Rings of Power FALLOUT: It Gets WORSE With Answers

[@disparutoo]

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 finale wrapped up the story of Celebrimbor, but the showrunners are still out giving interviews. The season 2 answers simultaneously show a more shallow method of script planning, while also trying to have depth. The depth seems to be simply mirroring moments at the start and end of a story arc though, and often what they think is iconic, makes the scene more laughable. There seems to be a mismatch between the intention and the execution. Reaching for depth and meaning but never quite managing to make that a reality within the show itself. But hopefully this is something I can go into more in a part 2, as thorugh all the interviews this video just scrapes the surface. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and always, thanks for watching :)

[@reaper_exd7498]

Nerd of the rings simped for this show at launch. I immediately unsubscribed and moved on. It was that simple. Not surprised he’s still pushing the koolaid

[@brockdavid]

I’m only surprised that they didn’t have Adar put the ‘Crown of Morgoth’ upon Guy-lad-f’real’s head, and made her into his bride. They want her to be a faithless pro, not a lady or Elven Queen

[@CrowR75]

Part 2 definitely please and thank you!

[@alecktidwell3479]

"I ship it" 😂😂😂

[@emperorlewd]

Guyladriel will kiss Sauuuuron by the end of season 3, im calling it

[@Olinser]

Disparu is making more money off this series than Bezos.

[@reaper_exd7498]

😂

[@Queenfloofles]

😂😂😂

[@insensitive919]

If he managed to lose billions from his little desk in bongland, that would be much more impressive, actually. 🤔

[@maxpower3990]

Amazon will just claim the losses as a tax right off.

[@BobCain2006]

That is both absolutely hysterical and absolutely true!

[@Mr.PepeSilvia]

"that's as far as our thinking got" is the perfect summation of this series as a whole

[@Wheelie2077]

"That's as far as our thinking got!" That's an insane comment for a billion dollar production!

[@iscaria3337]

Tell me about it. How can these god awful writers get to do these massive shows when they clearly have no idea what they're doing?

[@espritfort9890]

Sadly, no amount of money can buy them any brain cells.

[@MemoristCed]

They stand at a weird intersection of Peter Pan and the Culture of Mediocrity: Each believes he's the cleverest fellow it's ever his fortune to know, but they're also fashionably stupid. It's basically a singularity of refusing to grow up.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@iscaria3337 Because destroying Tolkien's European cultural mythology is the point. They aren't trying to make it good.

[@sheerbeauty]

"We're phoning it in - any problem with that??"

[@abdulazizalfayez8016]

Favorite books: Lolita and Great Gatsby Gets hired to write fantasy God..

[@MemoristCed]

Ah yes, The Great Gatsby, a book of which a significant portion was Fitzgerald lampooning and publicly humiliating his own wife, Zelda. He later had her institutionalized because she wanted to self-delete, gee whiz why would she be like that. Yes, yes, I can see why someone who's such a fan of women would love that book.

[@andrewbailey7045]

​@MemoristCed >liking great art produced by bad people means you sympathize with their misdeeds You're as bad as the showrunners

[@velvet_victor]

I’m not a fan of the show nor the writers but I don’t see the issue there lol They’re both classics.

[@justforever96]

I'd say it's 50/50 that he hasn't even read them or at least understood them and he just knows that it sounds very intellectual and classy to list those books.

[@unitron2005]

@@andrewbailey7045 No. If you have 2 favorite books, and one of them is about p-doe-files, and the other is about humiliating w0men, then that's a pattern. Liking slasher films isn't suspicious. Your top 3 movies being all slasher films would however, be a scary pattern.

[@BigHatMatt]

Thanks Disparu for watching all this filth, so we don't have to.

[@geraldmorgan6906]

I tried watching the first season but I fell asleep during episode one on four separate occasions. It is beyond boring.

[@Mehiel-Sanctoria]

He turned garbage into genuinely entertaining content.

[@thepluraloffishisfish]

The fact that the actor for Not Gandalf didn't want to know who his character was reminds me of an opposite reaction from my all time favorite actor Alan Rickman on playing Snape in the HP films. He had to know who his character was more than anyone else on set did (including the directors, whom he had to disagree with on more than one occasion) and only he and JK Rowling knew he was a double agent from the beginning. Freaking love that man. RIP.

[@ThatAnnalisa]

I miss Alan Rickman too. Amazing actor.

[@anthonylulham3473]

its hard to play a double agent, and totally impossible if you don't know he's a double agent.

[@AndrewCutts-f8w]

I loved his over the top Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood.

[@silverscorpio24]

"Elrond, I'm pregnant." "Uh?!" "No no no. Celeborn came back." "Oh, thank the Valar." "We think it's a girl." "Oooh. Well, let me know when she comes of age."

[@timothymcintire5747]

*Quagmire moment*

[@IncredibleMet]

Like he’s going to wait

[@michellembaeze2010]

😅

[@Adelina-293]

So cringe I can see these being lines in the show.

[@newhappythoughts1628]

@@silverscorpio24 “I’ll wait for you!”

[@vermis8344]

I know pop culture and nerd culture has been through the wringer for years, but few moments have been as heartbreaking as seeing the shippers get their hands on Middle-Earth.

[@EarlHildebrandt]

It's honestly astonishing that they zeroed on LOTR, a body of work that posesses less native sexual tension than your typical episode of Matlock.

[@HannahKayW]

@@EarlHildebrandtThey took a body of work that was about heroism, the folly of giving in to temptation, virtue, truth, and friendship, and decided the most interesting thing would be to make it a CW fantasy meets Twilight drama with random action sequences with no logic to them. An absolute tragedy.

[@TerryB01]

This series could have been something but they wasted it. They had no talent too.

[@ohsweetmystery]

No one needs another adaptation of this.

[@geraldmorgan6906]

I knew it was doomed long before the first season when those two 'showrunner' disgraces to talent and creativity did their first interview. You can't get quality from people who have a complete lack of talent.

[@josebrown5961]

They needed to hire some real Tolkien scholars not these modern people. They treat Tolkien like a YA story. Listen I am black. I have NEVER expected to see people that “looked like me” in a Tolkien story. Having black people in this doesn’t make it mean more to me. I mean what’s next a white character being added to Wakanda?

[@Lurker_Z]

That's what you get when you put your money in CGI, 5000 types of flowers that you renew every weekend and not the screenwriters.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@josebrown5961 Based.

[@sirf4ce]

“I guess that’s what we’re doing” explains a lot. Never has a phrase personified such a clusterfuck so perfectly.

[@EarlHildebrandt]

750 million dollars and counting expended by an outfit that engages in less long-term planning than a Pee-Wee baseball team.

[@andygeorgeparkinson2515]

It’s AMAZING that they managed to successfully gather the worst writers , worst actors , worst directors into a massively expensive TOTALLY failed series …..now that takes REAL Genius….

[@maxpower3990]

And unlike the movie the Producers made a pile of shit.

[@inhthihoanglinh6858]

Some of the actors (Elendil, Adar?) deserve better than this script tbh.

[@M-S_4321]

Any other profession would have fired someone immediately.

[@pepincuatro2865]

Making this show isn't something that the average person with an average IQ can pull out. Not even an average 5 year old.

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

That's what you get when you hire people based on nepotism (Jar Jar Abrams), incompetent studio heads (Jennifer Salke) and D EI. It creates a toxic cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, playing the victim and entitlement.

[@Gorbz]

It becomes ever clearer why these two had a partial writing credit on a rejected Star Trek script.

[@gregweisal5542]

Dont forget they were around Hollywood for 10-15 years and that's the only credit they got.

[@mework1871]

@@gregweisal5542 servign coffee and sucking D. Cllecting enough dirt on people until they can force themeselves into something big. Like Leslie Headlamp and The Acolyte. No interest in film making and building a career until the last few years. Works as a PA for Harvey Weinstein and collects dirt on people. Now writing AND directing the most expensive Star Wars FLOP of all time

[@TheSeniorCornholio]

Thank piss that script did get rejected out else we would have 2 series that got fucked up!

[@AegisRick]

Nerd of the Rings is truly a sad sad man. I used to watch him up until the moment he became a complete shill after being flown out to the preview premiere. This show is an utter disgrace and disrespect to Tolkien and he laps up whatever these showrunners tell him like a good little Wormtongue.

[@michellembaeze2010]

What money can do

[@samhobbs9116]

Same

[@ImminDragon]

It's amazing to watch someone who can give you the detailed background of the multiple lives of Durin switch to "Sure, Durin is talking to Durin. This show isn't bad at all!" Such BS.

[@steve8610]

I was so devastated by how much of a shill Matt became (or perhaps always was). He was my second favorite Tolkien channel after Men of the West.

[@phalcon23]

Ya I used to like his stuff, but now I can't stand him

[@ZolaRenard_01]

He likes Lolita? That explained how Elrond kissed Galadriel but will marry her daughter later...

[@daydreameraj9777]

💡

[@stanleyfranks9891]

not only that but Galadriel is Elronds Much Older First Cousin and Everyone seems to be missing that!!

[@damienscott919]

Shipping Sauron? An amnesiac Gandalf? GirlBoss Galadriel? The kiss? HARfoot? Harfeets? Whatever. I just can’t understand how these two were chosen for this series. Come to think of it, I do not understand how they are hired for any work in the industry. They are insufferable.

[@JackChurchill101]

JJ found out they applied with a pitch, so he phoned Amazon studios and vouched for them, saying they were creative geniuses with his full support. Basically.

[@Lttlemoi]

My working theory is that these two have all the sub-ten-year-old Bezos family children stored somewhere in their favorite dungeon without dragons and won't release them unless they get to finish their series.

[@aleksander8497]

Hollywood is insufferable now

[@Roukle]

I suspect, based on what I've been learnign about the writing guilds lately, its because the industry has been taken over by activists and skill doesn't matter, only connections.

[@FuckoffgoogleGetDoxxed]

Reagen told you in the 70's that hollywood was a target for the communists and today we see that fruit.

[@shimtest]

"we need Gandalf" is an embarrassing admission that they don't know anything about Tolkien except Jackson's movies

[@lmahu6627]

Even them speculating on whether Gandalf was around before the Third Age gave that away.

[@CursedKelpie]

Nerd of the Rings sold out to amazon, for shame

[@smoore6461]

I guess he valued being an "access Journalist" than being a Tolkien fan of Integrity... Sad really.

[@Jeremy-zw8ur]

So it's not just me who was thinking that? I felt he was far more critical when season 1 was releasing episodes. Then his ciritism changed and he's now interviewing show runners and actors.

[@smoore6461]

​@@Jeremy-zw8ur Yeah I am sure the access is nice and all he had to do was give him integrity. I guess for some that's an ok trade.

[@stitch3163]

Yeah, I was subscribed to him until I got fed up with his shilling for this series. Sad, as he used to make good videos.

[@M24071]

He tries so hard to defend the show but even he from time to time says well that was a stupid decision

[@SidewaysThinking]

"At least they killed Celebrimbor" - that was something to celebrate, made me laugh out loud.

[@NiranjanNanda]

Better that grandpa died …you see…when you read the books, you feel if there’s a way to save celebrimbor…and in this series you feel like “when this grandpa is gonna die “ 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@weismeister121]

By comparison, Ghost Celebrimbor possessing a dying human and giving him badass powers...is way better...and sexy goth Shelob

[@HereticalKitsune]

So wait, the fall, the fellowship, they just remade Peter Jackson's movies without understanding them or caring what they mean? And ONE more arrow than hit Boromir. THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SHOW BETTER! IT MAKES IT WORSE FOR TRYING TO BE BETTER THAN IT!

[@carybrown851]

Am I the only only who gets "sexual predator" vibes from the showrunners? I'd never let either one within twenty yards of my son.

[@Riotmedic009]

They're from Hollywood so that's probably a safe thing to do regardless.

[@LouiseWatson-Carver]

Son, daughter, spouse, piece of automotive equipment *or* pet hamster... there is certainly something fundamentally _wrong_ with these two.

[@josiahkepley]

He said his favorite book is Lolita, that dude is 100% a predator.

[@espritfort9890]

Idk, they look like a gay couple.

[@tkeus991]

The right one especially, look at his posture. Hands between his legs like he has something to hide. Disgusting

[@clancranstonlc]

Imagine liking rings of power and calling yourself Nerd of the rings. You can't make that shit up

[@pepincuatro2865]

He likes the amazon checks

[@darthsaint7743]

i was in the twin towers movie as a kid loved the movies and love the show. stop thinking you speak for everyone you freaks lol

[@nischitranganath5960]

Truly lost respect after this

[@dorn0531]

Imagine pretending to like Rangs ov Powah just for clicks & interview access.

[@jeffsmith5436]

Shillron is more appropriate

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

I’m not sure how many American viewers know this, but Disparu is a UK serial killer. He’s doing life. Part of his punishment is watching these shows.

[@MemoristCed]

I don't believe you. He doesn't have two robot friends.

[@XenomorphXIII]

​@@MemoristCed MST reference! You are clearly a man of culture.

[@toolegittoquit_001]

Makes total sense now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Mereologist]

And they didn't release him after Velma? That's cruel and unusual punishment, is what that is.

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

I thought the two robot friends was a civvies dungeon reference. Which owning typed that out makes me wonder if that is a reference to mst3k

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

I didn't watch the show; did Tom Bombadil ever get that new combine harvester?

[@M-S_4321]

Yeah but he gave away the key

[@Username18981]

To Saruman the dirty

[@spacegirl226]

This comment made me chortle. Thank you.

[@HannahKayW]

He knows that we need a combine harvester, but he has to show someone else that it’s their destiny to use it.

[@Mereologist]

He discovered that the combine harvester chooses the driver, not the other way around.

[@Arathalion19]

I remember telling Eomer line to Nerd of the Rings in his channel's comments. "How long since Amazon bought you? What was the promised price?"

[@takuid]

Someone who calls himself a nerd in his channel name cannot be anything but a grifter. People who go to these fools to learn about Tolkien's works are the sad ones really. the ones that cannot be bothered to read a book has nothing they can learn from Tolkien.

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

I'm glad. I've seen him reply to comments basically just being like "WTF dude? How are you defending this?" and he's always saying "I say my real opinion I swear!" lol Like I said elsewhere, I'd respect him more somehow if he was just honest about liking the access to interviews, the attention, the invitations to premieres, etc, so he had to be not as critical as he'd honestly like to be. But nope.. he just pretends like it was reasonable to think these morons would make the wizard anyone but Gandalf and that Elrond and Galadriel kissing with romantic swelling music, when he could have passed her the pin in 10 other ways that would have been even more sneaky, was just them "being friends" and wasn't exclusively for the weird shippers. 🙄

[@reallybig4868]

I’m glad you’re still based

[@tracymeahan]

My favorite part of the NOTR interview was where the showrunners said they liked the thought of a wizard who didn't know who he was. My first thought was, "No wonder the show was a napalm dumpster fire: you guys started with your own ideas and stories. You didn't even start in the same place as Tolkein"

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Because they did. They shopped around a bad GoT knockoff script for a decade, nobody bought it, then Amazon got the rights to LotR, and they changed a few names, thats all.

[@suimeingwong2043]

These two are so far up their own asses they also make a ring.

[@knotengajin7359]

Being in the same house streaming suggests you are completely correct.

[@StephenAbootman]

*Each other's

[@ravenmad9225]

They are delusional.

[@yurikendal4868]

I can't unthink now

[@mrjackpots1326]

Maybe Season 3 will be a musical. I know these two really want to do it.

[@ravenmad9225]

Gandalf will become a rapper.

[@davidchambers44]

Gandalf gets his name like Han Solo got his. Elrond and Galadriel kiss but they're just "friends" just like Rey and Kylo. Rings of power sucks, just like the sequels. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

[@ravenmad9225]

I'm not a Tolkien fan,so I had to Google how he got the name of Gandalf. It took me 2 minutes to find the real reason he is called Gandalf,and it's not from the word 'grand'.This information is not hard to find. They are changing the lore,thinking they are improving it.

[@jonrul1]

Love how these 2 hacks said they were so far ahead that they couldn’t change season 2 from fan backlash to the point they knew what the final shot of season 5 finale was going to be to now where they’re saying we didn’t even know who we were writing when we were writing it and decided in between seasons of who this guy was going to be. The fact they flat out say they have no idea what the hell they’re doing.

[@James_Bee]

They never do.

[@chapman3713]

Now we know that the writer likes Lolita, we'll get to see a creepy Elrond grooming Galadriel's daughter.

[@Adelina-293]

As if the Stacy's mom kiss with Galadriel wasn't cringe enough.

[@TheGruntski]

Or in keeping with Hollywood's gay angle, Guyladriel's five year on son.

[@slimbombur7922]

That is what we get when they write themselves into the story.

[@TheGruntski]

@@slimbombur7922 Hollywood perverts writing themselves into the story. Blech.

[@vermis8344]

The only reason that happens in Amazon Middle Earth is because elves are immortal. Guyladriel _can't_ die childless and alone, half-devoured by her many cats.

[@Tyrannus_Gaming]

*_HOW TO FIX THE DIALOGUE_* Instead of "Are you Sauron?" he should say, "What is your name?" to which Sauron can say, "I have many names. Who do you say that I am, Orc?" then the Orc can ask, "Are you Sauron?" to which Sauron can respond, "It is I." That interview makes me realize that Lolita is the 5th most popular book in Hollywood, right next to Rules for Radicals, Das Kapital, My Jihad, and Handmaid's Tail.

[@ZeelofTheMarty]

Handmaids tail? Is that the on were the woman is used as a breeding machine?

[@JayJakes21]

​@@ZeelofTheMartyhnnng.. sounds great

[@specularverzide9972]

it's because they're all nonces

[@floydlooney6837]

"How to Groom... for dummies"

[@LilBka]

Do you wanna job writing on the next season? 😉

[@nichtdu4670]

I love streaming services these days. I dont have to pay or watch the shit they release. I have all the fun in the world with Disparu, Drinker, Nerdrotic and all you other fellas showing us this ridicilous .... works of art.

[@Harbinger359]

The, uh, "explanation" for that very, very platonic bout of tonsil tennis really does read as the kid who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar - literally inside the darn thing - and tries to blame his brother in the next room. Or better yet, the dog out back. And in the same vein, I don't believe for a second they didn't intend Steve McDangalf to be you-know-who.

[@roberthadfield2839]

I'm so disappointed that the nameless character didn't turn out to be Arthur Dent (he had the dressing gown for it) and the Halflings weren't the Golgafrinchans

[@ColinFox]

That level of writing quality is far above those assigned to ROP.

[@user-tr5oz8xy2e]

instead the whole series is a Great Green Arkleseizure

[@multitimmytiger2]

There certainly was a lot of vogon poetry within the show, so it wouldn't be that far fetched to be honest.

[@robfellows4096]

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.”

[@bri55118]

Now I understand why Marvin was so depressed.

[@TallisKeeton]

Showing Sauron and Galadriel as lovers is sick. Its like showing St. Mary's kissing Satan :D

[@espritfort9890]

Canon divergence and less catholic approach to the story could have worked, but definitely not in the hands of such intellectually challenged people as these show runners and scriptwriters. They can only produce some Twilight-style crap.

[@andrewbarbarash3116]

So if Galadriel was a real woman in the real world... She'd be mesmerised by Hitler and would quite gladly kiss her future son in law... Whilst still married, determined to commit adultery. I watch a lot of toxic female reels on Instagram.. so this actually checks out on making it relatable to contemporary times.

[@metaloverlord7465]

I mean, a good enough writer could make that pairing work. St. Mary's and Satan I mean.

[@bigchungus6827]

St. Mary/Satan is a ship that opens the option for extremely nuanced and compelling story telling. It'd be a hell of a job finding a writer that can make that work, but the potential is there, especially with how nonspecific a lot of Biblical canon is.

[@gregweisal5542]

I always thought morgoth was Lucifer and sauron was the devil/demon up next after morgoths defeat.

[@TheGruntski]

They could have changed the names of the characters so we'd have known it was an SNL style mockery. They could have had Celebimbo, Galadrihoe, SourRon, and so on. The trouble is, Bored of the Rings was done a long time ago, so this is old ground.

[@alannothnagle]

Don‘t forget Gilga-Daddy!!😂

[@espritfort9890]

​@@alannothnaglethe High BurgerKing Gilga-Daddy 😂

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

I call her Galadridont

[@TheGruntski]

@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access I disagree. She seems to be Galadrideldoes or possibly Galadrymidia.

[@derricklarsen2919]

Dildo Bugger

[@DeadlyAssets]

The thing is they had no idea He married her daughter as they had never read anything Tolkien bar a quick synopsis sent to them on the back of a used paper napkin!

[@gregweisal5542]

And the whole "they got the job because one could speak elven" sounds more b.s probably was speaking pig latin or gibberish said said it was elven and Jennifer sulky said ....will the main character b an insufferable girl boss. Of course. Ur hired

[@stanleyfranks9891]

I'm gonna jump out of my window if you fools don't realize Not only is Elrond Galadriels Future Son in Law But He's also her much younger First Cousin!!

[@hiddentreasures5676]

@@stanleyfranks9891 Thank you! Peter Jackson fans enjoy thinking they know Tolkien but they know and understand nothing.

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@hiddentreasures5676 What? lol No.. it's more so that nearly everyone is related somehow anyway so who cares *that* much about that part of it? But not everyone is kissing the person whose daughter they're going to marry in the future so.. you know, more important to bring up. 🙄

[@davesilkstone6912]

It's a pity that the show runners didn't put as much effort into the writing of TROP as they did into making up reasons and justifications in their interviews.

[@katyavinogradova7688]

The amount of sheer incompetence that went into making this show is staggering...

[@Eyestudio11]

You know I was rolling my eyes when I was watching Benioff and Weiss talking about the season 8 GoT episodes, they were so full of themselves while making absolute crap. But they at least managed to produce 5 great seasons before they ran out of the source material. Those two insufferable hacks were making shit from the start yet they act like they're making the best thing ever and even have the audacity to take jabs at Peter Jackson for not including Bombadil to his trilogy like it'd make any difference.

[@iscaria3337]

I thought it couldn't get worse than dumb and dumber trashing GoT but boy was I wrong.

[@yurikendal4868]

Peter Jackson was explicit in why he didn't have tom bombidil. Tolkien has far too many characters. That scene couldn't fit. To criticize Jackson for that is disingenuous

[@Lurker_Z]

I liked the comments about "we're still waiting for a LotR of Bombadil". This one obviously doesn't count.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Disagree. GoT got bad during season 3 when they started writing their own dialogue and changing things from the books.

[@the_astrokhan]

Tolkien Scholars agreed that Galadiel should have a romantic interest in Sauron who's got the feels for her as well? Jesus, that's on the same level of plausible as Faenor returning to Valmar after realizing that the Silmarils weren't really that important in order to make good with Manwe and Melkor realizing the error of his ways. And Sauron not being a cruel and thoroughly evil immortal being interested in nothing beyond domination. Bah, what do I know? I'm not a Tolkien scholar trying to not kill the literal golden-egg laying goose who's giving me a steady and exorbitantly high pay cheque.

[@hoboguru]

Lord of DEI Rings

[@NiranjanNanda]

And woke and incest…this is a story about all the misfits 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yurikendal4868]

​@@NiranjanNandathis is the exact opposite of woke. Using non White actors to hide your bad writing behind is not woke but disingenuous

[@yurikendal4868]

Insulting to dei isn't it?

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

Galadriel has fellowship?!?! Are you KIDDING ME?!

[@peterparker-q1q]

Toxic fems that want to date Satan

[@johnnycage112]

No one will miss it

[@curtisbryce5096]

They had a series?

[@gunslinger626]

Miss what? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.

[@theelder4797]

I will, for a year or two, because we get so many more hours of good entertainment BECAUSE of the series.

[@ravenmad9225]

Hey,about 8 hundred thousand avid viewers will miss it.

[@IncredibleMet]

Disparu and Rings of Power exists Me: I ship’em!

[@Olinser]

NGL when Disp started talking about 'the music sets the tone' I fully expected him to recut the scene with some smooth jazz to illustrate his point.

[@MisterJang0]

The scene where Elrond kisses Galadriel should've had the beginning part of "Careless Whisper" by George Michael playing, lol.

[@dbf1dware]

@@MisterJang0 That is what I thought as well.

[@espritfort9890]

​@@MisterJang0music from the Benny Hill show or from some 1980s adult movies would be better for that scene

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

​@@MisterJang0Nah, some Marvin Gaye 😅

[@Olinser]

@@MisterJang0 Definitely something like that was what I was expecting, that would have been hilarious.

[@ryukishi8492]

Lolita? Now we know why all the focus on child Galadriel in the first episode

[@Mereologist]

I'm sure they'll have Elrond marry Galadriel's daughter when she's twelve.

[@chairhead3696]

Disparu kicking on to 300k pretty quick! Keep it up my man !

[@simonbrosseau1783]

"I want a Gandalf like character in my show" "People don't like or care for my not Gandalf character" "I'll just make it so the character is literally Gandalf"

[@Lurker_Z]

I, for one, loved the years-long cope of everybody about Dangalf not being Gandalf. How did anyone have any expectations from these two?

[@kreese-yi2nb]

Why is this show? Why are all those people? Just WHY?

[@ravenmad9225]

Because the sea is always right.

[@amoose8439]

I almost died when he name dropped lolita.

[@jeniferclemente1252]

“I’d ship them!” Will always be the most hilarious thing to come out of this series review 😆 Still hilariously great watching your videos whenever they come out 😆

[@ViolentMessiah666]

Little bit of context about what happened to Morgoth after he was defeated, his crown was turned into a collar that was put round his neck, he was then thrown out of the Doors of Night into the Void, essentially trapping him outside of the universe. How the hell did they get the crown back? It would take a god to recover it because it's literally OUTSIDE OF THE UNIVERSE! 🤦‍♂️

[@bjbrown4341]

Those two Men have to be the most self-obsessed men I have ever seen. They are search for some clever moment and missing the art.

[@ravenmad9225]

They are truly delusional if they think what they do is clever.

[@donthaveaname15]

Blood Meridian & Lolita? Both have children being pursued by adults for..... Dear lord!!! THAT'S who is behind the Ring of Prowlers?!?!

[@MattersOfOpinion-x4d]

Now I want to see an edit of 'that kiss' with yakkety sax in the background.

[@maniravsadhur8409]

How can a firm like Amazon give big projects to such incompetent amateurs? First The Wheel of Time, then Rings of Power... It never ceases to amaze me. These could have been great shows.

[@carlemiz8583]

"Grand Elf" is on the same level as "you're supposed to be a Hero, Brian ~ Hereobrine, I think I like that" meme been going with the minecraft movie.

[@KevinTierney]

Shades of the Acolyte, where everyone talks about WHAT WE MEANT, and its 100% clear they are doing fanfic on their own works

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

The smell of desperation from Amazon is palpable.

[@TallisKeeton]

"Fear, the Amazon is reeking with it" :)

[@fullmetalprism5249]

Weren’t the wizards sent to middle-earth by manwe to assist the elves in combating the forces of evil so how would they not know where their allegiance lie?

[@kelticowl9400]

I love how the Audience know more about the Characters in the show more than the showrunners .... I wonder when they'll realize the "Dark Wizard" is Saruman, season 4 maybe lol

[@alannothnagle]

Season 3 will be all about how Gandalf got his hat.😅

[@lordofthepizzapie9319]

@@alannothnagle Rings of Power Season 3: How Gandalf got his Groove Back

[@jessicapinto3817]

With every answer I was like "Yup, that explains it" While trying to convince us they didn't make decisions from malice, they only showed how thinking was never part of the process. Not a single micron of thinking anything through. Where did those billion dollars go 😂

[@lastmanstanding5423]

if someone tells you their favorite book is Das Kapital you can safely assume they Commie if someone tells you their favorite book is Mine Kampf you can safely assume they Nutzy so.... if someone tells you their favorite book is Lolita...

[@pepincuatro2865]

If someone tells you their favorite show is ROP you can safely assume they mentally handicapped

[@youokaybuddyfitness]

@@pepincuatro2865 thats a safe bet lol

[@davorzdralo8000]

Which is sad because Lolita is a good piece of classical literature, and Nobokov DID NOT glorify pedophilia in it. But the sickos have taken it over.

[@SeanMendicino-n3d]

@@davorzdralo8000 I mean, it seems inevitable. I haven't read Lolita, and never will, but it seems like the book can only end up being a haven for monsters because no normal person will touch it unless they have a reason. It's disturbing as hell, and most people don't like to be disturbed. And even those who defend it's literary merit - if it has any - typically do not call it a favorite. Which is the other blazing red flag. When I say I read Crime and Punishment and liked the book, it is pretty obvious that I found Raskolnikov, or Rodina as he is called, somewhat sympathetic. And my enjoyment of the book is partly that I find character interesting, and did not feel noxious when reading his point of view - his murder of the innocent sister of the pawn broker is obvious bad, but I'm being honest when I say that as a man, murder doesn't disgust me when you are trying to save your family. Murder is bad, but the act of killing, without trying to cause unnecessary suffering, is not an act of moral turpitude such as r4pe When someone says Lolita is or was their favorite book, that suggests that reading it brought them pleasure. That is basically admitting they are sympathetic to pdf file material. That it does not viscerally disgust them.

[@arhamalhameed7719]

​@@SeanMendicino-n3dwrote my dissertation/thesis on lolita. It's a brilliant book. Reading it and then subsequently writing a literal analysis on it doesn't make me a pedo or a pedo sympathiser... If I enjoy horror films does that then make me a serial killer or satanist or whatever? Just to clarify, I'm not defending the showrunners. Rings of power is shit and the writing is shambolic

[@99IronDuke]

I don't think I have ever hated a show more than Amazons Rings of Power, starring Guyladrial.

[@Lurker_Z]

TV _She Hulk, Velma, Star Trek D. Stargate_ has a special spot *of hatred* in my heart for being the reason _Farscape_ was cancelled.

[@indoloreveritas]

>Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, >BRIGHT BLUE his jacket is, and his boots are YELLOW.

[@ChrisGrahamkedzuel]

Yeah these people think realistic means desaturating people’s clothes, when the dyes used during similar periods were bright and colorful.

[@jamescuttler8047]

@@ChrisGrahamkedzuelthey’d lose their minds if they saw some “Vikings” they wore colourful tunics of many colours with funny looking felt hats

[@silverscorpio24]

I hope Pain and M'Kay like instant Ramen noodles and doing unsavory things for money, because their writing careers are done for.

[@near--zero]

How did they hit the job to begin with

[@MattersOfOpinion-x4d]

They will probably both come out as trans and then fail upwards.

[@ColinFox]

I wish I could agree with you, but somehow these untalented bums keep getting work, pushing actually talented creatives out, all because of "the message".

[@jessicapinto3817]

M'Kay 😂😂

[@jessicapinto3817]

Sees mr. Mackey now floating by everytime McKay puts on a thinking face or says anything 😂

[@wishmaster4089]

When Elbland touches Guyladriel's face before he's about to assault her with his mouth, she looks SO uncomfortable. I pictured her thinking in her head 'Oh God, just close your eyes and pretend it's Sauron. I mean HALBRAND!'

[@chriscollins2095]

Everyone knew the Stranger was Gandalf before the writers.

[@Auxius.]

I'm just waiting until S03 where Galadriel and Elrond are in a loving embrace and suddenly Celeborn crashes into the room:"Galadriel!?" And Galadriel runs to him "OH Husband! You're alive! *kiss*" and Elrond gets dumped like Isildur with the hobo girl. And his eternal grief for having lost Galadriel's love, drives him to marry her daughter. Oh and ofcourse Aragorn needs to make a brief appearance because who doesn't like him, am I right? .. I mean, if they are all loosie-goosy with the lore/timeline might as well go balls to the wall with this BS.

[@smoore6461]

Why am I not even surprised Lolitta is on the list of his books. That sounds like a much truer statement than his love of lord of the rings or anything Tolkien. "It became very difficult to imagine a lord of the rings story without people's favorite character, regardless of the lore not having him there." Jesus low IQ Gaslighting is the most annoying.

[@HarryBrownhole]

Watching privileged adults attempt to explain away their incompetence and laziness like a grade schooler who didn't bother to read the book for their presentation is so 'current day'. 🤡💩👹🔥

[@Lurker_Z]

Re: Kiss, Random Film Talk put it best why it's vile from a filmmaking perspective. The kiss existed to distract _the audience,_ not Adar or the orcs, because Adar and the orcs didn't have the audience's meta-knowledge. So the kiss distracted the audience from seeing the key, but the orcs looking directly at the actions of two random elves shouldn't have cared and should have seen the passing of the key. Absolutely vile.

[@HannahKayW]

And he passes the key AFTER he kisses her! Blatantly! In front of a staring orc! 😂 it’s tragically directed, an actual crime against film making.

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@HannahKayW Right? How about kissing her f'ing HAND with the pin in his hand?? My god.. That would have made sense, but noo.. the shippers wouldn't have got what they wanted.

[@Lurker_Z]

@@LadyBeyondTheWall All 10 of them.

[@cierracoppin8310]

Celebrian (Galadriel’s daughter) was not only already married to Elrond when the fall of Eregion happened but their children (the twins and Arwen) were adults… so Elrond not only kissed his mother-in-law but she is also a grandma already. And she had almost nothing to do with Sauron and the forging of the rings… so this whole thing has nothing to do with tolkiens story besides the fact that she ends up with one of the rings in the end.

[@markh4473]

This isn’t The Lord of the Rings because they have completely screwed up Tolkien’s established timeline.

[@Maybeabandaid9]

More excited for new episodes of "Disparu slowly loses his mind watching RoP" than I am for the show.

[@DMF121]

She said, "I felt ill" like she was reading a manual for something you're trying to fix with someone who's pissed ya off. 😂

[@felsenstern]

It hurts when they destroy the things you love and have a good time while doing it. I think it's a good demonstration of what people with money can do to us.

[@takuid]

They have no power over people who did not watch a single minute of this show. It is called not being a consumer, something Tolkien would have a lot to say if he saw these days.

[@Adelina-293]

To think, we're probably getting 3 more seasons of this. The cringe and memes will be glorious.

[@alannothnagle]

I can‘t wait!!😊

[@blloodstone8762]

Amazon look at lord of the rings as money product period. Its really sad to see. They should never been left near it.

[@cormoran2303]

Whenever someone says "I can fix him" they mean "He will fix me".

[@Tinandel]

There are certain things which are painfully obvious to everyone and have been for a long time - but sometimes, a certain comment just slaps you in the face with the reality of them. For me, it was the stars gushing about how relatable Galadriel was because they, too, 'found Sauron hot.' The people who made this show - and whom it was made for - have all of the emotional depth of a puddle on the sidewalk.

[@AliSanguis]

"What's your favorite non-lotr book?" "Lolita" Ahh, makes sense now

[@SpectralDarko]

It's not the One Ring that binds them all-it's the wig. Sauron was never a dark lord; he was just a wig enthusiast. The wet, evil wig that flopped across Middle-earth, seeking a head worthy of its power. First, Annatar rocked it.

[@theelder4797]

So, Glug liked Sauron out of the blue because he 😢? "Arr, he's got feelins, like me, arr! He'll lead us to happy man-flesh buffets for sure...oh, and peace, arrrr!!!"

[@Matthewwithers33]

And here I was thinking that nerd of the rings actually cared about Tolkiens work. I used to watch his channel until I realized how much he praised the new stuff and then I realized he’s not what I thought

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

Exactly. It's despicable. And he was absolutely lying to himself thinking they were going to make the wizard anyone but Gandalf - that was obvious to anyone with a brain. It's just like the people who somehow convinced themselves during S1 that Halbrand wasn't Sauron or that it was "a mystery". I'd somehow respect him MORE if he just *admitted* he likes getting interviews and being invited to premieres so he just says what he has to, rather than constantly trying to tell people criticizing him in the comments (including me) over his lukewarm "criticism" of the show that that's "just how he actually feels". I REFUSE to believe any actual Tolkien fan who is being honest with themselves wouldn't absolutely tear them a new one for the insane Galadriel/Sauron crap, writing the whole 1st season "not knowing" who the wizard was, being so dense that they didn't think anyone would care or be immensely annoyed by Elrond unnecessarily and obviously romantically kissing Galadriel and the billion other things they messed up. I mean, they aren't just not following the lore - I'd be fine with them straying if it were a good story - they're disrespecting Tolkien's work and his world. Also the showrunners trying to act like their show is better than Jackson's movies because they included Tom Bombadil is.. hilariously terrible. I'd much much prefer a story that excludes Tom altogether than a show that writes Tom the way this show did.

[@jaymeU2]

Biggest joke channel on KZbin

[@g.t.werber4476]

Im sorry Disparu. Any videos I see the showrunners talk,i can't keep watching,I cant stand those hacks.

[@frogmand.142]

Not too long before all this, wasn't Sauron named (what was it?) "Gorthour" The Cruel, Master of Torture, and Prince of Werewolves? He was literally the Aspect of Domination. That's why it was so important for Humans to defeat "it" on their own.

[@Kingless_Kingdom_2]

0:14 oh no, what the?

[@kevinthecleric]

Yeah, that made me do a double take

[@mikev1294]

Why would you even admit that?

[@Americium-120]

​@@mikev1294Because debauchery has become normalized to the Hollywood elite; they no longer fear saying the quiet part loudly.

[@rasalasblack]

We all agree, these people need the FBI investigating their hard drives.

[@antoniopena3254]

"FBI Open up!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@damienruzco]

So did they just admit the “always follow your nose” quote wasnt an intentional set up but just straight plagiarism 😂

[@kahinaloren]

True. lol

[@kahinaloren]

Anyhow, the story from them as told to Nerd of the Rings assumed as truth - which might not be a sensible assumption with these two - it makes it even worse. Plagiarizing more lines, and this ad hoc pilfering led them to Gandalf. Hopeless people.

[@darktenor4967]

8-20: Re Elrond and the heroic music, anyone who dares to kiss Guyladriel has to be pretty heroic given how vile she is! Wait a minute? If kissing a frog turns him into a handsom prince, then maybe daring to kiss this complete and utter cow is what turns her into the wise, powerful, graceful and virtually angelic elf we see in the Jackson films! It just took a while to get through all of the horribleness! Honestly, I think the only thing worse than kissing Guyladriel, would be kissing Velma!

[@alannothnagle]

Actually, I regard RoP, The Acolyte, and Velma as all being components of the same sh!tty, endless TV series. I figure that if someone arbitrarily spliced their various plotlines together into individual episodes, no one would be the wiser. 😅

[@darktenor4967]

@@alannothnagle That's certainly true, "the message!" has so many restrictive tropes, EG all women karrens and/or girlbosses, no woman ever saved by a man, all villains straight white men etc, that you might as well be watching the same show.

[@marychocolatefairy]

Re McKay's favorite books, I notice he names ones that could have been required reading in high school or college. Also, none are scifi or fantasy. So much for him being a geek, heh. Also, re him saying Elrond's been hard on Galadriel all season- well well well. Elrond's criticism of her was refreshing to some since it seemed like the show was *finally* acknowledging, if only in a small way, that she had made mistakes. But no, to the showrunners he was being a meanypants to their perfect Mary Sue who can do no wrong.

[@dbone972]

Literally one of the worst decisions they made and they didn’t even think the fans would give them a hard time about “inc3$t” 9:27

[@fenriswolfq22]

sure the story would surprise the 'writer', when their method of writing is; Enter Prompt into AI, take what comes out, don't bother proofreading, send straight to DEI casting department/production without any logistical work, then drop on streaming and.... profit........?

[@haku8135]

Even ignoring the future, it made no sense for Elrond to kiss her there because he had no reason to do it and they never once had even a sliver of romance. If all he needs to do is pass her a pin, he should just palm it to her as he holds her hand or gives her a hug. THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE ACTOR PASS IT TO HER COVERTLY! THEY LITERALLY FILMED AN ORC STARING AT THEM AS HE FUMBLES IT INTO HER HAND!!!!!!

[@davidrojas6457]

The fact that they didn't even know if their own fabricated mystery was a conscious or unconscious choice on their part is... TELLING

[@drdoom246]

Sometimes a show or movie is so bad, I can't even watch KZbin content creators make fun of it. Could only get through 2:57 of this video before moving on. Screw Amazon and the Rings of Wokeness.

[@Setanta1913]

More arrows than took down Boromir 😂 just to be more diverse, more extreme, MORE MESSAGE.