in its proper place) for all men and women." Please keep LGBT out of his work, he would not want it. His work and world building is spectacular, just do what the movies did and stick to the material he wrote and you will have success. If you want to do something that he didn't write, then make your own world, and don't take Tolkien IPs.
That is just a plant. Just for them to say that people in the LGBT people sees themselves in Tolkien's writing so when they introduced some perverted thing, they have some sort of backing. Tolkien is a very religious Catholic. He would not agree with these dimwits.
@@andreasl_fr2666 oh so he was a bit of a leftie, big government, controlling our thoughts and lives, right wing extremism is just more autonomy to do as each see's fit. Soocalists are ALWAYS the historical tyrants
Yes, I am a huge Tolkien fan and I am not going to ruin my imagination by watching the immature crap show, Plus, my time is valuable, but I find it hugely entertaining that they get what they deserve
I’m watching it cuz i appreciate the cinematography, music, location. I enjoy to see it in its form and not because I wanna be part of this “don’t touch Tolkien’s work or i’ll do a tantrum”.
People who can't think for them self's you mean and feel the need to hate because it's cool and hip. Season 2 has been epic so far, it's so sad people can't appreciate things and be grateful
@@truthteller9834 Nope, not "cool and hip." I don't mock it for that reason, anyhow, tho I guess I do feel a sort of bond with others who join me in my disdain for the series. No, I feel the 'need to hate" because I love the books and revere Peter Jackson's mostly-accurate, extremely well - done adaptation of them. If TROP were a police drama instead, it would still be justly criticized for bad writing, meandering storylines, overdone acting, and plot holes big enough to drive an Oliphaunt through! You have no idea how much I WANTED to like this series, and a sense of betrayal may indeed make our mockery all the more bitter.
Yeah I thought that whole analysis was spot on. Especially where he says they try to get all sorts of demographics for their individual plot line, but those demographics don't typically like it anyway so they end up repelling their actual fan base. They've changed the story so much it's unrecognizable. Maybe some day, someone who will do justice to Tolkiens works will get the rights to make the silmarillion, and let "ROP" be forgotten and relegated to the dustbin of history
The Galadrial and Sauron shipping feels so much like amateur fan fiction. How tf do these hack writers get big Hollywood jobs? I, random internet dude, do hereby officially state that I could write this show better...
Not to be that guy, but I'll bet you could get 20 unsupervised kindergartners to write a more coherent story than 90% of the Hollywood writers these days.
@@bobhi2668or biggest money laundry scheme in history. (There is no way that profit driven minds would even approve this much money for production and marketing willingly)
@@bobhi2668 I like all all of you can see through the actions of these billionsaires, they litterally own both political parties and think we are all fucking stupid.
I'm sorry, but please tell me where in Tolkiens writings there are LGBTQ inspirations??? Adding sexual identification into Tolkiens writings is an absolute slap in the face to one of the greatest writers of all time. He created this beautiful world and words without any sexualization needed. It's one of the great things about his works.
I cannot agree more. Tolkien was (and still is) one of the very (very) few writers that literally had ZERO sexualisation in any of their works. There is absolutely not a single hint of that. Check some his lovestory moments (Beren and Luthien, Aragorn and Arwen, even the horrific story of Turin and Niniel). You only see the most pure love there. Nothing more. Absolutely pure heavenly love, they barely ever touch, even in movies. Scenes with Aragorn and Arwen in movies are so damn romantic, so idealistic, you literaly want to cry wishing for something like that to happen to you, something otherwordly, greater than life. Tolkien was very religious so it is no wonder he wrote like that and he reflected all of his eternal love for his wife in LotR and Silimarilion lovestories. How the hell can someone disrespect something like that by claiming that he wrote about lgbtqxyz??? That is INSULT pure. Toliken created to most perfect form of fantasy and everything after that is, for me, fanfiction. No sexy titty elves in tight outfits in Tolkien books. He did not need cleaveage to captivate his readers. His works are an ideal, a scale to measure the quality of everything else. How can someone be that arrogant to claim he or she can do better, rewrite what he did, claim to find "inspiration" for something Tokien himself would consider (i cannot say it, might get banned)? They literaly smear shit on his creation and legacy.
Isn't it bizarre watching Hollywood absolutely destroy all our favourite franchises.. ones we adored, grew up with and cherish... Yet all I can do is laugh and watch it burn with glee.
But they aren't. The fans are. You're letting them burn the books, by thinking their take on the franchise is even part of the franchise. What's part of a canon/franchise is always up to the fans of the canon/franchise. Art is in the eyes of the beholder, remember? They may have the right to derive works from some source material, but that doesn't mean the source material is edited. The source material still exists as is. The only way they can ruin Tolkien by creating new heinous works based on Tolkien's works, is by Tolkien fans conflating their heinous works with Tolkien's works. LOTR: ROP, the show, is not Tolkien. Thinking it is, that is the deed that is the true insult to his name.
@@gandalf8216I mean I agree with you to an extent because that’s exactly how I view what is and isn’t cannon. Basically my head cannon. At the same time though, it’s pretty damn disrespectful to the original creators to just straight shit on everything they built and calling it the same thing. I think it’s just the principle that upsets people.
This video is really deceptive in making people think the reviews as a whole are terrible. The guy has picked some that are and is even referring to random commenter's as justification for this. Doing a Google news search for Rings of Power reviews, I found WAY more positive S2 reviews than negative. Some of them described it as 'wonderful', 'awesome storytelling' and Empire described it as 'Fantasy at its absolute best.' Obviously I wouldn't agree with that, but there are actually way more positive reviews out there than negative, yet people think its so cool and edgy to pan the show. Its a shame
So from what I recall, Tolkien based Galadriel on his wife. The love of his life, the reason she's so influential, powerful, and beautiful is because that's how she was to him. And now, the writers are making her sleep with Satan. I cannot begin to think of a more vile, disgusting piece of "updating" lore than this. I don't know how to finish this comment off because I'm so angry, someone say something good beneath for me
What do you mean sleeping with Satan? You mean Sauron? He is not that bad at all, a bit misunderstood if anything else. You see, there is no thirst of power that doesn't involve making sacrifices. At the end, there is always someone that must have the power to control. If you think those peasants are going to have a better life under their hereditary kings... well then you don't know feudalism... Just remember Democracy doesn't exist in any realm and anyway those "white" Elves think themselves better than the rest, and they won't allow anybody else to have the freedom to surpass them, specially the not so "white" Orcs...
They think having a lengthy runtime makes it “epic fantasy” They hate the source material so much they can’t help but parody it or make mockery, when they’re trying to COPY it.
They don't understand it above its base entertainment level and thus are completely unable to use the themes Tolkien left them. They think just parading most of the names around will accomplish the same as a 1000 page, nuanced, meditation on war and good and evil and maybe it's on us for expecting them to come close to that. My 13 year old cousin loved season 1 but has since read most the books and now thinks it's maybe the worst or second worst iteration of lotr (he doesn't think the animated movie from the 70's is any good either). So atleast it's bringing the younger generations in.
Meanwhile Japan shows them how it's done with a nice fantasy story that pretty much follows the same beat. (Including having an OP female Elf as the lead) But done BETTER. It's called Frieren: Beyond Journey's end. And a few LOTR fans say it feels like a LOTR world. Even though it's just doing it's own thing. And it's getting the complete opposite reception to ROP with fans loving it and happily waiting for the second season.
Have not watched. Is that Celebron? And he's just dead? 'Cause he's like... there in the Jackson films. Or are they adding a first husband and breaking that part of the lore that they technically aren't allowed to use but that it wouldn't cost anything to not contradict? Elves not remarrying is a HUGE thing with Tolkien.
@@professorhaystacks6606They totally borked the timeline, condensing thousands if not 10,000+ years into maybe months and are attempting to salvage things by teasing him.
How to steal a billion. With terrible actors, especially Galadriel and Elrond are a tragedy, and costumes looking like they are made from old curtains.
I still say the guy who played Isildur was the best one because he actually had a nerd moment talking about the Isildur lore during one of his things where he went into details that were from the silmarillion. That's the kind of person I like to see, one who loves the character they play as.
I liked Charlie Vickers as well, who read the books and, as part of his pre-filming prep, took a hike through the Mordor locations from the PJ films. He's been making theories on why Sauron is doing the things he's doing, since apparently the showrunners never explained, heh.
@@gatsbygoodwood2575 Has there been confirmation on S1 being re-written? I doubt S2 had more than a very broad outline, if that, when Christopher died in 2020.
I was watching Classic Doctor Who last night, and the director of that story was a woman named Paddy Russell, she was one of the earliest women to direct for the BBC, and she got there by doing quality work under budget and on time. Was it always easy? of course not, she was called Paddy because that what she'd write on the call sheets so there would be less trouble if someone took exception to being directed by a woman, as Paddy is generally a short form for Patrick and not Patricia. she butted heads on occasion, but her work spoke for itself and she worked regularly at the BBC for over 40 years. The current crop want the job because they feel it is owed to them. No, show you can do what it takes to get there, and produce quality work and you'll make it on your own, like Paddy did. It's not easy, nothing worthwhile is.
@@SolarisKane whilst I understand and agree, the word woke is actually a term from the ol south, the term is "stay woke" and it means "be careful, stay alert" the man with the whip is angry today. Cheers 🍻
I’m a man. I can remember watching return of the king and thinking that eowyn was one of the most badass characters I’d ever seen. I feel like writers and show runners are just trying too hard to be “inclusive” that they end up making something that is divisive (and just dog ass) Worry about respecting the amazing work Tolkien did, writing a GOOD story/script, and the rest figures itself out.
can we just all agree that this is NOT ''the lord of the rings''? its just a very expensive and VERY BAD fan fic. on its own, it could be an okay fantasy series, but to give the name ''lord of the rings'' to it just buries it.
Whenever I hear that line about "a great evil has returned", I just hear the "Somehow, Palpatine has returned" line. It has the same energy of, "Ahh fuck good writing, let's just blurt it out."
Very doubtful this gets seen, but I just want to say that your videos and channel have been a godsend to me. I am an assistant director in Vancouver, and I've had to watch the absolute idiocy and failure of those above me writing garbage, attacking fans, and then wondering why our industry is failing. Hollywood is one of the few service industries (that's really what we are) where we do not ascribe to the "Customer is always right" mantra. If I go to a Japanese restaurant and my food is done wrong, and I complain/return it - they don't go "You're a racist" they say "We're so sorry, let us fix that." Hollywood does the opposite. Because I grew so fed up with these failures I decided to write my own original IP television series. Having worked on Lost in Space, Shogun, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and quite a few others I have an idea what goes into productions of big value. I have basically used your videos as a "How to not fuck up" a story while writing the first two episodes. I'm currently through round one of pitches towards Apple Plus (They did Foundation, I love that series) - and I am hoping to get moralistic characters, women with flaws and growth arcs, and so on through the DEI gatekeepers - something I am very against. And unlike my colleagues in the industry, if my series gets produced and ends up on your channel, I will be both disappointed that I failed, and excited to see feedback! Keep it up!
Thank you! I knew people like you were out there. I hope you find each other and bring back good, quality, uplifting movies and TV. And that you all get rich doing it.
I'm putting the bet up right now. If Amazon doesn't cancel the show before the writers reach "the end of their story" then Galadriel is going to turn Sauron into a "redeemed bad boy" but for some completely contrived reason he has to "keep playing the bad guy," completely changing the entire plot of Lord of the Rings by casting them as star-crossed forlorn lovers. Because they CANNOT look at Sauron as anything other than a love interest. Which says a LOT about who the writers are as people.
@@LoneSilverW0lf Why would you say that's a moral compass? I'm saying they'll literally try to retcon it to pretend that Sauron is "the good guy in the Lord of the Rings"
@@MrCovi2955 that was sarcasm my dude. It’s the obvious lack of morals that’s so apparent. I’m saying that so many people in writers rooms completely lack a moral compass as to why they try to justify the bad guys. Watch the directors for the Acolyte bragging about how they’d be Dark Siders because ‘it’s cooler’, completely ignoring all the atrocities they commit on the regular. How much more obvious can you get that the Sith are evil when their whole shtick is hatred and power hungry? Unless of course they actively identify with and desire to be such. Same situation here: nobody involved has a moral compass as seen with them trying to make Sauron the ‘misunderstood good guy’ here.
I honestly think, it doesnt matter how poorly written and poorly produced the movie/show is, as long as "THE MESSAGE" is in full effect. And with that being said there must be a deeper meaning behind all of this, a forced subversion on ideology. Clearly money is no issue with hollywood as long as "THE MESSAGE" is constant. I think its time to stop watching tv/phones period.
They'll do it as many times as they can buy the rights to, every year. LOTR set the desperate gambit to make fantasy, trilogy, sequel/prequel bait franchise success that hollywood has been frantically trying to replicate for most of our lifetimes. They're so upset that they can't reproduce it, they constantly shit on it, they hate it so much for being so good, and they can't figure out how to make something so good. It drives them to pure insanity. The kind of insanity that makes you paint a smile on your face and pretend everything is perfectly normal while you brutally murder innocent IP's with a steak knife .
I think there is a 10% chance the the Anime LOTR will be good and it all depends on how much power was given to Kenji Kamiyama. This guy was the Director for Ghost in the Shell SAC. He can do girl bosses well. Also he drew the backgrounds for Ducktales 1987 for whatever thats worth lol
@@mikesun9009 Yes it could be a good story, if it wasn't a lord of the rings movie. If the anime kept the same story but was set in its own unique setting with its own characters it could be widely successful. But they felt they needed to tie it to an existing IP. I want to see what Tolkien wrote adapted, not what other people write inserted into his world.
Ultimately as funny and entertaining as this has all been it's actually quite sad to think we won't likely see a big LOTR project for quite some time after this one has died a death and wasted the opportunity. Like you said in the right hands with THAT much money to burn... it could have been something actually pretty special.
LotR, The Witcher and a bunch of others. It could have been a bit of a golden age for fantasy and live action media in general. Instead, it's the (very) dark ages.
"Disa thinks she was cosplaying as a spaceship with a solar sail." LMFAO! That one quite literally had me laughing out loud. Perfectly accurate burn. 20/10.
We will always have the animations from the 70s and 80s, we will always have the Peter Jackson movies. Now we have Disparu savaging these evil destroyers of all things good, Amazon Studios, for their transgressions against the great works of Tolkien. Disparu stands for justice. He is your friend.
You cannot have an actress saying in an interview that powerful women make men upset or angry "feel cross" like Morphyd said. This is so unprofessional and only sad wine cat Whamens say this.
By insulting all men and someone might make a face like wtf is she talking about it's only telling when your own point of view leads you to believe someone is making a face based off of your belief, when you in turn would not know why they made that face or whatever and most people wouldn't ask why or believe the answer lol. @MemoristCed they would just run with there idea and start an argument
Not only horrible but sexist, racist, homo-phobic, trans-phobic and a few other phobics and 'ists just for good measure. Oh, and evil too. Very Eeeeaviiilll!.....
Wait, how could Galadriel be involved with Sauron's defeat? We know how Sauron's story goes - defeated by Isildur in the 2nd Age, ended by Frodo and Sam in the 3rd. Galadriel was only tangentially involved.
In the same way she could be involved in forging the 3 elven rings before any other rings were made... They don't care about canon, they want cultural control.
@@DH-xw6jp sure, but they've been banking on nostalgia for Peter Jackson's films to market this. And those films are pretty explicit with the sequence of events.
@@GoblinKnightLeo yes, but much like all the other trash they have marketed using famous, popular, IPs in the last 6 years or so, they don't care if it gets butts in seats because it isn't about money. It is about tarnishing the good reputation of the franchises. They don't want money, they want to control, and destroy, the primary culture of the West. You can't bring about a revolution until you have broken what came before it. *_THAT_* is the goal, not profits.
Im surprised these critics aren't tossing Amazon's salad again in hopes they get a gig, free stuff or access. Is it REALLY a great thing to get access to the pig pen?
Possibly there's a dawning realisation that if they continue to endorse the creation of sh*t entertainment then they're talking themselves out of a job.
22:40 - Truly, the take away is "If you don't know the source material you'll dislike this... and if you *do* know the source material, you'll hate it".
What I REALLY want to know is WHO THE HELL is telling these people that nerds don't like strong women? It's literally a core trope of SFF... I can't name many series that DON'T have strong women breaking social conventions, bc it's an INTERESTING idea to explore! The difference is that GOOD BOOKS do well, and well written characters become beloved. It's THAT simple. It's my FAVOURITE damn trope, and they keep fucking it up. I grew up on Xena and Buffy. My first ever crush was a book character (the worst witch. I was 7) who is... you guessed it... a strong female character. It's my ABSOLUTE jam. It's BASICALLY heroine for me. And they keep producing junk and trying to say that no... that's the real stuff and I must just not be a real fan of it.
So basically they are telling a story about all of the characters alive during the First Alliance of Elves and Men. The story Tolkien never made/told/etc. Peter Jackson told this story throughout the LotR trilogy. It is completely unnecessary and can not possibly meet expectations. It feels a bit like the movie 'Solo' which told the origins of Han Solo.
They aren't even doing that. They are barely using the appendices save for names. The events are at best broad strokes similar. There are rings that are forged and Sauron is involved under an alias. But it's a different alias, the order of forging is different, half the characters either not there when they should be or are there when they shouldn't, and basic cultural points of various groups are totally ignored.
@@professorhaystacks6606 Let me remind you that they cannot use anything of the 3rd age. It has to be different, afaik, but still match the overall story. I was mentioning Solo because it 'explained' where he got his name from, his blaster, the Millennium Falcon, and the Kessel run. All were lame as hell. The creators obviously didn't care for it and made a terrible movie for themselves.
@@gwenwalravens8030 this I have not heard. My understanding was they could use anything in the appendices that wasn't part of the main narrative. That includes most of the third age. I may be misinformed though. Articles tend to be light on contractual details.
Many years ago, I ran a middle-earth rpg set in the east, that I named The Untold Trilogy. One of my players wanted to be a wizard and so played as the blue wizard Pallando. Along with a human knight, a wood elf ranger, a werebear rogue, and two dwarven brothers who occasionally fought inbetween drinking homemade dwarven ale. The campaign had the Easterlings as the main protagonists, the evil faction led by Alatar (the other blue wizard), who had been corrupted by the influence of Morgoths spirit. Alatar rode on a blue crystal dragon and had two balrog bodyguards. The party aided in the Easterlings civil war, and eventually succeed. Through many adventures the party travelled through enchanted forests filled with kaukareldar (evil fey), the keep of the frozen barrow king. The underneath, deep below the earth where the city of deep towers lay, ruled by the Nauglath (evil deep dwarfs), who tended the vats of Umalar (where Morgath created monsters). Through the swamps of cragmire barrow filled with mirelurk spiders, huge fell beasts, crebain and the great hag with her oloh-hai (trolls). The party learned how to free the good easterling from Morgoths influence and how to fight for their freedom. One of the most profound moments was when the players sought refuge in the elven city of Ithil-Rana (moon spirit) and found it empty and ransacked, only to learn that Morgoth had turned every man, woman and child into orcs for Saurons army. Also here, were the calcified remains of treants, one of the last known refuge for the entwives, as Pallando summarised. In the penultimate final battle on the Steppes of Hithlum, below mount Kratos, the fifty thousand strong easterling army and their oliphaunts fought against the now free easterlings, and their grizzly bear mounts. The party, along with the stone giants of Kratos, fought Alatars forces in Castle Azure, high up upon Mount Kratos. In an act of selfless sacrifice, the player of Pallando, frees alatar from the grasp of Morgoths spirit. Like Gandalf, Pallando is sent back to complete his task, to the surprise of the other players mourning from his death. The two blue wizards, now reunited as brothers, control the elements from high upon mount Kratos, to change the course of the battle below. While the rest of the party charge onto the battlefield, flying down on the backs of the giant falcons of Freya, who were summoned by Alatar. The battle is finally won and the players are exuberant with the victory. I ordered pizza for everyone as they sat back, taking a break for a bit. They really felt like they'd been fighting for their lives for the 3 hours that the battle had lasted. I then read the final monologue describing the end of the campaign, as they ate their pizza. As reward the players learned that the number of Easterlings that aided Sauron during the war was greatly reduced and Pallando earned the name East-helper, as referenced in the wiki. Everyone felt like they had actually played a part in the movies, it was such a wholesome ending. This would make for a better story than what these people are creating on Amazon.
I think you are confusing Galadriel with Luthien. Only Luthien was Half Maia. Galadriel studied under Queen Melian, Luthiens mother. She studied under a Maia and was not related to her. Galadriel is a Princess of the Noldor.
There was no way on god’s green earth this show was ever going to be watchable considering that the writers couldn’t include any story material from the Silmarillion. All they could do was make shit up and pretend it was canon. Brown dwarves? In! Brown elves? Sure! Brown hobbits? Great! There will never be a good, faithful Tolkien adaptation without full cooperation from the Tolkien estate. Given the willingness of writers to make shit up out of whole cloth with this debacle, I don’t think they’ve won over any fans from that side.
They totally went the wrong way with this. What they should have done was shift over to Hardwaith and the Haradrim. They were IN the Appendices, and it would have given us a lore look at how Sauron convinced them to come over to his side as the Lord of Gifts. It also could've been used to demonstrate how the Haradrim were less enticed by Sauron, so much as having suffered years of suffering and war at the hands of Gondor, who were not only demanding heavy tithes that included people, but even built a great fortress on their lands, and AGAIN, in the Appendices. For all that we see Gondor at its height, we would also see how Sauron was able to rally other humans to his cause. We could've gotten to see the founding of Lothlorien, and Galadriel trying to get the lords of Gondor to see what was coming, but that falling on deaf ears, even as we see Sauron advancing his cause in Hardwaith, but because it's out of the way from Gondor, they don't pay it any mind.
Those that cannot see what is not shown, and cannot hear what isn’t spoken, are always so quick to cast vitriol on art they do not challenge themselves to understand. How quickly the world forgets that the true magic of a fantasy exists within the mind. You have forgotten how to dream.
Actual review seen here => 3:39 "If all we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us, Rings of Power Season 2 is a worthy choice"?! What's the saying? Oh, yes; "Even the devil can cite scripture to suit his own purposes..."
Amazon would be better off just training a chat GPT model with fantasy novels from pre-2010 and telling it to write a script. But it appears like checking off boxes is their top priority.
Evil can't create something new and respected franchise and characters and past and lore and Canon. They only ruin and corrupt and disrespect franchise and characters and past and lore and Canon.
I’m a massive Tolkien fan. I own over 20 Tolkien books, art books, and much much more…. When this show was announced, I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!2017 I knew from the start it was going to be a disaster… Characters like Gandalf and Galadriel being recast for WHAT REASON??? These beings are thousands of years old. Gandalf was literally sent to Middle Earth as an OLD MAN!!!! why recast Ian ????? Because of the casting I was not very interested in the show to begin with. Aside from the fact that it took NEARLY. 10 years to finish….. After watching the first episode (in which I couldn’t even finish) I was extremely underwhelmed and disappointed! What a waste of time….
@@BrandonDenny-we1rw Ian’s issue with it was working with green screens. He still had passion and love for Tolkien’s work he just got tired of being on green screens. He didn’t use them as much in the LOTR films there was still a ton of freedom back then. But after X-men and the hobbit he realized sci-fi and fantasy film were only headed in one direction. That wasn’t really my point tho. I was just saying the new show doesn’t pay any homage to the original series’ or even Tolkien’s written work himself. There are so many beloved characters that are just ruined in the show. And I’m not only talking about the characters we already know from film. I’m also talking about characters we never really saw or heard speak in the films! They ruined them too 😂 their casting choices are just abysmal. And it was clear from the beginning they didn’t really care about respecting the die hard fans
@@S0L12D3 agreed if you can't get the right cast change the story. I'm a writer and if I ever sell my work I'd make sure they have options for different kinds of stories based on the cast available.
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 reviews are here and while some lesser known critics are big fans, many of the larger media platforms have had enough. While they praised the first season, after completing it and then having to sit through all 8 episodes of season 2 in one go, they've had enough. Calling Rings of Power season 2 everything from pure torture to unendingly boring, it seems like we're getting more of the same. Awful dialogue, meaningless philosophy for faux depth and more destruction of the lore. The real question at this point is how long before they sick the dogs on the audience and start with the slurs again? But what did you think of the reviews? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
So being woke stopped giving your product the right for a 7 at minimum when rewiewed
Not watching that Abomination "Rings of Pander" Eru Iluvitar should accept the Dwarves fully and put Orcs on a probationary period and destroy the Rings of Pander
How can anyone sit through this show? 15mins of ep.1 season 1 was enough for me.
So what are you going to name your boat.😂
@@kadourimdou43simple greenhouse 😂
Powerful women do not make people cross.
Arrogant, obnoxious women do. The problem is that contemporary women of Hollywood think strength *IS* being arrogant and obnoxious.
The writers and financial supporters are mostly men so it swings both ways in Hollywood.
Absolutely. Look at Janeway in Voyager. The difference? That word that makes them hiss like a cross to a vampire: RESPONSIBILITY.
Basically the Hollywood/modern feminist has abandoned actual feminity for "women don't need men, because they can do their role better than the actual men". Of which....is interesting to say the least.
@@chamuuemura5314 except -- the male writers and financiers could not make the women of Hollywood accept, and indeed *love* that depiction of female "strength", which they clearly do. We see it constantly in the glowing terms Hollywood women use to describe that style of female character.
Meaning, the males are just following the lead the women have established.
Perfect explanation!
Uh oh. Amazon forgot to pay off the reviewers like Disney does
they did that for season 1, they just assumed it would carry over for season 2, clearly they didn't get the memo that you need to keep the brown envelopes flowing otherwise the shill media won't keep shilling your shit.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 I use reviews. If I'm uncertain about watching something, I'll weigh in the following: trailers, directors + cast, writers, review websites, and youtube videos to help me make that decision. Perfectly reasonable for movies/shows that I feel undecisive about.
But if it's made by Disney, you have to be careful though. Only look at audience scores; they are much more accurate than the critic scores for who knows what reason.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 you understand that Amazon sellers pay off reviewers all the time right? There are people whose fulltime job is leaving bought and paid reviews on websites because there's no legal precedent at this time. They do the same thing with social media influencers. Amazon sellers will ship the item to the person, pay them to review it or give them gift cards etc, then they ship the item back to the seller when they are done.
Amazon's 40k project totally stalled because they want female Space Marines, you know the MOST xenophobic and uninclusive faction in Warhammer. Whilst ignoring the Tau, Imperial Guard, Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, Elite Human Families who literally own entire Hives, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Chaos and probably 15 other factions you could shoehorn as much 'inclusion' into before your heart explodes... Pretty much says all you need to know. Why invest in the darkest universe you can find if you really want to make a My Little Pony series? It's utterly bizarre. Just make the series and make it good, WTF is wrong with these people?
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 *synopsis
I'm gay. No I don't "see myself' in Tolkein's writings, because LGBT material is not there, and it doesn't need shoehorning into it. Every piece of media does not need to be everything to everyone or to tick every box imaginable. I don't NEED to see gay or LGBT shit in Tolkein, just give me a good story. Banging on and on about social politics does not make your writing or production good.
Imagine what Peter Jackson would’ve done with a billion dollars.
The hobbit 😅
@@leon.skennedy9931
Ha 😂😂😂 it was absolute garbage. Twirly wirrlys.
@@leon.skennedy9931 better than Rop anyway
@@leon.skennedy9931 Even if you didn't like The Hobbit, the 4K Extended Edition is really way better than the theater release. It's nothing like Rings of Poop.
Less is more
"No male director's reputation was harmed by this series"
It's called the glass waterfall and plenty of woke female writers seem happy to hurl themselves over it lol
Not my Galadriel
This is the alternate timeline where she becomes the Dark Queen.
this is the alternate timeline where she sucks.
@@radagast7200 I can’t stand morfydd. She’s so shrill .. I wish the actress that plays helaena Targaryen was playing Galadriel but with hbo producing it and literally no one from RoP involved.
The whole show is garbage but the elves.. worst casting I’ve ever see for ALL of them especially geriatric celebrimbor
It’s like the tried to do Keebler elves not tolkein high elves who
Should all b super tall n unquestionably gorgeous. Not a time for DEI unless they all looked like supermodels from the 90s
One of the most baffling casting decisions ever.
Remember when galadriel was able to use magic ,_, maybe the budget wasn't good enough?
Damn, if mainstream media is calling its boring, I cant imagine what regular viewer will have to say hahaha
The sad fact of the matter is that more of the population should be seeking out independent creators. Some of the work people have done WITHOUT Hollywon't, Didnay, and other corrupt, coined-up creeps is actually astounding. Too bad that marketing doesn't really allow for it. :( Ya either hear about tyrannical trash, or ya hear about nothin'. Most unfortunate.
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength resteeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (book I)
It will not be watched
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Why do all your comments have the book quote at the end? Do you have autism?
its boring. I slept in episode 2 and 3.
Depending on if stuff is so dumb it's funny again, I might prefer boring over tone deaf and non-sensical. But just being boring would actually be a pleasant surprise to me at this point.
Galadriel was my favorite character, they did her so dirty! In the books shes wise, reserved, feminine, and every young ladies role model, the new Galadriel reminds me more of the mean girls who bullied me in highschool 😭
exacly this. amazons galadriel is like that one mean girl in everyones teenage drama show/movie
2nd age lasts 3,441 years
Galadriel was born in 1362 in Valinor in the Year of the Trees, before the First Age.
Galadriel married Celeborn at the end of the First Age.
Celebrian was born in 300 of the Second Age.
Sauron rises again in Middle Earth in 500
Mordor, which has existed since the First Age, Mount Doom, being the original fortress of Morgoth, had been chosen as Sauron's stronghold, as Sauron constructed the Black Gate in 1000
Sauron deceives the Ñoldor in Eregion, but Gil-Galad distrusts him in 1200
Celeborn and Galadriel, together with their daughter Celebrían, emigrate from Eregion to Lothlórien in 1350
The Ñoldor under Celebrimbor are instructed by Sauron, beginning the forging of the Rings of Power in 1500; Galadriel has been in Lothlórien for 150 years by this point, in no way involved with the forging or any of the events to come...
The One Ring was forged, and the Black Gate was completed in 1600. Celebrimbor also perceives Sauron's treachery at this time. Galadriel is still in Lothlórien...
War of the Elves and Sauron began in 1693
Eregion was destroyed in 1697, Celebrimbor died, and Elrond established Rivendell.
Rivendell and Lindon were besieged in 1699 but held off the sieges
Sauron's forces, nearly entirely destroyed, retreated from Eriador in 1700
Miriel was never Queen of Númenor. Ar-Pharazôn the Golden seized the phone by marriage in 3255
Sauron was taken hostage by Ar-Pharazôn the Golden, not Miriel, in 3261
Sauron was taken prisoner to Númenor and further corrupted the Númenoreans in 3262
Sauron becomes Ar-Pharazôn's court advisor in 3265
In 3310, at Sauron's instigation, Ar-Pharazôn begins building the Great Armament, a massive fleet to assail the Valar across the Sea and wrest immortality from them.
In 3319, Ar-Pharazôn set foot on Aman, drastically changing the world; Aman and Tol Eressëa were removed from Arda, Númenor was drowned, and the world was round. This was also when Elendil arrived with his sons Isildur and Anárion.
Umbar becomes a stronghold of the Black Númenoreans in 3320
Sauron surprise attacks and seizes Minas Ithil in 3429 and burns the White Tree, beginning the War of the Last Alliance.
The Last Alliance of Elves and Men formed in 3430
Sauron's forces are defeated in the Battle of Dagorlad, and the Siege of Barad-dûr begins in 3434
Anárion is slain in 3440
Elendil and Gil-Galad died in combat against Sauron in 3441, and Isildur finally defeated Sauron by taking the shards of his father's sword, Narsil, and cutting the One Ring from Sauron's finger. This destroyed Sauron's physical form and won the war.
Why is Galadriel involved in anything beyond 1350? She is supposed to be in Lothlórien.
Did anyone on this garbage show know anything about Tolkien's world and Middle Earth?!
When are the events of Rings of Power supposed to take place? The Second Age? Galadriel can only be involved up to 1350. Isildur was born in 3209 but is in the show.
Ar-Pharazôn weds Miriel in 3255, so again, Galadriel can't be involved since Galadriel HAS BEEN IN Lothlórien SINCE 1350!
READ THE LORE!
Thanks for the TED Talk.
That’s totally bigotry, bro. Why do you hate so much? 🧌
I found out they don’t have the rights to anything except what’s in LOTR and The Hobbit. The Tolkien estate refuses to licence any other parts of his works. The only reason they can do Rings Of Power is because they bought the rights from the current rights holders. The appendices of LOTR contain a brief sketch of Middle Earth history. Sufficient to get some key points to seem significant. But basically ROP is fan fiction written by people who liked the glittery bits, but have their own agenda which doesn’t fit in any way with the legacy of Tolkien.
I was 45 minutes into the first episode of S1, about at the point where the “Hobbits” turned up, and the sulky elf (yes, the black one) had made his appearance sneaking around. It was at that 45min mark that I discovered they didn’t have the rights to the Silmarillion, and I just turned it off. And never watched any more. I’ve been tempted to go back a few times, but I just look at my Peter Jackson box sets, and illustrated Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books and decide I have less wasteful things to do with my life.
@@StorminATube Then they shouldn't have done it in the first place! Make their own original product and don't screw with LOTR!
I mean, it always claimed to be an adaptation, not going 100% with cannon.
I find it hilarious that Netflix and Amazon have destroyed 2 of the greatest IPs in the fantasy genre at the exact same time. The LOTR and The Witcher have been butchered simultaneously before our very eyes.
Wheel of Time too
"Season 2 is a lot like Oppenheimer... minus the acting, cinematography, plot, character arcs, dialogue, and appeal. Otherwise, it's pretty much on-par."
Well its going to bomb hard, and twice.
@@brainflash1😂😂😂😂
No, it is like Oppenheimer, they have become the destroyer of Tolkien’s world.
@@brainflash1 LOL nice one, hahaa.
And the right wardrobe, makeup and hairdos for the context. And background music. And... ahem, explosions.
I cannot remember any swords in Oppenheimer, so perhaps they win in that category? 😅
7:44 "so many of us in the LGBT community see ourselves in Tolkien's writings"
Oh boy, he would be rolling over in his grave. Do they not realize how religious he was? And how the entire fabric of the universe he created was based on Catholicism? Tolkien literally wrote in a letter
"Christian marriage - monogamous, permanent, rigidly faithful - is in fact the truth about sexual behavior for all humanity: this is the only road of total health (including sex in its proper place) for all men and women."
Please keep LGBT out of his work, he would not want it. His work and world building is spectacular, just do what the movies did and stick to the material he wrote and you will have success. If you want to do something that he didn't write, then make your own world, and don't take Tolkien IPs.
That's WHY they wanted to LGBT it.
Its called gaslighting.
That is just a plant. Just for them to say that people in the LGBT people sees themselves in Tolkien's writing so when they introduced some perverted thing, they have some sort of backing.
Tolkien is a very religious Catholic. He would not agree with these dimwits.
Great post 👌🏼
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Very much looking forward to not watching the show and consuming it second hand through the youtube critic roasting it.
I won't subject myself to it either. No way.
That's my plan...😂
That guy: So many of us, members of LBTQ community, see ourselves in Tolkien writing...
Tolkien from the afterlife: The f*ck?!? Where?!?
it projection
Wasn’t Tolkien a staunch catholic? Can’t imagine him having non binaries and trans men on his mind back in 1930s/40s Britain when he wrote LOTR.
@@mattb6704Tolkien was the only major intellectual in Britain to openly support Franco during the Spanish civil war.
@@andreasl_fr2666 oh so he was a bit of a leftie, big government, controlling our thoughts and lives, right wing extremism is just more autonomy to do as each see's fit. Soocalists are ALWAYS the historical tyrants
@@andreasl_fr2666 what does that have to do with the comment, was Franco gay? Either way interesting fact, but very much so a non sequitur
Anyone else not watch the series but come here to be entertained?
Yes, I am a huge Tolkien fan and I am not going to ruin my imagination by watching the immature crap show, Plus, my time is valuable, but I find it hugely entertaining that they get what they deserve
@@rihegThe only good thing about this show is Annatar
amazon needs to pay me to watch the show 😂
I’m watching it cuz i appreciate the cinematography, music, location. I enjoy to see it in its form and not because I wanna be part of this “don’t touch Tolkien’s work or i’ll do a tantrum”.
@@matchababy8485 Fair point, the elven and dwarven places looks good
Judging by the sound of this, the UA-cam reviews of season 2 are going to be an absolute riot!
Can't wait to watch it thru Gandalf's roasting eyes!
content starved no longer
Critical Drinkers was so good I literally watched it twice. Truer words have never been spoken.
People who can't think for them self's you mean and feel the need to hate because it's cool and hip. Season 2 has been epic so far, it's so sad people can't appreciate things and be grateful
@@truthteller9834 Nope, not "cool and hip." I don't mock it for that reason, anyhow, tho I guess I do feel a sort of bond with others who join me in my disdain for the series. No, I feel the 'need to hate" because I love the books and revere Peter Jackson's mostly-accurate, extremely well - done adaptation of them. If TROP were a police drama instead, it would still be justly criticized for bad writing, meandering storylines, overdone acting, and plot holes big enough to drive an Oliphaunt through! You have no idea how much I WANTED to like this series, and a sense of betrayal may indeed make our mockery all the more bitter.
I hear that youtubers now have mystical powers of getting shows cancelled. Any chance you can be a hero and do it again ?
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If it was true, they would be a string of hitman contracts to save their bank accounts! (What, you think they care about art?!)
The of power of you, the power of tube, the power of many!
@@johngratton2301 XD
Unfortunately RoP got renewed for season 3 which is baffling. Kind of like The Witcher on Netflix.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 devour everything in its path! This is the way.
"What are these, some sort of Rings of Power or something?"
- Gaybrimbor, Master Smith (probably)
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Bazinga
When Sauron said "It's rimming time!" and held a hammer with one hand. I was hooked! 😂
Master Smith…completely clueless as to what an alloy is. Make it make sense.
"That is IT. I have had it with the motherf-ckin Rings of motherf-ckin Power"
- Don Lemonlass
23:58 · >>> 'If you make a show for Everybody, it ends up being for Nobody.'
Yeah I thought that whole analysis was spot on. Especially where he says they try to get all sorts of demographics for their individual plot line, but those demographics don't typically like it anyway so they end up repelling their actual fan base. They've changed the story so much it's unrecognizable. Maybe some day, someone who will do justice to Tolkiens works will get the rights to make the silmarillion, and let "ROP" be forgotten and relegated to the dustbin of history
The Galadrial and Sauron shipping feels so much like amateur fan fiction.
How tf do these hack writers get big Hollywood jobs? I, random internet dude, do hereby officially state that I could write this show better...
Not to be that guy, but I'll bet you could get 20 unsupervised kindergartners to write a more coherent story than 90% of the Hollywood writers these days.
RoP is basically a $1 billion subsidy for the UA-camrs who make money ripping it to shreds.
Or one giant corporate PR stunt to cover up amazon's working conditions. I mean wtf
@@bobhi2668or biggest money laundry scheme in history.
(There is no way that profit driven minds would even approve this much money for production and marketing willingly)
@@bobhi2668 I like all all of you can see through the actions of these billionsaires, they litterally own both political parties and think we are all fucking stupid.
I'm sorry, but please tell me where in Tolkiens writings there are LGBTQ inspirations???
Adding sexual identification into Tolkiens writings is an absolute slap in the face to one of the greatest writers of all time. He created this beautiful world and words without any sexualization needed. It's one of the great things about his works.
Orcs, goblins, wraiths, the Wild Men that attacked Rohan, and the Easterlings who follows Sauron.
I cannot agree more. Tolkien was (and still is) one of the very (very) few writers that literally had ZERO sexualisation in any of their works. There is absolutely not a single hint of that. Check some his lovestory moments (Beren and Luthien, Aragorn and Arwen, even the horrific story of Turin and Niniel). You only see the most pure love there. Nothing more. Absolutely pure heavenly love, they barely ever touch, even in movies. Scenes with Aragorn and Arwen in movies are so damn romantic, so idealistic, you literaly want to cry wishing for something like that to happen to you, something otherwordly, greater than life. Tolkien was very religious so it is no wonder he wrote like that and he reflected all of his eternal love for his wife in LotR and Silimarilion lovestories. How the hell can someone disrespect something like that by claiming that he wrote about lgbtqxyz??? That is INSULT pure. Toliken created to most perfect form of fantasy and everything after that is, for me, fanfiction. No sexy titty elves in tight outfits in Tolkien books. He did not need cleaveage to captivate his readers. His works are an ideal, a scale to measure the quality of everything else.
How can someone be that arrogant to claim he or she can do better, rewrite what he did, claim to find "inspiration" for something Tokien himself would consider (i cannot say it, might get banned)? They literaly smear shit on his creation and legacy.
@@selmirikanovic Marvelously put, both of you.
@@selmirikanovic just say you're homophobic lol
@@linnadhiel2760 Brain rot comment.
Isn't it bizarre watching Hollywood absolutely destroy all our favourite franchises.. ones we adored, grew up with and cherish... Yet all I can do is laugh and watch it burn with glee.
But they aren't. The fans are. You're letting them burn the books, by thinking their take on the franchise is even part of the franchise. What's part of a canon/franchise is always up to the fans of the canon/franchise. Art is in the eyes of the beholder, remember? They may have the right to derive works from some source material, but that doesn't mean the source material is edited. The source material still exists as is. The only way they can ruin Tolkien by creating new heinous works based on Tolkien's works, is by Tolkien fans conflating their heinous works with Tolkien's works. LOTR: ROP, the show, is not Tolkien. Thinking it is, that is the deed that is the true insult to his name.
@@gandalf8216I mean I agree with you to an extent because that’s exactly how I view what is and isn’t cannon. Basically my head cannon. At the same time though, it’s pretty damn disrespectful to the original creators to just straight shit on everything they built and calling it the same thing. I think it’s just the principle that upsets people.
This video is really deceptive in making people think the reviews as a whole are terrible. The guy has picked some that are and is even referring to random commenter's as justification for this.
Doing a Google news search for Rings of Power reviews, I found WAY more positive S2 reviews than negative. Some of them described it as 'wonderful', 'awesome storytelling' and Empire described it as 'Fantasy at its absolute best.' Obviously I wouldn't agree with that, but there are actually way more positive reviews out there than negative, yet people think its so cool and edgy to pan the show. Its a shame
@@jayceltics9345 undercover amazon employee spotted
Werent the elites the ones that said something along the lines of "you will have nothing and you will like it."?
So from what I recall, Tolkien based Galadriel on his wife. The love of his life, the reason she's so influential, powerful, and beautiful is because that's how she was to him. And now, the writers are making her sleep with Satan. I cannot begin to think of a more vile, disgusting piece of "updating" lore than this. I don't know how to finish this comment off because I'm so angry, someone say something good beneath for me
As much as Tolkien hated alllegory, giving someone else over to satan (especially a woman) couldn't be a more perfect allegory for Hollywood
It was Luthien not Galadriel that was based on his wife. But, I am sure her character would have been destroyed in the adaptation too.
This shit will never be canon.
What do you mean sleeping with Satan? You mean Sauron? He is not that bad at all, a bit misunderstood if anything else. You see, there is no thirst of power that doesn't involve making sacrifices. At the end, there is always someone that must have the power to control. If you think those peasants are going to have a better life under their hereditary kings... well then you don't know feudalism... Just remember Democracy doesn't exist in any realm and anyway those "white" Elves think themselves better than the rest, and they won't allow anybody else to have the freedom to surpass them, specially the not so "white" Orcs...
@@DanielAriasLRare you joking? I sure hope so
"They took 2 hours of content and spread it over 8 hours of TV show"
"Thin and stretched, like butter spread over too much bread"
Geesh… talk about bad writing. 🙄
Reminds me of the late seasons of game of thrones when they had nothing happen most of the season and then had to rush every plot point in the finale.
🤣🤣🤣
They think having a lengthy runtime makes it “epic fantasy”
They hate the source material so much they can’t help but parody it or make mockery, when they’re trying to COPY it.
They don't understand it above its base entertainment level and thus are completely unable to use the themes Tolkien left them. They think just parading most of the names around will accomplish the same as a 1000 page, nuanced, meditation on war and good and evil and maybe it's on us for expecting them to come close to that. My 13 year old cousin loved season 1 but has since read most the books and now thinks it's maybe the worst or second worst iteration of lotr (he doesn't think the animated movie from the 70's is any good either). So atleast it's bringing the younger generations in.
Meanwhile Japan shows them how it's done with a nice fantasy story that pretty much follows the same beat. (Including having an OP female Elf as the lead) But done BETTER. It's called Frieren: Beyond Journey's end.
And a few LOTR fans say it feels like a LOTR world. Even though it's just doing it's own thing. And it's getting the complete opposite reception to ROP with fans loving it and happily waiting for the second season.
@@usonohoshi6165 How dare those racist fans love the Japanese fantasy more
All I can conclude is that Galadriel lost her marbels when her husband died and now she is just unhinged psychopath.
So he dun even exist in TLotR? He is merely the figment of Galadriel's imagination that we get to see?
@@kinagrill Exactly!
Have not watched. Is that Celebron? And he's just dead? 'Cause he's like... there in the Jackson films. Or are they adding a first husband and breaking that part of the lore that they technically aren't allowed to use but that it wouldn't cost anything to not contradict? Elves not remarrying is a HUGE thing with Tolkien.
@@akchemaceshwa At least she slew an ice troll in under 20 seconds, all by herself.
@@professorhaystacks6606They totally borked the timeline, condensing thousands if not 10,000+ years into maybe months and are attempting to salvage things by teasing him.
Guess there was no budget left to buy the critics :D
A disgrace to Tolkien. It doesn't capture anything.
How to steal a billion. With terrible actors, especially Galadriel and Elrond are a tragedy, and costumes looking like they are made from old curtains.
I still say the guy who played Isildur was the best one because he actually had a nerd moment talking about the Isildur lore during one of his things where he went into details that were from the silmarillion. That's the kind of person I like to see, one who loves the character they play as.
I liked Charlie Vickers as well, who read the books and, as part of his pre-filming prep, took a hike through the Mordor locations from the PJ films. He's been making theories on why Sauron is doing the things he's doing, since apparently the showrunners never explained, heh.
I thought his performance as an actor was one of the worst...
Christopher Lee wouldn't have kept quiet about what they have done to lotr.
Maybe he haunts them
Yeah, Lee was enough of a superfan that he treated LOTR like a religion, he'd be beside himself at what we're seeing now.
He's have taught them about the fact he knew what it sounded like for a man to get shanked in the back with a knife.
@@gatsbygoodwood2575 Has there been confirmation on S1 being re-written? I doubt S2 had more than a very broad outline, if that, when Christopher died in 2020.
Lee met Tolkien in real life.
The Gowron joke alone deserves a thumb up
I was watching Classic Doctor Who last night, and the director of that story was a woman named Paddy Russell, she was one of the earliest women to direct for the BBC, and she got there by doing quality work under budget and on time. Was it always easy? of course not, she was called Paddy because that what she'd write on the call sheets so there would be less trouble if someone took exception to being directed by a woman, as Paddy is generally a short form for Patrick and not Patricia. she butted heads on occasion, but her work spoke for itself and she worked regularly at the BBC for over 40 years.
The current crop want the job because they feel it is owed to them. No, show you can do what it takes to get there, and produce quality work and you'll make it on your own, like Paddy did. It's not easy, nothing worthwhile is.
You know it’s bad if the corporate shills hate it…
I can't say I'm disappointed, because first I'd need to have any expectations of it being good.
Yeah, I felt the winds that were blowing when this show was announced. Lives up to expectations.
Guyladriel is back 😂😂😂
who talked to an on set therapist, to calm her nerves after a fake orc fight with bad choreography!
If they wanted Buffy the Orc Slayer... they should have just made Buffy the Orc Slayer.
@@radagast7200 don’t give them ideas leave buffy alone for goodness sake
And this time, he wants revenge.
@@push101 haha. Yeah, that's fair.
Although, I seem to remember news of a diverse Buffy remake a few years back...
I guess Hollywood got bored of ruining Star Wars and is not focused on LOTR. The Anime looks pretty bad and ROP is anything but good
It's just a hard fought race to the bottomless bottom.
But are you guilty? That's what's important
Anime is looking to be even more woke, but at least they will be mainly ruining a nameless woman instead of already well established Galadriel.
@@SolarisKane whilst I understand and agree, the word woke is actually a term from the ol south, the term is "stay woke" and it means "be careful, stay alert" the man with the whip is angry today.
Cheers 🍻
And gay used to mean happy…
I’m a man. I can remember watching return of the king and thinking that eowyn was one of the most badass characters I’d ever seen. I feel like writers and show runners are just trying too hard to be “inclusive” that they end up making something that is divisive (and just dog ass) Worry about respecting the amazing work Tolkien did, writing a GOOD story/script, and the rest figures itself out.
can we just all agree that this is NOT ''the lord of the rings''?
its just a very expensive and VERY BAD fan fic.
on its own, it could be an okay fantasy series, but to give the name ''lord of the rings'' to it just buries it.
Whenever I hear that line about "a great evil has returned", I just hear the "Somehow, Palpatine has returned" line. It has the same energy of, "Ahh fuck good writing, let's just blurt it out."
Show, Don't Tell? But how can we push our message?!?!
I guess it beats writing your own dialogue.
Very doubtful this gets seen, but I just want to say that your videos and channel have been a godsend to me. I am an assistant director in Vancouver, and I've had to watch the absolute idiocy and failure of those above me writing garbage, attacking fans, and then wondering why our industry is failing. Hollywood is one of the few service industries (that's really what we are) where we do not ascribe to the "Customer is always right" mantra. If I go to a Japanese restaurant and my food is done wrong, and I complain/return it - they don't go "You're a racist" they say "We're so sorry, let us fix that." Hollywood does the opposite.
Because I grew so fed up with these failures I decided to write my own original IP television series. Having worked on Lost in Space, Shogun, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and quite a few others I have an idea what goes into productions of big value. I have basically used your videos as a "How to not fuck up" a story while writing the first two episodes. I'm currently through round one of pitches towards Apple Plus (They did Foundation, I love that series) - and I am hoping to get moralistic characters, women with flaws and growth arcs, and so on through the DEI gatekeepers - something I am very against.
And unlike my colleagues in the industry, if my series gets produced and ends up on your channel, I will be both disappointed that I failed, and excited to see feedback! Keep it up!
I have my fingers crossed your show gets made! Love everything you said
Thank you! I knew people like you were out there. I hope you find each other and bring back good, quality, uplifting movies and TV. And that you all get rich doing it.
@@johnclarke7626 and ditto!! 🙌🏼
All the best to you Alexios!
Good luck! Keep us posted!!!
I'm putting the bet up right now. If Amazon doesn't cancel the show before the writers reach "the end of their story" then Galadriel is going to turn Sauron into a "redeemed bad boy" but for some completely contrived reason he has to "keep playing the bad guy," completely changing the entire plot of Lord of the Rings by casting them as star-crossed forlorn lovers. Because they CANNOT look at Sauron as anything other than a love interest. Which says a LOT about who the writers are as people.
A moral compass? In the writers room? Like, get real man!
@@LoneSilverW0lf Why would you say that's a moral compass? I'm saying they'll literally try to retcon it to pretend that Sauron is "the good guy in the Lord of the Rings"
@@MrCovi2955 that was sarcasm my dude. It’s the obvious lack of morals that’s so apparent. I’m saying that so many people in writers rooms completely lack a moral compass as to why they try to justify the bad guys. Watch the directors for the Acolyte bragging about how they’d be Dark Siders because ‘it’s cooler’, completely ignoring all the atrocities they commit on the regular. How much more obvious can you get that the Sith are evil when their whole shtick is hatred and power hungry? Unless of course they actively identify with and desire to be such. Same situation here: nobody involved has a moral compass as seen with them trying to make Sauron the ‘misunderstood good guy’ here.
I honestly think, it doesnt matter how poorly written and poorly produced the movie/show is, as long as "THE MESSAGE" is in full effect. And with that being said there must be a deeper meaning behind all of this, a forced subversion on ideology. Clearly money is no issue with hollywood as long as "THE MESSAGE" is constant. I think its time to stop watching tv/phones period.
"Modern audience" tropes aside, you shouldn't hire amateurs to making your half billion dollar show. But what do I know? I'm not a studio executive.
Who would have said that 2024 is the year they disrespect Tolkien twice...
Hail Disparu!
They'll do it as many times as they can buy the rights to, every year.
LOTR set the desperate gambit to make fantasy, trilogy, sequel/prequel bait franchise success that hollywood has been frantically trying to replicate for most of our lifetimes.
They're so upset that they can't reproduce it, they constantly shit on it, they hate it so much for being so good, and they can't figure out how to make something so good. It drives them to pure insanity. The kind of insanity that makes you paint a smile on your face and pretend everything is perfectly normal while you brutally murder innocent IP's with a steak knife .
@@Super_Ammo Theyre mad it has white cast and is successful.
I think there is a 10% chance the the Anime LOTR will be good and it all depends on how much power was given to Kenji Kamiyama. This guy was the Director for Ghost in the Shell SAC. He can do girl bosses well. Also he drew the backgrounds for Ducktales 1987 for whatever thats worth lol
@@mikesun9009 Yes it could be a good story, if it wasn't a lord of the rings movie.
If the anime kept the same story but was set in its own unique setting with its own characters it could be widely successful. But they felt they needed to tie it to an existing IP.
I want to see what Tolkien wrote adapted, not what other people write inserted into his world.
@@mikesun9009 Woke and anti-humanism go hand in hand.
I'm going to be the first female black dwarf on my block.
You go girl
Go queen 💅😂
I’m going to be the first Nonbinary dwarf of color in my town……..
Sorry, Jennifer Lawrence did it first 😂
Yeeeees, slaaaay queen!!! Yeeeees!!!!!
Imagine they did a good job with these IPs.... or even a decent job. What an absolute F-Ton of wasted opportunity, time and money.
Dude... I'm still mad they cast the Spider Dweeb for Uncharted over Nathan Fillion... did you ever see his fan film?
Ultimately as funny and entertaining as this has all been it's actually quite sad to think we won't likely see a big LOTR project for quite some time after this one has died a death and wasted the opportunity. Like you said in the right hands with THAT much money to burn... it could have been something actually pretty special.
Hopefully the hunt for gollum can live up to the og movies
LotR, The Witcher and a bunch of others. It could have been a bit of a golden age for fantasy and live action media in general. Instead, it's the (very) dark ages.
This timeline sucks.
7:44 there are NO lgbtq characters in Tolkien's writings. There are strong men and women. BASTA.
Um...Frodo and Sam...
@@crhu319 what of them?
Amazon: *claims criticism is just background noise and they don't listen to it.
Also Amazon: *hires therapist because criticism is too harsh
Seems that noise got the them in the end.
4:25 "Well last time ya crapped in my mouth, this time you've only done it on my chest. Thats a huge improvement" - Disparu, 2024
"Fresh" 😂
The good ole Cleveland steamer.
Eminently quotable 😄
My next tattoo 😂😂 that line is classic
Thank you for making such depressing information hilarious to listen to. It is always nice to see someone else do the venting for me, feels cathartic.
Also the casual roasting for 90 percent of the video
Guess Amazon forgot to write the checks this time around
3:32 - Theres TWO reviews by IGN that are identical but the website is counting them as two separate scores to beef up the numbers!
"Better than season one" is high-jumping the limbo bar.
Do you know why a stone can not float on water?
Because it's effing dense, almost as dense as the writers of RoP.
a stone does not float becaue...
it weighs more than a duck,
and must not be made of wood,
therefore its a witch
@@Paul-nn9ojwho are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
She turned me into a newt!
@@MacEwanMouse did you get better?
"Disa thinks she was cosplaying as a spaceship with a solar sail." LMFAO! That one quite literally had me laughing out loud. Perfectly accurate burn. 20/10.
I can't believe this thing even got a Season 2.
Have you met Hollywood before?
If they're dumb enough to give Velma a second season, it's not that shocking that this slop did too.
Sadly the original deal with Amazon. was for 5 Seasons from what I've read, which is kind of depressing to know really.... 😭
We will always have the animations from the 70s and 80s, we will always have the Peter Jackson movies. Now we have Disparu savaging these evil destroyers of all things good, Amazon Studios, for their transgressions against the great works of Tolkien. Disparu stands for justice. He is your friend.
ROP truly is a great example of what not to do with a once beloved franchise.
"makes House of the Dragon look amateur"
It's astonishing they could write a headline so asinine without laughing hysterically
Well HOTD season 2 has been rather crap as well so they are leveling out.
@@Apollo890 Yah season one was crazy season 2 was a dumpster fire and I feel can blamed largely on Sarah hess
@@TheRealSeal69as meh as second season was.., probably still better than this
Was that from the Guardian? It's always been a leftie puke bucket, even when Charlie Brooker was on staff.
@@ComradeCommissarYuri A teaspoon sitting alone on a table is more compelling than the rings of power.
You cannot have an actress saying in an interview that powerful women make men upset or angry "feel cross" like Morphyd said. This is so unprofessional and only sad wine cat Whamens say this.
All it does is tell on the men around her.
By insulting all men and someone might make a face like wtf is she talking about it's only telling when your own point of view leads you to believe someone is making a face based off of your belief, when you in turn would not know why they made that face or whatever and most people wouldn't ask why or believe the answer lol. @MemoristCed they would just run with there idea and start an argument
@@koammudo43What???????
Sad wine cat wahmens...😂 that's too close to most of the women I know.
@@koammudo43this is either the most profound or the most idiotic thing I’ve ever read. You, sir, are a genius… or not. Most likely not
unexpected "throbbing" gets me every time. Might need a new keyboard too, because of the spitted coffee
Many enjoy the unexpected throbbing ...
So random
So entertaining 😂
Juicy.
0:54. Wait, this is TV's most expensive series? How? Where did the money go? Again, how?
“For reasons involving money and a fire.” 😂 I’m gonna have to start using that.
I’m on the wrong side of history?? Sorry, never knew asking for a “good tv show” makes me a horrible person.
Not only horrible but sexist, racist, homo-phobic, trans-phobic and a few other phobics and 'ists just for good measure. Oh, and evil too. Very Eeeeaviiilll!.....
Wait, how could Galadriel be involved with Sauron's defeat? We know how Sauron's story goes - defeated by Isildur in the 2nd Age, ended by Frodo and Sam in the 3rd. Galadriel was only tangentially involved.
Ah but you see it *looked* like Isildur, but it was in fact Galadriel after her sex-change op...
In the same way she could be involved in forging the 3 elven rings before any other rings were made...
They don't care about canon, they want cultural control.
@@DH-xw6jp sure, but they've been banking on nostalgia for Peter Jackson's films to market this. And those films are pretty explicit with the sequence of events.
@@GoblinKnightLeo yes, but much like all the other trash they have marketed using famous, popular, IPs in the last 6 years or so, they don't care if it gets butts in seats because it isn't about money.
It is about tarnishing the good reputation of the franchises. They don't want money, they want to control, and destroy, the primary culture of the West.
You can't bring about a revolution until you have broken what came before it.
*_THAT_* is the goal, not profits.
Only Girl Bosses do the important things, you raging misogynistics!
Im surprised these critics aren't tossing Amazon's salad again in hopes they get a gig, free stuff or access. Is it REALLY a great thing to get access to the pig pen?
Possibly there's a dawning realisation that if they continue to endorse the creation of sh*t entertainment then they're talking themselves out of a job.
Let’s be real here. Amazons check just hasn’t cleared yet.
Agreed, I'm surprised too. It must be next level garbage if even the shills are throwing in the towel.
I’m guessing they cut back on the gift basket budget and the sycophants are put out. Sucks to suck, I guess.
Yes, you would think the Tolkien "Professor" and the 🤡 from the PPP would be front and center, growing the "Tolkien Fandom" and cashing in.
"They'll never know what you sacrificed for them." 😂 Relevant to all of your reviews!!
That, "throbbing" clip is absolute gold.😂
Whenever Disparu says "FRESH" I keel over laughing! 😂😂😂
Need a "fresh" supercut.
22:40 - Truly, the take away is "If you don't know the source material you'll dislike this... and if you *do* know the source material, you'll hate it".
First black Elf was in the Dungeons and Dragon's movie many years ago. And she was a black woman Elf and was much more believable.
And no one really cared cause she was just a character, she wasn’t purposely dei
D&D lore had Drow, "black elves" very early. And always clarified that elves varied with their environment.
What I REALLY want to know is WHO THE HELL is telling these people that nerds don't like strong women?
It's literally a core trope of SFF...
I can't name many series that DON'T have strong women breaking social conventions, bc it's an INTERESTING idea to explore!
The difference is that GOOD BOOKS do well, and well written characters become beloved. It's THAT simple.
It's my FAVOURITE damn trope, and they keep fucking it up. I grew up on Xena and Buffy. My first ever crush was a book character (the worst witch. I was 7) who is... you guessed it... a strong female character. It's my ABSOLUTE jam. It's BASICALLY heroine for me. And they keep producing junk and trying to say that no... that's the real stuff and I must just not be a real fan of it.
Calling the audience racist tells us ALOT more about them the the people watching it😂
Shut up, you heinous bigotry!
Oh hell yeah i thought we'd have to wait until tomorrow for some diahrrea bonanza courtesy of amazon but Sir Disparu never fails to deliver.
Holy mother of God…
When the review shills come out with statements like this, it has to be unquestionably horrific!
So basically they are telling a story about all of the characters alive during the First Alliance of Elves and Men. The story Tolkien never made/told/etc. Peter Jackson told this story throughout the LotR trilogy. It is completely unnecessary and can not possibly meet expectations. It feels a bit like the movie 'Solo' which told the origins of Han Solo.
They aren't even doing that. They are barely using the appendices save for names. The events are at best broad strokes similar. There are rings that are forged and Sauron is involved under an alias. But it's a different alias, the order of forging is different, half the characters either not there when they should be or are there when they shouldn't, and basic cultural points of various groups are totally ignored.
@@professorhaystacks6606 Let me remind you that they cannot use anything of the 3rd age. It has to be different, afaik, but still match the overall story.
I was mentioning Solo because it 'explained' where he got his name from, his blaster, the Millennium Falcon, and the Kessel run. All were lame as hell. The creators obviously didn't care for it and made a terrible movie for themselves.
@@gwenwalravens8030 this I have not heard. My understanding was they could use anything in the appendices that wasn't part of the main narrative. That includes most of the third age. I may be misinformed though. Articles tend to be light on contractual details.
Many years ago, I ran a middle-earth rpg set in the east, that I named The Untold Trilogy. One of my players wanted to be a wizard and so played as the blue wizard Pallando. Along with a human knight, a wood elf ranger, a werebear rogue, and two dwarven brothers who occasionally fought inbetween drinking homemade dwarven ale.
The campaign had the Easterlings as the main protagonists, the evil faction led by Alatar (the other blue wizard), who had been corrupted by the influence of Morgoths spirit. Alatar rode on a blue crystal dragon and had two balrog bodyguards.
The party aided in the Easterlings civil war, and eventually succeed. Through many adventures the party travelled through enchanted forests filled with kaukareldar (evil fey), the keep of the frozen barrow king. The underneath, deep below the earth where the city of deep towers lay, ruled by the Nauglath (evil deep dwarfs), who tended the vats of Umalar (where Morgath created monsters). Through the swamps of cragmire barrow filled with mirelurk spiders, huge fell beasts, crebain and the great hag with her oloh-hai (trolls).
The party learned how to free the good easterling from Morgoths influence and how to fight for their freedom.
One of the most profound moments was when the players sought refuge in the elven city of Ithil-Rana (moon spirit) and found it empty and ransacked, only to learn that Morgoth had turned every man, woman and child into orcs for Saurons army. Also here, were the calcified remains of treants, one of the last known refuge for the entwives, as Pallando summarised.
In the penultimate final battle on the Steppes of Hithlum, below mount Kratos, the fifty thousand strong easterling army and their oliphaunts fought against the now free easterlings, and their grizzly bear mounts.
The party, along with the stone giants of Kratos, fought Alatars forces in Castle Azure, high up upon Mount Kratos. In an act of selfless sacrifice, the player of Pallando, frees alatar from the grasp of Morgoths spirit.
Like Gandalf, Pallando is sent back to complete his task, to the surprise of the other players mourning from his death.
The two blue wizards, now reunited as brothers, control the elements from high upon mount Kratos, to change the course of the battle below. While the rest of the party charge onto the battlefield, flying down on the backs of the giant falcons of Freya, who were summoned by Alatar.
The battle is finally won and the players are exuberant with the victory. I ordered pizza for everyone as they sat back, taking a break for a bit. They really felt like they'd been fighting for their lives for the 3 hours that the battle had lasted. I then read the final monologue describing the end of the campaign, as they ate their pizza.
As reward the players learned that the number of Easterlings that aided Sauron during the war was greatly reduced and Pallando earned the name East-helper, as referenced in the wiki.
Everyone felt like they had actually played a part in the movies, it was such a wholesome ending.
This would make for a better story than what these people are creating on Amazon.
A DOA shit show. The damage of the first season destroyed The Rings of Power. It's too late.
She jumped off a boat and started to SWIM across the ocean.... THEY WROTE THAT AND SHOT IT!!!
Well elves are pretty durable and shes half Maiar. But if she can do that, a lot of the rest of the plot makes less sense even that it seems.
@@crhu319damn, that is the first that I have read that Galadrial is half maiar😂😂
I think you are confusing Galadriel with Luthien. Only Luthien was Half Maia. Galadriel studied under Queen Melian, Luthiens mother. She studied under a Maia and was not related to her. Galadriel is a Princess of the Noldor.
I love that Tatiana Maslaney isn't involved with Rings of Power, and yet she's still staring menacingly in the thumbnail 😅😂
There was no way on god’s green earth this show was ever going to be watchable considering that the writers couldn’t include any story material from the Silmarillion. All they could do was make shit up and pretend it was canon. Brown dwarves? In! Brown elves? Sure! Brown hobbits? Great!
There will never be a good, faithful Tolkien adaptation without full cooperation from the Tolkien estate. Given the willingness of writers to make shit up out of whole cloth with this debacle, I don’t think they’ve won over any fans from that side.
They totally went the wrong way with this. What they should have done was shift over to Hardwaith and the Haradrim. They were IN the Appendices, and it would have given us a lore look at how Sauron convinced them to come over to his side as the Lord of Gifts. It also could've been used to demonstrate how the Haradrim were less enticed by Sauron, so much as having suffered years of suffering and war at the hands of Gondor, who were not only demanding heavy tithes that included people, but even built a great fortress on their lands, and AGAIN, in the Appendices.
For all that we see Gondor at its height, we would also see how Sauron was able to rally other humans to his cause. We could've gotten to see the founding of Lothlorien, and Galadriel trying to get the lords of Gondor to see what was coming, but that falling on deaf ears, even as we see Sauron advancing his cause in Hardwaith, but because it's out of the way from Gondor, they don't pay it any mind.
Why is anyone even looking at Rotten Tomatoes anymore?
Conjurers of cheap tricks, all of them
I can see the comperison to Oppenheimer in terms of sheer destructive power.
😂
One that went off in their faces while they were making it
Those that cannot see what is not shown, and cannot hear what isn’t spoken, are always so quick to cast vitriol on art they do not challenge themselves to understand. How quickly the world forgets that the true magic of a fantasy exists within the mind. You have forgotten how to dream.
Actual review seen here => 3:39
"If all we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us, Rings of Power Season 2 is a worthy choice"?!
What's the saying? Oh, yes; "Even the devil can cite scripture to suit his own purposes..."
I'm so happy for the wattpad writer that pulled the S2 script off, they should be proud of their accomplishment
The 13 year old Wattpad writer
Amazon would be better off just training a chat GPT model with fantasy novels from pre-2010 and telling it to write a script. But it appears like checking off boxes is their top priority.
0:43 I'm surprised she didn't take credit for being the first dwarf of size, along with color and gender; but I guess Bombur did that already! 😂😂
real size*
When you compare the cast from the series to the interviews, they sound exactly the same. These jokers can't act, they just talk and call it acting.
Evil can't create something new and respected franchise and characters and past and lore and Canon. They only ruin and corrupt and disrespect franchise and characters and past and lore and Canon.
So…instead of a day old pile of shit, we get a fresh pile of shit.
Got it.
To misquote Gandalf at Balins Tomb i Moria -
"This is crap then?? ...... It's as I feared..."
I’m a massive Tolkien fan. I own over 20 Tolkien books, art books, and much much more….
When this show was announced, I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!2017
I knew from the start it was going to be a disaster…
Characters like Gandalf and Galadriel being recast for WHAT REASON??? These beings are thousands of years old. Gandalf was literally sent to Middle Earth as an OLD MAN!!!! why recast Ian ????? Because of the casting I was not very interested in the show to begin with. Aside from the fact that it took NEARLY. 10 years to finish…..
After watching the first episode (in which I couldn’t even finish) I was extremely underwhelmed and disappointed! What a waste of time….
ian hasnt done any film work since The Hobbit trilogy. Those films literally made him quit acting.
@@BrandonDenny-we1rw Ian’s issue with it was working with green screens. He still had passion and love for Tolkien’s work he just got tired of being on green screens. He didn’t use them as much in the LOTR films there was still a ton of freedom back then. But after X-men and the hobbit he realized sci-fi and fantasy film were only headed in one direction.
That wasn’t really my point tho. I was just saying the new show doesn’t pay any homage to the original series’ or even Tolkien’s written work himself. There are so many beloved characters that are just ruined in the show. And I’m not only talking about the characters we already know from film. I’m also talking about characters we never really saw or heard speak in the films! They ruined them too 😂 their casting choices are just abysmal.
And it was clear from the beginning they didn’t really care about respecting the die hard fans
@@S0L12D3 I was just explaining why Ian won't return to film and hasn't
@@BrandonDenny-we1rw I still think recasting thousand year old characters like Elrond and Galadriel is really dumb
@@S0L12D3 agreed if you can't get the right cast change the story. I'm a writer and if I ever sell my work I'd make sure they have options for different kinds of stories based on the cast available.
If this series instantly disappeared, the world would be better for it.
i wish we could talk about a show without mentioning race and gender politics. its exhausting.