I always find it odd, watching reviews where the author puts in 100 times more effort (and thought) into the review than the team of "writers" put into the original product....
The Elves work so much better in contrast to human characters rather than being the center of the narrative. The regal mystery they had in the Peter J. trilogy is entirely gone here. They just seem like another human faction
Exactly, elves and magic should be mysterious in Middle Earth. They shouldn't show us the forging of the rings. We shouldn't be privy to the councils of the High Elves. They need a view point character that is relatively normal, that we can experience the sense of wonder with him or her.
@@PeregrinTintenfish The hobbits were so good because the bigger world of middle earth was so utterly overwhelming and foreign to them. There is nothing wrong with a story about the forging of the rings, but literally walking through every step of it is pretty lame yeah
You can do an elf-focused story, if you care about the source material and are not a terrible writer. Read "The Silmarillion" and the "Book of Lost Tales", both are full of exciting stories with only elf characters.
Of course this is subjective, but this is one of the most brilliant LOTR v rings of power pieces I have ever seen! The way you switch your descriptive verbiage from highbrow to anger and frustration is F**King FANTASTIC. I bet you aced every class in writing you ever took bravo sir. thank you for this sir, and all of your great videos
Rings of Power has been a perfect picture of what our dead on arrival version of modernity has done to the human spirit. Nobody wanted it, asked for it, or is enriched by it. The whole point of an old times fantasy is to remind us what we may have lost in our modern world. Rings of Power, defaces the purity of that vision and tries to remake “the past” to be as hollow, shallow, and meaningless as the vapid worldview of those that made it. It is a joy to have it presented with so much budget and hype because it shows that, even in its finest presentation, is rejected openly by anyone with any humanity at all. Thank you for these great videos that expose the emptiness of these attempts to appropriate meaningful IPs for ideological ends.
I was at the premier of the first two episodes of the second series. The first thing I noticed was that there were far too many writers, and no single clear vision of the story they were trying to tell. As a writer myself, the basic is having a beginning, middle, and end. This is almost set out for you as its a prequel. But somehow the characters that we know from the original films and books, were not the same as portrayed in this show. Perhaps what should have happened is to base the series on minor characters (think R2D2) who are able to be there when important events happen. That way you never know if they are going to survive. The tv series also lets itself down by way of geography. If everyone looks the same, the audience never knows where they are. The last point is socio-political. In a world of Kings and lords, having most incidents resolve with women just being better soon gets tiresome.
In it's purest essence, the Lord of the Rings is a reverse fetch quest infrequently dropping side quests but it all works because the characters are likeable and their motivations are relatable or understandable. Rings of Power couldn't do any of this because in current times evil has to be given a chance to explain their side, turning everything into a post modern nightmare which might work for a contemporary corporate/political drama but sucks in fantasy.
What a succinct breakdown and comparison between the Rings of Power and the LOTR movie trilogy. I watched episode 6 of Rings Of Power this evening, I cannot take no more, it’s shite
There is no comparison between this stupid, pointless show and Peter Jackson's trilogy. This show seems to be exactly what the characters are doing, wandering aimlessly through the dark. Hoping to bump into the plot.
A little off topic, but I greatly appreciate the Flight of the Conchords clip in the beginning of the video. That show has become a major obsession for me as of late, and any reference to it makes me happy.
In juxtaposition to your eloquent presentation, 'You nailed it.' Especially how there are literally greater geographical transitions than character ones and how a diverse looking population is always a brand new population, as after 50, 100, 500 years, the visual appearance of a community is increasingly homogenized.
I watched the whole first season with my son and we suffered through it. We just have far better things to do than commit to another time suck for this go-round.
Anakin blew up the death-star. Modern audience don't like the idea or thought of love or intimacy in movies or TV shows, they're just bitter and twisted.
The elves being stoic and refined is exclusively to the films tho. The Eldar are actually very emotional. Sam even comments on it, them being "very gay" (as in, very jolly). But even them being highly emotional, they were not just humans with elven ears, like in Rings of Failure.
Portraying them as emotional, like RoP does, is actually fine, but having them behave emotionally is not. Sure, they should emote a lot more than the elves in the Jackson films did, but they should remain calm and rational in their actions. Elven passions are much more powerful than ours, but so is elven self control. It takes a lot to evoke enough emotion in one to make them lose it, but when they do you get you seriously anime-tier meltdowns.
Just like Witcher is for Poland, the LoTR trilogy is the pride of New Zealand. Those movies brought hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism to the country. And just like Witcher, out-of-touch Americans ruined their Middle Earth adaptation by stripping away everything people like about earlier adaptations. No one will go to the shooting locations of RoP. No one will buy special edition box sets of RoP and watch its countless hours of making-of videos. No one will buy replicas of the show's swords. None of the elves in the show will produce a mountain of cringey fanfic like Orlando Bloom's Legolas. This show will be forgotten even more than the Soviet TV version of the Hobbit which was airing as the Iron Curtain was falling.
You can blame Bezos/Amazon but not all Americans for this travesty. The showrunners are english. Don't forget Peter Jackson and warner bros botched the hobbit films, and apparently those films hurt NZ so they say.
The LotR trilogy was made by people with actual talent and passion, who loved the source material and literally worked their butts off in order to produce the best possible adaptation of Tolkien´s work, with the resources they had available. Hell, they actually created new technologies from scratch, got injured during the shoot and literally worked their fingers off. RoP is produced by a bunch of talented hacks, who got the job because of nepotism and who have the audacity & sheer f*cking hybris to think that they can "improve" on Tolkien´s work. "We wanted to tell the story that Tolkien never told..."
I would like to say all the producers, script writers, directors, show runners and owners of trillion dollar companies; if you find Tolkien's writings racist, sexist and politically incorrect, please leave them alone and don't try to make any adaptations of them, don't try to rewrite them according your current identity and gender politics.
Rings of Power would have needed to be very good to have a chance of comparing to the Jackson' trilogy. As it is we got endless tropes that mean nothing, inspire no-one. The best that can be said about it is it keeps some shitty writers and crappy actors in employment for a few years. It will be forgotten quickly and I will still be giving Jackson's trilogy a watch long after Amazon's montrosity has disappeared.
Rings of Power is a historic as it is a sign of our times. Lord of the Rings was influenced by the horrors of World War I. The Rings of Power is influenced by modern writers who know more about shipping and situationships from Tinder, Bumble and Grinder than living a real life of purpose and contemplation. Write what you know, to quote/parapharase GOT “they know nothing”.
"Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived idea of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable." -Ursula K. LeGuin
Jesus... This abysmal comparison you did here is epic. You can really witness the difference between LOTR and ROP (Rings On Powders). Well done good sir.
Short elves, ugly elves, old elves? Beardless dwarf ladies? Barrow wights existing before the Witch King who created them does? Hobbits existing before the 3rd Age? How are these people so clueless about the source material, I thought they bought the rights to the IP? Bizarre choices, all round.
Rings of Power isn't fantasy. They probably doesn't even know what that means. It's a crime against imagination, a product created in a industrial pipeline
I haven’t watched one episode since episode 3, season one. I still watch these summary videos essays because of the contempt I cannot shake. It’s like a poison absorbed deep into the bone marrow. The contemptuous destruction of historical & sci-fi fiction, movies, and games is unfathomably evil. Imaginative boys can’t have nice things now… just approved slop.
@@fattiger6957 Murray: He may be dead. Dave: He maybe did what? Murray: He may be dead. Dave: I know, but what did he maybe do? Murray: He may be dead. Dave: Yeah, maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. What did he maybe do? Bret: No, he may be dead. Dave: Are you guys fucking with me?
Amazon's rings of power and Disneys Star Wars are both insulting bastardisations of other peoples great work, they are a billion times more talented than these idiots could ever be Its an insult to the name lord of the rings and also star wars.
I thought the Hobbit trilogy was kind of bad (with the partial exception of the first one) but compared to Rings of power it feels like an honest mistake
Every time I buy something on Amazon I reflect that in a small way I am helping to finance Rings Of Power. As crappy as that is it's arguably better better than going into Jeff Bezos' pocket.
One does not simply 'enjoy' ROP.. They deliberately eschewed beauty standards, hence Discount Lizzo and the, er, ‘homely’ elf-dwarf that even Larys Strong would struggle to rub one out to.
If you told me any of these clips from this show were actually from the witcher: blood borigin, I’d believe you. They’re both so effortless and bland compared to good fantasy like LoTR and GoT
I disagree with everything you said. You're being very unfair to this show because you're judging it by the wrong framework. You can't judge this show by its ability to make money, entertain, or inspire. You have to judge it by its ability to demoralize, humiliate, and pollute Western culture. And by those metrics, the show is a wild success
... ah, yes, we are supposed to be colourblind through these representations of such diversity, but as soon as we become colourblind then we are automatically racists bc we ARE colourblind... it is a situation which is deliberately unsolvable and designed to evermore turn A against B, against C - just like the 'endless war manipulations 'in '1984'... deliberately and constantly keeping people off guard, fragmented and conflicted... imagine the low social trust in these communities which instead are represented as all smiley and fun... I don't think so...
It doesn't fail compared to lord of the rings because it's hard to be as great as it is. It just fails. Fails compared to everything besides perhaps some marvel movies and disney star wars trilogy
Even though your criticism is scathing, no words can express the level of disgust I felt when they portrayed the men of Númenor as a bunch of dimwit, xenophobic oafs. Or when they reached peak cringe with the Southlands text cgi morphing into Mordor. Just pathetic.
Don't associate the Peter Jackson films with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: aside from some names, they have little in common. And please, don't defile Tolkien's name with your brainless culture war clownery.
Little inside info..... I know from certain who individuals who have connections to the show that it was a nightmare behind the scenes. people were fired left and right, writers couldn't agree what story they wanted to tell, the show was originally about a young Aragorn, some wanted to adapt the Silmarillion but didn't have the adaption rights to the book, the Tolkien estate giving them a long list of things they could and couldn't do on the show such as referencing the movies (even though the showrunners wanted to connect ROP to the movies) writers being fired because they wanted to insert more woke elemets into the show and was met with disapproval, Tolkien selling out to Bezos on his tantalizing and money venture in making LOTR into the next Game of Thrones (which we all know how highly successful that was) a Tolkien scholar being fired, COVID19 impacting everything, the originally being 10 episodes but somewhere being changed to 8 instead, Jeff Bezos allegedly visiting the set and was furious on what he saw and demanded changes to be made in the middle of shooting. All in all, this show was produced with everyone's hands tied behind their backs, not really knowing what they wanted to do and the clock was ticking, and the best they could come up with was fan fiction.
It's almost it was a cobbled together mess. I suppose that's what happens when you try to make an adaptation of something to which you only have a partial license. As well as putting two inexperienced, untalented idiots in charge. I suspect those guys were chosen because they have absolutely no clout and could be bossed around easily by producers and Amazon execs. It's pretty much the Marvel method (using inexperienced directors Kevin Fiege can boss around easily)
Rings of Power is definitive proof that money can't buy talent nor passion.
Just throwing money at a problem and expecting it to get fixed is a distinctly American idea.
True. We have had three examples in the past 25 years.
As a Tolkien aficionado for over 40 years, there is no reason whatever that I should watch that show.
It is not even Tolkien from what I have heard.
Exactly. Why would i have to watch a fanfiction written by some unknown kids? That's what rings of power is
There is no reason to watch any of the 'adaptations' of the past 25 years.
The Elves beeing just normal humans with pointy ears and blow-dry hairstyles is something I disliked immediately the short time I watched season 1.
You watched season 1?
I always find it odd, watching reviews where the author puts in 100 times more effort (and thought) into the review than the team of "writers" put into the original product....
Everything woke turns to shit. Rings of power turned shit into to explosive diarrhea.
And some explosive diarrhea floats. We now know why things float in the RoP.
"For the turd, her gaze is upwards..."
Still better than the Jackson films.
The Elves work so much better in contrast to human characters rather than being the center of the narrative. The regal mystery they had in the Peter J. trilogy is entirely gone here. They just seem like another human faction
Exactly, elves and magic should be mysterious in Middle Earth. They shouldn't show us the forging of the rings. We shouldn't be privy to the councils of the High Elves. They need a view point character that is relatively normal, that we can experience the sense of wonder with him or her.
@@PeregrinTintenfish The hobbits were so good because the bigger world of middle earth was so utterly overwhelming and foreign to them. There is nothing wrong with a story about the forging of the rings, but literally walking through every step of it is pretty lame yeah
You can do an elf-focused story, if you care about the source material and are not a terrible writer. Read "The Silmarillion" and the "Book of Lost Tales", both are full of exciting stories with only elf characters.
It's almost as if compelling storytelling is a combination of passion, insight, and competence.
Of course this is subjective, but this is one of the most brilliant LOTR v rings of power pieces I have ever seen! The way you switch your descriptive verbiage from highbrow to anger and frustration is F**King FANTASTIC. I bet you aced every class in writing you ever took bravo sir. thank you for this sir, and all of your great videos
Bad writing, bad casting & bad acting VERSUS good writing, good casting and good acting. No contest.
But it IS so stunning and brave LOL
Except for Orlando Bloom.
@@zeroman614 That's an outrageous slur against the Bloomster. He can portray all the emotions from A to... er A
You can hardly even compare them.
The Amazon show is on par with the Peter Jackson films
Rings of Power has been a perfect picture of what our dead on arrival version of modernity has done to the human spirit. Nobody wanted it, asked for it, or is enriched by it. The whole point of an old times fantasy is to remind us what we may have lost in our modern world. Rings of Power, defaces the purity of that vision and tries to remake “the past” to be as hollow, shallow, and meaningless as the vapid worldview of those that made it. It is a joy to have it presented with so much budget and hype because it shows that, even in its finest presentation, is rejected openly by anyone with any humanity at all. Thank you for these great videos that expose the emptiness of these attempts to appropriate meaningful IPs for ideological ends.
Echo has taken the gloves off.
Did he ever put them on?
the thing is, feces has yellow-ish color and no one would ever compare it with gold, which is also yellow in color
I'm stealing this 😂😂😂
I was at the premier of the first two episodes of the second series. The first thing I noticed was that there were far too many writers, and no single clear vision of the story they were trying to tell. As a writer myself, the basic is having a beginning, middle, and end. This is almost set out for you as its a prequel. But somehow the characters that we know from the original films and books, were not the same as portrayed in this show. Perhaps what should have happened is to base the series on minor characters (think R2D2) who are able to be there when important events happen. That way you never know if they are going to survive. The tv series also lets itself down by way of geography. If everyone looks the same, the audience never knows where they are. The last point is socio-political. In a world of Kings and lords, having most incidents resolve with women just being better soon gets tiresome.
Unpopular opinion: Rings of Power is better than Lord of the Rings.
Its unpopular because no one thinks that.
Let's hope this Celebrimbor meets the same end as he does in the books. His mutilated body used as Sauron's banner as Sauron attacked the Grey Havens.
In it's purest essence, the Lord of the Rings is a reverse fetch quest infrequently dropping side quests but it all works because the characters are likeable and their motivations are relatable or understandable.
Rings of Power couldn't do any of this because in current times evil has to be given a chance to explain their side, turning everything into a post modern nightmare which might work for a contemporary corporate/political drama but sucks in fantasy.
What a succinct breakdown and comparison between the Rings of Power and the LOTR movie trilogy. I watched episode 6 of Rings Of Power this evening, I cannot take no more, it’s shite
There is no comparison between this stupid, pointless show and Peter Jackson's trilogy. This show seems to be exactly what the characters are doing, wandering aimlessly through the dark. Hoping to bump into the plot.
Rangs of Girl Powah is to Lord of the Rings as excrement smeared onto driftwood is to the Mona Lisa......
A little off topic, but I greatly appreciate the Flight of the Conchords clip in the beginning of the video. That show has become a major obsession for me as of late, and any reference to it makes me happy.
If the Peter Jackson is a 38oz tomahawk steak Rings of Power is a McDonalds pattie you find in the gutter.
''The Canon Is Closed. It Was Made By One Who Is Dead. And The Fans Keep It.''
In juxtaposition to your eloquent presentation, 'You nailed it.' Especially how there are literally greater geographical transitions than character ones and how a diverse looking population is always a brand new population, as after 50, 100, 500 years, the visual appearance of a community is increasingly homogenized.
With all deference to the Professor: Woke can never create new ideas- it can only corrupt and ruin what someone better has imagined.
I watched the whole first season with my son and we suffered through it. We just have far better things to do than commit to another time suck for this go-round.
The title of the video should be "Why Everything Fails Compared To The Lord Of The Rings"
Anakin blew up the death-star.
Modern audience don't like the idea or thought of love or intimacy in movies or TV shows, they're just bitter and twisted.
The elves being stoic and refined is exclusively to the films tho. The Eldar are actually very emotional. Sam even comments on it, them being "very gay" (as in, very jolly). But even them being highly emotional, they were not just humans with elven ears, like in Rings of Failure.
Portraying them as emotional, like RoP does, is actually fine, but having them behave emotionally is not. Sure, they should emote a lot more than the elves in the Jackson films did, but they should remain calm and rational in their actions. Elven passions are much more powerful than ours, but so is elven self control. It takes a lot to evoke enough emotion in one to make them lose it, but when they do you get you seriously anime-tier meltdowns.
A preposterous Middle Earth Jean-Claude Van Damme. Hilarious. Thank you.
Just like Witcher is for Poland, the LoTR trilogy is the pride of New Zealand. Those movies brought hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism to the country.
And just like Witcher, out-of-touch Americans ruined their Middle Earth adaptation by stripping away everything people like about earlier adaptations.
No one will go to the shooting locations of RoP. No one will buy special edition box sets of RoP and watch its countless hours of making-of videos. No one will buy replicas of the show's swords. None of the elves in the show will produce a mountain of cringey fanfic like Orlando Bloom's Legolas. This show will be forgotten even more than the Soviet TV version of the Hobbit which was airing as the Iron Curtain was falling.
The people of New Zealand shouldn't be proud of the awful Peter Jackson films.
You can blame Bezos/Amazon but not all Americans for this travesty. The showrunners are english. Don't forget Peter Jackson and warner bros botched the hobbit films, and apparently those films hurt NZ so they say.
Americans should not be allowed to adapt other countries stories, they always ruin them by setting them in Fantasy America.
"You certainly can't buy rating." Is the thing that Amazon apparently miscalculated.
"Pompous". The perfect word to describe this show.
The LotR trilogy was made by people with actual talent and passion, who loved the source material and literally worked their butts off in order to produce the best possible adaptation of Tolkien´s work, with the resources they had available. Hell, they actually created new technologies from scratch, got injured during the shoot and literally worked their fingers off.
RoP is produced by a bunch of talented hacks, who got the job because of nepotism and who have the audacity & sheer f*cking hybris to think that they can "improve" on Tolkien´s work.
"We wanted to tell the story that Tolkien never told..."
PJ and his cowriters showed contempt for the book.
@@reek4062 Reported for Retarded take.
I would like to say all the producers, script writers, directors, show runners and owners of trillion dollar companies; if you find Tolkien's writings racist, sexist and politically incorrect, please leave them alone and don't try to make any adaptations of them, don't try to rewrite them according your current identity and gender politics.
The Elves in RoP are no Elves in my mind
Rings of Power would have needed to be very good to have a chance of comparing to the Jackson' trilogy. As it is we got endless tropes that mean nothing, inspire no-one. The best that can be said about it is it keeps some shitty writers and crappy actors in employment for a few years. It will be forgotten quickly and I will still be giving Jackson's trilogy a watch long after Amazon's montrosity has disappeared.
The root of all comedy is honesty. Propaganda has no comedy cause it has no honesty.
Thank you for this beautiful and insightful essay. Spot on!
Excellent overview Mr Chamberlain.
They should have just given Peter Jackson the oportunity to consider making The Silmarillion. That alone would have been more entertaining.
Rings of Power is a historic as it is a sign of our times. Lord of the Rings was influenced by the horrors of World War I. The Rings of Power is influenced by modern writers who know more about shipping and situationships from Tinder, Bumble and Grinder than living a real life of purpose and contemplation. Write what you know, to quote/parapharase GOT “they know nothing”.
I wanted to be excited for this when i heard about it years ago but as I learned more and more my interest dwindled to zero
"Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived idea of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable." -Ursula K. LeGuin
Sums it up very well.
Jesus... This abysmal comparison you did here is epic. You can really witness the difference between LOTR and ROP (Rings On Powders). Well done good sir.
Rings of Power is the cinematic equivalent of a real housewife of any given pretentious American snake pit.
The tongue behind this echo speaks silver, featuring a nice, firm yet fluid dispensary of diction and syntax. Doubleplusgood in any dystopian epoch!
Like an elf in Tolkien's world, I hope you live thousands of years to spread your wisdom, sir.
Can I leave the same comment? It's made bad on purpose. It is an intentional "take down" of the original. There is no attempt to "make money."
Short elves, ugly elves, old elves? Beardless dwarf ladies? Barrow wights existing before the Witch King who created them does? Hobbits existing before the 3rd Age? How are these people so clueless about the source material, I thought they bought the rights to the IP? Bizarre choices, all round.
Even the comparison is offensive..
We're talking about crap vs chocolate.
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Rings of Power isn't fantasy. They probably doesn't even know what that means. It's a crime against imagination, a product created in a industrial pipeline
the most expensive turd that has ever been polished!
I haven’t watched one episode since episode 3, season one. I still watch these summary videos essays because of the contempt I cannot shake. It’s like a poison absorbed deep into the bone marrow. The contemptuous destruction of historical & sci-fi fiction, movies, and games is unfathomably evil. Imaginative boys can’t have nice things now… just approved slop.
This was the best and most accurate review of this shitshow ive seen so far
Completely agree.
Lotr is goated
0:45 Flight of the Conchords! That was a quality show. I'll bet it didn't cost $1 billion to make.
Flight of the Conchords did cost $1 Billion, but as this was NZ$1 Billion, that was about US$50.00 🤣
One of my favourite comedy shows of all time. Every few years, I give it a rewatch. We all need a Murray Hewitt in our lives.
@@fattiger6957
Murray: He may be dead.
Dave: He maybe did what?
Murray: He may be dead.
Dave: I know, but what did he maybe do?
Murray: He may be dead.
Dave: Yeah, maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. What did he maybe do?
Bret: No, he may be dead.
Dave: Are you guys fucking with me?
Amazon's rings of power and Disneys Star Wars are both insulting bastardisations of other peoples great work, they are a billion times more talented than these idiots could ever be
Its an insult to the name lord of the rings and also star wars.
I thought the Hobbit trilogy was kind of bad (with the partial exception of the first one) but compared to Rings of power it feels like an honest mistake
Every time I buy something on Amazon I reflect that in a small way I am helping to finance Rings Of Power. As crappy as that is it's arguably better better than going into Jeff Bezos' pocket.
One does not simply 'enjoy' ROP.. They deliberately eschewed beauty standards, hence Discount Lizzo and the, er, ‘homely’ elf-dwarf that even Larys Strong would struggle to rub one out to.
youre a smart and funny creator. im glad i found your channel :)
If you told me any of these clips from this show were actually from the witcher: blood borigin, I’d believe you. They’re both so effortless and bland compared to good fantasy like LoTR and GoT
Apparently the shareholders don't care.
I disagree with everything you said. You're being very unfair to this show because you're judging it by the wrong framework.
You can't judge this show by its ability to make money, entertain, or inspire. You have to judge it by its ability to demoralize, humiliate, and pollute Western culture. And by those metrics, the show is a wild success
Well said.
true. the biggest disappointment in the history of tv shows for me.
2:42 -That one core of Lord of the Rings. Chivalery against the industrial meat grinder.
I'm definitely Team Sauron...
Completely ignore "The Rings of Power", it's garbage. Treat yourself to the original Tolkien books, they are pure gold👍
I appreciate you tearing this billion dollar debacle a new one. Gah!!
... ah, yes, we are supposed to be colourblind through these representations of such diversity, but as soon as we become colourblind then we are automatically racists bc we ARE colourblind... it is a situation which is deliberately unsolvable and designed to evermore turn A against B, against C - just like the 'endless war manipulations 'in '1984'... deliberately and constantly keeping people off guard, fragmented and conflicted... imagine the low social trust in these communities which instead are represented as all smiley and fun... I don't think so...
It doesn't fail compared to lord of the rings because it's hard to be as great as it is. It just fails. Fails compared to everything besides perhaps some marvel movies and disney star wars trilogy
What a colossal waste.
The one thing sloppier and ploppier than sauron in this show is the show itself.
I'd say that women can't write men, but honestly they just can't write.
TROP...
Proof the Woke can not understand the word, quality.
DEI in movies sucks😂😂.
Yup.
If you like stories written by 14 girls who somehow inhabit adult bodies and weird hairdos, Rings of Power is for you.
Excellent video. Thank you
Even though your criticism is scathing, no words can express the level of disgust I felt when they portrayed the men of Númenor as a bunch of dimwit, xenophobic oafs. Or when they reached peak cringe with the Southlands text cgi morphing into Mordor. Just pathetic.
Here Here.
Painful to watch... I watch two episode. Ended up watching two towers right after
But tell us what you REALLY think!
Stop selling this to me I'm already not planning to ever watch it! 😂
Well said
Tell me what you really think! HAHAHA
Don't associate the Peter Jackson films with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: aside from some names, they have little in common. And please, don't defile Tolkien's name with your brainless culture war clownery.
Excellent video 😊
The fucking thumbnail 😆😆😆
I went to sleep with depression after staying up late to watch the new episode. This show sucks and i have given up.
Little inside info.....
I know from certain who individuals who have connections to the show that it was a nightmare behind the scenes. people were fired left and right, writers couldn't agree what story they wanted to tell, the show was originally about a young Aragorn, some wanted to adapt the Silmarillion but didn't have the adaption rights to the book, the Tolkien estate giving them a long list of things they could and couldn't do on the show such as referencing the movies (even though the showrunners wanted to connect ROP to the movies) writers being fired because they wanted to insert more woke elemets into the show and was met with disapproval, Tolkien selling out to Bezos on his tantalizing and money venture in making LOTR into the next Game of Thrones (which we all know how highly successful that was) a Tolkien scholar being fired, COVID19 impacting everything, the originally being 10 episodes but somewhere being changed to 8 instead, Jeff Bezos allegedly visiting the set and was furious on what he saw and demanded changes to be made in the middle of shooting. All in all, this show was produced with everyone's hands tied behind their backs, not really knowing what they wanted to do and the clock was ticking, and the best they could come up with was fan fiction.
It's almost it was a cobbled together mess. I suppose that's what happens when you try to make an adaptation of something to which you only have a partial license.
As well as putting two inexperienced, untalented idiots in charge. I suspect those guys were chosen because they have absolutely no clout and could be bossed around easily by producers and Amazon execs. It's pretty much the Marvel method (using inexperienced directors Kevin Fiege can boss around easily)
The Elves of the 1st and 2nd ages are awesome in power and attributes. In this show they are a pathetic imitation.
Modernity rejected 🚫
they must be swimming in that 1% of money