Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 4, the show that seemed so long it actually managed to beat She-Hulk going shopping for a suit. How is that even possible?! This review almost broke me, something that has not happened since Wheel of Time episode 7 but I think you can witness my decline by the end lmao. But what did you think of the show or the parts you saw in the review? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Friend, how you maintain the energy to cover this shite is one of the eternal mysteries. RoP is HORRIBLE, and not in any sort of fun or jaw-droppingly insane way, such as was the case with Halo in e1 and its routine denial of physics whenever the script writer thought she could jolt you.
you jinxed us for next episode fam ,no harfoots(obligatory Irish pronunciation) this week but next week it'll be harfoot heavy . XD Your explanation is excellent of why the tempest line feels so juxtaposed when queen is trying to understand and Galadriel just shouts like a child. "I have a tempest in me"
@@admontblanc well, technically you are right, but I meant in the whole of the story (fanfiction). enslave the many peoples of Arda and fuck the Valar n'shit.
@@admontblanc Yeah, in the books. We can't know who sinks Numenor in this show, nor why will they do it, nor who's indirect fault it is, nor when it will happen, since this show can't take stuff directy from the books, and even if it could, it probably wouldn't because the showrunners are too narcissistic and are convinced they will do a better job than JRR Tolkien. In the books Numenor was sank by Eru Iluvatar because Sauron outplayed the Numenoreans and convinced them to go attack Valinor and sacrifice their children to Morgoth (Numenor had weary of producing braincells during Pharazon's rule, therefore that happened).
“Quit comparing me to a horse!” demands immortal who lives in a world where horses are beloved, are characters in their own right, and can be borderline sentient.
Says also the immortal who literally threatened a mortals life because he "apparently didnt know who he was talking too". Seriously, comparing someone to a horse (not even in a derogitory way, just figuratively), or THREATENING TO KILL SOMEONE over the fact that someone disrespects you (who kinda has good reason to disrespect you too: You ARE a prisoner after all), which one should be considered the bigger insult? The entitlement on display there is just stunning.
@@random.3665 its very telling that this new woke sees complete psychopaths, demeaning behaviour and manipulative powertripping as strength and independence and desireable :DD
The "Elf" that provokes the destruction of Numenor is Sauron. Not Galadriel, she never even saw Numenor. Oh, and the destruction of the island happened 2000 years after the forge of the rings of power... Yeah, they've put "Cleopatra and Steve Jobs" in the same timeline in the series.
The fall of Numenor deals with the theme of mortality and humanity’s desire to overcome it. We see this in the Numenoreans rejection of the Valar and envy of the elves. It is a key theme of the epic of Gilgamesh, so it’s safe to say it’s pretty timeless. Amazon, in their infinite arrogance, have decided that any mention of the Valar should be avoided on pain of death and the Numenoreans envy of the elves should instead be turned into modern day xenophobia. They have taken a timeless story and turned it into a modern day, American, political issue. This show is cultural vandalism
So, the Producers against the Patriarchy took Tolkien's vision of Numenorean pride in the face of death of suffering ..Mythic, Homeric, Shakespearean...and changed them into MAGA Numenoreans to score a political gotcha point?
I used to watch this show to laugh about how bad it was for the first couple of episodes but watching this episode honestly made me really depressed. I mean it's not an adaptation of some random fantasy books, it's Tolkien, it's so sad to see such a fantastic fantasy universe that he literally spent his life creating being turned into some political propaganda garbage about things like immigration. First it was movies, now TV shows and video games, soon there won't be a single thing we do to entertain ourselves and think about something else that won't be full of political garbage and messages about our modern society
This series actually adds depth to sauron's character in the peter jackson trilogy, we now fully understand why he's hellbent on destroying middle earth
I know Pharazon is meant to be "Numenorean Man Bad" but his ability to spontaneously generate keg parties out of nowhere qualifies him to be king in my book!
How did the writers miss the most obvious line ever? As Queen Miriel stands there holding another woman's baby in her hands watching the tsunami racing to destroy Númenor, shouldn't she have said, "The sea is always right!"?
Episode 1 she demands to speak to the manager of the elves. Episode 2 she demands to speak to the manager of the raft. Episode 3 she demands to speak to the manager of Numenor. Episode 4 she demands to speak to that manager's manager.
Elrond has super sonar hearing and super eyesight to eavesdrop while standing beside a waterfall but soldier elves cant see an entire forest be torn down from a watch tower. We see Galdriel, on screen, warrior princess her way through several soldiers who were otherwise surrounding her. Then, the camera goes off her briefly, the camera returns to her and all the soldiers are lined up perfectly like ducks in a row running into the cell. Where the hell did Arondir get a bow, arrows, and an elf blade? Why would dark elf guy give his weapons back that would result in more orcs being killed, which we just saw him crying over a few scenes before? Lore inconsistency aside, this show is written by children and I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
The Galadriel locking up the guards was laughable. I immediately hit the back 10 seconds to see if I'd missed how she'd done it. But as you said, they bottled it. So lazy.
I also love how none of the soldiers make any noise whatsover. You know, like, to maybe alert some guards outside that a psycho elf on her period is on the rampage? So revolutionary, so brave, such courage.
Tolkien was a master linguist and it is tough for anyone with decent brains to imitate his writings let alone these clowns from Amazon. Ten-years old can write better than them ffs. Just take a look at these dialogue comparisons: "The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places" vs "The skies are strange". "Get thee gone, and take thy due place" vs "You have not seen what I have seen". "It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen" vs "The sea is always right". Jeez……. Not even close Amazon. Get Rekt!
@@rhuiden4086 I remember reading somewhere about a professor from British (I think?) university trying to pass the entry exam for the very same university from 100 years ago. And he failed. So he asked his colleagues and they all also failed.
The dialogues in the show are ATROCIOUSLY bad in comparison, most of the time they don't even make any sense, the characters talking are spewing nonsense (prime example Finrod's weird rock and boat in the prologue!), take any piece of actual dialogues between characters from Tolkien, and one will see that it's not only high souding, epic, but also has deeper meanings, important lessons, hell Tolkien came up with the whole proverbs and sayings of the peoples in Middle-earth!! "Yet oft in lies truth is hidden" "It's an ill wind as blows nobody any good ..." "And All's well as ends Better!" "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears." "But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls." "He can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree)" Even Orcs get one :). "Where there's a whip, there's a will" But actual dialogues of in one case a monologue of sorts are really something else: "And Amandil, becoming aware of the purposes of the King, was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed. Therefore he called his son, Elendil, and he said to him: 'The days are dark, and there is no hope for Men, for the Faithful are few. Therefore I am minded to try that counsel which our forefather Eärendil took of old, to sail into the West, be there ban or no, and to speak to the Valar, even to Manwë himself, if may be, and beseech his aid ere all is lost.' 'Would you then betray the King?' said Elendil. 'For you know well the charge that they make against us, that we are traitors and spies, and that until this day it has been false.' 'If I thought that Manwë needed such a messenger,' said Amandil, I would betray the King. For there is but one loyalty from which no man can be absolved in heart for any cause. But it is for mercy upon Men and their deliverance from Sauron the Deceiver that I would plead, since some at least have remained faithful. And as for the Ban, I will suffer in myself the penalty, lest all my people should become guilty.' 'But what think you, my father, is like to befall those of your house whom you leave behind, when your deed becomes known?' 'It must not become known,' said Amandil. 'I will prepare my going in secret, and I will set sail into the east, whither daily the ships depart from our havens; and thereafter, as wind and chance may allow, I will go about, through south or north, back into the west, and seek what I may find. But for you and your folk, my son, I counsel that you should prepare yourselves other ships, and put aboard all such things as your hearts cannot bear to part with; and when the ships are ready, you should lie in the haven of Rómenna, and give out among men that you purpose, when you see your time, to follow me into the east. Amandil is no longer so dear to our kinsman upon the throne that he will grieve over much, if we seek to depart, for a season or for good. But let it not be seen that you intend to take many men, or he will be troubled, because of the war that he now plots, for which he will need all the force that he may gather. Seek out the Faithful that are known still to be true, and let them join you in secret, if they are willing to go with you, and share in your design.' 'And what shall that design be?' said Elendil. 'To meddle not in the war, and to watch,' answered Amandil. 'Until I return I can say no more. But it is most like that you shall fly from the Land of the Star with no star to guide you; for that land is defiled. Then you shall lose all that you have loved, foretasting death in life, seeking a land of exile elsewhere. But east or west the Valar alone can say.' Then Amandil said farewell to all his household, as one that is about to die. 'For,' said he, 'it may well prove that you will see me never again; and that I shall show you no such sign as Eärendil showed long ago. But hold you ever in readiness, for the end of the world that we have known is now at hand.'" Hell even the simpliest line from appendices THE ONLY spoken line that they have for Second Age material :). "And Sauron lied to the King, declaring that everlasting life would be his who possessed the Undying Lands, and that the Ban was imposed only to prevent the Kings of Men from surpassing the Valar. 'But great Kings take what is their right,' he said. At length Ar-Pharazôn listened to this counsel, for he felt the waning of his days and was besotted by the fear of Death." (Appendix A) It still sounds BETTER than anything written by the show because it's not artificial, the main problem with the writers of the show is that they TRY to sound epic and imitate the Tolkien high style but often just screw up basic logic of the sentence or just make it weird. I am more sad that they will never adapt this piece of speech of Sauron to the elven smiths of Eregion: "Only to Lindon he did not come, for Gil-galad and Elrond doubted him and his fair-seeming, and though they knew not who in truth he was they would not admit him to that land. But elsewhere the Elves received him gladly, and few among them hearkened to the messengers from Lindon bidding them beware; for Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship. And he said to them: "Alas, for the weakness of the great! For a mighty king is Gil-galad, and wise in all lore is Master Elrond, and yet they will not aid me in my labours. Can it be that they do not desire to see other lands become as blissful as their own? But wherefore should Middle-earth remain for ever desolate and dark, whereas the Elves could make it as fair as Eressëa, nay even as Valinor? And since you have not returned thither, as you might, I perceive that you love this Middle-earth, as do I. Is it not then our task to labour together for its enrichment, and for the raising of all the Elven-kindreds that wander here untaught to the height of that power and knowledge which those have who are beyond the Sea?'"
Isildurs sister is actually my favorite character because no matter what happens in the show we can always rely on her to be staring out into the audience looking just as confused as we are. 👀
Wish it would swallow Galadriel...and Elendil's useless, staring daughter (Why is she even in this?) ...and the writers...and definitely the Har-bits. I asked myself with the last ep "Can it get any worse?" Asked...and answered.
Okay..watching this channel and reading the comments, I feel compelled to give the show a second chance (I endured episode 1 and 20 minutes of the second episode, then couldn't stand it anymore), just to watch that wave 😁 and Sauron kicks everybody's ass.
Oh, and when JJ Abrams popped up in a cameo and said, “ring making is like poetry…. It rhymes and we put the final rhyme in a mystery box so the kings want to find out what’s inside…” And then that moment where Sauron gave him 30 pieces of silver… Never saw that coming!
That Adar scene with the funeral for the orc was just plain awful. Tolkien described orcs as hating everyone and everything, and hating themselves the most. No elf, no matter how 'dark' they supposedly are would ever show mercy to an orc. They're bitter enemies and have never worked together except for Maeglin at the Fall of Gondolin who was a traitor. Peter Jackson managed to capture this hatred perfectly with a simple funny scene in The Two Towers... "Looks like meats back on the menu boys!" Cannibalism is entirely fitting for orcs. Holding a funeral for one is not. It amazes me how Amazon can consistently screw up every single scene in this show... Even the absolute basics of Tolkiens lore is wrong. It's like the show runners have never even read any of the books. Just jumped straight to the appendices...
They trying to sympathize beings that were made by the ultimate evil to reflected his own corruption. I dont even know why they think that was a good idea.
At this scene it felt like they still had a little elf soul in them because Sauron made many elf to orcs with dark magic. It's why we see some orcs have elf armor and helmet. But in third age they are more fully upgraded orc and are hatred and forgot what they comes from. I don't defend the shit show but that scene make sense. Adar maybe is a another shape of Sauron? Or only a old lost elf that Sauron use to recruit orcs like a puppet 😅
@@niclas0jansson Orcs were made by Morgoth several thousand years before the events of this series They have been orcs for a very long time by this point
There are a few things you missed in this review, like the reason Elrond was able to get to the hidden room with the mithril was because he heard Durin's children sing a song about exactly how to open it. How exactly he was able to figure out the significance of the lyrics is beyond me. It makes about as much sense as a foreign dignitary visiting the USA and listening to the president's kids sing _Ring Around The Roses_ in the White House garden, and using that to figure out the nuclear codes.
You can often judge how well a show is directed, by how believable the people in the crowd are acting. It's a small thing on the surface, but it does tell a lot. These Numinor extras got no direction at all (or poor direction). They're mulling around like extras in a rushed episode of Xena or Hercules.
The "make evil relatable" part is so on point. The hack writers nowadays don't understand "good" and are confused as to why the evil things they're doing are labelled evil, so they just can't help themselves from writing evil characters are relatable. Because that's what they would do given the chance
And, for that matter, all their 'good' characters are generally self-absorbed unempathic monsters who show how 'good' they are by constantly humiliating anyone who gets even slightly in their way. You know... just like villains would do.
My sense is that they were trying to make the evil character redeemable (or “good”) in some ways as a futile attempt at creating moral ambiguity. But since they’re hack writers, they couldn’t pull it off.
Adar to Arondir be like: "So this is the last surviving elf who showed great tenacity and killed many of my orcs and my only warg here. LET ME SET HIM FREE to ask his remaining allies to surrender and submit to me. Surely he will not alert his friends instead and probably lead them into raising their defenses with his superior combat skills" Genius!
What about the part when Sauron says “Give them a means of mastering it [their fear] so you can master them”... Gee I wonder what he’s foreshadowing 😂😂😂
Poor Disparu, I feel your pain. I feel my brain cells dying just from seeing some snippets of this show. It's truly an abomination of storytelling. I'm more and more stunned how it was able to be broadcast to the public
Did you know the guy who was supposed to make a Conan the Barbarian GoT-style show for Amazon got fired because the show wasn't feminist enough, Amazon then went on to produce Rings of Power instead and he went on to be personally asked by G RR Martin to make House of the Dragon.
When Galadrrrielle turned dramatically and said to Miriel: "I want to speak to the manager", I sat down in my theater seat, because I had been giving a standing ovation for the past 15 minutes and it was just too overwhelming. Truly, this is one of the shows of this year.
Pattern: Elrond betrays trust, Durin calls him out, Elrond guilt trips him or shares a platitude, Durin apologizes for being right. It's awful. All of it. Even without the fake hobbits.
@@richardnixon7446 The point of calling them Fake Hobbits is that they're trying to invoke Hobbits without being called hobbits Numenor isn't a ripoff of something you remember...but it's something worse: a big allegory
@@joesmutz9287 they aren’t called hobbits simply because there’s no point of calling them hobbits, that word wasn’t even invented basically because the other species barely knew of their existence. And that’s not an Amazon thing, they don’t appear in the Silmarillion at all. Their first appearance is in The Hobbit, and they’re called hobbits, but the setting is the 3rd age. I will make an example, now you are complaining they’re not called hobbits, but let’s imagine if the Silmarillion called them Harfoots and ROP called them hobbits to make them more recognizable to the public, you would complain anyway. Your point is: let’s complain everything Amazon does because it’s mainstream. It is simple to understand the reasoning of you folks
@@richardnixon7446 I'm afraid you missed the point They couldn't do anything with Hobbits So they found something that would be the Hobbits they couldn't use The correct answer would have been to not have hobbits at all Or given how much they're abusing the lore, just have Hobbits despite them not really being usable Instead they took the worst of both worlds: They had their hobbits, but keep claiming they aren't hobbits so they can "technically" fit within the letter of the lore It's Amazon saying they're not Hobbits, but trying to pretend they're hobbits anyways Hence, fake hobbits
One other thing to add to the well scene from 21:20 onward. The orc was able to hear his little yelp and thought he might be in hiding the well, but somehow wasn't able to hear him burst out of the water 5 seconds after checking for him😆
To me it was weird that the boy (forgot his name) managed to get into the well so fast in the first place. The orc wasn't far behind him, but somehow the boy had enough time to get into the well.
Loved how the Orcs turned into Stormtroopers during the chase scene through the woods after trying to rip off the Boromir scene from Lord of the Rings. Masterpiece.
To be fair they are shit shooters lol but i thought the same thing. I was like i don't care about the guy elf enough to worry if he died. He didn't even go into melee like boromir he just shot his little arrows.
even better, they held their arrows when Arondir, Bronwyn and Theo where taking a short rest 50' outside the forest, only to start shooting again, when the trio moved again...
@@mitchellpolinop7650 interestingly in the lore Orcs are actually a decently good shot with bow, I mean in book Frodo would have died several times from an orc arrow if not for his mithril chainmail! :)
Galadriel managing to shove four Numenorean guards into her cell (without even using any magic at all, by the look of it) and then make her way to the King's Bedchamber - without being detected by anyone on the way - really was jaw-dropping.
Nah in that jail scene the guards are just "they don't pay us enough for this shit" and they...gave up :), 'oh no the elf is escaping ahhh yawn, we'll spend nice quiet time in the cell'. It's hilarious how mundane the Numenoreans are in the show though, these men are supposed to be greater than Aragorn on average! They should have great strength, endurance and all that, physically they are on par with the Elves both in terms of height and physical capabilities! :) Indeed her using magic would make way, way WAY more sense, hell there is precedent in the lore, in The Hobbit the Wood Elves used special enchantments, spells that put people TO SLEEP!!!! They could have used this as a sort of callback reference, in any case Galadriel in the show has no any of her canonic powers! Even her innate telpetahic mental powers!!! Which is totally weird, INSANE even, how are they going to explain her becoming a sorceress type...will they go the cliche, oh she received a ring and it's all from that?! Ughh such an oversimplification and dumbing down! "They shouted and called: "Bilbo Baggins! Hobbit! You dratted hobbit! Hi! hobbit, confusticate you, where are you?" and other things of that sort, but there was no answer. They were just giving up hope, when Dori stumbled across him by sheer luck. In the dark he fell over what he thought was a log, and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep. It took a deal of shaking to wake him, and when he was awake he was not pleased at all." ... "They wondered what evil fate had befallen him, magic or dark monsters; and shuddered as they lay lost in the forest. There they dropped off one by one into uncomfortable sleep full of horrible dreams, as evening wore to black night; and there we must leave them for the present, too sick and weary to set guards or to take turns at watching. Thorin had been caught much faster than they had. You remember Bilbo falling like a log into sleep, as he stepped into a circle of light? The next time it had been Thorin who stepped forward, and as the lights went out he fell like a stone enchanted. All the noise of the dwarves lost in the night, their cries as the spiders caught them and bound them, and all the sounds of the battle next day, had passed over him unheard. Then the Wood-elves had come to him, and bound him, and carried him away." ... " Consequently Thorin was angry at their treatment of him, when they took their spell off him and he came to his senses; and also he was determined that no word of gold or jewels should be dragged out of him." The Hobbit If WOOD ELVES could do something like that, why not Galadriel who is one of the most powerful in those types of abilities! :)
GLadreeee hel simply marched 4 Numenorian armsmen into her cell, yep no Mary Sue here, then she Karened it demanding to speak to the manHERger and have her hosts bow down to her great epic leadership. This show is written by driveling idiots.
Well, I for one am thankful for the show. If not for it, we wouldn't be able to laugh hysterically at Disparu's commentary of how absurd it is. Fantastic and hilarious breakdown, good sir
When galadriel banged her fists on the table and screamed " yes yes yes !!" and sauron says to the waitress " I'll have what she's having " is so emotional ....
I'm dependent on videos like yours, my friend, to learn about this abomination. Thanks for making my life easier by having to endure this heap of trash. Your hard work is deeply appreciated. Yes, this show is not Tolkien. It attempts to be one, pretends to be one, but it will not be.
You realize it's not a Tolkien series, yet you follow this clown who expects it to be one? Heck, let's be honest, Galadriel is hated on so much in this series while she actually was a c*nt until she went to a lot of BS. Silmarillion even acknowledges Galadriel was a c*nt back in the day. She's a snobby blonde that wants to rule a realm of her own, as a Tolkien fan you should realize that. I really hate Disparu for trying to make the whole series seem like a joke, while a lot of stuff makes sense. I'm very sure that if we gave this dude the same cash flow he would make the series worse then it is now.
er hate to disagree but this show doesn't attempt or pretend to be, more like cut off tolkein's face and wearing it in the hopes we won't notice there are characters we are familiar with but they are actually strangers that are doing whatever they want.
It’s extremely problematic and downright transphobic for you to think two powerful women could be imprisoned by a filthy man in the first place. Reported!
I just love how in one scene someone says something, and a couple of scenes later the cast do or say exactly the opposite, that seems to be the one and only plot device those responsible for this abomination have at their disposal..... We are now half way through season 1, and all we've had for the tens of millions of dollars this has cost so far, is nonsensical, contradictory, storylines that seem be getting worse by the minute........the makers of this garbage were so obsessed with race-swapping, gender-swapping politically correct agenda-pushing inclusivity and diversity, they forgot to hire anyone with even a grain of creativity or intelligence to write the bloody thing..........even the company that made the series knows what an absolute catastrophe they have created, where they have even had to resort to censoring or suppressing the negative reviews because there are so many of them.......while I hate the show itself, I am absolutely LOVING how much Amazon, having been responsible for it, is twisting and turning, trying to defend the indefensible..............
Now we know why the plot was kept secret for so long including from the cast when they applied for their jobs. Even after they filmed it they wouldn't let the cast so much as mention it. Galadriel was an obvious one but the rest could have done any of the parts as most of 'em are made up anyway. Other than a couple of long term UK character actors, I've never seen these people in anything so they must have come cheap too. I wonder if it's a money laundering scheme?
@@tkps d'you know, I can't help thinking along similar lines....I mean, this bloody show is genuinely SO bad, you almost would think it was deliberate, you're not going to tell me that the good people at Amazon didnt realise this thing is a stinker, there HAS to be someone there who could look at this and see what a piece of crap it really is........we've now had half of the first season already, and we're told that season one cost nearly half a billion dollars, yet to me, one of the most obvious things about it, is how incredibly cheap the whole thing looks, and whatever they're paying for the writers is way too much for what they've actually got from them.........I know we all love conspiracy theories, many of which actually ARE crazy, but come on, what other logical conclusion can you reach when you see a show like this, with such a staggeringly huge budget, that is so completely, consistently, awful? Professional film-makers, scriptwriters and actors, the greatest work of fiction as your source material, a budget that would run a South American republic for several years, and THIS is what you make of it?? Logic would suggest that, surely, SOMETHING in the show would be good, or memorable, or impressive, most bad movies or shows do often have bits which impress you, but absolutely everything about Rings of Power is so consistently ludicrous, inane, pointless or just plain stupid, you cant help thinking "is it this bad DELIBERATELY?" ...........we wonders, precious, yes, we wonders...............
@@MichaelHill-we7vt IMO, this debacle is being set up to fail. We have writers who have no track record, activists pushing agendas, the alienation of long time fans, moving production half way around the world during series. It is almost as if Bezos is going to use the $1BN spent on this as a massive tax write off for Amazon. In the end it might be the American taxpayer that funds Bezos' purchase of the rights to LOTR. Even a billionaire nerd would baulk at paying $0.25BN for the rights. However, a good accountant will have pointed out that the rights could be obtained for next to nothing as a tax write off.
As a new dad myself. I can tell that the first thing I would do if my daughter and I were facing certain death is to let some rando hold her for her final moments of life.
I have come to the divine conclusion that the one thing that would make the show amazing would be the oompah loompahs, I mean dwarves, sing every time Elrond does something naughty.
Producer: so she will not easily convince the entire numenor to declare war without hard evidence. Screen Writer: actually it will be super easy barely an inconvenience Producer: oh really
Doesn't Tolkien's work mention a twerk competition with Galadriel an She-hulk? They say they want to stay true to the source material, so when is that supposed to finally happen?
Yeah it's in the final episode where Tom Bombadil also begins mansplaining Galadriel her area of expertise before She-Hulk puts on all rings of power and says her famous catch phrase: "It's Morgothin' Time."
Right? Obviously Thanos & Sauron should have been put in a room together so that Galadriel & She-Hulk could twerk at them. Problem solved. Empowerment!
17:17 Thanks to subtitles, I was able to tell she was saying "Orodruin," which is the volcano that Sauron will use to power his forge AKA Mt. Doom, where the ring must later be unmade. How do you like them 'member berries?
So they’re trying to make that protest guy to be a simple bad guy, the writers completely forgetting that the guy he tried to beat up STOLE FROM HIM. HE DIDNT START THAT FIGHT FOR NO REASON
I can’t wait for the episode where Soyron dons his armour after making the rings and essentially destroys everything Because the only way I’ll get joy out of this show is seeing its destruction
@@GoldenFava Which side is evil? After seeing that Galadriel and the Hobfoots will leave their injured companions to die at the drop of a hat rather than help them along, I'm pretty sure that everyone in the show is evil.
There are two issues I have found in this series that completely ruin it. 1. The constant, strange mixture of under and over acting. Galadriel can't act and it hurts my skin. When she touched the palantir and was like "ahh my arm, that, that kind of hurt me". All the acting, bar maybe 1 or 2 is awful. I dont even want to get started on the orcs. The blue eyes. They're trying so hard to make white walkers from GOT. 2 and their scripts are just terrible. The things they say and how they say them is just making me sick 2. There is not enough variation of angles and you constantly feel forced into trying to be immersed rather than the writers and directors making it so you feel so. I can't actually watch and focus. There's just far too many elongated shots of the same thing. They constantly try and include the dialogue in 1 shot between two characters. We are constantly basically shoved in the faces of the actors and forced to listen. The chemistry is god awful. The CGI is gradually getting worse. Even the tsunami destroying Numenor completely ruined it, but that unfortauntely was the highlight. Ardar, or the actor who plays him literally looks like Star wars character, I forget his name. Overall ? Scripting is awful, variation of angles is awful and constant over or under acting makes this entire thing feel like some strange fan-made version of LOTR on a budget of £100,000 or less.
I'm pretty sure that with the orcs they're desperately trying to deflect the accusation that 'orcs are bad and they're dog whistles for black people' by both making the orcs good and giving them blue eyes and white skin.
That running from orcs through the forest in slow motion scene was a ripoff from The Fellowship of the Ring when they were fleeing Moria after Gandalf's fall. Except... In FOTR we had interesting, immediately memorable characters that everyone cared about. They were on a mission and just experienced combat with orcs, a cave troll and the sight of a Balrog, also a real tragedy having lost Gandalf, and they had to get Frodo, who was devastated seeing his long time friend fall , out of there while being shot at by orcs. So you can see why the epic, sad music and the slow motion worked. Here we had: An elf who was sent to deliver a message through a chain of random, nonesensical events and some random dark elf's STUPID plan (giving him weapons and all that). The elf just RANDOMLY came across the Sauron blade boy. The boy who was in the village because of a STUPID plan to get food. The boy's mother who RANDOMLY came across them in a forest somehow... It's all just a random mess with forgettable characters that are impossible to care about. And this show does this a lot - trying to inject epic music and slow motion to give a piece of crap a sense of grandure.
Brilliant! From Encyclpedia of Arda: "The name mithril comes from two Elvish roots, mith (probably 'mist' in this context) and ril ('glitter'). Mith has the secondary meaning of 'grey', but since we know that mithril not only had a silvery sheen, but was also fabulously light, it is surely the meaning 'mist' that is intended."
The part when Ariel says "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die" was emotionally devastating.
Then the pigeon flew away. And in the theatrical version, Megatron looked at Ariel and said "All I could do was sit there and watch Ariel die." The director, Martin Scorsese always said Megatron was a Replicant, but I doubt it. When Melville wrote DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF MITHRIL SHEEP, he was adamant that Megatron wasn't a Replicant.
The dialogue is monumental... The sea is always right Rocks look down The trees are leaving Walls have ears The sky is the limit There's no place like home I remember when all this was fields
Your reviews are the best part of each episode. In fact, I'm glad the show exists so we can all laugh with you and learn how bad something so expensive can suck so massively. Thank you, sir.
Thanks Disparu for taking one for the team. Your watching and reviewing this show is saving a lot of us from having to. I’ve seen one episode and honestly, I like your reviews better.
I particularly enjoyed when Galadriel took on 4 or 5 men and nonchalantly pushes them into the cell she was in. I didn't know she had super strength as well.
Na she used her Jedi mind control not her Superman or sorry “superWOMAN” strength she has many powers but she is wise enough to use them separately or something idk nobody can save this shit show.
My review.... Rings of power is undeniably a show, briming with a score, cinemaphotography, and performances. It is a show made by a ream of filmmakers that can irrefutably be described as existent. Truly a show that 2022 has to offer.
"No man, or indeed baby, is an island." Am I sufficiently qualified to write for ROP? If Halbrand is supposed to be Sauron what are the 'writers' going for? He's a Maiar so why doesn't he come across 'powerful and lordly'? The 'I'm just a rogue' makes no sense. Worse, why the attempt at making him and orcs sympathetic - A reflection of the evil outlook of the makers?
14:43… does anybody else remember in the two towers when one ork didn’t listen to the other ork and got his head cut off. They ate his body after he was killed by his own kind. Pretty sure they made a meme out of the one ork saying “looks like meats back on the menu boys”. Orcs don’t care about anyone or anything not even their own kind. The way this show is breaking the lore is just so obvious and in your face that it blows my mind. I know Amazon was going to fuck this is up but I didn’t expect them to fail this hard. Amazon is performing even worse than I ever expected and I already expected them to be horrible. This whole thing is a mess and will amaze me if they release the second season.
@@5RndsFFE there's actually some debate on the exact difference. Peter Jackson makes it appear as though Urak-Hai are breed, but there is evidence to suggest that they are just smarter and more elite soldiers with stronger training.... so maybe more like the difference between a new army grunt and a navy seal.
those lotr 2 towers orcs were too misogynistic, and don't represent the current world. Amazon FIXED that Tolkien mistake, by making RoP orcs gender fluid gluten free vegans.
@@ohifonlyx33 Ehhh Uruks existed in Mordor for quite a while, being known as Black Uruk’s, the largest breed of Orcs. Uruk-Hai on the other hand we’re a sub set and creation exclusive to Isengard. Whilst it can also be said that Uruk-Hai simply means Orc-folk.
You can argue that the difference between the second and third age is thousands of years which can change the nature and behaviour of orcs just like how human beings are shaped by their environment over thousands of years. How English people behave now for example isn't the same as they behaved 2000 years ago. Also, orcs in second age were affected by sunlight which isn't a factor mentioned or alluded to in the Jackson's LOTR movies.
It looks to me like the evil Elf is turning into an Orc. It's a misinterpretation of the concept that Orcs were once Elves, I think. But when you don't have references to Morgoth and the Valar at all, then this might be their version. Metamorphosis.
I can't stop laughing. Numenor looks like a stage set and everyone is dressed in curtain material. I cannot lie. This is a LOT worse than I thought it would be. If there is any hope for the future then this needs to be a $1b flop to stop this rot.
This episode was one the worse things once made: Galadriel plot born dead and it is worse here ( if this is possible). Numenor's first look was gorgeous, a huge city plenty of castles, buildings and life. But after that, all Numenor was restritc to two little alleys and a tiny square that looks the same scenario filmed for different angles and with people dressed as elementary children. And, for God sak, who wrote this dialogues? A 6yo boy does it better. The biggest question here is: where they put the 1 billion budget? Amazon's mistake was let this series in so amateurs hands: weak showrunner, weak direction, weak acting... They thought that simply put "Rings of power" on its title would be enough to do it been a automatic sucess.
Don’t forget, the last scene was everyone giving a Nazi salute. I agree, the worst episode by far… Amazon will need to incorporate negative numbers for future episodes.
The area in the south of Mordor around the sea of Nurn was supposed to be agricultural in the third age. That was where the food for the Orcs was supposedly grown.
and they get about 200 peasants out of all this villages? Couldn´t amazon afford more people? Or did everyone refuse to participate in this nightmare of a show?
Bezos had better demand a forensic audit for this whole production- in fact, I think it’s time Bad Robot as a whole gets investigated because this is an insanely expensive production that dwarfs the budget of theatrical films and we are at the halfway point and NOTHING cinematic has happened!!! It’s almost a joke how they will refer to cinematic events that ALWAYS seem to happen off screen!! There’s no big name actors or large scale stunt pieces and even that little troll battle we saw looked like a run-through! They really thought that if they just spend a little extra above scale for some top grade computer effects, they could trick the studio into believing they spent all the money, but they obviously pocketed AT LEAST half!!
I cannot wait until the scandals are revealed from this show about the overbilling the underdelivering, The shotty work the bad CGI I cannot wait until heads roll roll and we get insider information on there information on the disaster that this production was and is and always will be
This is true. I'll compare this show to Troy, since they both had huge budgets and were both ripping off classic literature (realllly classic in Troy's case) and because Troy used a similar setting to Numenor. Troy managed to look good while having expensive stars and big battles. So I can see why everyone's asking where RoP's money has gone.
The most annoying thing about the food shortage plot is that out of everyone fleeing their homes no one brought food? They have 5 potatoes, who is the one who brought the potatoes? That person deserves all the potatoes for being the only person to think about bringing food
"What will we eat?" "We'll find a way" "How?" "I don't know" What in the Abyss...? What scriptwriting demon-spawn tore into the fabric of our time-space and spewed this vile acidic gall in our faces!
The audio cutting out here and where it happens in the Two Towers are two worlds apart. Boromir is shot with arrows and wounded , audio cuts . There is nothing else on his mind but save the hobbits with the last ounce. It shows the character losing a grasp on reality around them as they are dying. Here it shows slow motion chase but there really should be noise. The other meanings and usage of the silence are cheapened by this weak scene.
I agree (Boromir gets shot at the end of fellowship by the way!) It makes sense, it's supposed to be Boromir's pov, he can only focus on one thing. No one's injured in that scene, who's point of view are we in? It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work. Maybe they just want to look like they know what they're doing.
In the directors commentary on that DVD, Peter Jackson said that was done on purpose and was supposed to evoke the feeling of drowning. Boromir Realizes after the first arrow that he is going to die (metaphor: falling into the water and sinking) but he wants to redeem himself for what he did to Frodo. He continues to fight bravely, even after the second arrow. After the third he is kneeling and looking into the eyes of the uruk (Lurtz? Sp?) as he is drawing back his bow. Then Aragorn attacks the uruk etc etc The lack of sound heightens the very emotional scene because we actually care about the characters and want the good guys to win, which is kind of the opposite of this show haha
@@gianna526 " It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work." Just another example of the idiot showrunners using the techniques of more-talented, more-intelligent people without understanding *why* those techniques work.
I am so glad I'm not the only one who saw that they were trying to recreate that scene. RoP tries so hard to evoke emotions and nostalgia by mimicking scenes and dialog from both trilogies but they fail every time because everything is done badly
Nice of the writers letting us know they know about mithril after watching Fellowship of the Ring. Also, the most interesting character is the guy looking at the camera while it zooms out, they should put him in damn near every scene.
To be fair, the actress playing Nori is probably best from the entire cast. She atleast is beliavable as the character she is playing. Most of the rest are still just actors in costumes.
Halbrand continues to be the audience's stand in by laughing at Galadriel and telling her to be nice. Leave it to Amazon to make a baddie more relatable than the hero. Some are saying this ep is not as bad as the others because of no Harfoots, but the Arondir, Theo, and Galadriel plots in this are bad enough! Galadriel, when she's saying "It will not be *quelled,*" does an odd eyebrow twitch to go with her infamous nose twitch on "ConFLICTed?" And why was she surprised to find the King in such a state- doesn't she know what having a Regent implies? Re Theo's friend (Rowan)- I am intrigued by his ability of foresight (unintended as it may be). He's certainly more intelligent than Theo, who is supposed to be the character of the two that we're invested in.
If they didn't do it then, its happening soon. The Sauron-Galadriel thing is inevitable in the show. That is why they wrote her husband out of the story.
So here's something fun I found out according to certain sources it is estimated that for a boat to go from just Numenor to Valinor is around 40 days (This changes based on wind speed, tides etc). For context the world record for fastest rowing boat across the Atlantic ocean is just a round 29 days. How does the timeline work in this show? Does anyone know how many days have passed? The problem is that they've set it up that time should flow the same for all the characters as everyone saw Mr Star man falling down. So was elf boy kept for several weeks while Galadriel sailed and than did her nothing sauce in Numenor? To say this show is a mess is an understatement. I could go over the plot holes but I've seen swiss chess with less holes in it. But here's some basic ones to think about. Why did Adar release him for a message? He clearly has ravaged plenty of villages before. He's also been stealthy up to now (huge ??? on stealthy with a massive trench) by building tunnels and a massive trench? Why if releasing him as a messenger do the orcs than attack said messenger? Want to explain how Adar has more compassion than Galadriel? How did mum, step-elf and son all converge on that location? Why did villagers not take food with them? Why did they trust 2 boys to carry back enough food to feed up to a hundred or more when they know orcs are around? If you can answer any of questions well done. Go and get hired by Amazon for the next season please.
The timeline has things that happened at the end of the 2nd age taking place before things that happened at the start and middle. We are going to have the equivalent of the D-Day landings before Hitler has even declared war on Poland.
"Why did they trust 2 boys to carry back enough food to feed up to a hundred or more when they know orcs are around?" Nobody trusted the two boys to carry back food, they snuck off to go back to town on their own
I liked the bit where they walked past two dead sheep on the outskirts of the village and don't even consider taking those back to the tower. Nah, we'll just go and look for more shriveled potatoes in town instead.
I have to admit, I thought you were joking when you first said you liked it better than She-Hulk. But by the end of the video, I believed you! Galadriel looked so disgruntled, like Applebee's messed up her burger again!! I don't know who would think she was likable. Anyway thank you for the review, I laughed a whole lot man. You looked so traumatized at the end. 🤣
True to the lore: "Secret or concealed doors are difficult to hide from half-elves, just as they are from elves. Merely passing within 10 feet of a concealed door (one hidden by obstructing curtains, etc.) gives the half-elven character a one-in-six chance (roll a 1 on 1d6) of spotting it. If the character is actively seeking to discover hidden doors, he has a one-in-three chance (roll a 1 or 2 on 1d6) of spotting a secret door (one constructed to be undetectable) and a one-in-two chance (roll a 1, 2, or 3 on 1d6) of locating a concealed door."
Tolkien devoted a large portion of his life to developing the mythical world of Middle Earth. He drew inspiration from his real life experiences of fighting in WWI, the close friendships he maintained through his love of literature even the love of his life, his wife Edith inspired the stories of Beren and Luthien and Aragorn and Arwen. During the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy there were always copies of the books on set to be used as reference for the director and the actors, even to the last day of filming. Peter Jackson and almost everyone in a high level position had read the books, loved them and were very respectful of the canon and lore. The writing and dialogue in TROP is not anywhere near as interesting and at times is as they say, cringeworthy. There will always be an audience for bad television/cinema. Not everyone is able to appreciate a masterpiece. Many prefer a simple story with lots of violence and gratuitous sex and Hollywood is more than happy to oblige. TROP is bad storytelling with bad writing, way too much CGI, and way too little love of the lore. That a couple of 40 something producers would fail to understand the importance of canon and lore versus pc and wokeness doesn't surprise me at all, being offensive while feigning being offended is a characteristic of their generation. I had really hoped they would produce a show that, given the obscene budget, would have approached the quality of the books and the Peter Jackson trilogy. A lifetime to write the stories and a singularly epic success of turning them into cinema. That is why people who CAN appreciate a masterpiece love the books and trilogy and do not love TROP. We are not racists we are lovers of the lore. Have diversity in the casting, I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with are people who resemble Romans with pointed ears....with Elven warriors wearing slightly modified football helmets....with "Our hearts are bigger than our feet!" hardly quote-worthy....Ugh! I don't believe I can bear 5 more episodes so I'm cutting my losses and skipping the rest. I sincerely hope that someone in the future, who does love Middle Earth, will try again. These are stories that need to be seen as well as heard because they are singularly epic mythology!
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 4, the show that seemed so long it actually managed to beat She-Hulk going shopping for a suit. How is that even possible?! This review almost broke me, something that has not happened since Wheel of Time episode 7 but I think you can witness my decline by the end lmao. But what did you think of the show or the parts you saw in the review? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Friend, how you maintain the energy to cover this shite is one of the eternal mysteries. RoP is HORRIBLE, and not in any sort of fun or jaw-droppingly insane way, such as was the case with Halo in e1 and its routine denial of physics whenever the script writer thought she could jolt you.
you jinxed us for next episode fam ,no harfoots(obligatory Irish pronunciation) this week but next week it'll be harfoot heavy . XD Your explanation is excellent of why the tempest line feels so juxtaposed when queen is trying to understand and Galadriel just shouts like a child. "I have a tempest in me"
The actress playing Tarmariel played Crixus’ girlfriend in Spartacus season 2. Needless to say she was absolutely awful in that as well.
Two words: Boring abomination.
Empowerment!
At this point, I want Sauron to win in this fanfiction...
Spoiler Alert:
he does, the island gets destroyed and swallowed by a tidal wave thanks to him
@@admontblanc well, technically you are right, but I meant in the whole of the story (fanfiction). enslave the many peoples of Arda and fuck the Valar n'shit.
@@admontblanc Yeah, in the books. We can't know who sinks Numenor in this show, nor why will they do it, nor who's indirect fault it is, nor when it will happen, since this show can't take stuff directy from the books, and even if it could, it probably wouldn't because the showrunners are too narcissistic and are convinced they will do a better job than JRR Tolkien. In the books Numenor was sank by Eru Iluvatar because Sauron outplayed the Numenoreans and convinced them to go attack Valinor and sacrifice their children to Morgoth (Numenor had weary of producing braincells during Pharazon's rule, therefore that happened).
“Quit comparing me to a horse!” demands immortal who lives in a world where horses are beloved, are characters in their own right, and can be borderline sentient.
Says also the immortal who literally threatened a mortals life because he "apparently didnt know who he was talking too". Seriously, comparing someone to a horse (not even in a derogitory way, just figuratively), or THREATENING TO KILL SOMEONE over the fact that someone disrespects you (who kinda has good reason to disrespect you too: You ARE a prisoner after all), which one should be considered the bigger insult?
The entitlement on display there is just stunning.
@@random.3665 its very telling that this new woke sees complete psychopaths, demeaning behaviour and manipulative powertripping as strength and independence and desireable :DD
How about a cow? Lol
So the Orcs have reverence for and give burials for their dead? Yet the Harfoots just straight up leave their weakest to die alone on the trail?
Sauron- er I mean Halbrand- is the only one who calls Cowladriel on her bull, too. Sauron is clearly the good guy, I'm rooting for him!
IMO the "writers" are trying to make Sauron and Orcs the heroes.
@@Lonovavir that’s typical of marxists to flip heroism on its head.
Orc lives matter...
@@Lonovavir The real hero of this story is the EMP that erases it from existence.
The "Elf" that provokes the destruction of Numenor is Sauron. Not Galadriel, she never even saw Numenor. Oh, and the destruction of the island happened 2000 years after the forge of the rings of power... Yeah, they've put "Cleopatra and Steve Jobs" in the same timeline in the series.
lul
Steve Jobs the famous black mumble rapper?
For an elf thousands of years old Galadriel has fewer social skills than a 17 year old playing DnD for the first time.
Yeah, but you got to remember that you... haven't seen... what _she has seen!_
The fall of Numenor deals with the theme of mortality and humanity’s desire to overcome it. We see this in the Numenoreans rejection of the Valar and envy of the elves. It is a key theme of the epic of Gilgamesh, so it’s safe to say it’s pretty timeless. Amazon, in their infinite arrogance, have decided that any mention of the Valar should be avoided on pain of death and the Numenoreans envy of the elves should instead be turned into modern day xenophobia. They have taken a timeless story and turned it into a modern day, American, political issue. This show is cultural vandalism
So, the Producers against the Patriarchy took Tolkien's vision of Numenorean pride in the face of death of suffering ..Mythic, Homeric, Shakespearean...and changed them into MAGA Numenoreans to score a political gotcha point?
It's either infinite arrogance or infinite ignorance. I highly doubt they even read the original source.
I used to watch this show to laugh about how bad it was for the first couple of episodes but watching this episode honestly made me really depressed. I mean it's not an adaptation of some random fantasy books, it's Tolkien, it's so sad to see such a fantastic fantasy universe that he literally spent his life creating being turned into some political propaganda garbage about things like immigration. First it was movies, now TV shows and video games, soon there won't be a single thing we do to entertain ourselves and think about something else that won't be full of political garbage and messages about our modern society
Well put
"Elrond, did you put your name into the goblet of fire?", Galadriel asked calmly.
This series actually adds depth to sauron's character in the peter jackson trilogy, we now fully understand why he's hellbent on destroying middle earth
Hahaha Yes at this point I'm rooting for the bad guys to win and wipe all these horrible actors off the face of Middle Earth 😄
😅😅😅 totally relate to Sauron now
# Sauron did nothing wrong
Reminds me of the film Armageddon where, about 1 hour in, I started pulling for the asteroid.
yea except those of us who actually read Tolkien's work have known that since we were like 10 years old 😂
I know Pharazon is meant to be "Numenorean Man Bad" but his ability to spontaneously generate keg parties out of nowhere qualifies him to be king in my book!
How did the writers miss the most obvious line ever? As Queen Miriel stands there holding another woman's baby in her hands watching the tsunami racing to destroy Númenor, shouldn't she have said, "The sea is always right!"?
I did hear that line in my head as the wave crashed down on her and the child she snatched. 😄😄
THAT is why they never hired YOU to write for this show!
I loved the scene where Karen literally asked to speak to the manager of Númenor.
A largely overlooked, recurring theme of these series.
Insert, “It’s funny cause it’s true” gif
Its not the elf that will destroy Numenor, it is Karen.
Episode 1 she demands to speak to the manager of the elves. Episode 2 she demands to speak to the manager of the raft. Episode 3 she demands to speak to the manager of Numenor. Episode 4 she demands to speak to that manager's manager.
@@HerculesBallsInc episode 5 she demands to speak to the manager of the army (and be promoted to general)
Elrond has super sonar hearing and super eyesight to eavesdrop while standing beside a waterfall but soldier elves cant see an entire forest be torn down from a watch tower.
We see Galdriel, on screen, warrior princess her way through several soldiers who were otherwise surrounding her. Then, the camera goes off her briefly, the camera returns to her and all the soldiers are lined up perfectly like ducks in a row running into the cell.
Where the hell did Arondir get a bow, arrows, and an elf blade? Why would dark elf guy give his weapons back that would result in more orcs being killed, which we just saw him crying over a few scenes before?
Lore inconsistency aside, this show is written by children and I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
The Galadriel locking up the guards was laughable. I immediately hit the back 10 seconds to see if I'd missed how she'd done it. But as you said, they bottled it. So lazy.
@@arthurballs9632 She just shoved them in like they were toddlers .... so epic.
@@toddtaylor6506 They forgot to add the Benny Hill music.
I also love how none of the soldiers make any noise whatsover. You know, like, to maybe alert some guards outside that a psycho elf on her period is on the rampage? So revolutionary, so brave, such courage.
Aren't Numerians the best warriors in middle earth and stand at least at 6'+ in height?
Tolkien was a master linguist and it is tough for anyone with decent brains to imitate his writings let alone these clowns from Amazon. Ten-years old can write better than them ffs.
Just take a look at these dialogue comparisons:
"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places" vs "The skies are strange".
"Get thee gone, and take thy due place" vs "You have not seen what I have seen".
"It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen" vs "The sea is always right". Jeez…….
Not even close Amazon. Get Rekt!
I don't think you used good examples. The first and third ones are pretty vague as compared to the show dialogue.
Hey now. Don't be impugning clowns by comparing them to the show writers. (😉)
Tolkien was a Professor of English in Oxford University for a reason. They had high standards in those days.
@@rhuiden4086 I remember reading somewhere about a professor from British (I think?) university trying to pass the entry exam for the very same university from 100 years ago. And he failed. So he asked his colleagues and they all also failed.
The dialogues in the show are ATROCIOUSLY bad in comparison, most of the time they don't even make any sense, the characters talking are spewing nonsense (prime example Finrod's weird rock and boat in the prologue!), take any piece of actual dialogues between characters from Tolkien, and one will see that it's not only high souding, epic, but also has deeper meanings, important lessons, hell Tolkien came up with the whole proverbs and sayings of the peoples in Middle-earth!!
"Yet oft in lies truth is hidden"
"It's an ill wind as blows nobody any good ..."
"And All's well as ends Better!"
"The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears."
"But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls."
"He can see through a brick wall in time (as they say in Bree)"
Even Orcs get one :). "Where there's a whip, there's a will" But actual dialogues of in one case a monologue of sorts are really something else:
"And Amandil, becoming aware of the purposes of the King, was dismayed and filled with a great dread, for he knew that Men could not vanquish the Valar in war, and that ruin must come upon the world, if this war were not stayed. Therefore he called his son, Elendil, and he said to him:
'The days are dark, and there is no hope for Men, for the Faithful are few. Therefore I am minded to try that counsel which our forefather Eärendil took of old, to sail into the West, be there ban or no, and to speak to the Valar, even to Manwë himself, if may be, and beseech his aid ere all is lost.'
'Would you then betray the King?' said Elendil. 'For you know well the charge that they make against us, that we are traitors and spies, and that until this day it has been false.'
'If I thought that Manwë needed such a messenger,' said Amandil, I would betray the King. For there is but one loyalty from which no man can be absolved in heart for any cause. But it is for mercy upon Men and their deliverance from Sauron the Deceiver that I would plead, since some at least have remained faithful. And as for the Ban, I will suffer in myself the penalty, lest all my people should become guilty.'
'But what think you, my father, is like to befall those of your house whom you leave behind, when your deed becomes known?'
'It must not become known,' said Amandil. 'I will prepare my going in secret, and I will set sail into the east, whither daily the ships depart from our havens; and thereafter, as wind and chance may allow, I will go about, through south or north, back into the west, and seek what I may find. But for you and your folk, my son, I counsel that you should prepare yourselves other ships, and put aboard all such things as your hearts cannot bear to part with; and when the ships are ready, you should lie in the haven of Rómenna, and give out among men that you purpose, when you see your time, to follow me into the east. Amandil is no longer so dear to our kinsman upon the throne that he will grieve over much, if we seek to depart, for a season or for good. But let it not be seen that you intend to take many men, or he will be troubled, because of the war that he now plots, for which he will need all the force that he may gather. Seek out the Faithful that are known still to be true, and let them join you in secret, if they are willing to go with you, and share in your design.'
'And what shall that design be?' said Elendil.
'To meddle not in the war, and to watch,' answered Amandil. 'Until I return I can say no more. But it is most like that you shall fly from the Land of the Star with no star to guide you; for that land is defiled. Then you shall lose all that you have loved, foretasting death in life, seeking a land of exile elsewhere. But east or west the Valar alone can say.'
Then Amandil said farewell to all his household, as one that is about to die. 'For,' said he, 'it may well prove that you will see me never again; and that I shall show you no such sign as Eärendil showed long ago. But hold you ever in readiness, for the end of the world that we have known is now at hand.'"
Hell even the simpliest line from appendices THE ONLY spoken line that they have for Second Age material :).
"And Sauron lied to the King, declaring that everlasting life would be his who possessed the Undying Lands, and that the Ban was imposed only to prevent the Kings of Men from surpassing the Valar.
'But great Kings take what is their right,' he said.
At length Ar-Pharazôn listened to this counsel, for he felt the waning of his days and was besotted by the fear of Death." (Appendix A)
It still sounds BETTER than anything written by the show because it's not artificial, the main problem with the writers of the show is that they TRY to sound epic and imitate the Tolkien high style but often just screw up basic logic of the sentence or just make it weird. I am more sad that they will never adapt this piece of speech of Sauron to the elven smiths of Eregion:
"Only to Lindon he did not come, for Gil-galad and Elrond doubted him and his fair-seeming, and though they knew not who in truth he was they would not admit him to that land. But elsewhere the Elves received him gladly, and few among them hearkened to the messengers from Lindon bidding them beware; for Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship. And he said to them: "Alas, for the weakness of the great! For a mighty king is Gil-galad, and wise in all lore is Master Elrond, and yet they will not aid me in my labours. Can it be that they do not desire to see other lands become as blissful as their own? But wherefore should Middle-earth remain for ever desolate and dark, whereas the Elves could make it as fair as Eressëa, nay even as Valinor? And since you have not returned thither, as you might, I perceive that you love this Middle-earth, as do I. Is it not then our task to labour together for its enrichment, and for the raising of all the Elven-kindreds that wander here untaught to the height of that power and knowledge which those have who are beyond the Sea?'"
Isildurs sister is actually my favorite character because no matter what happens in the show we can always rely on her to be staring out into the audience looking just as confused as we are. 👀
At this point I am rooting for the great wave.
To be honest I am rooting for Sauron or better the return of Morgoth …
To hit California? Yeah, me too.
Wish it would swallow Galadriel...and Elendil's useless, staring daughter (Why is she even in this?) ...and the writers...and definitely the Har-bits. I asked myself with the last ep "Can it get any worse?" Asked...and answered.
All hail the wave!
Okay..watching this channel and reading the comments, I feel compelled to give the show a second chance (I endured episode 1 and 20 minutes of the second episode, then couldn't stand it anymore), just to watch that wave 😁 and Sauron kicks everybody's ass.
The scene where the little mermaid screamed "black lives matter" and set Middle Earth on fire.... That made me cry.
😂😂😂😂😂
Powerful, bold and brave
I'm still crying.
Oh, and when JJ Abrams popped up in a cameo and said, “ring making is like poetry…. It rhymes and we put the final rhyme in a mystery box so the kings want to find out what’s inside…” And then that moment where Sauron gave him 30 pieces of silver… Never saw that coming!
Feel like that's something the new little mermaid would say tbh
That Adar scene with the funeral for the orc was just plain awful. Tolkien described orcs as hating everyone and everything, and hating themselves the most. No elf, no matter how 'dark' they supposedly are would ever show mercy to an orc. They're bitter enemies and have never worked together except for Maeglin at the Fall of Gondolin who was a traitor. Peter Jackson managed to capture this hatred perfectly with a simple funny scene in The Two Towers... "Looks like meats back on the menu boys!" Cannibalism is entirely fitting for orcs. Holding a funeral for one is not.
It amazes me how Amazon can consistently screw up every single scene in this show... Even the absolute basics of Tolkiens lore is wrong. It's like the show runners have never even read any of the books. Just jumped straight to the appendices...
You don't understand: Black elves are superduper compassionate compared with nasties white elvsies.
Also how the orc seem to share this human moment with him before he dies. You watch it in disbelief. It’s so unnecessary.
They trying to sympathize beings that were made by the ultimate evil to reflected his own corruption. I dont even know why they think that was a good idea.
At this scene it felt like they still had a little elf soul in them because Sauron made many elf to orcs with dark magic. It's why we see some orcs have elf armor and helmet. But in third age they are more fully upgraded orc and are hatred and forgot what they comes from.
I don't defend the shit show but that scene make sense.
Adar maybe is a another shape of Sauron? Or only a old lost elf that Sauron use to recruit orcs like a puppet 😅
@@niclas0jansson Orcs were made by Morgoth several thousand years before the events of this series
They have been orcs for a very long time by this point
There are a few things you missed in this review, like the reason Elrond was able to get to the hidden room with the mithril was because he heard Durin's children sing a song about exactly how to open it. How exactly he was able to figure out the significance of the lyrics is beyond me. It makes about as much sense as a foreign dignitary visiting the USA and listening to the president's kids sing _Ring Around The Roses_ in the White House garden, and using that to figure out the nuclear codes.
Galadriel: "I have touched Palantirs before."
Miriel: _"You have not touched what I have touched."_
You can often judge how well a show is directed, by how believable the people in the crowd are acting. It's a small thing on the surface, but it does tell a lot. These Numinor extras got no direction at all (or poor direction). They're mulling around like extras in a rushed episode of Xena or Hercules.
Xena and hercules had way better writing.
I am so glad someone else is as bothered by this as me!! Just makes the scene just look like a set and not a real place.
The "make evil relatable" part is so on point. The hack writers nowadays don't understand "good" and are confused as to why the evil things they're doing are labelled evil, so they just can't help themselves from writing evil characters are relatable.
Because that's what they would do given the chance
And, for that matter, all their 'good' characters are generally self-absorbed unempathic monsters who show how 'good' they are by constantly humiliating anyone who gets even slightly in their way. You know... just like villains would do.
Villains are better than those so-called "Good Guys" cuz atleast they know what to do and what they want in life
My sense is that they were trying to make the evil character redeemable (or “good”) in some ways as a futile attempt at creating moral ambiguity. But since they’re hack writers, they couldn’t pull it off.
"They are like this because they do not know good from evil." - Marcus Aurelius
"I can fix him!" - That "Super Fan", probably
Adar to Arondir be like:
"So this is the last surviving elf who showed great tenacity and killed many of my orcs and my only warg here. LET ME SET HIM FREE to ask his remaining allies to surrender and submit to me. Surely he will not alert his friends instead and probably lead them into raising their defenses with his superior combat skills"
Genius!
What about the part when Sauron says “Give them a means of mastering it [their fear] so you can master them”... Gee I wonder what he’s foreshadowing 😂😂😂
Poor Disparu, I feel your pain.
I feel my brain cells dying just from seeing some snippets of this show. It's truly an abomination of storytelling. I'm more and more stunned how it was able to be broadcast to the public
You deserve a medal for the work you are doing sir.
@@nt13987 I second that...
Honestly, "the RoP reviewer" would be a perfect subject for Mike Rowe.
Did you know the guy who was supposed to make a Conan the Barbarian GoT-style show for Amazon got fired because the show wasn't feminist enough, Amazon then went on to produce Rings of Power instead and he went on to be personally asked by G RR Martin to make House of the Dragon.
Lets hope he still gets the chance to make that Conan show.
For once, karma was on someone’s side lol
Seriously Amazon has given me a huge callous on my forehead from facepalming so much
I FUCKINg KnEW house of the dragon LOOKEd very Hyborian Age for some reason!
And who’s that guy?
Disparu your reviews are more entertaining than the show itself
Not a high bar 😂
"Why do you want to make evil relatable?"
Simple, the showrunners want us to relate to them.
When Galadrrrielle turned dramatically and said to Miriel: "I want to speak to the manager", I sat down in my theater seat, because I had been giving a standing ovation for the past 15 minutes and it was just too overwhelming. Truly, this is one of the shows of this year.
True...I have no more tears of joy left to cry /s
Pattern: Elrond betrays trust, Durin calls him out, Elrond guilt trips him or shares a platitude, Durin apologizes for being right.
It's awful. All of it. Even without the fake hobbits.
"fake hobbits", it's like saying Numenoreans are fake Gondorians, you know that?
Harfoots are not fake Hobbits. They are one of the 3 original tribes that existed before they settled in and around the shire.
@@richardnixon7446 The point of calling them Fake Hobbits is that they're trying to invoke Hobbits without being called hobbits
Numenor isn't a ripoff of something you remember...but it's something worse: a big allegory
@@joesmutz9287 they aren’t called hobbits simply because there’s no point of calling them hobbits, that word wasn’t even invented basically because the other species barely knew of their existence. And that’s not an Amazon thing, they don’t appear in the Silmarillion at all. Their first appearance is in The Hobbit, and they’re called hobbits, but the setting is the 3rd age. I will make an example, now you are complaining they’re not called hobbits, but let’s imagine if the Silmarillion called them Harfoots and ROP called them hobbits to make them more recognizable to the public, you would complain anyway. Your point is: let’s complain everything Amazon does because it’s mainstream. It is simple to understand the reasoning of you folks
@@richardnixon7446 I'm afraid you missed the point
They couldn't do anything with Hobbits
So they found something that would be the Hobbits they couldn't use
The correct answer would have been to not have hobbits at all
Or given how much they're abusing the lore, just have Hobbits despite them not really being usable
Instead they took the worst of both worlds: They had their hobbits, but keep claiming they aren't hobbits so they can "technically" fit within the letter of the lore
It's Amazon saying they're not Hobbits, but trying to pretend they're hobbits anyways
Hence, fake hobbits
One other thing to add to the well scene from 21:20 onward. The orc was able to hear his little yelp and thought he might be in hiding the well, but somehow wasn't able to hear him burst out of the water 5 seconds after checking for him😆
Yeah he literally couldn't have made more noise if he tried.
To me it was weird that the boy (forgot his name) managed to get into the well so fast in the first place. The orc wasn't far behind him, but somehow the boy had enough time to get into the well.
@@rexomnipotentus387 And be under water fast enough for all the ripples to disappear
Yeah right, considering that the well would have amplified any noise he makes, all of the orcs should have heard him.
Hiding under water because he made a little sound, afraid someone could have heard it… then comes back up making 10X the sound. Great
Loved how the Orcs turned into Stormtroopers during the chase scene through the woods after trying to rip off the Boromir scene from Lord of the Rings. Masterpiece.
I was thinking the same fkin thing about that Boromir part lol I was screaming at the screen 'no! No! You didn't earn that!' 😅
To be fair they are shit shooters lol but i thought the same thing. I was like i don't care about the guy elf enough to worry if he died. He didn't even go into melee like boromir he just shot his little arrows.
even better, they held their arrows when Arondir, Bronwyn and Theo where taking a short rest 50' outside the forest, only to start shooting again, when the trio moved again...
@@mitchellpolinop7650 interestingly in the lore Orcs are actually a decently good shot with bow, I mean in book Frodo would have died several times from an orc arrow if not for his mithril chainmail! :)
They tried so hard to have an emotional scene
Galadriel managing to shove four Numenorean guards into her cell (without even using any magic at all, by the look of it) and then make her way to the King's Bedchamber - without being detected by anyone on the way - really was jaw-dropping.
Writers can’t decide if Galadriel is a warrior or a rogue…
This was Amazon emulating Leia defeating mercenaries with the use of twigs......
But not in the right way
Nah in that jail scene the guards are just "they don't pay us enough for this shit" and they...gave up :), 'oh no the elf is escaping ahhh yawn, we'll spend nice quiet time in the cell'. It's hilarious how mundane the Numenoreans are in the show though, these men are supposed to be greater than Aragorn on average! They should have great strength, endurance and all that, physically they are on par with the Elves both in terms of height and physical capabilities! :) Indeed her using magic would make way, way WAY more sense, hell there is precedent in the lore, in The Hobbit the Wood Elves used special enchantments, spells that put people TO SLEEP!!!! They could have used this as a sort of callback reference, in any case Galadriel in the show has no any of her canonic powers! Even her innate telpetahic mental powers!!! Which is totally weird, INSANE even, how are they going to explain her becoming a sorceress type...will they go the cliche, oh she received a ring and it's all from that?! Ughh such an oversimplification and dumbing down!
"They shouted and called: "Bilbo Baggins! Hobbit! You dratted hobbit! Hi! hobbit, confusticate you, where are you?" and other things of that sort, but there was no answer.
They were just giving up hope, when Dori stumbled across him by sheer luck. In the dark he fell over what he thought was a log, and he found it was the hobbit curled up fast asleep. It took a deal of shaking to wake him, and when he was awake he was not pleased at all."
...
"They wondered what evil fate had befallen him, magic or dark monsters; and shuddered as they lay lost in the forest. There they dropped off one by one into uncomfortable sleep full of horrible dreams, as evening wore to black night; and there we must leave them for the present, too sick and weary to set guards or to take turns at watching.
Thorin had been caught much faster than they had. You remember Bilbo falling like a log into sleep, as he stepped into a circle of light? The next time it had been Thorin who stepped forward, and as the lights went out he fell like a stone enchanted. All the noise of the dwarves lost in the night, their cries as the spiders caught them and bound them, and all the sounds of the battle next day, had passed over him unheard. Then the Wood-elves had come to him, and bound him, and carried him away."
...
" Consequently Thorin was angry at their treatment of him, when they took their spell off him and he came to his senses; and also he was determined that no word of gold or jewels should be dragged out of him." The Hobbit
If WOOD ELVES could do something like that, why not Galadriel who is one of the most powerful in those types of abilities! :)
@@clogs4956 She's a modern female protagonist. She's good at everything she tries because...reasons.
"She walks out looking like somebody told her that ALT+F4 is how you save your university thesis."
If this show was my first introduction to Tolkien the author and his lore, I would utterly loathe the man and curse his birth.
Sigh I feels ya I tell everyone watch the movies if you like them read the books
foward 100 years, and nobody will remember.
another reset is complete.
This is top argument.
When Galadriel left the police station and her limp turned into a walk, that was amazing! She was Kaiser Soze all along!
She impresses herself every day.
That`s why There is no Celeborn and Celebrian. She has killed them herself.
GLadreeee hel simply marched 4 Numenorian armsmen into her cell, yep no Mary Sue here, then she Karened it demanding to speak to the manHERger and have her hosts bow down to her great epic leadership. This show is written by driveling idiots.
The scene when Arondir yelled "this is Numinor!" and kicked Adar down the well always takes me to the edge of my seat
no no no thats numino'RRR... just ask Galad"RRR"ielle
the part that Galadriel looks at the queen right in the eye and says: "I'll be back!"... that was legendary 😉
Well, I for one am thankful for the show. If not for it, we wouldn't be able to laugh hysterically at Disparu's commentary of how absurd it is. Fantastic and hilarious breakdown, good sir
When galadriel banged her fists on the table and screamed " yes yes yes !!" and sauron says to the waitress " I'll have what she's having " is so emotional ....
😂
@@sunnysied713 it's from when gally met saury lol
A man of culture I see.
😂
I'm dependent on videos like yours, my friend, to learn about this abomination. Thanks for making my life easier by having to endure this heap of trash. Your hard work is deeply appreciated. Yes, this show is not Tolkien. It attempts to be one, pretends to be one, but it will not be.
You realize it's not a Tolkien series, yet you follow this clown who expects it to be one? Heck, let's be honest, Galadriel is hated on so much in this series while she actually was a c*nt until she went to a lot of BS. Silmarillion even acknowledges Galadriel was a c*nt back in the day. She's a snobby blonde that wants to rule a realm of her own, as a Tolkien fan you should realize that. I really hate Disparu for trying to make the whole series seem like a joke, while a lot of stuff makes sense. I'm very sure that if we gave this dude the same cash flow he would make the series worse then it is now.
er hate to disagree but this show doesn't attempt or pretend to be, more like cut off tolkein's face and wearing it in the hopes we won't notice there are characters we are familiar with but they are actually strangers that are doing whatever they want.
@@georgebaldford3186 Ah, couldn't agree more, my friend.
My male incel friend
@@tdoom1354 "incel incel incel.. that's all I've got"
I got chills when "Galadriel and the Little Mermaid escaped from Davy Jones' Locker."
It’s extremely problematic and downright transphobic for you to think two powerful women could be imprisoned by a filthy man in the first place. Reported!
LMAO
lol
adn went straight into weinstein's dungeon
And Mickey Dolenz's Locker, and Peter Tork's, all the Monkeys had lockers
I just love how in one scene someone says something, and a couple of scenes later the cast do or say exactly the opposite, that seems to be the one and only plot device those responsible for this abomination have at their disposal..... We are now half way through season 1, and all we've had for the tens of millions of dollars this has cost so far, is nonsensical, contradictory, storylines that seem be getting worse by the minute........the makers of this garbage were so obsessed with race-swapping, gender-swapping politically correct agenda-pushing inclusivity and diversity, they forgot to hire anyone with even a grain of creativity or intelligence to write the bloody thing..........even the company that made the series knows what an absolute catastrophe they have created, where they have even had to resort to censoring or suppressing the negative reviews because there are so many of them.......while I hate the show itself, I am absolutely LOVING how much Amazon, having been responsible for it, is twisting and turning, trying to defend the indefensible..............
Now we know why the plot was kept secret for so long including from the cast when they applied for their jobs. Even after they filmed it they wouldn't let the cast so much as mention it. Galadriel was an obvious one but the rest could have done any of the parts as most of 'em are made up anyway. Other than a couple of long term UK character actors, I've never seen these people in anything so they must have come cheap too. I wonder if it's a money laundering scheme?
@@tkps d'you know, I can't help thinking along similar lines....I mean, this bloody show is genuinely SO bad, you almost would think it was deliberate, you're not going to tell me that the good people at Amazon didnt realise this thing is a stinker, there HAS to be someone there who could look at this and see what a piece of crap it really is........we've now had half of the first season already, and we're told that season one cost nearly half a billion dollars, yet to me, one of the most obvious things about it, is how incredibly cheap the whole thing looks, and whatever they're paying for the writers is way too much for what they've actually got from them.........I know we all love conspiracy theories, many of which actually ARE crazy, but come on, what other logical conclusion can you reach when you see a show like this, with such a staggeringly huge budget, that is so completely, consistently, awful? Professional film-makers, scriptwriters and actors, the greatest work of fiction as your source material, a budget that would run a South American republic for several years, and THIS is what you make of it?? Logic would suggest that, surely, SOMETHING in the show would be good, or memorable, or impressive, most bad movies or shows do often have bits which impress you, but absolutely everything about Rings of Power is so consistently ludicrous, inane, pointless or just plain stupid, you cant help thinking "is it this bad DELIBERATELY?" ...........we wonders, precious, yes, we wonders...............
@@MichaelHill-we7vt IMO, this debacle is being set up to fail. We have writers who have no track record, activists pushing agendas, the alienation of long time fans, moving production half way around the world during series. It is almost as if Bezos is going to use the $1BN spent on this as a massive tax write off for Amazon. In the end it might be the American taxpayer that funds Bezos' purchase of the rights to LOTR. Even a billionaire nerd would baulk at paying $0.25BN for the rights. However, a good accountant will have pointed out that the rights could be obtained for next to nothing as a tax write off.
"You've spent one billion dollars to cure insomnia congratulations" The only time they do good things is when they're not intending to XD
*Island is getting destroyed*
Muriel: Huh. Weird.
*Wave physically touches her*
Muriel: OH MY GOSH
it was the best allegory for female orgasm ive ever seen.
Foreshadowing at its finest.
“I worked in retail, you’re not intimidating anyone with that face.” = Brilliant
As a new dad myself. I can tell that the first thing I would do if my daughter and I were facing certain death is to let some rando hold her for her final moments of life.
46:30 “you really need to be careful with those hand gestures….careful!…” lol that had me cracking up
I have come to the divine conclusion that the one thing that would make the show amazing would be the oompah loompahs, I mean dwarves, sing every time Elrond does something naughty.
Producer guy: Why did that happen?
Screenwriter guy: Because!
Producer guy: That works!
Things happening is TIGHT!
Producer guy: Shouldn't the story make sense??
Writer guy: Ohh whoops!
Producer guy: Whoopsie!
Why guy? You're so sexist! This is too good to been done by men, this must be from the hands of women ...
@@Rezzatoni the bestest evaaaaaaaa!
Producer: so she will not easily convince the entire numenor to declare war without hard evidence.
Screen Writer: actually it will be super easy barely an inconvenience
Producer: oh really
When Galadriel said “It’s Elfin’ time” I clapped
Doesn't Tolkien's work mention a twerk competition with Galadriel an She-hulk? They say they want to stay true to the source material, so when is that supposed to finally happen?
Yeah it's in the final episode where Tom Bombadil also begins mansplaining Galadriel her area of expertise before She-Hulk puts on all rings of power and says her famous catch phrase: "It's Morgothin' Time."
lol man
The actress who plays Galadriel probably has as much ass as a sock with a couple of onions thrown in. Would rather see Sam wise have a go.
Right? Obviously Thanos & Sauron should have been put in a room together so that Galadriel & She-Hulk could twerk at them. Problem solved. Empowerment!
The Twerk competition is after she falls out of love with Sauron.
17:17 Thanks to subtitles, I was able to tell she was saying "Orodruin," which is the volcano that Sauron will use to power his forge AKA Mt. Doom, where the ring must later be unmade. How do you like them 'member berries?
So they’re trying to make that protest guy to be a simple bad guy, the writers completely forgetting that the guy he tried to beat up STOLE FROM HIM. HE DIDNT START THAT FIGHT FOR NO REASON
I can’t wait for the episode where Soyron dons his armour after making the rings and essentially destroys everything
Because the only way I’ll get joy out of this show is seeing its destruction
🤣
Yes, this show makes me root for evil in the battle for middle earth.
You know a show is bad when you're rooting for the apocalypse of its world.
@@GoldenFava Which side is evil? After seeing that Galadriel and the Hobfoots will leave their injured companions to die at the drop of a hat rather than help them along, I'm pretty sure that everyone in the show is evil.
@@usererrer7493 great point. Typical post modern approach from these terrible writers.
There are two issues I have found in this series that completely ruin it. 1. The constant, strange mixture of under and over acting. Galadriel can't act and it hurts my skin. When she touched the palantir and was like "ahh my arm, that, that kind of hurt me". All the acting, bar maybe 1 or 2 is awful. I dont even want to get started on the orcs. The blue eyes. They're trying so hard to make white walkers from GOT. 2 and their scripts are just terrible. The things they say and how they say them is just making me sick 2. There is not enough variation of angles and you constantly feel forced into trying to be immersed rather than the writers and directors making it so you feel so.
I can't actually watch and focus. There's just far too many elongated shots of the same thing. They constantly try and include the dialogue in 1 shot between two characters. We are constantly basically shoved in the faces of the actors and forced to listen. The chemistry is god awful. The CGI is gradually getting worse. Even the tsunami destroying Numenor completely ruined it, but that unfortauntely was the highlight. Ardar, or the actor who plays him literally looks like Star wars character, I forget his name.
Overall ?
Scripting is awful, variation of angles is awful and constant over or under acting makes this entire thing feel like some strange fan-made version of LOTR on a budget of £100,000 or less.
I'm pretty sure that with the orcs they're desperately trying to deflect the accusation that 'orcs are bad and they're dog whistles for black people' by both making the orcs good and giving them blue eyes and white skin.
“There is a tempest inside me!” A professional writer wrote this.
mexican food makes me fart a lot too. he is just using RL experiences in his work. normally thats a good thing.
And got paid a bigger paycheck than you or I will ever see..
I've eaten a curry recently! 😂
@@the_absurd_hero it’s fucking bullshit man. Seeing all the crap that suits unashamedly put on streaming services.
Someone got paid to write it.
Miriel ep3: Who is this elf? Miriel ep4: I know her entire family tree, committed to memory.
That running from orcs through the forest in slow motion scene was a ripoff from The Fellowship of the Ring when they were fleeing Moria after Gandalf's fall.
Except...
In FOTR we had interesting, immediately memorable characters that everyone cared about. They were on a mission and just experienced combat with orcs, a cave troll and the sight of a Balrog, also a real tragedy having lost Gandalf, and they had to get Frodo, who was devastated seeing his long time friend fall , out of there while being shot at by orcs. So you can see why the epic, sad music and the slow motion worked.
Here we had: An elf who was sent to deliver a message through a chain of random, nonesensical events and some random dark elf's STUPID plan (giving him weapons and all that). The elf just RANDOMLY came across the Sauron blade boy. The boy who was in the village because of a STUPID plan to get food. The boy's mother who RANDOMLY came across them in a forest somehow... It's all just a random mess with forgettable characters that are impossible to care about.
And this show does this a lot - trying to inject epic music and slow motion to give a piece of crap a sense of grandure.
The dwarf telling the elf about a brand new secret ore... that has an elvish name...
Brilliant! From Encyclpedia of Arda: "The name mithril comes from two Elvish roots, mith (probably 'mist' in this context) and ril ('glitter'). Mith has the secondary meaning of 'grey', but since we know that mithril not only had a silvery sheen, but was also fabulously light, it is surely the meaning 'mist' that is intended."
The part when Ariel says "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die" was emotionally devastating.
This tired meme is staler than your Mom.
Then the pigeon flew away. And in the theatrical version, Megatron looked at Ariel and said "All I could do was sit there and watch Ariel die." The director, Martin Scorsese always said Megatron was a Replicant, but I doubt it. When Melville wrote DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF MITHRIL SHEEP, he was adamant that Megatron wasn't a Replicant.
The dialogue is monumental...
The sea is always right
Rocks look down
The trees are leaving
Walls have ears
The sky is the limit
There's no place like home
I remember when all this was fields
"I need you Galadriel, I need your magic, I need the old Blade Runner" - Gil Galad
Your reviews are the best part of each episode. In fact, I'm glad the show exists so we can all laugh with you and learn how bad something so expensive can suck so massively. Thank you, sir.
I’m worried for Disparu, these shows are driving him insane.
HAHAHAHA. "Amazon spent a billion dollars to cure insomnia" love it.
Highlight of the episode: no Harfoots
Thanks Disparu for taking one for the team. Your watching and reviewing this show is saving a lot of us from having to. I’ve seen one episode and honestly, I like your reviews better.
I particularly enjoyed when Galadriel took on 4 or 5 men and nonchalantly pushes them into the cell she was in. I didn't know she had super strength as well.
That was grotesque. Wait no, it was actually Burlesque
Na she used her Jedi mind control not her Superman or sorry “superWOMAN” strength she has many powers but she is wise enough to use them separately or something idk nobody can save this shit show.
It's like the most CW Supergirl thing, ever.
She took a course in Elf Defense before going to Numenor.
@@bjornh4664 That pun deserves a cat ass trophy.
My review.... Rings of power is undeniably a show, briming with a score, cinemaphotography, and performances. It is a show made by a ream of filmmakers that can irrefutably be described as existent. Truly a show that 2022 has to offer.
"No man, or indeed baby, is an island." Am I sufficiently qualified to write for ROP?
If Halbrand is supposed to be Sauron what are the 'writers' going for? He's a Maiar so why doesn't he come across 'powerful and lordly'? The 'I'm just a rogue' makes no sense. Worse, why the attempt at making him and orcs sympathetic - A reflection of the evil outlook of the makers?
14:43… does anybody else remember in the two towers when one ork didn’t listen to the other ork and got his head cut off. They ate his body after he was killed by his own kind. Pretty sure they made a meme out of the one ork saying “looks like meats back on the menu boys”. Orcs don’t care about anyone or anything not even their own kind. The way this show is breaking the lore is just so obvious and in your face that it blows my mind. I know Amazon was going to fuck this is up but I didn’t expect them to fail this hard. Amazon is performing even worse than I ever expected and I already expected them to be horrible. This whole thing is a mess and will amaze me if they release the second season.
To be fair though, one was an Orc, the other an Uruk-Hai.
It would be like a group of Neanderthals and Homosapiens turning on each other.
@@5RndsFFE there's actually some debate on the exact difference. Peter Jackson makes it appear as though Urak-Hai are breed, but there is evidence to suggest that they are just smarter and more elite soldiers with stronger training.... so maybe more like the difference between a new army grunt and a navy seal.
those lotr 2 towers orcs were too misogynistic, and don't represent the current world.
Amazon FIXED that Tolkien mistake, by making RoP orcs gender fluid gluten free vegans.
@@ohifonlyx33 Ehhh Uruks existed in Mordor for quite a while, being known as Black Uruk’s, the largest breed of Orcs.
Uruk-Hai on the other hand we’re a sub set and creation exclusive to Isengard.
Whilst it can also be said that Uruk-Hai simply means Orc-folk.
You can argue that the difference between the second and third age is thousands of years which can change the nature and behaviour of orcs just like how human beings are shaped by their environment over thousands of years. How English people behave now for example isn't the same as they behaved 2000 years ago. Also, orcs in second age were affected by sunlight which isn't a factor mentioned or alluded to in the Jackson's LOTR movies.
It looks to me like the evil Elf is turning into an Orc. It's a misinterpretation of the concept that Orcs were once Elves, I think. But when you don't have references to Morgoth and the Valar at all, then this might be their version. Metamorphosis.
I can't stop laughing. Numenor looks like a stage set and everyone is dressed in curtain material.
I cannot lie. This is a LOT worse than I thought it would be. If there is any hope for the future then this needs to be a $1b flop to stop this rot.
This episode was one the worse things once made: Galadriel plot
born dead and it is worse here ( if this is possible). Numenor's first look was gorgeous, a huge city plenty of castles, buildings and life. But after that, all Numenor was restritc to two little alleys and a tiny square that looks the same scenario filmed for different angles and with people dressed as elementary children. And, for God sak, who wrote this dialogues? A 6yo boy does it better. The biggest question here is: where they put the 1 billion budget? Amazon's mistake was let this series in so amateurs hands: weak showrunner, weak direction, weak acting... They thought that simply put "Rings of power" on its title would be enough to do it been a automatic sucess.
It literally looks like a random place in an old Star Trek episode. Pristine sets that don't look remotely lived in.
17:15 "that makes it every village from here to Orodruin"
Orodruin is the Sindarin name for Mount Doom.
Holy balls. Galadriel is going to train some men how to fight? Oh man I'm throwing up in my mouth .....
Don’t forget, the last scene was everyone giving a Nazi salute.
I agree, the worst episode by far… Amazon will need to incorporate negative numbers for future episodes.
“Every village from here to Orodruin.”
Orodruin is Mount Doom so that suggests they are in the heart of Mordor.
The area in the south of Mordor around the sea of Nurn was supposed to be agricultural in the third age. That was where the food for the Orcs was supposedly grown.
As a Third Age Total War fan, I can guarantee you, if someone were to travel from Harad to Minas Morgul, it would take a looooooong time
and they get about 200 peasants out of all this villages? Couldn´t amazon afford more people? Or did everyone refuse to participate in this nightmare of a show?
Bezos had better demand a forensic audit for this whole production- in fact, I think it’s time Bad Robot as a whole gets investigated because this is an insanely expensive production that dwarfs the budget of theatrical films and we are at the halfway point and NOTHING cinematic has happened!!!
It’s almost a joke how they will refer to cinematic events that ALWAYS seem to happen off screen!! There’s no big name actors or large scale stunt pieces and even that little troll battle we saw looked like a run-through! They really thought that if they just spend a little extra above scale for some top grade computer effects, they could trick the studio into believing they spent all the money, but they obviously pocketed AT LEAST half!!
I cannot wait until the scandals are revealed from this show about the overbilling the underdelivering, The shotty work the bad CGI I cannot wait until heads roll roll and we get insider information on there information on the disaster that this production was and is and always will be
I think they're going to keep pushing with their bellies with the statement "Next season will be better" and so on.
This is true. I'll compare this show to Troy, since they both had huge budgets and were both ripping off classic literature (realllly classic in Troy's case) and because Troy used a similar setting to Numenor. Troy managed to look good while having expensive stars and big battles. So I can see why everyone's asking where RoP's money has gone.
The most annoying thing about the food shortage plot is that out of everyone fleeing their homes no one brought food? They have 5 potatoes, who is the one who brought the potatoes? That person deserves all the potatoes for being the only person to think about bringing food
whats worse is in the kind of setting that this is 70-80% of all endevour/work is the making of or the preserving of food and related industries
"looking like some just told her that alt-f4 was how to save her university thesis" I belly laughed at that one 🤣
whelp, its official, Galadriel is a Karen. she asked for the manager of miriel.
"What will we eat?"
"We'll find a way"
"How?"
"I don't know"
What in the Abyss...? What scriptwriting demon-spawn tore into the fabric of our time-space and spewed this vile acidic gall in our faces!
They took the great Lady Galadriel, and are saying that she used to be an insufferable Karen Mary Sue
And they wonder why we’re so *pissed*
6:10 obviously, they waited for centuries with those drinks, they knew, someday it will be handy!
I just keep waiting for Guyladrial to tell Sauron how he's such a weak man because she controls her anger infinitely more than him!!
I’m thinking that Guy-lad-f’real is just Morgoth/Melkor in drag trolling his boy Sauron D’Lord. It’s “Da Rangz o’ Puwr!”
@@brockdavid or is it Guy-Lad-for-real? 🤔
The audio cutting out here and where it happens in the Two Towers are two worlds apart. Boromir is shot with arrows and wounded , audio cuts . There is nothing else on his mind but save the hobbits with the last ounce. It shows the character losing a grasp on reality around them as they are dying. Here it shows slow motion chase but there really should be noise. The other meanings and usage of the silence are cheapened by this weak scene.
I agree (Boromir gets shot at the end of fellowship by the way!) It makes sense, it's supposed to be Boromir's pov, he can only focus on one thing. No one's injured in that scene, who's point of view are we in? It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work. Maybe they just want to look like they know what they're doing.
In the directors commentary on that DVD, Peter Jackson said that was done on purpose and was supposed to evoke the feeling of drowning. Boromir Realizes after the first arrow that he is going to die (metaphor: falling into the water and sinking) but he wants to redeem himself for what he did to Frodo. He continues to fight bravely, even after the second arrow. After the third he is kneeling and looking into the eyes of the uruk (Lurtz? Sp?) as he is drawing back his bow. Then Aragorn attacks the uruk etc etc The lack of sound heightens the very emotional scene because we actually care about the characters and want the good guys to win, which is kind of the opposite of this show haha
@@gianna526 " It doesn't make sense and they're using a filmmaking technique that doesn't work."
Just another example of the idiot showrunners using the techniques of more-talented, more-intelligent people without understanding *why* those techniques work.
I am so glad I'm not the only one who saw that they were trying to recreate that scene. RoP tries so hard to evoke emotions and nostalgia by mimicking scenes and dialog from both trilogies but they fail every time because everything is done badly
@@dronesclubhighjinks thankyou .
Nice of the writers letting us know they know about mithril after watching Fellowship of the Ring. Also, the most interesting character is the guy looking at the camera while it zooms out, they should put him in damn near every scene.
I'd watch his spin-off series.
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No, this can't be the worst episode, because...
THERE'S NO HARFOOTS!
Wait until you see the next episode...
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They all got left behind
To be fair, the actress playing Nori is probably best from the entire cast. She atleast is beliavable as the character she is playing. Most of the rest are still just actors in costumes.
This show feels like a 4 year olds dream
"You can't have this, I will never give this to you no matter what"
"Can I have it please?"
"OK fine"
Halbrand continues to be the audience's stand in by laughing at Galadriel and telling her to be nice. Leave it to Amazon to make a baddie more relatable than the hero. Some are saying this ep is not as bad as the others because of no Harfoots, but the Arondir, Theo, and Galadriel plots in this are bad enough! Galadriel, when she's saying "It will not be *quelled,*" does an odd eyebrow twitch to go with her infamous nose twitch on "ConFLICTed?" And why was she surprised to find the King in such a state- doesn't she know what having a Regent implies? Re Theo's friend (Rowan)- I am intrigued by his ability of foresight (unintended as it may be). He's certainly more intelligent than Theo, who is supposed to be the character of the two that we're invested in.
I think this episode is the worst of the four. Episodes 2 and 3 weren't bad actually. Episode 1 was alright, but this episode. Holy Cow!
Are we entirely sure that galadriel and Sauron didn’t do the nasty on the raft and the “tempest” inside her is his shadow spawn?
If they didn't do it then, its happening soon. The Sauron-Galadriel thing is inevitable in the show. That is why they wrote her husband out of the story.
@@Jim-Tuner Which means Arwen can never exist in this specific universe cause Guyladriel won't give birth to her daughter for Elrond to marry.
@@moonlitskylight5740 Sauron could end up being the father.
Wait i missed, how is that skinny beard guy on the raft Sauron?
Nah-Galadriel and the Regent will get together.Female pathogenesis.
Best parody ever! Such a pity that Leslie Nielsen died 12 years ago. He would be perfect cast for Celebrimbor role.
So here's something fun I found out according to certain sources it is estimated that for a boat to go from just Numenor to Valinor is around 40 days (This changes based on wind speed, tides etc). For context the world record for fastest rowing boat across the Atlantic ocean is just a round 29 days.
How does the timeline work in this show? Does anyone know how many days have passed? The problem is that they've set it up that time should flow the same for all the characters as everyone saw Mr Star man falling down. So was elf boy kept for several weeks while Galadriel sailed and than did her nothing sauce in Numenor?
To say this show is a mess is an understatement. I could go over the plot holes but I've seen swiss chess with less holes in it. But here's some basic ones to think about.
Why did Adar release him for a message? He clearly has ravaged plenty of villages before. He's also been stealthy up to now (huge ??? on stealthy with a massive trench) by building tunnels and a massive trench? Why if releasing him as a messenger do the orcs than attack said messenger? Want to explain how Adar has more compassion than Galadriel? How did mum, step-elf and son all converge on that location? Why did villagers not take food with them? Why did they trust 2 boys to carry back enough food to feed up to a hundred or more when they know orcs are around? If you can answer any of questions well done. Go and get hired by Amazon for the next season please.
The timeline has things that happened at the end of the 2nd age taking place before things that happened at the start and middle. We are going to have the equivalent of the D-Day landings before Hitler has even declared war on Poland.
"Why did they trust 2 boys to carry back enough food to feed up to a hundred or more when they know orcs are around?"
Nobody trusted the two boys to carry back food, they snuck off to go back to town on their own
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the plot and the script are just miserable. Written by a 6 year old.
They don't know what they are doing, so I guess we'll never have the answer🤣
I liked the bit where they walked past two dead sheep on the outskirts of the village and don't even consider taking those back to the tower. Nah, we'll just go and look for more shriveled potatoes in town instead.
Galadreyl Skywalker be like: " I, too, can command the wind,! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Numenor bare if you dare to try me".
I have to admit, I thought you were joking when you first said you liked it better than She-Hulk. But by the end of the video, I believed you! Galadriel looked so disgruntled, like Applebee's messed up her burger again!! I don't know who would think she was likable. Anyway thank you for the review, I laughed a whole lot man. You looked so traumatized at the end. 🤣
Thank you for taking the hit for everyone. No way in hell am I sitting through this festering turd of a show. Your reviews are very entertaining!
How they gonna talk about “DAY TURK UR JURBS!” When Galadriel was the first elf on their shores in centuries?
True to the lore: "Secret or concealed doors are difficult to hide from half-elves, just as they are from elves. Merely passing within 10 feet of a concealed door (one hidden by obstructing curtains, etc.) gives the half-elven character a one-in-six chance (roll a 1 on 1d6) of spotting it. If the character is actively seeking to discover hidden doors, he has a one-in-three chance (roll a 1 or 2 on 1d6) of spotting a secret door (one constructed to be undetectable) and a one-in-two chance (roll a 1, 2, or 3 on 1d6) of locating a concealed door."
True to the lore indeed, just the completely wrong lore^^.
Tolkien devoted a large portion of his life to developing the mythical world of Middle Earth. He drew inspiration from his real life experiences of fighting in WWI, the close friendships he maintained through his love of literature even the love of his life, his wife Edith inspired the stories of Beren and Luthien and Aragorn and Arwen. During the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy there were always copies of the books on set to be used as reference for the director and the actors, even to the last day of filming. Peter Jackson and almost everyone in a high level position had read the books, loved them and were very respectful of the canon and lore. The writing and dialogue in TROP is not anywhere near as interesting and at times is as they say, cringeworthy. There will always be an audience for bad television/cinema. Not everyone is able to appreciate a masterpiece. Many prefer a simple story with lots of violence and gratuitous sex and Hollywood is more than happy to oblige. TROP is bad storytelling with bad writing, way too much CGI, and way too little love of the lore. That a couple of 40 something producers would fail to understand the importance of canon and lore versus pc and wokeness doesn't surprise me at all, being offensive while feigning being offended is a characteristic of their generation. I had really hoped they would produce a show that, given the obscene budget, would have approached the quality of the books and the Peter Jackson trilogy. A lifetime to write the stories and a singularly epic success of turning them into cinema. That is why people who CAN appreciate a masterpiece love the books and trilogy and do not love TROP. We are not racists we are lovers of the lore. Have diversity in the casting, I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with are people who resemble Romans with pointed ears....with Elven warriors wearing slightly modified football helmets....with "Our hearts are bigger than our feet!" hardly quote-worthy....Ugh! I don't believe I can bear 5 more episodes so I'm cutting my losses and skipping the rest. I sincerely hope that someone in the future, who does love Middle Earth, will try again. These are stories that need to be seen as well as heard because they are singularly epic mythology!
Living for your commentary on RoP. Thanks for taking one for the team... I clocked out half way through episode 2.