The Rings of Power: An Unexpected Rip-Off
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2022
- The Rings of Power: An Unexpected Rip-Off
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Original trailer concept: Bleach Opening 01
Music: "Enkon Hakuchuumu" by Sakagami Souichi - Copyright (C) 2015 Trial & Error/Sakagami Souichi All rights reserved.
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The best part is that the watchtower elves were captured off screen. They didn't think them getting captured would be worth showing in the episode. No grasp of storytelling potential.
I'm just going to assume a young female orc overwhelmed millennia old male elves by her presence. Really, it's so obvious they didn't need to put it on screen.
@@ElGreco15 oh yeah, my bad!
@@ElGreco15 young female orc that identifies as cisgender with they/them pronouns
I can already see it. It should have been done at night. It would have been shot like a Halloween film. It would have started with two elf’s on the tower passed the midnight hours, both complaining about the cold and lack of sleep. Suddenly the wind blows, sounds from the dark are heard. Sounds like screams and hate. Flash to other elf’s walking the camp now noticing some elf’s are not on their post. Doors opens with claws and dagger at hand. Our hero elf lays a sleep cloaked with Star light and then we see the darkness approach. Evil and demonic, cloaked in shadow and blight. Now the blade points at the elf’s neck, the demon prepares for the killing blow. And just when death comes, the elf’s awakes and draws dagger. See the scene from the return of the king when Aragorn awakes, now only with an actually close in battle between elves and orks at night. The ork screams and battle sounds are heard now. The attack begins. After a brave battle you then see our elf fall into a whole in the ground. And then you get the scene from the trailer. End scene.
@@nanky432 good gosh... That actually sounded pretty decent.... Can you please apply to Amazon's writing team? They could really use the help ...
They murdered Galadriel's character and they made the Hobbits evil savages. Well done Amazon, well done.
There will be no dawn for RoP
That's what we get from showrunners and writers who are inspired by Melkor's team instead of Ilúvatar's.
We live in a hateful society so not surprised they have written the show this way . There triggered by the slightest things and have to shove it in everyones face
@@SamiP-ik7vj yup they rather embrace morgoth instead illuvatar and just love the original song as it was made
Mogoth hath not to be skilled with dark writings as these showsrunners.
Orc: "Hey, boss... Can we talk?"
Sauron: "Of course! My doors always open for my favorite orc... So, what did you need?"
Orc: "Well, you see... It's about our symbol..."
Sauron: "The one that's a map to our super secret base that Galadriel hasn't found after a thousand years of searching?"
Orc: "Yeah... That one... Because you branding onto the bodies of their loved ones and the leaving those bodies for them to find, so..."
Sauron: "Yeah? And? It lets them know we mean business!"
Orc: "Well, the thing is we've been a lot of deforestation around there... Like, a LOT... So if any elves come within a thousand miles of this place they're going to see it..."
Sauron: "You put the cloth over the trenches, right? We'll be fine..."
Orc: "Yeah, that's another thing... Buying that much cloth is breaking our budget. Seriously, that stuff is super expensive since it all has to be hand woven, and the logistics of getting that much super expensive material in WITHOUT anyone seeing our super obvious super secret base is a huge issue so if w-"
Sauron: "What? You want to work in the sun? I'm being nice here!"
Orc: "Ummm... Well... I was just think we could have actual mines and-"
Sauron: "Are you the dark lord here? Or am I? Look, I was Morgoth's understudy... I know what I'm doing, ok? So just relax... Now, was that it?"
Orc: "Well, can you at least make it so overheating your McGuffin won't release a shockwave that kills all of us while leaving our enemies unharmed? Maybe even do like the opposite of that?"
Sauron: "..."
Orc: "We good?"
Sauron: "Get out."
The shockwave didn't kill all of them. In the movie part of Saurons army closer to Mount Doom fell into the cracks created by the earthquake when the ring was destroyed, the rest of them fled. In the books I believe that most of them fled and were killed afterwards, some took their own loves.
@@galetinm you're correct but it's still a funny dialogue.
@@galetinm The... Books? Ah, yes... I remember those... Those were happier times.
@@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6 only until you stretch it out over four episodes... Then it quits being funny real fast.
@@galetinm I think he means the introduction of the first movie, where the shockwave does makes the orcs disappear.
My favorite part was when Galadriel said “Black Elves Matter” and drop kicked Sauron off the cliff truly empowering.
Don't forget about "Asian orcs matter"? 🤣
And when my 3 yr old non-binary child saw that part, they clapped then turned to me and in all seriousness said, “This is how we do things, comrade.” 😰
The point of these shows is rather the individual characters as such & not their color, the source material is pardon the pun colored by its zeitgeist, so the current zeitgeist is much about representation, so practically you can cast any character, that would be otherwise white or whatever else into whatever, because the show is about a story between good & evil & not humanbeings´ racial composition, get your heads out of your ars, however the show is above average as a whole & A BLONDE WHITE WOMAN IS THE DAMN HERO OF THE SHOW, you should be livid!
@@karimnejjari0 Were you born in England?
@@lunarvision No & why would that matter?
This might be stupid but I’m so heart broken about what they did to Hobbits.
I can not overstate the importance of Hobbits to LoTR. The way they love family and family history, how every member of the community is so highly *invested* in one another, their generosity, their loyalty, their unlikely courage. Hobbits are simultaneously the unremarkable Everyman and the greatest heroes in the world. The fact that the most awesome feats and dreadful dangers are told through the eyes of these humble home and food loving men is what makes LoTR so remarkable.
I will argue that the best moment in LoTR is when Sam refuses to leave his friend behind and literally carries him on his back… and says he finds the burden light.
To me this is what it’s all about. Why would they subvert/deconstruct the most important element??? Make it so ugly and twisted? I hate it so much. Literally making the Hobbits all *about* callously discarding their friend’s lives.
(TLDR: How dare they say that Samwise “I can carry you.” Gamgee descended from these monsters.)
Despite their claims to the contrary leftists have always hated the working class which the hobbits represent.
I remember something about one Baggins' ancestor ( a Brandybuck?) being a big guy that kicked the head off an orc across a wide field or something. Can't remember if it was Gandalf or Bilbo who referenced that
Sam was the biggest low-key badass motherfucker in all of Middle Earth
The Harfoots are not hobbits. There was an obscure reference somewhere by Tolkien that they existed (along with many other types of halflings) and Amazon just took it as a sign to make a whole new race that is apparently amazing at astronomy but they can't build carts for shit or have discovered agriculture. From the very start I chose to simply accept the fact that all things related to Harfoots is an invention of TV writers. "If TV writers knew how to write, they would be authors and not TV writers"
It's a symptom of the disease that has captured modern writers: they can't lift up their own characters without tearing other characters around them down. In this case, they can only make Nori seem kind and helping if they contrast her to the other Hobbits, who are portrayed as assholes. It's a shame, because that's a real character assassination, as your comment shows
The elves in RoP don't behave like elves. Either the writers, directors, producers, actors/actresses are clueless about Tolkien's lore (and fantasy lore in general), lazy or stupid. I think its all.
Imagine being able to live for thousands of years (virtually immortal), will you still behave like normal short-lived humans?
Honestly I don't think it's the actors fault. It's the writing. Like the black lady dwarf, I thought, was the highlight of episode 2.
The elves don't look or act like elves, the humans are barely human, the numenoreans are hardly worth of the name. It's simply a complete and lack of knowledge on all of them (directors, writers, actors, etc); remember the passion of Viggo Mortensen when he read all of Tolkiens works? The fire in Peter Jacksons eyes when he talked about the movies? Yeah, you don't see that here; which is how we end up with brat galadriel and black elf
They don't even look like elves.
@@queenberuthiel5469 LoL hella old and wrinkly. You can only tell their elves because of the pointy ears and that's why they all have short hair. You wouldn't be able to tell they were elves if they had long hair they'd just look like long haired humans.
Yes, if you have seen what i have seen, or she, or, whatever..
Why would Strong-Woman need a ship, when she can just swim back to Middle Earth? So easy.
I just love how they expect you to know the lore while blatantly ignoring it every chance they get
Mind numbing
Love the part when Galadriel introduced herself
"My name is Galadrielus Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of Gil-galads legions. Sister to a murdered brother. And I will have my vengeance in this life or in Aman"
🤣🤣🤣
ferocious mercenaries from all the brute nations of the world, bent on destruction... caesar is prout to give you, the BARBARIAN HORDE - everyone else, except galadriel!
🤣😂🤣
"Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."
I kept thinking where are these armies of the north that she keeps talking about. I mean there seemed to be about six elf warriors with her when she was hunting Sauron. And, if the army is disbanded why is she talking like they exist? If they still exist, Gil-galad would have appointed another commander once he sent Galadriel off to Valinor so she is no longer the commander. Another plot hole!
Wife to a missing silver clam-like husband.
That scene of Galadriel smiling has to be the most ironic piece of film I’ve seen in a while. Whether it be the way Morfydd Clark plays her, the way the character was written, or both, everything up until this scene has painted Galadriel out to be an unlikable bitch. So when they cut to that close up of her smiling, it’s so… disturbing. 🤣
Yup, I prefer to characterize that smile as a "rictus grin" - a frozen, sinister, dark smile. Something Saruman repeatedly wore during his battle with Gandalf atop the Tower of Isengard.
She looks sooo evil in that slo mo disaster
@@darianstarfrog maybe she is Sauron 😜
Lol
I was laughing during that scene. It was so cringe
This is Hobbit genocide in terms of storytelling. They took a group that was defined by love, tradition and community and completely made them into angry refugees you would see in a war or zombie movie. The Hobbits were key to the storytelling because they act like a benchmark for good and innocence for all the other characters in this world. You need such characters to guide the audience in things like morality in this universe.
I expected the “ TAMPAX” logo to appear in large font during the horse riding scene. 🤣
Or a shampoo commercial...
There is probably a reality or alternative universe where this show was amazing and respected the lore. But of course, our universe gets THIS abomination. Because of course we do.
In another world Spartans: The Ring of Lords: The Power of Rings is geting panned by shill media and loved by fans.
I'm honestly unsure any reality of this would be amazing without the author still being alive... But this reality is still likely bargain(well, not a bargain that isn't devilish) basement among them as one where it is the worst...
I blame CERN
Yeah we're in the Alternate Universe where all entertainment is horrible written by A.I NCPs .. better off taking a walk in nature then wasting time watching this sh*t .
@@Been.Here.Since.2007 yep the bastard blew up the Earth that had good entertainment and now where stuck in the Mandela Effect universe lol
Imagine a tomboy marysue learning to embrace the feminine aspect of herself and learning to deal with those she can't just kill with a sword.
There's an old middle grade fantasy book called "Dealing With Dragons" by Patricia C. Wrede, about a princess who doesn't want to be a princess and runs away to be a dragon's cook. But during the story, she ends up using the skills she was told a princess shouldn't learn, but also the ones she was forced to learn. It's a very charming story, and oddly enough, I've mentioned it several times in the past couple weeks.
@@songweretson1513 oh my God I completely forgotten about that book but honestly loved it
That would be a great arc, and I will take most things I've said about the show back.
Sadly, the radical progressive crowd seem to think femininity is weakness unless anyone BUT women have it.
She's going to get laid with discount Aragon it seems.
It’s toxic Marysuelinity
These are hands-down the best Tolkien breakdowns on the internet.
Bronwyn is somehow able to kill a orc single handedly, but her boyfriend the Elf gets captured. Love it.
Not only him. ALL of the warrior elves in that watchtower get disarmed and captured. My only explanation is that the orcs pumped sleeling gas inside it 🥴
Rings of Power is the most faithful adaptation of source material since Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The part when Galadriel proclaimed, "The Force is Female"! CHILLS... so brave and stunning!!
With the Enterprise in the background, truly breath taking.
I loved the part where Galadriel said, "We have the mightiest armies in all of middle earth! What do you have that could defeat us?" Sauron just cracked his neck and said, "Magic, Mutherf*cker." Then Frodo said, "Crap. we're gonna need a bigger ring." so Gandalf told the Ents "run forrest run!" Then Don Lemonlas said, "We Haz RANGS!" while wearing a BLM shirt. Then Ursula said “Ahh, so you think darkness is your ally? But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an octopus, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” Then She-Hulk said, "You either die a Hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Crustacean." But Then Ursula Replied, "I am INEVITABLE!!!" only for Ariel to impale her with the boat while saying, "And I am all the Jedi! ... On a Boat."
Much Stunning. Much Bravery.
@@TheEldritchGod I am 100% sure this is better writing than Rings of Power - and you touched on so many great films and series in it! Kudos!
@@TheEldritchGod I couldn't stop laughing
Its so brave of Amazon, to make Galadriel a smitten woman who all men hate. I mean takes guts really, the last actress one of the most beloved women on planet, so to get some petty 2 bit player who belongs in B-Tier hulu chirstmas movies, and replace her as a conniving insufferable wench, I mean gotta hand it to them, they tried. To bad this BS fails everytime, just like communism.
I have a question. If the show is called Rings of Power. Shouldn't it be centred around Celebrimbor and Sauron. Since they are the creators of the rings of power. It should have nothing to do with Galadriel until she bears her own elven ring from Celembrimbor
My thoughts exactly.
@@Bobba8590 Lol. They should have just called it Middle Eath; Galadriel's Adventures.
@@richardnoble4566 just like they should have called Obi-Wan series Leia-series
@@richardnoble4566 Or just Lord of the Rings: Galadriel.
Ah yes this episode established many things.
No 1: The elves watching the southlands must be blind as bats to not to see the several mile long trench the orcs were digging.
No 2 : Elven warriors must be about as good as toddlers at fighting as every single elf we've seen has been captured by orcs. Finrod and his men were captured and killed. Galadriel warriors got their ass beat by a single troll. How exactly did they win the war again in this show?
No 3 : Hobbits are psychopaths. We'll stay together but you even get a slight injury we'll leave you behind to die and laugh at your death. Btw if they also abandon others due to just being slow moving than they've abandoned a lot of pregnant woman :L . The writers seriously didn't think for a single moment. Of course if they did they would scrap everything and start again.
No 4 : Galadriel is bloodthirsty. Like holy hell you would think a several thousand year old elf would at least be a little polite and understand basic diplomacy without going straight to the kill option.
Well to be fair Galadriel was thirty to conquer back then. To have dominion over lands that would be hers. There's a passage mentioning it in the The Peoples of Middle-earth pg 337 I believe.
@@7r3x1992 Yeah, but then we would assume Galadriel being smart, personally attractive, having good political/interpersonal skills besides being ambitious so her success would be reasonable. May I ask who is that angry, stubborn, selfish, and inpolite she-elf who is unable to have a normal calm conversation with anyone and appears very very very obsessed with her royal elf bloodline??? (It was actually quite funny hearing her describing herself as daughter of "the GOLDEN house of Finarfin under HIGH king Gilgalad", emphasizing GOLDEN and HIGH KING. Also, she was very mean to Elendil untill he called her "my lady" in elvish, which softened her bad attitude immediately. )
@@elizazhang8891 it's a damn shame they didn't go with that as they should have.
It makes it seem that the elves didn't actually PATROL the Southlands, they just stood in their few towers, looking at whatever was in view, maybe fucking the locals. They also don't know jack shit about what's going on with Numenor. The elves seem very unobservant here. Wouldn't the Southlands also be where Galadriel spends all of her time? Where else would the orcs have gone if not into the mountains in the southeast, or beyond them, past the reach of the elves? The frozen-ass north with no meat, or into the ocean, or far south into the SUNNY DESERTS that I believe exist in Hurad?
Um, what?
Those are elves..? The humans in Peter Jackson's movie look more Elvish than these actors.
Will Ferrell looked more like an elf than these guys do.
@@Lobsterwithinternet Ouch. I'll go get the Savlon.
@@Lobsterwithinternet Lmao!
The orcs look more elvish and dwarven than these elves and dwarfs lol
@@Lobsterwithinternet lol 😂
The Warg looks like that dead Chihuahua with the Mohawk that won Ugliest Dog in the World... if that dog was rendered by Sharknado's artists.
I'm cackling because that is a top-notch description of that abomination.
I literally snorted out loud at the dungeon scene. Even calling him discount-Aragorn sounds like an insult to King Elessar.
Fun Fact: According to Tolkien, neither
Ar-Pharazôn nor Elendil wore a beard. And neither did Isildur nor Aragorn. The descendants of Earendil were all beardless.
It's obvious they want Galadriel to be the protagonist of this show. So why then they insist on making her so stupid? Seriously, not one decision she has made in these 3 episodes made any sense, she is alive thanks to nothing but plot armor. And the worst part is that she is incredibly arrogant despite this, like she is above everyone and always knows better. Are they trying to make us actively hate her? Is it a good idea to make your main character totally unlikable? Isn't there a class about this in Writing 101?
It Reflects the stupidity of the writers lolll
I’m pretty sure if you were to submit this trash to a fifth English teacher , they would write a note on it that says it’s entirely stupid to make an incredibly long story by starting out having all your readers hate the protagonist from the start , people are just not going to follow an absolutely repugnant idea
Looks like I made the right decision to listen the reviews of the season before I even consider watching this.
I think trying to go for some misplaced character arc where she fixes her issues and becomes likable in future seasons.
Problem is, she's already supposedly thousands of years old. She should already be as wise and learned as hundreds of elderly humans combined. Yet she acts like a spoiled teenager.
Yeah, one of the first things you learn is to make your protagonist really good at something but balance that with flaws that they have to overcome, it is writing 101
I just about split my sides when you talked about the meteor guy lighting the pages he was reading on fire while trying to read them. That sounds like something right out of an epic sequence of disaster dominoes from The Naked Gun, when Leslie Nielsen lights a note on fire after using a lighter to read it, and promptly burns down the office he was in.
Omg Naked Gun was friggin Awesome .
Leslie Nielsen, what a legend
If I remember corectly, he used the lighter because he didn't want to turn on a light because he had snuck into the office.
I had forgotten, lol. I really need to watch those movies again, they were awesome.
@@Kyle-sr6jm yup, and is by far one of the best slapstick sequences ever.
Discount Aragorn needing a badge to forge, and him thinking just stealing it is the solution, reminds me of adventure video game puzzle logic. He needs an item that would take some time to earn in order to proceed, but he needs it now. He has to figure how to get said item in order to get past the obstacle (forge smith). He figures out the bullies have a badge. He uses his item (money) on an item (booze) uses booze to distract bullies to take the badge, then places it in his inventory. If given to the forge smith, no questions on how he got it will be asked.
The map thing is even dumber than you made it out to be when you actually think it through
Sauron left this clue on the body of the dead king of the Noldor. Meaning he was not only planning this when Morgoth was winning the war, he left a map of where to find his backup plan for his enemies to recover with thousands of years to figure it out.... For, uh, reasons. For this to be part of any plan, he'd have to know Galadriel was a moron who'd throw herself off a boat in the middle of the ocean and find some way to be in the perfect place for her to swim to....
We have reached JJ Abrams levels of contrivance 3 episodes in to a 5 season series.....
I really like all the white orcs that are probably pasty because of them staying away from the sun or that's at least what the show runners are going to say. But the Dwarfs that live underground or the Sindar elves born to a world of eternal starry night and never saw the light of the trees need melanin from some reason. I'm just thankful that the Professor and his son died before seeing how far we have fallen.
This is the best comment. I laughed reading this, because it showcases how silly all of this is.
White Orcs putting the black Elf in chains of course is a message
All hail the MESSAGE
The only reason we are seeing this aberration is because Tolkien and Son had died and the gladhanded worms slithered in to feast.
@@kylekillgannon True, I'm just trying to find small comforts in the sea of cringe this show induces in me.
"The sea is always right," is this show's version of "what is dead may never die."
Its actually a really clever thing to say. Its pretty much saying to not try and fight the sea.
@@kaiju1618 It would be, if they used it that way, but they dont. Which just adds another layer of hilarity. They use it like the sea is personified as sentient, and what it implies or suggests is correct. It throws a jellyfish on your face? Twas meant to be!
@@strat5520 Have you not actually read any Lord of the rings stuff? Sailors act like the ocean is alive. Everyone knows this. Even seasoned sailors alive today act like this.
I get that they were trying to come up with a catchphrase that will make their show stand out but that particular phrase just flops.
"Winter is coming"
"Space, the final frontier"
"May the Force be with you"
"It belongs in a museum"
Then they lead with "the sea is always right".
Sure "the sea is alive", I get that, I spent summers near the sea with fisherfolk and yes they do believe that.
But they never said "the sea is aleways right" nor anything relatively close to it.
@@strat5520 personally I would duck and weave if the sea did that to me... Jelly fish are quite icky.,. But I have seen ppl in shock keep pressing the gas pedal after a crash so.... To some ppl if a jelly fish was thrown at their face, I can see them taking that without moving.... And being absolutely shocked that the jellyfish was able to hit them...
:Gandalf: The ring must be destroyed but who will take it
:Frodo: I'll go, i'll carry the ring.
:Gandalf: YoUr NoT spEcIaL!!
"...to Harvey Weinstein," - I nearly did a spit take on that line. Well played, sir.
Just so everyone is aware, that wasn't a throwaway joke. Harvey was directly involved with the making of Peter Jackson's LotR movies (Miramax originally bought the rights before balking at the proposed budget before New Line Cinema stepped in) and had a contract to siphon off profit from The Hobbit movies even though he didn't do jack shit for them. Peter Jackson quickly learned to despise the man as he would originally greenlight something then turn around and get nasty screaming for changes. One time he threatened to fire Peter Jackson and have him replaced with Quentin Tarantino if Jackson wouldn't reduce everything into a single 2 hour movie. Weinstein also wanted to kill off most of the Hobbits and other "great" ideas.
Tired of Harvey's bullshit, Jackson deliberately modeled that orc after the bastard as a petty jab.
You forgot the part during the death-book speech, where the hobbits all laugh at the one hobbit who died to bees, and make fun of him for being "not too bright."
Make fun of someone for dying a brutal death for being dumb. Very woke.
These are not hobbits. They are hobbits-not-hobbits. Do you want lawyers jumping down your throat?
@⁺⓵⓺⓺⓽⓶⓻⓪⓵⓽⓸⓽Just some guy please commit toaster-bath.
but their hearts are bigger than their feet
@@richardrose2606 i think we can win the case when the actual source material clearly says they are
@@MrPsych77 Lmfao it absolutely does not. Hobbits did not exist in this age. Tell us you pretend to be a reader without telling us that.
You had me laughing at strong woman and discount Aragorn.😂🤣👍
discount aragon is sauron.
This makes me think of that “Our hearts as big as our feet” scene from the trailer. That guy must have been joking based on how they really treat each other.
“Are all the villains going to be white? That’s a rhetorical question, I already know the answer is yes!” Had me rolling….until I realized how sad these days are that I already knew the answer was yes too!!! Love the vids my man keep up the good work
I'm surprised they don't all have English accents as well
13:00 - you've got to love the anti-union message, too. Not that 'corrupt unions are bad,' but rather 'unions restrain your right to be individually exploited.'
So what if all the villains are white. Didn’t you lames bitch and complain about Black and Hispanic cast members? Make up your fkn mind.
Well, Amazon has to have jacked up the timeline, as we’ve got “stacy’s mom” vibes between Elrond and Galadriel, when she’s supposed to be married already, and we’ve got Èyowen/Aragorn vibes between her and halbrand. And we’ve got wimpy-Joan-of-Arc vibes from her in nearly every scene… she is thousands of years old, has spent many generations learning lore, fighting Sauron, saving middle-earth, building kingdoms, and so on, she shouldn’t be so ignorant of the world she lives in!!! Like, Amazon is gonna complain that we are “sexist” because we think their Galadriel is dumb, but Tolkien’s Galadriel is truly a bad-A!!! Did anyone in the creation of the show watch Cate Blanchett’s performance? She is a flippen Goddess, and her depiction of Galadriel is a goddess! Seemingly ageless as the elves were supposed to be, where she both seems young and old!
How did Amazon miss that? Their Galadriel is wimpier than Rosie cotton, and she’s supposed to be very experienced, powerful and wise!!!
When they say X embodies a role, I didn't always get it until I saw Cate Blanchett play Galadriel. Reading the books you couldn't fail to know who she was. She looked the part too. I could never imagine anyone else and if they'd got Clark to portray her like that, as she was clearly chosen for how close to Cate she looks, she may have gotten away with a poor man's version. But they can't even get that right.
its Guyladriel now
Well, she is... Cate Blanchett.
@@josequintana3669 😍
It's fine, we all just have to forget that this show exists. It's not canon, CB played Galadriel, idk who this weird lady is.
The Rings of Power were created in SA 1590. Elendil was born in SA 3119.
By season 1, ep. 3. The rings of power have not been made, yet Elendil and his son, Isildur are alive and well.
This is a major problem
Why did they do this ?? (To the Timeline) // I understand that it’s nearly impossible to compress 2000 years of S.Age history into a 5 season show, without constantly jumping hundreds of years, with a mere caption “300 years later…” or some such… But surely there were other solutions than to jam Everything into a 3-5 year span, that the series is likely going to be depicting ?
In defense of Shadow Of Mordor and Shadow Of War, a lot of the levels have kinda smoggy/overcast skies in areas. Plus, the enemies are stated to be Uruk-Hai/Uruks, which are able to move around perfectly fine in sunlight, as opposed to Orcs. Granted, you can hear them sometimes complaining about the sunlight.
My favourite part of the episode was Galadriel shouting to her husband: "Do you think I'm in danger, Celeborn? I am the one who knocks!". Sent chills down my spine.
Walter White?
"We don't need friends, we need to survive."
Ah yes.
"With hearts as big as our feet."
Apparently, their feet aren't as big as they thought.
When your pretentious empty sophistry ages like a dog turd in the sun...
Meanwhile in actual Middle Earth:
- Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf.
- What about side by side with a friend?
- Aye, I could do that.
@@GeneralProfessor Right? I got chills from that. Especially knowing the bad blood between the elves and the dwarfs. It was earned.
Ironically, when Tolkien describes three types of Hobbits, (Harfoots, Fallohides and Stoors) he actually mentions that Harfoots have the SMALLEST feet and hands of all hobbits.
So they seem to have most shrivelled and smallest hearts as well.
It is difficult to believe, as both Bagginses and Gamgees are of Harfoot breed.
@@Clownbabyworldtour How's that for a message they're sending to kids.
"Sweep your enemies off the land, like sweeping dust into a dustpan" - Me - Discount Lord of the Rings writer
I love how in quality movies and shows the creators always say “we thought the movie’s strength should come from the story” like it’s such a novel idea, insinuating how common cash grabs are
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I just want this on record. Your crusade against this show, and by extension, Amazon's corporate pillaging, is the stuff of legend. I salute you sir. Your commentary and criticisms are professional grade writing.
When Strong woman shouted “they fly now?” I was swept in emotion. It was so stunning and brave!
Funny
This is the best one lol Tremors is a masterpiece and these wargs are shameful compared to the Graboids and the original wargs
Ahahaha
@@hamdinger7145 Nice to see you here
The writers actually gave Galadriel the line "Wait a minute." Let's ignore the fact that they didn't measure time down to the minute so the word never existed but that this is a modern term and hardly the sort of speech you would expect from a High Elf.
I expect someone to say "hol up" in the next episode.
@@FordHoard "Dude, chill" would also be appropriate.
@@cancer4cure483 or "daddy chill"! XD
@@goodnessgracious91 Agree. This Galadriel definitely needs a daddy
Sam says it in the trilogy somewhere, “now wait just a minute”
I'm not watching the show. I'm watching your reviews of the show. I'm sure they are better written, funnier and more interesting and more concise. So thank you :D
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Same! I saw the first episodes and I'm definitely not wasting anymore of my time on the actual series.
Same
It's good if you have insomnia, though
I burst out laughing at the creepy slow motion horse ride. Now we know why she has the schizophrenia "two seconds away from murdering us all" look. Her smiling is creepier :)
I'm genuinely baffled that any of these writers thought Guyladriel would come off as likeable. Like damn dude, she's absolutely awful.
"Unapologetically!1" so too
Strong women get to act however they want without consequence. They’re the smartest, strongest and more special than every man.
Anything less than total adoration is due to your own misogyny….
Shitty writing begets shitty characters. Who knew?
Apparently it's part of her arc and she will potentially evolve over the course of the show, like the 6th Doctor
From what I have heard, Amazon does NOT have the rights to the Lord of the Rings story, nor the Silmarillion, nor the Hobbit. ALL they have the rights to are the appendices, which is why they couldn’t give us a story based on any of those other titles. So they are trying to tell a story Tolkien never wrote, using merely the information and names contained in a handful of pages of his addendum notes while also trying to “fix” Tolkiens lore to better reflect the modern world and their own beliefs and agendas. Is it any wonder the damn thing is an abominable mess?
Even if they got access to all of Tolkien`s works, they still would do a disaster.
RoP simply shows that writers and showrunners are simply untalented or underprepared to take a challenge as adapting Tolkiens war in a sensible manner.
I think anything in the LOTR or The Hobbit that refers to the 2nd Age can be used. But I can't think of anything that does.
The thing is that the story of Ar Pharazon and the fall of Numenor is a really cool story that should be the sole focus of a show, but they insisted on forcing the Galadriel and Don Lemonlas stories alongside a butchered version of Numenors fall. I’m reading through theAppendices now, having ignored it when I read the trilogy, and there is more than enough stuff in there to draw from, as well as enough blank spaces to create new characters/storylines.
@@Montrovantis Thats exactly what they are doing, if you catch my meaning *wink wink*
That is true. That they made two guys with no credits the showrunners is so obvious this has always been a scam
Sometimes I wonder if maybe turning on CERN really did shift us into an alternate more horrible reality
I feel it too. The last 6 or 7 years have been so off from reality that if you wrote it as a story no one would believe it.
this series is a godsend. we complain about life being too short. and now we can live an eternity in an hour. THAT is worth a billion.
I laughed out loud when the Orcs sent out their monster to attack the elves. My very first thought was this animal looked, growled and acted like a giant Chihuahua. I can't think of any other animal they would have modeled this creature after.
The warg looked to me exactly like Weasel from the suicide squad remake, to which I violently chortled at as well. It was basically a giant chihuahua like you said and it was hilarious.
I watched another video where they compared it to a pug. I do see it in that one picture lol.
It reminded me of a pug
It reminded me of the dog in the mask movie with Jim Carrey
Maybe a hyena from lion king?
The obscure references in the script that only those with knowledge of the lore will understand can't even be said to be fan service.
Because those same viewers know very well just how much the canon and lore have been vandalized to accommodate this veneer of a story.
It's an irritation, like an infected tooth.
Most of the people who know what this stuff means arent watching.
I had an impacted wisdom tooth a few years ago, and I'd rather go through that again than watch the rest of this series.
@@tileux exactly
They're Easter eggs, but like ones you find in July that are rotten and gross
Warg Chihuahua was epic. Couldn't stop laughing.
That scene of galadriel smiling in slow mo actually made me respect SJW use of the word micro aggresion, because it describes exactly how i felt. It wasnt exactly bad , the actress didnt look scary, it wasnt necassary in the shot & nor was it fully cringe. It was somewhere a combination of all, sorta made me afraid kinda like a micro aggresion of the series makers towards me
Her little British teeth and pompous mouth creeped me the fuck out.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah I get you, weirdly they slowmoed her in an ugly expression that didn't do her justice
You know what's funnier? There's a deepfaked version of that shot in YT where they swap Morfydd's face with Cate Blanchette's and it kinda look "normal" (at least to me) and bearable to look at (for a long time).🤣🤣🤣
When you havo so much money that you are willing to pay to make your fanfic canon.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy7yyy yay yy7
They messed with the wrong fandom. For me and many people I know Tolkiens books aren't just books, they're a part of who we are cause it's mostly the first entry to (high) fantasy. When I discovered Tolkien I was already all into Harry Potter, I loved it. But the love and comfort I feel when reading or watching LotR is special. This story really has my heart.
So I literally felt heartbroken seeing the characters and world I love so much being destroyed for the sake of diversity, "modern" storytelling and a narcissistic identity crisis of the authors and "experts".
But everytime I see how much people defend Tolkien I'm so proud and happy. Every single error is shown multiple times under every picture, video or text that talks positive about the show. I love my LotR nerds. ❤️
"the first entry to (high) fantasy"
My experience also. The connection is tighter though. I read tons of high fantasy after reading the Tolkien's books that were available to me at the time, looking for something as good as LotR. There are a lot of enjoyable fantasy novels, but none are as epic, as deep, as stimulating than Tolkien's work.
@@hskqour That's exactly what I did, reading tons of fantasy. I love many fantasy books, but LotR is special and the number one. 😅
Yea it's so insulting and wrong headed to approach Tolkien with the idea of 'fixing' and modernizing it. And the idea that various POCs need to see people that look like themselves to enjoy a show is contradicted by a centuries of people enjoying various stories from around the world. It's so shallow, and of course it's a standard that is only applied one direction - these activists aren't concerned with retelling stories from other cultures and 'modernizing' and diversifying them.
I think the reason why people feel such a deep connection to LOR is that Tolkien took great pains to ground it in realism as well as magic. As you read the book you travel with the fellowship. They eat apples, carrots, potatoes and the Shires are so resonant of the English countryside. There is familiarity as well as fantasy. And even the fantasy feels familiar as it taken from the mythology of a real people - the Anglo-Saxons and Nordic cultures.
@@annemosley5585 yes, and the fact that while there are strong heroes and powerful wizards, none of that matters without weak little hobbits that never give up because friendship... it's such a powerful theme, and it shows us that even the smallest among us can be virtuous and change the tides of history.. which is obviously what they're trying to achieve with Nori, but it's pretty klunky
Man. I can’t wait for Disney to make a new series called “Wakanda Forever” about the beginning of the nation in the heart of Africa, and how they became who they are. Casting Matt Damon as the King, and Lucy Liu as his wife. There will also be several Mexicans, Asians, and Native Americans mixed in with the population, because we need diversity right. How did these people all get to Africa 1,500 years ago? Don’t know. But we need diversity at all cost.
Wakanda better highlight a portion of its citizenry in wheelchairs or shit will hit the fan!
@@yourenotmarywelcome8693 Yes! Modern metal wheelchairs, in 11th century Africa. How did they get wheelchairs when they live in grass huts, wear loin cloths, and have wooden weapons? Don’t know.
@@TheSniperGTO - It’s not about the logic…it’s about the representation. Duh
Since they are going for the end of the Second Age with the Numenor stuff, Galadriel should be more like 5,000 years old at this point. I mean, she was a respected Noldorin lady in Valinor before the sun was created. She learned at the feet of Melian the Maia, Queen of Doriath. She rebuffed her Uncle Feanor (the greatest of all the Eldar) when he tried to get creepy and go all Daemon Targaryen on her. She's been married for millennia at this point and has an adult daughter. But yes, what we really needed was a scene where she gets the giddy little girl feels when she rides a horse. Because apparently in this version of Middle Earth, horse riding is an unexpected luxury rather than, you know, the way almost everyone travels over land.
She has an adult daughter that eventually marries Elrond. Galadriel is Elrond’s mother in law, they are family. But is any of that even remotely used in this show? Nope.
The part where Galadriel says "SNAKES, WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES!!!" and then shoots The Invisible Swordsman after plundering and pruning the hedges of many small villages all while valiantly fighting chlamydia, the Silent Killer, made me cry.
Did you just madlib us?
True it makes me crying and inspiring as well
Funny
Indiana Jones punching sound effects best thing ever lol
all while a dancing shrub sings "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"
When Galadriel broke the fourth wall and said "It's Morfydd time" I was literally shaking!
Funny
Elendil's made up daughter having the two best things in the show is pretty freaking hilarious.
I thought the two best things were Her face and the horse.
I am getting old.
I don’t know about you, but This is the story I’ve been waiting to hear.
The life and times of….Isildor’s sister.
Yet another comedy gem lol he's been killing it with all the videos covering this bs thing episodes.
I'm starting to love how bad this story is. Spoilers: This series ends with me jumping into Mt. Doom.
It’s wild to compare Milly Alcock in HOTD to Morfyd Clark in ROP. Both are strong, stubborn, bullheaded, driven women, but Milly Alcock imbues a humanity into her character so you actually like her. Whereas Morfyd Clark in ROP is literally ONLY those traits and there’s nothing behind it.
Well….one of the two women is a decent actress. The other is an emotionless sac reading lines.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made”
fake fan using a false quote
@@reek4062 Shut up,Wormtongue.
That's not the quote
Bruh sorry but incorrect
25:45 - I agree that one of the most grating things about it is that for this group to have survived for any length of time would require them to work together far too closely to ever consider leaving a member of the group behind, particularly if they were hostile to people outside the group (ie non-caravan members). If only for the sake of self-interest, since you might be the one who needs help tomorrow, it’d be a lot more sensible than a Pirate’s Code “He who falls behind is left behind” mentality. After all this is supposed to be a functional society, not a loosely connected band of marauders.
The friend would have been adopted into another family, likely either one that was close to her own or whichever one was most able to handle an extra person. As for Nori’s injured father, he’d likely have volunteers to pull his cart while he recovered in it. Heck given the importance this group would’ve placed on pulling a cart, it’s possible the young unmarried men would actually *compete* for the opportunity to show off for perspective partners how good they were at providing for their future families.
Very accurate. I love how you combined evolution with common sense in your analysis!
“…two very nice things brought by Isildur’s nonexistent sister...”
I laughed instantly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this lowbrow, JSG. I like it!
Remind me why we don't have the walking LOTRs historian running this show? Oh yeah, because we can't have good stories.
Because we're not allowed to have nice things.
@@theredheadwiththread1275 "we will own you and we will be happy" - Amazon probably
They fired them too
I've checked out of this show. I watched it up until Strong Whaman started arguing with Queen Bee. I closed out VLC and deleted the video file. Done, and done. House of the Dragon now has my viewership and MONEY.
That Galadriel line “who is this mortal who speaks to me as though he knows who I am” is a clunky ripoff of Braveheart: “Who is this man who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?”
Not a good idea to have your hero paraphrase a villain, unless they're throwing the villain's words back in his face.
I remember our first looks at Jackon's Thranduil, a character that would spawn a thousand affectionate memes and was every inch an Elven King. Then there's these guys who look like they were rounded up from a Starbucks and had some pointy ears slapped on. The look of the elves in this series makes me nuts. Plus the *&^% script. 'The sea is always right' to me sounds like they are ripping off GOT's 'What is dead may never die' except GOT added all this richness with the motif of the Drowned God and it sounds epic. Then there's the FU hobbits if you can't keep up WTF. Did I mention the elves are lame? The elves are lame.
Now I miss the old days of our curbstomping badass army of, as per Thorin's words, "pointy-eared princesses." Instead I'm met with PS2-graphics RPG character creation OCs, and a dialogue fit for a cheesy visual novel.
Jup, the elves are one of my biggest gripes too. Stripped of all the otherworldiness they had, no long beautiful hair or smooth faces or bountless wisdom, just your everyday people who happen to have pointy ears...heck, I don't mind a black elve (look at House of the Dragon, they can look otherworldly too) but that fade cut completely ruins him for me.
Amazon's rings of power makes us about as much sense as pickled herring and limburger cheese in a chocolate cake.
A real chef could work with that, guess there aren't any at Amazon.
Try saur kraut.
@@kawperlacayo1060 I could imagine those ingredients in an episode of Cutthroat kitchen
@@billcox8870 Me too, kind of want to now.
@@kawperlacayo1060 Isn't that not the dish the only ( former) chef! in this is serving at the hobbit scenes?
Galadriel's face riding the horse is the best description of what is this series
Your Prince analogy is absolutely right. All of the elements to have made this an epic series is right there in front of them. The stories are written. All that needed to be done was to creatively weave things together.
Instead, they change things here and there creating massive plot holes. Clearly none of the writers are that familiar with the source material and it shows. This show is an absolute dumpster fire right now when it could have been an easy money maker for years to come 🤦🏾♂️
If I didn't know the story I would consider Galadriel the villian. She is one mean, angry lady. I have no use for unattractive, short haired elves either. In LOTR the actors playing elves were not necessarily gorgeous- but the makeup and effects made them appear radiant. I don't find any of the races worth rooting for either. These peoples are all racist- speciesist nutjobs. It is an incredibly cynical interpretation that is not really an interpretation - its a generic, made up story using established names and locations. I sit there and argue with the television through each episode because it is so awful. The only people who like this must never have read the books or seen the Jackson movies. Yuck.
I'm so glad house of the dragon is eating rings of powers lunch and Amazon just has to watch it happen so cathartic.
The fact that they call this an "adaptation".... Watching this, if not for the names of some characters, some props, and alluding to an historic event occasionally, you'd say to yourself: "What a pathetic Tolkien knock-off, this generic fantasy show is ..."
That smile on "Galadriel's" face in the thumbnail is not a good smile, it is the smile of entitlement and arrogance. That smile says that she is enjoying something that she thinks she deserves, that she thinks she is owed, that someone may even not want her to have. It's the smile of someone who has never known lack: who has never not gotten what they want, so they don't know like to actually experience something enjoyable after not for a long time.
My old roommate's now wife could only smile like that. I miss him.
Had to chuckle when you referenced Ed from the Lion king. I remember having tears laughing so hard watching the hyenas. Still one of my all time favorite movies. (Original animated version)
How is it that, in four episodes, we have seen acres of dialogue in Old Valerian from House of the Dragon, but just a few lines of Elvish in Rings of Power? Just that alone (to me) shows how entirely disinterested Amazon really are about respecting Prof Tolkien’s works. and what meant so much to him.
I’m glad I get to watch your commentary on this. I don’t think I could actually stomach actually watching any of this. If I want female bad-assery I’ll just watch Sarah Conner, or Ripley, or just sit back with Peter Jackson’s version. Heck, I’ll even watch the Hobbit with it. Heck, at the rate this show seems to move, I could pretty much finish Game Of Thrones before anything interesting happens.
Or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Any number of things except this character assassination of Galadriel.
Red Headed Elf in the desolation of Smaug was beautifully bad ass :)
@@marcjames3487 I liked the Red head Elf lady. but I don't think that actually canon PJ just wanted to add a lil Romance between the young Dwarf Guy and Her... I don't think Legolas was canon either people major issue with the Hobbit movie .. it no where bad as RoP tho it a master piece by comparison...
@@joezar33 Agreed, but PJ turned a small book into 3 movies, he had to add a few things, so I enjoyed the movies. He may have added but he didn't twist things so out of shape as in RoP !
@@marcjames3487 yeah Jackson actually seems like a fan and passionate making his films.. RoP looks like a A.I program did all the casting and all the none canon writing... if watch RoP I have to be consistently reminded that this is a generic Tolkien show... the Jackson films i was really invested waiting to see what happens next wanting to know more about the future movies/books... RoP opposite effect...
"Strong Woman"
Lmfao! This killed me, and I use it when talking about the show with my friends. So good.
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It's like Gary from Nerdrotic said: "All of Tolkien's lore exists simply to be Easter Eggs (for RoP)."
Haven't watched Rings of Power, but this commentary is hilarious. So the Harfoots are evil Hobbits and everyone in the show is stupid, evil, or both.
Not only that. There are travellers of Irish ancestry/accent in the UK. They either travel the year around for work and/or live on communally bought land in rather flash caravans but caravans nontheless and have their own culture built on looking after each other. So you can imagine how 'travelling' hobbits with parody Irish accents treating each other like crap is going down in that community and Ireland itself (the accent). Sorry if you're American but this is another example of Hollywood forgetting the real world is not a carbon copy of the US. Especially when it's streaming service wants the world's sub money.
You’ve also got mixed races within races where it makes no sense at all. At least, in House of the dragon, they tried to weave it in the story.
@@yuukimasamura5143 that’s the big issue with forced diversity, it needs to make sense. Why do the Harfoots have different skin tones and different accents? It looks to me as though they are insular and dislike outsiders so this makes no sense and there’s nothing in the lore to explain differing skin tones outside of how they are explained irl
@@Osafune2 spot on man!
@@Osafune2 Ah you must be one of those "racists" we've been hearing about. How dare you! Black Hobbit/Elf/Dwarf Lives Matter!
Wow. That would've been a stroke of genius, telling the story of Isildur.
But that would require the directors to actually know Tolkien's works, and not just the movies
So here’s the story of Isildor’s sister……
@@yourenotmarywelcome8693 I don't understand what you mean with that.
Galadriel has nothing to do with Isildur.
I doubt they even watched the movies or had ever heard of the Lord of the Rings before. Amazon essentially gave 1 Billion dollars to make political propaganda using LOTR as a vehicle to gender studies students/political activists who had just graduated college.
They don't even know the movies as far as I can tell. They are in their own little box insisting like 7th grader that wrote some crappy fanfiction that it is good and if you don't like it FU.
@@lesath7883 I believe he's joking that they would force a female protagonist into it, rather than have Isildur
It's an even worse writing decision when you realize it's put in there for fans to point out... in the middle of a show that's not for those fans.
It's actually the same as the SW sequels. Effectively just remake the original while destroying all forms of world building, lore and consistency.
While also shitting on the Original Author/Director that is highly beloved by their fanbase.
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I've watched this show for free, and still didnt get my moneys worth.
That slow motion close up of Galadriel’s face in the horse riding scene is weird and jarring. An aerial or drone shot would have looked more fitting and also avoided the biggest weakness of this show- Galadriel’s face.
We all must be living in the worst timeline to get this absolute bastardisation of Tolkiens work. There was a reason the experts left and now we know.
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” - those screenwriting clowns tried to rip this one too 🤣🤣🤦♂️
There’s a reason house of the dragon is kicking this shows ass.
And poetic too. HOTD is based on the works of another JRR Tolkien's fan, George RR Martin.
Martin is still alive, tbf.
Tolkien reimagined as bad fan fiction.
When Galadriel said “You have offended my family and you have offended a Shaolin temple”, you knew it was gonna be a bigass smackdown.
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That galadriel scene was so cringe, imagine how actress felt to act it in front of shooting team
I don’t think I ever tapped a notification faster. I don’t have Prime, so I’m watching it vicariously through you series. Based on this, it’s more entertaining than the actual show 😂
Edit: I know it’s based on Atlantis, but I always imagined Numenor to be similar to the Isle of Mann, since Arda was originally conceived as a uniquely English mythological origin of the earth.
pirate it. see this piece of shit for yourself. its really that bad. nobody is exaggerating.
I canceled my prime prescription because of this garbage.
I have amazon and I'm watching, through these types of videos.
Give my views to someone deserving 👍🏿
This post is everything thats wrong with people following people who complain about this.
You havnt watched it so you trash talk it. Nice.
Not even worth a download, it's pure boredom. I forced myself to sit through episode 3 and the whole time I was just wishing it would end. I had to wash my eyes and brain out afterwards with a rewatch of Return of the King
"Amazon is a special kind of stupid."
You continuously demonstrate you are my attitude/humor soulmate.
And I hope Amazon did some amazing deals to recoup that 1 billion dollar budget cause we know it ain't gonna be met by new subscriptions and commercial deals.
It's a tax write off. So pretty much they're hoping the armed IRS agents a kinder to them for their work to spread the gospel of woke.
Nah, I hope they found out the money was laundered. Cause that's the only explanation to where the budget went.
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@@ElGreco15 I agree. This is definitely money laundering for a tax write off. Yet given that woke Democrats embrace this stupidity doesn't give me confidence. In fact all three letter bureaucracies need to be purged.
Soulmate? WTF!? Do you even understand the meaning of that word?
The thing is, legally this is a fan film series of the Silmarillion.
Remember when the entire reason Frodo was chosen to carry the One Ring was because as a Hobbit they have a specific kind of upbringing that lends itself to generosity, compassion, sympathy, and most importantly an innocence of the woes of the world and a complete utter lack of ambition?