This show is unrecognizable as a Tolkien adaptation. I would call it expensive fan fiction, but it’s more of a Spite Fiction. It exists simply to spite the ideals and the craft of Tolkien.
Don’t fool yourself. Peter Jackson is making a girl boss Lord of the Rings project himself by back seating Helm Hammerhand in his own story to his unnamed daughter lol.
I finally got around to watching the 2nd season of House of the Dragon. Out of 8 episodes there was 2 that had 'stuff happens' and the rest is just filler. I mean, a little bit of stuff was sort of meandering around like background noise but it wasn't engaging enough to be glued to the screen. Episodic TV shows used to be a dime a dozen and done well, but it seems to have become extinct as a media in some parts!
There's a few things worse. There's waking up to a grizzly bear biting into your right leg. There's getting diagnosed with lung cancer. But I understand your point, homie. I get what you're saying.
The people running Rings of Power are so convinced that it a masterpiece, better than Tolkien's writing. They remind my of the movie Sunset Boulevard where Norma Desmond is coming down the staircase, " I am ready for my close up Mr Demille." levels of delusional.
No one in history has ever done a better job than the original writer. When it comes to changing dialog or heavily altering plot lines. Because you run into the same problem every time. You change one thing. You have to keep changing everything else. Til it's a mess and doesn't work. There are a few exceptions to the rule. Peter Jackson removed Tom from the LOTR films. This worked for one reason. Tolken screwed up with this character, to begin with. He was OP. And than he vanishes. That also helped with the removal. But there's other times a change wasn't needed. The Moria door scene. Frodo figure's it out in the film. While in the book, someone else did it. I would have preferred if that was left unchanged. Because Frodo, even though he's the MC. I would have liked more time with other characters. The entire horrible Antman 3 movie wouldn't have happened. If they followed the comics correctly. That's a prime example of spiraling into garbage. Scott wouldn't exist. And Janet wouldn't have been lost in the Quantum realm for the crud plot to start.
@@mbob4337 '50 Shades of Grey' is a 'Twilight' fanfic that out-sold 'Twilight'. In fact, many, many famous works are one artist trying to 'do better' than another artist and actually succeeding. How many covers of songs have caused the public to forget that they're covers?
Considering how many videos are made about it compared to videos about masterpieces, can you see why they might be confused? Which is getting more attention, crap or greatness? It's not even close.
The hobbit and confused wizard storyline has dragged over two whole series with no real finale or cliffhanger. Wizard confused of what he is and can’t control his powers then stays that way for 15 episodes…..and what…..we are meant to emote and be intrigued with such glacial character development? It’s like watching Pluto complete its orbit around the sun.
Friendly reminder that the birth of Ar-Pharazôn was over 1,500 years after the forging of the rings of power and that trying to overlap these timelines was destined to be a disaster from the start.
In the first war, the rings are made and Sauron almost destroys the elves but Numenor saves the day, defeats Sauron's army and Sauron escapes. Then there's the 1500y pause. Sauron builds up his forces again, Numenor comes to middle earth again, but this time Sauron doesn't fight, surrenders and becomes Pharazon's prisoner. Cut out the part where Sauron gets beaten and escapes and go straight to the prisoner timeline. It works.
@@realjohanngoethe you can’t just cut that out, though. That’s the entire reason why Sauron gives himself as a prisoner to Numenor. He fears their strength and must destroy them from within.
TBF, Eregion is supposed to be right next door to the western gate of Khazad-Dum, it's not the most unbelievable to me. What's worse to me is how season 1 they showed the Elves to be maintaining at least token watch posts further afield in Middle-Earth reaching all the way to the South, and NOBODY noticed a new Orc army, this time not even with their ridiculous hiding maneuver, march halfway across the world to Eregion's doorstep.
@@oXRaptorzXo I'd call nonsense at on that. Then again, these Elves have largely been shown, outside of Galadriel and Arondir (Where they have him do flips practically every fight it seems), to be the most incompetent I've ever seen. IDK what the Numenoreans in Season 1 were talking about, nothing has been shown that Elves are better than them at anything beyond their miraculous ability to just tank Pyroclastic flows and fall from 30-50 ft high drops ON YOUR FACE and not die. (Then again in regards to the Volcano, most of them live)
@@GideonRavenor712 I mean, there’s only a few elves per tower outpost. An army of orcs can easily overrun them and that’s just something they don’t really have to show on screen.
@@oXRaptorzXo Elves can also see and hear far better than a regular human, and if they get a head start, Warg Riders would struggle to catch a rider. I even had an issue with the plot of season 1 with that covered trench idea. Sure, the trench at a distance blends in, but you're cutting right through treelines, anyone in a watch tower should be wondering: "Hey, why did a line just appear through that forest there from yesterday?" And this time, as far as shown, this army is not wasting time by trying to be so stealthy. Unless they're portraying most of the Elves as being incredibly lazy by sitting on their laurels, I don't see an excuse.
This episode repurposed lines from Fellowship of the Ring and even Skyfall, which was bizarre. And it lifts scenes from other movies. A few episodes back we got Tom "Hagrid" Bombadil from Harry Potter and the bog monster from The Witcher. This week it was Clash of the Titans with the scene in which the Queen is almost sacrificed to the sea worm. It all plays out like Andromeda getting sacrificed to the Kraken. There's literally nothing original in this series. It's all plagiarized.
Then why are they still watching it and making videos repeating the same thing every episode? What's the point of a review if people still come back for more bad?
@@chasehedges6775 That's only supposed to apply to a one time event. Not an ongoing series that offers no good forthcoming. If it is awful, returning it to doesn't make sense.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV It makes sense _because_ it's an ongoing series. No one wants to suffer through it, but everyone wants to hear updates and laugh at how dumb it is.
ROP don’t you mean ROPEY. MUST Admit that I found series 1 quite harmless, dull but harmless. With series 2 I now actively hate everything about this franchise. The incredible waste of large sums of money on something with generic predictable storylines, appalling direction and the not so subtle influence of script/storyline focus groups. The mind boggles what could have been achieved with decent script writers and a competent director.
You would think if some Dwarves wanted to stop anyone from accessing a mine, they would, I dunno, collapse the fucking entrance instead of scaring some bats with shit singing into flying away which for some reason frightens Dwarf miners to the point they run WITH the swarm of bats instead of dropping to the floor so they can pass. The bats don't ATTACK the Dwarves by the way, they're just flying AWAY and thus they're acting like regular bats. Bats don't usually want anything to do with humans, when they "swarm" someone they're actually just trying to fucking leave and you're in the way.
As I recall, too, the bats are lurking in the deepest of caves. But that's not where bats live. Bats eat bugs and plants and need to be near the surface. They are only in the cave for shelter. If these bats are eating the food and scraps the dwarves produce, they shouldn't be strange to the dwarves at all. If not, they shouldn't EXIST at all.
In The Hobbit there were those huge blood sucking bats: "Soon actual darkness was coming into a stormy sky; while still the great bats swirled about the heads and ears of elves and men, or fastened vampire-like on the stricken." The Hobbit, Ch 17, The Clouds Burst These creatures were at least hostile and covering orc armies....but then again it would mean that Disa is on purpose bringing danger onto her fellow dwarves, then also it should be noted THESE ARE DWARVES they are strong and even miners are capable of defending themselves, fighting, they can be warriors when needed!! It's not like they are specific castes with only one single skill to them :) (Tolkien Dwarves and Elves are mulitdisciplinarian, they have all sorts of skills, an elf warrior can also have other professions and so on :)) even that bunch of bats wouldn't really scare the Dwarves...but in general the plot of them trying to stop the miners from delving too deep....hell it would have taken thousands of years for them to actually disturb the Balrog in the lore...it took thousands of years of mining and exploiting the mithril veins to even reach the hiding spot of Durin's Bane!! Thousands of years of extensive mining activity....and for the Dwarves mining is their prime activity!! Prime source of profit. Stopping their main activity is kind of amusing...the dwarves want to stop other dwarves from mining, their main profession hah. Dwarves should be used to such things as simple bats and there are other things living underground in the caves and so on...hell even dwarven songs tell of "places deep where dark things sleep".
Yea, like what, is Disa just going to stand there all day and night? Not like there is some endless amount of Bats there. They fly off, the guys go back in, they move her. Collapsing the tunnel would ACTUALLY substantially stall progress.
Padding the run time... this seems to be the theme for Season 2 of this train wreck. And I love that the sea serpent spit the queen back out... even a giant monster can't stomach that b*tch. Dwarfs afraid of bats.... sigh.... Jesus....
And landing face first on the corner of a stone staircase that was as soft as a pillow when she came flying down on it from 20 feet in the air. Everything about rings of power is stupid.
I don't even get how that scene is supposed to make any consistent sense beyond: 'Don't think about it', like most of this show. In terms of traditional Numenoreans, aka The Faithful, I get them worshipping the sea, and specifically the Vala who governs over it, Ulmo. Because yea it would be a big deal for Numenorean culture. Though it wouldn't be as pathetically embodied as "The sea is always right!" But this series goes out of its way to show that the King's Men, the overwhelming majority of Numenoreans by this point, don't care about the Valar at all, and will desecrate and destroy their temples, this just happened in the last episode alone! This is entirely why Elendil is in custody, it's because he didn't like what they were doing there. Why partake in what is effectively a religious trial, for a religion they no longer believe in or openly spite? Are we saying they just worship the sea itself now devoid of Vala influence? Just "trust in water"? Same thing with the Eagle just randomly showing up for Pharazon (Putting aside the fact that there's no reason WHY it should have shown up or meant anything). Faithful Numenoreans MIGHT see it as a sign from Manwe, the King of the Valar and who governs over wind and air . . . but Pharazon has also shown he doesn't care for the Valar either, or at least the people who work for him don't. And again in this time period the majority are supposed to be King's Men and view the Valar with disdain, why would they think ANYTHING of an Eagle showing up? We've been given little to show that The Faithful pose ANY real threat to Pharazon or the King's Men at all by this point. Which, if portrayed accurately, they posed little by this time because the overwhelming majority of Numenoreans were non-Faithful, its why Elendil and his sons get visions from the Valar telling them and everyone else loyal to leave for the mainland Colonies to get away from Numenor. So why would these guys pretend to even care about traditions they'd no longer believe in?
Amazon tried to force me to watch ROP after The Grand Tour finale. I wonder if they're going to count my frantically hitting the back button as a view.
I tried to watch another show entirely and somehow ROP started playing. It was only for a couple seconds, so hopefully it doesn't count as a view, but it almost happened again when I tried a second time. Not a glitch I'm sure.
The pace of the modern world has renewed the primacy of reaction over thought and planning. The stimulus-response writing mirrors that reality -- society is devolving back toward our animalistic roots.
We’re so screwed. In a couple of years or so, our world is gonna look like the Forbidden Zone from Planet Of The Apes, The Wasteland in Mad Max or the nuclear aftermath in Threads or George Orwell’s/Michael Radford’s 1984 with John Hurt.
In elementary school circa 1986 we were shown films with the theme song, "the most important person in the whole wide world is YOU." The downfall of the nation began when narcissism and selfishness began to be seen as a positive characteristic.
@@jeffreyfrey1936 In the 1990s they upped the ante in schools to enforce "I" statements. "I feel..." etc. I remember seeing the posters in classrooms and said it right then, this is not going to end well. It was obvious to those with a brain, but brains and schools sadly stopped overlapping starting in the 1960s.
Yea, I kinda get what the show is trying to setup for the sacking of Eregion: They're going to have it almost certainly be that Eregion gets sacked AS the Nine Rings are being finished, and that Sauron has this setup to be timed just perfectly so that he can slip out with the Nine, and leaves everyone who knew how to make the Rings besides him to presumably get slaughtered by Adar and his orc army. That's what I THINK the setup is. But there's major problems here: 1 - Completely ignores actual lore of WHY this happens at all. Sauron did not come up with some scheme to perfectly time Eregion's sacking with the last of the Rings being forged, he sacked Eregion as the opening of the War of the Elves and Sauron, which occurs because Sauron failed to take control of the Elven Ringbearers. Yes, this is supposed to happen AFTER Sauron forges the One Ring, he tests it out, and immediately noticed the results of each set of Rings: The Kings of Men he immediately got control over. The Dwarf Lords he could not get direct control of, but COULD make their greed go beyond all reason. The Elven Rings completely failed, they sensed Sauron putting on the One through their Rings and what he was trying to do, and immediately all three of them took theirs off and hid them. This was a big deal for Sauron, because of ALL the Rings, he DID NOT want the Elven ones to fail, as he considered them his greatest threat. So, immediately after this, and figuring out that Celebrimbor had to have altered the Three (explaining why they didn't work as he wanted), he declares war on the Elves and starts by sacking Eregion where he kills Celebrimbor. It's also notable that at the end of this war, the Numenoreans are supposed to save the Elves (None of the characters in the Numenor plot line of the show were involved in this, as this all took place roughly 1500 years before any of them existed.), they send an army to relieve them, which is what causes Sauron to actually take Numenor seriously and refocus his efforts around corrupting them. 2 - This has been the problem setup in season 1, because Galadriel was there and was the one who gave the advice on alloys for the 3 Rings, she effectively knows how to make these Rings as well, so this plan of Sauron's doesn't even remove everyone who knows the twist of how to make Rings of Power. All it does is remove Celebrimbor and his guys, but NOTHING has been shown in this series to illustrate how instrumental Celebrimbor is to making these, beyond the fact he's a descendant of Feanor (which means little in this show). 3 - Adar, from what this show illustrates, KNEW Halbrand was Sauron when he was in Mordor, and even if we assume he only figured it out after those scenes, he confirms he knows to Galadriel when they're outside Eregion . . . why is he attacking Eregion when he knows this is what Sauron wants him to do, and he DOESN'T want to serve Sauron? He genuinely thinks the Elves are KNOWINGLY working with Sauron? Why would he believe it on Sauron's word? 4 - They've been careful not to give ANY perception of time passing in this show at all, but NOBODY believes you can make a magic ring in one night. We're supposed to believe Celebrimbor manages to crack the whip (despite the fact Sauron's making him believe everything is fine as the city is being attacked as they speak so why should he rush?) to get NINE of the things forged in ONE night? We've not even been given ANY indication in this show as to who he'd give the Nine Rings to. No real human Kingdoms of note have been shown that aren't dead, and Numenor's colonies don't really exist either. All we see are merely scattered villages, or lands already loyal to him like Rhun. No Numenoreans get ANY of the Rings until Isildur cuts the One from Sauron's hand. Not to mention, now we're making the Nine unique among the Rings in that Sauron made them ESPECIALLY corrupting because he mixed his blood into their Mithril? Not that Men inherently are the one race most easily seduced by want of power and on average have the weakest will power? Oh yea, that's right, modern writing.
They did a complete 180 on Disa's character between seasons. In Season 1 they started teasing that her ambitions would lead to them greedily digging the mythil while Durin III was the cautionary one. Now he has his script flipped the moment he puts on the ring while Disa is the one against it... even though she convinced her husband to propose the rings to begin with!
Yea, I don't think they care about consistency, we already knew that with lore, but characters as well. The gang also mention here similar happening with Nori's character as well. Arondir ironically in some respects has gotten 'better' in this season since he's no longer chained to a girl-boss they killed off-screen (Though now you're left wondering what his point in the plot is). Adar makes no sense as to his motivation, he knew Sauron was Halbrand back in Mordor but doesn't try to kill him "again" there, and instead he follows his advice and goes to do exactly what Sauron wants him to do. (And let's say he didn't know in Mordor, he evidently figured it out somewhere in between there and Eregion, yet STILL is going through with it!) Better yet, why does he think killing Sauron will work this time by the same method which evidently DIDN'T work the last time?
@@TheRadioAteMyTVU watch it illegally so gives them no money and viewership. It's highly entertaining to watch something be butchered this much and to see people defend it like crazy. The novelty will wear off but I'm still hoping for at least good action
@@Alfie-ps6ll Novelty? An interesting modern synonym for wasting time hating it seems. Do you remember when the channels were young and they railed about the need for good story points and how it was missing? Now there are shows that aren't missing it (the Penguin for one example) and none of them are making videos about it, like they would have done in their early sincere days, providing us a service of showing good reviews to allow us something to look forward to, instead non-stop bashing on the same dead horses. A novelty that can't end soon enough.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV well yes it's something that is very amusing to see how badly they manage to make it. I think it's absolutely correct that people hold Amazon accountable for the dreadful show and money they've spent. Many channels preach about good story but it seems you would rather people ignore the travesties such as this show which would only enable more. Acolyte got cancelled because it was dreadful and their was outward cry. The more this happens the more shows like penguin may happen. Btw if Ur looking for underated shows go watch scavenger reign, pantheon, severance. They need viewership to encourage more of it. Also I've seen many reviewers praise penguin so confused on that one.
So this morning I was walking to the kitchen to make a cuppa, and there's this low coffee table on the way, right? I was still half asleep and wasn't paying much attention to my footing. Anyway, long story short, I then spent the next eleven and a half hours rewatching the entire extended trilogy.
At the beginning of season 2, the show runners said "It wouldn't be a journey through middle earth without a few trolls", referring to all of us that hate and tear this b.s show to pieces, but essentially saying how 'were ALL welcome' as it were. As of today, they are back to calling us "patently EVIL" for not liking or cowtowing to its obvious desecration of Tolkien's writings. Its so dang delicious watching these hacks get shredded for trying to tear our beloved IP into a modern day hollywood hellscape devoid of morals or logic!
One thing I don’t see mentioned anywhere is the two unskippable adds Amazon put in every 15-20 minutes of each episode. That ruins what little chance the audience have to be immersed. Not that it had much chance to begin with. I really think this tv show format doesn’t suit this type of story. Same with the Disney Star Wars and Marvel shows. They feel low budget and acted by theatre actors and actresses, over acting everything, it just doesn’t seem believable.
In the book (I know, but bear with me) Celebrimbor is killed, his body impaled on a pole and then carried as a banner before the orc army. Seems a bit more Games of Throne-ish don’t ya think?
- great erendir elf surprised by orc standing behind him - orcs fleeing from war coz they dont want fight and die , but imedialety attack erendir elf when they see him and get killed - galadier betraying her own kind telling what elf king plans and orders are to Adar - galadier is talking that she dreams about army !!!??? WHAT? you are fkin comander !!.... - sauron telling elf guariands not to tell anyone about corpse with carved letters on his chest which is lying wide open to the public! LOL - sauron taking charge on eregion city without any questions from elfs to him or celebribor - just ok you are the cheif now LOL - orc army is juts over the hill you can see smok on horizon and most inteligent race elf cant notice that - the scene where elf are suprised that there are flaming rocks flying over their head destoying buildings scream''we are under attack'' , wtf where have you been for past 2 hours where orcs were gathering around the river with machines LOL - bombadil stealing quotes from gandalf in lotr omg its just facepalm and this quotes doesnt give any meaning to the scene. - farazon is not a king of numenor anymore becouse eagle is smaller than kraken like wtf ? they have really stupid rules to choose king lol he was king like one episode? lol man this is one of the dumbest episodes which is really an achievement, you can question every scene there.They are trolling us i cant believe this.
Its funny to me how a billion dollar LoTR show was definitely going to be the tipping point into me finally signing up for Amazon prime. But, then that show was Rings of Power. As a result, i still dont have an Amazon prime sub 😂 Sorry Jeff, but your underlings will need to do better if you want my money.
At this point i only watch the show to keep up with all these videos. Still can't help myself not to fast forward 10sec a couple times during certain dialogues...
I had an idea for a comedy skit where Eregion is being attacked and all the elves are gathered in the town square to get a speech from their Lord, Celebrimbor, the Master Elven Smith. As he comes on stage, there are shouts from the crowd, "what have you been making, Master Smith, what weapons have you created to defeat the Orcs?!?" And Celebrimbor, proud as punch holds out his hand and says, "Fear not! For I have created...rings!...For MEN!" And the crowd are like, "WHAT THE FUCK!"
General audience who've only seen the 3 films are liking this show apparently. I got a few friends who are perfect representation of the causal viewer. They think it's fine. One of them thinks both seasons have been great. It baffles the shit outta me.
Of course there are always going to be some retards who will watch anything. But in order for a big budget show like this to succeed, it has to attract a mass audience, which it is not doing. Viewership numbers for Rings of Power are in the toilet. People aren't watching it and then evangelizing the show to their friends like they did with Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Sopranos. If they talk about it at all, it's either how bad it is, or that it's fine (like your normie friends.) But fine isn't good enough for a billion dollar show.
There's a lot of people who just want colourful pictures on the box while they turn their brain off. They're a poor determination of anything since their bar is low low that literally anything meets the standard.
They've just been watching pretty pictures during the triology, and never got the deeper meaning of Tolkiens writing, which is somewhat reflected in Peter Jacksons films.
I do like the Celebrimbor and Sauron scenes, but the previous episode ended on a cliffhanger with the orcs being outside Eregion and then this one has barely any progress and they only start attacking the city.
In itself it's also ridiculous that the Elves never noticed whole armed companies in their own lands!!! Heck the Elves should be all around as it's their realm, they would have activities outside their main city, be it simple hunting, travelling, farming and gardening, patrolling or other business simply hanging out in the woods...they would have noticed orc presence!!! But the show makes them dumber and dumber! And makes them lose their super senses and perceptions!!!! I mean the Elves would not yield the whole land without a fight, I mean they would defend their lands have someone watching for the outsiders!! Hell this show is so ridiculous.,..at one point they talk how the elven spies/scouts saw (OFFSCREEN) how Saurbrand/Halrond :) was going to Mordor, and now apparently they didn't notice whole army of orcs teleporting in :).
They're not terrible if it weren't for the fact they have the entire situation wrong as to setup. -They're doing the Rings in reverse order because they want to be quirky and mimick the poem rather than follow the lore they bought for a fortune (I really don't get it, they spent millions just on the RIGHTS for this stuff, and they want to play around with it like they know better?). -Celebrimbor IS supposed to start cluing in that something is off about Anatar, it's why he alters the Three Elven Rings, except now that scene can't happen so obviously Celebrimbor is likely going to realize his mistake right before Sauron kills him as Eregion is being sacked. -The entire sacking of Eregion is not supposed to happen until after Sauron forges The One and tries it out and realizes the Three Elven Rings don't work as intended. He realized Celebrimbor had to have altered them, so he targets Eregion first as he kicks off the War of Elves and Sauron. These scenes could have been so much greater, is the issue.
Whatdyamean nothing happened? Gandalf looks for a stick, Celebrimbor gets a bit confused, Galadriel refused to eat, the Harfoots sat on a rock. What more do you neede?
The eagles were fed in numenor, the thing appeared asking for seeds "hey bro, have you got any seeds" and the guy pulls off a sword and people start screaming and the thing said "aight, I see no seeds, I'm out of here, fucking monkees"
Ill say this, the stuff my family and I are really digging is anything concerning Adar and the Orcs, Sauron and Celebrimbor, Durins Father storyline has been interesting, and finally to my surprise, Galadriel and some of the high elves stories have fascinating moments. Everything else is not compelling and or miandering.
Which makes sense because those are arguably the only plot lines which SHOULD be happening if this were actually following the lore. (Though Adar's is made up and the others are greatly altered, at least they all 'should' be happening.) Numenor's plot line 'happens', but much later then everything else in the Second Age. None of those characters should even be alive at the time of the forging of the Rings, but the showrunners wanted to rush it. Isildur's plotline is nonsense and so removed from everything else you wonder how these characters are supposed to be doing anything that ties into anything (To where they just handed Arondir a map for no reason JUST so he can show up in Eregion for the finale). The Harfoot plotline is entirely made up and has nothing to do with anything other than seeing how much Amazon can use without being sued for plagiarism.
@@GideonRavenor712 what are your thoughts on Galadriel this season? They really pulled back on the girlboss nonsense from the first season. As a matter of fact, this seasons fills like they pulled back on a ton wokism. Someone on the executive production side told the showrunners, "pull back on all that suff."
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast Only partially yes in terms of actions (Notice how they're working it back in for Galadriel as the season goes on), absolutely not in terms of personality. To me, Galadriel still feels like she has a massive ego. Getting her to admit she screwed up or have any humility for such a massive screwup is like pulling teeth. That and how she uses the knowledge or experience she has, often doesn't seem grounded in wisdom of millennia. Which one might say: 'What's the problem with that?' Well, how does one rectify that this character is supposed to be the oldest if not ONE of the oldest Elves in Middle-Earth at this time with her actions and temperament across both seasons? How does one rectify how she will 'mellow out' and take ANY form resembling her LOTR self? I can't even see how she'd let her daughter marry Elrond right now with this series. As for wokism, IDK about that being cut back, perhaps not as in-your-face, but it's still there. Every race and sub-culture still looks like they walked out of downtown LA, we now have 'Orc Families' and the implicit idea that Orcs are somehow not 'inherently evil' (The only way to explain why they would ever kill Sauron) even though they were created by the Lucifer of Tolkien's world, and even just with how they've altered the Rings of Power themselves particularly the Nine illustrates this mindset. No longer is it that Men were not the one race with, on average, the weakest willpower and most hungered for power, nope apparently the Nine were just ESPECIALLY more corrupting than the Seven because Sauron mixed his blood with Mithril. The implication must be that the Nine would have turned out like the Seven otherwise, so Sauron needed extra effort, because apparently Human willpower is the same as a Dwarf. Have they altered a bit from last season? A bit, yes . . . is it any better? Not to me with all the ludicrous changes to insert tie-ins to LOTR don't even fit properly.
The amount of death and destruction they've made Galadriel responsible for makes Mao look like an amateur. Can blame Numenor on her as well. I'm sure the writers are too clueless to even realize what they've done
Has anyone noticed...they are forging and bestowing the rings in Poem Order? 🤣 3 Rings for Elven Kings, 7 for the Dwarf Lords etc? Do they not know that the 16 were made first...and for Elves, and the 3 were made last by Celebrimbor alone...and it was only after the war of the Elves and Sauron that Men and Dwarfs received their rings from Sauron (with the possible exception of Durin's ring which may have come from Celebrimbor)
The best way of describing this show (and the vast majority of the shite being squeezed out of the Hollywood arse) is subversive nonsense, devoid of authenticity, created by delusional nonentities convinced of their own incredible talent, but lacking anything like it. The fact that it’s unintentionally hilarious is it’s only saving grace. 10/10
16 hours in & I don't care about anything that happens to a single character. Quality writing. OK I do like Durin. But Jacksons trilogy had me invested within 30 mins
the whole coop as well, the woman walks in with the orb and just says "shes been using this".... why does anyone believe her? she could have walked in with anything... "the queen, shes been using this evil magic errr... candle.. OOooOOooOoo shes evil, now give me and my friends power". everyone apparently just takes this woman's word that the queen was using this orb. she has no proof other than the fact she now has the orb, which should make her super suspicious to everyone and it would just end up with one persons word against the others.
New term, 'Chat KDP', when artificially intelligent series writers 'borrow' ideas from unknown and uncredited self-published writers. Probably why this show feels so empty.
When I saw Disa in the cave and she turned around, I literally said out loud "Here we go, shes gonna go AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and she did. But bats? Dwarves are afraid of bats now?
You know, I know the writing is nonsense, the lore shredded, the acting uneven, the direction FM THE DIRECTION-! But I’d still watch this, start to finish, if it FELT like Middle Earth. We’d all pay good money to return to Middle Earth.
This show is unrecognizable as a Tolkien adaptation. I would call it expensive fan fiction, but it’s more of a Spite Fiction. It exists simply to spite the ideals and the craft of Tolkien.
EXACTLY💯💯
It’s also insulting and offensive to Peter Jackson as well.
Don’t fool yourself. Peter Jackson is making a girl boss Lord of the Rings project himself by back seating Helm Hammerhand in his own story to his unnamed daughter lol.
@@chasehedges6775 not even king kong would watch this
There’s nothing worse than when you watch a movie or a show and feel as if you wasted your time.
i think being murdered would be worse but to each his own❤
THIS💯💯
There are better things to do with our time anyway.
I finally got around to watching the 2nd season of House of the Dragon. Out of 8 episodes there was 2 that had 'stuff happens' and the rest is just filler. I mean, a little bit of stuff was sort of meandering around like background noise but it wasn't engaging enough to be glued to the screen.
Episodic TV shows used to be a dime a dozen and done well, but it seems to have become extinct as a media in some parts!
There's a few things worse. There's waking up to a grizzly bear biting into your right leg. There's getting diagnosed with lung cancer. But I understand your point, homie. I get what you're saying.
I can't look at the "first female dwarf of colour" without laughing.
And the scenes where she's just WAILING into space... every time I'm just 'WTF'. Woman has magick shrieking powers.
Do you have any idea how many lives she is saving?
Painfully unattractive
She’s one of the many reasons I refuse to watch any of this utter shite.. Plus the black Don Lemonless elf with the sick fade haircut.. 😂
@@ThinWhite_Dukefrom watching the show!
"But Guyladrial...the Ring"
"No..."
"But"
"Nothing ever happens."
The people running Rings of Power are so convinced that it a masterpiece, better than Tolkien's writing. They remind my of the movie Sunset Boulevard where Norma Desmond is coming down the staircase, " I am ready for my close up Mr Demille." levels of delusional.
No one in history has ever done a better job than the original writer. When it comes to changing dialog or heavily altering plot lines. Because you run into the same problem every time. You change one thing. You have to keep changing everything else. Til it's a mess and doesn't work. There are a few exceptions to the rule. Peter Jackson removed Tom from the LOTR films. This worked for one reason. Tolken screwed up with this character, to begin with. He was OP. And than he vanishes. That also helped with the removal. But there's other times a change wasn't needed. The Moria door scene. Frodo figure's it out in the film. While in the book, someone else did it. I would have preferred if that was left unchanged. Because Frodo, even though he's the MC. I would have liked more time with other characters.
The entire horrible Antman 3 movie wouldn't have happened. If they followed the comics correctly. That's a prime example of spiraling into garbage. Scott wouldn't exist. And Janet wouldn't have been lost in the Quantum realm for the crud plot to start.
@@mbob4337 '50 Shades of Grey' is a 'Twilight' fanfic that out-sold 'Twilight'. In fact, many, many famous works are one artist trying to 'do better' than another artist and actually succeeding. How many covers of songs have caused the public to forget that they're covers?
Considering how many videos are made about it compared to videos about masterpieces, can you see why they might be confused? Which is getting more attention, crap or greatness? It's not even close.
The hobbit and confused wizard storyline has dragged over two whole series with no real finale or cliffhanger. Wizard confused of what he is and can’t control his powers then stays that way for 15 episodes…..and what…..we are meant to emote and be intrigued with such glacial character development? It’s like watching Pluto complete its orbit around the sun.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Well said
Friendly reminder that the birth of Ar-Pharazôn was over 1,500 years after the forging of the rings of power and that trying to overlap these timelines was destined to be a disaster from the start.
@Keverember Don't remind me! Just thinking about the timeline gives me a headache.
The moment they said it would be a Second Age story, but they bought the LotR appendices, I knew... Haha
In the first war, the rings are made and Sauron almost destroys the elves but Numenor saves the day, defeats Sauron's army and Sauron escapes.
Then there's the 1500y pause. Sauron builds up his forces again, Numenor comes to middle earth again, but this time Sauron doesn't fight, surrenders and becomes Pharazon's prisoner.
Cut out the part where Sauron gets beaten and escapes and go straight to the prisoner timeline. It works.
@@realjohanngoethe you can’t just cut that out, though. That’s the entire reason why Sauron gives himself as a prisoner to Numenor. He fears their strength and must destroy them from within.
@@Keverember Exactly. It would destroy the crazy moment when Númenor arrives with such absurd army a freaking Maia surrenders...
“These bats will scare you dwarves off!”
“…those are our pets. Cave-kitties, we call them.”
The fact that this show got a second season is hilarious, but at least we get to see Drinker and the gang roast it for our entertainment
Sooooo true.
Give yourself over to the Drinker’s pleasure.
It'll have 5 confirmed by Amazon. It may be a bluff, but I doubt it.
5 seasons is just baffling. I couldn’t get past the first few minutes of the first episode of S1.
@@chasehedges6775 They thought it would be the biggest thing since GoT _despite_ the people they've hired to realize it.
This video is considerably more entertaining than the 1 1/2 episodes of RoP season 2 i forced myself to watch.
Don't forget the non-stop teleporting from khazad-dum to eregion
TBF, Eregion is supposed to be right next door to the western gate of Khazad-Dum, it's not the most unbelievable to me.
What's worse to me is how season 1 they showed the Elves to be maintaining at least token watch posts further afield in Middle-Earth reaching all the way to the South, and NOBODY noticed a new Orc army, this time not even with their ridiculous hiding maneuver, march halfway across the world to Eregion's doorstep.
@@GideonRavenor712I mean, I’m sure they were spotted. But the Orcs probably stopped them before they could send any riders out.
@@oXRaptorzXo I'd call nonsense at on that.
Then again, these Elves have largely been shown, outside of Galadriel and Arondir (Where they have him do flips practically every fight it seems), to be the most incompetent I've ever seen.
IDK what the Numenoreans in Season 1 were talking about, nothing has been shown that Elves are better than them at anything beyond their miraculous ability to just tank Pyroclastic flows and fall from 30-50 ft high drops ON YOUR FACE and not die. (Then again in regards to the Volcano, most of them live)
@@GideonRavenor712 I mean, there’s only a few elves per tower outpost. An army of orcs can easily overrun them and that’s just something they don’t really have to show on screen.
@@oXRaptorzXo Elves can also see and hear far better than a regular human, and if they get a head start, Warg Riders would struggle to catch a rider.
I even had an issue with the plot of season 1 with that covered trench idea. Sure, the trench at a distance blends in, but you're cutting right through treelines, anyone in a watch tower should be wondering: "Hey, why did a line just appear through that forest there from yesterday?"
And this time, as far as shown, this army is not wasting time by trying to be so stealthy.
Unless they're portraying most of the Elves as being incredibly lazy by sitting on their laurels, I don't see an excuse.
This episode repurposed lines from Fellowship of the Ring and even Skyfall, which was bizarre. And it lifts scenes from other movies. A few episodes back we got Tom "Hagrid" Bombadil from Harry Potter and the bog monster from The Witcher. This week it was Clash of the Titans with the scene in which the Queen is almost sacrificed to the sea worm. It all plays out like Andromeda getting sacrificed to the Kraken. There's literally nothing original in this series. It's all plagiarized.
Don't forget The Empire Strikes Back, with Bombadil/Yoda and Gandalf/Luke.
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That's because the writers think they are so incredibly smart that dullards like us would never even notice.
@@wishingwell12345 EXACTLY! They’re so arrogant😂😂😂😂
@@johnkeck307 bad movite
“Nothing really happens”, perfect tagline for this entire series
Then why are they still watching it and making videos repeating the same thing every episode? What's the point of a review if people still come back for more bad?
@@TheRadioAteMyTV They watch it so we don’t have to. They suffer for the others sake.
@@chasehedges6775 That's only supposed to apply to a one time event. Not an ongoing series that offers no good forthcoming. If it is awful, returning it to doesn't make sense.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV Good point but still.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV It makes sense _because_ it's an ongoing series. No one wants to suffer through it, but everyone wants to hear updates and laugh at how dumb it is.
ROP will be studied for years on what not to do with a beloved IP.
I hope it’s taught in English Literature Classes
ROP don’t you mean ROPEY. MUST Admit that I found series 1 quite harmless, dull but harmless. With series 2 I now actively hate everything about this franchise. The incredible waste of large sums of money on something with generic predictable storylines, appalling direction and the not so subtle influence of script/storyline focus groups. The mind boggles what could have been achieved with decent script writers and a competent director.
You would think if some Dwarves wanted to stop anyone from accessing a mine, they would, I dunno, collapse the fucking entrance instead of scaring some bats with shit singing into flying away which for some reason frightens Dwarf miners to the point they run WITH the swarm of bats instead of dropping to the floor so they can pass.
The bats don't ATTACK the Dwarves by the way, they're just flying AWAY and thus they're acting like regular bats. Bats don't usually want anything to do with humans, when they "swarm" someone they're actually just trying to fucking leave and you're in the way.
As I recall, too, the bats are lurking in the deepest of caves. But that's not where bats live. Bats eat bugs and plants and need to be near the surface. They are only in the cave for shelter. If these bats are eating the food and scraps the dwarves produce, they shouldn't be strange to the dwarves at all. If not, they shouldn't EXIST at all.
In The Hobbit there were those huge blood sucking bats:
"Soon actual darkness was coming into a stormy sky; while still the great bats swirled about the heads and ears of elves and men, or fastened vampire-like on the stricken."
The Hobbit, Ch 17, The Clouds Burst
These creatures were at least hostile and covering orc armies....but then again it would mean that Disa is on purpose bringing danger onto her fellow dwarves, then also it should be noted THESE ARE DWARVES they are strong and even miners are capable of defending themselves, fighting, they can be warriors when needed!! It's not like they are specific castes with only one single skill to them :) (Tolkien Dwarves and Elves are mulitdisciplinarian, they have all sorts of skills, an elf warrior can also have other professions and so on :)) even that bunch of bats wouldn't really scare the Dwarves...but in general the plot of them trying to stop the miners from delving too deep....hell it would have taken thousands of years for them to actually disturb the Balrog in the lore...it took thousands of years of mining and exploiting the mithril veins to even reach the hiding spot of Durin's Bane!! Thousands of years of extensive mining activity....and for the Dwarves mining is their prime activity!! Prime source of profit. Stopping their main activity is kind of amusing...the dwarves want to stop other dwarves from mining, their main profession hah. Dwarves should be used to such things as simple bats and there are other things living underground in the caves and so on...hell even dwarven songs tell of "places deep where dark things sleep".
Yea, like what, is Disa just going to stand there all day and night? Not like there is some endless amount of Bats there.
They fly off, the guys go back in, they move her. Collapsing the tunnel would ACTUALLY substantially stall progress.
Technically this isn't Tolkien anyway just a bunch of characters and places with names he invented
EXACTLY
It's like the writers skimmed through a Cliff's Notes version of LOTR and said, "We can do a lot better than this."
I do not watch the show, but I love hearing your tearing it up.
Same. The reviews are better than watching the show
Padding the run time... this seems to be the theme for Season 2 of this train wreck. And I love that the sea serpent spit the queen back out... even a giant monster can't stomach that b*tch.
Dwarfs afraid of bats.... sigh.... Jesus....
And landing face first on the corner of a stone staircase that was as soft as a pillow when she came flying down on it from 20 feet in the air. Everything about rings of power is stupid.
"...that didn't taste like chicken."
I don't even get how that scene is supposed to make any consistent sense beyond: 'Don't think about it', like most of this show.
In terms of traditional Numenoreans, aka The Faithful, I get them worshipping the sea, and specifically the Vala who governs over it, Ulmo. Because yea it would be a big deal for Numenorean culture.
Though it wouldn't be as pathetically embodied as "The sea is always right!"
But this series goes out of its way to show that the King's Men, the overwhelming majority of Numenoreans by this point, don't care about the Valar at all, and will desecrate and destroy their temples, this just happened in the last episode alone! This is entirely why Elendil is in custody, it's because he didn't like what they were doing there.
Why partake in what is effectively a religious trial, for a religion they no longer believe in or openly spite?
Are we saying they just worship the sea itself now devoid of Vala influence? Just "trust in water"?
Same thing with the Eagle just randomly showing up for Pharazon (Putting aside the fact that there's no reason WHY it should have shown up or meant anything). Faithful Numenoreans MIGHT see it as a sign from Manwe, the King of the Valar and who governs over wind and air . . . but Pharazon has also shown he doesn't care for the Valar either, or at least the people who work for him don't. And again in this time period the majority are supposed to be King's Men and view the Valar with disdain, why would they think ANYTHING of an Eagle showing up?
We've been given little to show that The Faithful pose ANY real threat to Pharazon or the King's Men at all by this point. Which, if portrayed accurately, they posed little by this time because the overwhelming majority of Numenoreans were non-Faithful, its why Elendil and his sons get visions from the Valar telling them and everyone else loyal to leave for the mainland Colonies to get away from Numenor.
So why would these guys pretend to even care about traditions they'd no longer believe in?
@@skylx0812 It doesn’t take
like a cheeseburger either.
Padding runtimes is TIGHT
Amazon tried to force me to watch ROP after The Grand Tour finale. I wonder if they're going to count my frantically hitting the back button as a view.
Absolutely. I fell asleep during Thursday Night Football and I wake up to this abomination. You know they’re counting those 5 minutes as a watch
They are changing the cover image daily, trying to lure people in. They don't do that for other shows.
I tried to watch another show entirely and somehow ROP started playing. It was only for a couple seconds, so hopefully it doesn't count as a view, but it almost happened again when I tried a second time. Not a glitch I'm sure.
I had DINOTOPIA ON and it tried to autoplay Rings of Power.
They are soooo desperate for views to inflate their numbers...
That scene in the Grand Tour finale at the end where they overlap video from their first special had me tearing up
The pace of the modern world has renewed the primacy of reaction over thought and planning. The stimulus-response writing mirrors that reality -- society is devolving back toward our animalistic roots.
When did we leave those roots exactly?
We’re so screwed. In a couple of years or so, our world is gonna look like the Forbidden Zone from Planet Of The Apes, The Wasteland in Mad Max or the nuclear aftermath in Threads or George Orwell’s/Michael Radford’s 1984 with John Hurt.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV That is an excellent question, man.
In elementary school circa 1986 we were shown films with the theme song, "the most important person in the whole wide world is YOU." The downfall of the nation began when narcissism and selfishness began to be seen as a positive characteristic.
@@jeffreyfrey1936 In the 1990s they upped the ante in schools to enforce "I" statements. "I feel..." etc. I remember seeing the posters in classrooms and said it right then, this is not going to end well. It was obvious to those with a brain, but brains and schools sadly stopped overlapping starting in the 1960s.
Yea, I kinda get what the show is trying to setup for the sacking of Eregion:
They're going to have it almost certainly be that Eregion gets sacked AS the Nine Rings are being finished, and that Sauron has this setup to be timed just perfectly so that he can slip out with the Nine, and leaves everyone who knew how to make the Rings besides him to presumably get slaughtered by Adar and his orc army.
That's what I THINK the setup is.
But there's major problems here:
1 - Completely ignores actual lore of WHY this happens at all. Sauron did not come up with some scheme to perfectly time Eregion's sacking with the last of the Rings being forged, he sacked Eregion as the opening of the War of the Elves and Sauron, which occurs because Sauron failed to take control of the Elven Ringbearers. Yes, this is supposed to happen AFTER Sauron forges the One Ring, he tests it out, and immediately noticed the results of each set of Rings:
The Kings of Men he immediately got control over.
The Dwarf Lords he could not get direct control of, but COULD make their greed go beyond all reason.
The Elven Rings completely failed, they sensed Sauron putting on the One through their Rings and what he was trying to do, and immediately all three of them took theirs off and hid them.
This was a big deal for Sauron, because of ALL the Rings, he DID NOT want the Elven ones to fail, as he considered them his greatest threat. So, immediately after this, and figuring out that Celebrimbor had to have altered the Three (explaining why they didn't work as he wanted), he declares war on the Elves and starts by sacking Eregion where he kills Celebrimbor.
It's also notable that at the end of this war, the Numenoreans are supposed to save the Elves (None of the characters in the Numenor plot line of the show were involved in this, as this all took place roughly 1500 years before any of them existed.), they send an army to relieve them, which is what causes Sauron to actually take Numenor seriously and refocus his efforts around corrupting them.
2 - This has been the problem setup in season 1, because Galadriel was there and was the one who gave the advice on alloys for the 3 Rings, she effectively knows how to make these Rings as well, so this plan of Sauron's doesn't even remove everyone who knows the twist of how to make Rings of Power. All it does is remove Celebrimbor and his guys, but NOTHING has been shown in this series to illustrate how instrumental Celebrimbor is to making these, beyond the fact he's a descendant of Feanor (which means little in this show).
3 - Adar, from what this show illustrates, KNEW Halbrand was Sauron when he was in Mordor, and even if we assume he only figured it out after those scenes, he confirms he knows to Galadriel when they're outside Eregion . . . why is he attacking Eregion when he knows this is what Sauron wants him to do, and he DOESN'T want to serve Sauron? He genuinely thinks the Elves are KNOWINGLY working with Sauron? Why would he believe it on Sauron's word?
4 - They've been careful not to give ANY perception of time passing in this show at all, but NOBODY believes you can make a magic ring in one night. We're supposed to believe Celebrimbor manages to crack the whip (despite the fact Sauron's making him believe everything is fine as the city is being attacked as they speak so why should he rush?) to get NINE of the things forged in ONE night?
We've not even been given ANY indication in this show as to who he'd give the Nine Rings to. No real human Kingdoms of note have been shown that aren't dead, and Numenor's colonies don't really exist either. All we see are merely scattered villages, or lands already loyal to him like Rhun. No Numenoreans get ANY of the Rings until Isildur cuts the One from Sauron's hand.
Not to mention, now we're making the Nine unique among the Rings in that Sauron made them ESPECIALLY corrupting because he mixed his blood into their Mithril? Not that Men inherently are the one race most easily seduced by want of power and on average have the weakest will power? Oh yea, that's right, modern writing.
You'd _think_ writing tragic origin stories for the Nazgul would've been a high priority for this project
You can't write about morals if you don't have any morals and don't understand morality.
They did a complete 180 on Disa's character between seasons. In Season 1 they started teasing that her ambitions would lead to them greedily digging the mythil while Durin III was the cautionary one.
Now he has his script flipped the moment he puts on the ring while Disa is the one against it... even though she convinced her husband to propose the rings to begin with!
Yea, I don't think they care about consistency, we already knew that with lore, but characters as well.
The gang also mention here similar happening with Nori's character as well.
Arondir ironically in some respects has gotten 'better' in this season since he's no longer chained to a girl-boss they killed off-screen (Though now you're left wondering what his point in the plot is).
Adar makes no sense as to his motivation, he knew Sauron was Halbrand back in Mordor but doesn't try to kill him "again" there, and instead he follows his advice and goes to do exactly what Sauron wants him to do. (And let's say he didn't know in Mordor, he evidently figured it out somewhere in between there and Eregion, yet STILL is going through with it!) Better yet, why does he think killing Sauron will work this time by the same method which evidently DIDN'T work the last time?
Or she is just a woman😂 what her man does, she wants opposite
Things I didn’t know I never wanted to hear or see: Holy Bat-Yodelling! 🦇 🎶
Just when you think they've gone low...... They go even lower ... With every episode
If that's true why is there still a following for it? What does it say about an audience that accepts such decreasing quality every episode?
@@TheRadioAteMyTVU watch it illegally so gives them no money and viewership. It's highly entertaining to watch something be butchered this much and to see people defend it like crazy. The novelty will wear off but I'm still hoping for at least good action
@@Alfie-ps6ll Novelty? An interesting modern synonym for wasting time hating it seems. Do you remember when the channels were young and they railed about the need for good story points and how it was missing? Now there are shows that aren't missing it (the Penguin for one example) and none of them are making videos about it, like they would have done in their early sincere days, providing us a service of showing good reviews to allow us something to look forward to, instead non-stop bashing on the same dead horses. A novelty that can't end soon enough.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV well yes it's something that is very amusing to see how badly they manage to make it. I think it's absolutely correct that people hold Amazon accountable for the dreadful show and money they've spent. Many channels preach about good story but it seems you would rather people ignore the travesties such as this show which would only enable more. Acolyte got cancelled because it was dreadful and their was outward cry. The more this happens the more shows like penguin may happen. Btw if Ur looking for underated shows go watch scavenger reign, pantheon, severance. They need viewership to encourage more of it. Also I've seen many reviewers praise penguin so confused on that one.
@@TheRadioAteMyTV i don't even watch it at all i loved tolkiens work no way ima watch it butchered irl so i watch clips from the drinker n crew
Dwarf miners: Who the hell are you supposed to be?
Disa: Im vengeance!
The amount of times I physically cringed during this episode was really on another level.
Tell us, how many times
i just watched the Rings of Power episode 6.
By "Rings of Power" i mean "Lord of the Rings" by "episode 6" i mean "Fellowship, Extended Edition"
Understandable. Every time I see a Rings of Power scene I want to re-watch the entire LotR trilogy.
So this morning I was walking to the kitchen to make a cuppa, and there's this low coffee table on the way, right? I was still half asleep and wasn't paying much attention to my footing.
Anyway, long story short, I then spent the next eleven and a half hours rewatching the entire extended trilogy.
@@lnk_Eyes 🤣🤣🤣🤣Hey any excuse works for me to explain rewatching LOTR trilogy! Hope you did not hurt yourself to much on that coffee table!
At the beginning of season 2, the show runners said "It wouldn't be a journey through middle earth without a few trolls", referring to all of us that hate and tear this b.s show to pieces, but essentially saying how 'were ALL welcome' as it were. As of today, they are back to calling us "patently EVIL" for not liking or cowtowing to its obvious desecration of Tolkien's writings. Its so dang delicious watching these hacks get shredded for trying to tear our beloved IP into a modern day hollywood hellscape devoid of morals or logic!
dissa is a vampire pure and simple
Vampire of color*
In Numinor, instead of rock-paper-scissors they play eagle-sea monster-balrog...
the power of fatttttyyyyyy ~ 🎃
For a time during the episode, I felt like I was watching Clash of the Titans....
I mean, if nothing else the scene where the female dwarf summons a bunch of bats with a scream and a flap of her arms was funny as Hell.
Not even two minutes into the recap, and I don't have it in me to go on... My immense respect to those who actually suffered through the real thing.
Nothing really happens. Pretty much sums up the entire series to this point.
One thing I don’t see mentioned anywhere is the two unskippable adds Amazon put in every 15-20 minutes of each episode. That ruins what little chance the audience have to be immersed. Not that it had much chance to begin with.
I really think this tv show format doesn’t suit this type of story. Same with the Disney Star Wars and Marvel shows. They feel low budget and acted by theatre actors and actresses, over acting everything, it just doesn’t seem believable.
Yet Sir Ian is a theater (or should I type ‘theatre’) actor…
These guys wouldn’t be any better in a play.
You might be too young to have experienced regular network television, where you’d get an ad every five minutes.
@@triciacarr5019 that’s a good point to be fair. I don’t think any actor would be able to turn this show around with this shitty writing.
@@eyespy3001 unfortunately I’m definitely old enough to remember that 😂
@@LemtheBeast perhaps we’ve just become so accustomed to no commercials over the past 15 years that seeing them where they shouldn’t be is jarring.
The bat scene is more Harry Potter than LOTR. Tolkien had real fights, not gimmickry.
Its more The office than Tolkien
Everyone knows Batman and pain follow a group of bats flying in your direction... the miners were smart to leave quickly.
In the book (I know, but bear with me) Celebrimbor is killed, his body impaled on a pole and then carried as a banner before the orc army. Seems a bit more Games of Throne-ish don’t ya think?
He also figured out about Anatar before the end, it's why he altered the Elven Rings, and its also why Sauron went after Eregion first.
Honestly, I'm impressed they can remember the story beats from this show.
Galadriel was misquoted. It's not " there's a tempest in me!" It's "there's a Tampon in me!"😂😂
Could be worse: "Where's that...."
You watched that so I don't have to. Thank you for your service.
That’s how I felt about this episode nothing happens just talking
i fast forward so much of these i have to watch this to find out what if anything happened
The AI AZ is soooo awesome. Makes me miss real Azz even more RIP Azz.
Rings of Power episode 6: Pointless filler; A waste of money. 🎉
I think they pulled the money after season one flopped. The quality shows.
- great erendir elf surprised by orc standing behind him
- orcs fleeing from war coz they dont want fight and die , but imedialety attack erendir elf when they see him and get killed
- galadier betraying her own kind telling what elf king plans and orders are to Adar
- galadier is talking that she dreams about army !!!??? WHAT? you are fkin comander !!....
- sauron telling elf guariands not to tell anyone about corpse with carved letters on his chest which is lying wide open to the public! LOL
- sauron taking charge on eregion city without any questions from elfs to him or celebribor - just ok you are the cheif now LOL
- orc army is juts over the hill you can see smok on horizon and most inteligent race elf cant notice that
- the scene where elf are suprised that there are flaming rocks flying over their head destoying buildings scream''we are under attack'' , wtf where have you been for past 2 hours where orcs were gathering around the river with machines LOL
- bombadil stealing quotes from gandalf in lotr omg its just facepalm and this quotes doesnt give any meaning to the scene.
- farazon is not a king of numenor anymore becouse eagle is smaller than kraken like wtf ? they have really stupid rules to choose king lol he was king like one episode? lol
man this is one of the dumbest episodes which is really an achievement, you can question every scene there.They are trolling us i cant believe this.
Dwarves being terrorised by bats is the equivalent to a square attack, the horror.
Its funny to me how a billion dollar LoTR show was definitely going to be the tipping point into me finally signing up for Amazon prime. But, then that show was Rings of Power. As a result, i still dont have an Amazon prime sub 😂
Sorry Jeff, but your underlings will need to do better if you want my money.
At this point i only watch the show to keep up with all these videos. Still can't help myself not to fast forward 10sec a couple times during certain dialogues...
Writing by numbers.
Me channeling my inner az every time this dull show is on….
“YOU’RE BORING!”
This is some serious turd polishing going on at Amazon.
AZ is a star of this clip
The sea shrimp knows all. 😂
AZ body language and facial expressions hahahah 😂
Rhys of the Rings is blowing this show out of the water
The bringer of gifts, who brought no gifts... Sigh...
I had an idea for a comedy skit where Eregion is being attacked and all the elves are gathered in the town square to get a speech from their Lord, Celebrimbor, the Master Elven Smith. As he comes on stage, there are shouts from the crowd, "what have you been making, Master Smith, what weapons have you created to defeat the Orcs?!?" And Celebrimbor, proud as punch holds out his hand and says, "Fear not! For I have created...rings!...For MEN!" And the crowd are like, "WHAT THE FUCK!"
It's always a good sign when your short streaming season has to stall for time
General audience who've only seen the 3 films are liking this show apparently. I got a few friends who are perfect representation of the causal viewer. They think it's fine. One of them thinks both seasons have been great. It baffles the shit outta me.
Of course there are always going to be some retards who will watch anything. But in order for a big budget show like this to succeed, it has to attract a mass audience, which it is not doing. Viewership numbers for Rings of Power are in the toilet. People aren't watching it and then evangelizing the show to their friends like they did with Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Sopranos. If they talk about it at all, it's either how bad it is, or that it's fine (like your normie friends.) But fine isn't good enough for a billion dollar show.
I can't understand how someone could watch the films then the show and say it's fine. It is light years ahead in every artistic way
If it's "fine" and they represent "the casual viewers" then why doesn't it have a bigger audience?
There's a lot of people who just want colourful pictures on the box while they turn their brain off. They're a poor determination of anything since their bar is low low that literally anything meets the standard.
They've just been watching pretty pictures during the triology, and never got the deeper meaning of Tolkiens writing, which is somewhat reflected in Peter Jacksons films.
Remember orc can be an offensive term. Refer to them as Uruk
I do like the Celebrimbor and Sauron scenes, but the previous episode ended on a cliffhanger with the orcs being outside Eregion and then this one has barely any progress and they only start attacking the city.
In itself it's also ridiculous that the Elves never noticed whole armed companies in their own lands!!! Heck the Elves should be all around as it's their realm, they would have activities outside their main city, be it simple hunting, travelling, farming and gardening, patrolling or other business simply hanging out in the woods...they would have noticed orc presence!!! But the show makes them dumber and dumber! And makes them lose their super senses and perceptions!!!! I mean the Elves would not yield the whole land without a fight, I mean they would defend their lands have someone watching for the outsiders!! Hell this show is so ridiculous.,..at one point they talk how the elven spies/scouts saw (OFFSCREEN) how Saurbrand/Halrond :) was going to Mordor, and now apparently they didn't notice whole army of orcs teleporting in :).
They're not terrible if it weren't for the fact they have the entire situation wrong as to setup.
-They're doing the Rings in reverse order because they want to be quirky and mimick the poem rather than follow the lore they bought for a fortune (I really don't get it, they spent millions just on the RIGHTS for this stuff, and they want to play around with it like they know better?).
-Celebrimbor IS supposed to start cluing in that something is off about Anatar, it's why he alters the Three Elven Rings, except now that scene can't happen so obviously Celebrimbor is likely going to realize his mistake right before Sauron kills him as Eregion is being sacked.
-The entire sacking of Eregion is not supposed to happen until after Sauron forges The One and tries it out and realizes the Three Elven Rings don't work as intended. He realized Celebrimbor had to have altered them, so he targets Eregion first as he kicks off the War of Elves and Sauron.
These scenes could have been so much greater, is the issue.
Rings of Golden Showers.
Whatdyamean nothing happened? Gandalf looks for a stick, Celebrimbor gets a bit confused, Galadriel refused to eat, the Harfoots sat on a rock. What more do you neede?
Quality lines like "The sea is always right"?
I've never seen AZ so quiet 😄
It is like Shrek's Snow White scene with animals attacking
Since season 2 I am only watching (as a background anyway) to join the roasting gangs.
Failed upward quicker than D and D
That Disa has to be one of the most obnoxious characters I've watched in a long time.
It's nice to know that sea serpents have standards.
The eagles were fed in numenor, the thing appeared asking for seeds "hey bro, have you got any seeds" and the guy pulls off a sword and people start screaming and the thing said "aight, I see no seeds, I'm out of here, fucking monkees"
Ill say this, the stuff my family and I are really digging is anything concerning Adar and the Orcs, Sauron and Celebrimbor, Durins Father storyline has been interesting, and finally to my surprise, Galadriel and some of the high elves stories have fascinating moments. Everything else is not compelling and or miandering.
Which makes sense because those are arguably the only plot lines which SHOULD be happening if this were actually following the lore. (Though Adar's is made up and the others are greatly altered, at least they all 'should' be happening.)
Numenor's plot line 'happens', but much later then everything else in the Second Age. None of those characters should even be alive at the time of the forging of the Rings, but the showrunners wanted to rush it.
Isildur's plotline is nonsense and so removed from everything else you wonder how these characters are supposed to be doing anything that ties into anything (To where they just handed Arondir a map for no reason JUST so he can show up in Eregion for the finale).
The Harfoot plotline is entirely made up and has nothing to do with anything other than seeing how much Amazon can use without being sued for plagiarism.
@@GideonRavenor712 what are your thoughts on Galadriel this season? They really pulled back on the girlboss nonsense from the first season. As a matter of fact, this seasons fills like they pulled back on a ton wokism. Someone on the executive production side told the showrunners, "pull back on all that suff."
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Only partially yes in terms of actions (Notice how they're working it back in for Galadriel as the season goes on), absolutely not in terms of personality.
To me, Galadriel still feels like she has a massive ego. Getting her to admit she screwed up or have any humility for such a massive screwup is like pulling teeth. That and how she uses the knowledge or experience she has, often doesn't seem grounded in wisdom of millennia.
Which one might say: 'What's the problem with that?' Well, how does one rectify that this character is supposed to be the oldest if not ONE of the oldest Elves in Middle-Earth at this time with her actions and temperament across both seasons? How does one rectify how she will 'mellow out' and take ANY form resembling her LOTR self? I can't even see how she'd let her daughter marry Elrond right now with this series.
As for wokism, IDK about that being cut back, perhaps not as in-your-face, but it's still there. Every race and sub-culture still looks like they walked out of downtown LA, we now have 'Orc Families' and the implicit idea that Orcs are somehow not 'inherently evil' (The only way to explain why they would ever kill Sauron) even though they were created by the Lucifer of Tolkien's world, and even just with how they've altered the Rings of Power themselves particularly the Nine illustrates this mindset.
No longer is it that Men were not the one race with, on average, the weakest willpower and most hungered for power, nope apparently the Nine were just ESPECIALLY more corrupting than the Seven because Sauron mixed his blood with Mithril.
The implication must be that the Nine would have turned out like the Seven otherwise, so Sauron needed extra effort, because apparently Human willpower is the same as a Dwarf.
Have they altered a bit from last season? A bit, yes . . . is it any better? Not to me with all the ludicrous changes to insert tie-ins to LOTR don't even fit properly.
You know the show hit rock bottom when they got demoted to drinker’s second channel
I loved the part where Gandalf turned into a giant gloryhole.
The writers think their audience is Jon Snow for all the "Yas Kweens" they're clearly expecting.
The amount of death and destruction they've made Galadriel responsible for makes Mao look like an amateur. Can blame Numenor on her as well. I'm sure the writers are too clueless to even realize what they've done
AY UP DRINKER AND MAULER
Has anyone noticed...they are forging and bestowing the rings in Poem Order? 🤣
3 Rings for Elven Kings, 7 for the Dwarf Lords etc?
Do they not know that the 16 were made first...and for Elves, and the 3 were made last by Celebrimbor alone...and it was only after the war of the Elves and Sauron that Men and Dwarfs received their rings from Sauron (with the possible exception of Durin's ring which may have come from Celebrimbor)
Disa has become the number one bloody awful character of this sorry mess. It seems they just created bits solely to allow her to show how bad she is.
Rings for Men makes me think of Hair Club for Men every time. Maybe I'm befuddled by the wig of power...
The best way of describing this show (and the vast majority of the shite being squeezed out of the Hollywood arse) is subversive nonsense, devoid of authenticity, created by delusional nonentities convinced of their own incredible talent, but lacking anything like it. The fact that it’s unintentionally hilarious is it’s only saving grace. 10/10
The worst part is that it's not even an interesting train wreck, it's just boring.
It's because they don't actually have enough plot for 5 seasons, so all the stupid gold is spread thin.
16 hours in & I don't care about anything that happens to a single character. Quality writing.
OK I do like Durin. But Jacksons trilogy had me invested within 30 mins
This show rivals Seinfeld for the ultimate show about nothing.
the whole coop as well, the woman walks in with the orb and just says "shes been using this".... why does anyone believe her? she could have walked in with anything... "the queen, shes been using this evil magic errr... candle.. OOooOOooOoo shes evil, now give me and my friends power".
everyone apparently just takes this woman's word that the queen was using this orb. she has no proof other than the fact she now has the orb, which should make her super suspicious to everyone and it would just end up with one persons word against the others.
Lizzo singing to summon bats was the dumbest thing yet.
Also what's with fatty and wacky falling in love a insta speed?
The show just couldn’t be uncooler… It’s so depressing
The dwarves fought an entire war under ground against orca and trolls, but they are scared of bats?
That Andre the giant in the thumbnail??
Stomping her feet and screaming. Disa is a three year old girl!
As an Elven Soldier, why isn't Arondir's primary directive to report in to his superior officers at a barracks somewhere or return to home base?
Dissa was doing her impersonation of New Zealand rugby team's haka.
Disa is Batman. Confirmed.
Money laundering
New term, 'Chat KDP', when artificially intelligent series writers 'borrow' ideas from unknown and uncredited self-published writers. Probably why this show feels so empty.
When I saw Disa in the cave and she turned around, I literally said out loud "Here we go, shes gonna go AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and she did. But bats? Dwarves are afraid of bats now?
Dwarves are phobic towards bats, darkness, stone, tunnels, digging, yodelling.. it’s a long list. 😉
You know, I know the writing is nonsense, the lore shredded, the acting uneven, the direction FM THE DIRECTION-!
But I’d still watch this, start to finish, if it FELT like Middle Earth. We’d all pay good money to return to Middle Earth.