Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer Hopes NUKED at SDCC 2024

[@disparutoo]

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 trailer was released at SDCC 2024. Alongside a full marketing push full of articles and interviews we find out a lot more about Rings of Power season 2. There are noticeably absent tactics from the marketing of season 1 missing from this, although sometimes the actors couldn't resist their natural inclinations. Alongside an Acolyte type push to make Sauron and Galadriel the thirst push of the season. This makes sense as the season is centered around Sauron, but is it what the viewers actually want? The hints and talk of strong independant characters are a warning sign, but also mixed morality and a psychological drama. While some of the things that were said I could get behind, it's still being made by the same people as Season 1. And so I can't have faith it'll be good, let alone actually respectful of Tolkien. But what do you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@Wheelie2077]

The Wurzels are from Somerset, not Cornwall. The accents are vastly different! If you want Cornish representation, then I suggest the late, great comedian Jethro.

[@margaretwood152]

3:41 🍆💦 *_"..........Throbbing........."_* 🍆💦

[@MemoristCed]

You know what I want, as a viewer? I want the Galadriel who can call her son-in-law and you don't wonder why he doesn't hang up on her. I want Meddling Grandma Galadriel who dressed up Aragorn like an elf before telling him to go say hi to Arwen. I want the Galadriel who stopped on the way to her granddaughter's wedding to knock over a tower, just a slight detour. I want the Galadriel who gave a dirty dwarf three strands of her hair when she denied even one to her own uncle, and who was the only one to see right through Sauron when he showed up as Annatar. That's what I want, not a shrill little harpy with overactive hormones. And I want the Rings of Power that Rainbow Dave (Tolkien Untangled) spun out. Go listen to that. It will heal your soul.

[@theangryimp1345]

Funny how what little celebration of english heritage is left somehow a story made in direct inspiration and with the idea that it's a sort of "english heritage"... needs to be anything other than anglo saxon time england as it was meant to be. It really annoys me.

[@TheGruntski]

FFS, these actors and actresses can't do hot. If you want to see hot, look up the barefoot dancer in red from the video version of Despacito by Hauser. These clowns are just like the jokers playing Romeo and Juliet at university. The arts professors keep pestering you to buy a ticket and watch the performance yet again this spring and you begin to formulate dark thoughts about replacing the false edged rapiers with real ones in the hope that there will not be a repeat performance next spring.

[@exnihiloism]

Can't wait to watch the Elves put on their rings and sing “The power of one, the power of two, the power of manyyyyyy...“

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

That will be after they put on their wigs as well.

[@exnihiloism]

@@jamesmetcalf5597 😁

[@MegaKnight2012]

"Shut the book, dad. I don't want to read anymore", -Sam and Frodo

[@rodrigosenra2693]

😂

[@RhysCallinan-hf7qx]

The power of wiiiiiiiig!

[@Thorrnn]

How interesting that no one had any anxiety over cate Blanchette’s portrayal of Galadriel, who is an extremely powerful queen of the elves, a leader of a council of the wise, a strong “independent woman”, who was curiously enough, not an annoying, whiny, entitled victimized bint.

[@Calvinosaur]

Maybe not where you are. I distinctly remember going to watch The Two Towers in 2002 and walking past protesters who were upset that she didn't kill an ice troll in ten seconds and teleport three Numenoreans into a jail cell.

[@kimwiser445]

@@CalvinosaurThere are defiantly some crazy fans out there.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

@@kimwiser445He is sarcastic by using stuff from season 1 of Rings of Power, he obviously never saw such protests. ;)

[@MegaKnight2012]

I just thought Cate Blanchett was too cold and creepy to be a proper Galadriel.

[@k0rppi259]

Galadriel wasn't the leader of the White Council, though. She originally summoned it, but Saruman was the appointed leader as he was a Maia and the leader of the Istari. Galadriel was merely an elf who was exiled from Aman for disobeying the Valar.

[@timothybolt565]

Comicon has proven that Hollywood has learned, basically, nothing

[@ivandelac764]

Just now? It has proven it just now? Dude, everyone knew that 5 years ago when they started with repetitive sht spewing.

[@jackturner1352]

​@@ivandelac764 Only 5 years ago?

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Comic-Con was cool until nerd culture went mainstream and all the fucking normies and political zealots took control of the ship, drove into the cliff and blamed everyone who questioned them or demanded they take responsibility.

[@LiamFitzpatrick-pzzzt]

@@ivandelac764 You're illiterate dude. The OG was saying that we have "further" proof with this Comicon that the left has learnt nothing. Furthermore, this current culture war started a long, long time ago. If you look at university lectures from the 90s you can see it. I studied a Personal Identity unit in Philosophy at the ANU (Australian National University) in 1999, I was the only straight person who took the unit. The ANU was not the first to the party. Anyway, you're too quick to attack, you need to chill mate.

[@niveketihw1897]

What you haven't learned is that they're making massive bank from ESG Capital and showing their shareholders the ESG results.

[@LarryJ602]

WTF is it with Hollywood and “the villains are just misunderstood” and having relationships with a protagonist?

[@YouTubeisRunByChildPDFiles]

They are all banging kids, they don't want people to see evil as evil anymore. They want you to feel bad for these pedophiles.

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

I'm going to call this 'Pen pals with a serial k!ller syndrome'.

[@Pharis111]

the wattpad fan fic writers and tumblristas are now the writers for hollywood shit.

[@progste]

ideology.

[@bricelory9534]

It's a desperate attempt to de-institutionalize the world and to relativize morality while playing into their morality that sexuality and sexual expression of any type is essentially an ultimate good.

[@stevenv2190]

Yoinked: "But they were all of them deceived, for another wig was made, deep in the salons of Mordor"

[@Quickdrawingartist]

The heck?

[@a_lost_one]

@@Quickdrawingartist One wig to fool them all!

[@rosssoyka860]

Mogg Hogg

[@matthewchandler7845]

WHEN IS DRAG MORGOTH!?!?!?!?!? I DEMAND REPRESENTATION (>.

[@mikusoxlongius]

Joy Reid - the Wicked Weave of the East Marches

[@leonnunhofer3453]

37% of the audience finished season 1, because they felt asleep and couldn't switch the program 🤷‍♂️

[@jwlafferty]

Amazon has me down as watching two episodes. I fell asleep 15-30 minutes into the first one. Made it to "why does a rock sink" though, lol.

[@ThePassablePlayer]

If someone tells me they get tempted by a villain that wants to destroy the world and everything good in it, just because he's hot, I know that person has absolutely no morals.

[@devinbonham3022]

This! You have to be brain dead to think that Sauron is in anyway good or redeemable by this point in LOTR universe. He literally lost his evil master and picked up the reigns.

[@gratmccall]

DING, DING, FREAKING ding!

[@MrSnudger]

Stupid sexy Sauron!

[@alzaelnext638]

No. It just means that person is a woman. Although there's likely some overlap.

[@Fantasyish]

@@alzaelnext638well apparently celebrimbor is a women too then 🤣

[@therandman85]

"There's rings in this" is the new "they fly now"

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

“They fly now? They fly now?! THEY FLY NOW!”😂

[@xManzi]

Man... What would I give for the opportunity to just ask one question on panels like these. "Tolkien created the world with its mythology, fully realized characters. A story about eternal struggle between good and evil. He was a university professor and made his own language. And he said that evil can't create, only corrupt. You like to say that you improved upon Tolkien. What did you make in your life?" Look at all of them, english is my second language and I can use it far better to express myself...

[@SioxerNikita]

He didn't say that explicitly

[@falxblade1352]

​@SioxerNikita true, but he did create a massive fantasy world to which that is essentially the point

[@xManzi]

@@SioxerNikita Jesus Christ... Are you a writer on Rings of Power? Your level of extrapolation from given data is on the same level of their writing skill. Non whatsoever...

[@Southerdown]

Tolkien didn't do much world building

[@MrJedi20]

@@Southerdownreally? So when did you create your own language and build an entire lore around it based on the fact that England doesn’t truly have its own legends and myths but most are borrowed from French legends and myths and then write a novel and proceed to write a trilogy follow up and then write prequel stories that all tie together to the main 4 novels you wrote? Tell us please bed clearly you must know things we don’t. I sure couldn’t do what Tolkien did.

[@Didymus20X6]

That "worldbuilding" line sounds hyper-rehearsed. It's like they all were given a piece of paper that said, "Just say this: 'WORLDBUILDING.'"

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

That's their new PR dept. approved excuse for S1. If the PR dept. is smart, they are already brainstorming ideas for the excuse for S2...

[@Olinser]

It's so laughably obvious that they were given talking points. You don't get every single actor to use the phrase 'world-building' unless they were TOLD to say it. Everything about this is so laughably artificial and astroturfed.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Yes, but at least this time they are talking about the show instead of how their diverse selves being in the show is the new High Point for humanity. 😂

[@chuckpeterson8374]

@@dronesclubhighjinksthat’s not much better 😅

[@GeneralPotatoSalad]

@@dronesclubhighjinks Changing talking points to try sucker back lost audience is a cheap tactic that doesn't change show quality, sadly. It's an improvement in the same way someone trying to steal your bike with an angle grinder instead of their usual bolt cutters is an improvement.

[@qty1315]

Or they just hired very similar people.

[@TLowGrrreen]

​@@qty1315The hallmark of DEI.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😢

[@silverscorpio24]

"An evil, ancient and powerful, has returned." Yep. Sure has.

[@AliciatheCho]

Not so ancient tho

[@LegsON]

​@@AliciatheChoIn ancient times that crap was present as well!

[@Yolanda8419]

Hot Sauron and Galadriel…. Poor, poor Tolkien.

[@immortal5626]

He wouldn't care

[@rpgadventurer32]

Yes he would, both him and his son. This show distorts his story, characters and mythology and attacks his core values.

[@immortal5626]

@rpgadventurer32 no he wouldn't. The books dont change. You can to read it now and see its still the same. He would love this trailer as it looks absolutely epic.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Wait until they introduce young Saruman

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Basically, good and evil are subjective and lovers.

[@SRMoore1178]

I still haven't seen myself and my disability on screen yet, irritable bowel syndrome. I feel left out and unheard (except in public restrooms). Get with it Hollywood, make it right.

[@BaoNguyen-bh2rk]

1:38 "For all the fan-fiction writers in the room..." Appropriate that he was addressing the stage when he said that.

[@theboy1625]

that shit was so cringe. there's certain things you shouldn't say out loud. I can see why most authors hate fanfictions.

[@Daercoma]

What about the fan-fiction writers on the stage?

[@RhysCallinan-hf7qx]

More like fake fiction. Cuz fan fiction actually respects lore unlike whatever this disaster is.

[@altarush]

@@RhysCallinan-hf7qx Right-O! Fans write fan fiction.

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

I cried tears of joyful emancipation when Grand Admiral Galadriel assumed command of U-85 and shouted witch such conviction, "Torpedo eins und zwei, los!". Her glorious sinking of the vile minelayer USS Patriarchy was so stunning and brave I spontaneously transitioned for a 3rd time in my life.

[@rosssoyka860]

Fu k yea all hail grand ad

[@mikusoxlongius]

I started my period, at 65, male. Or I used to be...

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

It would actually be "Rohr eins fertig" "Rohr eins ist fertig" "Los!" Firing torpedoes with a slight delay gives you more chance of hitting a moving target, much like the heresy of this 'show', destined to slump further and further.

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

@@nexus_of_a_crisis You're absolutely right, it must be the Mandela Effect as I remembered the attack in the series Das Boot(1981) as "Torpedo", which although is also said and written as in English, is not the correct phrase in German naval terms during an attack. Thanks man, I've gotten wiser 😊.

[@Arassar]

God, even seeing a 5-second clip of these people is insufferable

[@heidijanuary3286]

Beyond insufferable. It is plain torture.

[@junburgett9767]

Agreed, I'd fast forward it, but I don't want to miss Dis' commentary. I literally can't stand these fake/clueless ass people talking.

[@Thorrnn]

There’s a reason fan fiction writers write fan fiction and not marketable fiction, and the amazing just demonstrated it.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

That crown fell off the Witch Dorks head as though the soul of JRR Tolkien smacked it off shouting “you are UNWORTHY!”

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

I am so glad they did not tell the actors what to say in the interviews, and trusted them to just say what they think and feel. o.O

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

Why do you need "world building" if this show was made for fans of Lord of the Rings? Make it make sense.

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

You know those wall of text meme's you get, where they try to explain the picture to you, so you see the world as twisted as they do? "The world building" is them trying to write that text. Does not work, just like the meme's does not work.

[@mbergamin16]

It's just what their PR team for the movie told them to say. That's why they all have the literal exact same response with no expansion or explanation....just talking points.

[@reezlaw]

Were there really 8631 "brucecampbellschin" accounts before you made yours?

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

@@reezlaw you'll have to ask youtube. I'd like to think i was the first but i'm not naive enough to believe it.

[@copythatdude6738]

What fans?

[@jenjenhocho3188]

I think Hollywood has forgotten what a hit show looks like.Failure is their new norm.

[@motaman8074]

The "actors" are quite nauseating.

[@joba4848]

Aren’t they just. Complete bunch of wankers.

[@joemama1691]

They play themselves, they are activists.

[@Craig-e9m]

'quite'?

[@M4ruta]

There's definitely something off about them, like they are playing a character even off-stage. It's like they're stuck in the Uncanny Valley of socializing.

[@natesmith6871]

Yknow, about 10 or so years ago, I liked to think to myself "wouldn't it be funny if we could monetize fan fiction?" Now I'm not laughing.

[@kitalalaris]

Yeah, I don't like this timeline, I want to get off. I've written better wish fulfillment word document crack than this mess. That is not something I should be able to say, seeing as how I'm not at all talented. Most I can say is I at least have an excellent grasp of the english language, sentence structure, and proper punctuation. All of which these people lack.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

I don’t grant the writers of Rings of Power the status of fan fiction. For fan fiction a person needs to be a fan of the source material. These writers are just haters.

[@kitalalaris]

@@davidgantenbein9362 I agree, we should all just stop calling stuff like this fanfiction.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

there isn't a lot of monetization going on here

[@bricelory9534]

Unfortunately that's how we got 50 Shades of Grey - originally it was Twilight Fanfiction

[@MrJedi20]

Rings of Power writers keep trying to turn a turd into chocolate cake and feeding it to people who call the rest of us who are grossed out hypocrites for not even trying the “chocolate cake”

[@tjroelsma]

Which wouldn't be too much of a problem if the numbers of those people were there ánd if those people would watch this tripe, but alas for them: they DON'T have the numbers ÁND they're NOT watching......... oh well, nice try, but no cigar.

[@LegendsSeeker]

Call Rings of Power - turd is offensive for turds.

[@MegaKnight2012]

​@@tjroelsmaNice try, but no pipe weed

[@austinhill5550]

wasn't that bad, "there are other worlds than these", just read the books if you prefer the original. Very vague writing and plenty of open plot holes and gaps. Poor writing to let something be sooo open ended and vague. Love the mythos thou. Books weren't good at answering why and how.

[@toodlepop]

well, they like to lie and they like to be lied to. it kinda makes sense.

[@nealsterling8151]

Not going to watch it, as Dave Cullen said recently "life is too short for this..." This is why i can't wait for Disparus reviews of that show. It's going to be hillarious!

[@mattcbw]

At this point, a story that does not include these DEI tropes would be considered a “unique and subvertive take” on a IP.

[@bricelory9534]

Of course, these writers and their small but vocal fan base want nothing to actually subvert their expectations in a story. They want absolutely every story to be about "subverting expectations" while actually toeing the line and being as predictably DEI as any other. They can all become the same garbled mess that way and can affirm and coddle their fragile egos.

[@toodlepop]

they are creatively bankrupt. they're the kids who wore all black at school to try seem interesting when there was really nothing there. now, all they can do is take what other people made, add gayness to it, throw in a healthy serving of hatred towards christians and/or jews, and call it "enlightened".

[@Christo_Trismegistus]

House of the Dragon and the Mandalorian are proof that you can have strong women and minority leads as long as there is good production and good writing. Crap like this is more focused on DEI than actual production and writing

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

A good example of homonepotism.

[@DeeDee-bm9hr]

Just wait until they remake the lotr trilogy with an entire lgbt of color cast and the uruk-hai army is white men with no prosthetics

[@darktenor4967]

8-30: "It's a psychological drama, descent into madness and gas lighting." What a fine description of the writing, publicity and promotion!

[@garylancaster8612]

"Oh oi've got a bran' new combine 'arvester". Never gets old. As does "throbbing".

[@michaelryan6342]

His sprinkling of "throbbing" always gets me! 😂

[@BigCowProductions]

It is the **throbbing** best

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

*SO CRISP AND JUICY*

[@above.average.gaming.natio3026]

@@Rose.Of.Hizaki AHAHAHAHAHA

[@sdrake8355]

I’m a massive fan of “based economy”.😂

[@SoldierSpiderx]

I cannot overstate my incandescent rage at seeing Celebrimbor, forger of the rings of power, staring straight at Halbrand (WHOM HE'S MET BEFORE) in a wig, and asking, "What am I to call you?"

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@SoldierSpiderx "Analysis complete: you dumb as bricks", -DBZ Abridged

[@RN1441]

Wow. This goes beyond their statement from last season which was 'anything that Tolkien didn't specificaly say didn't happen could happen' to straight up making up their own shoddy story and trying to associate it with the original author by bastardizing his characters and settings. In my head cannon, in the Rings of Power universe Gandalf runs a crab shack down by the seafront to pay for his crippling surfing addiction. Why? Because Tolkien never said Gandalf DIDN'T run a crab shack to pay for his surfing habit, and it seems dumb enough to fit with the rest of what Amazon is doing.

[@Boethius4748]

Imagine you’re Bezos and these writers come into your house and take a massive, steaming dump on your expensive carpet. You throw it out and buy a new one and invite the writers over again. Who is the larger idiot in that scenario?

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

The people paying to watch the dump come out

[@bethanyh1637]

You fool. You just don't get it. If you don't let them take another dump, it'll look as if letting them take the first dump was a mistake. Duh!

[@XarathDominion]

Bezos hasn't been CEO for a long time now, he's out. he's been chilling in his villa for the past 3 years, resting on his laurels! Amazon's being run (straight into the ground) by some posh looking cu*t called Andy Jassy.

[@draketheduelist]

Bezos Jr: "Dad... please don't F this up..."

[@marychocolatefairy]

Tbf (not that Bezos deserves it), he's not in charge of this travesty, as he retired from Amazon a few years ago. The current CEO is Andy Jassy, who reportedly was not happy about the amount of money spent for such a poor result; but he still didn't force changes. Same for Amazon Studio's head Jennifer Salke, who's the one directly in charge of RoP. The rather lame excuse for not firing the showrunners before s2 was because it would look bad going into awards season, lol. Result- no prestigious awards, and same bad showrunners for s2.

[@ianandrew-patrick3835]

Funny thing, I grew up in a world where films and tv shows spoke for themselves. Actors didn't have to tell you why you should like it -you made your own mind up. Crazy, I know.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

It turns out that the tempest Galadriel felt inside of her was the end result of a Taco Bell big crunch combo.

[@davfree9732]

Woah... A Big Crunch makes the Beefy Five-Layer look like a Fiesta Veggie. I may not know why Elf ships float, but I know a Southern wind propels them.

[@broderickhunt6872]

"There is a baja blast in me!"

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

No no it’s Sauron’s tempest inside her

[@danielh5583]

Haha,,, followed by “you have not seen what I have seen” after that Taco Bell tempest was let loose you definitely don’t wanna go in there

[@ericv00]

@@davfree9732 We're talking about Taco Bell, so it's definitely a jet stream.

[@dtice69]

"A lot of us in the LGBT community see ourselves in Tolkien's works." Well, he was a devout Catholic so you shouldn't.

[@AliciatheCho]

Yep. YEP

[@thedealmama3070]

You know, I would like to think anyone can see themselves in a well written fantasy… including sane and insane people.

[@Eren-cy6ln]

Paid attandee...

[@MegaKnight2012]

So, orcs, Gollum, and Turin?

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@goBadgers1995right The religion that identifies Marriage, one of its central Seven Sacraments, as a union between male and female, is "hella geigh"?

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Not since 1945 has such a nuking been observed.

[@karanaman68]

Tunguska didn't do this much damage

[@manoz6194]

Same people doing the nuking

[@michaelryan6342]

Rings of Oppenheimer.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Personally I’m riding on more seismic activity from HAARP.

[@KabukeeJo]

Aim your Death Star at this show and fire when ready!

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

Damn you, Disparu! Why do you have to keep getting that combine harvester song stuck in my head?! 🤣

[@Andrew-G77]

Cornishman here. The Wurzels are from Somerset, rather than Cornwall, and the accents are quite different. A Cornish accent for Tom Bombadill is still a terrible idea though. Our accent is best saved for ordering pasties.

[@triciacarr5019]

😂😆😝

[@samblack5313]

😂😂😂

[@danielmejorado6098]

Absolutely nailed it. I dated a Welsh woman for a decade who had a knack for accents and introduced me to the comedy of Jimmy Carr. After that, I've never been unable to hear the difference between Cornish and Somerset. And bloody Jordies. 😂

[@cptrelentless80085]

Zummerzet

[@tubaterror]

Geordie for a a Greggs pasty, Cornish for a real pasty. Now I want a pasty.

[@manicpixiefangirl4189]

Anytime you can do the Combine Harvester bit, do it. It gets me every time. 😂

[@Monkeyboy2457]

Amazon has the inverse Midas Touch, they turn gold into shit.

[@RoseBaggins]

Is it the DEI touch?

[@BNuts]

Hollywood hasn't shown me anything that has me thinking they deserve my time, let alone my dollar.

[@recapnerd2657]

I think the best part about these interviews is that in some case you can tell that these “actors” are fully aware that they’re in a shit show and it’s only a matter of time until Amazon has to pull the plug🔌

[@4G63Tx]

Yep, I’ve called it after season one, no way this show is making it to five seasons. They’re going to cancel after two. Watch. Bet.

[@recapnerd2657]

@@4G63Tx I like your optimism but I doubt it, I think they’ll go for thee seasons and then cancel it!😌

[@JamaicaWhiteMan]

So they've still got the ferret playing Galadriel. A face only Sauron could love. They deserve each other.

[@takuid]

the ferret...perfect :D

[@robynmarler1951]

🎖

[@christianefiorito3204]

The funnist part in the trailer is Galadriel, who is sbout 2500 years older then Gilgalad kneeling before him, looking like a teenager who was busted with her boyfriend in bed looking up to him and daddy Gilgalad asks her " who is this man" .I almost wet myself laughing, Galadriel all blushing and defensive.

[@MemoristCed]

These enlightened types claim they're creating "powerful, independent female characters"...by diminishing those characters. Infantilizing them, making them into victims and dependents, making them slaves to their basest and most foolish urges. They take wise, mature, fully-realized women before whom all kneel in awe and respect (or cower in self-loathing and terror), and turn them into unkempt, irrational emotional wrecks who wouldn't be out of place in a freshman Women's Studies class. Tells you something, doesn't it?

[@Sullivanin]

Not to mention that Galadriel, who is older than Celbrimbor looks like his granddaughter. And he looks like my tax attorney in my grandma’s nightgown. The casting of the elves is ludicrous.

[@VeronikaSch666]

Depends on the canon version, but in one version Gil-Galad is her brothers grandson :D, her brother Angrod has a son, Orodreth, who is the father of Gil-Galad, so....she is his auntie :D

[@bmardiney]

No one is “cross” at “powerful women”. They are just disgusted. It’s a very different reaction.

[@jonchowe]

Anyone who says "hot Sauron" in an unironic way deserves to be jailed.

[@TLowGrrreen]

I just call her Angela for her amazing performance on the Office. 😊

[@MegaKnight2012]

Dratted Morgoth Simps

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Please, please add some clips of Men Without Hats' "safety dance" the literal version!! It would complement the combine harvester SO nicely! Love your videos, keep them coming!

[@MaximumWarp2099]

I’m still astonished there is actually going to be a second season of this “show”.

[@Berstalin]

More money needs to be laundered for certain unsavory "enterprises" "individuals".

[@nicoleackerman205]

They have to have five and supposedly a movie after it. Since people forgot how to do tv and they skip a year now that is like 10 years. 😦

[@ABurntMuffin]

@@nicoleackerman205 right? it's called a season because one plays in the fall and one in the spring. If seasons were supposed to be yearly+ then we would have called them generations or something more akin to that passage of time.

[@ABurntMuffin]

@@nicoleackerman205 they really did forget how to do tv altogether...

[@raferuddle6695]

More episode reviews, please! Any series, doesn't matter to me. All of your reviews are extremely entertaining and highly amusing. And I know there's plenty of trash TV still waiting. If nothing else strikes you, maybe another MM episode? I know it's punching down, but it's still fun watching you eviscerate it. Thanks!

[@johnnytyler5685]

Got a pizza last night and fired up The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition, obviously...haven't seen the theatrical versions of LOTR since, well, their theatrical releases) for the first time in maybe a year or so, and the level of quality is so shockingly high compared to ANY PART of the trash that Amazon is vomiting out on the screen in this fanfic garbage that it really provides a striking example of just how far Hollywood has fallen. They've very clearly fired all of the talented strait [sic] white men who were capable of writing, directing or producing something that is even CLOSE to the same level of quality as the LOTR trilogy, and they've replaced every single one of them with mentally ill, laughably incompetent, shockingly unintelligent and wholly undeserving DEI hires who aren't even intelligent enough to write the warning labels that are printed on every single new trash bag telling you not to let your kids play inside of one, let alone dialogue that is on the same level as what appears in every single second of the LOTR trilogy. From the first SECONDS of The Fellowship of the Ring, Cate Blanchett's voiceover is more intelligently written and beautifully delivered than LITERALLY ANY of the dialogue that appears in the entire season (and soon to be two seasons) of Amazon's fanfic trash. The drop in quality is shocking, and it doesn't just herald the decline of Hollywood. It heralds the decline of the entire Western world.

[@pedropaulovillasboas7229]

Can we all thank Amazon for green lighting a season 2 of this crap just to give more content for Disparu? How thoughtful of them.

[@Duececoupe]

Will the narcissism ever stop? 🤨🤔

[@MemoristCed]

No. Narcissists don't change, because why should they? They're perfect, and everyone else is wrong.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Nope. 😂

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

Not on its own.

[@Eren-cy6ln]

Narcissism is part of the ideology so no it won't stop.

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

It will certainly drop if self-righteous, deluded, body-positive dwarf disappears.

[@YukonCorneliusMJH]

Imagine a guy creates an entire world, then writes a story that is absolutely amazing and goes down in history as one of the greatest, if not THE GREATEST, fictional stories of all time. And then someone comes in and goes... hey, let's make a show about it and change everything 😂

[@elijahbrooks1472]

Womp womp

[@trevorrapley2844]

KZbin creators will make more money from this show than Amazon will.

[@takuid]

I will make more money from this show than Amazon will, and I will not make any money from it :)

[@marychocolatefairy]

Tbf, Halbrand/Sauron was actually one of the better received characters of season 1, since they accidentally made him more based than Galadriel, and also because Charlie Vickers was one of the few capable actors. But I can certainly see the showrunners misunderstanding the response to him, thinking it's because he's a hot bad boy. I mean, there's little chance they realize how bad to mediocre some of the other actors are, or what an insufferable harpy their version of Galadriel is.

[@ChaoticYak1]

I said the same. Charlie Vickers is not a bad actor. With good stuff to work with, he could be enjoyable to watch.

[@goufr3540]

The One Combine Harvester to Harvest them all.

[@grokeffer6226]

😂🙂😑🤢🤮

[@whatduck943]

😂😂😂

[@chrisdolan9579]

"we're going back to the books". Also? "We're creating something new". I have a question?

[@takuid]

can't go to books that don't exists **taps head**

[@Pankakes9820]

"Set the table" they say? Not one of these people sounds like they had a solid family relationship, let alone a table they sit down with them at.

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

I'm sure that a certain dwarf would be first at that table (cue 'Drinker' laugh).

[@geno604]

As a working actor of 10+ years - I often find myself depressed at the thought of hitting a big gig, and falling flat with terrible writing. On one hand, you want to work... the other, keep your soul in tact. I've chosen soul. It's a slow go building a career with integrity.

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

Whenever Tom Bombadil gets mentioned, all I can think of is I’ve Got A Brand New Combine Harvester😂🎶

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

Jackson omitted him for a reason: prancing around, singing songs worse than 'The power of many'.

[@TheSatisfiedPig]

As a Bombadil stan, it is absolutely depressing knowing that this will be his first, and probably last, appearance outside of the books.

[@TheFourthEmperorOfTheSea]

@@nexus_of_a_crisis 🎶The power of one, the power of two, the power of the combine harvesterrrrrrrr🎶

[@dangelini1137]

Anime pfp

[@RhysCallinan-hf7qx]

​@@nexus_of_a_crisisI dunno, I think he'd have a lovely voice and better singing skills than the Lesbian Space Witch Coven of groomers.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

Powerful women do NOT make people cross. Stupid characters on the other hand…And the show runners realize that Galadriel is supposed to be married at this point, yes?

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

Still didnt understand why they did not just call quits on this one. From what i heard is one of the most expensive mistakes from the last years.

[@MemoristCed]

The money has to get to its destination somehow.

[@idiot_city5444]

They ordered multiple seasons at once, they have to make it

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

@@idiot_city5444 Ouch. Then somebody will get fired for sure.

[@debanydoombringer1385]

The contract with the estate is 5 seasons. They have to make them. As one person said, they could make the last 2 seasons just Galadriel farting, but they still have to make and air it.

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

@@debanydoombringer1385 I bet that probably her farting would be better than whatever BS they gonna do with Tolkien history. Because they dont care anyway.

[@abelingaw5070]

"There's so much happening.. for everyone." So basically, no story cohesion just like S1.

[@eddobh]

So the message is that a particular guy with a particular island wouldn't had made anything wrong if he was hot enough? I see...

[@Stock--Rosso]

I cried when Sauron took the knee and said he couldn't breathe🧙🏼‍♂🖤

[@GIBBO4182]

Can’t wait for the super fan videos and the insufferable cast interviews for season 2…

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

Oh, the humanity!

[@Adam-sd2ow]

Those people haven't even watched beyond the second episode of Season 1 😂

[@ThePosino]

It's insane how coached these comments from the actors are. No thought besides "must follow script" behind these eyes at all.

[@The-blight-n9o]

They’re going to lose so much money because of this dumpster fire of a show

[@stephenstevens6573]

Yes, but they don't care ..they'll just fleece the rest of us for hundreds of millions more ...

[@daveeyes]

Hope so!

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

$1 billion went somewhere and it wasn’t to the show last season.

[@stephenstevens6573]

@@chazzitz-wh4ly it's called money laundering...lol

[@marcosgin777]

Oh that would be swell. Proves a point

[@wolfsokaya]

I dont get why people would want to see themself in something,but they could just use a mirror.

[@m.b.boyack2228]

The most apropos clip to encapsulate the delusional repetitive rhetoric coming from ROP marketing department. "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy." Immediately comes to mind listening to the rehearsed propaganda that is the authorized talking points from the cast, "Season 1 was mainly world building!"

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

It really is. In a few more years, no m4l3 will want to be an Aragorn, Iron Man, etc... because the "galadriels" don't need them, want them, or even appreciate them. ... and we are already headed for a mouse utopia.

[@johnnycash5858]

Bronwin isn’t out of this season due to her activism. Amazon and the media tried to push that impression with the initial announcement but then she immediately threw them under the bus with her statement that yes she was focusing more on activism but that decision had NOTHING to do with her choice to not return for the second season. She could have let them have their fantasy but was like “F that, no.”

[@danielliu22]

Tolkien overtly states that Tom Bombadil is intended to be a sort of representation of Merry England, so...wtf with the accent?!??

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

You should read that Irish Times article about how the Harfoots were given Irish accents while portrayed as poor and dirty. These show runners think they are "representing the world as it is" (as opposed to how Tolkien wrote it and Peter Jackson portrayed it), but they don't look further than LA and seem to rely on their stereotypes of what British/UK/Ireland accents sound like to assign them to characters. Tom Bombadil has no business being in the show at all.

[@kitalalaris]

@@dronesclubhighjinks Yeah, it's very bizarre how entertainment creators were able to find Irish actors in 1967 but they don't know where to find them *now.*

[@Calvinosaur]

@@dronesclubhighjinks Of all the countries in the world, Ireland has the third largest GDP per capita. The show is truly representative of the world we live in today!

[@MegaKnight2012]

​@@dronesclubhighjinks Given Tolkien's elves were based on Ireland's Tuatha Da Danan, those guys should be Irish. Or Finnish and Welsh, since Tolkien based Quenya and Sindarin off those languages.

[@creepingdread88]

@@MegaKnight2012 Alfred, is old English for Friend of the elves. The elves Tolkien's referring to are Anglo-Saxon, which is far older the Ireland. Tolkien didn't like Irish or Welsh mythology, there's a video of him saying so. The idea behind writing the Lord of the Rings, was to fill in the gaps of English mythology, and make a story based in it. Whenever anyone ways it's from Scandinavia, Ireland or wherever, are missing the point. The only Scandinavian connection, is simply because England are Scandinavian, it's where they came from. They were the centre of the Scandinavian world. For example, Alfred, is old English for Friend of the elves, Odin, Thor and Tyr, are newer versions of the original Anglo-Saxon gods, Woden, Thunar and Tiw.

[@charlesjmouse]

"Who would have thought a ring could have such power?" I've known a few people like that - never walk in to an enclosed space with them is my advice.

[@damiancwiok858]

This season won't even be worth pirating

[@Rakiarmas]

I don't think that even pirates want to be involved with this.

[@idiot_city5444]

The first certainly wasn't

[@MAGAMAN]

You thought the first was?

[@takuid]

you don't have to qualify it with "this season" :)

[@damienruzco]

Waking from Eregion to Moria in one scene transition, sailing from the Numenor to middle earth then riding to Mordor in one episode, KILLER world building

[@michaelryan6342]

More of the same. People who defend it with "but the orcs look great!" Yes, but you had a billion dollars. That's like having a billion dollars to build a skyscraper, and the best thing you can say is, "The door looks nice." The Elven rings being created first was so dumb. For reasons the writers will never understand. There's a reason that Sauron left those three for last. He knew the elves would he the ones to catch on quickest. They needed to be approached most cautiously. By the end of those, it was too late. These are the dumbest elves ever for 16 more rings to be distributed through the land and one ring to rule them all made without them having a clue where and how and to whom they'll be given. I believe "exasperation" would be the word we're all looking for.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

And the rings look like what you get out of a vending machine at the fair.

[@michaelryan6342]

@@dronesclubhighjinks Ones to which you say, "Aww, I wanted the other one!"

[@MegaKnight2012]

Pretty sure the Elven Rings were made in secret, after they were sus about the dwarven and human rings.

[@Jezza_One]

Sauron had nothing to do with making the three.

[@michaelryan6342]

@@Jezza_One His influence was what made them make them in the first place, wasn't it?

[@neils6003]

The hero of comic con was the small wooden chair holding up the big fat Disa.

[@arbur4746]

Not that I had any hopes of the season 2 being any good, but even that 0.0001% of hope vanished

[@leespiderpod]

As a Tolkien fan, this show feels like someone is twisting a Morgul-knife in my gut

[@elijahbrooks1472]

I’m sure someone at the Tolkien estate is gonna cry reading this comment lol😂 “sarcasm”

[@ringwe]

Thanks for informing me about the new trailer, I need to go and contribute my share of the negative ratio.

[@BigCowProductions]

The section 31 trailer is out now, too

[@BLAW1758]

World building? Then it was a tiny word. All of Mordor turned out to have only one village of about 100 people. I didn’t get how that was large enough for them to have a king

[@bradwolf07]

"Balrog is HERE" So they turn Desi into the Balrog? That's a bold move, Cotton

[@nexus_of_a_crisis]

It's not going to pay off for them, it just isn't.

[@igormatijevic4408]

She will probably eat the Balrog.

[@boobah5643]

Aren't the Balrogs a group of twisted entities, like the dragons, with the one in Moria the last known example?

[@MarkusHansson]

Of course Celebrimbor has a female apprentice. Let me guess, she is just misunderstood and actually better than him.

[@martinb2213]

One word that comes to mind to describe how so called entertainment is going and that's depressing

[@mikusoxlongius]

We used to have stories full of Hope, Bravery and Sacrifice. Now we got this...

[@natp8387]

As a woman and a Tolkien fan all I can say is 'Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!' ..... and put a man with some balls in charge of the next attempt. Preferably British and proud of that.

[@denethorpalantir2815]

Tolkien is spinning in his grave. Such disrespect.

[@joba4848]

I reckon he has probably reached the earth’s core by now. Season 3 or 4, he will reappear near Australia.

[@nicoleackerman205]

We could power the whole earth for years off of his rotation.

[@matejzizanovic7959]

I thought the same in 2001 when i saw Legolas skateboarding on a shield shooting arrows...

[@takuid]

literally a beyblade at this point.

[@mummifiedgamer]

It would be so great to just once pin these fools down as an interviewer. Even if they fire me on the spot it would be worth it. - We are all gritty, and struggle with morality - What do you mean, are you really unable to tell right from wrong?

[@UncensoredScion]

I'm already dead inside from a lot of other things so seeing that trailer didn't do much for me other than "oh yeah....Wal-Mart brand LOTR again...yay."

[@joba4848]

I’m pretty much the same. I really haven’t got any more fu@ks to give at this point. It’s all so utterly predictable.

[@mikusoxlongius]

Wal-Martians*

[@LouLikestowatch]

Cant wait for S2! As long as i dont have to watch it myself. 😂 Cant wait for your commentary 😊

[@jeniferclemente1252]

Still enjoy every video knowing it’s more exposure of how bad things get for IPs like Lord of the Rings and why it not worth watching. The hilarious clips are still don’t get old 😆

[@kdog3908]

Not really a potential Sir Ian McKellan or Christopher Lee among them really, is there? None of these actors have the gravitas to play any of these roles. The whole thing looks like a Sunday School production. No matter how much glitter you sprinkle on a turd...you still just have a turd with glitter on it.

[@eddobh]

4:08 when memes elevate themselves to the status of art.

[@heretic4521]

A lot of world building... cause, ya know, Tolkien fans really haven't heard of any of these characters before... 🤦‍♂

[@eeman1335]

The Guyladriel of Rings of Power is not a strong woman. She's closer to a punk, than strength. However, LOTR's Galadriel was/is a strong woman. Wise, graceful, and spiritual in a righteous sense. Everyone loved her and seeing her give gifts to all the men and dwarves and Hobbit's going off to destroy the one ring was legendary cinematography. We're not afraid of strong women, real women. We just don't like the fake ones.

[@EnDK64]

Never thought I'd see a Shoe0nHead reference from Disparu

[@namor3607]

The thirst trap villain is a natural extension of deliberately not writing any strong male protagonists. As much as they cry about the male gaze, it's the female gaze that drives media and women aren't interested in weak or ugly men.

[@chamuuemura5314]

It’s also the result of writers with daddy issues who never knew a good man as a child and now as an adult wouldn’t know one if they saw him.

[@danielh5583]

It is very ironic isn’t it though that women complain about objectifying but in every instance where you give them control of a show it’s the very first thing they do. Hot Sauron, acolyte with hot sith guy, that awful ghostbusters movie with ditzy hemsworth

[@aclark7243]

@@danielh5583 But it's okay when they do it.

[@HansenSWE]

I'm sitting here trying to remember whether I finished season one, but for the life of me, I can't fkng remember.

[@1stAEmil]

What worked for the Acolyte is not getting an S2, why doesn't this work for Rings of Power?

[@kjellduteweert9262]

pride to not admit failure.

[@dendrien]

Because rings of power cost 1billion dollar production. That’s why. They can’t effort to just cancel it 😂

[@mbob4337]

They were already building stuff with Rings. While you can cancel Acolyte. And just take those sets and use them for other Star Wars.

[@BelMarduksBizarreBazaar]

they signed for 3 up front like wheel of time and velma

[@mikusoxlongius]

Bezos has deep pockets*

[@Akhillez]

Just like the writers of Star Wars now a days, Rings of Power suffers the same problems. Having people in charge who don't actually like the universe and actively work to destroy everything that made that universe dear to many peoples hearts. These same people can absolutely not comprehend how time/space works in either universe. They have no concept of scale or how travel works. Honestly, outside of representing people based solely on their sexual preferences, I doubt these writers have any real coherent thoughts.

[@RambinoYT]

New season soon? Thanks for reminding me Disparu, i just cancelled my Prime subscription just in time! Phew, glad i dodged that bullet