EFAP

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"Somehow Mt. Doom returned."

[@sparkypack]

Mt. Doom is not that threatening.. its fire is on low heat. You will be fineee. 🌋

[@jamescoulter886]

Dark science, cloning, secrets only the orcs knew…

[@Haruspex528]

This made me laugh a lot more than it should have lmfao

[@Brandon_Powell]

An old dude with a sword hilt is a pathway to many payoffs some consider to be unnatural.

[@Vario69]

Waldryg is the key to all this - George R.R. Lucas

[@ryanangeli5897]

The Little Platoon is essentially brand new to the KZbin game but he gives off the impression of being a seasoned veteran. He’s quickly become one of my favourites in this community.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

Guys, my Mount Doom won't start, I put the sword in the ignition and everything but it still won't go. I think those orcs ripped me off!

[@sparkypack]

🌋🌋🌋 even if Mt. Doom would work.. its power doesn't hurt anyone. It's weak.

[@HermitBlake]

@@sparkypack last week I had to go out and unstick that. Someone put a dagger in there and got it stuck. Honestly, is it so hard to make sure you put the correct sword in before you turn it?

[@nont18411]

You have to poor a thousand gallons of water into it

[@sparkypack]

@@HermitBlake It wasn't me, it was Fringo. I swear.. xD

[@lobsterminion693]

Have you tried applying blood to the sword? I cut my wrists and smothered the sword in blood and it finally worked.

[@matthewcollins4773]

"One does not satisfy thirst by drinking seawater?" But that would mean the sea is not always right?

[@samwallaceart288]

Freshwater dependency is the Fall of Man. Salvation shall only come when we regress to pisceform and return to our ancestral homewaters.

[@gwoody4003]

Yeah but Galadriel is always right too. And a bigger twat about it than the sea could ever be. She has a tempest inside her.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

No you misunderstood, she meant to say the sea is always Ben Shapiro.

[@DriveKnightJaden175]

No the sea punishes you for drinking its water, in doing that the sea IS right

[@05-Overseer]

Very treacherous sea.

[@mrq1]

Presenting: A Rag's Biden Moment -TLP: Did they (the villagers) just now have torches lit? It would have taken just one orc scout to see them and know where they are! (56:38) -Mauler: Yeah, that was really stupid of 'em (56:49) **A few moments later....** -Rags: How long have their torches been lit? (57:18) -Mauler: Why would you say that Rags? -Rags: (looong pause) ....that's not very stealthy. -Mauler: Hmmm, what an interesting thought you have there. - Rags: (pause) ....did you say it? -All: **LAUGHING** -Rags: goddamnit.... 😂😂 Never change Rag's

[@princepsbellum3413]

It's quite telling, as to the frequency of this phenomenon, that he immediately figures some else just said it 😂

[@calhof991]

Homer stabbing orcs left and right: “This is for Bronwen! This is for the Southlands! AND THIS IS FOR MY OLD HEIFER!”

[@nont18411]

Rings of Power is a show that is full of main characters being narcissists who manipulate each other for their own selfish gain, a family betrayal, a boy who gives up in the face of adversity and is willing to sacrifice thousands of people to save himself, a psychopathic tribe who takes advantage from old people and has a tradition of murdering the weak and injured who cannot keep up in the caravan. These premises should have been in the franchise that focus on evilness in human’s heart and moral ambiguity like A Song of Ice and Fire or Breaking Bad universe, not a franchise that is about moral compass like Lord of the Rings.

[@nillynush4899]

What else did you expect from unvetted writers who never even served in the military? A vacuous global shipping monopoly product in an era of vacuousness.

[@r.e.z9428]

The most sympathetic person is the villain.

[@ThePenAndTheRose]

Them carrying the wounded into the explosion because they didn’t know it was on the green screen crippled me with laughter. 😂

[@jaccat4336]

I feel like Nicolas Cage in Face off. When he’s laughing, cries for a split second, then back to hysterical laughing. 😂😢🤣

[@Party_Almsivi]

Chat/comments: ‘lol I’m rooting for the bad guys, this is so bad’ Me: “My master, Sauron The Great, bids thee welcome! Is there any among this rot that has authority to treat with me? Ah Old Bezos, I have a token I was bidden to show thee. (1 star reviews) Ah the series was dear to thee…Know that it suffered greatly at the hands of its host. Who would’ve thought a show so crap, could endure so much pain. But it did Bezos. It did. And who is this? Game of Thrones’ heir?! It takes more to make a hit show than an unfinished fantasy book series-!”

[@sparkypack]

More furry wargs please.. 🤭🐺

[@KayronTheFifth]

Though I may hate Rings of Power, I legally cannot endorse you cutting Bezos' head off and dramatically riding back to your army.

[@nananamamana3591]

@@KayronTheFifth Maybe you can't... _But I can._

[@samwallaceart288]

@@nananamamana3591 . . . when he fits a woman! 💃

[@samwallaceart288]

"Know that it suffered greatly at the hands of its host." I see and appreciate the correct usage of _"its"._

[@JulianDoe]

Timestamps 0:00 An Incorrect Assumption 1:54 Where’s Fringy? 2:13 Where Are The Guests? 2:46 Starting Out 4:14 Superchats (1) 6:20 11 7:24 Superchats (2) 11:58 Harry Potter 14:49 King Longcon, School & Biology 17:08 Superchats (3) 23:26 Maze Runner 25:52 First Videogame Ever Played 30:54 Superchats (4) 31:14 Mount Doom 43:34 Timeline 44:38 Elfman & The Fire Arrow 48:58 Elfman & The Beam 52:54 The Watchtower 54:48 The Bad Guy 56:20 The Friendly Villagers 57:12 Rags Biden Moment 58:01 The Least Rancid Plot Line 1:04:34 The Ship 1:06:44 Appleboy & Galadriel 1:16:50 Elfman & The Sword 1:19:41 References & Contradictions 1:21:39 The Lady Leader & The Defence 1:36:08 The Orcs & The Water 1:38:14 Singapore Saves The Day 1:38:44 Attack 1:53:27 Elfman Vs Orc 2:19:30 A Sad Victory 2:30:18 Arrows 2:34:47 Wasting Time 2:39:48 The Numberorian Army 2:43:43 Inside The Tavern 2:44:16 Helmets In Modern Media 2:47:33 Back To The Village 2:52:20 Here Come The Numerolian 2:57:25 Battle Techniques & Stories 2:07:11 The Chase 3:11:45 All Bran & Adar 3:12:33 Friends Will Be Friends 3:14:05 Interrogation 3:26:42 A Pretty Cringe Scene 3:29:12 The Shirt 3:31:17 The Queen & The Lady 3:43:28 Another Pretty Cringe Scene 3:51:10 The Volcano 4:07:01 The Quote 4:07:24 The Pyroclastic Flow (avg 30 m/s, 1,800 °F) 4:09:13 The Quote, Interpretations, Motivations & Believability 4:13:06 The Show 4:15:16 The Pyroclastic flows are the most deadly of all volcanic hazards 4:16:20 Canon, References & Disconnections 4:18:06 Ratings 4:21:09 The Characters 4:23:50 LOTR VS ROP 4:25:25 Memorability & Legacy 4:27:31 A Story 4:28:47 The Shadabsence 4:29:33 Last Things 4:31:00 Conclusions & Superchats 5:20:43 The Guests 5:26:06 Next 5:26:35 Mauler & Gaming 5:28:02 Final Superchats 5:35:04 Goodbye

[@Kernwadi]

I wish I could be as cool as you, Timestamp Master.

[@noank9175]

King, you dropped this 👑

[@TheCucuyo9779]

Don bless. 🙏

[@sparkypack]

You have my sword 🗡️

[@Kernwadi]

@@sparkypack And my spunk...

[@adrianoippolito1999]

What if this series is an alternate timeline where galadrial becomes the second dark lord and forges the one ring while halbrand/sauron is actually trying to redeem himself.

[@nananamamana3591]

That'd be pretty dope. It wouldnt make the writing up till then any less shit, but, at least Gally being an insufferable, vile being would have a satisfying purpose.

[@joesmutz9287]

Honestly, that's already what's happening Saubrand is trying to redeem himself, while Galadrial is trying to turn him into a dark lord

[@LawlTwins]

Saurons a simp in this timeline and a really nice guy xD

[@liberTvalance]

Well that's how the spun Wheel Of Time. I guess they can do that with anything now. Just act like everything is mcu alternate universe time travel shit.

[@nillynush4899]

It's actually been extremely easy to divorce Amazog's Rangs of Blakk Power from the Jackson movies. To compare it to John Tolkien's books isn't even the same universe. It's such a shame when original creators die and global monopolies whore-out their life's work to communists in media for modern agendas...

[@lokiswager]

I think it's really interesting that EFAP's favorite character is "Homer" when the message of LOTR was that anyone could be a hero, that it's not the chosen ones or the perfect people who save the day, and that the world is better off when the lives of the simple folk can continue uninterrupted by the wars of the powerful and greedy. The showrunners of TROP have no idea what LOTR was about, but EFAP randomly choosing a character to get attached to is much more closer to Tolkien's intent than anything in this entire show.

[@Godpk11]

Little Platoon and Disparu are great additions to these EFAP streams.

[@sparkypack]

great dynamic!

[@nicolaspassemard265]

Adding clever folks adds value. Who could have thought! :p

[@nedstarkravingmad1799]

well, Disparu is

[@gwoody4003]

Yeah there are so many great content creators we might never know of if Disney and Amazon produced good television.

[@Chugargonfan]

Little platoon is. Disparu is eh

[@troy4173]

Little Platoon, Disparu, Nutsa, Rekieta... EFAP has had some really good new guests lately. Always fun to see new first-timers, especially when they're as enjoyable as they've been recently.

[@username45739]

Wasn't Disparu the one who said the mail Jedi 66'd in the background a few seconds before the female in the foreground, was feminist sexism chauvinism at work - with a real smug face at that? What a reasonable voice of reason eh - I'll let him tell me what's woke or not

[@benstanfill363]

@@username45739 bro can you learn basic writing. I had to read that comment 3 times before I could understand what you were trying to say.

[@username45739]

@@benstanfill363 That's because of your chronic meth use.

[@Hello_All_My_N_Words]

​@@username45739 if your gonna be a try hard, try harder.

[@username45739]

@@Hello_All_My_N_Words Try what harder? Discredit that ultrahack Disparu or what? He has done that himself!

[@zirienger]

Somewhere on the Mount Doom there's a golden plaque that reads "In memory of Waldreg. He was a real one."

[@Klespyrian]

Going from the orcs perspective, Waldreg really went hard as fuck for a human poop stain.

[@Gunleaver]

Comparing Arondir vs the orc to Aragorn vs Lurtz: On the scale of powers and abilities, Tolkien did not write a D&D manual, and was not interested in balancing races. He had a natural hierarchy. Elves >> Numenorean Men >> Dunedain (Uruk-hai?) >> Low Men (Uruk-hai?) >> Orcs. Arondir is from the most powerful group, fighting a member of the weakest group in that range, whereas Aragorn is a member of a lesser group, fighting someone much closer to his own power level. That an Elf of the Second Age is having ANY trouble with a single orc in close combat is an epically bad showing for Arondir. As the Ages pass, the power gap between the Free Peoples and the orcish races shrinks. The Elves diminish and fade, and the blood of Numenor attenuates, while the orcs grow stronger, or are at least bred to be more powerful under Saruman. Tolkien's Elves are not the stealthy, ranged-specialist, physically weak race, nor are his orc their contemporary big, brutish barbarian warriors that Warcraft portrays them as. Tolkien's Elves are simply ubermenschen, bigger, stronger, more skilled. They did not use bows because they were too weak to grapple hand to hand, they used them as an expression of a superb combination of strength, reflexes, eye-hand coordination, superhuman eyesight and centuries of practice. This show, and The Hobbit trilogy, seems to think they are wimps with gravity-defying powers, whom you beat by closing to hand-to-hand range and not let them do flips. You don't beat Elves by leveraging your superior physical strength against them, unless you are a cave troll, you beat them by swarming them with vastly superior numbers, and that does not always work, unless you have a wild card up your sleeve, like a suborned traitor in their ranks, or a giant monster or five, i.e. dragons and balrogs. In LotR, Helm's Deep was tough because of the extraordinary prowess of the Uruk-hai, and Saruman's weaponry and the strength of Rohan being divided. Osgiliath was lost and Minas Tirith was threatened because of the sheer weight of numbers, plus Men serving Sauron, plus Ringwraiths. In the rest of the War of the Ring, the Dwarves of Erebor, the Men of Dale, and Galadriel's Elves kicked ass and took names throughout the North (a big part of that was because Smaug was taken out, which was Gandalf's ulterior motive for supporting Thorin's quest). Arondir having this much trouble one on one with a single orc is like the mercenaries' difficulty capturing Baby Leia in Obi Wan Kenobi.

[@lokiswager]

Interesting!

[@rhiannejones3815]

We’ll said!

[@mordirit8727]

Okay correction because this is bugging me: elves are not stronger than men in Ëa. The real hierarchy should be: (Dwarves?) Light Elves >= (Dwarves ?) Numenorians > Dunedain (Uruks?) >= Dark Elves (Uruks?) >= Low Men (Uruks?) => Orcs >>>>>>>>> Golbins Low Men were perfectly capable of joining and matching the armies of Beleriand when they first arrived there, serving in the many kings armies as equals to the elves. Elves who've seen the Light of the Trees are indeed more powerful (though it is unclear whether this means physically or just that they exude such awe by their mere presence that even trying to fight them is harder), but Túrin Turambar killed Glaurung with a fucking stab. Turin. A low man, not a drop of elf blood in his veins, killed the dragon that years earlier won a fight against a literal _army_ of noldorin elves alone. Elves are overall better fighters when the Third Age spins around because they have had centuries and millennia to hone their skills, true, but their base power is the same. Here are a few list of things that _low men_ did in the First Age of the Sun: Húrin fought alone against roughly 100 trolls. Killed 70 of them. _Alone._ Túrin, as mentioned, did in the fucking father of all dragons. His cousin, Tuor, didn't fall that far behind: beat a dragon in Gondolin so bad the thing fled, then proceeded to find his wife and son about to be killed by one of the elves you said are all stronger than men, Maeglin. Tuor proceeded to grab him by the waist and throw him off a cliff, just like that. And then there is Beren, who dispenses all description... When you look over the Silmarillion, there aren't any tales of elves, even the light ones, doing particularly great feats of strength. The big modern mistake is assuming elves are "more DEX less STR" when, in reality, they should be "more DEX, same STR". The only race specifically singled out for its strength are the dwarves, though it remains unclear whether they are physically stronger than Light Elves and Numenorians or not, although dwarves _were_ the only race created with the explicit objective of being strong as fuck. Orcs are a huge spectrum of strength, ranging from the incredibly tall and strong Uruks all the way to the spindly and most likely insanely inbred goblins.

[@lieutenantnomad9198]

(Toy Story theme plays) 🎶"You've got a tempest in me."🎵 - Galladrial

[@lastfirst5863]

You’ve got a Wong in me.

[@idiotcube]

You got a tempest in me. You got a tempest in me! I'm better than you, in more ways than one! My quest to kill the orcs ain't ever done. Not for revenge, it's just because it's fun. 'Cuz yooooou got a tempest in me!

[@lieutenantnomad9198]

🎶"Some other knife ears might more reasonable than I am. Smarter and more likable too... definitely. But none of them can kick Saurons butt the way I can. It's all about me boys."🎵

[@nananamamana3591]

"It's Tempestin' Time!" - Galdob Blaglarin

[@harry426]

37:50 Isn't it weird that the Orcs are a race that can't come in contact with sunlight, but don't have any particular night vision?

[@GenMVeers]

44:03 Yesss! ✅ *The Little Platoon:* "We may have _n_ amount of time, we just don't tell you what _n_ is." Too many people would say "...have _x_ amount..." without realizing that _x_ is incorrect and _n_ is correct. In mathematics, x (the _italic_ form or not, depending on context) is commonly used as the name for an independent variable or *unknown* value. In mathematics, the italic form _n_ is a particularly common symbol for a variable *quantity* which represents a *natural number.* In other words, _x_ has to be solved, whereas _n_ does not.

[@bigwinz]

I'm gonna go on using 'x' though.

[@kusakabe3264]

we have x amount to time to equal y amount of plot.

[@HeirofDacia]

Not Gandalf falling from the sky proves that this was a show about space wizards intended for children.

[@RorytheRomulan]

Funny to hear the show's Galadriel say that vengeance is not the way, when just episodes earlier, she threatened to murderhobo Isildur and the guards.

[@Party_Almsivi]

21:00 Congratulations chat member, you have discovered why bad writing is an epidemic. A lot of people don’t want to make those hard choices. Just remember, character is king, and consistency is law.

[@emhu2594]

Nepotism hires thinking they were hired by their boyfriend because of their talent.

[@JGGR89]

2:05:00 In fact, if blunt force trauma is hard enough to knock you out in one hit, there's far more concerning side effects in your brain. Particularly how you are treated immediately afterwards. Also a bottle that won't break, assuming similar force is used, would transfer far more energy into the head. But a broken bottle can cut a lot more during the follow through.

[@Kernwadi]

[This comment contained many errors, the People's Republic of China corrected this mistake.]

[@Kernwadi]

Move along citizen... Nothing to see here.

[@maestro_nik]

小熊维尼

[@Kernwadi]

@@maestro_nik 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门 1984

[@HumanRightsViolator]

@@maestro_nik Blood and honey

[@tadpolegaming4510]

@@HumanRightsViolator Cyberfrog?

[@ryhnoking]

As a One Piece fan everytime they answer the superchat about Devil fruit powers I internally scream "STOP ASKING THEM ABOUT DEVIL FRUITS"

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

@@Lysvsyl I mean, not categorically. Inside jokes aren't funny to people not in on it, but just being anime related doesn't mean a meme can't work. The Jotaro-taping-a-photo-shut and Attack on Titan door slam memes worked as completely normal memes. Granted, I preferred the Jotaro one, and Jojo is the Anime/Manga I actually watched/read but while it wasn't anything special, the AoT one still at least worked, even though I know nothing about AoT. Yes I know these are old af, I just don't watch anime and these are the first I remembered.

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

Same

[@gottesurteil3201]

@@ZenoDovahkiin kakyoin licking a cherry will always be funny.

[@teddyharvester]

I get the feeling someone just wants to break the EFAP crew into watching more animus. Considering the quality of western media we all have to deal with, it could actually be good for them.

[@ryhnoking]

@@teddyharvester I honestly prefer if they don't🤣 No offence to the EFAP crew but anime is one of those things I never want them to get into. I say this as someone who loves anime lol

[@DrewTheDuke]

Mauler repeating "EPIC EPIC EPIC" when discussing Mt Doom. Reminds me of someone I know. Loves all the new Disney star wars, explicitly for all the character cameos, references, and action scenes. Not a surprise he adores Rings of Power. What I have heard him say about the show so far: "DUDE did you SEE MT DOOM EXPLODE! Talk about EPIC!" "We got to see how MT DOOM was formed! Can you believe it?!" "That finale was the most EPIC thing ever! This is my kinda show!" "Those horses galloping across the plains made me think of Rohan! Gave me chills I tell ya."

[@Vossenator]

That's the problem right now in the entertainment industry. Too many people in the audience are entertained by mere spectacle and that "epic" feeling that comes from it regardless of whether or not there's any substance behind it.

[@AsherTheAwesomeONE]

Do you think they will end the series of Rings-o-Pow, with the elves carrying the table by hand, back to the dwarven kingdom, only to drop it at the front door of the mountain? Would be fitting.

[@sparkypack]

Indeed 🌋

[@2ndlegend125]

I'm calling it now. Theo is being set up to be a Nazgul. His mom is the leader of his people for some reason so he could later become a "King" and recieve one of the 9 rings of men. Also he's already been getting the temptation of the hilt.

[@fallenfriend2860]

I feel like you are giving the writers too much credit.

[@SallinKari]

So for breaking bottle over peoples head, it kinda depends on where you hit with the bottle. The base of the bottle is the thickest and strongest part which is why when a bottle drops and shatters, that glass circle often survives with little damage, so hitting with that, yeah, all the force is concentrated into that part and so it's basically the equivalent of taking a club to someones skull... Hitting with the length of the bottle though is not only far more likely to break, but the force can be distributed across a larger area so the blunt force is likely to be far less lethal... It is however going to shower you with a burst of glass shards that'll slice the shit out you, and will require stitches. I feel which one would be worse kinda depends on your strength. A weaker strike, hitting it with the 'flat' of the bottle and shattering it to lacerate the person's head would be worse, but if you got the strength to crack their skull, you want to hit with the edge of the bottom, and go for the skull crack.

[@samwallaceart288]

It wouldn't surprise me if empty bottles were somehow more sturdy than filled bottles, though I'm not sure the exact science. Water-based drinks are a kinetically weird liquid housed in a glass bottle which is itself a kinetically weird amorphous-solid. I know the _Pan's Labyrinth_ bottle bludgeoning scene was based on a fight Del Toro witnessed where he saw that in the right context, a glass bottle is in fact stronger than a human face.

[@SallinKari]

@@samwallaceart288 (Re-watching in preparation for season 2 and sees this comment) From my understanding a full bottle is sturdier since the liquid can absorb some of the force that would make it flex, though this would primarily help plastic bottles that would crumple upon impact and thus be far diminished in effect. But I am aware you can 'jolt' bottles in a specific way to form a small vacuum bubble(I've only seen by hitting the top very hard and fast) which will cause the liquid to rapidly try to fill it, and can pop the bottom out of glass bottles, though you would not be striking it like this in a fight so not exactly relevant. Regardless, the main thing is the added weight would be more important then any effects on durability.

[@thegrimcritic5494]

2:20:18 I honestly cannot fathom how Adar expected the villagers to be overcome with anguish upon realizing the deserters were sent in to be used as enemy soldiers. Like, you people DO KNOW they deserted you guys and capitulated to the enemy, right? You SAW THEM leave to join Adar. You guys DO KNOW what war is, right? Also, THEY CAME HERE WITH THE EXPRESS INTENT TO KILL YOU ALL. WHY ARE YOU SAD TO LEARN THAT THESE FREAKING MURDEROUS TRAITORS AMONGST YOUR OWN HAVE BEEN DEFEATED?!

[@johnwest545]

Where is the Elvish army? The watchtower hasn’t checked in for God only knows how long; the Elves should have responded to this in force.

[@sparkypack]

The Elvish army knew that all main characters had plot armour, so there is no need. Poor Homer was an exception. His chocolate cow wasn't reason enough to keep him alive 🐮🍫😔.

[@amanibob1416]

People are proud of their craft/work. Watch EFAP streams up to ep.6 "People found out that Chernobyl was due to human error, negligence, poor work ethic and a regime depending on "controlling the narrative." Queen Shamus Jr.

[@sparkypack]

2:31:19 there goes chocolate cow owner Homer 🍫🐄😔. RIP. He simply didn't have enough seeds. 🌱

[@TimPortantno]

"Black vigilante" might be a reference to how Dr. Doom refers to Luke Cage in a panel that became a meme.

[@lachieechoecho]

Disparu and Little Platoon have joined EFAP? The Fellowship of objectivity, and sanity, is complete!

[@cynicalleviathan3305]

Mewbler it's October how could you forget the halloween themed EFAP layout for these episodes

[@sparkypack]

🎃😭 It's literally October and the spooky tisms aren't recognised.. 🥺

[@destroyer1187]

They've got the Rings of Power up on screen, how much more horrifying do you want?

[@HSuper_Lee]

Wasn't this recorded back in September?

[@shacuras8201]

Why do the Harfoots even use wheeled wagons when they aren't using roads? We see in the show that it's not great offroad. Also, wagon tracks are really really easy to follow. They should just be using some kind of beast of burden, like every nomadic population ever

[@princepsbellum3413]

Beasts of burden? Don't be ridiculous. Harfoots tie all goods onto the weakest person of the tribe and force marches them until lethal collapse.

[@151monka]

​@@princepsbellum3413 then they eat them...

[@princepsbellum3413]

@@151monka "...with appetites even bigger than our feet"

[@Martin-kt7cp]

Mauler, in answer to your question about bottles. I've been hit with bottles round the head a lot in my younger years, the times they didn't break, it hurt more and did more damage.

[@shiravalen]

Homer himself would be proud to be the namesake for such a hero of legend.

[@SatanLiterally]

21:00 I think it's important to understand that it is not totally unacceptable for a character to act in a way that contradicts how they've been characterized up to that point. It should just be addressed in the narrative in some way, depending on how relevant it is. People you know in real life probably act in ways or hold views that would surprise you even if you believe you know them very well. Even you may act in ways that would surprise or disappoint yourself in the right circumstances. I don't think it's a good idea to rigidly adhere a character to a specific characterization that essentially turns them into robots programmed to behave a specific way. That makes them less believable, not more.

[@kamenLegendJ]

I agree with that

[@Keeki95]

But there should be a reason behind it. The problem with most media these days is that characters do what has to happen for a plot or scene to unfold in the way the writer imagined with no concern for who the character is. As the audience, we need an explanation for why a character breaks from our expectations: are they struggling with fear or insecurity? Are they torn between allegiances? Blackmail, hostages, etc? Heck, they talked about that stuff. What makes it believable is that they struggle with obstacles in their way. Randomly acting out of character sets up an expectation that there is something we don't know about the character or that the character is mentally unstable (which is also an explanation for their behavior). Yet so many shows and movies leave situations like these unaddressed, treating it as if nothing strange happened with that character.

[@SatanLiterally]

@@Keeki95 yes, that's essentially what I'm getting at. If a character does do something that conflicts with how they've been characterized thus far, it should be confronted in some way, either by the character themselves or another character in the story who knows them.

[@Soyuz2578]

The scene at the end of the episode with the text saying Southlands/Mordor was just about the most stupidest punch - in - the - face piece of exposition I've ever seen. But I guess at this point it fits in quite well with everything else

[@wildcard9173]

these terrible battle plans drive me crazy my favorite show of the last 10 years was The Last Kingdom and they did these things so well. I'm talking shield walls, walled cities, highground strategy. It was great

[@theduxabides9274]

1:55:55 He's the "Midnight Elf-Catcher what Catches Elves at Midnight," you can't take his hook away from him! That's the only jib he's got!!!

[@Ceyx000]

He says to me-he says to me, 'you got style, baby! But if you're gonna be a real villain, you gotta get a gimmick.' And so I go, I says, 'yeah, baby! A gimmick, that's it! ..

[@WreckingWood]

You know how everyone says there's a great 3-hour cut out of the 9-hour Hobbit trilogy? I'll be damned if there's even a "salvageable" 1 or 2 hour cut of this show. Best I could think of if you take the soundtrack and make it music driven with almost no dialog it'll have the narrative thrust without hearing them speak.

[@emsi3560]

No that won't work either. So far I've only heard two memorable soundtrack pieces, the rest is all bland chorus

[@WreckingWood]

@@emsi3560 Unmemorable music is better than insufferable dialog.

[@emsi3560]

@@WreckingWood I guess

[@Brandon_Powell]

2:15:24 That's Aragorn. My theory on how they did this while maintaining the PG13 rating is the fact that like Mauler says it does happen very quickly but also the blood is black. It's hard to notice because it's dark in the cave. This is something that Sam Raimi figured out while making Evil Dead 2. The producers on that movie were very uncomfortable with the amount of blood in it so he convinced them to let him keep all the blood if he changed the color of a lot of it to green. I suspect that was the same principle in The Lord of the Rings. It's different in the Lurtz fight because that takes place outdoors during the day so it would've been a little hard to pass off blood as black. This is just speculation though so take it with a grain of salt.

[@ragasimo]

Just a Thought: the entire population of this southland, ammount of 2 Villages, 1 is wiped out off screen, half of che second one is killed by the other half than the battle reduce them to a tavern worth of people, than the pyroclastic flow burn... at least someone? so Sauron is now king of.. the colorfull lady n her son? even homer is dead!

[@alexhayden219]

This episode reminds me a little bit of The Book of Boba Fett, where he had a perfectly reasonable Jabba's Palace to hold up in and fight from, but decided to make his stand in the middle of an already exploded building with no real defensive positions or advantages. The big difference is that Arondir doesn't have knee missile.

[@bad-people6510]

The Hito Hito fruit also gives the animal human intelligence. Chopper is a doctor.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

1:30:05 - I laughed so much at that forced cheer that I expected someone be a Rattrap and mutter "Great, we are all gonna die..." in the back.

[@joesmutz9287]

"Strange women handing out articles of clothing is not a good basis for a system of government" Every southerner after Saubrand shows off the pouch

[@shiravalen]

'The enemy villagers could have run away', or revealed themselves and surrendered/joined against the orcs at the right time, I'd argue lends to it being less intuitive they'd be used to fight. Then again, the inciting incident of them turning themselves over to the orcs in the first place is a tenuous starting point to come from. I'm not exactly sure what they had in mind there.

[@samwallaceart288]

_Joker_ is the only "grabs guy and throws him" that makes sense; e.g. Throwing their face into a doorframe at point-blank range without letting go. Repeatedly.

[@TheEdgysaber]

If you fine gents decide to include an old school Godzilla movie into the EFAP Movies arc, check out Destroy All Monsters(1968). It's probably the closest thing to KoTM.

[@sparkypack]

First, loooonngg koonnggg... 🦍

[@sirswissmcgristle5413]

I feel obliged to offer up "Ghidorah: Three Headed Monster" as closest to KotM, but I wholeheartedly support the old school Godzilla suggestion, no matter the movie.

[@alexhayden219]

33:18 "Do you think the birth of Mount Doom... considered like this awesome... like Galactus arriving... that's what makes the episode really good." Unfortunately, yes. I had a very disappointing conversation with some of my friends during our weekly game night following the the season finale where I gave my protests, but mostly just listened, as to not be too much of a dick and not allow them to enjoy shitty content if they want to, and the big talking point was episode six and how cool it was and that they'd seen people complaining about it online but "just, like, how can you complain about that, man? It's the fucking BIRTH of Mount Doom. It was just so awesome to see!" So, unfortunately, unironically, yes. They loved the episode... simply because Mount Doom exists. And, yes, I do at time question my choice in friends, but I've yet to find replacements with better taste in media.

[@wildcard9173]

This Black elf's new name is Fred he has earned this title for his brilliant execution of scooby-doo traps

[@Ora_]

1:59:00 I like how someone in the chat said "Just do a retake". Come on. With this low of a budget, do you really think they can do retakes! its only like 50 million dollars per episode!

[@RorytheRomulan]

That pub for very special viewers (you know the kind I mean) cheered when they saw Original Character walk into the eruption. Fringy points out that this is supposed to be bait, but Disney and Marvel have trained their audiences too much that they are still clapping and cheering like seals when they see it. The damage that insidious companies and producers like Bad Robot and JJ Abrams have done to millennial viewers' standards for storytelling is staggering.

[@ClobberingSocks]

3:08:12 “Head them off at the pass?! I hate that cliché!”

[@calhof991]

Glass is actually higher than human bone on the Mohs hardness scale. If you break a glass bottle against someone’s skull, you’ve probably also fractured their skull.

[@christopherkelley1664]

Filed away, thank you.

[@christopherkelley1664]

Okay I looked it up and the hardness scale is about etching, not breaking. The thickness of the glass would probably be the major determinant. Not all bottles are created equal. I could smash a jumbo Mason jar on someone's head and they'd probably be fine bone-wise.

[@Abysalss]

Glass is a lot less strong than bone tho, it’s very easy to shatter glass compared to bone even when they’re the same thickness, but it’s a lot easier to cut into or scratch bone than it is glass

[@christopherkelley1664]

@@Abysalss Yeah that dude misunderstands the Mohs scale for sure.

[@Kernwadi]

Is this the Schrödinger's EFAP? Episode that exists but no-one was notified for?

[@BobWill1846]

I got notified

[@Ceyx000]

They were not here, this efap never happened.

[@shannonm.4632]

I feel like they spent too much money on salaries with the Assumption by the people involved that they would make a killing on salary because it was a tolkien product. But they forgot that you actually have to produce a Tolkien product that is high quality to get that. Expectations were high before the LOTR and decidedly angry after Hobbit. This wasnt the gimme free money they expected.

[@mhc706]

Eat the fruit, become a double human

[@SRow_Plays_Games]

1:27:00 We must protect the alcohol!!!Defend the Tavern not the keep!!

[@drronin112]

4:32:33 = I think you might have misunderstood the chat here. Tolkien Untangled is a KZbin channel with a lot of characters, history and general Tolkien lore a great reference if you don't want to try and slog through The Silmarillion, or if you are familiar with the lore and want to revisit it. Anyway, he has 3 videos currently (listed below) where he states that in making these he even stuck to the same things that Amazon has the rights to use with only minor exceptions (which when he uses, he lists what they are and how the story can work without those additional rights being used as well) I wholeheartedly suggest watching them. Maybe wait till you've finished tearing apart the last Episode of RoP and watch them to fully cleanse your brain of this Amazon abomination. Since I'm not certain about linking to his channel directly If you search for "Tolkien Untangled" it's pretty much the main everything that comes up. Tolkien Untangled Playlist: How The Rings of Power Should Have Been Written (to make them Tolkienian) How 'The Rings of Power' Should Have Been Written | On Adapting the Second Age - Seasons 1 & 2 ~Published Aug 19, What if 'Rings of Power' actually felt like Tolkien? | On Adapting the Second Age - Season 3 ~Published Sep 2 Adapting the Downfall of Númenor | On Adapting the Second Age - Season 4 ~Published Sep 24 He mentioned covering all 5 Seasons to mention that which Amazon has claimed they are doing, so he should have a new one due out to finish the whole 5 season arc here sometime soon. Edit: 05:28:04 = Oh good someone else brought it up again as well.

[@troglodytezero1697]

57:24, it makes you wonder if Rags is using Dial-up and therefore is on a delay. I can see Doggo frozen while the conversation is going on then getting unfrozen.

[@MAGAMAN]

It's funny hearing you guys talk about your first video game being on a nintendo 64. My first video game was bruce lee on the Atari 800XL which was a computer you hooked to your TV and it stored all the data and games on a casette tape. The same kind of tape you used for music back then.

[@elvenham1]

Same here. I'm fairly new to EFAP, but they must be younger than I thought. We had a Magnavox Odyssey 2 when I was really little, and an uncle got me an NES when I was around 5, so I was playing Super Mario Bros and Tetris early, too. (Cutting edge compared to the Odyssey, lol.)

[@alexfc679]

My first videogame was Super Mario Galaxy on the wii! That's pretty cool. I'v never played atari... one day maybe

[@Kernwadi]

So what do you massives think, are they going to cancel this show any time soon? Pretty much nothing is going right for it, people are turning their backs left and right; even the consoomers/troglodytes who previously defended it like it was their baby, now admit that it has some problems. I don't think that there is any way to save this show; all they could possibly do is literally delete the current episodes and start from beginning, with new people behind it... But we all know that it's not going to happen.

[@micky6j]

if i was them i would cancel this show after season one, but i think their going to throw money at it and hope that saves it when it fails again in season 2 i think they will cancel it. nobody knows but the spiders and they won't tell me, so only time will tell.

[@easternshore8367]

Batwoman got Mutiple seasons despite how shitty that show was. I mean probably this is a scenario of a show getting axed because of the greater baggage behind it that makes its failure worse, but I've heard they start shooting season 2 of the Ring of Power a few days ago so I shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't get axed.

[@Kernwadi]

It's probably going to be one of the biggest money dumps of all time.

[@DirectionallyChallenged]

oh no... are both halbrand and not-gandalf sauron because he was "split" and one is his might and the other his magic?

[@Roro_2338]

just posting this here so I don't forget about it when i eventually get to this episode and forget if they notice it or not ISILDUR'S HORSE DIDN'T TAKE A BITE OUT OF THE APPLE they just moved it around a lot in a dimly lit shot to make it look like he did because they couldn't just have a horse take a bite out of a fucking apple

[@Kernwadi]

"Once you get EFAPped, you can never go back." -Bilbo Baggins

[@gibraltar5432]

too true.. EFAPs are the only thing that brings me joy out of RoP or She-Hulk

[@samwallaceart288]

*EFAP'd a hark back to how *'d* was the accept'd marker of past tense before silent E's were tolerat'd.

[@Kernwadi]

@@samwallaceart288 Intriguing but highly confusing.

[@Hello_All_My_N_Words]

*Bigideas Baggins

[@AmericanRollo]

I’m extremely curious who are going to become the ringwraiths in this series. Considering all of those kings are already dead…

[@philiphandforth4390]

In reference to the transforming fruit superchat, I'd eat the fruit and turn myself into a human/human hybrid I'd be the ultimate humanman!

[@SRow_Plays_Games]

Just like that the only threat to the "good" guys in the show is defeated... two episodes before the finale??

[@chrissedaka8141]

"Strange people distributing pouches is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical sartorial accessorizing. I mean, if I went around saying I was king just because I picked up a pouch, they'd lock me away."

[@samwallaceart288]

HELP! HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!

[@chuckleshelicopterwigwamjo6305]

Although she didn't distribute the pouch, there was a moistened bint in the equation here as well

[@shrewdprivateer3742]

Fringey affirms himself as the most based EFAP crewman by knowing nothing about Harry Potter

[@yp_biggie1116]

Yo when did this stream happen. How am I missing these 😭

[@josh11735]

I think it was meant to be on Sunday? I never got a notification for it though… :(

[@JamesSchulte]

Cause its only 5 and a half hours long

[@HalfBrainGamers]

It was last week Sunday No new EFAP this week

[@Kernwadi]

It was a Schrödinger's EFAP... Only spiders know when it happened.

[@Kernwadi]

She-Hulk's feet... Just think about that for a moment. Truly life-changing.

[@Andrea_Gabrielli]

Elfman uses fire arrow on tower rope and wonders why it’s not working. It’s because fire is cold in this universe.

[@jroggs85]

I think they were trying to do a themetism with Waldric: "Look, see! It was the weakness of Men that caused Mount Doom! Is-n't th-at a-ma-zing???" (Not that that isn't a viable theme in and of itself, but, you know... execution matters.)

[@shiravalen]

You can have full justification in self-defense, but it can be very hard for a human psyche to be practical and reasonable to get over a surface-level aspect of it. In fact that's what I'd more expect.

[@SatanLiterally]

3:24:50 Galadriel sounds like Morgoth in Children of Húrin. You know, the bag guy.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

I always took the humanization of the Orcs in this show as reference to that whole ‘Orcs iz black people’ thing.

[@Kernwadi]

That's probably what it is, but now they have real black people so... I don't really know what's the point in humanising pure evil.

[@Kernwadi]

According to Islam, when night comes, the sun hides in a pool of muddy water... So there you go, scientifically explained.

[@TekTheNinja]

The deep confusion during every Devil Fruit of the week is funny.

[@lordoz2578]

4:08:31 seems like Mauler was referring to Wolf there. He would go all caps rage on Rings of Power and he’s a major LOTR fan.

[@TheREALSimagination]

First games I recall playing was Harry Potter 1 on PC and one of those educational games made for grade schoolers where I learned the colors of the rain bow and that a food monster would come of of the oven if you chose the wrong ingredients while cooking. Does the package the kid opens even *have* the shape of the sword hilt? Me listening to this after having seen the following episode: "Well, they''re not wrong about Mr. Evil Volcano not being hot..." Why is Kansas and Arkansas pronounced differently when they have the same ending? I know - slaughter and laughter, which is ridiculous and nonsensical enough, but I dunno, the former two just seem weirder to me. Maybe because they're both names of places. Tolkien's elves are immortal as in no dying from aging or dicease. When they get killed they eventually get resurrected, with the rate dependent on their karma in that life, basically, except someone or -thing decides the waiting period for them. This force or whatever it is can outright deny resurrection to the ones it deems unworthy because of actions so bad it'd be best for everyone if they didn't come back, I presume is its reasoning.

[@Stefan-gv5cq]

@2:55:00 the chains are such a niche and situational plan. What if the orcs didn't stand conveniently in a big clump? What if there were objects the chains could become caught on topple the horses. What prevents the orcs standing up after they fall over? Its very dopey, comical and cartoony for a battle between orcs and humans in "LOTR"?? @shadiversity have you ever hear of weapons used like this?

[@Kernwadi]

"Why does this show even exist?" -Bilbo Baggins

[@daikhairai7194]

The night before mini mauler struck out on his own in full fledged KZbin glory. May he fear demonitization as all his fellow KZbinrs do.

[@lukeb1663]

2:07:30 think of the bottle breaking as the maximum amount of force you can use for that bottle. Once that threshold is reached, any extra force asserted into the hit will be practically lost. That means it’s kind of a dampened blow but realistically the amount of force required to smash a glass bottle on the back of someone’s head is quite high and quite lethal.

[@Kernwadi]

Hello all my N-words. I of course mean 'neighbours'.

[@pablom-f8762]

You can call me Nazzy. For little Nazgul, I mean...

[@Kernwadi]

@@pablom-f8762 Sure thing Nazzy.

[@nedstarkravingmad1799]

I hate ...neighbors.

[@DriveKnightJaden175]

I love how they faded her out at the end there as if the smoke passed through her

[@SatanLiterally]

The Nilfgaardian armor in the Witcher is much worse.

[@Kernwadi]

Agreed, it hurts my Polish soul to this very day.

[@apocryphicdeath]

@@Kernwadi At least there is a silver lining to it then. Polacks are annoying.

[@0Sutekinaryuu0]

Since they used Galadriel’s dagger to make elf rings, are they going to use the broken sword key to make the one ring?

[@chimp_monke123]

there was a time in history when admitting you were stupid was shameful, and no one would do it. but now when you say that something isnt intelligent, the answer you are given is 'its just meant for your enjoyment' which is essentially an admission of stupidity... i just have one question, why is stupid enjoyable?

[@calhof991]

In Ireland there was an old superstition about the sea. If someone fell off the ship, the crew would leave them behind and not try to help. The sea had “claimed” them, and if you take what belongs to the sea then it takes revenge by making storms. I don’t say this to defend “the sea is always right,” I say this because this is what a realistic superstition sounds like. You can actually explain it, rather than just five words whose meaning amounts to “sh*t happens.”

[@calhof991]

@@RisefromyourGRAVE Yeah I agree. I definitely see what they were going for, it just wasn’t fleshed out enough. Story of the show in a nutshell lol.

[@samwallaceart288]

It's a prime "lol, sailors are stupid" line that's dismissed at first but towards the end a wise veteran sailor sits then down and explains how in context the phrase makes total sense and is solid advice, even if it sounds dumb to people who know nothing about sailing. Reminds me of a poor person talking about Bill Maher; where he laughed off the idea of kids being so poor they wear bread-bags for shoes, like "No one would actually do that, the bags would break. What a joke." But the irl poor person is like "well no, actually the bread-bag goes inside the old shoe to keep your feet dry and put up with the soggy holey shoe around it for months after the shoe's intended lifespan. Yes, people are that poor that they get creative like that."

[@calhof991]

@@samwallaceart288 Yes, that’s all they need, a scene where they flesh it out more. Don’t just give us a vague platitude, what do you mean by it? How do you practice it? How does it color the way you look at the world? It could be interesting if they just told us more.

[@sugartoothYT]

2:04:01 One of the good things in both ATLA and Legend of Korra (unless they broke that rule at times I don't remember) was that when the characters got knocked onto a wall, that really made them stumble or even knocked them out for a moment.

[@stevesamuals2651]

Weird to see fringy use boss kass from ty the tiger as his profile pic

[@Kernwadi]

🤔

[@Kernwadi]

My brothers and sisters in Morbius... I know it might be hard to get used to but once it's Morbing time, there's no going back. That's why it's prophesied that Dr. Michael Morbius will destroy the universe to rid the world of all impurities, all so he can create a new universe, a perfect one... a true Morbiverse, governed by the forces of Morb (male power and sanctity) and Bius (female power and sanctity) in harmony with the 69 avatars of Morbius appearing once every 420 years to liberate us of the Antimorb, a horrible creature sent to destroy Morbius by the fallen morb known as Milo. This is why Milo has attempted to alter the course of history in his favor. When he controlled the robot AI called the Morbinator, he took it back in time by piloting the MORBIS, so that it could kill everyone and undo the Iranian religious reformation by Zoroaster, who was one of the first Morbishops. Unfortunately, the Morbinator fell in water and laid dormant for years. Eventually, it was unearthed by Fionn MacMorb, which would lead to religous conflict which split Morbland into the Republic of Morb and Northern Bius. This conflict was eventually resolved when Jared Letto, the 34th avatar of Morbius, signed the Treaty of Versailles, which united the religions of Morbism and Biusism together again. However, despite the failure of the Morbinator, Milo has been working in the shadows to stop Morbius... He enlisted Maximilian Morbespierre to create a new religion, the Cult of the Supreme Morbster (Milo is a vampire too so the word "morb" can apply to him too btw). Unfortunately, Morbespierre was killed by the Holy Virgin Morb, mother of Morbus Christ, the 21st avatar of Morbius. Morbius is a virgin because he has no need for sex. Milo is the opposite, which is made sense by the Unholy Hymn of the Fallen Morb, which has a lyric that says, "HAVE SEX." This is how Morbus Christ predicted Judas' betrayal at the The Last Scran; and how we must check non-virgins to make sure they aren't the Antimorb in disguise... Best of luck to all of you, my fellow Morbians.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

I am a non-virgin but I promise you I'm not the anti-morb, sure I might have powers that would kill a Normal man, and a burning hatred for morb, but you don't need to check for an upside down bat Mark on my penis, I promise you it's not there.

[@thorinparbst9365]

More effort was put into this comment than the entirety of ROP.

[@kylevolbrecht9255]

The schizoposting is getting out of hand lately.

[@Kernwadi]

@@kylevolbrecht9255 Who are you?

[@meleemastermaa1449]

Was Elf dude using Capoeira? Where did he learn it? Is that why Galadriel told people to fight with their feet?