Reviews are out Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and the media response was exactly what everyone expected. But Prime videos response? I think I'm just surprised it took them this long to do what Star Wars did. But what do you think? Did you expect this line of defence? Let me know your thoughts below and as always, thanks for watching :)

@jeremymain7303

Жыл бұрын

They're Thelemites.

@surlyunicorn9461

Жыл бұрын

This defense is a feature. A modern production can’t have an all white cast so there’s always the “if you don’t like it you’re a racist” attack ready to be unleashed. It immediately deflects from legitimate criticism and moves the discussion away from the movie, tv show, video game etc to something else entirely.

@jarnobrofelt1891

Жыл бұрын

Another great video! 👏👏 Thx m8! 😊

@hedrocs

Жыл бұрын

Please stop, i've heard this "they are actually the real racist" basic bitch talking point thousands of times. TL;DR get more red pilled!

@annienunyabiz6627

Жыл бұрын

When I did freelance writing, a common job that would pop up was to be paid for positive reviews. Amazon was the most common client. There's a reason the positive reviews are a couple sentences vs the negative ones having several paragraphs of criticism.

"I hated this show, but then one of the actors called me racist. Now I love it" - no one ever

@M167A1

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be quite so dismissive, this is a very powerful social motivator these days. When things get polarized and people break down into camps many folks tend to follow whatever they feel their tribe is doing. What Amazon is attempting to do here is to show that the modern politically progressive and therefore righteous folks are enjoying the show. Think of it as if you were dealing with a religion. Why does Homer really go to church? He gets social pressure from Marge and the neighbors.

@radradR0bot

Жыл бұрын

@@M167A1 you lost me at the Simpsons reference

@M167A1

Жыл бұрын

@@radradR0bot which is probably why I'm not a comedy writer.

@matthardy301

Жыл бұрын

he makes sense, likely it is pressure, and Amazon will follow the perceived money. They don't actually care about LotR or the black hobbits or whatever. They are playing up to the people that want everything wrecked and blurred. Why not cast a plant? Next it would be a trans-gender elf, or whatever it is. Same deal, they wanna come appeal to the 5th genders and woke points of view. Not saying you cant be what you want, but i do think you shouldn't forcibly attach it to things you know people want to love.

@Shineinpoverty

Жыл бұрын

They are like " we keep calling you racists, why are you still not liking our show, RACISTS!"

One of the most concerning aspects is that Amazon, at the first opportunity, abused their power to hide negative reviews.

@MrAndrea9555

Жыл бұрын

Yes, such a shame! They are pushing their product only for money! This is the meaning of their action.

@lanesteele240

Жыл бұрын

They also know what you posted and could use it against you in the future

@JohnDoe-vm5rb

Жыл бұрын

surely you mean "unsuprising"

@totallynottrademarked5279

Жыл бұрын

Shocker to no one, the company that collects the most data in the world can easily see your zero watch time and review. While having a script check the IMDB database and your Amazon account and watch time if they use the same email. There were 100+ reviews within 5 mins of the show launching.

@aperta7525

Жыл бұрын

Yep

What boggles my mind is how the writers and directors of the show were so desperate to make black elves and dwarves to expand on Tolkiens "limited imagination," and add diversity to Middle Earth, all the while completely ignoring the entire race of Easterlings and naturally dark skinned and would have been the perfect answer to this issue. Rather than trying to expand on the gaps in Tolkien's work, this seems more like a deliberate and "woke" misinterpretation of everything Tolkien.

@1Plebeian

Жыл бұрын

You'd actually have to have good writing though. This way you can just ship it right out.

@jaredthescienceguy

Жыл бұрын

@Anonymous Cheese Honestly because this is a subtype of nomatic hobbits and a large number of the caravan appear to be black/ darker skinned, I'm willing to believe the possibility of some harrfoots (which are supposed to be darker skinned anyways) being black. The dwarves make little to no sense and the black elves make ABSOLUTELY no sense....

@J.DeLaPoer

Жыл бұрын

When any franchise literally makes "FIRST BLACK ______!!!" the front and center of all their marketing and interviews, you know it's going to be crap. I don't enjoy Tolkien's high fantasy for racial activism, and I don't want to be lectured by my entertainment, period.

@joshjones6072

Жыл бұрын

To your exact point, the "Southrons" are supposed to be from Middle Earth's ~african~ continent. But they made the Southern King stranded on his shipwreck caucasian... I guess that was a conscious decision on their part?

@xombieo0723

Жыл бұрын

Just relax you racists! It's not like bIk people are marrying your daughter. Who am I kidding? It's not like you basement dwellers will ever reproduce. lol

As a brown person I find it absolutley appalling that as amazon suggests, I by definition would have the need to see ppl looking like me represented everywhere. It just makes no sense whatsoever, one needs to posess a great deal of narcissism and a hugely inflated ego for that to be true. Tolkien was my first introduction to fantasy and middle earth as a kid and I absolutley loved his books. This is not Tolkien this is an abomination turned into som woke jibberish. And calling anyone who doesent like it racist is utter nonsene, and frankly I find it very offending that they are posing liket they are taking a stand for me as a brown person for some in their made up head racism that does not exist. And in doing so painting the picture that all darker skinned ppl would be as unreasonable as they are!

@matthardy301

Жыл бұрын

love this comment, especially the way you introduced yourself ! :D People forget what real racism looks like i think

@ladyerind199

Жыл бұрын

I feel similarly as a woman, seeing how Hollywood thinks they need to portray strong women as angry, self-righteous Karen’s who use violence and petulance to succeed in the world. I find Tolkien’s writing of Galadriel as wise, patient, and intuitive far more admirable than how she is portrayed in this show. They need to stop trying to tell us what strong women and racial representation is. Please just entertain me, and leave your political BS at the door.

@gretchenbaker7435

Жыл бұрын

And that two of the whitest guys I've ever seen is telling people they are racist and sexist because they've ended racism by slotting actors into only a couple of roles and then making the actors dance for the media .

Think I've figured out what's missing from rings of power. Tolkien.

@hannah1948

Жыл бұрын

THAT'S IT!!! I knew something was off!!!

@Alexs.2599

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, glaringly so!

@CarnivoreMomma

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it.

@BDRmongoose

Жыл бұрын

So did they replace Tolkien with Token?

@Matt42MSG

Жыл бұрын

And quality dialog. And plotting. And... everything other than pretty scenery.

It’s so disgusting how they “defend” their shitty product by slandering everyone into silence. It’s honestly despicable.

@jonathancooper4914

Жыл бұрын

They won’t succeed.

@tractordamage5272

Жыл бұрын

And 'Woke' Narcissists still can't connect their behaviour with Putin's 'Slogans for the Sheep'. But hey...Narcissists have ZERO self-awareness, and 'project' their own mindset instead. All Narcissist cultures...from BLM to Antifa...will tell you who they are, and how they think, by what they accuse you of.

@anon-yw4wd

Жыл бұрын

Doomcocks new video really crushes this point home.

@starwrecker7524

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathancooper4914 As long as there are true fans, they shall and cannot have it! The day might come, when all has been forgotten, when all people have been brainwashed into an alternate history that never happened. But it is not this day! And I say: Let us create NEW - but true to our mythologies - stories in the spirit of Tolkien, Roddenberry, George Lucas!

@WiseOwl_1408

Жыл бұрын

@@anon-yw4wd doomcock is a grifter. He's cringe and beta

"...rather than the limits, of [Tolkien's] imagination." Ah, yes. The man who literally created multiple languages and then a series of cultures to use those languages, as well as places for those cultures to exist, coupled with an incredibly rich mythology and history to support those cultures, locations and languages had a "limited" imagination. Clearly the assholes writing _The Rings of Prime_ can surpass Tolkien's imagination.

"Evil cannot create, it can just corrupt what good men create" JRR Tolkien

I'm not repulsed by it, i actually enjoy it. In my eyes, them screaming "RACIST!" translates to "You are right, our sh*t is indeed sh*t...and we HATE you for noticing it!", it's like a compliment.

@torchlight1785

Жыл бұрын

Still the word "racist" is so diluted it doesn't even have weight behind it anymore. It's just a catch all term used to dismiss opinions they don't like, akin to saying someone is a "nazi" just because they won't support their cause.

@MrLolguy93

Жыл бұрын

At this point, that's a badge of honor

@markhill3858

Жыл бұрын

ahh .. that would be the WORST thing theyve done. Now we have so many folks saying "If they are calling me racist I must be doing it right". You cant let them use something as SERIOUS as racism to defend a pathetic shitshow .. or let them make you say such things. The majority of Tolkien fans are NOT racists, nor is LotR any sort of "White Power Fantasy". Resist the dark side my brother :)

@chrismead1464

Жыл бұрын

My dad had a saying, "You don't have to be a genius to know there is sh*t nearby after a good sniff".

@woutervanbinsbergen3368

Жыл бұрын

@@chrismead1464 Ah, the wisdom of age. So lacking in current day reviews.

I've yet to hear a satisfactory explanation as to why a monolithic company would spend $250 million in order to gain access to an existing fan base that it clearly hates.

@Gilmore74

Жыл бұрын

I think they were arrogant enough to think they could pull this off

@zoebaggins90

Жыл бұрын

The goal is to destroy everything you love.

@phangirlable

Жыл бұрын

It's pure postmodernism aka deconstructionism. Not from the people who want to actually make money off off this but the woke postmodernist trash that is in power of the creative decision making. It was the same with Ghostbusters. That was just pure disdain for the source material, hatred for the fans, the director's personal vendetta again men with the goal to wreck the franchise, there is no other explanation for that movie and the steady stream of insults of the fanbase they came out of Warner.

@aperta7525

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd like to know that too.

@LeathanL

Жыл бұрын

On some level it's as Disparu explained. The goal is to tell that existing fanbase how despicable they are, and therefore how much better and more enlightened the show-makers are.

Love this dialogue from ep 3 (paraphrasing of course). Galadriel: The elves gave you this land. Queen: We earned this land with our blood. Galadriel: If blood is the price of passage, then I shall pay it. Bitch, that's not what she said! And how do you pay for passage with blood? Are you gonna die? Queen: You are welcome to try. Galadriel: I do not need your welcome. What?! What the hell does that even mean?!

@Konin300

Жыл бұрын

"we bought this island with blood" "Ok i pay blood for one boat" Come on that's not an unrealistic connection to draw. Where that blood is supposed to come from isn't made clear, I agree. But if you consider that they're speaking to someone who just listed all her military ranks, i'm sure the queen regent could come up with a target for Galadriel to get rid of. We've *just* heard of corsairs prowling the seas an episode earlier, it wouldn't be a far fetch to have her take care of some in the seas near numenor in exchange for passage. Hell, some of the most acclaimed fantasy RPGs use exactly that kind of logic consistently whenever their hero needs a favor or aid and nobody complains there usually. (Witcher 3 does this a lot with the Bloody Baron and people love that game for the narrative) It's only when the holy bible of fantasy is touched that people throw aboard all their experiences with the fantasy genre as a whole and try to see an issue in everything that they would normally accept at face value. The welcome-exchange was oddly written, I agree. They threw that one in so they could have the rude back and forth between the two to escalate the dialogue. "You are welcome to try" "I do not need your welcome" "And you are quickly wearing out yours" They went for the "rule of cool" here and wrote something up that sounds witty and clever, but kinda doesn't make a lot of sense if you think it through.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

I remember that being able to read Tolkien in his native tongue was a real motivation for me to learn English when I was young. I remember how nervous I was watching Fellowship of the Ring in the cinema for the first time because if they had screwed it up I would never get a good movie version. I tried to watch the first episode of the rings of power but fell asleep. Sounds like I was lucky 🤬

@toasto

Жыл бұрын

Lol I fell asleep during it too!

@the1observer

Жыл бұрын

You should see episode 3. About 4 minutes of actions over 65 minutes runtime and 61 minutes of pure garbage.

@LandofLight

Жыл бұрын

I also fell asleep half way through

@seanburke997

Жыл бұрын

@@the1observer Episode 1 i was like "hmmmm", episode 2 i was "goddamit", but by the end of episode three i was all "fuck you, what have you done?!"

@the1observer

Жыл бұрын

@@seanburke997 🤣🤣🤣

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made” J.R.R Tolkien

@h91rex100

Жыл бұрын

Kind of like this quote plastered literally on every single video related to Tolkien

@CorePathway

Жыл бұрын

Entitled narcissistic writers often create characters in their likeness. - Billy Graham

@bloody4558

Жыл бұрын

@@h91rex100 thank you, I'm also getting very tired of this quote

@pigeonsil240sx

Жыл бұрын

he warned us didnt he

@danielcrow1777

Жыл бұрын

@@h91rex100 True, that's where I took mine, they want to pass a message, why don't we answer them with one too ? ^^

As an Amazon employee toiling away in their fullfillment centers and knowing they spent a BILLION dollars on this show, just makes me feel really mad, that could have helped us so much, I had seen how they push elderly people in their 60's to meet quota. I remember I had a bummed foot once and I had to be lectured by my supervisor how I can improve my time, he didnt care about the pain I was suffering. And as someone who knows Tolkien history better then the show runners themselves thanks to youtubers like Nerd of the Rings I am saddened that even with a billion dollars they cant tell the story CORRECTLY! They squandered the potential. I want a shirt where the eye of Baradur is replaced by a fiery Amazon smile, I want six of those shirts to wear a one everyday to work. With Tolkien's famous quote about how "evil canon create it can only corrupt that which was good" on the back as a silent FU the dark lords of Amazon

@tkps

Жыл бұрын

What I find sad about what you say is Amazon is branching into other countries where they must treat employees decently & give decent pay/conditions. Proof it's their choice & they can make profit. If that behaviour was tried Amazon would get it's arse kicked from one end of the country to the other and they know it. Not to say individual employees try it now and then. My son worked for a fast food place when younger and the odd supervisor not much older would try that behaviour. A call to the head office had the area manager call personally to apologise and promise the behaviour would never be repeated. It can be done.

@Lonovavir

Жыл бұрын

I have a friend who works for Amazon and wants a job somewhere else even if he's got to take a pay cut. I don't blame him.

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers

Жыл бұрын

Somebody get on that shirt idea.

We live in a world that actively attacks what's beautiful out of spite. Tolkien's work is a rose, a testament to his love for the English. These people call that Love racist and call Tolkien fans racist. This is such a disgusting situation. I can't bare it. I hope for the day we can all finally sit down and appreciate beautiful things without being discouraged about it.

@rpotuathail9471

Жыл бұрын

To the left any beautiful aspects of European culture must be destroyed it's that simple.

@mcparadise97

Жыл бұрын

Amen. I completely agree. All this hate towards us original fans, being called racist, and other abominable names is genuinely breaking my heart. The LOTR book series and the movies actually helped me through a lot of dark times in my life, and it helped me to understand that there will always be a light in the darkness, no matter how stifling and overwhelming the darkness may be; to keep on moving forward, no matter what bad and scary things may happen. Jeff Bezos literally poured all of his money, his greed and his will to dominate the film industry into the Rings of Power show, and those of us who are paying attention can easily tell. It does NOT even FEEL the same as the original LOTR series. It feels….faux.

@mischagoss3599

Жыл бұрын

Bear it. Not bare it.

@1Plebeian

Жыл бұрын

I don't feel discouraged. I feel fine knowing the difference between treasure trash.

@Maedelrosen

Жыл бұрын

The Logos through the lens of each persons culture is the roots of what is able to become beautiful. Tolkien's work is a lie detector to anyone who meddles with the lore, their intentions are known instantly upon changing it.

They could've just created some small, low-stakes story set in Middle Earth and build from there. But they couldn't resist the cultural asset they thought they had.

@kolaranze

Жыл бұрын

Exactly👏

@Alexs.2599

Жыл бұрын

Yep pretty much.

@lordmegatron7559

Жыл бұрын

On the money.

@Somerandomfilmmakerguy

Жыл бұрын

Based

@mrblank-zh1xy

Жыл бұрын

That's right.

What's funny is that we would have LOVED to see all the other cultures Tolkien created on the big screen. I would personally love to see the Harad and their lifestyle and people. Tolkien created a gold mine of cultures to escavate and explore yet they went the lazy route and made elf black. As an African and fan of LOTR, my message to Amazon is this: Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul.

@AMikeStein

Жыл бұрын

That… was not so courteous.

@TheSuperappelflap

Жыл бұрын

dude i wouldve paid 500 euro to see the first age on screen as Tolkien imagined it. Oh Beleriand.

@Alexs.2599

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, but Amazon doesn't have the creative imagination to do that. Also they're too concerned with being woke inclusive.

@toyaleejb7714

Жыл бұрын

@@AMikeStein they do not deserve my courtesy

@neildaly2635

Жыл бұрын

Yeah what he said

My favorite "critics are racist" article was one that claimed "Tolkien's work has always drawn in white supremacists". Just a moment of awe in how they managed to profile Boomer and Gen X nerds altogether as racists. As if LoTR fans didn't endure enough growing up in a world that made fun of us. Up until about a decade ago; LoTR, D&D, Battletech, Warhammer, etc.. weren't mainstream and definitely weren't considered cool.

@ryanw842

Жыл бұрын

Nerds we may be and enjoy but we know how to think, argue and see truth. They should back off.

I hated the pacing, the lack of action, as well as the character writing and interactions. Then I saw the tweet and realized I was actually just a racist. Now my whole life has turned around and i can see that everything I ever believed was wrong. This series is the BEST thing on television! -I assume this is what they expect to happen.

"Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!" - Aragorns speech at the Black Gates

@dvangils227

Жыл бұрын

Still moves me those lines 🙏

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

Havnt seen it in years, but remember the speech well. Rop wont be like this lol.

@firefoxriouyh6541

Жыл бұрын

Don't let the Trojan Horse in nor the ppl attempt to convince us its good.

@dlevi67

Жыл бұрын

@@dvangils227 Henry IV.

@theraccinblack6813

Жыл бұрын

Dammit I get chills just reading this speech

Has anyone else noticed the "subtle" hints with the Orcs wearing white robes while Don Lemonas was in chains?

@RoseBaggins

Жыл бұрын

If they really wanted that imagery, they really should have just done stories about the peoples Sauron did in fact enslave. But I guess that would take too much creativity.

@zoebaggins90

Жыл бұрын

The Orcs are literally white now.

@TheAndrian463

Жыл бұрын

Yup, another allegory thrown in; Tolkien would be spitting now if he was around.

@mixelplik

Жыл бұрын

Subtle? They made them burn in sunlight so they would be underground so they could defend their white skin color. All the orcs are white - you know, in keeping with "down with the patriarchy" by making white males evil and stupid. And when someone points out this the showrunners will claim "they are white because they're underground"...but then say you are racists for pointing out that black dwarves shouldn't be possible because of lack of light.

@nuxkamina

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAndrian463 allegory isn't symbolism or metaphor. But you did good with the google reading.

I can prove that the Professor would have completely despised the Amazon show: “The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

@J.DeLaPoer

Жыл бұрын

I come from academia (literally have a doctorate & spent many years in research) and this is 100% the case. The entirety of Western academia is just suffused with rampant, endemic, pompous leftist-woke ideology; it's why I left as it was getting bad even 15+ years ago, and it's killing academia too: _Genuinely highly intelligent people are leaving in droves as they get sick of this malicious and bankrupt anti-white, anti-male, leftist crap. What remains is a cadre of literally midwit activists who push this stuff and ostracize anyone who isn't on board as another member of their moral gestapo in-group. And as noted these "experts", who are literally the bottom of the barrel, are the dominant force teaching the marketing and PR folks for these companies._ And indoctrinating the next generations of woke activists, but that's slightly beside the point. FWIW from a random self-professed expert on the internet, Tolkien was not a racist. However he absolutely did intend LOTR as, and I quote, "a mythology for England" eg; whites. He would've also been sickened as to how these self-righteous global megacorps have perverted and subverted his work to push a leftist political message. *As a person, he was very much not on board with this ideology and the whole globohomo multicultural idiocy being pushed upon the Western world these days. Don't buy all this absurd nonsense about Tolkien being some proto-hero in the mulikulti movement! The man was literally a conservative Christian traditionalist! Personally and politically Tolkien's would've been loathed as an 'evil far-right racist white supremacist etc etc' if he were alive today, and indeed he absolutely, unequivocally despised the idea of his work being allegorical or used for political ends -- especially the left.* The man had no love for literal Nazis, but he hated extremists on the opposite side just as much. If we could harness the energy from how hard he's spinning in his grave right now, we could solve the fake 'climate crisis' in one shot. But what do I know? I'm just a deplorable, low-IQ, -ist -phobe on the internet.

I love how the narrative has changed, from 'we are super-faithful to Tolkien's work' to 'well actually, Tolkien was a horrible racist and fundamentalist, so we AREN'T going to be faithful to Tolkien, on PURPOSE.' (and it's not just the guy you quoted - I've read it in other places). If I could be arsed, I'd go to all those ''I FEEL the spirit of Tolkien in this" ytubers and tell them that actually, by doing that, they too are racist and fundamentalist.

@NeSeeger

Жыл бұрын

There is a pretty good list of "killed" fandoms. Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, to name a few.

@12Nordsee

Жыл бұрын

Good point. They are using their disgusting spin doctors to insult their own viewers and then Tolkien.

@unasperanza9803

Жыл бұрын

Yes that is logical .they never follow through do they?

@hope-cat4894

Жыл бұрын

It looks like book burning without the fire. I'm not a Tolkien fan, but you should have at least a tiny bit of respect towards the source material of what you're adapting. They don't seem to want to make their own thing; they want to wear the success of the source material like coat and pretend the popularity comes from only them.

I've read a lot of reviews, and most of the positive ones blab about how this show is changing the world, how pretty it is, or how represented they feel by badass Galadriel. The negative reviews actually talk about the story, characters, music, visuals, writing, things that actually matter about a story. Even the 3-4 star reviews actually have something of value to say. But the 5 star ones that scream about it being a CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE THAT IS CHANGING THE FLOW TIME AND THE SPEED OF THE UNIVERSE never have anything interesting to say about the show itself.

@Syaniiti

Жыл бұрын

You mean to say that there are honest reviews at 1-3, maybe even 4 stars but at 5 stars its just meaningless drivel with no value to anyone (except Amazon). Nooo, Amazon wouldn't force their employees to give 5 stars to their own show, nor would people who worked on the show try to raise the rating of the show while knowing it actually has no redeeming features. I have not yet seen anything deserving of 5 stars in my almost 4 decades of life but I have seen plenty of stuff that would've been better not made.

@JakubChalupnik

Жыл бұрын

That sounds to me like those fake reviews of Chinese knock-off products found on Amazon. Those could be AI generated, like these two I've just generated: This AMAZING show has a WHOLE LOTTA going ON. I mean this was literally the best thing I've seen in years. It's gritty, it's raw, but very clever in how it showcased society's relationship with personal technology and how that can be addictive for people. Get ready for a tight drama every day. The Rings of Power is the best TV show ever created! It's not just a fulfilling story, but it's a big step in television storytelling. The Rings of Power will change your life!

@praetorian3902

Жыл бұрын

@@Syaniiti Wolf Of Wall Street. And the Rome TV Series. I'm 35 been watching movies since I'm 6yo and those are the only ones that I'd give a 10/10. There's one more but it's too apart for me to mention here. LOTR I gave it a 9.2/10 because there were some stuff that didn't make sense to me in the movies as standalone (by this I mean without reading the books to get the answers). So what about you, not even a single movie 10/10 ? What's your 3 most highly rated pieces of video entertainment (movies/tv shows) ?

@Syaniiti

Жыл бұрын

@@praetorian3902 The way I rate a show or a film is that everything starts at a 10/10 and then every time there's something "bad" it loses 1 point and 1/10 is the lowest it goes. So nothing can get a 9.2/10, because that'd just be 92/100. In the case of 5 stars you lose the first star with the first problem but luckily you have a second fuckup before you lose another star. My all time favourite tv show or film is Babylon 5, which gets a 9/10 from me but is no higher rated than a bunch of other 9/10 stuff, like The Shawshank Redemption or (Jackson's) Lord of the Rings or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or so so many other films.

@jeffp5418

Жыл бұрын

Yes I just went and read some of those 5 star reviews a lot of them start with "I'm a huge Tolkien fan" or "I've read the books"... they're trying to mirror what the critics are saying to come across as legitimate.

Never trust anyone who claims to be the arbiter of morality. Anyone who says, ‘you must follow what I say, or you are a bad person,’ is looking for a tool, not a person. True disciples of morality teach people how to think for themselves. Demagogues teach people to think what they want them to.

@fionnaitsradag5152

Жыл бұрын

Well put!

@bast8081

Жыл бұрын

In a society of brainwashed sheep, this is the kind of wisdom those in power will do everything they can to eradicate.

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

A lost art in 2022

@petriew2018

Жыл бұрын

i would also add : "Especially when you already know they're only saying that to make money" Amazon really, really cares about this issue when they're money is on the line, not when it comes to things like paying their workers a living wage....

@TheEternalElir

Жыл бұрын

Instantly thought of Opiate by Tool 🤘

Great video. I’ve lived and breathed Tolkien’s work since I was 13. It was a magical journey reading the Silmarillion when I was 16. It was like reading a fantastical version of the Bible. This whole Rings of Power stuff is insulting and garbage. The people using Tolkein’s work as a shield and corrupting it beyond redemption. These people suck. I’m sick of them ruining stuff I’ve lived my whole life. If they are able to corrupt Warhammer 40k, that’s it, I’m out.

I liked the bit where Hagrid said, "you're a hobbit, Nori". Completely shook.

Amazon: "úr Rayciss!" Us: "why are you hitting yourself?"

I got chills when Rubeus Hagrid told Galadriel to "Put up your sword" Galadriel answered "Sheer Fucking Hubris."

@fionnaitsradag5152

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@Gilmore74

Жыл бұрын

Ugh..what is it with this trend of shitting on beloved characters. Let's hope it's just a phase.

@TheSuperappelflap

Жыл бұрын

actually laughed out loud

@stpbasss3773

Жыл бұрын

When she said "I'm a mushroom cloud laying MFer, MFer" I started cheering.

@MephiticMiasma

Жыл бұрын

"You have not seen the things that I have seen" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Since watching the first episode from the Halo TV series back in april and reading some of the positive reviews saying it should be enjoyed as doing it's own thing, I've asked myself this ( and this applies to RoP as well): Why, if it is trying to be its own thing, does it wear a well known franchise's name?

@Konin300

Жыл бұрын

I dont know, ask Nintendo about Breath of the Wild, you know, that Zelda game that turned out to be the most successful Zelda title in a very long time because it absolutely *didn't* rely on the established Zelda formula? Creating something new on the basis of something already established is not a fundamentally flawed idea, and it shouldn't be seen as such. Rather than to attempt to undermine a concept that has already proven itself to be successful, you should focus your cricitism on the actual execution instead.

@alyantza

Жыл бұрын

@@Konin300 My point was about people who defend the show by saying its enjoyment is based on your ability to view it as its own thing, instead of a production based on a well know franchise. My problem is trying to cash in on the name of a well known franchise while doing a poor job of giving it justice. I'm sorry to say, but the comparison you made in your example gave me pause for a moment, and probably some brain damage, too. One is one of the best one-time experiences in video gaming, and one is a barely average (as of today) tv series. Creating something new based on old works is not bad, I never said that.

@TheStarksWillRise1

Жыл бұрын

​@@Konin300 Miyamoto proved his success, then decades later changed the formula in an extremely well polished manner creating a masterpiece that respects its predecessors. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist” a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso. A proven master of their craft may challenge themselves however they please. Amazon's team is only a master at asking bald daddy for money.

@Oswald_Thatendswald

Жыл бұрын

This is exactly why the news of Amazon's fallout series scares the shit out of me.

I'll say there is one good thing that has come from the ROP. Before I only ever knew what the movies and the main books said about lore. Because of the ROP failings I have began delving so much deeper into the lore and have discovered so much I never knew. It really is so very sad that such a beautiful lore has been thrown away and replaced with politics and opinions. So very sad indeed.....

Attacking/shaming the fans has never been a good strategy for a marketing campaign for any project. All it does is alienate the fans who should be apart of hyping a new entry into a franchise. This strategy has failed with Ghostbusters 2016 through to the Obi-Wan Kenobi show. It has damaged franchises to the point where it will take them decades to recover or where they will never recover (SW, ST, Dr. Who). It's not working out well for Disney/Marvel with it's recent movies & shows. Their box office and views are on the decline. Attacking and shaming Tolkien fans over a show that Amazon knew was bad will not save it. Dragging the cast of Jackson's movies into the middle of this mess and censoring reviews will not save this show either. It aggravates the situation. As has been said repeatedly over the last 8 years, fans did make this show. Amazon and their bad decisions made RoP a disaster.

@phangirlable

Жыл бұрын

I was just going to mention that awful Ghostbuster movie. I still remember I wrote a comment on the trailer, woman btw like many others who commented, and criticized it for not being funny, looking cheap and being the very thing fans did NOT want and then my comment got deleted along with thousands of others who voiced legitimate criticism. Then they went on their "u all sexis n racism" rants and the director didn't even bother to hide his hatred for men anymore and ops, flop. Why will they learn?

@CorePathway

Жыл бұрын

It reveals them all to be narcissists. A narc can’t handle rejection, and clearly these people are super-fragile.

@jda79

Жыл бұрын

Yup passing off your fans to appease people who will never buy your shit anyway

@evilassholee

Жыл бұрын

And yet, they still do that

@rubix4195

Жыл бұрын

How the fsck did someone think that a marketing campaign by insulting/disparaging/dismissing a customer base for an existing product pass a freaking marketing degree?! Seriously, an A-Level Business Studies student would know that a customer base have to be CONVINCED that the product is good NOT dismissed! Even old school marketing people would slap down ANY attempt to tell customers that their product is "not for them" - they would want EVERYONE to buy the product! I blame HR - you can't hire dropouts and think that they are "special": either hire the cream of the crop (and I speak from someone who missed out because I wasn't) or prepare for failure. (Seriously, if they hired me when I was a newb, one million pound account would definitely be lost because I didn't factor the sums right - gotta be able to learn from your mistakes but only if the company can let it go - some can't because reputation matters but those who do get loyal employees who are grateful for the lesson).

i really ought to thank all these companies for telling me how they really feel. I have saved several hundred dollars over the last couple years to spend on actual fun stuff, or hobbies that actually appreciate me as a customer.

@robertluna5737

Жыл бұрын

That’s why channels like Disparu’s are important to me. They help me avoid entertainment that’s not really entertaining.

@ardentspy

Жыл бұрын

25 million people watched the first episode. It's one of the most-watched TV shows ever. They don't need you. It's a harsh thing to come to terms with but the people who are making money out of it, including Tolkien's estate, see you as about as welcome as hemorrhoids.

@creatrixZBD

Жыл бұрын

Divest yourself from believing that corporations have feelings about you. They don’t have personalities, or feelings. They exist solely to make profit. One of their strategies to achieve this is to take advantage of your parasocial attachment to them.

@mynamename5172

Жыл бұрын

@@ardentspy I am not saying that there aren't 25 million people who watched it, but Amazon is counting "views" and has yet to actually define what a "view" is. The fact that they blocked reviews of the show for well over 72 hours are are currently "filtering" them does not give me confidence in anything they are saying about this production. Its fine to like or not like the show, or just sit like a dope on the couch looking at whatever is on the idiot box not even forming an opinion, but calling people who don't like RoP racist is gross and fundamentally dishonest. Amazon spent a billion on an IP, but they made a show that is not for fans of that IP. I would imagine, somewhere deep in Amazon Inc., someone is having a think about that. A billion is a lot of money, even for a large company. Especially if it really is an ego project for Bezos because it is getting spanked by HotD.

@snusemcgoose1001

Жыл бұрын

@@ardentspy 25 million people SAMPLED it, 25 million people did not watch it. That is a misleading headline people have been testing to run with to defend the series when if you actually loo at the numbers being reported it’s much much lower. Samba tv that records the viewing of the show through streaming said they only had 1.8 million. Even with that only being a quarter of the overall total audience that still only totals around 5.5ish million viewers. The show is a failure, they wouldn’t be acting this way if the show really got 25 million viewers

For a show that seems so conscious of race, it is weird that they would include some pretty crass stereotypes. All the Hobbits are Irish, The Elves have quite plummy English accents, and the Dwarves are Scottish.

@J.DeLaPoer

Жыл бұрын

It's because the show is not "anti-racist" it's anti-white (and anti-male). There is a big difference, in that so called racism today excludes white people in general, being the only race it's not just acceptable but literally encouraged to hate and discriminate against. The sooner people realize the agenda occurring not just in media but in every aspect and level of Western society and government, the better.

"he believed some people were essentially different to and better than others": Tolkien lived in England, hello? The King's life is of course more important than others. The lords have their own parliament. That's still this way today. And of course it is like this in a Middle Ages inspired story.

@disparutoo

Жыл бұрын

Yes England has an inherent idea of nobility, aristocracy and just normal people. But also, I'm not even equal to myself on a different day, or different times of the same day. I cannot play a guitar to save my life, other people are incredible on it. It was a crazy comment of them to pick up. And one I can only assume was deliberately twisted and misinterpreted.

Was anyone else genuinely perturbed when they saw morfydd clark smiling in episode 3 for the first time? Ik i was creeped out.

@Issaacson

Жыл бұрын

That face for some reason reminded me of a great white shark

@wetincornwall6882

Жыл бұрын

@@Issaacson uncanny resemblance to zelda from terrahawks imo.

@vladimirspoutine1264

Жыл бұрын

She looked like a shark in human skin.

@slimbombur7922

Жыл бұрын

She reminded me of Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin with that smile.

@beowulfsrevenge4369

Жыл бұрын

Her riding the horse was very creepy! 😳

as a man of irish descent I find the Harfoots a incredibly offensive stereotype. Hobbits were never described as irish but were more similar to country folk in england , even in the films the only accent used was by sean astin was from somerset england. This show makes irish people and travelers out as a joke. So much more a show against racism

@brandtbollers3183

Жыл бұрын

Utter Woke Shitte.

@LaxyDrey

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that but by now you should know racism doesn’t apply to white people. (Sarcasm)

@mynamename5172

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and we all know only the French eat snails, so why not a French accent? I mean it can be anything, right, because its fiction? I keep hearing that so it must be true.

@mariospanna8389

Жыл бұрын

You got upset because they used your language???? but its fine if its a somerset accent? End of the day you are easily offended, try this will you... don't get butthurt every time something hits close to home. The world will be a better place x

@TooneySA

Жыл бұрын

I agree with Mario, people like you are part of the problem. Irish is its own race now is it? By your logic no matter what accent they used would be racist towards somebody, as I challenge you to try and make your own accent that doesn't bare resemblance to another. Irish are trying really hard to join the oppression heirarchy, when you're still white. Fuck up.

The whole "racist superfans controversy" has been planned in advance, not because they expected it or were worried it might happen, but as a marketing ploy. It doesn't matter what the media writes about you, as long as they write about you. And it's the only script they made for dealing with critique. And they launched the script even before the avarage fan saw the trailer. Seriously, I doubt any complaint about the actors before they "spoke out" is actually legit. Bad acting? Use racist script. Flawed CGI? Use racist script. Boring story? Use racist script. Complaints about constant slow motion captures? Use racist script. Result: lots of media coverage, and an installed shield to deflect any and all critique, no matter how legit, as racism.

I worked in the gaming industry at one point in my career, working on a particular game. The game was targeted at PS2, XBox, and GameCube platforms. The original marketing buzz was that the game "could" sell $90 million of product across all three platforms. Marketing ran with that, development ran with that - the entire company ran with that. Unfortunately, such an ambitious project [it was the 4th in a franchise that had sold moderately well on previous platforms] put huge pressure on every department, from the development teams to the marketing teams to the PR teams, all talking up the game while development costs went through the roof! Ambitious features were added, and later cut, and then reworked, and then left behind. Thousands of hours of development never saw the light of day as the stress of releasing a "blockbuster" took its toll. Needless to say with cost overruns, marketing expenditures, and additional expenses the game went from "possibly" selling $90 million to HAVING to sell $90 just to break even! Well, it didn't. It was a mediocre title that had lackluster performance, and the company reorganized soon afterward. I wonder if the Rings of Power is not in a similar predicament. Between the expense of the IP, the marketing department's raising expectations, and the two or three "CGI Screenshots" that got everyone excited, it seems to have gone from "could be a great success" to "Has to be a great success!" And that's when you fail - success has to be organic, it cannot be mandated.

@Vossenator

Жыл бұрын

What game was that

Maybe the real racists were the injured harfoots we left along the way...

@RoseBaggins

Жыл бұрын

Oof, someone find the aloe!

@fionnaitsradag5152

Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@zoebaggins90

Жыл бұрын

Ok, that's genius.

@doomsdaybooty1072

Жыл бұрын

Nice

My last shred of faith in academia died this week when i read university English departments announced they will no longer cover William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. . ( British universities) American ones have banned homer . Academia is dead ( its dead jim )

@RoseBaggins

Жыл бұрын

Wait, what??

@shanenolan8252

Жыл бұрын

@@RoseBaggins yes it was in the news this week . Homer was a California school district about 3 years ago. Shakespeare might be secondary school ( high school) honours English. .but Dickens's abd Austin have been first year university English for a couple of centuries. , therevis a political reason i assume, but also modern education is so bad students cant handle it . ?l who knows.

@shanenolan8252

Жыл бұрын

@@lovelypandamom not sure . But if you search gb news Shakespeare. You will find a few segments, the jane Austen/ Dickens was this week.

@JordanS215

Жыл бұрын

🤢

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

@@lovelypandamom some feminist drivel

That’s awesome, you used my quote as the example of the one star review, lol

Some points why I think Tolkien was very progressive: * Ents being shepherds of the forests and attacking Isengard --> He advocates for environmental protection * Acknowledgment of differences in every race in every part of the known world, but also working together against a common enemy --> He promotes League of Nations / United Nations * Even if you are little (Hobbit) or female (Éowyn), you can change the world --> Believe in yourself So I think those "experts" are selling their souls, because those points stuck in my head after contact with his works. Please shit on some other author, okay?

@ryanw842

Жыл бұрын

Tolkien was Tolkien. He wasn't a pawn in our modern divided and conquered ideological war. Joining "a side" pits us against each other.

The result of the casting choices in RoP is that all of the races look pretty much the same. There's not sufficient uniformity to them for each race to be distinct. The showrunners want their series to reflect our world, and, unfortunately, they've succeeded. Elves look like humans with pointy ears; Dwarves look like short humans with big noses; Numenoreans look like every other human, except they've invented soap; 'Harfoots' look like short human vagabonds who are yet to invent the sewing needle. It makes the show look cheap, like a local thespian club who've put on a play at the scout hall and had to fill the cast with anyone they had.

@marychocolatefairy

Жыл бұрын

I agree, and the Harfoots don't even look short. The way the Hobbits were cast and styled in LOTR, I could believe they were small beings even if bigger character weren't around. Nothing about the Harfoots suggests "small non human".

@Konin300

Жыл бұрын

Eh, the dwarves look *really* distinct in this adaptation to any of the other races. Do you think removing the black dwarf and adding beards to the women would have "improved" this problem you are describing? Because the way I see it, if you really try you can dumb down *any* depiction of any race to a few outstanding features then go "they are basically just humans with X and Y". While I do think that the elves could have been translated better onto the screen (gaunt faces, taller), I find the Harfoots and Dwarves sufficiently distinct.

@tma2001

Жыл бұрын

they look like Vulcans that have wandered onto the wrong set ...

@mikestanmore2614

Жыл бұрын

@@tma2001 Yes! I half expected the Elven greeting to be "Live long and prosper"!

@mikestanmore2614

Жыл бұрын

@@Konin300 I think they missed their chance to show the dwarves are *not* just short humans with big noses when they decided to ignore the women's beards. It was a missed opportunity to display something unique to Middle Earth's dwarves. The issue is they're insufficiently dissimilar, but if you like it, you watch it mate.

It's kinda funny that a good portion of the "positive" reviews are like "it's a good generic fantasy show." Or other mediocre positive responses.

@PopeClemensIIX

Жыл бұрын

In germany there is a 5 star rating that tells in the review, that the show is a 2 star, but he/she gave it 5 stars to show a political statemant...

@dansmith5906

Жыл бұрын

The more amusing thing is the people screaming racist are usually the racist ones themselves, baselessly attacking an entire race of people constantly.

@gianna526

Жыл бұрын

@@PopeClemensIIX Lmao revealing that it's a political statement isn't really helping their case.

@Adam-sd2ow

Жыл бұрын

"I just like seeing myself, don't care about plot"

@Konin300

Жыл бұрын

If I am being honest that is all it has to be though. Nobody expects LOTR to be surpassed by anything based on Tolkien for the next billion years, especially with the Tolkien Estate being picky about the subect matter. So really, this show doesn't need to be anything other than a nice trip to middle-earth (even if modified), and so far it is just that.

The line in the article about how adaptations should be changed to reflect the time they are made, is a perfect summation of what is wrong with all adaptations being made. They don't do adaptations they are making what they think it should have been not what it is and then call the people who love the original horrible names. I haven't seen anything good in years.

If Disparu said all this in front of a live audience, he'd deserve a STANDING OVATION. 👏👏👏

Watching Disparu single handedly taking down a trillion dollar company is marvelous to watch. David vs goliath.

@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT

Жыл бұрын

He’s not taking down anything, probably takes something up his mouth though

@alexmason8557

Жыл бұрын

@@ClinicalDecisionYikesYTkeep your queering to yourself boy.

@abehambino

Жыл бұрын

To be fair there are many people lining up to fight for Tolkien.

@woutervanbinsbergen3368

Жыл бұрын

Let's give him an extra rock, just to be sure.

@dangermouse9348

Жыл бұрын

He's far from alone in this. Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Heel vs Babyface, the entire Geeks and Gamers crowd, and many, many more. Good time to find new channels. I only found Disparu because of Kenobi.

What I find really disappointing about this (apart from the disgrace of Tolkien) is all the people that have come out and gone along with this narrative, Élijah is now calling us liars and racist too by going along with them and their narrative. I’ll never support anything with those three in again now, which is a shame, they should have stayed out of it

@Hiraghm

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I always figured they'd be leftists themselves. Wood I can understand, because he's American and brainwashed in multiculturalism, anyway. But the other two are from the British Isles. "Oikophobia" I believe it's called; hatred of the familiar... hatred of your own kind.

@mcparadise97

Жыл бұрын

On the other hand, Aragorn had some choice words to say about the series, and how it doesn’t relate to the real lore lol. I think I like that Aragorn dude a lot more now. He was just bashin away at Rings of Power 🤣

@richardrose2606

Жыл бұрын

They are ignorant of what is really happening and are just being used as useful idiots, not realizing they are damaging their reputations and hurting their careers. Like Harry, Hermione and Ron (the actors portraying them of course) who owe their fame and fortune to J. K. Rowling and turn around and betray her like sniveling cowards. I believe one day the will realize what they've done and will be greatly ashamed and embarrassed.

@georgivitkov3021

Жыл бұрын

Since day 1, I always thought Elijah was the absolute worst, and maybe the only shit casted actor in the original movies. His opinion has never really mattered.

@johnlong2192

Жыл бұрын

@@richardrose2606 I

The elf ear t-shirts that they were marketing I found disturbing. Eerily remenicent of the macabre necklace of ears seen in universal soldier 1992 by Dolph Lundgren's character.

I tried leaving a review on Amazon and they still haven’t published it after days. My review did not include any personal attacks, it was simply based on my opinion of the quality of the show. There is no justifiable reason for not publishing it. Ironically, the one character I really can’t stand is Galadriel. So… as a white female myself, I think it would be pretty difficult to accuse me of being racist or misogynistic for despising the primary white female character. I just can’t stand what they have done to destroy this character whom I’ve always loved in the books and movies.

@anotherpianoman

Жыл бұрын

You are wrong there. Woke theory says that you can be black tracist and a woman and mysognist even without knowing it yourself. This way, if someone calls you out, racist or mysognist you are not insulted but enlightened.

I have a degree in business, marketing is one of the classes I took and I definitely do not remember insulting the customers being a wise tactic to make money.

@abyssprimus

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about it myself but 8kun conspiracy theorists say that bzos is using the series to launder fat stacks

@melrobertson2743

Жыл бұрын

@@abyssprimus it certainly didn't go to hiring experienced, talented writers

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

Terrible script, terrible actors, and shit cgi LOL, where is the billion??

@cadbane6523

Жыл бұрын

When you get hired just for being a women or minority. You never have to think about making a profit for your company.

@chongli3007

Жыл бұрын

This series has nothing to do with money. Destruction is the point . Just like all the other franchise haven’t even paying attention?

It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, wisest and fairest of them all. The rights were then given to Jackson, a great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desired quality But they were all of them deceived, for another show was made. In the land of Amazon, in the fires of Mount Prime, the Dark Lord Bezos forged in secret a master flop And into this show he poured his money, his greed and his will to dominate all film One show to ruin them all

@andreeadee2434

Жыл бұрын

One show to despise them, one show to divide them all and in the darkness unite them In the land of Amazon where the shadows lie

@jonathancooper4914

Жыл бұрын

One by one, the identitarian Liberals, shills and access media fell to the power of the flop. But there were some who resisted.

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers

Жыл бұрын

Stolen.

@therallybeard

Жыл бұрын

@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers im just a cover...

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers

Жыл бұрын

@@therallybeard OK cool. It was a great vid.

Excellent observation sir.

@disparu your review is, up to now, the best of all and the one that hits the nail. I'll be more than glad to share it and let it be known

Why do they even have the right to declare any kind of authoratative culture surrounding some perceived "Tolkien" fandom? They're just a company that acquired some rights to do a franchised spin-off long after the death of the author. They didn't invent middle-earth and they surely haven't been a part of any purported "community" for the decades Tolkien's work has been around. Who do they think they are? And, I mean, this is a corporation that benefits off the forced labor of Uyghurs using humans as shields for legitimate criticism. They don't care about you or I or their employees unless it's convenient for them.

@jonathanchester5916

Жыл бұрын

This is what I realized too - they cannot and we should not let them control the cultural narrative. Amazon is the falsest of prophets.

@AJ-po6up

Жыл бұрын

Well said, I'm glad some people can see through the bs and are not so easily manipulated by an evil multi-billion corporation.

@mrhades652

Жыл бұрын

Totally, utterly right.

@headlessfool7050

Жыл бұрын

plot twist : The Tolkien estate proceeds to sue Amazon 'cos reasons...

I watched episode 3 of rings of power last night. It was worse then the first two attempts, if that is even possible. It was like being water boarded.

@Voldermortization

Жыл бұрын

*worse than

@dcpack

Жыл бұрын

Why give them the views? I could not stomach the thought of watching episode 2 partly because they do not deserve my views, but mostly because it was TORTURE.

@vaettra1589

Жыл бұрын

I hope you stream it and don't give them money.

@woutervanbinsbergen3368

Жыл бұрын

It's a cavalcade of horrors. Take your pick: Horrible moral messages? Check. Giant lore inaccuracies? Check. Character inaccuracies? Check. Extreme convenience? Check. Would you like to know more?

@mokomiku1367

Жыл бұрын

I sail the seas to watch it as Amazon doesn't deserve my view and I can't get the motivation to pirate episode 3. It's an abomination and bastardisation of Tolkien. Give me that horrible love triangle from the Hobbit films any day and I hate that love triangle so much

nice vid as usual btw congrats on 75k subs

I lived in a tiny garage in West Hollywood behind a 1920s duplex in the eighties. In the late 80s Elijah Wood used to come by to play video games and such with Paco, the kid who lived in the front house with Landa, his mom. He was getting parts in movies already and his eyes you never forget.

Problem is the more they screech it, the more they repulse people away from this snooze fest. Saying "Rahcist" is essentially the new meanie head insult

@Surielena

Жыл бұрын

Incredibly enough there are also a lot of normies going under videos like these just to tell you intelligent things like "get a life lol" "deal with it lol" "keep crying lol" and of course call you racist for no reason because that's just the basic now. Funny thing is that maybe some of them aren't even supporting the show by paying for a subscription just to watch that hot trash and give them money and share.

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

@@Surielena the normies are alot like the bots, they already been programmed lol.... Some people just have zero standards, they will consume anything and then say something silly like "well I liked rop!"

@MariaIsabellaZNN

Жыл бұрын

Ironically this waters down its original meaning, making it harder to take seriously when it's used on an actual racist.

@dantespicysausage9615

Жыл бұрын

@@MariaIsabellaZNN I'm sure that's by design in some way.

@gianna526

Жыл бұрын

@@MariaIsabellaZNN That's how a lot of things are, narcissist, racist, sexist, homophobic, hate, depression (any mental illness really) and I'm sure there are others. It's quite sad and annoying, those words hold no weight anymore to most people.

The people who put stuff like “cultural appropriation” in the minds of modern Americans are now confused as to why people are calling out Hollywood’s love of cultural appropriation.

One of the best summations I've heard to date. Thank you!

Powerful video, bro. Keep up the fight.

"Rings of Power: Why there is RACIST backlash and WHO's speaking out" Yes, quickly define and undermine the issue and then focus entirely on social justice and idol worship. We no longer care about learning, it's all about consumption, loyalty and worship.

@TheSuperappelflap

Жыл бұрын

its time to emigrate

@animejanai4657

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSuperappelflap No, stay and fight the people who want you to run away instead of trying to Make Things Good Again.

@Mister_Clean

Жыл бұрын

Gotta sell those RoP Funko pops

@TheRibbonRed

Жыл бұрын

@@animejanai4657 gotta say that I agree. Time & time again since 2014 I've seen people "emigrate" and the woke follows to ruin that too, because there's an interest in whatever sane people migrated to. Even to the foreign materials like the Japanese media. Square Enix purposely established a self-censoring department filled with woke Twitter creatures. Squeenix may not be the whole industry, but it's a worrying call since they're one of the few big corps there.

@GaigeGrosskreutzsMissingBicep

Жыл бұрын

Consoom

Guyladriel would rather wear the one ring than her wedding ring

Dude, i LOVE your commentary on this show. Great thoughts and well put together. Keep it up

Ironically, I am only interested in Arondir (the elf in the south lands), since the writing for his scenes is okay. At least his motives are clear and he doesn't make outright stupid decisions. And I thought Disha did a good job. I thoroughly hate all the Galadriel scenes because the writing and diologue that involves her is so atrocious. The entire Harfoot story is so disconnected from the rest it's worse than the Frodo chapters.

@roanwolf6389

Жыл бұрын

But he is just very boring, as is his love story.

I think the best way to sum it all up: Attacking the fans is the surest sign of failure.

Can't wait for Galadriel's twerking scene with Cardi B.

Awesome video!

Brilliant video!

"Galadriel is a faerie Sue."

@timonsolus

Жыл бұрын

While Elrond is a fairy simp.

How much were former actors paid to do the photo op? Does anyone know? I can't believe they just showed up at the same time in the same place wearing the same shirts.

@NefariousKoel

Жыл бұрын

It's Hollywood. They didn't need to pay them. Just imply a threat of getting blacklisted and never getting work in the industry again.

That sums it up, quite nicely. Thank you.

You're freaking awesome! Perfect analysis!

I was reading the 5 star reviews on Amazon and they are hilarious. I reported them as abuse

@pigeonsil240sx

Жыл бұрын

maybe we should give it a average score then say "as a conservative far right trump supporter i liked it" and watch heads explode

@nuxkamina

Жыл бұрын

@@pigeonsil240sx how are the truth social movies?

@marychocolatefairy

Жыл бұрын

@@pigeonsil240sx There actually was a similar review on Rotten Tomatoes, lol. 5 stars, something like, "As a Trump supporter it had values I liked."

@skychieftain

Жыл бұрын

How about trying to rate it 5 stars but absolutely bashing it in the explanation.....

If you want a laugh check out the Little Mermaid trailers the memeing has continued from RoP. Is turning in to a full out rampage with the defenders being drowned out.

@Jaylock980

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnny12575 Only seen the stuff on KZread. Social media is a helscape only rivaled by the warp.

@shadf7902

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnny12575 facebooks mostly twats lol

@JordanS215

Жыл бұрын

@@BackUp-nx2de what valid conserns?

Great video 😊

Great rant, love it👍

I've been having fun reading the glowing reviews on Amazon for this dumpster fire of a show. It's all "this is the best thing ever" and "it's a stunning view of a fantasy world full of amazing characters" type BS (yeah, great characters like Galadriel who looks like a Karen who has just demanded to see the manager). I'm thinking to myself if these people start calling us racist/sexist etc for not agreeing with their opinions won't that make us less likely to want to watch them burn a billion dollars on this trash.

@TheRealLastJedi721

Жыл бұрын

Literally sorry but the casting just wasn’t right for this show especially Galadriel’s character she has the most 1 dimensional emotion ever and other characters just have no real personalities

@herekitty791

Жыл бұрын

Call them back. I've said it before that modern films only cater to feminists and f e m c e l s and I've been proven right

@gokaury

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRealLastJedi721 And there are so many much more attractive and emotive actresses out there that could fill that role. Clark is just repulsive, inside and out.

Speaking of "superfans," has anyone seen any reviews or even social media comments about their reaction to the show? I looked up one of them and couldn't see a single thing on ANY of her social media channels or KZread videos even mentioning the show.

@burntumbrage6868

Жыл бұрын

Agree. I’d like to see someone circle back to those sad imposters and put them back on blast. I know they were just useful (and ignorant) tools but I think shaming them for allowing themselves to be used like that could be instructive as a caution to others.

Well thought-out commentary. If only the show had this much care in its production and writing.

My thoughts exactly.... btw you are the fastest talking brit i can perfectly understand. Very clear pronociation and nice talking voice...thanks from germany

Imagine being one of the biggest companies in the world and your reduced to 'if you don't like our show you're a nasty pasty'. It's possibly more embarrassing than the show itself.

When Grand Admiral Galadriel has the bridge of U-96 and shouts "Torpedo eins und zwei, los!", I knew it was a masterpiece for the ages. The sinking of the minelayer USS Patriarchy underlined her stunning resolve.

@nuxkamina

Жыл бұрын

I guess you'd hate Tolkien: She was 193cm tall. She was so valiant and tall and strong that her mother named her 'Man-maiden'. She was the only Elf woman who could go toe to toe with Princes of the High Elves. "She was then of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feats." - Tolkien Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Fëanor with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could." - the Unfinished Tales "She looked upon the Dwarves also with the eye of a commander, seeing in them the finest warriors to pit against the orcs." "Galadriel, striving to counteract the machinations of Sauron... he perceived at once that Galdriel would be his chief adversary" "She was proud, strong, and self-willed, as were all the descendants of Finwë save Finarfin.." 1954 literature a bit too modern for you.

@nuxkamina

Жыл бұрын

@The13thRonin if only more ppl read it I wouldn't see such silly comments.

@nuxkamina

Жыл бұрын

@The13thRonin and the orcs all raged and cried together. Why are all these diverse groups against us? How dare the hobbit's and elves and dwarves come together allegorically? They can't do that with our brilliant understanding of literature! And so they continued to chop down trees and poop everywhere.

I did forget to say that I do enjoy your presentations

This is the best video I've watched about this topic. He just covers everything perfectly. Well said mate🙏

This LOTR series will be epic and live on as a legend once the internet gets ahold of it and redubs all of the dialogue into something insanely funny.

@TheSuperappelflap

Жыл бұрын

bad lip reading will have a field day and they wont even have to change half the dialogue

@robertphillips9017

Жыл бұрын

It’s already an epic failure. This failure will live on as a warning to idiots.

@wambamrightintheham4821

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see an auralnauts rendition, the “Larry” Kenobi parody is hilarious

@jonathancooper4914

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSuperappelflap hahahahahahaha

@donnietobasco9791

Жыл бұрын

TRUE....lol

If Bezos was a member of the fellowship he would've definitely tried to take the ring from Frodo.

Powerfully put, Disparu.

I really enjoyed your rant.

The harfoots said their hearts are bigger than their feet, but if you fall behind they'll leave you for death! They're savages

I love The Rings of Power, it's provided me with so much rich entertainment and I haven't even watched it. All I have to do is go on KZread and relax while real Tolkien fans tear it apart. It's kind of like a bloodsport where nobody gets hurt, either that or a public post mortem. Well worth that billion dollars I'm sure.

Great analysis. You just earned a new sub.

I find your comments are most insightful. You really hit the nail on the head in this video. I hope your channel get monetized? (whatever that means). I would like to see you chatting with Doomcock. Good luck in the future.

@disparutoo

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the super thanks London, appreciate it :) And the channel already is, that's how you can send the super thanks. It was funny with this video, soon as I posted it I heard of a recent Forbes article that would have fitted in perfectly. But given the length already, probably for the best.

This is what happened. It's pretty simple. Bezos and Amazon wanted a quick cash grab and didn't give a lick about Tolkien's legacy or his fans. They wanted to seize upon the present climate of a surging popularity of fantasy themed material and identity politics. They acquired the rights to material that had already been adapted brilliantly by Peter Jackson and endeavored to feed the subscribing masses with vague and poorly planned plot lines based on peripheral source points from those rights. One prime example is Halbarad. This is a name that only comes up once in Tolkien's tales. He is a fellow Dunedain with Aragorn. He is a ranger in The last half of the Third Age. He may have been told tales of Numenor, but only after it had sunk into the sea a few Millenia ago. This is just a small example of many wrongs perpetrated by the writers who have the balls to associate their creation with anything written by Tolkien. I have no problem with creative license. Just don't peddle your product with a brand name that misleads the public. Where I come from that is called a con.

I've decided that instead of getting depressed watching ROP, I will be watching you & Friday Night Tights and laughing. So much more fun!

@belegur8108

Жыл бұрын

oh, i totally will continue to watch the show and make fun about it here in comment sections, like the new perfume advertisement from E3 "Galadriel, the new fragance full of piss and vinegar!"

This is such an important video, thank you