Why The Rings Of Power SUCKS Part 6 - A Scene Comparison

[@zarco5855]

It's actually funny that this one is the most expensive show ever.

[@TrixxShorts]

Imagine how many people in need could’ve been helped with that money

[@clapdrix72]

If you fave any one of us a billion dollars, we could make a show 100x better than this turd sandwich. You'd just hire people to hire the right people. I can't wrap my head around how you can fail this epically with a billion dollars underneath you. Like, you could hire everyone that worked on LOTR except PJ (cuz he wouldnt do it) and say "do your thing".

[@opmacace523]

I swear to god that this show is money laundering

[@StegozordOver9000]

People who still believe that it’s really is the most expensive show are just stupid. Don’t forget. It’s the budget of ALL show and ALL its seasons. Amazon did a great clickbait. It’s not a Billion for a season. And there’s 3rd season filming. Rings of Poop are already cheaper than Game of Thrones 3 first seasons. And GoT had 8, now imagine the cost of 1 season of RoP.

[@LostHorizons0]

It’s like watching a fortune being flushed down the toilet and watching it swirl around

[@chucheeness7817]

One thing that gets me with Eowyn's arc in Return of the King is that there are layers of justification and reasons for Theoden's request for her to remain back from the battle. 1. She is female royalty 2. She may be the only remaining royalty to lead Rohan in case her brother and Theoden die 3. Theoden definitely don't want her to die as he has already lost his son (and may be some kind of juxtaposition to Denethor, which throws his children to the front lines willy-nilly)

[@Barwasser]

Both her and Theoden's motivation are very well established and understandable. Both are doing what they believe is best for each other. That's why I cry like a bitch every time I see his death scene. At least she was there for him in the end. Hail, Theoden king! RIP Bernard Hill

[@HolyG.23]

100%

[@paulpascoe663]

Crazy to think any explanation would be necessary for ppl to understand why Theodin wouldn’t want Eowyn to go into battle

[@orusandornots1915]

Excellent points.

[@orusandornots1915]

@@Barwasser You ain't alone brother. ME TOO! That death scene is amazingly powerful.

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

You barely scraped the surface of the utter idiocy of the siege of eregion. For starters, there seem to be barely any troops defending or attacking eregion. The show does an utterly terrible job at conveying the size of the armies. Just look at 8:37 Let's ignore for now the utter failure in constructing effective battlements because that's something most people won't notice. But you have maybe six archers in that shot with ample space between them. In an actual siege situation the ramparts should be full of archers standing shoulder to shoulder. What this does is it makes the fight appear small. And why are they not shooting? You can see the orks in the background so why are they not shooting them down? Then you have the utterly ridiculous war machines they have the orks use. First the magic trebuchets that have the reach and destructive power of modern day artillery, than some stupid ladder raising machine (no idea why they thought they needed those) and finally that utter ridiculousness of their wall breaking machine. I get that they wanted to have the orcs use some kind of exotic wall breaker, but the machine they used is not exotic, it's just stupid. It physically cannot work. The orks would have better chances breaking through the walls with pickaxes. Then the stupid river blocking maneuver. First the magic trebuchets fire about a hundred times farther than what even trebuchets double the size of what they have would be able to and do about a thousand times more damage than they could possibly due. Then the falling mountain somehow compresses into a watertight barrier that actually blocks the river in any meaningful way. Then the water in behind this magical barrier somehow flows off within what seems to be hours at most when something like this would probably have taken days at least. Then the riverbed somehow dries out enough to be nothing more than a slightly muddy field within again what appears to be hours at most when this would have taken weeks at minimum. Then the orks run across this magically dried riverbed, no ladders in sight. What were they thinking the'y do? Hit the walls with their swords in the hope the walls will break? And during the entire battle, which included negotiations, the water never overtopped the magical dam they created? Did the writers think the water from the river just stops flowing when you dam the river up? I could go on and on. Cavalary charging into a forest? That's suicide. The stupid fake-boromir elve? They showed shots of orcs following the arrow with their gaze. Did these orks know that out of all the arrow that fly around on this battlefield that one is somehow special? And why exactly did that random barrel explode? Was it filled with tnt? Oil doesn't explode like this when lit on fire. And the machine that she destroyed with this wasn't even the damn wall breaker, it was just some random ladder raising machine. Granted, the wall breaker couldn't possibly work so it was a low priority target but still. Also, she was shot from the back AND the front. Which implies that at least a few of those arrows were friendly fire. Even this is still barely scraping the surface but I'll stop now, this post is already long enough.

[@lanychabot-laroche135]

She was shot 6 times, by 6 different archers, all at the same time. That is already lottery ticket levels of unprobable. And she lived through all of those long enough to make the shot, in a dark battlefield on a target she doesn't even see. It's absolutely preposterous.

[@DelusionalDunmer]

@@lanychabot-laroche135 Even worse, she fell flat on her face and then STOOD UP. The amount of movement would probably have those arrows shred your insides but whatever I guess.

[@Barwasser]

@@lanychabot-laroche135 no you see... she was only shot by one orc, but at that moment 5 of her elf-friends saw their chance and unleashed their arrows as well. The had to put up with her shit for way too long and were waiting for this moment to come (possibly for centuries). "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents" - Bob Baggins

[@sageoz9886]

@@lanychabot-laroche135I think you underestimate the powers of a modern day girl boss! I’m surprised she even noticed those six arrows or that they didn’t just splinter upon hitting her. Her arrow of course would explode anything it landed on just from the force of her bow cast by those girl boss biceps! 😂 Girl-power!

[@Michael_MW]

They gave Boromir’s death to a random nameless elf side character.

[@starvinmarvin2130]

im just glad they couldnt put more of the original cast/ characters in this slop My glorious king Boromirs legacy remains untouched

[@caramelspellman3253]

Hail King Boromir 🛐 They tried to copy his impactful death but it was unsuccessful! Thank God!

[@viktorgabriel2554]

SSSHHH dont give them any ideas

[@markgregorygacosta531]

Discount Elrond and his cavalry suddenly stopping simultaneously in the middle of a cavalry charge to start a meeting is the stupidest, nonsensical war scene I've ever watched. Like holy hell I laughed out so loud I forgot I thought I was watching comedy Lol.

[@zlatanclovecic1944]

One of the most powerful things on cavalry charge was its speed. Stopping at front of enemy line is like going into battle and suddenly throwing away arms and shields. Never ever in history a single cavalry commander ordered to stop in front of enemy line, loosing momentum and all advantages of cavalry and exposing it to enemy's archery and lances. Often the real problem was rather the opposite: to keep cavalry in order, not to advance too far thus not to be surrounded. Plus, the reason they stopped is utterly ridiculous. The orcs had "Galadriel" caged right in front of them! If the elfs would just continue their charge, they would easily grab & free her.

[@teresa6525]

It would also be impossible to stop in real life. The elves and horses would all have to stop at the same moment to avoid an accident. If the horses suddenly stop at full gallop, the ones at the back will all run into the ones at the front because they cannot react at the same time as those next to Elrond. Stopping an army at full gallop from one second to the next will end in disaster.

[@zlatanclovecic1944]

​@@teresa6525 Exactly! I don't say the original LOTR battles are documentary shots, i'ts still a fantasy, but they respect basic logic of warfare, so the "it's just a fantasy" excuse doesn't work here. The ROP battles only expose sheer ignorance of the very elementary rules of the war, tactics and operations. Instead of pushing "The Message" the creators should have spent just a few dozen of hours on learning how the battles were actually fought...

[@xRoofkoreanx]

Finding out Bernard Hill added unscripted stuff to the Rohirrim charge speech makes it that much better.

[@Barwasser]

LotR is the gift that keeps on giving. The more you learn about the production of the movie, the more you fall in love with it. For shows like RoP it is the opposite...

[@gelchert]

He even came up with the shot of Theoden tapping his sword on the Rohirrim’s spears - something he had to practice because he was left-handed and Theoden isn’t.

[@raulmachuca9047]

​@@gelchert yet another of dozens of proofs of how much love, effort, detail, respect and professionalism was put on the movies, unlike that bad fanfic turd of show

[@Sage-Thyme]

Even now that bit where the Riders of Rohan crest the hill sends a thrill through me. Not only do you know what is at stake for Gondor, how close to defeat they are but then you see Théoden, himself a representation of resistance against and defeat of the powers of Mordor leading them and you just know you're in for a great battle.

[@AppleInk]

I often forget that ROP exists, yet I'm always trying to find excuses to rewatch LOTR, but then I remember that I don't need excuses and I just do it. ROP just looks and feels so amateurish in comparison, and that's a very generous way to put it.

[@julianspaghi4592]

yeah, definetly generous, i'd say it feels insulting, as in every time im reminded of it i picture the two french dudes in monty pythons holy grail, just laughing at me from a high wall, and i can do nothing but ignore them... come to think of it, im not doing a very good job at it since im watching this video.

[@muratbayraktar5035]

It looks so off that I automatically can’t connect it to the lotr films and the legendarium in general. So I’m fine with its existence, I don’t care for it at all.

[@andrewbrennan2891]

Ah Rings of Power LOTR if it was written by a 5 year old using crayons.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

After that 5 year old wasn’t allowed to nap for a week, thus resulting in Galadriels bad attitude lol

[@Evil0tto]

Are you kidding? That would be so much cooler than Rings of Power. "And then the dinosaurs attacked, and they had pirates riding them!"

[@John-fk2ky]

@@Evil0tto yep. It would be crazy strangeness, but it would be FUN crazy strangeness.

[@annasstorybox7906]

Yea... I guess it would have been more entertaining to make a movie based on what kids act out with their castle playsets...

[@mnels5214]

The buffering Sauron...💀And contrasted with Theoden's "A sword day...a red day...ere the sun rises," with the acting chops to deliver the line like it deserves.

[@Michael_MW]

I like how Sauron looks utterly confused every time something big happens even though we are lead to believe this is all a part of his plan. Riiiight..

[@Seallussus]

I'm not joking. Rings of power provided more materials for how not to do X more than it provided entertainment for anyone.

[@sageoz9886]

I got a ton of entertainment from it! Okay, technically second hand entertainment from dozens of hours of amazingly hilarious YT vids deconstructing and making fun of it😂

[@garrettgsf8849]

Not gonna lie, RoP might become one of the most influential contributions to TV-series history. Whole generations of people working on shows - in any capacity - should carefully study this show to learn how to avoid these glaring mistakes...

[@pvpdavidlul9049]

I love how you take the time to explain why something is well written and also why something is badly written, I feel like many just say something is bad or good without reason, but you give that reason

[@duckman3394]

23 years, and a shit load of rewatches later, and only NOW did I realize that Aragorn gave the Hobbits the Barrow-Blades. I always thought he kept random short swords in case to arm any small people he encounters. xD

[@benwarwick4290]

Yea man goes on side missions all the time. Get the ring to morder, not before a 100 side quests😂😂😂get the people to helms deep, takes a little tumble of the cliff and goes for a drink and a nice horse massage. Gather army to help Gondor, gathers second army and goes on to raid multiple army's, liberate towns, city's, fleets off screen. Dude is a king of rangers😂😂

[@desmondd1984]

In the book it's much more clear. The hobbits actually fall into a den of a barrow wight and need to be rescued by Tom Bombadil. That's where they find the swords.

[@Ramstein69]

It was fun untill you brought the rings of power. And i had never realized the giant orcs who didn’t have armour died first

[@leh2012]

Do you mean Trolls?

[@sarcthesheep8348]

@@leh2012 Do you mean ologs?

[@NiranjanNanda]

Professor JRRT created 3 main female figures who represented love, courage, compassion and leadership without replacing male counterparts…ROP and for that matter entire Hollywood should learn

[@andrewmackinnon563]

Eowyn's story is so well made in the trilogy. Just loved it

[@sixqo4896]

Rings of power doesnt introduce any new female protagonists though?

[@klodd5328]

​@@sixqo4896they had Bronwyn, who was one of the most terribly written characters I've ever seen. No wonder her actress bailed after season 1. I would've done the same. The show is absolute garbage in every aspect, besides maybe the visuals.

[@AndyCandyZeroSugar]

Love your series so much! One thing I deeply appreciate about Eowyn and the Witch King's fight in the book is the fact she reveals herself as a woman at the start of their fight. And the Witch King hesitates. He takes her threat seriously. To me it's a much more profound way of further empowering her than how it was done in the movie, which reminds me more of today's girl boss moments.

[@TheKaijuKing54]

Can't believe they’re still trying to get 5 seasons out of this show…

[@dobby9996]

I feel like at this point the reality is sinking in and they're trying to find a way to get out of doing 5 seasons at this point 😂

[@NiranjanNanda]

5 seasons of incest 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LostHorizons0]

They have a lot of lesbians / transformers / woke communists and bots ready to defend it

[@fatalshore5068]

They will as well. Because there is an enormous amount of utter morons that see explosions and immediately think something is good. The Bay effect if you will.

[@blacksheep9505]

Their viewership is plumeting. I got through 3 episodes of the first season and tapped out.

[@lanychabot-laroche135]

I also love near the end, when they FINALLY form a battle rank to fight. And 10 seconds later they just break it to run into the enemy like lunatics. They took the effort to do the setup, and didn't bother to get any payoff from it.

[@TheRandomViewer-zv4bv]

Thank you so much for giving the Seige of Minas Tirith some focus. Not that the battle is underrated, but I think people focus so much on the Battle of Helm's Deep and the Charge of the Rohirrim that not as many people talk about how good the Seige of Minas Tirith is and how well it was executed. Gondor's counterattack with Trebuchets is always going to be one of my favourite scenes.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Nothing beats LOTR battle scenes. And I dont only mean RoP. I mean, in movie history. Tolkien survived battle of Somme. He took inspiration in real war. Cant get better than that.

[@TrixxShorts]

Thank peter jackson

[@stormryder4305]

That Asian Vulcan is a pain to watch even in the very short clips.

[@TheBeerHunter7]

Your point on the use of sound and the music cutting out is so true and awesome, well noticed. I was lucky to see Return of the King live in concert in London early this year. The silence of the orchestra abruptley stopping as the battlelines clashed, then the whole theatre just in silence witnessing the sheer brutality of the elephants carving through the ranks of the riders was so impressionable. Honestly you could hear a pin drop in a room of thousands as everyone just observed the spectacle together in silence, almost like the show was collectively holding its breath. Truly epic and a moment I'll never forget. My favourite moment of the live show and it took me seeing it live to appreciate the genius of that filmmaking.

[@akaMaddy]

Stop it. Please stop. I can never NOT laugh at this scene at 14:35 😂 God your "why the Rings of Power Sucks" series is one of the best & most entertaining out there. 😆😁

[@michaeltalpas]

9:38 Now that I've had a chance to see some of the scenes, it is worse than I had imagined. The elves charge at the front line of the orcs, the elven line thinning as it goes? Why are they lining up behind each other? They were in a spread formation. Why would they thin their line like that? The orcs will surround them. Oh. Right. Because the showrunner knew they were not actually going to do anything.

[@michaeltalpas]

Like, can you imagine in Braveheart, when they're all lined up side by side, if instead of running straight in like that, they lined up behind Wallace? That's just silly.

[@desmondd1984]

Well, to be generous you can say it was a wedge formation, which was a real cavalry tactic.

[@dobby9996]

Honestly I wouldn't even give the writers enough credit that they KNEW they would do nothing. They admitted in an interview that they wrote the entire first season without knowing The Stranger was Gandalf, and only committed to it because they added a couple of Gandalf sounding lines for him

[@homi1001]

The funny thing is RoP is bad in itself, but comparing it to the Lord of the Rings movies just makes RoP look so much worse. Edit: Comparing one of the greatest moments in film history with RoP is so just grotesque. (Coughing baby vs. Hydrogen bomb)

[@maxkraus7063]

its bad on its own

[@LostHorizons0]

And the lord of the rings movies were bad compared to the books >books>70s /80s animated > pj > rings of shite

[@blackwidow5762]

@@LostHorizons0 No, it's only bad because you're trying to hold cinema to the same standards to a completely storytelling medium. And what were you to think that choppy mess of our heroes was better than seeing real actors? What Bakshi did to Sam is even more abominable than what the ring did to Gollum

[@IStealButterdToast]

0:05 they couldn’t even bother to have the background characters do basic formations, really shows their attention to detail

[@IG88AAA]

The orc on the drum was having fun at least.

[@IStealButterdToast]

My headcanon is that he’s drunk on grog because he knows how shit of a show he’s in and just wants to get through it

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

Even Warhammer Fantasy orks have better strategies than that, and 90% of those strategies involve just beating the shit out of stunties, humies, pointy ears and spiky boyz with choppas

[@ridensroom6957]

I just read the fall of numenor. Such a better story of the 2nd age in every way

[@aredjayc2858]

Remember the description of Tar Miriel? "fairer than silver or ivory or pearls" LOL

[@joshidejj]

This type of writing in ROP really does seem like it's made with ChatGPT XD

[@Greatshadowfighter]

Nice video as always brother! Comparing the rings of power with garbage would an insult to actual garbage. It’s beyond bad.

[@themanipulator1]

I have never clicked onto a video so quickly

[@skyler1469]

every time rohirim charge shows up... i just get chills :D amazing scene

[@d4rktritri79]

Man this scene with Stannis gives me goosebumps. You could consider this was the cheapiest battle in GoT and yet it was the most intense one.

[@HolyG.23]

S1-S4 of GoT were so good

[@seanfoltz7645]

I love your videos - the soothing voice, the scathing commentary and the first-class side by side comparisons all meld together for a superb viewing experience - I wish you could post more frequently but I understand the amount of time it takes to find and edit all of that specific footage together.

[@MikeReimers]

You don’t need to compare RoP to anything to realize it’s bad. It’s horrible on its own.

[@ALiEN-202]

bro i literally just discovered this channel like two hours ago i was watching vids you made from like a year ago about the comparisons and then you drop another one outta nowhere AS i’m watching one of your other vids lmao study that timing

[@aidenmaw6245]

That is EXACTLY what just happened to me. The KZbin algorithm did something right for once!

[@MastaChafa]

Dinosaur shit is very expensive, yet it is still shit.

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

Atleast dinosaur shit is worth something

[@PeekabooEUDK]

When you hire activists instead of writers and proper actors, Rings of Power is the result Edit: Holy shit I didnt realize how absurdly bad it actually is...

[@AndyCandyZeroSugar]

These were my first impressions of season 2 and I feel you there. It's like a bad parody, the last few seconds cracked me up.

[@mashambrequeenel4280]

The best thing about Rings of Power is we have this awesome comparisons by Jedi Brooks. Just thanks!

[@triplexlongueuil6106]

At 13:45, I believe we can hear Tommy Lee Jones’ line from The Fugitive 😛

[@le_petit_calimero]

I discovered your channel today and binge watched every LotR/RoP Scene Comparison video today. Amazing work! I really enjoyed watching them and looking forward to more :D Thank you for your time and all the effort you must put into these videos!

[@orusandornots1915]

I LOVE the scene when the Riders of Rohan show up on the field of battle at Gondor. I have seen that movie probably a hundred times and that still sends chills down my spine and brings a tear to my eye because you can connect with these people. They know they will probably die but inspired by their king, they rally with a unified cry. Amazing scene.

[@LOmusikcomedy]

That Celebrimbor step outside yeet just made me laugh so hard. Didnt watch ROP, but these scene comparisons are hilarious

[@masterofpuppets5568]

I just finished rewatching the trilogy, easily one of the all-time greatest trilogies of all time. ROP is written by an illiterate child with crayons.

[@RationalOrc]

I think what really makes early GoT writing so impressive is how well scenes compliment other scenes of characters in different locations. When Jamie Lannister brings up the huge stockpiles of dragon fire security stored below the city, he know that part of his story is 100% true and it elevates his twist that he's not the monster people think he is. So Tyrion finding the stockpiles and using them for war sets up two huge payoffs at different points in the story and a third big payoff if you count Cersie going crazy.

[@Attentiondificil-h8u]

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while w content my dude

[@BenCarpenterWrites]

We appreciate your sacrifice to make this break down for us 🙏🏼😂

[@jionimusic]

I love your channel, it is exactly what I felt watching this

[@maxsteiner1964]

The arrival of Rohan and the cry 'DEATH' just ... floored me.

[@Ekedigwekenechukwu-sr7bm]

Am always happy when u drop a vid ,u should prob do more😂

[@Perhapsawiseman]

2:03 what is this scene from?

[@craigalexander966]

That is the Witch King looking at Minas Tirth from the city/port they took the night before.

[@Perhapsawiseman]

@@craigalexander966the one immediately after that, sorry

[@craigalexander966]

@ o ok that’s game of thrones when the Greyjoy’s kill the daughters of the red viper.

[@CanOfRabbitHoles]

As Tool said: "Something's kind of sad about, the way that things have come to be. Desensitised to everything, what became of subtlety?"

[@scientist368]

Let's be honest, that was a kill steal. Without Aragon giving them those blades they would be toast

[@marnkleinholkenborg5852]

These are by far the best videos that exist on youtube. Thank you 😂

[@brothertobias]

The elves in the movies move with fluidity and in synch, while the RoP elves move like drunk hobos outside of a walmart at 3am

[@pietrosmusi6348]

Ok, seriously: did they really think that one singular orc playing the drum was MORE epic than multiple towering brutes beating on giant skin drums while an army of bloodthirsty orcs approaches?

[@amsfountain8792]

Something i find strange is that the river bend is at the same height of the walls. So in both banks of the river the orcs just walk like is a plain. That will never happen. There would be a slope and they wouldnt be capable of using the ram.

[@Attentiondificil-h8u]

“Check the cable box” ahh moment 😭🙏🏽

[@jodieg6318]

Rings of Power trying to present the themes of Tolkien: Hope Wins Over Despair, was like watching someone trying to nail Tolkien jelly to wall with a Game of Thrones nail. This idea of "touch the darkness" in ROP, in that someone has to have been traumatized by evil before they can recognize good from evil, is so discordant with Tolkien's whole thesis, and trying to hard to be the new cool kid in fantasy by trying to make Tolkien of all things "edgy" was such a failure. Tolkien is not the place to debate moral relativism. Elves are immortal and nearly al of them are over 2000 years old when ROP is set, they have already been there, done that, which is why petty squabbles are indeed petty squabbles to them, even if they seem like high matter of state to mortals. The problem with Galadriel isn't that they made her a warrior and military leader, the problem is they turned her into every edgelord That Guy you ever had the misfortune to play a TTRPG with. And with the swamp that is modern fantasy, the film trilogy Lord of the Rings is refreshing 25 years later because are the good guys are in fact good, and don't need an hour dedicated debating how ends justify means.

[@TheQuickSilver101]

Another amazing breakdown. Thank you!

[@mountain3301]

TLDR; siege of minas tirith still hits hard af ♥ edit: also unfair to compare anything to charge of the rohirrim lol that's goat

[@rightpa]

14:38 The "Jesus Christ!" from Hot Fuzz! Classic!

[@andrewmackinnon563]

I had a Long flight Last week and ENJOYED watching extended versions of two towers and return of the king and still some scenes gave me the same feeling as 20 years ago. How is it possible that today they cannot do something even decent having such an amazing reference?

[@Niveaufriedhofchef]

J.R.R. Tolkien was a language professor at oxford who spend his entire youth and 20 years of hard work. He synergized not only myths and dramas from all kinds of ancient european cultures into an astonishing universe, he also filled it with timeless emotions and classic human struggles. Rings of Power is the result of adolescent hollow hollywood clowns who never experienced hardship. there is this documentary that i can wholeheartedly recommend to anybody who wants to appreciate the mastermind of tolkien (and forget about hollywood) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ2mdGp3q8R8brMsi=KGP4WF2kDfq0wEcN

[@AlixFiori]

A thing I notice in most recent shows ie GOT and ROP is the very very dark night scenes. Creatores, directors, light directors, etc must know this are shows made to be seen at home, not at the cinema, so why on earth do they keep doing this scenes where you can only watch and truly enjoy the show after midnight with all courtains closed and lights off.

[@dustindoan1]

Never stop doing these videos.

[@ltils9081]

When Adar introduced that big troll like it was going to be some game changer to the battle, but he literally died in about 30 seconds and achieved nothing.

[@Elkanus]

Watching RoP all I see is that writers were trying to copy LOTR scenes. That drum scene is good example. Another is that in LOTR we had bombs in Helms Deep and in RoP they were trying to copy that so they created sopthistiocated device to destroy walls. They wanted Rohirrims charge? They created one xDD

[@Auxius.]

Elrond's forehead was tall as well, that's why Elves have tiara's in the fellowship. But the showmakers couldn't create anything aesthetic if it was handed to them, which it was literally.

[@vedantpatel5985]

I feel bad for bro for having to see these shit shows for making videos.

[@doravee]

Excellent video. I'm reminded constantly of what might have been. :(

[@asd35918]

“I can’t stop thinking about that badass elf archer in The Rings of Power…I also can’t think of her name.”

[@dozyproductionss]

I never understood how they got those rocks/chunks of the city onto the trebuchets.

[@dobby9996]

Two orcs are strong enough to lift a trebuchet to turn it towards the cliff rock, so they probably used them as skipping stones before they used them to block the river 😂

[@dozyproductionss]

@@dobby9996 which doesn't make sense. And then how did the gondor men take huge chunks of building debris and so quickly put them on their trebuchets? Any stone at that size is super heavy.

[@dobby9996]

@dozyproductionss well one side we can only speculate on because we never see it. But I'd say both are unlikely, but since LOTR had the moviemaking sense to not show us anything our brains are more accepting, but if I had to guess I'd say the Numenorean men of Gondor stand 7 feet on average and are built like machines, being stronger than any humanoid race. So if they want to shift those slabs of rock they're more likely than 2 orcs that are shown in ROP. Simply by not showing us how the rock got shifted it doesn't open the writers up to the same degree of implausibility and scrutiny that ROP does

[@TheMadSnorlax]

Everytime you drop a new LOTR video, I rewatch the series.. Thank you! *Insert here we go again GTA meme here*

[@izzyoddzy6556]

Badass she might have been, but they NEVER LET US KNOW WHY SHE WAS OR WHY WE SHOULD CARE. Which means no, she's just a paper doll torn to shreds in a meaningless melee.

[@dobby9996]

They didn't even name her in the show. The only way to know her name is watching the credits 😂

[@izzyoddzy6556]

@@dobby9996 😂😂😂

[@alexandratskhovrebova5461]

Whenever I rewatch The Return of the King, I start weeping at the moment when the horns of Rohan sound at the Pelennor Fields. And it's a sign of just how perfectly prepared, built and executed that scene was that I teared up from emotions even now, while glimpsing that moment in a KZbin video reviewing the piece of shit thing the creators call the biggest TV show ever.

[@davidchambers44]

Like so many modern movies and shows, they make scenes that look "cool" without stopping to consider if they even make sense. They require the viewer to watch with their brain turned off.

[@sonmi2246]

00:55 is this caption here for the orc's comment in the Black Speech a joke?? Please tell me this is a joke...because the idea of there even being a word for "love" in the Black Speech is utterly preposterous. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this point

[@Tai_Fung]

That montage at the end 😂😂😂

[@CamDominusRex]

These scene comparisons are seriously the best

[@GeoffreyBronson]

"You told us you loved us" call me crazy but I can't fathom a LOTR orc caring about love or even understanding it.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

The Elf armour in RoP looks like something they got from a dollar store. No self respecting Elf would be seen dead in anything so cheap and clunky.

[@maximusd26]

9:40 it's also IMPOSSIBLE to just stop a charge like that (assuming the horses actually a charge a wall of"men") no one could stop this wave

[@behradart-bang855]

Once in a while I see videos like this that make me happy for droping this mess after only 5 episodes in s1

[@mbas6295]

Great video, i feel something similar happened between gladiator and gladiator II

[@leh2012]

Well, that was a good way to put it. Indeed, RoP is an insult to Tolkien's legacy.

[@sageoz9886]

I did some calculations and I’m pretty sure that so far, Amazon has spent at least $400 for each person who watched any of this show. 😂

[@7thZeppelin]

Damn…. I get chills just hearing your narration of LOTR

[@bkelly2310]

I'll be honest I'm new to your channel, but you have a tellent sir. Here take my sub

[@antoniocarlosgomesfernedag1637]

Its important to notice that, ewen arch is about redemption and understanding that she is a woman, and dont need to be a man, that she can help and do much in times of war being a woman and doing things that women do.... This is not shown in the end of the film, but after she marries faramir she made a promisse that she will never take a sword again, because now she understands the value of being a woman.... Its basic a girl boss arch but in reverse, where she understands that what she made was a waste of time and potential... Tolkien was a genius...

[@klaatubaradanikto6554]

Was "The Rings Of Power" actually written, or did they write down every fantasy story trope the could think of on little bits of paper, throw them all in a fish bowl and then pick them out at random, glue them together and shout VOILA, OUR SCRIPT!

[@HolyG.23]

Never seen this channel before, bro spitting straight facts though

[@ArtypNk]

I could never ever get over the charge into olifants. It's just, so dumb and wasteful of men... It would be like if Brad Pitt was a tank commander of a broken tank and he would still decide to take on an elite enemy battalion and killed like 90 of them because they all just charge the tank exactly where the tank MG's are pointing. Oh, wait.... But yea, I hated the charge against olifants.

[@bengold7942]

Seriously, I’d watch a whole series of these. Very entertaining and interesting.

[@Neo.Jordon]

0:00 they ain't gonna make it against nick cannon drumming like that

[@chinmaysangoram]

The one problem plaguing the Fantasy genre of today, is that the stories have a logic; pre-explained logic.. In order to make it as close to reality as possible.. And that's what destroys the enigma of the Fantasy genre.. It doesn't allow the viewer to devise their own logic or explanation.. Everything is "spoon-fed", thus killing the imagination of the viewer!!

[@user-xg5kv2yp6g]

I really enjoy how you give an in-depth analysis to the things you critique. You draw attention to details that I have missed myself a lot of the time. You dont just blindly bash things because you dont like them or they are "woke". I think your style of videos really sets you apart from other creatures. I hope you get more views and continue to make vids. Have a good one.

[@ChamblesRNG]

Proof that refreshing subs page is worth it

[@butwhytho6522]

Why was ROP so expensive? Did the various parties involved just see it as a cash cow? What did all that money do?

[@shaggydude5498]

Biggest difference, I’ll be rewatching the original trilogy till the end of my days. Probably only watching ROP once or twice…

[@ZWillis12]

"Elrond and Xray Girl" 😂