Rings of Power S2 Episode 8 - ITS FINALLY OVER! - Angry Review
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AngryJoe, OtherJoe & Alex Review the Final Episode of Season 2 in The Rings of Power! Can this Episode Stick the Landing and Make all that Came Before Worth it? No. No It doesn't. Here is why!
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"Thank you Grand-Elf", legendary writing.
I hope the dark wizard (who definitely isn't Saruman ) reveals his name after someone tells him he is kind of a Sour Man.
@adamcfwan17 I couldn't believe they actually did it 😃😂 Grand Elf oh that's kind of catchy 🫠🫠
The showrunners already confirmed he's not Saruman so for once.. We're good.
Meanwhile the writers: "Write that down, write that down!!!"
I always thought it was short for ‘Saurons Man’.
@@Mamarozan 😂😂😂
Since we got the thrilling answer to how Gandalf got his name, I wonder how the Dark Wizard, who is totally not Saruman, will be revealed as Saruman. Here’s my guess:
Easterling: “Try this lemon, milord.”
The Dark Wizard takes a bite of the lemon and spits it out in disgust.
“That’s sour, man!”
Easterlings laugh: “Whatever you say, Sour-Man.”
Dark Wizard: “Wait, I actually like the sound of that….”
SHUT UP! My face actually hurts from laughing LMWOAOA 😂
or he is a Japanese monkey
More like a sore loser.
In a br0thel:
Dark Wizard: "ohh yeah, YES, YEAHHHH!...."
hoe: (chocking) "eww, why is your Jay-Z so sour, man?"
Dark Wizard: “Sour-man, It's got a pretty good _ring_ to it…”
💀💀💀💀💀
I think I now understand the sense of relief that Frodo felt after the ring was destroyed.
"It's gone mr. Frodo"
It's gone. It's done 😌
@@shekel2356alas until the Bezos is cast into the fires of Mt. Amazon I fear this darkness shall return.
@supersuede6493 you mean Mr phrodo as Sam says hahah
Except there's more coming.......
Elrond: ''The dwarves, the dwarves are coming.. Look to the North...''
*Literally points to the east, towards the sunrise*........... 🤣
His nickname is Tomtom
It was North, but a little to the east of North...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
iirc the world at this point is flat. Eru Iluvatar will make it round some time later... so, idk how the sun works rn
Who wants to bet Nori's last name becomes "Baggins".
She'll meet John Shire and they create the 1st hobbit children😂
She’ll say “it’s good to back in my shire… wait ‘Back-in’… ‘Baggins’”
Perhaps Took but Baggins is more than likely.
She'll be a took for sure lmao. This show is an abomination
I hate that you’re right
Scary... my father literally called it a few weeks ago... "Someone's going to call him Grand Elf.. and that'll be how Gandalf gets his name" ... I told him "Nah, that's just too stupid to be it" .... I severely underestimated the stupidity of these writers.
I can imagine your dad "look, now what did I tell you" 😂
@@dodshon88 Oh believe me, he was merciless in his mockery. I'm likely going to have to hear how right he was for the remainder of his life.
@@Hathur If youre not making this up, Im so jealous of your father. He has the control now and can you mock whenever he want to :D
That's literally what Gandalf comes from so you're calling Tolkien stupid. Well done =) All in the name of ragebaiting.
@@Askyl No. The SHOW said that's where it's from, Tolkien did not. Tolkien took it from an Old Norse word, it had nothing to do with "elves", it comes from Old Norse mythology. He never gave an in-universe origin for the name, the show writers did that.
Grand Elf > Gandalf is basically Hodor at home
Ugh! That part of this is so - - - Ugh..!
OMG i missed that now i feel l all icky
This is so bad
I don't remember people absolutely hating the Hodor thing though because it was executed well back then.
@@84jesterx Yeah, well it made sense in that context. Grand Elf Gandalf makes no sense, lol. Hodor basically had his mind melted.. this was just "huh. grand elf sounds like gandalf, hur dur" 😂
Did anyone else see Arandir get filleted by Adar??.... did the directors see that??..... no I must be crazy
When he showed up this episode, I had to got back to check last episode. They absolutely made it look like they killed him off and then pretended it didn't happen 😂
Absolutely nothing explained about that which is bonkers, did not even appear to be hurt either.
I was confused af when I saw him without any wounds!
YES!!!
He was wearing Bilbos mithril armor
According to the show's own logic, the orc's actions make no sense. "We're gonna betray the guy who is somewhat treating us like cannon fodder for a reason we believe in...for the guy who we know for sure will treat us like cannon fodder OR WORSE". 😂
Thank you!
This seemed stupid indeed but they established Sauron could get into your mind and control you if you let him, and the orcs did just that. It's weird he hadn't done that before they turned him into goo of course.
The fact you watched this show means you're responsible for its existence.
Thanks for that.
@@1_underthesun if only there was a way to watch something without giving the creators money
There's no reason for the character of Adar to exist, or at least not with the motivations that he had. All of the Orc race would have been compelled to follow Sauron, without question.
The Battle of Season 2 is over. The Battle for Season 3 has only just begun.
My battle is over, I will not care anything that's coming out of this show from now on.
2 years of therapy to prepare.
My battle ended after season 1.
yes we know you hate to love it.
is about to begin****
The orcs man , the orcs...
Orc: Father Adar, our brothers are dying what are you going to do...?
Adar: Let's end this once and for all and kill Sauron ,bring peace to all kin,make peace with elves ,go team Adar-Galadriel.
Orc: Kills Adar, turns to Sauron.
Orc: Lord Sauron our brothers are dying what are you going to do...?
Orc: Gets killed by Sauron(surprised).
Orc: Follow Sauron Lord Sauron YES MASTER SauRRRrroon.
Orcs: Proceed to die in future adventures even more.
The writers basically having Glug do whatever Glug want do because Glug Glugs.
Sauron is a master manipulator. Orcs don’t really have a chance to resist his influence.
@angryjoe98 he didn't really manipulate them, far as I can tell... Plus they openly revolted against him when Adar stabbed him with the conveniently pointy crown.
@@OKMBVideosohh each episode doesnt continue continuity of story in rings of power. Its more like some middle aged cat ladies fever dream.
In the next season Sauron will use a beard to fool the elves for the third time.
Season 1: Trick the elves. Become a Man
Season 2: Trick the elves. Become an Elf.
Season 3: Trick the elves. Grow a beard, become a Dwarf.
I bet Sauron will be the “brother” challenging Durin for the throne 😂
@@Tyxren No! Stop giving them ideas ffs.
I will never understand the point of including Halbrand in the show.
@@johnmorris1009 I heard rumors that they didn't aquire permission to use the name Anatar untill season 2.
@liveac3694 That doesn't surprise me. I think a large part of the reason so much of the lore was invented or changed was because Amazon were refused the rights to use all of the original Lore. They could still have done better than they did though, and filled in the gaps with a story that was at least more true to the spirit of Tolkien.
"The dumbest possible thing" is the most accurate description of this show.
Hey Joe.
They are trebuchet. Trebuchet are counterweighted. Catapults use spring tension(of several different forms) . The throwers clearly use counterweights. But the biggest trebuchet in the real world is estimated range of 300 to 350 meters surface to surface. No way it could reach the mountain.
But you're pretty spot on about everything else.
The show made no sense yes, but those siege engines are indeed trebuchets. And all trebuchets are catapults.
Ah I thought I was crazy when he said that. Good to know.
I think he was looking at the end of the launcher, that they were using a cup as opposed to the sling you should see on a trebuchet of that size. But regardless, it is obvious the show runners haven't done their research, to even the degree of having watched what a trebuchet in action actually looks like.
@@JamesLee-zr1er what did the Romans use before catapults? Mangonels that's like saying every castle is a house well yeah Lords lived in them but that's not the intent. Such as a catapult was used on pitched battles yes you absolutely could use it in a siege but.... use a siege engine? You know things that were designed specifically for sieges?
I think the one that launched the ork and the rocks with elrond is a catapult no? Seems they have both.
IM SO CONSTIPATED YOU CAN CALL ME GANDALF, CUZ THESE TURDS SHALL NOT PASS!
My sides! For the love of God my sides!
@southc4463 no I shall call you Grand Elf 😃😃
miralax.. drink a bunch of mineral oil too.. i do both.. guaranteed toilet exorcism within a day..
With the ring of power you can keep them back
Honestly,same
" A wizard does not find his staff, it finds him " . Peak writing , thats literally Harry Potter.
You're a Hairy, Wizard! Lol
Budget Legolas has auto regen powers, it's a racial passive.
Man survived 3 stab wounds and has no evidence of it ever happening.
You mean Don Lemonlas?
"Sauron... The lord of the rings." I just yelled "NOOOOOOO" out loud. This episode fucking broke me.
No way they actually said that
It's like they think the fans are stupid are something wtf 😮
Oh wow, they did the Family Guy Joke in the show?
These people really are sh!t!😮
But isn't he the original lord of the rings or is it Frodo?
Yes they did say that @Quoisboy
Gil Galad, with his spear Aeglos, was the person who actually killed Sauron... but was captured and defeated by 10 orcs.
And they gave him a sword.
And the dwarves that just saw an actual Balrog for the first time....say 'ok whats next' just 2 mins later.
He has his spear in the battle.
Don't you mean Gil Galahad
@@emhu2594 No
@@TT79- Gilga Daddy
I couldn't stop laughing when Arondir appeared like nothing happened 🤣
Must be the same writers from Amazon's Wheel of Time. They seem to kill loial and definitely ingetar at the season 1 finale and season 2 openner a ok. Hardly an inconvenience.
When I next play Skyrim, I'm going to try and forge plot armour. Or even better - I'm going to try and locate the most powerful armour; The plot armour of Arondir 😂
Basically they named Gandalf, the same way Hodor got his name.
OMFG, you're right. They actually stole from both Peter Jackson's LotR movies *and* from Game of Thrones. 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
@shadowjudge921 A lot of germanic names are compound words. Including the Norse "Gandalf," which translates as "magic elf".
GoT didn't invent that concept, that's literally what the name is, which Tolkien took from a norse name catalogue in the Poetic Edda
@@merlith4650you missed the point, it was the fact his name came from splicing two words together, "hold the door" - Hodor and "Grand-Elf" - Gandalf.
@@MrRiceGuy95 did you read what i said? you are the one who is missing the point.
like i said, the name IS a splicing between two words already... "gandr" and "alf", Tolkien himself took the name for his wizard character because of the magic association.
how exactly do you think names are created in the first place? that they are just magically beamed into our heads? you are arguing this is stupid, but this literally how a name would come into existance in the olden days. people were often named according to their family rank or jobs, or given a name the parents wanted their child to embody the traits of.
many english names are derived from an era when people were named according to what role their family had (last names like "Smith", "Baker", "Taylor", etc).
it's not "ripping" off GoT.. because that's how names has worked historically.
@@merlith4650 You are missing the point. His name is a compound of gand + elf, not from grand + elf. Basically they turned Gandalf into a blurred out Grand-elf, just like Hodor from Hold the Door. The point is not compounding, it's blurring.
They turned Arondir into Kenny from South Park, dude gets impaled in ep 7, no problem it was just a flesh wound in ep 8 😅
Maybe he’s the Beric Dondarrion of this show
He must have gone to the same "how to survive an inpaling attack " just like Reba or Sabine Wren did in star wars😂
Wasn't even a flesh wound in Ep8, it didn't even happen going by how Arondir was behaving 😂
The Revenger, it's a ballista backwards. So instead of using the tension to throw a bolt, it's used to pull out stones. The reason you've never seen such a device in human history is it's unintelligent. There are easier, faster and better ways to destroy a wall, i.e. a catapult or trebuchets. Even digging (sapping) under the walls would be much better.
its like making a sub with carbon fiber.
Up until they showed the stones being pulled out I thought it was gonna be a sapping device, why else would they need explosives
Their point stands out, though. If you drive a spike in, then when you fire, you're just going to pull the spike out, not a rock that this firmly built into a wall with a lot of weight holding it in place. Also, pretty dumb that such a large spike can be easily driven into the wall. That wall is very incompetently built.
@@Axterix13 amen!
My gf was laughing at how much I was bitching about the show but then following it up with, man, the angry Joe show is going to be epic after this lol. Love you guys.
You look forward to hearing people hate on something which is actually brilliant. All you fake LOTR fans are hilarious. Go watch something else and stop ruining it for real fans..
@truthteller9834 there's no way you're calling this show brilliant.
@Adjacentred if your a true fan you'd agree. Not one of these modern day fake fans who hate on everything and it's dog.
@@truthteller9834 "Modern day fake fans" We're literally almost all 90's kids.
You're the modern fan.
I grew up watching LOTR on repeat, I dug a giant hole in my backyard and would pretend to be an Uruk leader like Lurtz (My Favorite Character from the movies, idk why think his Death scene was just so awesome and Unique at the time).
But ok I'm a Fake fan.
Just shut up.
@@truthteller9834*you're
Silence, you fool.
If Amazon makes Warhammer 40k tv show into something like this.. I dont want it.
We'll get a vibe check with that SL episode.
@@OKMBVideos yep can't wait for that but I feel like they'd fuck up the live action instead of the animation but we'll see
Cavill is behind this, if you ever hear that he left the project during production then we are in trouble.
Wasnt that supposed be made by henry cavil
@@shockercody999he is in a positions of directing the launch I believe. I think if it gets bad we’ll know from him before anything. He left the Witcher because they were ruining it and I think he cares a lot more about 40k than that.
Galadriel falls 5ft while fighting Sauron and can barely drag herself along the ground.
She falls off a HUGE cliffside, hits a tree, hits the ground and is in slightly worse condition.
got it
After falling from a massive cliff side. They other elf's are not worried about her broken bones, or any injures to the Brain or internal organs rupture, they are just worried about a small wound that has fordo esque black magic spreading when he was struck by the witch king. Memberberries galore
To hell with this piece of shit writing.
She also could have jumped of the cliff with all the rings!
Joe your wrong, it isn't Gandalf, it's his brother Gran Delf.
The Gran DILF?!
You're **
You mean Gone Dolph?
There’s a common misconception that Gondor comes from Sindarin term for “stone land,” (gond = “stone,” dor = “land”) but it actually comes from the fact that Isildur woke up one morning and found that a group of Orcs had stolen his front door.
Showrunners: Bring out the Balrog.
Lore: But the Balrog's sleeping.
Showrunners: Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?
and then immediately tuck him into bed again
People who didn't watch: So now what?
Audience Who Bothered to Watch: This is between you, me, and this soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-miserable-career-in-obscurity lore r@pist here. It ain't anyone else's business.
lol fantastic
Rings of Power is a fucking nightmare.
I pray to every deity of the cosmos that there will be no season 3
But I suspect i pray in vain.
1:22:00 This scene being described is so stupid it broke the audio 😂
The only thing that joke of the show accomplished was to make me want to rewatch all the Peter Jackson’s movies for the 10th time! 😂😂😂
The show has lost 50% of its viewership between seasons 1 and 2; it will probably be extinct by the time season 3 comes out. That's if the show doesn't get cancelled beforehand. The people who don't care and give Amazon the go ahead on this abomination are most likely casuals who have very poor knowledge or little respect for Tolkien's legendarium. It's clearly a grave insult and bastardisation of his sacred work.
It won't get cancelled they sunk too much money to get the rights alone
Based on reading these comments, the show has PLENTY of watchers. Far too many. Sad to see so many people complaining, yet they still tune in every week. And we wonder why we continue to get slop like this.
@@1_underthesuntrue! Best way to get rid of something is to ignore it completely
Money speaks unfortunately.
Genuinely so disappointed in this failure of a show. Just makes me sick as a book reader knowing how they took a shit on the lore.
So Tom bombadil is apparently olivander from Harry Potter now. Sigh.
😂 basically
You expect them to write something original? You need effort for that.
Strong female lead, independent woman, super powerful,.... defeated by kitten eyes. She would never have stood a chance against Puss'n Boots!
Yet you watched it. Good one.
@@1_underthesun Nope, just saw the clip. I got 3 episodes into season 1 and I was done with it. Life's too short for bad stories.
It isn't as bad as it is made out to be. Yes, it could have been better. But there is FAR worse you can waste your time with in life.
saying its trying to appeal widely is an insult to us ladies :) - bad writing is bad to all demos- we don't want slop either lol
feminists are the ones writing that garbage, so some of you for sure are at fault.
So Durin has a brother. Does that mean he’s Durin the 5th. If so does that mean there was 3 Durin’s existing at the same time. WTF IS GOING ON!
Calm down Durin
Durin and Durin*
Oh my god... I honestly can see them creating a brother, also called Durin, just in order to let the real Durin survive and "live in exile" instead of dying in moria.
Durins brother is Sauron with a beard, so you know bro
11:30 "The fucking wights" "you cant say that" Alex is so quick on his feet. That was funny
Hold the door = Hodor
Grand Elf = Gandalf
They stole this idea from GoT.
...and it was equally dumb
@@mccallosone4903in GoT it's actually a great reveal.
@@Ragnarok540it also showed the 3 eyed ravens weird time travel powers
Would love GRRM reaction to this show
Actually, the name "gandalf" literally translates as an elf/dwarf name. It's Tolkien who took it from the norse sagas.
Although the name means "magic elf" not "grand elf".
Compound names weren't invented by Game of Thrones. In fact, a large portion of names in the germanic languages are compound words.
This was my biggest laugh out loud moment. When I think it was Elronds horse rears up on its hind legs only to then SOMEHOW jump and kick backwards an orc. PICTURE THIS. A horse bends itself backwards to kick behind it WHEN ITS BODY IS UPRIGHT!?!
You know the classic picture of a bucking bronco where its front two feet are planted on the ground and its THEN able to kick its high legs up in a kicking motion? Yeah well these movie makers literally bent the horse 180 degrees the opposite way to deliver an impossible, hilariously ridiculous move. Wow. Anyone else see that??
Worst thing is there's a lot of people for who this is the first introduction to Tolkiens work.
They'll never pick up the book and find out how amazing it really is.
Catapult are a large bow moving a large spoon, while trebuchet relies on a counterweight falling. So those are really trebuchet in the serie.
Thank god it’s over, Durin III redemption was probably the best part of the episode.
It took 2 seasons to advance a plot that most shows could do in like 3-hour long episodes. So much runtime, nothing happening.
What show has 3-hour long episodes dude?
Think before you type.
If u change what he said to movie his point works
@@LerbrandtI think he probably meant to say three 1-hour long episodes, which would be par for the course for most live action shows. 3 episodes of any Star Trek series would be a substantial story arc.
tbf it could've been a single feature movie if you simply cut out all scenes that don't advance the main plot.
What a stupid take, go watch 12-14 hour marathon of extended edition of the trilogy then, because that's totally not just full of runtime with not much happening.
Am I wrong or was there no such thing as explosive powder until the two towers when Saruman creates it for the battle of helms deep as Wormtongue was trying to understand what he was doing when he brought the candle near the powder??
Yes.
Not gonna lie. When Celebrimbor actually called Sauron "Lord of the Rings", I flipped my monitor with my two hands.
Also when Arondir showed up I was just: "Wait WHAT?! But...! He was...! WTF?!"
And when Galadriel falls from that mountain and yet she lives I was like: "Are F**ing kidding me?! Really?! You are gonna go that far?! Really?!"
Finally, Durin, and Dissa discuss more "pressing matters that they have" and they discuss a brother that is claiming the tjrone and I was like: "WHAT?! Dude! You have a F ing BALROG in your basement! What the hell are you discussing?!"
Arondir's "death" genuinely makes me wonder if there two separate versions of the show, and an edit from the wrong one was accidentally edited in
I mean she survived a fucking pyroclastic flow, a fall is pretty minor compared to that shit.
Also how Sauron didn't just send some orcs to retrieve her body and the rings. He was just like "Well she's gone, and so are the rings. It's not like I have an entire orc army to go down that 150ft and retrieve the most important thing in the world. Nah. Impossible."
Did Blackolas even have any visible wounds in this episode? I really don't want to check to find out, seeing that episode once was more than enough. Him being alive and fighting very capably is just so funny.
Ikr wtf bruh what about rhe balrog? It was just a memba berry
Crazy we live in the day when even Tolkien's work is getting "Marvelized" 😢
The audio only barely dropped for not ever a few minutes. Don't worry Joe, Oj, and Alex! It goes right back in extreemly quickly. Keep that passion!!
This show was written by two absolute hacks. They have insulted Tolkien's legacy.
They are beyond redemption.
Agreed. And it's not just incompetent. Or even incompetent and ideologically motivated. It almost makes me wonder if they hate Tolkien deep down.
I haven't seen the episode but what I see in the video here is a trebuchet, not a catapult. Trebuchet uses counter-weight, while catapult uses tension.
Yes, the boys have got that complaint totally wrong. It isn’t a catapult.
Glad someone else picked that up. I wish Joe, at least, _tried_ to verify the difference before choosing to open his critique with _that._ Oof...
@@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer I think the trebuchet not having the swing threw them off.
You know how people used to sculpt lions in a weird way, because they only ever had them described to them and have never seen a lion with their own eyes... That, but a billion dollar show.
You guys truly went through hell trying to make it through this show. Hell, buy a cake, light some candles and cheer that the season is finally over.
I will credit the show giving me some of the best naps while trying to watch this show. I even fell asleep during the battle... And I love battles. Damn. 4/10 for season 2 rings of power.
What would you rate season 1?
@@richardmartinez5040 season 1 I would probably rate a 5 out of 10 because I thought the dialogue between Elron and Duran was good. And then everything else was just kind of half baked. There are other okay moments during the season 1 but even the good moments are kind of average.
Elves aren't ageless anymore, they're frickin immortal. Nothing can kill them! Falls, stabs, nothing!
Even if the pin held, the Ravager isn't heavier or more secured than the wall so you're just going to end up launching the Ravager into the wall with the same force we saw it pull on the wall with. It'd be like trying to winch a tank out of the mud using a mini, sure, those two things will come together, but not in the way that you're wanting.
😂😂
When she swan dived off the cliff my 10 year with out missing a beat goes “well she’s dead” lmao
So if "Gandalf" discovers Gandalf as his first name, when the hell was he named Olorin? Which is his original name according to Tolkien.
I do enjoy OJ just taking the gloves off and giving this show all the shit it deserves.
Love the reviews guys. Totally agree with. Did any of you notice that in a few of the first shots we saw of Eregion in the show, there was NO wall around the city? There’s actually a few sandy beach looking areas.
I love how we see more elves in the close-ups at the end of the episodes than when the camera pans out during the "epic" pose the king does on the cliff
- Hundreds of elves died
- Errrrregion is utterly fucked
- Sauron got the rings
And the last scene is this....
Man sauron in this has been sick i thought. I mean im kinda routing for him even knowing where this goes 😅 charlie vickers i think is his name hes killing it
My favorite part was Sauron's "Morbin Tme" moment.
Celebrimbor: "You will not control the rings, they will control you. Farewell Sauron, Lord... of the rings." (or something like that, I'm trying hard to forget this gibberish)
Amazon when marketing the season :"look, hooray, we got an all female director team to work on this season, everybody look at how good I'm being"
Everybody sees the disastrous results.
Everybody looks over at Katheryn Bigelow and Sofia Coppola, then each other : "The hell are they tryin to say about female directors"
Katheryn made one of my favorite movies ever Strange Days, so yeah Amazon can go F themselves hiring stupid 3rd wave feminists activists when great female directors like Bigelow & Coppola are around.
"Evil can't create anything new" wasn't Tolkien's quote, is it a pop culture quote that is a shortening of his quote. Congratulation Gilgadumf
When she kicked Sauron in the fucking face I never laighed so fucking hard . I yelled out DAMNNNNN like Craig and Smokey
Sauron stole some mithril & mixed it with elven blood to make the orc's invisible sunscreen cream. That's the real reason they had to invade Eregion.
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"Master world builders" absolutely creases me. Not only do they have massive amounts of lore to go off of, and its already an established world (so they didn't even do any actual world building) all that on a silver platter and they STILL shit the bed. Its wild they're that inept...
Master baiters more like
The show runners are blowing themselves harddd wtf they are so living in a bubble
Stranger: 'Ouch. That hurt.'
Harfoot: ‘What’s up?'
Stranger: 'That gang of orcs just ran a train on my butt.'
Harfoot: 'Woah. Your ass must be really sore, man.'
Stranger: 'Sore-man. Soreman. Mmmm. You know I don’t actually 'have' a name…'
please don't give them any more ideas
Here try this yellow fruit...
What are you talking about Joe, we’ve still got 3 seasons to go and Amazon doesn’t believe in the sunken cost fallacy.
Gandalf's naming reminds me of Han *"Solo"* 😅
The Ballrog
Was like this is stupid
I’m back to sleep waking up to someone else who appreciates me & my greatness
Let's summarize the epic characters we're supposed to like:
Grand-Elf, Guyladriel, Eggrond, Souron, Deeza-nuts, Galachad, Tom Bomboclaat, Inceldur, Ellendil and last but not least Not Legolas.
Imagine that they want to do this in 3 seasons more and tie up the ringwraiths, fall of Numenor, creation of Gondor and Arnor, fall of Khazad-Dum, battle of the last alliance and the start of the fellowship. With these writers it's going to be a train wreck that makes Tolkiens grave to blow up a quadrillion times more. I know he'd never like the PJ films but this slop would make him fall into the grave pronto.
What a dark timeline we currently live in...
Your forgot about the dark wizard: Sour Man
+ Awesome last episode!
- Balrog stops while father has a scene with Durin
- King takes off the ring at precisely the time when maybe it would be most helpful?
- It kinda makes both Durin and the king look stupid when both of them (at different times) try to charge a Balrog
+ love the opening theme
- Gandalf is in fact a Jedi who can lift rocks
- Elendil: "What is my place if not with you?". Response: Here's a sword that will be super famous!
- So Galadriel is an idiot, having been given the 9 rings, she just hangs around at Eregion until she is captured by Orcs then immediately offers to surrender the rings
- Hate the timid orc who is like "excuse me, are you Sauron?"
- It just looks so dumb to me when Galadriel just stands there and watches Adar die, watches Sauron walk into the scene, not trying to help Adar, not trying to run. I guess nothing was written for her so she just stands there. Sauron and literally every single orc is facing away from Galadriel but she just waits for her scene
- I kind of want Sauron to kill Galadriel
- Galadriel is fighting Sauron she falls off a 2meter rock and has temporarily lost the use of her legs, she is crawling on the floor, looks stupid.
- Apparently Galadriel is part Navi with Carbon Fiber bones as she fell off a cliff and landed on her face but she is fine now.
- After Galadriel falls Sauron stands on the Cliff and pulls out Feanor's hammer? huh? why the hammer?
- There is Gandalf the Grey, there is Gandalf the White. This is Gandalf the Dumb, Gandalf the Confused
- Please go away Nori!
- lol the staff is literally just laying on the floor. We could have a really interesting story about where Gandalf finds his staff? nah just chuck it on the floor it'll be fine.
- urrghh this isn't harry potter "A wizard doesn't find his staff it finds him"
- Yes we know its Gandalf, as if anyone expected you to respect the lore
- Where is the other elven ring? Galadriel has one, Gil-Gald has one, didn't Celebrimbor have the other one? So i guess Sauron has it? or maybe Cirdan?
- weird scene, Eregion just been demolished, Galadriel nearly dead, Sauron lives, everyone is homeless. Gil Galad raises his sword and everyone starts cheering. Feels outa place to me.
I did notice the music more than usual this episode, in a good way
The music, VFX and production value lift this to a 4/10 for me, this episode was slightly below average.
I think this is a decent improvement over last season at least.
Amazon you ought to fire those two clowns (J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay) for real they've squandered the money and turned this show into a colossal failure.
I’d like to see some receipts. WHAT have they spent the money on????? Certainly not writers. Certainly not Balrog animators. Certainly not cavalry charge battles.
@@coppershark1973 All these shows man. Look at Andor even.
Good news, peeps! The writing team got PURGED!
thats not the only thing that needs purged, the entire show needs to be purged from existence.
Nope. That was last year. The impending writers strike.
I dipped out after 3 episodes of season one. Love the reviews tho!!
i made it four, and im sad i did
Joe's team is eating good this quarter. We got joker, rings of power, penguin, Agatha, and more
After these last two episode 's, Celeborn: "tell me where is Elrond, as I much desire to speak with him" *clocks a shotgun*
There was an article a few days back on CBR about "10 ways LOTR trilogy has aged poorly". 5/10 was, I kid you not - the LOTR lacked diversity! 😅 The journalist removed the article after some time, but it still shows what wokies think about IPs and what IPs should serve for.
It just never stops
The problems with this show have nothing to do with “wokeness” it’s just bad writing
@nabilyousif4509 To a degree. Depends on what you define as "wokeness". I would say the show making everywhere look as diverse as your usual American city is very, very weird and immersion breaking.
If this is intended to be the prequel to the film trilogy, it also prompts uncomfortable questions concerning where the black Not-Hobbits and black Dwarves went between this show and the movies... Rhymes with shemthnic mensing.
LOTR did lack diversity. Tolkien lived in a segregated world. Jackson expanded the role of women a bit in his movies, and here we see more racial diversity. Many critics say Arondier is one of the few elf characters who actually acts like an elf and not a hairstylist.
But this show is terrible. And it proves that the critics of the franchises don't care about race and gender when they see something terrible they criticize it.
@@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp Fantasy is a European/Caucasian literary setting, not downtown New York setting. A hard concept for Americans to grasp seems like.
Thank God that's over! Nothing made sense. Gone are the days of original ideas and something new.
also not joking when I say that I find the commentary here so funny that I rewatch the discussions.
If we get a season 3, these are what I most look forward to. Joe, Other Joe and Alex.
This is probably one of worst put together episodes of tv I have ever seen.
Every scene ranged from tiresome to outright idiotic. Jumping huge amounts of plot and character arc in an attempt to end each plot line some way at the end of the season. It's frightening how little care or effort has been put into telling coherent stories. It's a 2/10 a the very best.
Things just happen and characters make decisions with seemingly no thought to if that makes sense or what implications of it are. And that's just if your following it as a standalone show, never mind the source material. I don't know what I expected from this show but somehow it still manages to find new ways to get worse.
The sheer scale of the positive reviews from outlets is astonishing. THIS is a prime example of why people don't trust reviews from traditional outlets as someone credible is never giving this crap a very positive score. The comments I see online that are positive I swear are just AI at this point intended to drown out actual people expressing how poor the show is.
Durin's speech to the dwarves : "Loyalty is more important, more important than even Khazad-Dum!"
Also Durin : "Quickly, we must abandon the elves to protect Khazad-Dum!"
Which they don’t. There was no reason for the dwarves to not turn up as the Balrog is defeated by ONE DWARF.
10:59 😂 joe slipped up😅
It's hard to believe that a Tolkien is actually head advisor on this. Especially after how completely Christopher protected his father's legacy.
Rubber stamping is easy when you buy it.
250 million , thats the answer. Simon is it? He only cares about the bag.
@@zeralf Exactly. "Give me the money, and give it to me raw" lol
@@zeralfWas probably just waiting for his father to die.
@@elizabethlestrad5282 I genuinely believe that he's bitter over his own failed career / attempts at being an author that he is actively attempting to destroy his grandfathers legacy due to jealousy.
You're right, it was rushed. Release the Amazon Cut!
I'm kidding, please don't. Let this show disappear from history and all our memories like a bad dream.
Next: Rings of power season 3 has been greenlit by amazon
17:08 “Reign of Fire” and a pretty decent dragon movie to boot.
The elves apparently weren’t smart enough to not build a city next to Oreo cookie mountain.
lol pretty funny
For all its problems, I still can't wait to see King Durin The White return next season! They've got to copy that from the movies no?
Lmmaaoooooo
When it showed Adar wearing one of the rings I wanted it to cut back to Galadriel wearing the 9 human rings 😭😭
Why does elves care about books or scrolls? They are immortal with amazing memory. They can remember everything in those texts with no problems!
Humans might care about book for their knowledge. This is a huge problem with this whole show (additionally to every other problems). Elves don't feel like elves, but rather pointy eared humans cosplaying as elves.
Millenial writing at its worst
I just love that little moment in the final fight with Galadriel and Sauron where she finally hits him, giving him a small cut on his cheek and Galadriel's actress looks like a worried little child, as if she was actually worried she accidentally had hit her co-star lmao.
They stole the archery torture scene from Game of Thrones, when Joffrey does the same to Ros.
You know, for a moment I thought Adar was going to be Galadriel's brother. I honestly wouldn't put it past the writers to think that's a really clever twist.
I STILL think he will come back and be Celeborn. No one dies in this show, remember.
Thank you guys for avoid me the torture of seeing this shit 😂. Great job as always
I hate to say it, but the Balrog also had Gandalfs leg for about 2 seconds and let go. So either the Balrog is awful at whipping, or there is a weakness in the fire whip, as it it really isn't solid so it can' hang on to something for more than a second or 2.
Who says it was his whip? 😏
He only held onto gandalf foot for 2 seconds because he was falling down a huge casm. This balrog was just standing there
Orcs wanted health benefits that adar didn't offer