Rings of Power FALLOUT Viewers CRASH Shipping Fail

[@disparutoo]

Rings of Power Reviews now have 4 episodes of season 2 to go off, half the season. Yet despite cramming half the season into 2 weeks, the marketing isn't as strong as you'd expect in such a short time. This could have been planning to perfection and instead we just got shipping from The Acolyte. While this is a great tactic for the Rings of Power target audience, it's not great for the audience of Tolkien. Which is a problem when adapting Lord of the Rings! So we dive into the cringe of shipping, and the journalists who defend it, at this point I just wonder if the showrunners realise what they're doing and intentionally changing the target demographic audience. Or whether they're incapable of understanding anything outside their own worldview. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@Semos56]

I can't believe they tried to turn an epic - fantasy story into a fantasy- soap opera. I must commend original idea of mixing those genre's together. ._.

[@SmiloRen]

If your so good why are you stuck on youtube begging nerdrotic, geeks and gamers for acceptance. Is it because you have none in real life. Ill debate you live on rings of power any day you want clown any day you want

[@stebriggs17]

What is ‘shipping’?

[@jonathanwest6266]

@@stebriggs17 Simple search on the Internet: "The term "shipping" originated in the 1990s on an X-Files fan forum as a way to describe fans who wanted the main characters, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, to be in a romantic relationship."

[@aqlanimations4822]

It's kind of like a modern term Sexism, but reverse towards guys now, so h*rny women, or fanny boys trying to say making men naked or good looking is now good lol. As long as their actually evil, because why should women want a good guy. I think episode 4 should be a marriage counseling show, if your wife/husband ships a married woman and random guy getting together, congrats your going to find out something probably bad in the future. I watched in Psychology 2 in college they used to put Asians during Vietnam war in cages and watch 18 hour American propaganda films, and after a few days, the Asians would actually believe their white lol. It's insane what these new messages will do to you, your marriage, your children, and belief system. It's designed too lol. There's a reason their saying Satan is attractive lol.

[@eros5420]

"Evil people never think they're evil right?" "I identify more with the dark side." -Leslie Headland, Former Personal Assistant to Harvey Weinstein.

[@jhoughjr1]

I knew a narcissistic paychopath and they jist dont care if they are evil.

[@Thorrnn]

But she doesn’t think the dark side is actually evil. She identifies with the dark side because she is evil, but cannot rationalize the idea that the dark side is evil therefore she is evil. She perceives herself not to be evil, therefore the dark side is not evil.

[@totomen666]

They just want to paint "Normal Good" as progressive evil, "Ah, norms of Good and Evil so outdated, i'm right?" - laughs in evil Then they say that everything is Morally Grey, while every aka-good character does bat shit evil to protect lesbian space witches

[@mark4asp]

Evil people are evil in different ways. Some of them know they're evil; not all.

[@thetrashcanman7537]

She wouldn’t last a fking day with the dark side, she’d be a failed sith prospect that unalived during recruiting IF even picked for that

[@slyjester3315]

You know it's a sh*t show when all the PR talking points are about sexuality and moral ambiguity

[@tkps]

And the first time around was activism. They never seem to talk about the bloody plot.

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

@@tkps We made black dwarves though! Isn't that great? They're subterranean so they never see the sun and we gave them a genetic mutation that causes people who aren't in regular sunlight to get depression if they don't take vitamin D supplements.

[@tapiolautavaara9532]

@@tkps Such a concept is way too grandiose for their tiny brains. Go read a Donald Duck or watch a LEGO movie and you'll get an actual plot. Such art might just blow these showrunners minuscule minds, so better keep all quality-shit by yourselves to avoid getting charged for weirdo-slaughter; however justified that would be.

[@barkonius3264]

That’s all these disgusting leftists know. Sexual degeneracy and the denigration of all that is normal, beautiful and good.

[@ronindave_ytgaming6333]

there's this silly idea that putting sex into a story makes it more mature when really it's just wish fulfillment of readers/watchers who want to live vicariously through the characters

[@giraffesauce4561]

Amazon Prime is known for free shipping.. I never thought that would be a double entendre but here we are.

[@ducttapestuff-jonathan9571]

LOL! Excellent, have a like

[@SgtImrak93]

KEKW

[@Adelina-293]

My Babcia told me, I don't care what Tolkien wrote, Sauron always had a crush on Galadriel. - Bezos

[@dlewis9760]

"The chef says the chicken is great tonight, I'll be here all week".

[@Amraphel]

....well played.

[@Schwifter_]

They turned the greatest fantasy creation ever into an over budgeted CW shipping show, what a joke.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Oh you ain't seen nothing yet until HBOs harry potter series. The cast in rings of poower were adults, the Harry Potter one meets the criteria of teen characters with angst in a school setting.

[@fydiousmckormick]

That’s insulting to cw shows. They are much better than rings of power😂

[@runi5413]

They wish. Even that cringe marketing about all the "shipping" going on is complete bs. The only couple we've seen on the show so far were two orcs, ffs...

[@ChristopherM720]

I've actually begun to wonder if humanity has hit the nadir of creativity, our brains rotted out by too much TicTok and chemicals. Because if this (and the acolyte) are the best we as a species can produce, maybe it's time to let the dolphins have a laptop and pen. It can't be worse, right?

[@anon2752]

Just part of the rich elite effort to demoralize wh1te men by turning everything into a d1versified girl brand.

[@UncensoredScion]

Every so often this show reinforces the idea of "it can always get worse" Gil-ga-daddy....Christ on a bike...

[@heavyhebrew]

Not only did he utter those words with pride, but he made it a part of his marketing spiel, thus illustrating just how debauched, depraved, and uncaring of Tolkien's work these people are. "The Imperium of Man brings not death, but justice, and retribution" - Roboute Guilliman

[@Amraphel]

​@@heavyhebrew"My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred. In the Emperor's name, let none survive."

[@MrSphandor]

​@@AmraphelImperator Hoc Vult! (the Emperor wills it!)

[@julianne_warren]

Gil-ga-daddy... mentally deficient childish cringe. They obviously don't know and don't care what people who enjoy Tolkien want to see. Then again, after crapping on Doctor Who, Star Trek and anything else, I'm not surprised.

[@julianne_warren]

This is Tumblr/Ticktock/other SM level of cringe.

[@linetap]

They wouldn't let Peter Jackson have anything to do with the show, but then steal and paraphrase all his scenes, styling, and dialog. But the Tolkien estate lawyers approve

[@LadyAlaina42-c3e]

The Simon Tolkiens are on a par with their Amazon show. Pathetic.

[@tkps]

@@LadyAlaina42-c3e As far as the information available goes, Simon has no say in the literary or nominal estate nor is one of its directors. He could benefit financially but clearly if the family had wanted his input they would've given him a place on the board of one of the estate's entities which they haven't. Even being Christopher's son. So I get tired of him being trotted out as a 'consultant'. He apparently also consulted on the films which caused a falling out with his father for years though claimed they later reconciled.

[@ebrennie]

Check out Ralph Bakshi's 1970s animated Lord of the Rings movie. You can find the full film for free right here on KZbin. It's actually really kickass in a retro way. There was supposed to be a second film that was never made, so it's not the whole book, but watch it. Jackson basically stole that whole animated film, down to frames, camera angles, character posture and the ton of the line delivery. Verbatim dialogue from that movie was copied by Jackson. Of course, some of that dialogue comes from the book, so it's not surprising it shows up in the animated film, Jackson's movies, and this show, given the show pretty much only has the rights to LOTR. But damn was I was shocked by how much of Jackson's movies are exactly lifted from that animated movie. I mean EXACTLY. He's just as guilty of what you're accusing the show of being guilty of, but because it was animated and the 70s that wasn't meant to be a hit for the masses, nobody cares.

[@georgeargon5113]

Tolkien's estate lawyers ought to be liable for this utterly overpriced, bastardization of the author's work.

[@LadyAlaina42-c3e]

@georgeargon5113 sadly it is all about the money.

[@The_Antiquary]

The more the actors and actresses get interviewed the more I'm struck by how exceptionally weird they are.

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

Look into Hollywood and it's roots. It's called "hollywierd" for a reason.

[@marem3038]

They think that they are starring in a TV show on the levels of Breaking Bad, walking Dead, stc😂

[@kevo-o-o]

You misspelled stupid 😂

[@ElveeKaye]

And stupid. I swear, they all have refrigerator-temperature IQs.

[@geraldmorgan6906]

I'm struck by how over represented the gay community is amongst the cast and crew. Not a value judgement just something that stood out to me.

[@codycc4414]

Over 350,000,000 people in America alone and they still couldn’t manage 1 million on a worldwide scale. Embarrassingly awful

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

Only a few control everything, and very few of them are talented.

[@55Andy555]

@@Gruesome-Twosum Why don't they hire people that are.

[@Kasei7th]

@@55Andy555 Because nepotism, lack of interest in actual talent, and narcs patting themselves in the back for a piss poor job.

[@Vandassar]

@@55Andy555 They do have some talented people. The problem is that they can't say anything because they get labelled some form of an ..ist and are likely to get shunned out of the industry altogether. Look at how they conduct themselves in public, then think about what they must be like behind closed doors.

[@A5tr0101]

Americans lack culture though, they also can't handle adaptations and everyone is woke over there. If you were british you'd like the show.

[@the_absurd_hero]

Tolkien's Gil-Galad was one of the noblest badasses you could find in The Legendarim, and ROP made him into "Gil-GaDaddy" 🤢🤮

[@HahaDamn]

It’s because Hollywood is filled with perverts

[@beerdragon4583]

It’s all fabricated. I don’t believe anything these chodes say.

[@annareifer2249]

I hope Amazon will never use Glorfindel in this shit show, he is my personal favorit from tolkiens works

[@cptrelentless80085]

Gil-ga-bottom

[@minatodroger7890]

A worthy desendant of fingolfin he was

[@vilena5308]

Look, let's ignore LotR and Tolkien. I love Fantasy as a genre. If I went into this naively, just looking for some quality entertainment and world-building, I would still be "These are not the Elves I'm looking for.".

[@Xurelbes]

This is the main problem with this show and others (like The Acolyte). If they were butchering the canon to make something cool in the process, it would be a thing. However, their products can't stand by themselves, much less carry the name of the brands they represent.

[@mrgraham5521]

" These aren't the elves we're looking for, move on. ".

[@vilena5308]

@@Xurelbes True. And if they are writing aware that the selling point would be "shipping", it further distorts the story. (So weird... The devil you are telling me whom to ship.)

[@2012sonora]

Unfortunately the world of (mostly terrible) female-centric fantasy books, especially fantasy romance and urban fantasy, has ironed out every single mythical creature that's even remotely humanoid into spineless fantasy boyfriend material. All the danger, mystery, intrigue, etherealness... it's all gone.

[@fydiousmckormick]

@@2012sonoratrudi canavan writes great fantasy that doesn’t do this bs.

[@ste---ny4lh]

Modern companies failing, my favourite spectacle

[@AsurmenHandOfAsur]

😂 🎉 GWGB !

[@aqlanimations4822]

Also the articles showing a man looking extremely dirty and nasty saying I want this lol. It's crazy that the new mind set is, he doesn't look like he took a bath in years. I would like a piece of that nasty evil guy. Every thing, Modern does go to Sh** literally, the modern audience wants to bang feces in a sense lol. They want to watch crap, make up crap in their fantasy brains, and lastly bang crap. that's why you just point and laugh at them. I think at this point shaking hands with modern people you will need to really wash your hands, just shaking hands or standing 10 feet from them. The roles have reversed, men become weaklings, and women are h*rny as ever. My favorite spectacle is a woman writer saying Satan is hot. Really does prove Even did let Satan fool her in The Garden of Eden, lol. Men you better wake up to many of these modern women.

[@kultur-vultur]

For sure, like Sony's Concord is worse than dead its a legend. lol

[@marcusbullock630]

i wouldnt cheer just yet. this also means you lose your infrastructure. better learn how to forage asap.

[@kultur-vultur]

I like the satire with your profile pic of Trump for this comment btw, as he is a man of the people but not the ones with a pulse. He supports the special class people with basically no liability or mortal coil, the class of people legally know as corporations.

[@ANDYWOUNDSABRXS]

but when people say 'oh that chick is hot!!' you get in trouble from the same people who are claiming how hot the dudes are... such a weird world

[@amyqb117]

Weird world indeed

[@Big_Red200]

Yeah many of them are hypocrites

[@tomasojones1751]

in the religion of woke, double standards is quintessential.

[@TotesRandom]

If a show on network television received less than a million viewers it was an abject failure. Now 900, 000 people is a success? 😆😅🤣

[@ginandtonic69]

Only Fools and Horses was getting 20 million viewers back in the day (UK only). It cost tuppence ha'penny to make by comparison. I realise times have moved on since those days but 900,000 is atrocious for something that cost this much, with the reach Amazon have to boot. I just looked at BARB, the UK viewing figures data, at the top 50 viewed programmes the past week. The bottom shows at number 45-50 are still pulling 2.5 million viewers. One of them a tea time quiz show at 5pm. And that is still over twice the Rings of Power figures.

[@DrWackySanchez]

Little shocked they stopped at US households for the second one and didn't slip in worldwide numbers to fluff it more

[@TheSuperappelflap]

These are numbers the CW would cancel shows for. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@ginandtonic69 And thats for shows only aired in the UK. Rings of Powah attempts to sway a global audience. Out of the, idk, 5 billion people with internet access. Less than 1 million watched it.

[@adamaccountname]

They're getting less viewers than the KZbin channels criticising them

[@sonicinsights]

"They're desperately wearing the face of your wife and wondering why you dont love them". Omg. Genius metaphor lolol.

[@LobsterFarmersWife]

I absolutely cannot trust the “viewership data”. I fell asleep the other night watching a purchased movie on Amazon and woke up some point on the third episode of Rings of Power. They’re auto playing to a non-watching audience or empty rooms to boost time watched….allegedly.

[@Angrenost02]

watch them suddenly stop publishing the numbers after the 4th episode, like they did with season 1

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Dont forget about all the dead people "watching" while being eaten by their cats.

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

​@@TheSuperappelflap That is a macabre, and yet succinct, point.

[@tkps]

I heard that happened during the first season. People would watch something and if they didn't turn Amazon off or choose a new program ROP would run automatically. Imagine going to those lengths? In Australia I still have cable which has a 'Home' screen. It hosts all the streamers whether you have a sub or not which they no doubt charge streamers for. ROP is heavily advertised on various cable channels. Yesterday I saw an ROP advert then it played again straight after. That's just Australia so how much is all this marketing costing?

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@tkps probably at least as much as the show. Its advertised on billboards in my town. Usually when Amazon does that they advertise 3 shows on one billboard but now its just rings of power

[@shesellssanctuary1601]

I think you touch on a point that covers a lot of the tension between original fans of Tolkien and other ‘nerdy’ franchises like Star Wars, the Witcher, and Star Trek that have gotten decimated for the modern audience. Nobody talks about how the original fans, whether they were male or female, we mainly nerds that at heart are known for being smart and intellectual people. We loved these stories because they were detailed, complex and ‘technical’. Studios have now bought the IP given it to dumb writers, show runners and actors etc and they have dumbed down plots to ‘shipping’, thirst traps and very boring stories that regurgitate modern identify politics . There is nothing mentally or creatively challenging for the nerdy mind there anymore as they try to sell these basic watered down ‘concepts’, with all complexity sucked out, to the lowest denominator of the ‘modern audience’. This is why they are soulless husks of the stories we once loved. In short, we are living ‘the Idiocracy’ time line.

[@HorsleyLandy88]

My wife says I am Sheldon, so i get what you are saying :)

[@AncestorEmpire1]

It crashed so hard, I thought it was a Boeing flight

[@kmaggs7804]

😂

[@brainflash1]

For Malaysia Airlines.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@brainflash1 oof

[@Sharrowkin]

... with a DEI crew.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@Sharrowkin when I flew United this morning: 😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@tsevgamesalot]

NO ONE came up to him and asked "are you gilga-daddy?" No one. So weird what these people will lie about. All ego.

[@adriandenton6637]

Sheer f hubris.

[@the_absurd_hero]

The actor fancies himself a DILF, and he's the only one fancies him

[@Jonas-lj8ul]

Not everything needs to be steeped in filth, and Tolkien in particular is something that should be kept as pure as was originally intended.

[@MamaMOB]

I'm kind of sick and tired of everything being about sex. Not everything should be about sex. In fact most things probably should not be about sex.

[@donmongoose]

@@MamaMOB The issue with shows like this is, they're so shallow there's nothing to actually discuss, no themes, no morality, no lessons we can take. So "do your 2 characters want to bang?" is all they can think up. Doesn't help that the people asking the questions are shallow vacuous morons either.

[@lawjef]

Post-modernism: everything is political, ethics & morals are all relative, wexual repression is the cause of all society’s problems

[@elenoe8]

Nothing is sacred to them.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Thats what the story was. Pure. Thats the one word I would use. I was just thinking about that this morning when I woke up. Pure fantasy, pure morality, pure lore. Untainted. A clear perspective. That is what any adaptation should have, even if it changes things. The movies also had that. Tegridy.

[@bugleboop]

Simon Tolkien being on the board should speak volumes about the show

[@chriss3276]

and not in a good way.

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

​@@chriss3276 He's a failed writer that couldn't escape his father and grandfathers shadows, so he's going to see those shadows gone.

[@LadyAlaina42-c3e]

​. He is failing again spectacularly. Poor Simon. With his millions.

[@youruncleted]

Fun fact: Simon Tolkien married a jewish woman! ✡

[@BigUriel]

@@LadyAlaina42-c3e Well none of his millions are the result of his successes, the whole family is still living off the grandfather's legacy.

[@DissipativeAdaptation]

I know I can’t wait for the Vanity Fair cover of scantily clad Orcs 😂😂

[@heavyhebrew]

With Leslye Headlamp in a bikini leading them as Femauron "You will witness man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" - Nikola Tesla

[@c1a2m3o4m5a6n7]

I hate both of you.

[@666daemian]

When are we going to get a live action version of the lusty argonian maid?

[@donquixotemom]

I would bet most of my money that the “Gilga-daddy” thing is absolutely a lie. He’s not cute in the show, no one remembers his name… this was 100% made up.

[@AliceBowie]

On one hand, Gil-galad is actually from Tolkien. Although if you wanted to make up a gross, cutesy nickname, Gil-gaDad or Gil-gaLaddy work better. Anyway, there are a lot of weirdos out there, so it's possible, although I don't think people would recognize him without the knife-ears and gold laurels.

[@_Uh_Oh_]

I reckon he made it up and makes his wife say it. Then had so little to say brought it up as a lie in his interview

[@obzai]

Never underestimate the depths of depravity a marketing department will slink to, to make a single dollar. Made up? Absolutely. By the actor working in isolation? Not necessarily... If the show writing is already that bad, it's not a stretch to imagine the marketing department coming up with this absolute bullshit. Personal opinion.

[@whos-the-stiff]

He's so unrecognisable that he would have to go out in full costume and make up for his story to possibly happen. But it's definitely made up.

[@julianne_warren]

It doesn't matter if he is cute or not, them even coming up with these cringe nicknames shows how out of touch they are with the source material.

[@kendrickl5913]

The target audience of this show is ex-harry potter fans who left that fandom because of jk rowling comments

[@DrCraigR.Walton]

I disagree. Harry potter has concrete story structure in the style of a crime procedural with plenty of ideas. Rings of power is an almighty mess of boring sludge with no resemblance to the satisfying story structure of HP

[@MikaelLV]

@@DrCraigR.Walton He never said what you're disagreeing with.

[@DrCraigR.Walton]

@@MikaelLV "The target audience of this show is ex-harry potter fans" I just don't think that can be true because the show bears no resemblance to HP, as I explained. If this is meant to be the target audience, the creators understand HP about as well as they understand Tolkein imo

[@metaloverlord7465]

No see, you can think J.K Rowling is a transphobic lunatic and still consider this show terrible, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

[@dragonmaster1360]

@DrCraigR.Walton You're missing the key modifier of the comment: "that left due to JK Rowling's comments". This means trnz, woke, and alphabet mafia people.

[@scottbillingham2221]

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." - Tolkien.

[@thomasg2488]

Before getting into this, we need to take a moment to shed a tear for the late James Earl Jones. Farewell Darth Vader

[@adriandenton6637]

RIP.

[@grokeffer6226]

Whoa, bummer!! This is the first I'd heard. His portrayal of Thulsa Doom in the first Conan movie was exceptional. R.I.P. 😔

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

He’s gone to join the Great Kings in the sky 🦁

[@donaldthump6461]

COWABUMMER!!!!

[@satnav1980]

I still can't stop laughing at the fact that the main woman said she needed counselling because of the action scenes.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

She is a typical whiny spoiled woke brat who has mental breakdown after being misgendered.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

She had to recover from how “happy” horse riding made her

[@julianne_warren]

She would be send straight to a sanatorium for life if she was around for films like The Abyss or Poltergeist and these are lightweights. She wouldn't survive Apocalypse Now, let alone Fitzcarraldo or Roar. There was an older film where many people drowned on set, but I can't remember its name.

[@Milton2k]

Galadriel rolling the "r" so heavily is just hilarious. Take a shot/drink every time she rolls it with no reason... you will get hammered I bet; Yet maybe that is the only way to get through this mess of a show.

[@TheGruntski]

A lot of languages require people to roll their Rs. Somebody needs to tell Galadriel that if you roll it more than three times, you're playing with it. Maybe all those tongue vibrations are getting her excited.

[@Milton2k]

Sure.. greetings from México.

[@DJOfRadioValinor]

Elvish is based on Welsh, which Tolkien adored, and they rolled their 'r's, the actress pronunciation is spot on.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Man the R's are the worst part of this show. Im not Scottish or English, im Dutch, and half my country can roll their Rs better than this. Oh god the cringe.

[@Milton2k]

@@TheSuperappelflap Same here. Hard Rs are quite common here, but sound so weird in the show. Greetings from México.

[@dlaird8]

No one said Gilgadaddy ever. Some idiot marketing person told him to start that.

[@Adelina-293]

1 billion dollars and the story is worse than what a 15 year old could write for free.

Hell even most writing inclined teens can recognize their failings and do better.

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

To be fair, all they had to go on was 10,000 pages of source material that took a century to compile and publish.

[@momirbaborac5536]

Almost like it's money laundering ;)

[@NN-dl1gh]

Thats not a joke either lol

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

@@momirbaborac5536 This is an interesting suggestion. They already do it with "fine art". It makes sense that they'd do it with mass art too.

[@ClydeFrog-z8v]

This is what happens when the "Draco in leather pants" crowd gets to rewrite things according to their head canon.

[@professional_cynic98]

I dont think anyone called him Gilgadaddy...

[@brandonm4550]

That would require having a fan base of the show.

[@professional_cynic98]

@@brandonm4550 I just feel like I've been made privy to information I should never have been in receipt of.

[@nationlessnationalist]

Wtf are they spending the billion dollar budget on?

[@marcusbullock630]

hiding their crimes and funneling to ukraine and china

[@taylorstillman7932]

Representation and equity...LOL!!!

[@2424Lars]

They didn't spend a billion dollars, it was all just one marketing trick to get more subscribers, which unfortunately they did. They don't care if the show is good, they had already earned back their investment before the show even aired, all they needed was the announcement and the trailer

[@JeniferClemente-y2n]

The sound from “Galadriel” is still hilarious 😆

[@tannhausergate7162]

The entire Saucy Saturdays episode was filled with it and it never failed to get a laugh out of people. It's such an inherently funny sound bite.

[@JeniferClemente-y2n]

@@gb8628 I miss those clips too 😆

[@faheemmaqbool-nl1fs]

You have not seen what i have seen 😂​@@gb8628

[@portalmanHUN]

Throbbing.

[@JeniferClemente-y2n]

@@portalmanHUN 😆

[@Tsagia]

17:42 They want us to watch the shows,we don't like them,they get angry. They tell us not to watch them if we don't like them,we don't watch them,they still get angry.

[@LongLiveLiberty]

It’s like a man being in a bad relationship with a crazy woman, where it’s all your fault for everything…is that dripping water coming from the broken toilet, then it’s your fault!…are the dishes piling up, then it’s your fault!…did you get off work late and are too tired to takeout the trash, then it’s your fault!…did you really rely on the whamenz to pay the bills but she didn’t because shes mad at you for everything being your fault, then it’s your fault! That’s how rings-of-power is coming off, they screwed everything up, & then have the audacity to blame their own screw up on you!!! I mean, damned if you do, damned if you don’t, & damn this is really starting to suck harder than kamala harris on her first day on the job literally on both knees and she forgot the kneepads, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, now that’s really bad.

[@astormofwrenches5555]

They started out angry.

[@xManzi]

This is the strangest timeline we could live in... Imagine a billion dollar show having a story on par with a run-of-the-mill porn movie if not worse... And they are proud of it...

Hell at least the Porno has the excuse of being a porno and thus having bad writing is a given. What is RoP's excuse?

[@metaloverlord7465]

Please, that's a disservice to porno.

[@heavyhebrew]

My kids brainstorming ideas after reading the trilogy came up with better ideas for a new show than this Tumblr crap

[@JamesAnderson-dp1dt]

Their target audience can't think about anything higher than their own crotch level, so Tolkien has to be dragged way, way down to reach their level.

[@LaChartre]

They don’t realize that the all the sex in GOT is the one thing that dates it the most.

[@Orieni]

I remember when Felicia Day was a reliable source of geeky entertainment. Then came Gamergate and she had to believe that the gamers she identified with and liked were suddenly horrible monsters and she never recovered any sanity. Sad.

[@skyevens8756]

Yes she was good I liked her in supernatural. Well just my opinion.

[@techsoul5590]

@@skyevens8756 That character was overrated, each time she returned it was less and less successfully done.

[@skyevens8756]

@@techsoul5590 fair.

[@temptempy1360]

@@techsoul5590 Yes she seemed to get a bit weirder and bit less character-playing and a bit more unsettled each time she was back on set. I thought I might be just the guys pranking her, but likewise could have been success issues

[@dobster5819]

RiP James Earl Jones. You will be missed forever, thank you for your dedication to your art.

[@jschap712]

So Felicia Day has been reduced to shilling Rings of Power for Amazon when she should instead be mocking it on MST3K.

[@LongLiveLiberty]

I think she watched too many b-movies on MST3K thinking the bad-movies were examples of something to admire rather than to actual hate with disdain to the point where one should be administering high levels of mocking upon them…but then again, she was a bit to squirrelly with her sexual innuendos, & was too dry/withdrawn in MST3K girl-bossing it up terribly which was distasteful if not disheartening, at least she still is cute, but that’ll fade soon. Oh well.

[@rafaelgustavo7786]

Sauron was supposed to be a pseudo Promethean figure generating religious engineering in Harad and Rhûn with the metallurgical revolution he made in the east and south. Galadriel was supposed to be a sage and a political opponent of Annatar's reformist ideas. Númenor was supposed to be a tale about life x death x immortality x human nature. Diversity? Rhûn and Harad inspired by Asia and Ancient Aethiopia.

[@Amraphel]

That could have actually been a good show.

[@lordhelwintr283]

@@Amraphelya but that takes talent and respect for the material. I don’t think these righters know what respect means.

[@aersling5391]

​@@lordhelwintr283first of all it requires a propper licence of the source material. Absolutely everything about RoP is completely wrong

[@lemoncrash1814]

“I was standing in a coffee shop and a woman came up behind me and says, are you Gill-ga-daddy?” I’ll take things that never happened for $1000.

[@TerrorFront85]

😂😂 of all the things that ever happened that happened the least!! Great comment.

[@GIBBO4182]

Is there anyone apart from Disparu and The Critical Drinker still watching this show?

[@daveeyes]

I don't think so. Although possibly the journalists Disparu is quoting. Possibly. Buy coffee stocks, it's keep people awake through this snorefest.

[@pagansgames]

Nerdrotic I suppose

[@Victoriacariad]

I'm watching Disparu's reviews of the show rather than actually watching it. I didn't even finish series 1 cos I switched off.

[@chriss3276]

I watch it with the mind set of watching MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. Really it is the only way I can tolerate it. It is so bad that making fun of it is more entertaining than the show itself. Plus I have a sort of morbid curiosity; it is like passing a car wreck, we say we don't want to see managed body parts all over the road but we break our necks to try to see if there are any. I watch to see how much worse can it get (not "if" but "how much"). I do have to admit that like Disparu, I zoned off during the Isuldur and whats her name scene. I didn't actually fall asleep like he did but when Disparu started talking about Isildur talking about his mother drowning, I had no memory of that despite knowing I'd watched the scene.

[@obscuredsanity]

Add in Johnny Law and I think that's their entire viewer base for season 2

[@Hummelsbusch]

This is what they turned The Lord of the Rings into - a telenovela where the audience only cares about "who is attracted to whom", a pathetic, lazily written, mostly badly acted xerox of a copy of fan-fiction found on a truck-stop-toilet.

[@newtpondskipper]

Old school telenovela were at least entertaining.

[@knotengajin7359]

Well, season 1 did have that Young and the Restless intro! Day time soaps being all about who’s sleeping with who, and who is being betrayed by said sleeping around.

[@paavobergmann4920]

late-stage capitalism for you

[@GarlicKnot5]

It’s propaganda. Look at the entertainment industry falling. It’s deliberate. Meant to humiliate and degrade.

[@draxrdax7321]

I still find it funny seeing how they desperately try to roll their R's. Even the interviewer, when she said "Mirrrriel", spending 2 seconds on that R. I'm pretty sure the studio forces them to take diction classes, but you can tell it's not natural. Like when someone from the anglo-sphere tries to properly speak in a very articulated language (italian, japanese, russian etc) and they spend 3 seconds rolling their R's because their tongue just isn't formed for that kind of language. 🤣

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

They always make it sound like the names should be written with 3, sometimes 4 R's. I'm a native Finnish speaker; seeing as Quenya is loosely based on Finnish, I'd assume my pronunciation is pretty close to what was intended. Sauron, not SauRRRRon.

[@crakhaed]

It is so funny it's like how I try and fail to roll my R's 😂

[@sarkastodon30]

I know right? But then don't roll for anything else....like brrrridge 🌁

[@loneloc01]

@@nuclearmedicineman6270 Read an article a while back on how both Tolkien and Longfellow (in The Song of Hiawatha) were influenced by the Kalevala, which I thought was pretty interesting. Tolkien was also aware of the influence of the Kalevala on Longfellow, I forget exactly how.

[@AliceBowie]

Elvish is based on Finnish and Welsh, if I remember correctly. I guess the actress playing Galadriel is Welsh, but everyone is rolling their R's more like in Spanish than Welsh. Then again, I haven't watched any episodes, just people making fun of it.

[@sterling7]

Today I Learned that I can only hear someone utter a phrase like "Gilga-Daddy" so many times before I begin to feel a visceral urge to physically make them stop. The Mary Sue can continue eating its own tail until it reaches the head; the only response I need to make to something like "Rings of Power" is not to watch it.

[@lloyd9819]

Halfway through, and the chips are already in an ocean of piss.

[@RobinMcBeth]

Halfway through and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!!!

[@keytide]

That final bit of the video where you call out the Mary Sue for what it is reminded me of classic Jim Kirk talking a computer into short circuiting itself :)

[@PoopaChallupa]

Modern Audience: "Four Of Us! Four Of Us! Four Of Us!"

[@chosen_undead6955]

I remember when people would get bullied for shipping characters that didn't make sense together 🙄

[@nolilado5452]

Let me just point out. They are using the same marketing strategy that they hate when it's about women. Sexualization. Oh these hypocrites...

[@ShiningDarknes]

To be fair, I have been saying "they" should just sexualize men more if they are so offended by the "oversexualization" of women in media. But that advice only applies if they stop hating on people that like content that "oversexualizes" women. Sex sells, pretending otherwise is just dumb and the fact every single thing that makes a point of explicitly not sexualizing its characters fails miserably just proves it. People like looking at attractive people, it is human nature to like idealized forms.

[@666daemian]

If Disney Star Wars has taught me anything it’s that it’s okay if bad things happen to men and it’s even better if they’re white.

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

​@@ShiningDarknes Oh look, a wannabe abyss lurker wants *more* smut on tv. Shocking, really.

[@TheJohn8765]

@@ShiningDarknes It's almost as if almost everyone has a libido... whodathunk that might be at least some what we want to see in entertainment... Of course, if you talk to the modern feminist audience we need to ignore that. It's the new puritanism. These weirdo leftists are as bad as the weirdo right wingers that hate sexuality just as much.

[@SocialExperiment232]

⁠@@ShiningDarknesehhh I was sort of with you until you said that people will only watch shows with attractive people. That’s objectively not true. There’s plenty of shows/movies/games with ugly characters and they succeed because they have a good story. People will watch anything as long as it’s well written and entertaining. That why I find it so baffling that the entertainment industry is finding it so hard to keep their audiences happy. It’s not that hard… just decent writing and a fun pace and boom… billions of dollars for them.

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

I always laugh when Disparu says "DANGLY BITS" 😂😂😂

[@MRGRIMZ89]

R.I.P. JAMES EARL JONES.

[@daveeyes]

Oh no!!! God must have wanted his voice!

[@realistic_delinquent]

@@daveeyesGod needed a vocal coach

[@SmokeyTheHeir]

When Galadriel pulled out her lightsaber and shouted “It’s Morrrrdorrrrin time!”. Most powerful movie moment in history!

[@detestable_one]

Ironic that Amazon would fail at shipping... Too bad we can't get a same-day delivery on the hours wasted watching this 'show'

[@veeclash4157]

Gilga-Daddy? That’s so effing Cringe!! 😂😂

[@anom5389]

6:05 I swear this set, this interview…. It all feels so, Hunger Games. How can anyone watch that and not see right through it?

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

You're waking up. Congratulations, and I mean that.

[@freeport48]

Ome of the great died today James Earl Jones (93 yo).

[@johnnycash5858]

Ok come on Felicia Day. Please fire your agent if THIS nonsense is all they can dig up for you.

[@collinkeyser6827]

I Thought She Looked Familiar.

[@big_red01027]

I'm surprised she beat Olivia Munn to it.

[@skyevens8756]

What I like gingers so I like felicia day. Yall hate on gingers? Are you from Hollywood?

[@skyevens8756]

Nooo she is in rop that makes me a sad panda.

[@eadric3338]

I thought that was her. She used to be funny and cool... now reduced to this.

[@BRHO-i2v]

The thought of Amazon burning so much money keeps me warm at night

[@luminyam6145]

I am really disappointed Felicia Day is involved in this charade.

[@bryanevans1019]

I imagine she was paid well.

[@TheHeroRises]

Man - she’s looking rough.

[@FraggleH]

Sadly, Felicia made it clear long ago what her priorities were.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

Oh, that's who it was, I thought she sounded familiar.

[@luminyam6145]

@@FraggleH 😞

[@stuartpatterson5094]

"Keep that energy to yourself? What about that?" Like they are completely unaware of how that thought process worked for The Acolyte

[@beejeebeehee5964]

If Kate Beckinsale was in this, I'd watch...all the clipped scenes with Kate Beckinsale.

[@teleriferchnyfain]

I rather like the actor playing Sauron but nope, won’t watch.

[@SnakeWasRight]

4 episodes in and NOTHING has happened except "im annatar, make some rangz, even tho i already taught you how to make the most powerful ones last season."

[@adamb8317]

Yes, it seems odd that they just “instantly became masters of making rings of power” and had no practice rings, no lesser artifacts like are mentioned in the books. Just instant mastery. Yet Sauron then needed them to make the remaining rings that were actually made by him to ensnare men and dwarves.

[@neonemptiness8152]

Just a reminder that the Gilgadaddy thing never happened 👍🏻

[@eduardbandi9707]

He was so weirdly proud of that and couldn't stop bringing it up lmao 😂

[@SingWhileYouMay]

Holy friggin' hell, those thirsty shipping interview clips in the first few minutes... Those words and giggles are truly uttered aloud, by adults. I had no idea, I don't watch those kinds of shows. Thank you for further eroding my perception of Hollywood, and my faith in humanity in general.

[@chrisdolan9579]

They've actually gone and done it? They made something worse than season one! I didn't think it was possible?

[@jaime8318]

Obviously Grandma Brimbor let him in because Sauron promised to show him a Cockring of Power.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

I forgot this show is even out. Literaly nobody talks about it.

[@MamaMOB]

Literally nobody watches it.

[@maciejp7829]

better to watch Disparu review - more fun

[@SocialExperiment232]

Literally is only watched by people reviewing it and talking about how bad it is and people who fell asleep watching the first episode and woke up to find they had “finished the series” while unconscious. Which is about the most entertaining way to watch this show by far.

[@m13579k]

Ah yes, the barrow-wights. Cursed spirits sent by the witch king of angmar (who doesn't exist yet) to stop the dunedain (who doesn't exist yet) kingdon from being built again after the great plague (which hasn't happened yet). These showrunners have to be the hacks in showbusiness history.

[@taccosspicy3014]

I love how fans disappointment turned to anger and anger turned into mockery, for all of they're favourite franchises bastardised by talentless modern day writers/producers.

[@aeonstar293]

Like a modern Hindenberg... with more collateral damage

[@slyphwing]

They’ve tried soo hard to appeal to trends and hashtags of the younger generations, they don’t understand lotr or it’s fan base at all…

[@Tsagia]

12:00 "some Tolkien devotees",meaning the vast majority of Tolkien fans.

[@daa2608]

Who told Morfydd Clark she could act? Whoever it was owes us all a huge apology. The rest of the grifters/cast, aren't much better.

[@somedude6990]

Money can’t buy talent and effort. This show has money and lacks the rest.

[@gangjira]

It can't buy passion

[@annareifer2249]

I mean, you can use the money to hire people WITH talent, someone needs to tell that amazon

[@manoz6194]

The VFX guys are talented

[@annareifer2249]

@@manoz6194 and tbh I like a few of the elven places

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

​@@annareifer2249 People with talent aren't related to people already in the industry, like the people they hired are.

[@InereIronheart]

I can't imagine anyone who has watched 60 seconds of the appendices/ behind the scenes of the original trilogy can honestly say they believe that a single actor or employee on the Rings of Power has the same enthusiasm for the project of any single member of the team on the LOTR trilogy. Empirically the Peter Jackson team cared more. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Even the breakfast ladies!

[@sba8710]

I’m so glad you watch this so I don’t need to

[@pseudomonas03]

This show instead of Rings of Power, should be called the 50 Shades of Mordor, since Sauron in this, doesn't actually need, any Ring of Power, for imposing his will. His Power of Seduction is more than enough to rule upon the Elves and the Middle Earth for all eternity. One sexy Dark Lord to rule them all!!!

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

I think my brain just suffered some kind of an attack from that ugh "Gilga-daddy" part.

[@Syaniiti]

You don't need to see RoP to know it's terrible, you just have to hear any single line of dialogue not directly stolen from the books.

[@adamb8317]

Even then, they steal stuff that doesn’t fit where they put it and they don’t understand.

[@TheWaterdog6]

Your Galadriel "Oh!" clip will never get old.

[@DrewsterRooster37]

I could only imagine just how worse it'd be if they knew Sauron was the father of Werewolves and transformed into one as well

[@newtpondskipper]

Wait for the next season.

[@DrewsterRooster37]

@@newtpondskipper NOOOOOOO

[@mikemoore4033]

There’s your problem with the “Modern Audience”, the attention span of a goldfish and the loyalty of an alley cat. They’ve gone and they won’t be back. Shame.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

They have never been here to begin with... It was the case that until some time ago, fans would come back to the "works" made for the "modern audience", boosting the numbers. Than we got smart to theyr BS, whilst they got more insuferable with the messaging. I include myself in the fans that fell for it in the beggining and decided to get out of it.

[@shadowchaser3836]

The “modern audience” exists only on X/Twitter. How few people are on there again?

[@Gruesome-Twosum]

​@@shadowchaser3836 Hating on the one app that has free speech. That's classy.

[@shadowchaser3836]

@@Gruesome-Twosum Twitter/X is poison, like all social media.

[@richtes]

@@shadowchaser3836The dozen of them seem to be screaming a lot on X, but they won’t carry a show

[@odduckOasis]

I always find it fascinating how on one side, those that love it will just tell those that question it or don't like it to just shut up- but the other side doesn't tell ppl to stop loving it. It tells you exactly who they are and what type of person they are just by how they respond to something that in the grand scheme of things, doesn't matter at all.

[@rewild6134]

They really don't know their audience do they 😂😂

[@2424Lars]

They just don't care, and they don't have to care, as they earned back their 1 billion tenfold in new subscribers before the show even aired. The show itself is just a minor inconvenience to them

[@Ohnonono123]

What audience

[@christianprinceears4653]

When I watched the Movie Lord of the Rings the fellowship of the Ring for the first time, I was with some friends who like me had not seen the Movie, the only person who had seen the 3 movies was my Wife, but she kept quiet. When the Movie was finished, everyone in the Room was silent filled with emotions, and all of us, shouted, is there more, can we watch the rest, my wife was smiling. When I watch the Rings of Power, I get no such emotions, it actually frustrates me, how bad it is, filled with long meaningless stories and stares, with meaningless characters, and average acting, even the fighting scenes are meaningless and boring, nothing clicks.

[@user-gm4kv2my4u]

"4 episodes left. If you thought it was a treacherous journey so far you haven't seen anything yet" I fear she is right but not in the way she thinks... Let us all have a moment of silence for the KZbinrs who watch this tripe so we don't have to...

[@mistermysh1660]

The greatest trick that Satan never pulled was convincing me that he isn't Jeff Bezos.

[@mushroomsandsidhe]

All I can see when Gil-Galad come up on my screen is the fact he's missing sideburns 😂 it's one of the worst wigs I've ever seen on TV. A shame since he's an incredibly interesting character otherwise. !!!! In the books not the TV show!!!!

[@OxyShmoxy]

It feels like the creators and actors have never seen or read LOTR. And also live on another planet.

[@jimmyfrench4722]

Damn, I used to be a huge fan of Felisha Day. Now she’s just a total shill chasing the money.

[@driver694]

Celebrimbors actor seems like the perfect fit to play Bilbo Baggins or another Hobbit but Not a legendary elven Smith

[@astormofwrenches5555]

Elrond's actor has a very strangely shaped head. Slapping pointy ears on it was a poor choice.

[@silverscorpio24]

I'm with Gary: Twilight ruined everything.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@silverscorpio24 he’s right. I had to watch the first three movies in order to “convince” my family to come with me to see guardians of the galaxy. I did it, but my soul remains forever damaged.

[@Ve-om7lf]

​@AncestorEmpire1 it could be worse. I saw them in theaters and all I got was a bad lay out of it. Not worth it.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@Ve-om7lf and this just happened: RIP James Earl Jones

[@Ve-om7lf]

@@AncestorEmpire1 .........fuck.

[@ventzxX]

It wasn't Twilight, it was TBBT

[@os7272]

omg the delayed fake laugh at 4:07

[@tomminiemi7172]

😮😮😂😂😂😂

[@sphyre1196]

She is as slow mentally as her 250 Kilo frame is physically I guess.

[@davidm5646]

Imagine turning Lord of the Rings into one big massive thirst trap. It's embarassing.

[@2424Lars]

If there were also some hot skimpy white elf girls I wouldn't be complaining as much haha

[@ericgibbs7692]

The Professor dedicated most of his life to his legendarium and lucky for the Fandom the subsequent letters he sent out afterward makes sure that his epic world cannot be perverted. He saw this shit coming and took clever measures to protect his lifes work. And its better for ALL as a result.

[@frobro2250]

Not gonna lie the only way I could watch it was with you reviewing it same with the acolyte!! Love your content!!

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Why do they think only men object to this absolute catastrophe of a show?

[@teleriferchnyfain]

I know!!!! It’s such an insult to women. I’m a total Tolkien nerd, and am horrified by what they’ve done to Galadriel. Good LORD these two pricks haven’t a CLUE how to write strong women!!!!! The only one close is Disa who is basically Lady Macbeth lol

[@aersling5391]

As a woman i feel force gendershifted to a man... and i dont give a fuck. They cant insult me as hard as they did Tolkien.

[@happyaccidents156]

Rings of power makes a lot of sense when you know the key demographic of amazon.

[@dominusetdeus060644]

Mindless drones?

[@Nazgul1393]

people who forgot to cancel their prime?

[@portalmanHUN]

Single wine aunts?

[@QuatrinaVR]

On behalf of someone who has shipped characters since I was a teenager, I want to apologize for these full blown shippers.