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The Rings of Powers sucks. Period

Well, lets be real... the power of many has very really been strong againts the Jedi :3

The best way to tell him I'm letting her go with him is to suddenly turn myself into a scary smoke creature.

Is sauron not directly referred to as the Black Sorcerer?

The big reason companies like translating Animated media into Live-action is because it brings in a whole new audience. Many fantastic stories like ATLA has many advantage at being animated but just as many if not more disadvantages. Many people consider animation nothing more than for kids which is true for many animations. But ATLA has many dark things, emotional and interesting characters. Translating animated media into live-action provides more audience from the general public.

Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are both written a lot better than Rings of Power. Sure it’s also pretty much a fanfiction because Talion never existed and Celebrimbor never possessed any type of ranger. But that doesn’t really matter considering Talion just becomes a Nazgul by the end of it till Sauron fell. But it used this fanfic setting to make a good game with fantastic gameplay.

Durgan Spurs

Rafael Mountain

Leola Pike

Amazon sucks. No need to say anything else.

Let's pay a buttload for IP that we barely even use as a reference for another poorly received adaptation. -Amazon Corporate

the reason she didnt swim to the ship is the stipulation in her contract that states due to her possessing two X chromosomes, she will under any circumstances not be put anywhere close to being sexualized, including getting even the tiniest bit wet. have the dude shes ogling standing waist deep in the water shirtless yeah, but dont allow her to even get a single drop on her. such a prissy little brat

Kiarra Ports

20:46 I just assumed they were captured by the orcs since Arondirs boss and colleague was at the camp where they later died.

It does t. Just binged watched it and frankly, gonna start reading Tolkien

Sauron falling around doesn't change in season 2 where he happens to be helped by the guy who is carrying that medal that makes him the king

Denis Walks

at 18:39 I could have sworn you said _"...discovered a new _*_whore..."_* I guess I'm not over my ex as much as I thought

Trump is Sauron? Or Sauron is Trump? The only thing I hate more than leftie pandering is even more leftie pandering. THUMBS DOWN.

Schinner Manor

I saw a great analysis yesterday: Rings of power is a success by being a giant advertisement for amazon prime, so long as you stay a prime user and purchase through the Amazon store, Bezos is happy... thats the reason for no name actors and unrecognizable show runners in Rings of Power, it was just a giant "tent-pole" attraction to get more people unto Amazon prime to purchase in the store...

I've generally liked the writing in Season 2 more (so far, 6 episodes in), but what you've pointed out here about how much his S2 plan as Annatar hinges on nobody telling Celebrimbor that Halbrand is Sauron is an embarrassing oversight.

I thought the Istari arriving in a meteor was a pretty cool concept.

Sauron the luckiest man in casino

I did not find Qimirs nude moments sexy but creepy 😂

As I see more and more reviewers criticizing The Acolyte, I'm glad I stopped watching after 1 episode. Thank you for suffering so I don't have to.

I'll be honest, and it may be a controversial opinion, but I dont think Amazon is to blame for what the show is. I blame the Tolkien estate or whoever controls access to the rights. Obviously, the show has really awful writing, but they are operating within the parameters of what they paid for, which the estate made them pay an obsene amount of money for. If the conditions had been that they could have access to more of Tolkiens work, with insistant greater supervision of experts and better writers, then who knows what kind of show we could have had. I mean, where did the money go for all of this? If I were Jeff Bezos, I would be asking for my money back.

That's an entire generation of media at this point. It's even worse with Star Trek where we're supposed to have highly trained astronauts in a military structure acting like sarcastic teenagers back-chatting their parents to their superior officers.

It's Amazon. Everything they touch crumbles as if they are some sort of dark lord deceiving and plotting behind the scenes (Not to mention it's funded by a literal slave work which I was part of for two months because I could not physically stand working in their warehouse). Two Worlds was marketed as the new best MMO, and it failed because nobody working on it understood why MMO's can be great and how to actually make a good one. It came out as a glitchy mess with no soul and really bad mechanics. Here we are with the Tolkiens world and everyone should have predicted that corporations just can't and will never be able to produce something with an artistic and cultural value because that's not the point. Money is. Tolkien wrote his world with care because his goal was not to make fat stacks of cash, but because he actually wanted to make a great story. The bigger the company, the more soulless products it shits out, no matter the franchise. Corporal ladders, rules, lack of creative freedom, fear of something being bad for the boss who knows nothing about things he works with, correctness about everything. Political too, but I'm talking more about literally correctness about everything that involves production of said content. From hiring wrong people/not giving a chance to less expirienced but more creative ones, to being too scared to make bold decisions by writers/directors. It's a literal golden cage for art because money is not the problem, the system of production and who actually is responsible for the projects is. That's why I'm not watching shows, movies, play games, read books until I'm sure that they are not a product but a piece of art and I advise everyone to do the same. If numbers don't add up then they will stop. "What if we don't get any more of the scarce good stuff if corporations stop?" So be it. Go and make your own art, people, and I assure you that a freaking stickman stabbing other stickman scribbled on a piece of paper has more value than these pieces of garbage people call blockbusters.

Your my kind of people

Roy Key

Fantasy.... rooted in modern day western politics.

Bridget Walk

this is why I don't watch any of this stuff. it's gross af, don't pretend it should be seen as normal.

Random Film Talk has some solid takes as well. solid video!

So true, coincidence drains the power from this show. And are the coincidences ridiculous! Great analysis

God... 14:38 is proof of the damage that "the curtains are just blue" has done to media literacy and comprehension...

There are so many losers on here.

hobbit was a disaster too...Bit it s not the deviation from the books LOTR the movie whe deviates from the books is not a disaster. I liked Arwen instead of Glorfindel saving Frodo because presenting strong characters like GF or Tom that don t move the plot in the movie would look lame to the uninitiated to tolkien s legends. The destruction of the ring was better in the movie the ring was destructed by it s own malice instead of an accident serves very well. Even the "villaination" of Isildur though i didn t like makes sense. This shows that to deviate with a plan may work

This was so detailed and thorough

The Despot of Antrim makes a good point on how even the Holiday special is significantly better written than the Acolyte

39:58 Sauron is not the lord of the rings. Sauron is the Dark lord. The ring itself is the lord of the rings "One ring to rule them all..."

Wait you were supposed to think Not-Gandaddle is Sauron? Did anyone fell for that? I mean big old guy visits small hairy feet people... even Saruman would be somewhat more plaubible then Sauron.. or is this just me?

I can't believe the elves are going to storm Numenor and take all their jobs.

They didn't buy the wrong rights on purpose, the Tolkien estate wouldn't sell them the proper rights (and maybe with good reason!)

I heard another youtuber say that they've taken the poetry and replaced it with mediocre exposition.

Katherine Green

I think the funniest part of this show isn’t that they bought the wrong rights knowingly it was that the estate wouldn’t sell them anything else and that it was the actual original trilogy they got it was the appendices and the hobbit. They literally can’t mention anything unless it was mentioned in those two things and instead of being smart about it and coming up with a thoughtful interesting original story set in middle earth they fucking wrote the worlds shittiest butchering

21:10 = "What is your deepest desier?" --> Random BS Add cuts in 🤣

Why do all these Rings of Power critique videos have the worst fckn thumbnails.