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"The dwarves are coming! Look to the north!" Camera points at rising sun... which would be east? sorry I just can't help it, I blame Boromir for making me notice every flaw in logic no matter how small.
I watch it out of a sense of morbid curiosity. I'm a huge Tolkien fan and the amount of masochistic joy it brings me, to let that show bring me to the point of apoplexy every 10 minutes or so, is great. It's a bit like watching the result of the experiment of making a Second Age series, but the showrunners have never heard of LotR prior and they were only allowed to use second or third hand sources, no reading the books, Jackson movies were permitted. Surreal, rage inducingly source inaccurate and so bad, it merits watching it for the trainwreck for me.
Charlie is the funniest man on UA-cam right now. I LOVE the LotR & Rings of Power content he does…the Star Wars/House of the Dragon and all the other stuff he does is all incredible. But you can def tell he’s a true fan and loves Tolkien’s works. Keep it up! I look forward to these every day 😂 the Tolkien content is the BEST! Your reviews and impressions are 50x better than the show itself!
There’s some part of me that imagines that making these is simply a matter of having the guys over and filming it. Then I remember, “wait. this must be really time-consuming to put these together.” Amazed that you put them out so fast after an episode. Thanks
The writers seriously couldn't think of a way Elrond could stealthily pass his MIL a pin to help her escape Adar other than by a romantic kiss? 🙄 'Tell me, where is Celeborn? For I much desire to speak with him'.
@@cameronhodgetts920Forbes is a fancy magazine for pretentious ppl and I guess whoever else likes it. Because as Forbes, there's ppl who like this show the way I like some bad animes.
I can hear the chowderheads who liked it saying "so many characters died in this episode!" - characters we barely know or care about. I felt Haldir had a more impactful death scene in Two Towers despite his limited screen presence
Charlie, your ROP content is so hilarious and amazing that it almost makes me want to watch this trainwreck of a show just to make sure I didn't miss any jokes in your vids. You truly are a servant of the Secret Fire, and by Secret Fire I mean the true Tolkien fanbase.
@CharlieHopkinson "this is probably what agoraphobics think will happen if they leave their house" 😂 Boromir has the BEST lines ever! You are a clever, witty humorous man Charlie, I literally, lol throughout all of these videos, cheers mate!!
Huh, spotted that too while watching the episode. Sun rising in the north and all other mishaps - cmon, can you put at least some effort and heart in what you are doing?
I love that half the forge is destroyed, he must have tripped over the rubble like four times every hour...but the mouse was what broke the illusion. Also Sauron bothering to actually have him work on the rings, if he already has all the materials himself. He didn´t need mithril appearently, its all blood in the chalice. Might as well have used Celebrimbor himself but forcecontrolling his hands like a puppet to make the rings just to have a laugh at how op he is. The guards just being confused like "uhm, does it still count as treason if I just ignore the chain of command and freely choose whom I take commands from?" Or the orc army just freely being delivered two out of the three highest commanding elves and doing nothing with it. What did Elrond think would happen...appearently exactly what did happen, which was the most unlikely course of action. Are the orcs so pacifistic that they hoped if they waited long enough, all commanders would just walk into their tents until there were no free elves left...well it almost would have worked.
The only reason I can remember it is because ‘Mirdania’ doesn't follow Elvish naming conventions, even though it would have been ridiculously easy to fix it. The literally only thing they would have needed to do was change the ‘ia’ to a (female) Elvish suffix like ‘el’ or ‘iel’
He is the middle of a battle. Having a cut on his hand isn't exactly suspicious. And he could have seen his hand previously, or just as he came out, that's how he knew it was cut. The impression the rest would have is that the other guy is just losing it and imaged his blood was black. And leaders crumbling under stress in battle is not unusual.
@@justforever96 ah yes, the totally normal wound right in the middle of the palm with blood running straight down. People get that sorta thing all the time during sieges
Honestly one of the few scenes that I feel actually aligned with Sauron's trickery, he is a master of illusion (and shape shifting), so I feel like him changing himself temporarily to have red blood to further a plot is right up his alley
"Ohoho, bad luck. That's not the sort of thing you want to happen to you more than once." "Yeah, with any luck he won't have the exact same thing happen to him later in the episode..." This made me laugh so hard it hurt! Very much! What are we yet to endure? Who would've thunk it would get so hard? This series will make us all go mad in the end!
So just to get this straight - in this upcoming last episode we have to: finish off the siege of Egegion, wrap up events in Khazad Dum (presumably with Durin III unleashing the Balrog), reunite Druin IV with Elrond, get Numenor's totally unintersting plotline rolling towards a Pharazon/Miriel marraige, get Galadriel's ring back, Sauron will presumably kill off Adar and take over the Orc campaign, do something with the Southlands folks and Isildur in a rushed way to reuinite him with the (tenuously) more interesting cast members, get the nine rings out of Eregion to distribute them to the nine kings of men who we haven't even met yet, have a confrontation between Galadriel and Sauron (which results in neither of them dying) then reunite Galadriel with the rest of the Elves including her husband and as of yet unseen daughter, have a contrived line about Celebrimbor being effectively useless at making any more rings now that he's chopped his thumb off, oh and somehow include some sort of resolution with Not-Gandalf's stick questline over in Rhun which as far as I can tell is still completely disconnected from the main plot... all in roughly an hour, hm, call me crazy but I think this season could have done with another pass through the writing room to tidy up some of the many loose plotlines. Let's see, what am I forgetting - oh right, the actually completely disconnected Hobbit plotline? This season is more of a mess than the first
To be fair, since they are planning on doing more seasons, you wouldn't expect all of these things to be resolved by the end of this season. In fact, competent story tellers (which these folks are not) would focus on wrapping up the siege of Eregion as the season finale, and the rest will be addressed in subsequent seasons. Then again, competent story tellers wouldn't have done much of what they have done, so there is certainly the possibility they try to wrap all that up in an episode.
@@fatalshore5068Well, the Gandalf and Hobbit stuff should definitely be cut, but the Numenor storyline is pretty important (although they are butchering it) for the overall story, so they can't really cut it. However, they should probably have pushed it back a little or something, considering that it should be happening over 1600 years after the forging of the rings (the 16 rings for dwarves and men were finished in around S.A. 1500, the 3 elven rings were finished in around S.A. 1590, and the 1 ring was finished in around S.A. 1600. While Tar-Palantir dying and Ar-Pharazôn usurpation happened in S.A. 3255. Although obviously, all of it happened very differently from how its happening in the series).
It shows you hope stupid the writers think their audience is. "oh look, lets just get a few catapults to make the cliff crumble and then, we can pass it off like rock absorbs all the water in the vicinity. Then, surely, we can make it believable that the orcs are physically pulling siege equipment across an unassailable bog, something we literally show later on when the elves try and ride through it and their horses proceed to drown in said bog"
@@sloht4061 There is only one good thing from this show, and that is Glug and his family. Keep an eye for his arc in Season 3 where he turns out to be a corrupted Treebeard with his Tree wife and tree baby, sappling? acorn?, but he puts on the ONE ring (yes the one ring) because Sauron did not care about his family just like Adar did not and transforms back into an Ent. The end.
That's not always an option. A fortified town protected by rivers on two sides and a mountain on the third is a difficult thing to attack. What are they going to do, cross downstream and then attack over the steep mountains behind the town? Funnel their forces around it? There is a reason hilly terrain is generally considered an impassible obstacle by military planners, especially in actual assault under threat. When you hear about forces fighting over a hill, when you actually see the "hill" in real life, it's usually something that would barely qualify as a swell in the ground around here. A steep forested rocky mountain will turn your troops into a disorganized mass of men who have lost contact and formation, as well as tiring them out. Ever climbed a mountain, even a small one? Try a 45° slope a few hundred feet high, it's exhausting and difficult. And how are you going to take ladders and siege engines with you? The other consideration is usually that you can't just march wherever you like, you need to consider your line of march and your flanks, and you leave yourself open to the enemy waiting until you head downstream and then crossing themselves and taking you in the rear or flank, or cutting off your retreat. General Lee won a few brilliant victories by going downstream and crossing at another spot, but he only did so by taking an enormous gamble that the Union commander wouldn't spot and exploit the weakness he created. Military maneuvers are a very complicated problem and if they don't do what seems like an obvious thing it's usually for a good reason. And that usually comes down to the difference between what a few people or a light unit is able to do, and what an entire division or army is able to do while maintaining cohesion as a fighting force. There is a reason why in the Valley campaign they considered the mountain ranges in the Shenandoah an impassible barrier, and a few small forces were able to hold off much larger forces in the few passes through the mountains. A single person can climb over the Blue Ridge Mountains without too much difficulty, an army can't. They need roads or at least relatively open terrain.
@@allcohoIic What's funny about this, is, I dont even know who glug is and if you're being sarcastic or if it's a character I've just not even bothered to remember. The entire show is like a really bad fart. It's like an indie production of Lord of the rings which, would be fine, if it wasn't passed off as the most expensive production in history and us all being told that we're the ones in the wrong because apparently, we're incapable of appreciating anything that has black people or women in major roles. News flash, nobody cares if the actors were gifted and the roles were specifically for them but, they've put black women in roles where they really shouldn't be. They've made the dwarves insufferable, "Disa" is the worst character I've ever seen, the random black elf who, when he was stabbed, I just sat there, no expression because he's completely irrelevant in any time line. They've made Elrond some incest soy boy, Galadriel a feminist retard, Gandalf an old man with dementia, Frodo and Sam, two girls who I just want to die in the show honestly, Sauron some twink who just walks around. Their elven pronunciations make me cringe. There is honestly, not one single thing that's good. Nothing. Costume design is god awful. Story line is god awful. Actors god awful. Location design unthought out and completely void of any real feeling.
@@justforever96 That doesn't change the fact that, even in fiction, knocking a bit of a mountain off does not suddenly turn a river into a bog. Bloody lol.
There's a lot of "Army of Darkness" references in this episode. (the catapult and the pincushion). If Celebrimbor had only cut off his entire hand and replaced it with a chainsaw.
What a great episode. Good recovery from last week, which was a bit thin. Many cracking jokes. A lot of LOL moments. Keep at it Charlie, a million subs is near.
His illusion/time loop has many problems besides just the mouse and candle. How did he properly get between the tools, furnaces, and his desk with debris all over. How did his blood change to the consistency of the mithril after being melted down so it could be mixed with whatever the other metal was and survive the furnace for the reshaping? How did no other soldier or person try to go get him to some place safer since they clearly saw the building get damaged. I mean i can think of others but the writers didnt try so I am not sure why im putting more thoughts into this illusion/time loop.
The illusion is for us to see from the smiths eyes. But sauron manipulates the mind not conjuring illusions that eyes see. Its like inception, in a dream your mind fills up what story line it convinced is going on. When you wake up you see how strange it was but when you are in its hard to notice.
@@EmperorTerranthe op’s question still stands. There was debris all over how didn’t he trip. I don’t think they need this dumbed down explanation when they were talking about the details that didn’t work
@@MrTcrottbecause If you think then it does not stand. Celebrimbors mind sees debris but does not try to walk through it cuz its there, but it is also refusing to register it. The explanation does not need constant adjustment of magical projectors around subject or solving for edge of the world wall like in games. The mind is tricking itself.
Maybe it wasn't just a simple illusion but some sort of space-time distortion which created a poket-realm existing in parallel to the real world. Thus, there simply wasn't any debris in the version of reality he was trapped in. But Sauron also hasn't perfected this ability, so it had flaws like the time-loop and the limited range that could be maintained permanently without additional effort. That is at least an explanation I could imagine them to come up with if they tried really hard.
So, I've seen a few reviews of this episode. You gotta love how every content creator I watch has a logical, and tactical alternative to this "mountain dam" bs. And not one of them has the same strategy 😂
I've read lotr. I've read the hobbit. I've read the simarillion. I've read unfinished tales. If you gave me 10 years to make the most UN-tolkien fanfic in the most horrible, lore-breaking way, I could not reach rings of power level of awfulness.
@@RHCole About six generations back for Elrond there's a common parent, three for Galadriel. Looking up a chart now and trying to compare names from The Silmarillion. Elrond from Elwing from Nimloth from Galathil from Galadhon from Elmo (no I'm not sure of that name) to some common parent. Galadriel from Eärwen from that common parent. Celeborn comes directly from Galadhon, so he's actually closer related to Elrond. Mind you, Túrin and his wife Nienor didn't realise they were brother and sister. Elrond's daughter Arwen married Aragorn. 62 generations back from Aragorn was Elros... Elrond's brother.
@@fl4shblade I know. I'm just saying there's precedent for the tragedy, but the way the rest of the world is set up, there's no excuse for this show's storyline to exist.
They've been running with the story that Sauron didn't care for or even hated Morgoth. When he joined him out of loyalty and conviction (after serving Aule, the Valar of the dwarves and smiths). Since he's after all an evil Maiar. And the cults he created on Númenor were even in honour of Morgoth. Tolkien even said something along the lines that his genuine respect for Morgoth might have been the only bit of "good" in him.
It’s not the characters that make me mad, like in a well written show or movie, I’m mad at how bad the acting and writing are in the trash show. Thank you for continuing to watch it and make these so I don’t have to waste my time on it anymore.
Well, this episode is at least more entertaining than most, even if unintentionally. At least something happens every few minutes, even if literally everything that happens is only good as material for those making fun of it.
Everyone talks about the reaction to the kiss, but little is said about Gandalf's reaction at the end of the episode when the troll's metal song is heard xD
Well I don't think any of us expected that.
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stop doing boromir impression, its trash
@jordanzdebski5132 - Really??! 🤣🤣🤣
Best show on telly!
Sean Bean - Goldeneye- surely one does not simply walk into a Bond parody transition
"The dwarves are coming! Look to the north!" Camera points at rising sun... which would be east? sorry I just can't help it, I blame Boromir for making me notice every flaw in logic no matter how small.
Well, maybe the sun rises at the north in middle earth?
@@Dreadreming well no. Because Gandalf already mentioned the east in Two Towers.
@@kael13 That is right, I just looked it up. Dumb mistake from the show director apparently lol.
Logic? you still search for logic in this show?😆
Why did the Dwarves even bother?
8:08 " Elrond!... does your wife know that you made out with her mother?" - Gandalf 🤣
Celeborn to Galadriel: Our daughter's supposed to do that with Elrond.
That cheesy grin Elrond makes 😂🤣💀
@@Adelina-293
Elrond gets to make out with Galadriel but Celeborn doesn't.
😅
To be fair Elrond wasn't married at this time right? Hey you need to make your move when you get the chance. 🤣
And then thousand years later Gandalf himself seems romantically involved with Elrond’s wife’s mother, the old pervert.
This channel is my happy place. Thank you Charlie.
Best RoP parody.
I come here instead of therapy.
Absolutely!!
Wish they could get Charlie on FNT
I hope he never stops.
I love the implication that Sauron is responsible for elven hairstyles.
Another cracking moment in the episode .
where is it said ? I must have missed it and can't find it. 😢
@@leolewaney7115 Towards the end, when Gandalf asks when he changed his hairstyle
@@leolewaney7115Around 7:40. :)
10:30 "deepest part of the ocean 30 meters off shore." 🤣🤣🤣
Boromir's delivery of this line is almost as good as Ned Stark's "is he always like this?"
That face Elrond made when they saw him kissing Galadriel! Absolutely priceless!
:-3
Love the idea of Qui Gon wanting to go watch LOTR with the boys and Obi Wan calling him back 😂
Yeah, he should have more guest appearances lol
Poor Boromir. Getting trapped in a timeloop in a bathroom by a wizard. Now that's soldiering.
I found that joke great.
Harper: “Jaysus, Major, sir. Ye got drunk again and started ravin’ ‘bout rings and wee folk.”
Ohh I get that reference!
One does not simply walk into the bathroom.
“O’er the hills and cross the lands,
Through Gondor, Rivendale and Moria,
The Steward command and we obey,
O’er the hills and far away”
"... IN A SHOW MADE BY AMAZON, THAT JUST DOESN'T SIT RIGHT".
"Having kids does that to you" sold me, but THIS was just twisting the comedy knife. Art.
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"where is Elrond, because I much desire to speak with him" looollll
Gandalf is killing this
I really like the idea of the LotR crew and the Star Wars crew watching other shows outside of their franchise together.
Well, the showrunners clearly do, so it seems fitting.
The chaining him to the work station with no toilet breaks from a show made by Amazon not sitting right fucking SENT ME 😂🤣😂🤣💀💀💀💀
Me too!
I love this boromir so much
Don't you mean, "loved"?
As soon as I saw the kiss with Elrond and Galadriel, I couldn’t wait for this video
Or the elf take 8 arrows and still blow up a siege machine somehow.
The cheeky grin on Elronds face hahahaha
@@Username18981 oh my god…I forgot. That was low-key comically
@@ThatSockmonkey lmao, that was the best part
"LOOK TO THE NORTH!"
Points to the sun rising in the east. Yes. That is the genius of Bezos the Clown.
AI script writing bots have problems with stuff like that.
@@Jim-Mc definitely bezos throwing money at 50 different "writing rooms" and combining all the ideas into this.
"Now I know why in the White Council Meetings there was such an atmosphere." 😆
That 'atmosphere' was because, the bathroom, vent, fan was out.
This is pure gold. I refuse to watch the rings of power, but this is next level comedy genius.
Though one must be careful - I had heard those scenes described but merely seeing those cuts in a small frame nearly caused me brain damage.
I watch it out of a sense of morbid curiosity. I'm a huge Tolkien fan and the amount of masochistic joy it brings me, to let that show bring me to the point of apoplexy every 10 minutes or so, is great.
It's a bit like watching the result of the experiment of making a Second Age series, but the showrunners have never heard of LotR prior and they were only allowed to use second or third hand sources, no reading the books, Jackson movies were permitted. Surreal, rage inducingly source inaccurate and so bad, it merits watching it for the trainwreck for me.
No you have to watch rings of power, after you watch this. Seriouslymakes the show so funny
Eventhough it's bad but at the same time very joyful to watch, it's indescribable 😂😂
Charlie is the funniest man on UA-cam right now. I LOVE the LotR & Rings of Power content he does…the Star Wars/House of the Dragon and all the other stuff he does is all incredible. But you can def tell he’s a true fan and loves Tolkien’s works. Keep it up! I look forward to these every day 😂 the Tolkien content is the BEST! Your reviews and impressions are 50x better than the show itself!
As an autistic person, I've come to appreciate autistic Boromir. My brother, my captain, my overly logical king.
I hate it when someone says “it’s just a show” make the show make sense
@@elitusdelitus1509Shows have never made sense, what are you on about?
@@RHCole What do you mean by shows never making sense
@@elitusdelitus1509 well, shows have never made sence at least since 2012. when they decide rushed crap was better selling than long hardwork and care
@@corujabiruta3732 True but I am just tired of the it’s just a show excuse
There’s some part of me that imagines that making these is simply a matter of having the guys over and filming it. Then I remember, “wait. this must be really time-consuming to put these together.” Amazed that you put them out so fast after an episode. Thanks
Indeed!!!
"I did think she reminded me of that random body I saw half trampled into the mud 2000 years ago." That goes harder than mithril.
So many millennia in Middle Earth has definitely soured Elrond's character.
And also his memory, as this takes place well before the fellowship prologue which Elrond stated took place 3000 years ago ;)
The writers seriously couldn't think of a way Elrond could stealthily pass his MIL a pin to help her escape Adar other than by a romantic kiss? 🙄 'Tell me, where is Celeborn? For I much desire to speak with him'.
It's made worse by the fact that an Orc Guard watched them the entire time.
I think it was an attempt to make it as awkwardly as possible for others to watch so that they might look away.
"C'mon. Let's all have a good chuckle," should be the official advertising slogan for Rings of Power at this stage.
It shouldn't though. By episode 7, even its harshest critics have admitted they judged too quickly.
@@cameronhodgetts920 Riiiiiight.
@@AyanneCZ Screen Rant and Forbes both said they'd been wrong, and those have been the two most vocal outlets of criticism against the show
@@cameronhodgetts920Forbes is a fancy magazine for pretentious ppl and I guess whoever else likes it. Because as Forbes, there's ppl who like this show the way I like some bad animes.
@@cameronhodgetts920give over. Are you honestly saying it’s a good show? It’s like hollyoaks with a billion dollar budgets
That episode was literally the worst television I've ever seen. I could hear Tolkien spinning like a turbine the entire time.
I thought that was an exaggeration until I heard the heavy metal credits music. What the actual fuck.
I can hear the chowderheads who liked it saying "so many characters died in this episode!" - characters we barely know or care about. I felt Haldir had a more impactful death scene in Two Towers despite his limited screen presence
Charlie, your ROP content is so hilarious and amazing that it almost makes me want to watch this trainwreck of a show just to make sure I didn't miss any jokes in your vids. You truly are a servant of the Secret Fire, and by Secret Fire I mean the true Tolkien fanbase.
I want to see two Ents kiss next... make long and slow for about 4 episodes... flashback between scenes to the sappy mess
I'm sure you could commission someone to make that for you.
Then one of the Ents let some acorns fall after 5 hours of leaf bristling... and gets blamed for being too hasty.
Hahahaaahaaaa 😂
Sappy mess🤣
Love the Qui-gon cameo 💚
@CharlieHopkinson "this is probably what agoraphobics think will happen if they leave their house" 😂 Boromir has the BEST lines ever! You are a clever, witty humorous man Charlie, I literally, lol throughout all of these videos, cheers mate!!
That elf in the background around 5:40 barely drawing back his bow is hilarious.
Huh, spotted that too while watching the episode. Sun rising in the north and all other mishaps - cmon, can you put at least some effort and heart in what you are doing?
@@GunslingerAlGilead I just imagine the director going "yes that's exactly how bows are fired from ramparts!! Keep going!!"
@@Snarkypope85 I’m afraid the director didn’t even care for such details 😬
@@GunslingerAlGilead just think.. this had a budget of a billion (with a B) dollars
@@Snarkypope85 yup…
I love that half the forge is destroyed, he must have tripped over the rubble like four times every hour...but the mouse was what broke the illusion. Also Sauron bothering to actually have him work on the rings, if he already has all the materials himself. He didn´t need mithril appearently, its all blood in the chalice. Might as well have used Celebrimbor himself but forcecontrolling his hands like a puppet to make the rings just to have a laugh at how op he is.
The guards just being confused like "uhm, does it still count as treason if I just ignore the chain of command and freely choose whom I take commands from?" Or the orc army just freely being delivered two out of the three highest commanding elves and doing nothing with it. What did Elrond think would happen...appearently exactly what did happen, which was the most unlikely course of action. Are the orcs so pacifistic that they hoped if they waited long enough, all commanders would just walk into their tents until there were no free elves left...well it almost would have worked.
6:25 “it’s nice to put a name to a face.”
“What’s her name again?”
“…”
Sums up just how forgettable these characters are.
The only reason I can remember it is because ‘Mirdania’ doesn't follow Elvish naming conventions, even though it would have been ridiculously easy to fix it. The literally only thing they would have needed to do was change the ‘ia’ to a (female) Elvish suffix like ‘el’ or ‘iel’
Hey they exist just to die later
I'm dying at boromir and that rats interaction right at the start
Dude Charlie ur the man for this thank you so much!
The only reason I'm still watching Rings of Power is so that I can watch this afterwards.
This is amazing without watching. I only watched the first season. I refuse to let them get the views they want.
It is amazing without watching. Don't give them the views they want.
Thank goodness for Charlie!
Thank you for making Boromir so awesome.
I despise EVERYTHING about this show.
*except for everyone comming together against it
"Chained to his workstation, no toilet breaks.... in a show made by Amazon" 😀
Oh Elrond how could you.
Nice cameo from Jinn.
That intro bit was amazing.
Oh, I have pitch black blood? Here's my hand that I totally didn't cut for some evil ritual, and you can very clearly see my blood is red 🙄
He is the middle of a battle. Having a cut on his hand isn't exactly suspicious. And he could have seen his hand previously, or just as he came out, that's how he knew it was cut. The impression the rest would have is that the other guy is just losing it and imaged his blood was black. And leaders crumbling under stress in battle is not unusual.
@@justforever96 ah yes, the totally normal wound right in the middle of the palm with blood running straight down. People get that sorta thing all the time during sieges
Honestly one of the few scenes that I feel actually aligned with Sauron's trickery, he is a master of illusion (and shape shifting), so I feel like him changing himself temporarily to have red blood to further a plot is right up his alley
@@svenkollskegg3812 or he just added some red dye to it as he was leaving the tower XD Sauron the Magician 😅
"Ohoho, bad luck. That's not the sort of thing you want to happen to you more than once."
"Yeah, with any luck he won't have the exact same thing happen to him later in the episode..."
This made me laugh so hard it hurt! Very much! What are we yet to endure? Who would've thunk it would get so hard? This series will make us all go mad in the end!
So just to get this straight - in this upcoming last episode we have to: finish off the siege of Egegion, wrap up events in Khazad Dum (presumably with Durin III unleashing the Balrog), reunite Druin IV with Elrond, get Numenor's totally unintersting plotline rolling towards a Pharazon/Miriel marraige, get Galadriel's ring back, Sauron will presumably kill off Adar and take over the Orc campaign, do something with the Southlands folks and Isildur in a rushed way to reuinite him with the (tenuously) more interesting cast members, get the nine rings out of Eregion to distribute them to the nine kings of men who we haven't even met yet, have a confrontation between Galadriel and Sauron (which results in neither of them dying) then reunite Galadriel with the rest of the Elves including her husband and as of yet unseen daughter, have a contrived line about Celebrimbor being effectively useless at making any more rings now that he's chopped his thumb off, oh and somehow include some sort of resolution with Not-Gandalf's stick questline over in Rhun which as far as I can tell is still completely disconnected from the main plot... all in roughly an hour, hm, call me crazy but I think this season could have done with another pass through the writing room to tidy up some of the many loose plotlines. Let's see, what am I forgetting - oh right, the actually completely disconnected Hobbit plotline? This season is more of a mess than the first
It does sound like an epic task to pull it all together. I can only home it yields some comedy gold, like the season 1 finally.
To be fair, since they are planning on doing more seasons, you wouldn't expect all of these things to be resolved by the end of this season. In fact, competent story tellers (which these folks are not) would focus on wrapping up the siege of Eregion as the season finale, and the rest will be addressed in subsequent seasons. Then again, competent story tellers wouldn't have done much of what they have done, so there is certainly the possibility they try to wrap all that up in an episode.
Not-Gandalf and his stick quest and the entire hobbits and Numenor story should of been cut. Just make the show about Sauron, the elves and orcs.
@@fatalshore5068Well, the Gandalf and Hobbit stuff should definitely be cut, but the Numenor storyline is pretty important (although they are butchering it) for the overall story, so they can't really cut it. However, they should probably have pushed it back a little or something, considering that it should be happening over 1600 years after the forging of the rings (the 16 rings for dwarves and men were finished in around S.A. 1500, the 3 elven rings were finished in around S.A. 1590, and the 1 ring was finished in around S.A. 1600. While Tar-Palantir dying and Ar-Pharazôn usurpation happened in S.A. 3255. Although obviously, all of it happened very differently from how its happening in the series).
@@mariavi33 the numenor story is sy fy channel levels of political intrigue
Dude , RoP at this point is just Tumblr level fanfiction lol
❤ this Boromir! “Oh yeah laugh it up...this is really quite triggering for some of us.”
its funny that i look more forward to these videos than the rings of power videos themselves
So many cringy things end up primo meme fodder.
It's like the blooper real at the end of a Jackie Chan movie.
Was so looking forward to this!
Crossing a river downstream, imagine that. Well the writers of the show didnt. God damn it...
It shows you hope stupid the writers think their audience is. "oh look, lets just get a few catapults to make the cliff crumble and then, we can pass it off like rock absorbs all the water in the vicinity. Then, surely, we can make it believable that the orcs are physically pulling siege equipment across an unassailable bog, something we literally show later on when the elves try and ride through it and their horses proceed to drown in said bog"
@@sloht4061 There is only one good thing from this show, and that is Glug and his family. Keep an eye for his arc in Season 3 where he turns out to be a corrupted Treebeard with his Tree wife and tree baby, sappling? acorn?, but he puts on the ONE ring (yes the one ring) because Sauron did not care about his family just like Adar did not and transforms back into an Ent. The end.
That's not always an option. A fortified town protected by rivers on two sides and a mountain on the third is a difficult thing to attack. What are they going to do, cross downstream and then attack over the steep mountains behind the town? Funnel their forces around it? There is a reason hilly terrain is generally considered an impassible obstacle by military planners, especially in actual assault under threat. When you hear about forces fighting over a hill, when you actually see the "hill" in real life, it's usually something that would barely qualify as a swell in the ground around here. A steep forested rocky mountain will turn your troops into a disorganized mass of men who have lost contact and formation, as well as tiring them out. Ever climbed a mountain, even a small one? Try a 45° slope a few hundred feet high, it's exhausting and difficult. And how are you going to take ladders and siege engines with you?
The other consideration is usually that you can't just march wherever you like, you need to consider your line of march and your flanks, and you leave yourself open to the enemy waiting until you head downstream and then crossing themselves and taking you in the rear or flank, or cutting off your retreat. General Lee won a few brilliant victories by going downstream and crossing at another spot, but he only did so by taking an enormous gamble that the Union commander wouldn't spot and exploit the weakness he created. Military maneuvers are a very complicated problem and if they don't do what seems like an obvious thing it's usually for a good reason. And that usually comes down to the difference between what a few people or a light unit is able to do, and what an entire division or army is able to do while maintaining cohesion as a fighting force. There is a reason why in the Valley campaign they considered the mountain ranges in the Shenandoah an impassible barrier, and a few small forces were able to hold off much larger forces in the few passes through the mountains. A single person can climb over the Blue Ridge Mountains without too much difficulty, an army can't. They need roads or at least relatively open terrain.
@@allcohoIic What's funny about this, is, I dont even know who glug is and if you're being sarcastic or if it's a character I've just not even bothered to remember.
The entire show is like a really bad fart. It's like an indie production of Lord of the rings which, would be fine, if it wasn't passed off as the most expensive production in history and us all being told that we're the ones in the wrong because apparently, we're incapable of appreciating anything that has black people or women in major roles.
News flash, nobody cares if the actors were gifted and the roles were specifically for them but, they've put black women in roles where they really shouldn't be. They've made the dwarves insufferable, "Disa" is the worst character I've ever seen, the random black elf who, when he was stabbed, I just sat there, no expression because he's completely irrelevant in any time line.
They've made Elrond some incest soy boy, Galadriel a feminist retard, Gandalf an old man with dementia, Frodo and Sam, two girls who I just want to die in the show honestly, Sauron some twink who just walks around. Their elven pronunciations make me cringe. There is honestly, not one single thing that's good. Nothing. Costume design is god awful. Story line is god awful. Actors god awful. Location design unthought out and completely void of any real feeling.
@@justforever96 That doesn't change the fact that, even in fiction, knocking a bit of a mountain off does not suddenly turn a river into a bog. Bloody lol.
There's a lot of "Army of Darkness" references in this episode. (the catapult and the pincushion). If Celebrimbor had only cut off his entire hand and replaced it with a chainsaw.
What a great episode. Good recovery from last week, which was a bit thin. Many cracking jokes. A lot of LOL moments. Keep at it Charlie, a million subs is near.
Absolutely adore Thorin showing up
I though everyone knew the dwarves really did start it😂
That made me laugh out loud at full volume because it was so unexpected but fitting, absolutely genius
I love how Charlie singlehanded made Boromir one of my favorite characters ever.
This show is beyond stupid. Thanks for making it funny.
His illusion/time loop has many problems besides just the mouse and candle. How did he properly get between the tools, furnaces, and his desk with debris all over. How did his blood change to the consistency of the mithril after being melted down so it could be mixed with whatever the other metal was and survive the furnace for the reshaping? How did no other soldier or person try to go get him to some place safer since they clearly saw the building get damaged. I mean i can think of others but the writers didnt try so I am not sure why im putting more thoughts into this illusion/time loop.
The illusion is for us to see from the smiths eyes. But sauron manipulates the mind not conjuring illusions that eyes see.
Its like inception, in a dream your mind fills up what story line it convinced is going on. When you wake up you see how strange it was but when you are in its hard to notice.
@@EmperorTerranthe op’s question still stands. There was debris all over how didn’t he trip. I don’t think they need this dumbed down explanation when they were talking about the details that didn’t work
@@MrTcrottbecause If you think then it does not stand. Celebrimbors mind sees debris but does not try to walk through it cuz its there, but it is also refusing to register it. The explanation does not need constant adjustment of magical projectors around subject or solving for edge of the world wall like in games. The mind is tricking itself.
Maybe it wasn't just a simple illusion but some sort of space-time distortion which created a poket-realm existing in parallel to the real world. Thus, there simply wasn't any debris in the version of reality he was trapped in. But Sauron also hasn't perfected this ability, so it had flaws like the time-loop and the limited range that could be maintained permanently without additional effort. That is at least an explanation I could imagine them to come up with if they tried really hard.
@@anonymousgerbil8336 An explanation that they could pull out of their asses if pressed on the matter you mean. 😂
"Brother eww"
Said Celebrimbor calmly
Brother what is that? Brother ewwww
"Maybe we're the bad guys...makes you think."
"No. It doesn't."
😂 The most apt description of this show.
Qui joining was a dream come true
So, I've seen a few reviews of this episode.
You gotta love how every content creator I watch has a logical, and tactical alternative to this "mountain dam" bs.
And not one of them has the same strategy 😂
Boromir trapped in a time-loop, on a loo, is just a brilliant, piece of narrative, genius!
Sensing this one was getting a bit difficult for you. Thanks for doing these for us.
I have been waiting for this video ever since the episode dropped.
I love this so much hope you get a million sub asap!!
0:10 Bolomir stuck in a time Loop
Honestly, these are better than the actual show.
We need more Qui-Commentary!!
this is so funny mate, thanks!
I have to set my blinders to maximum in order to enjoy what I can from RoP.
Thanks Charlie, for easing the pain.
Another solid 15 minutes of chuckles. The Amazon / toilet breaks gag tickled the heck out of me. Spreading a lot of mirth with these Charlie.
I've read lotr. I've read the hobbit. I've read the simarillion. I've read unfinished tales.
If you gave me 10 years to make the most UN-tolkien fanfic in the most horrible, lore-breaking way, I could not reach rings of power level of awfulness.
We get a love triangle between Galadriel, Elrond and Sauron before GTA 6.
Yes please! 🙏🏻 I still enjoy this show more than tHotD I can admit it..
Not looking forward to that rule 34
Like story wise, yeah great-you needed a distraction to get her a pin. In reality- THAT'S YOUR MOTHER IN LAW
So they aren't actually related
@@RHCole About six generations back for Elrond there's a common parent, three for Galadriel. Looking up a chart now and trying to compare names from The Silmarillion.
Elrond from Elwing from Nimloth from Galathil from Galadhon from Elmo (no I'm not sure of that name) to some common parent.
Galadriel from Eärwen from that common parent.
Celeborn comes directly from Galadhon, so he's actually closer related to Elrond.
Mind you, Túrin and his wife Nienor didn't realise they were brother and sister.
Elrond's daughter Arwen married Aragorn. 62 generations back from Aragorn was Elros... Elrond's brother.
@@troffle nienor jumped into a river as soon as she realised what happened between her and turin. tolkien saw this as a great evil happening!
@@fl4shblade I know. I'm just saying there's precedent for the tragedy, but the way the rest of the world is set up, there's no excuse for this show's storyline to exist.
@@troffleso he married his 62nd cousin? Or his 32nd? Or is it both?
I was so sad that the last video ended. Goes back to home page. (episode uploaded 7 minutes ago)... Hooray!
The best part of this week's episode, both the rings of power and charlie hopkinson's is that Bombadil didn't make an appearance.
Or Isildur, or anybody from Numenor
I cant be the only one checking this page daily for the reaction to the final episode.
Couldn’t wait for this to drop!
They've been running with the story that Sauron didn't care for or even hated Morgoth. When he joined him out of loyalty and conviction (after serving Aule, the Valar of the dwarves and smiths). Since he's after all an evil Maiar. And the cults he created on Númenor were even in honour of Morgoth. Tolkien even said something along the lines that his genuine respect for Morgoth might have been the only bit of "good" in him.
Eagerly waiting for the finale reaction video and a fools hope of a possible special guest appearance by old tombom 🤞🤞🙏 Cant wait
So good! Love the impressions!
I don't even watch rings of power season 2. I watched one. It was a disaster. I just watched his reactions and that's all I need
The title of this video hahaha. What a hunk of garbage. They should write Charlie a check for salvaging something from this show.
😂 that Qui cameo caught me off guard. I love it!
Your impression of these characters are so stunning, at then end you should have had some rubbles falling onto Boromir.
I was waiting for that 😂
5:58 Gandalf and Elrond are just too much 😂😂
😂 ROP might be crap but this is mithril.
It’s not the characters that make me mad, like in a well written show or movie, I’m mad at how bad the acting and writing are in the trash show. Thank you for continuing to watch it and make these so I don’t have to waste my time on it anymore.
Celeborn getting cuckhold 😭. Isn't Galadriel already married Celeborn in this era?
His second name is Telep*@no, it adds up xD
Both in Lore and in RoP as well.
Fanfiction, that's all this is
She should already have her daughter at this point 😂.
Writers are obsessed with good girl falling for the bad guy and cuckery
"Tell me, where is Celeborn? For I much desire to speak to him"
i'm so happy now
I'm in love with this Boromir - he's so on edge, poor dear - hope he can find calm, either in this life or the next.
This was awesome
Getting it on with your mother-in-law joke 😂
Rings of Power jokes 🤣
Who knew Stacy's mom was originally written in Elvish?
I gotta catch every single episode so I can understand the Charlie Hop Lore
The only thing I appreciate about the rings of power are your reactions 😂
I was literally thinking of quigon during this and up he pops. Damn I’m here for it.
Why would I pay for Amazon and watch the actual show when I can watch this better version.
Well, this episode is at least more entertaining than most, even if unintentionally. At least something happens every few minutes, even if literally everything that happens is only good as material for those making fun of it.
a tiny discount Mulan took twice as many arrows as Boromir and was still able to fight 😮
That must be some powerful rice in Middle Earth 🍚
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Those arrows were nothing compared to her parents disapproval
Empowered by feminism I guess 😅
Great ending, Boromir the great puppeteer 😄
Everyone talks about the reaction to the kiss, but little is said about Gandalf's reaction at the end of the episode when the troll's metal song is heard xD