The most action Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power packed episode that STILL managed to mess up a load of stuff, give an origin story to Mount Doom and the timeline makes NO SENSE. But what did you think of what you saw, or of the parts from the review? Let me know your thoughts below and as always, thanks for watching :)
They really do have no concept of time passage in this series. Who tells these people at what time they should do things in life? They clearly have no idea how to figure it out.
Tower falling - metal and bricks and fire crashing down - and one blackguard Elf stands there calculating the trajectory of every piece? The writers' grasp of physics is about the same as their grasp of time, plot, conversation, military strategy and bladed weapon skills.
-We have to wait for orcs to cross the bridge! - Wait...sir...I am just a sheep herder but...should we not defend the bridge? An obvious way of attack, one which forces our enemy into a choke point... maybe we should build barricades and try to hold the bridge till sunri... - I said we have to wait for them to cross the bridge!
The hilt turning I to a key to start a huge mechanical ancient mechanised dam break was straight out of a Tomb Raider video game and a huge shark jump.
J.R.R. Tolkien spent his entire adult life meticulously constructing the people, places and lore of Middle Earth. A complex, explicitly defined world as intricate and unique as any real world. This show’s writers approached this magnum opus with haste and disregard. And, the result is a flaccid attempt that has less forethought than a daytime soap opera. What a shame…a literary and artistic crime, really.
“Haste?” Or “hates?” They probably admire some of it or did when they were younger but now that they are fully woke, they are re-dressing the wrongs from the original. Pretty sure they are convinced they are improving it.
This is just another one of the Dark One’s visions to Rand. If he had won the last battle he would’ve started working with amazon to destroy beloved stories from all over the cosmere
Gotta love how the Elf dude didn't even bother trying to melt or at least soften the sword in the forge, just banged it with a small hammer unsuccessfully and declared "It's indestructible". At least when Gimli tried to destroy the one ring, it was a battle axe vs a small piece of jewelry...
This made no sense to me either. I think it's some lame attempt at more allegory. I got Charlottesville, Tiki torches, "Jews will not replace us" vibes when I saw that.
I have been thinking the same since i saw them carrying torches, aren't they supposed to see in the dark? I don't remember if the actual lore mentions that.
"Commander of the Northern Army" There were originally thousands of elves in the Northern Army, but in the course of centuries of Galadriel's command, all but a handful of the elves fell off cliffs, got left behind in swamps and blizzards, starved, or got chopped up by trolls while Galadriel watched idly for a bit before casually defeating the enemy.
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers sure but why the line about sea water? She sounds like she is giving advice not to give into revenge (which is hilarious coming from her). If she wanted him alive for questioning that's all she had to say.
So let me get this straight: Sauron devoted himself to healing, while Galadriel devoted herself to genocide and revenge?? And she's supposed to be a hero we should all aspire to?? I'm siding with Sauron! jfc the writers can't even write a being of evil properly!
This has been a theme in Hollywood for years. Disparu hits the nail on the head in this video. Every bad guy has to have some justification for being evil.
Maybe they intended to portray elves as reaching (mental) maturity much slower due to their prolonged lifespan. Similar to yodas species. Which is pretty dumb since elves are (and this is from my limited knowledge, correct me if im wrong) generally considered to be a superior master race on all levels, including the young ones.
@@zCREz "Maybe they intended to portray elves as reaching (mental) maturity much slower due to their prolonged lifespan" No, they dont think about it that much. They think being a total bytch is "badass".
When you really think about it, it's like the Elven equivalent of having Downs. She should be the calmest and most intelligent person in every scene and a combat expert, but she's constantly making bad choices and getting caught up in her emotions.
Ironically, Saurbrand is the only person there that CAN plausibly tank a volcano, given his power and resistance to fire as a spirit isn't clearly defined xD At least Galadriel is totally dead
Contrast the Bronwyn scene with the Helm's Deep scene in LOTR, when they had to conscript ordinary people to defend the fortress, the atmosphere was so somber and desperate.
Right--I love that scene where Aragorn takes this shitty sword that some little boy wants The Hero to approve of, swings it thru the air a few times, fights to hold back a grimace at what a crap blade it is, then gives it back to the kid with the hopeful words: "This is a good sword." (OMG, i just now re-watched it and literally shed a tear seeing that scene for the umpteenth time! Verdict: With PJ, your eyes are apt to tear up. With ROP, they're apt to ROLL up.)
Can't help but think, that if Frodo had offered the one ring to this Galadriel, then that particular story would've gone quite differently. Frodo: You take it, Galadriel: yoink, now grovel before me inferior peasant!
that's the point though. tolkien described the first/second age galadriel as proud and desiring to reign her own land/empire. she was banned from entering valinor due to her pride. so that's why she says "i passed the test, i will return to the west/valinor and remain galadriel" when she manages to reject the ring in the third age.
@@Dystisis Pretty sure she wasn't banned, but rather chose to remain. The test was acceptance or rejection of the Ring and Sauron's power contained within, and was essentially a 3rd Age thing only (I.e., not connected to the ambition that brought her to Middle-Earth in the first place).
I love that they use the term Uruk even though that's the term for Orcs in Black Speech, which was invented by Sauron to teach all of his forces in Mordor... which hasn't been founded yet.
Shhh, it's anachronism. They're being edgy. I mean it's not as though Mt. Doom existed during Morgoth's time. You're racist and misogynistic if you point out such glaring inconsistencies.
Wrong. "In the Second Age, Sauron corrupted and combined Valarin and Quenya to create Black Speech, which he intended to make the official language of all who served him. He ultimately failed in this purpose, although several generations of Orcs were probably bred in Mordor and raised on this language before the War of the Last Alliance. "
*"Just by the fact he’s two foot taller than me."* Orcs are short. It wasn’t until the emergence of the Uruk-Hai in the Third Age that orcs even approached man height, and they never got close to elven stature. Yes. Galadriel should be towering over every orc she meets, not staring up at their Uruk’s apple.
Near the beginning of the video Disparu points out that someone in the show pronounces “orc” oddly - but it’s just the actor saying Uruk lol. Someone involved in making this show must’ve watched a few minutes of the LOTR movie and heard those orcs referred to as Uruk and just rolled with it ; )
So Galadriel had to stop Halbrand from killing the elf baddy saying “we need him alive.” Then proceed to say she’ll save him for last, to Halbrand stopping Galadriel from killing the elf baddy. What is happening?
Because they started with an idea that Guyladriel would say "You pulled me back" to Halbrand, and him saying "you did that to me first," then shoehorned a shitty way for those lines to make sense. This is honestly the worst writing I've ever seen in anything. It surpasses even Troll 2.
My theory is that they each wrote a paragraph and shuffled them on the floor and took turns choosing them blindly, taped them on the wall and stood behind their actions.
If Overlord DVD's rumors are to be believed, they very likely have 'scrapbooked' the whole series, much as they clearly have with She-Hulk, which would explain why there is such an outrageously enormous budget for the series as a whole, and for each episode, with so many corners being cut where we can see them. Copy-pasted extras, print-on T-shirts instead of armor, 3-D printed foam painted to look like armor for actors and horses, and the general lack of polish. Having to film 3+ completely different versions of every scene HAS to be expensive.
The Southlanders started in the stone tower. Then they moved to the wooden constructed village and finally they ended up in the straw-roofed tavern. Where did they get inspiration for their battle plans? “The three little pigs?”
Here’s my summary of Episode 6: a) Left a perfectly defendable strong fortress and moved to a crappy undefendable hamlet b) Tower falling over - WTF c) The battle at the Hamlet - woeful strategy, tactics d) Galadriel- wooden as always e) Timelines don’t match f) Numenorion Tardis ships g) How did they know to gallop to the town and rescue them? How was that coordinated? h) Elf gets bashed by one orc, saved by alpha female - predictable to the point I predicted it will watching I) Elf hands Morgoth weapon to a teenager to make safe - WTF! J) Mount Doom - words fail me…..
I was also confused about why the people in the village seemed so familiar with the soldiers, especially Arondir with Galadriel. She rides up directly to him, and he immediately tells her what he's trying to do, and she instantly goes off and does it. We know all of these characters, but unless I missed something they don't all know each other. I think the writers are forgetting that the characters aren't watching the show, they only know what's going on in their area.
The show is written in super simple way and telegraphs a LOT. A lot of decisions are idiotic. For example, when town MILF gets shot with an arrow and they are saving her the orcs outside just chill. Yep, they are doing nothing. Orcs have sooooo many torches, my first thought would be to smoke these idiots out. My first thought for defenders would be to take defensive positions... but they also ... chill???
@@billy-the-butcher THIS. I spend two hours when I have to pack things in my car for going on summer holidays, they manage to prepare 500 knights for battle in a blink..
"It is strange. Most of my life I've looked east to see the sun rise over the sea, and west to see it set over the land. We're sailing into the dawn, and yet, to me, it feels like the coming of night." ... "She Drowned." This episode truly felt like a medieval comedy special. I was laughing all the way through.
When Isildur gave his horse a bite on the apple I thought "Come on, give the poor horse the whole apple", then he threw it in the ocean and I couldn't stop laughing for a good 10 minutes.
Isn't that what happened in the animated film The Road to El Dorado? Then the horse jumped off the boat to get the apple. Then Elton John began to sing and sing and sing, then sang some more.
I like how, when the volcano explodes, everyone is running around and trying to help while Galadriel just stands there. 'Galadriel' as Sauron confirmed! So so evil
I like how Miriel said "take cover!" WHERE SHOULD I TAKE COVER, O GRAND REGENT, THERE ARE FIREBALLS RAINING FROM THE SKY AND THESE HOUSES HAVE THATCH ROOFS. smh.
@@imthedevilkys536 Looking at the topography, that lava would have to be way down there in the cone for the water to flow there to reach it too, unless the water also flowed uphill.
@@nooneinparticular1491 "IT ONLY COUNTS AS ONE " even though its in two pieces. Just funny that taking down a war elephant(creature thing )with full cabin is something Legolas has done.
The structural integrity of that tower represents the structural integrity of the show… A flimsy structure held together by piss poor writing and terrible characters a.k.a. the easily ignitable rope… Did they seriously not have one person in that writing room that would stand up and say “hey I don’t think this is gonna work!”
Remember how Theoden moved his people from Edoras to Helm's Deep because it was a much more fortified location as he knew that with their numbers they couldn't hope to win a battle like that, especially not against thousands of Uruks? Yeah, that's what a smart person would do. But there are no smart people in this show.
I literally just finished reading the story of Beren and Lúthien in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Tolkien’s writing is to Rings of Power, what a five star gourmet meal is to rotten leftovers straight out of the trash.
Heresy eventually perishes after it's lies are made naked and clear upon the sight of those it hopes to blind! We must stop watching this even for negative publicity because it feeds the amazon rating system. Take heart and join us for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN counter rings of power heresy series on our channel. It will be a happy thought in these dark times.
It’s like comparing the Mona Lisa to a smiley face scrawled onto a piece of 1-ply toilet paper with a hooker’s lipstick That’s the one I use for wheel of time show watchers who haven’t reas the real story.
Right now the only reasonable point about getting excited for a new lotr episode is knowing that Disparu will make a video about it. You never fail to make me laugh. Thank you!
Love how Guyladingdong was acting high and mighty when everything was easy and safe but the moment shit really hits the fan and a volcano explodes, she goes into total shock and is absolutely unable to act. Not sure what message they are trying to send here.
@@maak6270 By Gl-Galad?! Never! He's the evil m-word ... I bet Disa shows up to safe her in the last second. She sung her way through the underground and opens an escape tunnel right before her feet ...
Weird you say that, because this battle legit reminded me of something from a zombie movie, with the survivors funnelling in brain-dead zombies down one path into an obvious trap. This show has officially turned orcs into ineffective brainless zombies.
They made the same mistake as Force Awakens. Once you humanize the orcs or stormtroopers, and build up audience sympathy, hour heroes now look like unfeeling psychopaths when they kill hordes of these enemies. And this is worse since there is a hint that these orcs are displaced refugees. Are we supposed to be on the side of those killing displaced immigrants just looking for a new home? Once we found out stormtroopers are brainwashed child soldiers, Rey shouting with glee when shooting them down makes her into a murderous oaf and Fin into some sort of psycho with no thought that he is killing his friends.
This is an excellent observation and makes me wonder whether the writers and producers, etc. are aware of it? Maybe they are trying to send the message that everyone is morally ambiguous and there are no real good guys or bad guys.
@@dronesclubhighjinks maybe. But they really seemed to try to make Rey and Galadriel perfect and moral with music cues, dialogue and lighting, and camera angles. So either they are undermining their message that no one is all good or bad or they didn’t realize the consequences of their writing.
We have Galadriel ruthlessly killing orcs for hundreds of years with no mercy. Yet they try to show she is heroic AND the orcs are not that evil. Or that hard to kill. So instead of killing terrifying forces of great evil and overwhelming strength, Galadriel has been murdering morally ambiguous orcs that untrained farmers and housewives can overwhelm. That would be like making the Witch King a family man and get tricked by babies in a scene before Eowyn kills him. Kinda defeats the purpose.
The thing is the stormtroopers could be humanized because well... they are humans underneath the armor. Even in Legends they were humanized where you got stories like the one where a boy became a stromtrooper because his father got killed in a battle by rebels only for himself to later get killed by a kid who had picked up the rifle of the father that the stormtrooper had just killed in a firefight with rebels. The problem is when you take a character who was once on the side of the stromtroopers and have them instantly act like a generic rebel who is savoring satisfying his blood lust by killing stormtroopers en mass. That undermines the whole "stormtroopers are people too" and completely undermine your characters doing that. Orcs though? You cannot humanize those. In Tolkien's world pure good and pure evil actually exists, and orcs are pure evil creations. They are monstrous monsters who find people tasty and have no qualms about cannibalism.
@@dronesclubhighjinks That does not work in Lord of the Rings because Black and White morality actually exists in his world. Very few things are even capable of the grey zone, even then when they pick a side they go deep on that side.
I'm still wondering how Elves built a fortified tower that was basically held together with one rope.......then I'm wondering how all the villagers sneaked out of it without one single orc(or their human allies) seeing them.....then I'm wondering why not one of the orcs or their humans thought that putting a scout or two to watch the tower might be a good idea.... then I"m wondering why, having got into an Elven fortified tower, the villagers would then decide to leave it, and go to a village without a wall, with buildings made of timber and thatch, and would then conclude that IT was the place they would make their defensive position......then I'm wondering why the orcs are carrying torches when Professor Tolkien(remember him? ) wrote that they "could see like gimlets in the dark"...then I'm wondering why anyone, even an Elven princess in a fantasy show, would feature in a scene that had her willingly stand in front of a pyroclastic flow while wearing a suit of armour.......and then I'm wondering how anyone with even one functioning brain cell could watch this utter crap and think it was any good..........
All the silly booby traps in the orc invasion scenes made me feel like I was watching the Middle Earth version of Home Alone. I kept waiting on Adar to slip on a hot wheels and and the orc behind him get hit in the face with a can of paint
lol. You wouldn't even have time to worry about breathing in toxicity from that cloud. You'd be instantly incinerated. Like every single character in that village is dead.
Well we’re all safe because we have zero emotional connection to this Tolkien fan fiction. Just think how pissed you’d be if it was supposed to be actually good. Like if you’d seen the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers, but then Return of the King comes out and it is a hot woke, nonsensical mess. I feel thankful that all the pre release Super Fan and how world saving important it is to have black female dwarves stuff came out. They completely detached me from this garbage before the first episode aired. Thanks Amazon.
@@clogs4956 you are obviously eagerly anticipating the pitch meeting for this show! I’m looking forward to the massive amount of indignant “I don’t knows“ haha
Actually, I liked the Trojan Troll better. Hiding all those Orks in the backside of that Troll and then let him demand entry to the city, because he must go to the crapper, now!, was brilliant.
There are also people who claim to be serious scholars of Tolkien who have explained that when the show breaks the lore, we are not to take that at face value. That its all a trick by Sauron operating off-screen in the show.
This mass of ash, gas and rock fragments can travel at speeds approaching 125 mph (200 kph). And with internal temperatures of 752 to 1,472 degrees F (400 to 800 degrees C), it can pretty much bake anything in its path. Galadriel walked into this btw? So she's dead right? Oh, wait. Elves are now Targaryans it seems?
Woke writers don't know that kind of stuff. Either she lives, or she will come back as Galadriel the White like Gandalf did in the 2 tower. She's not dead for sure 😂😂
@@madjoe8622 We aren't that lucky I guess. If anything, they're all dead, and the show and our pain is over and we can all just watch house of the dragon instead which despite being a bit woke can still tell a good story. Unlike RoP
No, it's far more cunning. As Ardar said, Galadriel is evil as f*ck. And as we learned from her in the first episode, evil inhibits fire to burn. So it will turn out that Galadriel is so evil the pyroclastic stream will turn into a normal cloud of dust and rocks, and as an elv she can easily avoid being hit by any of those thousands of rocks tumbling down with great speed. And you will be stunned by the final revelation that Galadriel planned it exactly this way: that she nurtured the evil inside her to protect her against fire. Her explanation will end with the words: to survive in war, one has to become war ...
So the Southland villagers had time to travel to the tower, concoct a plan, rig a trap, *leave* the tower, get back to the village and *set up more traps before the Orcs reach them?!* Why is that a better alternative than book it North or West to a larger and more secure city?!
This was written by people who don't know anything and think that the most impressive set piece will make up for the lack of basic common sense or logic
This is as bad as Batman's The Dark Knight Rises. In that idiocy, Batman hung on side of a building to draw a huge bat symbol with tons of gasoline that he somehow creates a trail ALL the way to the bridge area and at the right angle for the villain to see. That movie was utter garbage and this show is going there.
@@fr9714 Do you know The Big Lebowski? The scene where he says: "What the fuck does anything have to do with Vietnam?" Well let me ask you now: What the fuck does anything have to do with The Dark Knight Rises?
So, essentially the Activist Lady’s plan was to “Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.” Not a bad plan, in another film.
Well done Disparu. Don't let the hacks off, not for even the smallest bit of stupidity. They took a man's life's work and shat on it. This isn't any old bit of fantasy, this is Middle earth!! Tolkien!!! No fkin mercy.
@@WaxTheDolphin 😂 😂 it's as if Tolkien was in the room when they wrote that scene! I mean, the spirit of Tolkien. Not the disitnterred corpse that they've been kicking round the office at morning Latte.
@@reek4062 Reek!! I am honoured!! When Jackson did it, I banged one off then smoked the biggest doobie ever seen this side of the Caribbean.... Was escorted from the theatre shortly after... Good Times.
I've increasingly noticed that there are lines in rings of power, that are taken from LOTR, and in a desperate attempt to hide this fact, been changed a little! Problem is, they've been given to uninspiring bland drones, and therefore fall completely flat! The pain continues to grow!
I personally thinks it's very kind of Amazon and Disney+ to put so much money into ensuring that UA-camrs will have content to produce. Imagine if everything was great, wouldn't make for as good review videos.
My favourite part of Galadriel is how she takes a pyroclastic flow from a volcano straight to the face while in a heroic pose of defiance. No probs right.
With rocks, at 100kph, up to 700kph. Luckily these circumstances won't "incinerate living organisms instantaneously or turn them into carbonized fossils" right... RIGHT?
To be fair there is a scene in Balin's tomb where Sam is smacking Orcs with frying pan during battle in the movies. That being said this show is still awful.
Personal ROFL moments: 13:11 - I've seen more romantic looks passed between people in their order of KFC. 29:35 - The new numinorians are here and they can both teleport and bend time and space! 39:05 - No horses were harmed during the making of this show. 42:43 - Have you considered posting that on Twitter, Galadriel? 48:22 - Quick! Somebody, get rid of the florist!
Why are the best characters in this show the evil ones? Apart from the Harfoots, who are just psycho killers. Pharazon is the bad guy, but he is the only one who knows what he wants, has a plan, and is working successfully towards it. Adar is spot-on when he tells Galadriel "if you're looking for Sauron, have you tried looking in the mirror?" and he has some kind of intriguing back story (which the writers will probably mess up).
"...looking in the mirror"... Why am I suddenly seeing the twist we all know is coming being that Guyladrial is actually Sauron working his plans, and the real Galadrial is blissfully unaware of everything in this show and merrily ruling Lothlorien with Celeborn?
Pharazon does seem to be the only character with a modicum of presence and intelligence. He's also the most elf-like character in this show. Galadrial has pretty hair, but its the Harry Potter elves that are the midgets, not Tolkiens. (I'm 5ft 2 - I know it ain't intimidating or regal).
@@Wraithspartan As contrived as that would be it would at least be a good twist. Galadrial was captured in episode 1 by Sauron in that dark tower. Final episode she escapes and fights herself whilst surrounded by lava.
I was because I knew either the town was going to win or numenor was going to save them but if this show made sense then the orcs would have wiped the town out and then they would have erupted the volcano and it would have been more believable
I was hoping that Galadriel would gallop in and kill everyone, orcs and all, and then go and jump off another boat and meet her untimely demise, but unfortunately that didn't happen.
I loved the part where Galadriel says to Halbrand: "Let's Transform and Roll Out" then takes off after Adar. Halbrand then transforms into Starscream and flies ahead (cuz how TF else did he get in front of them) to cut off Adar at the pass.
It’s a small point, but I think it’s worth making... about the horse popping up OK in that one scene. Tolkien was a WWI veteran and witnessed some of the last uses of horses in modern warfare. Like people, these beautiful, powerful creatures were mowed down by machine-gunfire, a product of the modern industrial machine that Tolkien so despised (perhaps for its role in warfare?). He respected horses in LotR (e.g., the Rohirrim, Shadowfax, the various ponies that the hobbits/fellowship use, etc.), and he respected them in his stories, allowing them to suffer the same joys and fates as their human riders and counterparts. By not sparing horses from death (in his fiction), Tolkien acknowledges their worth(iness) and dramatic value the same as any other character that the reader is asked to care about. He created empathy for the horses, so we felt bad when they were injured, sad when they died, and celebratory when they rode through battle victorious. It’s yet another example of the maturity of Tolkien’s writing, which elicits a similarly mature comprehension from readers. RoP: “Nah! Gotta treat the audience of this GoT-wannabe war show like children and show that the horse is okay. Don’t want any angry letters from PETA...”
just a note horses have been widely used in modern war, infront line roles, into the 1980s, horses have also been used in major modern operations (like operation induring freedom in 2001). and i am not just talking about packhorses (which shouldn't be ignored), cavalry was used to great effect into the '80s. although ww1 was the last time the BRITISH uses horses ON THAT SCALE (other countries in ww2 used horses in greater numbers than ww1 in ww2)
I don't think the problem is that they wanted to avoid the horse being injured or killed, so much as they didn't want a character who is-at least for the moment- a hero to harm the horse. It's still stupid, but I'd imagine that that is the reason.
Didn't he also state that Orcs and Goblins naturally feared Horses which is why you don't see Orcs and Goblins climbing all over Horses to get at riders but instead, back away (same reason why Orcs and Goblins do not use horses). Think Helms Deep Ending with that last Charge by Theoden from inside the keep to outside, ALL the Uruks stepped back/away from the VERY FEW horses that were charging, when the Uruks easily could of thrown themselves at the Horses and overwhelmed the riders quickly.
16:53 the weird thing about Arondir's archery is that he's drawing his bow Avatar-style (with his shooting hand reversed) instead of the way bows have been used for almost all of human history.
It's because they've only ever seen target shooting bows with rests and sights. You have to shoot with reversed hand if you want to shoot fast because otherwise you need two hand movements to place the arrow on the string. Rather than the real way to fire quickly, which is to put the arrow on the same side of the bow as the draw hand.
He’s “incorporating capoeira” into his elvish fighting 🙄 I’m still waiting to hear why the lord supports elves developing a dancing fighti g style. Especially since they’ve never been legally prevented from martial training. Couldn’t be that old Ishmael needed to self insert. Nah…
That cloud heading toward everyone at the end looks suspiciously like a _Pyroclastic Flow,_ which is defined as "a dense, destructive mass of very hot ash, lava fragments, and gases ejected explosively from a volcano and typically flowing downslope at great speed." Further, the gases and tephra can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F). *Superman* might be able to handle it, but I don't know about everyone else.
IF they had portrayed Galadriel as the sorcerer she is , she could have shown her worth by doing some "high mana cost" spell wich saves some of the people but drains her extremely. So we get to see her passion for life. Being an Elf and all that...
And as someone pointed out on Twitter the magma would have to have been in a pressurised container for an eruption on that scale to happen. The steam generated by the water would then build up until it generated enough pressure to blow the top off the container. But the vent wasn't sealed by rocks so there shouldn't have been a massive explosion in the first place.
@@craigthompson6466 That is correct, of course. Since the writers have no knowledge of JRR Tolkien other than a few Wikipedia paragraphs, how can we expect them to have any knowledge of Vulcanology?
The thing about that moment of Arondir being like "Galadriel...🤯" is that this is the kind of reaction the REAL Galadriel should and would get from people if she ever showed up out of nowhere, but the show version of Galadriel absolutely has not earned this reaction. She's done almost nothing for the entire show.
I remembered that behind the tower cliff there was an alpine lake. I realized awhile back that they were going to pull an Isengard maneuver but I thought it was going to be the humans washing away, defeating the orcs. FYI, a flash steam event in a volcano would cause a cataclysmic explosion (think Krakatoa) BUT it would NOT cause a lava caldera eruption.
I am happy you came up with the two arrows on Bronwin. I also noticed that, but did not speak about with anyone, since it is such a trivial detail. But confirming it is really nice. Same thing with the master plot. The orc having built a trench to lead the water to the volcano. It is the most far fetched idea you could have. The orcs did not need the broken sword, they could have destroy the dam directly. The attack of the village is also completly dumm, they should have attacked from all direction, and not always come from this tiny bridge. The more you think, the worst it gets. Yes there is some action, but nothing makes sense. The worse being that the numenorian came on time and at the right place. How could they possibly know that some orcs have gathered there? The middle earth is a continent, having this kind of coincidence is a huge finger to the lore.
The writing process is to check boxes and make the story fit. Then these writers go with the first idea they get because they don't know where ideas come from and are afraid they won't get another one. Then to make things super easy for them they ignore time and space. This is known as the J.J. Abrams school of writing.
I'm less upset about how unlikely Adar perfectly calculating the trajectory of the falling tower and standing in place so much as I am upset at the braindead keyjangling that it represents: we literally had the lieutenant of orcs, the miniboss if you will, in Peter Jackson's "Return of the King" also do the EXACT same thing, except with a large chunk of stome terrace flung by trebuchet from Minis Tirith. He plays the exact same role and does the exact same thing to try and for the same reason (to show the audience how menacing he is). Such a cheap and lazy copy-paste. Just yet another one of the myriad of ways the show constantly insults us. I literally had to strain myself to not turn this episode off like 7-8 times. Practically every shot of every scene had at least one thing about it that made it completely illogical/nonsensical. Every single scene was mental hell -like watching a retard try and shove the square block through the circle hole for hours on end... 😟. I think I'm losing about 5 IQ pts per episode 😆.
When there's too many illological moments that makes ya cringe/want to turn off the show, yep it's really bad. I'm just watching these type of reviews to catch up on the episode lol
This episode was probably my least favorite, in the others at least I found things to joke about and make fun of with my sister, this one was mostly gore and weird action stunts. And every single time I see Halbrand on screen, ESPECIALLY when everyone is cheering for him because he's the king or whatever, it looks like the actor is trying so hard to look like Aragorn. Like his body language and expressions, even the way he walks it looks like he's trying so hard to mirror Viggo's Aragorn. Maybe I'm looking into it too hard, but it stood out to me.
"What happened to Sauron?" "No" "We can't find the bloody elf" This is the greatest example of RoP's horrible writing. I was completely sure the orc was talking about Sauron, because you know he was the subject of the phrase: "What happened to Sauron" but nope, it was Arondir. Do Orcs have problems with socializing? Because if not then tell me how is it justified for anyone on a tv series to just hop in a conversation like that and casually change the topic and the grammaticam subject of the sentence.
Fun Fact: A castle keep or any other fortress location, used for shelter in a prolonged siege situation, is only worth it's salt, if it has been constructed around an independent, protected, water source, like a well, spring, creek etc.
When the black elf was struggling with the orc... you just knew what was going to happen next... it didn't disappoint. Also... the cavalry to the rescue... how the hell did they know?
That was one of the worst bits of the whole episode. I was saying "might as well skip to where his girlfriend saves him". That and the weird sped up action horse scenes. If they want to try to salvage this mess they need to hire some new show runners quick.
Exactly. I thought about this the entire time. WHY the heck was the numenorian army rush to this exact village? Because for plot convenience and getting a helms deep moment scene, even when it makes no sense at all! But you know, we needed this checkbox to be ticked for the audience to love our show. lol
Remember when we were ripping on the Battle of Winterfell against the white walkers? How there was so many things that just didn't make sense or was just cheesy. Seeing this synopsis of the RoP battle makes me miss those days. Now I can't rip on it without thinking Amazon did it worse.
So, wasn't Galadriel introduced as 'The greatest Orc slayer'? Or something to that effect? And she was EAGER to wipe out the rest of the orcs she didn't already kill... how did she resist killing the orcs the town took prisoner? That volcano can't possibly be Mount Doom, Numenor is supposed to disappear any day now. And Mordor is supposed to be extremely cold...
probably, they are condensing a whole lot quick. It's like they wanna wrap it up in 2 seasons than over 5... I assume they wanna do the battle of the last alliance in the fifth season?
@@blankadams3120 Orignally I was thinking the war of the elves/sacking of Eregion would be the climatic battle for the end (maybe half way event?). Though with this terrible quick pace looking more like the last alliance
I honestly can't wait for the Fall of Numenor, I'd love all of the characters to be having a merry party in the tavern as it happens as well. If they decide to chicken out and not destroy it I'm going to be even MORE disappointed than I already am.
I liked the bit where Galadriel says "it's ok, I'm on the pill" and Durin goes "I think you've misunderstood what's happening here..." Oh wait... That was She-Hulk. I'm getting so confused!
My favourite part is Galadriel's love triangle between sparkly vampire Elrond and smexy werewolf Sauron. Will she choose the perennial bad-boy or will she settle for the goody-two-shoes who CLEARLY has not seen what she has seen? And will the Hunger Games separate them all forever? I literally peed on the edge of my seat in anticipation!
I've never cheered so hard in my life than watching Guyladriel get consumed by the ash and fire. I mean I know she's gonna survive but I can at least pretend she died in that and that the show is officially over.
How has nobody figured out the elf is Theo's dad yet and his silly hair is hiding pointy ears? Cone on, they are the only 2 dark skinned people in the village.... How has Theo not put it together yet? Has he ever touched his ears?
What Adar said about Sauron trying to heal Middle-earth after Morgoth's defeat actually doesn't really conflict with Tolkien's writings. Tolkien said that Sauron's repentance to Eonwe was at least partially sincere but that Sauron feared the length and extent of his sentence from the Valar so he hid instead of going to Valinor to face the Valar. In a letter in 1954 Tolkien said after Morgoth's defeat Sauron "was not indeed wholly evil, not unless all 'reformers' who want to hurry up with 'reconstruction' and 'reorganization' are wholly evil, even before pride and the lust to exert their will eat them up." My personal belief is that he did in the beginning try to heal Middle-earth but he soon became frustrated because mankind wouldn't follow his ideas so he sought to dominate the will of others and that led him to falling back to evil.
Please never stop reviewing this show. Keep it up with season 2. its one of my entertainment highlights every week. Cause good shows....well nothing there^^
@@defaultuser9423 They're not the worst but they are the most pointless. They serve no purpose other than to take the Hobbits and invert them, making them brutal psychos who abandon their own at the drop of a hat.
The most action Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power packed episode that STILL managed to mess up a load of stuff, give an origin story to Mount Doom and the timeline makes NO SENSE. But what did you think of what you saw, or of the parts from the review? Let me know your thoughts below and as always, thanks for watching :)
They really do have no concept of time passage in this series. Who tells these people at what time they should do things in life? They clearly have no idea how to figure it out.
First they came for the lore and now they come for real life physics.
Tower falling - metal and bricks and fire crashing down - and one blackguard Elf stands there calculating the trajectory of every piece?
The writers' grasp of physics is about the same as their grasp of time, plot, conversation, military strategy and bladed weapon skills.
-We have to wait for orcs to cross the bridge!
- Wait...sir...I am just a sheep herder but...should we not defend the bridge? An obvious way of attack, one which forces our enemy into a choke point... maybe we should build barricades and try to hold the bridge till sunri...
- I said we have to wait for them to cross the bridge!
The hilt turning I to a key to start a huge mechanical ancient mechanised dam break was straight out of a Tomb Raider video game and a huge shark jump.
This show has done the impossible and made people root for Sharon
You can do it, Sharon!
Sauron + Karen = Sharon
FOR SHARON!
@@silverscorpio24 LOL I did the same math
@@silverscorpio24 Skauren
J.R.R. Tolkien spent his entire adult life meticulously constructing the people, places and lore of Middle Earth. A complex, explicitly defined world as intricate and unique as any real world. This show’s writers approached this magnum opus with haste and disregard. And, the result is a flaccid attempt that has less forethought than a daytime soap opera. What a shame…a literary and artistic crime, really.
@jJohn Doe what would he have made of the Great Mordor Cascade Into the tunnels of doom.
@@ianpatterson6552 given that sounds like the title of a theme park water ride, lots of money, I'd think.
Flaccid?
Not so sure.
I think they had a raging hard on for destroying his work.
“Haste?” Or “hates?” They probably admire some of it or did when they were younger but now that they are fully woke, they are re-dressing the wrongs from the original. Pretty sure they are convinced they are improving it.
Tolkiens books are shite, well.hqrd to read with enjoyment, everything this show does sets up Lord of the rings
- YES! galadriel died in a wall of flame!!!
- she cannot die, she is in films...
- LET ME HAVE THIS MOMENT!!!
At least Galadriel in the films was likeable unlike this Galadriel.
Plot twist: This wasn't the real Galadriel - this was just some rando who happened to have the same name.
This isn’t set in the Jackson film continuity, no need to sully Cate Blanchett with this manure.
Pyroclastic clouds? No problem.
Hair still in charge.
3weather Taft!
This is just another one of the Dark One’s visions to Rand.
If he had won the last battle he would’ve started working with amazon to destroy beloved stories from all over the cosmere
Gotta love how the Elf dude didn't even bother trying to melt or at least soften the sword in the forge, just banged it with a small hammer unsuccessfully and declared "It's indestructible". At least when Gimli tried to destroy the one ring, it was a battle axe vs a small piece of jewelry...
To be fair
His mind was elsewhere…
@@Halfwit_The_Brave he has one of those?
He could have also tossed it down the well...
@@insertclevernamehere1186
Rather he stuck it in his prison pocket.
Reminds me of hot rod, when Rod is banging the engine is his garage with a hammer
I like how they have the Orcs, creatures that can see in the dark, carry torches everywhere.
Yeah, you'd expect creatures that live underground would have something like, oh I don't know...Darkvision?
They just like fire, I guess?
The creatures that hate light. >.>
This made no sense to me either. I think it's some lame attempt at more allegory. I got Charlottesville, Tiki torches, "Jews will not replace us" vibes when I saw that.
I have been thinking the same since i saw them carrying torches, aren't they supposed to see in the dark? I don't remember if the actual lore mentions that.
"Commander of the Northern Army"
There were originally thousands of elves in the Northern Army, but in the course of centuries of Galadriel's command, all but a handful of the elves fell off cliffs, got left behind in swamps and blizzards, starved, or got chopped up by trolls while Galadriel watched idly for a bit before casually defeating the enemy.
Most committed suicide just to end their suffering.
In the end, there can be only one.
Galadrial telling halbrand to get over being angry at the head orc.
Also galadrial chasing sauron to kill him because she can't get over her anger.
I wonder what Cate Blanchett thinks of the Galadriel portrayal on this show. I'm betting she's not liking it at all.
......for centuries!!
She wanted to interrogate him first.
Just turn your brain off, it'll be fine 🤷♀️ ignore the shit writing
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers sure but why the line about sea water? She sounds like she is giving advice not to give into revenge (which is hilarious coming from her). If she wanted him alive for questioning that's all she had to say.
So let me get this straight: Sauron devoted himself to healing, while Galadriel devoted herself to genocide and revenge?? And she's supposed to be a hero we should all aspire to??
I'm siding with Sauron!
jfc the writers can't even write a being of evil properly!
Or perhaps Sauron wrote this show, deliberately presenting himself as a sympathetic healer and slandering all his enemies.
@@matiasluukkanen7718 That... would explain so much, really.
They wrote harfoots into existence and those fuckers are pure evil.
So.. They can write evil. But in their eyes it's good.
She’s the hero Harfoots deserve.
This has been a theme in Hollywood for years. Disparu hits the nail on the head in this video. Every bad guy has to have some justification for being evil.
i love how they made the thousand years old elf have the mentality of a sixteen year old girl. makes for a really good character
Maybe they intended to portray elves as reaching (mental) maturity much slower due to their prolonged lifespan. Similar to yodas species.
Which is pretty dumb since elves are (and this is from my limited knowledge, correct me if im wrong) generally considered to be a superior master race on all levels, including the young ones.
@@zCREz "Maybe they intended to portray elves as reaching (mental) maturity much slower due to their prolonged lifespan"
No, they dont think about it that much. They think being a total bytch is "badass".
“…getting cooked like a Chicken 🍗…” 😂😂
That’s offensive to 16yo girls 💀
When you really think about it, it's like the Elven equivalent of having Downs. She should be the calmest and most intelligent person in every scene and a combat expert, but she's constantly making bad choices and getting caught up in her emotions.
I never thought I'd say this, but... Team Sauron.
After the end where everyone died, there's no other team but Team Sauron.
i mean at this point i am 100% unironically rooting for Sauron to come back and just demolish this world.
trust me, we'll all be better off that way.
Exactly
Cause after he will create an evil empire of his own, we will get the original adventure.
Er, the only way out of this writing hole is for Sauron - I mean "Halbrand" - to tank the volcano.
Ironically, Saurbrand is the only person there that CAN plausibly tank a volcano, given his power and resistance to fire as a spirit isn't clearly defined xD
At least Galadriel is totally dead
Welcome to Team Sauron!
Go team Sauron!!!! Go team Sauron!!!! Mordor for the win!!!!!
Contrast the Bronwyn scene with the Helm's Deep scene in LOTR, when they had to conscript ordinary people to defend the fortress, the atmosphere was so somber and desperate.
Right--I love that scene where Aragorn takes this shitty sword that some little boy wants The Hero to approve of, swings it thru the air a few times, fights to hold back a grimace at what a crap blade it is, then gives it back to the kid with the hopeful words: "This is a good sword." (OMG, i just now re-watched it and literally shed a tear seeing that scene for the umpteenth time! Verdict: With PJ, your eyes are apt to tear up. With ROP, they're apt to ROLL up.)
Can't help but think, that if Frodo had offered the one ring to this Galadriel, then that particular story would've gone quite differently. Frodo: You take it, Galadriel: yoink, now grovel before me inferior peasant!
that's the point though. tolkien described the first/second age galadriel as proud and desiring to reign her own land/empire. she was banned from entering valinor due to her pride. so that's why she says "i passed the test, i will return to the west/valinor and remain galadriel" when she manages to reject the ring in the third age.
@@Dystisis Pretty sure she wasn't banned, but rather chose to remain. The test was acceptance or rejection of the Ring and Sauron's power contained within, and was essentially a 3rd Age thing only (I.e., not connected to the ambition that brought her to Middle-Earth in the first place).
@@Dystisis r/woooooosh..read it again..it doesn't happen like that
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 she’d fucking loved the One Ring this hoe
you misspelled her name, it is actually, GaladraChild
I love that they use the term Uruk even though that's the term for Orcs in Black Speech, which was invented by Sauron to teach all of his forces in Mordor... which hasn't been founded yet.
Shhh, it's anachronism. They're being edgy. I mean it's not as though Mt. Doom existed during Morgoth's time. You're racist and misogynistic if you point out such glaring inconsistencies.
@@JPGotrokkits "Go back to the book, go back to the book, go back to the book"
stopp right there. who said you can use logic and common sense?!
@@DDickinson458 They did bro! It just wasn't any book written by Tolkien.
Wrong. "In the Second Age, Sauron corrupted and combined Valarin and Quenya to create Black Speech, which he intended to make the official language of all who served him. He ultimately failed in this purpose, although several generations of Orcs were probably bred in Mordor and raised on this language before the War of the Last Alliance. "
*"Just by the fact he’s two foot taller than me."*
Orcs are short. It wasn’t until the emergence of the Uruk-Hai in the Third Age that orcs even approached man height, and they never got close to elven stature. Yes. Galadriel should be towering over every orc she meets, not staring up at their Uruk’s apple.
Near the beginning of the video Disparu points out that someone in the show pronounces “orc” oddly - but it’s just the actor saying Uruk lol.
Someone involved in making this show must’ve watched a few minutes of the LOTR movie and heard those orcs referred to as Uruk and just rolled with it ; )
Indeed. The classic Tolkien Orcs are more like Goblins from D&D.
So Galadriel had to stop Halbrand from killing the elf baddy saying “we need him alive.” Then proceed to say she’ll save him for last, to Halbrand stopping Galadriel from killing the elf baddy. What is happening?
Bad reboot writing !
Literary whiplash
Because they started with an idea that Guyladriel would say "You pulled me back" to Halbrand, and him saying "you did that to me first," then shoehorned a shitty way for those lines to make sense.
This is honestly the worst writing I've ever seen in anything. It surpasses even Troll 2.
A bunch of tit-for-tat hypocrites who can't stay true to their own principles.
@@theeffete3396 ohh dude that's a low bar....I doubt anything tops troll 2. But this is soooooooooooooooo close ;)
It's almost like every scene is written by different writers and none of them have any idea what the previous scene was about.
I think that was actually the case. Not sure though.
Not surprised if that’s actually the case
My theory is that they each wrote a paragraph and shuffled them on the floor and took turns choosing them blindly, taped them on the wall and stood behind their actions.
If Overlord DVD's rumors are to be believed, they very likely have 'scrapbooked' the whole series, much as they clearly have with She-Hulk, which would explain why there is such an outrageously enormous budget for the series as a whole, and for each episode, with so many corners being cut where we can see them. Copy-pasted extras, print-on T-shirts instead of armor, 3-D printed foam painted to look like armor for actors and horses, and the general lack of polish. Having to film 3+ completely different versions of every scene HAS to be expensive.
This episode has 4 writers so it is most likely the reason why it's such a epic mess.
The Southlanders started in the stone tower. Then they moved to the wooden constructed village and finally they ended up in the straw-roofed tavern. Where did they get inspiration for their battle plans? “The three little pigs?”
Why didn't the orc's just burn the tavern...this whole thing (series) is a joke.
@@joshmatlock1020 Yeah, they know the sword is indestructible. Just burn it and get the sword.
Isildur's mother: *dies*
Elendil: "The sea is always right!"
I actually said that when he said she drowned, and then laughed. It's impressive how it still manages to surprise me by how bad it is.
@@Kavriel Yeah it’s very bizarre and nonsensical lol
LOL!
Watch the vision Galadriel has after touching the Palantir and you'll get to say it again and get another laugh lol
Here’s my summary of Episode 6:
a) Left a perfectly defendable strong fortress and moved to a crappy undefendable hamlet
b) Tower falling over - WTF
c) The battle at the Hamlet - woeful strategy, tactics
d) Galadriel- wooden as always
e) Timelines don’t match
f) Numenorion Tardis ships
g) How did they know to gallop to the town and rescue them? How was that coordinated?
h) Elf gets bashed by one orc, saved by alpha female - predictable to the point I predicted it will watching
I) Elf hands Morgoth weapon to a teenager to make safe - WTF!
J) Mount Doom - words fail me…..
The gallop to that town would be over 70 miles and involving crossing over a mountain range.
I was going to go with jet propelled horses but tardis works just fine as well maybe even better. LOL
I was also confused about why the people in the village seemed so familiar with the soldiers, especially Arondir with Galadriel. She rides up directly to him, and he immediately tells her what he's trying to do, and she instantly goes off and does it. We know all of these characters, but unless I missed something they don't all know each other. I think the writers are forgetting that the characters aren't watching the show, they only know what's going on in their area.
The show is written in super simple way and telegraphs a LOT. A lot of decisions are idiotic. For example, when town MILF gets shot with an arrow and they are saving her the orcs outside just chill. Yep, they are doing nothing. Orcs have sooooo many torches, my first thought would be to smoke these idiots out. My first thought for defenders would be to take defensive positions... but they also ... chill???
@@billy-the-butcher THIS. I spend two hours when I have to pack things in my car for going on summer holidays, they manage to prepare 500 knights for battle in a blink..
"It is strange. Most of my life I've looked east to see the sun rise over the sea, and west to see it set over the land. We're sailing into the dawn, and yet, to me, it feels like the coming of night." ... "She Drowned."
This episode truly felt like a medieval comedy special. I was laughing all the way through.
Monty python and the Holy grail was more authentic than this series lol
That was so random and hilarious. I can't wait to finish my recap vid on this utter drivel. Gonna be a glorious roasting time haha
"What, an African or European swallow?"
Nevermind the fact that in Middle Earth the sun rises in the WEST, in Valinor, not in the east. Another fuckup by the writers. 😂🤦♀️
‘She drowned’
THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
When Isildur gave his horse a bite on the apple I thought "Come on, give the poor horse the whole apple", then he threw it in the ocean and I couldn't stop laughing for a good 10 minutes.
He didn't finish, then threw it in the ocean instead of giving it to the horse?! lmao Seriously writing is hard.
Everyone in this show is a self-absorbed ally.
Isn't that what happened in the animated film The Road to El Dorado? Then the horse jumped off the boat to get the apple. Then Elton John began to sing and sing and sing, then sang some more.
@@skylx0812 "and I think it's gonna be a long long time, until I fish this apple from the brine..."
I thought that was stupid to. As I did much else with this show.
Is it wrong that I’ve been waiting for Disparu’s breakdown of this travesty all day?
No, Disparu is bestparu
Nope me to been checking every 10 mins this evening lol. I won’t watch it so thank Disparu and knights watch for suffering for me lol x
No, not at all. It's an understandable feeling lol
You're in good company
No mate. I woke up to Disparu’s She-Hulk review and have also been waiting for this review all day. 😊
Galadriel: "Remember Adar, when I promised to kill you last?"
Adar: "That's right, Galadriel! You did!"
Galadriel: "I lied!"
Miriel: Where's Adar?
Galadriel: I let him go.
"let off some steam Adar"
Hal-Ran: …you remember me?
Adar: …no.
The yugioh abridged reference i didn't know i needed, thank you
Okay Arnold
With military strategy like this, it's a wonder Sauron bothered making rings to win.
I'm betting in the season finale, they will not show a ring, but strongly suggest that a ring is about to be made
@@bubbagump9118 3 times !
🤣🤣
@@bubbagump9118 and it'll take until episode 5 of the next season to actually finish the damn thing
Umm Sauron once got beaten up and lost his physical body to a Little Elf Princess and her Dog.
I like how, when the volcano explodes, everyone is running around and trying to help while Galadriel just stands there. 'Galadriel' as Sauron confirmed! So so evil
Stunning and brave of her to not stop someone and berate them about how great she is while they choke on the ash and smoke, lol.
I like how water makes lava explode like a bomb
Adar said he did kill Sauron, and right after Galadriel tries to kill him. That's Sauron.
I like how Miriel said "take cover!" WHERE SHOULD I TAKE COVER, O GRAND REGENT, THERE ARE FIREBALLS RAINING FROM THE SKY AND THESE HOUSES HAVE THATCH ROOFS. smh.
@@imthedevilkys536 Looking at the topography, that lava would have to be way down there in the cone for the water to flow there to reach it too, unless the water also flowed uphill.
I'll just never get over Galadriel dodging arrows by hanging on the horse then slashing orcs in half while hanging
The second one she’s riding away but still manages to somehow intuit the trajectory of the arrow.
I don't always do impossible moves on a horse, but when I do, I make sure to wear a full suit of plate armor with loose flowing hair.
if this wasnt supposed to be a lady elf from the books, it would be badass.
Meh, this show has its problems - many problems - but that was about a 3 on the Legolas Scale, or at worst a 4.
@@nooneinparticular1491 "IT ONLY COUNTS AS ONE " even though its in two pieces. Just funny that taking down a war elephant(creature thing )with full cabin is something Legolas has done.
The structural integrity of that tower represents the structural integrity of the show…
A flimsy structure held together by piss poor writing and terrible characters a.k.a. the easily ignitable rope…
Did they seriously not have one person in that writing room that would stand up and say “hey I don’t think this is gonna work!”
Do you think these scriptwriters informally sat down with one another on a regular basis? You just know they wrote this remotely.
@@budwyzer77 While sipping wine and congratulating each other for writing such amazing characters
yeah, it was held together with toothpicks and dental floss, basically. mcgyver could have done better with those materials.
They fired the people who disagreed
@@BroadwayRonMexico You mean they "left" because of "creative differences"
Remember how Theoden moved his people from Edoras to Helm's Deep because it was a much more fortified location as he knew that with their numbers they couldn't hope to win a battle like that, especially not against thousands of Uruks? Yeah, that's what a smart person would do. But there are no smart people in this show.
I literally just finished reading the story of Beren and Lúthien in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Tolkien’s writing is to Rings of Power, what a five star gourmet meal is to rotten leftovers straight out of the trash.
Heresy eventually perishes after it's lies are made naked and clear upon the sight of those it hopes to blind! We must stop watching this even for negative publicity because it feeds the amazon rating system. Take heart and join us for our EXSURGE TOLKIEN counter rings of power heresy series on our channel. It will be a happy thought in these dark times.
Susan blocking replies again
@@DJRockford83 lol, oh dear lol
It’s like comparing the Mona Lisa to a smiley face scrawled onto a piece of 1-ply toilet paper with a hooker’s lipstick
That’s the one I use for wheel of time show watchers who haven’t reas the real story.
Right now the only reasonable point about getting excited for a new lotr episode is knowing that Disparu will make a video about it. You never fail to make me laugh. Thank you!
Please don't call this lotr. This is RoP, and has NOTHING to do with LotR.
Yeah same!
I know !! And Charlie Hopkinson and Liene's Library can't wait every week lol!!
Love how Guyladingdong was acting high and mighty when everything was easy and safe but the moment shit really hits the fan and a volcano explodes, she goes into total shock and is absolutely unable to act. Not sure what message they are trying to send here.
Next week they will retroactively rewrite what we just saw (the cheapest TV trick). So we'll see them hiding or being saved by Gil-galad or whatever.
@@maak6270 By Gl-Galad?! Never! He's the evil m-word ...
I bet Disa shows up to safe her in the last second. She sung her way through the underground and opens an escape tunnel right before her feet ...
@@Rezzatoni Haha you're right. She will blow away the lava and toxic cloud, with her mighty song :)
If you can’t take the heat, stay in the kitchen.
Remind me again why are the orcs that managed to capture the entire group of trained elves being beaten by villagers with pointed sticks?
It's because you're RAYSIST and MASAGANNIST or something like that
Cause Feminism, Duuuh!
"The message"
They came at them with pointed sticks, that's why. (Monty Python reference)
@@maryeckel9682 Now if they have only have been armed with fruit, the orcs would have had no chance.
"She fights the Orc and kills it with two strokes. Somehow."
Obviously, Disparu, she fought with her feet and not her arms.
That's why she started off by stabbing the orc in the foot, so it couldn't fight! She really is a military genius.
I loved the scene when the patriarchy volcano volcanoxplains Guyladriel and she demands to talk to the manager. So stunning and brave!
Volcanoxplains! I’m dying!
She is reclaiming her power.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
best comment
"No horses were harmed during the making of this show"
That aged poorly. RIP horse, you will be remembered.
Thought the same thing 😂
What happened? I stopped after the 2 episode.
@@archiegrant2063 A horse died during the production. It was a sudden cardiac arrest if i remember correctly.
So they stole from Shawn of the Dead where the master plan was to go to The Winchester, grab a pint, and wait for this all to blow over? BRILLIANT!
Weird you say that, because this battle legit reminded me of something from a zombie movie, with the survivors funnelling in brain-dead zombies down one path into an obvious trap.
This show has officially turned orcs into ineffective brainless zombies.
8:12 Elendil: She drowned...
Guyladriel: Well, the sea is always right...
Isildur: Dude!
Guyladriel: What?! Too soon?
GIVE ME THE MEAT AND GIVE IT TO ME RAW!
I love how the villagers' battle plan was essentially the same plan as the one from Shawn of the Dead: Go to the pub and wait it out lol
They made the same mistake as Force Awakens. Once you humanize the orcs or stormtroopers, and build up audience sympathy, hour heroes now look like unfeeling psychopaths when they kill hordes of these enemies. And this is worse since there is a hint that these orcs are displaced refugees. Are we supposed to be on the side of those killing displaced immigrants just looking for a new home?
Once we found out stormtroopers are brainwashed child soldiers, Rey shouting with glee when shooting them down makes her into a murderous oaf and Fin into some sort of psycho with no thought that he is killing his friends.
This is an excellent observation and makes me wonder whether the writers and producers, etc. are aware of it? Maybe they are trying to send the message that everyone is morally ambiguous and there are no real good guys or bad guys.
@@dronesclubhighjinks maybe. But they really seemed to try to make Rey and Galadriel perfect and moral with music cues, dialogue and lighting, and camera angles. So either they are undermining their message that no one is all good or bad or they didn’t realize the consequences of their writing.
We have Galadriel ruthlessly killing orcs for hundreds of years with no mercy. Yet they try to show she is heroic AND the orcs are not that evil. Or that hard to kill. So instead of killing terrifying forces of great evil and overwhelming strength, Galadriel has been murdering morally ambiguous orcs that untrained farmers and housewives can overwhelm.
That would be like making the Witch King a family man and get tricked by babies in a scene before Eowyn kills him. Kinda defeats the purpose.
The thing is the stormtroopers could be humanized because well... they are humans underneath the armor. Even in Legends they were humanized where you got stories like the one where a boy became a stromtrooper because his father got killed in a battle by rebels only for himself to later get killed by a kid who had picked up the rifle of the father that the stormtrooper had just killed in a firefight with rebels.
The problem is when you take a character who was once on the side of the stromtroopers and have them instantly act like a generic rebel who is savoring satisfying his blood lust by killing stormtroopers en mass. That undermines the whole "stormtroopers are people too" and completely undermine your characters doing that.
Orcs though? You cannot humanize those. In Tolkien's world pure good and pure evil actually exists, and orcs are pure evil creations. They are monstrous monsters who find people tasty and have no qualms about cannibalism.
@@dronesclubhighjinks That does not work in Lord of the Rings because Black and White morality actually exists in his world. Very few things are even capable of the grey zone, even then when they pick a side they go deep on that side.
I'm still wondering how Elves built a fortified tower that was basically held together with one rope.......then I'm wondering how all the villagers sneaked out of it without one single orc(or their human allies) seeing them.....then I'm wondering why not one of the orcs or their humans thought that putting a scout or two to watch the tower might be a good idea.... then I"m wondering why, having got into an Elven fortified tower, the villagers would then decide to leave it, and go to a village without a wall, with buildings made of timber and thatch, and would then conclude that IT was the place they would make their defensive position......then I'm wondering why the orcs are carrying torches when Professor Tolkien(remember him? ) wrote that they "could see like gimlets in the dark"...then I'm wondering why anyone, even an Elven princess in a fantasy show, would feature in a scene that had her willingly stand in front of a pyroclastic flow while wearing a suit of armour.......and then I'm wondering how anyone with even one functioning brain cell could watch this utter crap and think it was any good..........
I am wondering why there are so many self professed Tolkiens fans who on Facebook claim to love this show and how this was the bestest episode evah!
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 fooking shils they are
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Some people legit aren't very bright.
To be fair, there was a clear “DO NOT CUT ROPE” sign posted there, which no one was expected to just blatantly disregard like that.
All the silly booby traps in the orc invasion scenes made me feel like I was watching the Middle Earth version of Home Alone. I kept waiting on Adar to slip on a hot wheels and and the orc behind him get hit in the face with a can of paint
😅🤣😂😂🤣
I'd watch that lol
I LOVED the scene when Gretadriel said to the volcano poisonous cloud: "HOW DARE YOU!?"
So inspiring!
You have not seen what she has seen
lol. You wouldn't even have time to worry about breathing in toxicity from that cloud. You'd be instantly incinerated. Like every single character in that village is dead.
what's a volcano to a tempest?
@@aminuolawale1843 hahahaha!!!
pyroclastic flow is like 1000 degrees Celsius ... everyone should have melted then and there and the show should've ended.
Clueless farmers: taking down orcs like it's nothing.
Elf warrior: struggles against one orc without a weapon.
Makes sense
Barely an inconvenience, I'd say.
In all fairness they were fighting their own people.
the orc wasn't even trying to kill him. it was just tossing him around
Well we’re all safe because we have zero emotional connection to this Tolkien fan fiction. Just think how pissed you’d be if it was supposed to be actually good. Like if you’d seen the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers, but then Return of the King comes out and it is a hot woke, nonsensical mess. I feel thankful that all the pre release Super Fan and how world saving important it is to have black female dwarves stuff came out. They completely detached me from this garbage before the first episode aired. Thanks Amazon.
@@clogs4956 you are obviously eagerly anticipating the pitch meeting for this show! I’m looking forward to the massive amount of indignant “I don’t knows“ haha
It was very nice of the orcs to give bits of actual armor to the villagers. Dude with the skull helmet was better equipped than most of the orcs.
The part where Adar and his army of orcs walk up to the gate and pretend to be delivering pizza, battle strategy at it's finest
Actually, I liked the Trojan Troll better. Hiding all those Orks in the backside of that Troll and then let him demand entry to the city, because he must go to the crapper, now!, was brilliant.
Totally telegraphed. You are certain no one is in the tower!
"pretend to delivering pizza"
thank, now I never dare order pizza anymore fearing there wil be an Orc at my door.
Mmm... Pizza...
Yes, and there's a hole cut in the pizza box 😂
I got chills when Galadriel pick up a grenade launcher and aimed it at Hagrid and said "Hasta la vista, baby"
And the plot twist that Sauron's actually a replicant and this is all taking place in the Matrix? Truly top tier entertainment.
Excuse me, it's not a baby, it's just a clump of cells (angry face!)
Galadriel is Lucifer
Is that personal attack or something?
@@galihjati443 For Hagrid? Definitely.
The best thing about rings of Power is your reviews, already looking forward to your episode 7 review. Same as Nerdrotic, you guys make this worth it
It’s hilarious how fans of this show can only rely on “great visuals” as justification for it being a good show 😂
There are also people who claim to be serious scholars of Tolkien who have explained that when the show breaks the lore, we are not to take that at face value. That its all a trick by Sauron operating off-screen in the show.
The Tolkien professor is an idiot. Nerd of the Rings saddens my heart, I loved his content, but now he has sold his soul to amazon
Shows how shallow they are
“She has a great personality”
If only they had spent the money on visuals for a better written show. Imagine having a show with good writing AND good visuals!
This mass of ash, gas and rock fragments can travel at speeds approaching 125 mph (200 kph). And with internal temperatures of 752 to 1,472 degrees F (400 to 800 degrees C), it can pretty much bake anything in its path.
Galadriel walked into this btw? So she's dead right? Oh, wait. Elves are now Targaryans it seems?
Fire resistance potion, +9000 fire retardant on the armour stats and a critical D20 roll.
@@clogs4956 hahaha that made me laugh far more than it should have 🤣🤣🤣
Woke writers don't know that kind of stuff.
Either she lives, or she will come back as Galadriel the White like Gandalf did in the 2 tower.
She's not dead for sure 😂😂
@@madjoe8622 We aren't that lucky I guess.
If anything, they're all dead, and the show and our pain is over and we can all just watch house of the dragon instead which despite being a bit woke can still tell a good story.
Unlike RoP
No, it's far more cunning. As Ardar said, Galadriel is evil as f*ck. And as we learned from her in the first episode, evil inhibits fire to burn. So it will turn out that Galadriel is so evil the pyroclastic stream will turn into a normal cloud of dust and rocks, and as an elv she can easily avoid being hit by any of those thousands of rocks tumbling down with great speed. And you will be stunned by the final revelation that Galadriel planned it exactly this way: that she nurtured the evil inside her to protect her against fire. Her explanation will end with the words: to survive in war, one has to become war ...
Was Guyladrial the only one in the army they didn't give a helmet to because they were hoping she would take an arrow to the head?
So the Southland villagers had time to travel to the tower, concoct a plan, rig a trap, *leave* the tower, get back to the village and *set up more traps before the Orcs reach them?!* Why is that a better alternative than book it North or West to a larger and more secure city?!
This was written by people who don't know anything and think that the most impressive set piece will make up for the lack of basic common sense or logic
Anybody with two cents of common sense knows that, but the confusing scene you so eloquently described well that apparently costs a billion dollars.
This is as bad as Batman's The Dark Knight Rises. In that idiocy, Batman hung on side of a building to draw a huge bat symbol with tons of gasoline that he somehow creates a trail ALL the way to the bridge area and at the right angle for the villain to see. That movie was utter garbage and this show is going there.
@@fr9714 Do you know The Big Lebowski? The scene where he says: "What the fuck does anything have to do with Vietnam?"
Well let me ask you now: What the fuck does anything have to do with The Dark Knight Rises?
Cause then they couldn't have the battle and Numenor come and save them in the nick of time. It's script writing by numbers or some shit. Moronic.
How did Halbrand get in front of Adar? “Can he fly?” You ask. Voldemort can fly. Just saying.
"They fly now?"
Voldermort is a pussy, Galadsheher is the new dark lord.....
Reeee
Instant transmission :-)
Magic. See, simple. Every stupid thing can be explained with "magic".
@@adruvail they fly now.
I didn’t think I’d ever see fight choreography worse than that in The Last Jedi. Thanks to RoP, I have.
So, essentially the Activist Lady’s plan was to “Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.”
Not a bad plan, in another film.
"Would anyone like... a peanut?"
Well done Disparu. Don't let the hacks off, not for even the smallest bit of stupidity. They took a man's life's work and shat on it. This isn't any old bit of fantasy, this is Middle earth!! Tolkien!!! No fkin mercy.
34:18
@@WaxTheDolphin haha
When Jackson shat on Tolkien's work, you applauded it and joined him
@@WaxTheDolphin 😂 😂 it's as if Tolkien was in the room when they wrote that scene!
I mean, the spirit of Tolkien. Not the disitnterred corpse that they've been kicking round the office at morning Latte.
@@reek4062 Reek!! I am honoured!! When Jackson did it, I banged one off then smoked the biggest doobie ever seen this side of the Caribbean.... Was escorted from the theatre shortly after... Good Times.
I've increasingly noticed that there are lines in rings of power, that are taken from LOTR, and in a desperate attempt to hide this fact, been changed a little! Problem is, they've been given to uninspiring bland drones, and therefore fall completely flat!
The pain continues to grow!
It's happened every episode!
Looking forward to someone saying 'We cannot simply walk into Mordor'
@@MoffatLee one cannot simply stand a volcanic blast to the face. It is folly for anyone to try.
I personally thinks it's very kind of Amazon and Disney+ to put so much money into ensuring that UA-camrs will have content to produce. Imagine if everything was great, wouldn't make for as good review videos.
Same, same.
@@angelalewis3645 Arcane!!!! youtube exploded for months.
"Mom, can we have the Battle of Helm's Deep?"
"We have the Battle of Helm's Deep at home."
I liked the part where Galadreyal bypassed the compressor.
She could only do that because she is all the elves.
All the future she elf dna is within her
Everyone knew she was awesome because they saw her morbing.
My favourite part of Galadriel is how she takes a pyroclastic flow from a volcano straight to the face while in a heroic pose of defiance. No probs right.
it's only 800°C, a summer's day in Florida
With rocks, at 100kph, up to 700kph. Luckily these circumstances won't "incinerate living organisms instantaneously or turn them into carbonized fossils" right... RIGHT?
Remember the bit from the 1st episode when the evil made the fire no longer hot? 🙄
This infuriates me so much. I am sitting here screaming right now, glad I didnt watch the episodes myself
@@meliagant1650 why going through the torture of watching it, while you can have so much fun with this video?
"One cannot satisfy thirst with sea water"
Wow that's like, so poetic.
Why they chose "sea water" instead of "blood" is mind blowing.
@@tun0fun ngl, that actually sounds a lot better given the circumstances.
Guy-ladriel: One cannot satisfy thirst with sea water.
Sauron: Why?
Everybody: because the sea is always right!
@Ana'Studio meat*
Guyladriel has clearly never heard of desalination in her 1,000s of years of life.
"There are many ways to kill an orc"
*Villager backhands orc to death*
*Villager smacks orc with stick*
"Hey, you're right!"
To be fair there is a scene in Balin's tomb where Sam is smacking Orcs with frying pan during battle in the movies. That being said this show is still awful.
Personal ROFL moments:
13:11 - I've seen more romantic looks passed between people in their order of KFC.
29:35 - The new numinorians are here and they can both teleport and bend time and space!
39:05 - No horses were harmed during the making of this show.
42:43 - Have you considered posting that on Twitter, Galadriel?
48:22 - Quick! Somebody, get rid of the florist!
Yet another show I won’t watch, but I’ll never MISS a Disparu review.
I believe I’m positively addicted.
Why are the best characters in this show the evil ones? Apart from the Harfoots, who are just psycho killers. Pharazon is the bad guy, but he is the only one who knows what he wants, has a plan, and is working successfully towards it. Adar is spot-on when he tells Galadriel "if you're looking for Sauron, have you tried looking in the mirror?" and he has some kind of intriguing back story (which the writers will probably mess up).
"...looking in the mirror"...
Why am I suddenly seeing the twist we all know is coming being that Guyladrial is actually Sauron working his plans, and the real Galadrial is blissfully unaware of everything in this show and merrily ruling Lothlorien with Celeborn?
Pharazon does seem to be the only character with a modicum of presence and intelligence. He's also the most elf-like character in this show.
Galadrial has pretty hair, but its the Harry Potter elves that are the midgets, not Tolkiens. (I'm 5ft 2 - I know it ain't intimidating or regal).
@@Wraithspartan As contrived as that would be it would at least be a good twist. Galadrial was captured in episode 1 by Sauron in that dark tower. Final episode she escapes and fights herself whilst surrounded by lava.
My biggest fear about this show is that people new to Tolkien will think this is Tolkiens world ...
Sadly that's the whole idea. These ideologues won't stop until all great works are replaced with their agenda laden garbage.
Did anyone else root for the orcs throughout the episode or was it just me?
I was because I knew either the town was going to win or numenor was going to save them but if this show made sense then the orcs would have wiped the town out and then they would have erupted the volcano and it would have been more believable
I was hoping that Galadriel would gallop in and kill everyone, orcs and all, and then go and jump off another boat and meet her untimely demise, but unfortunately that didn't happen.
The horse chase scene was a direct copy of Arwen escaping the ring wraiths. lol. Even telling her horse to go faster in elvish.
I loved the part where Galadriel says to Halbrand: "Let's Transform and Roll Out" then takes off after Adar. Halbrand then transforms into Starscream and flies ahead (cuz how TF else did he get in front of them) to cut off Adar at the pass.
It’s a small point, but I think it’s worth making... about the horse popping up OK in that one scene.
Tolkien was a WWI veteran and witnessed some of the last uses of horses in modern warfare. Like people, these beautiful, powerful creatures were mowed down by machine-gunfire, a product of the modern industrial machine that Tolkien so despised (perhaps for its role in warfare?). He respected horses in LotR (e.g., the Rohirrim, Shadowfax, the various ponies that the hobbits/fellowship use, etc.), and he respected them in his stories, allowing them to suffer the same joys and fates as their human riders and counterparts.
By not sparing horses from death (in his fiction), Tolkien acknowledges their worth(iness) and dramatic value the same as any other character that the reader is asked to care about. He created empathy for the horses, so we felt bad when they were injured, sad when they died, and celebratory when they rode through battle victorious. It’s yet another example of the maturity of Tolkien’s writing, which elicits a similarly mature comprehension from readers.
RoP: “Nah! Gotta treat the audience of this GoT-wannabe war show like children and show that the horse is okay. Don’t want any angry letters from PETA...”
They fully panned to the horse for like 4 seconds 🥴
just a note horses have been widely used in modern war, infront line roles, into the 1980s, horses have also been used in major modern operations (like operation induring freedom in 2001). and i am not just talking about packhorses (which shouldn't be ignored), cavalry was used to great effect into the '80s.
although ww1 was the last time the BRITISH uses horses ON THAT SCALE (other countries in ww2 used horses in greater numbers than ww1 in ww2)
I don't think the problem is that they wanted to avoid the horse being injured or killed, so much as they didn't want a character who is-at least for the moment- a hero to harm the horse. It's still stupid, but I'd imagine that that is the reason.
Didn't he also state that Orcs and Goblins naturally feared Horses which is why you don't see Orcs and Goblins climbing all over Horses to get at riders but instead, back away (same reason why Orcs and Goblins do not use horses).
Think Helms Deep Ending with that last Charge by Theoden from inside the keep to outside, ALL the Uruks stepped back/away from the VERY FEW horses that were charging, when the Uruks easily could of thrown themselves at the Horses and overwhelmed the riders quickly.
16:53 the weird thing about Arondir's archery is that he's drawing his bow Avatar-style (with his shooting hand reversed) instead of the way bows have been used for almost all of human history.
It's because they've only ever seen target shooting bows with rests and sights.
You have to shoot with reversed hand if you want to shoot fast because otherwise you need two hand movements to place the arrow on the string.
Rather than the real way to fire quickly, which is to put the arrow on the same side of the bow as the draw hand.
He’s “incorporating capoeira” into his elvish fighting 🙄
I’m still waiting to hear why the lord supports elves developing a dancing fighti g style. Especially since they’ve never been legally prevented from martial training.
Couldn’t be that old Ishmael needed to self insert. Nah…
Don't forget that he shoot orcs before that instead of just shooting the rope
@@PpierrotT1 don't forget that he shot orcs when he could have sniped Adar and end the threat here and there
@@dariovirga7711 stop thinking while watching !!!
That cloud heading toward everyone at the end looks suspiciously like a _Pyroclastic Flow,_ which is defined as "a dense, destructive mass of very hot ash, lava fragments, and gases ejected explosively from a volcano and typically flowing downslope at great speed." Further, the gases and tephra can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F). *Superman* might be able to handle it, but I don't know about everyone else.
IF they had portrayed Galadriel as the sorcerer she is , she could have shown her worth by doing some "high mana cost" spell wich saves some of the people but drains her extremely. So we get to see her passion for life. Being an Elf and all that...
And as someone pointed out on Twitter the magma would have to have been in a pressurised container for an eruption on that scale to happen. The steam generated by the water would then build up until it generated enough pressure to blow the top off the container. But the vent wasn't sealed by rocks so there shouldn't have been a massive explosion in the first place.
@@craigthompson6466 That is correct, of course. Since the writers have no knowledge of JRR Tolkien other than a few Wikipedia paragraphs, how can we expect them to have any knowledge of Vulcanology?
yeah, they all should be dead. You can't outrun it either from this close.
A Disparu giving *No Effs* is my favourite Disparu. These recaps are brilliant.
I was rooting for my boy Adar so hard this episode.
The thing about that moment of Arondir being like "Galadriel...🤯" is that this is the kind of reaction the REAL Galadriel should and would get from people if she ever showed up out of nowhere, but the show version of Galadriel absolutely has not earned this reaction. She's done almost nothing for the entire show.
Well, at least Arondir’s actor doing his job properly 😂😂😂😂
@@Lex77755 What being a shill for Amazon's Galadriel?
I remembered that behind the tower cliff there was an alpine lake. I realized awhile back that they were going to pull an Isengard maneuver but I thought it was going to be the humans washing away, defeating the orcs. FYI, a flash steam event in a volcano would cause a cataclysmic explosion (think Krakatoa) BUT it would NOT cause a lava caldera eruption.
I am happy you came up with the two arrows on Bronwin. I also noticed that, but did not speak about with anyone, since it is such a trivial detail. But confirming it is really nice. Same thing with the master plot. The orc having built a trench to lead the water to the volcano. It is the most far fetched idea you could have. The orcs did not need the broken sword, they could have destroy the dam directly. The attack of the village is also completly dumm, they should have attacked from all direction, and not always come from this tiny bridge. The more you think, the worst it gets. Yes there is some action, but nothing makes sense. The worse being that the numenorian came on time and at the right place. How could they possibly know that some orcs have gathered there? The middle earth is a continent, having this kind of coincidence is a huge finger to the lore.
The character motivation in this episode is so inconsistent it's maddening and the contrivance is equally maddening.
I’m not even watching this show but I come back time and time again to listen to the commentary . Keep ‘em coming
You kind of are. Disparu doesn't cut much out of this reviews.
The writing process is to check boxes and make the story fit. Then these writers go with the first idea they get because they don't know where ideas come from and are afraid they won't get another one. Then to make things super easy for them they ignore time and space. This is known as the J.J. Abrams school of writing.
I'm less upset about how unlikely Adar perfectly calculating the trajectory of the falling tower and standing in place so much as I am upset at the braindead keyjangling that it represents: we literally had the lieutenant of orcs, the miniboss if you will, in Peter Jackson's "Return of the King" also do the EXACT same thing, except with a large chunk of stome terrace flung by trebuchet from Minis Tirith. He plays the exact same role and does the exact same thing to try and for the same reason (to show the audience how menacing he is). Such a cheap and lazy copy-paste.
Just yet another one of the myriad of ways the show constantly insults us. I literally had to strain myself to not turn this episode off like 7-8 times. Practically every shot of every scene had at least one thing about it that made it completely illogical/nonsensical. Every single scene was mental hell -like watching a retard try and shove the square block through the circle hole for hours on end... 😟. I think I'm losing about 5 IQ pts per episode 😆.
Jesus, get help dude
@@christopherbradley7149 - hi there, NPC!
When there's too many illological moments that makes ya cringe/want to turn off the show, yep it's really bad. I'm just watching these type of reviews to catch up on the episode lol
This episode was probably my least favorite, in the others at least I found things to joke about and make fun of with my sister, this one was mostly gore and weird action stunts. And every single time I see Halbrand on screen, ESPECIALLY when everyone is cheering for him because he's the king or whatever, it looks like the actor is trying so hard to look like Aragorn. Like his body language and expressions, even the way he walks it looks like he's trying so hard to mirror Viggo's Aragorn. Maybe I'm looking into it too hard, but it stood out to me.
I’m surprised that you are actually watching it. I just watch these reviews which are more entertaining than the show.
"What happened to Sauron?"
"No"
"We can't find the bloody elf"
This is the greatest example of RoP's horrible writing. I was completely sure the orc was talking about Sauron, because you know he was the subject of the phrase: "What happened to Sauron" but nope, it was Arondir. Do Orcs have problems with socializing? Because if not then tell me how is it justified for anyone on a tv series to just hop in a conversation like that and casually change the topic and the grammaticam subject of the sentence.
The first orc in ROP was like terminator , very hard to kill until you chop his head off, all other orcs in ROP die instant on any hit.
You forgot to mention Halbrand, at 52:25, is behind Arondir turning and walking causally away from the sudden eruption. As if he expected it somehow.
Fun Fact: A castle keep or any other fortress location, used for shelter in a prolonged siege situation, is only worth it's salt, if it has been constructed around an independent, protected, water source, like a well, spring, creek etc.
When the black elf was struggling with the orc... you just knew what was going to happen next... it didn't disappoint.
Also... the cavalry to the rescue... how the hell did they know?
That was one of the worst bits of the whole episode. I was saying "might as well skip to where his girlfriend saves him". That and the weird sped up action horse scenes. If they want to try to salvage this mess they need to hire some new show runners quick.
Exactly. I thought about this the entire time.
WHY the heck was the numenorian army rush to this exact village?
Because for plot convenience and getting a helms deep moment scene, even when it makes no sense at all!
But you know, we needed this checkbox to be ticked for the audience to love our show. lol
@@OxKing this show really does love using scenes from the trilogy but just in an extremely butchered manner.
You know your channel has mad it when you release a video and 7 minutes later you have an entire page of comments already! Well done mate.
At this point, I only watch RoP so I can have context for this dude’s breakdowns
Remember when we were ripping on the Battle of Winterfell against the white walkers? How there was so many things that just didn't make sense or was just cheesy.
Seeing this synopsis of the RoP battle makes me miss those days. Now I can't rip on it without thinking Amazon did it worse.
So, wasn't Galadriel introduced as 'The greatest Orc slayer'? Or something to that effect? And she was EAGER to wipe out the rest of the orcs she didn't already kill... how did she resist killing the orcs the town took prisoner?
That volcano can't possibly be Mount Doom, Numenor is supposed to disappear any day now. And Mordor is supposed to be extremely cold...
probably, they are condensing a whole lot quick. It's like they wanna wrap it up in 2 seasons than over 5... I assume they wanna do the battle of the last alliance in the fifth season?
@@BrayOfTheDonkey They were already planning to condense everything, which made the whole story a slurry from the get go...
@@blankadams3120 Orignally I was thinking the war of the elves/sacking of Eregion would be the climatic battle for the end (maybe half way event?). Though with this terrible quick pace looking more like the last alliance
I honestly can't wait for the Fall of Numenor, I'd love all of the characters to be having a merry party in the tavern as it happens as well. If they decide to chicken out and not destroy it I'm going to be even MORE disappointed than I already am.
@@gianna526 The sea took our jorbs!! :p
I liked the bit where Galadriel says "it's ok, I'm on the pill" and Durin goes "I think you've misunderstood what's happening here..."
Oh wait... That was She-Hulk. I'm getting so confused!
My favourite part is Galadriel's love triangle between sparkly vampire Elrond and smexy werewolf Sauron. Will she choose the perennial bad-boy or will she settle for the goody-two-shoes who CLEARLY has not seen what she has seen? And will the Hunger Games separate them all forever? I literally peed on the edge of my seat in anticipation!
I've never cheered so hard in my life than watching Guyladriel get consumed by the ash and fire. I mean I know she's gonna survive but I can at least pretend she died in that and that the show is officially over.
Seriously can't wait to see what dumbass reason they use to show how she survived.
How has nobody figured out the elf is Theo's dad yet and his silly hair is hiding pointy ears? Cone on, they are the only 2 dark skinned people in the village.... How has Theo not put it together yet? Has he ever touched his ears?
Best part of my day is seeing or hearing that angry Disparu guy. I can relate so much. Thank you for your service!
Another thing to not think about, the Numenoreans were noted to not make much use of horses for combat.
What Adar said about Sauron trying to heal Middle-earth after Morgoth's defeat actually doesn't really conflict with Tolkien's writings. Tolkien said that Sauron's repentance to Eonwe was at least partially sincere but that Sauron feared the length and extent of his sentence from the Valar so he hid instead of going to Valinor to face the Valar. In a letter in 1954 Tolkien said after Morgoth's defeat Sauron "was not indeed wholly evil, not unless all 'reformers' who want to hurry up with 'reconstruction' and 'reorganization' are wholly evil, even before pride and the lust to exert their will eat them up." My personal belief is that he did in the beginning try to heal Middle-earth but he soon became frustrated because mankind wouldn't follow his ideas so he sought to dominate the will of others and that led him to falling back to evil.
That would make a whole lot of sense.
So how did galadriel know to come to this little village? From what i can tell nobody but the villagers knew about this battle
Tomtom?
Followed an Amazon delivery drone
In a deleted scene she put her ear to the ground like Tonto and heard the battle miles away.
Please never stop reviewing this show. Keep it up with season 2. its one of my entertainment highlights every week. Cause good shows....well nothing there^^
My only regret is the not-hobbits weren't in the village to get fried in lava like the rest of them.
Nah, should've had a competition between the Numenorians and villagers to see who could punt the little buggers further into the lava
Honestly the Hobbits are not the worst part of this series.
@@defaultuser9423 They're not the worst but they are the most pointless. They serve no purpose other than to take the Hobbits and invert them, making them brutal psychos who abandon their own at the drop of a hat.
@@defaultuser9423 they are very evil, just not killing folks like the orcs yet.