That show doesn't have an audience. It has victims! 💀 Velma has a body count.

@luispinzon1282

Жыл бұрын

@@beneko1127 you son fo a gun i hate that rhymes!

@northstar6920

Жыл бұрын

Ew... Who'd throw their hot dog down that hallway?

@mattcarper9853

Жыл бұрын

I thought these shows saved lives???

@keegs2002

Жыл бұрын

Velma literally turned Scooby-Doo and the gang into soulless stereotypical body bag sacks

@tjroelsma

Жыл бұрын

It HAS an audience: the tiny bubble in which the creators live. These people only make movies and series for themselves and the few likeminded and will only ever listen to what those likeminded think of them. The rest of the world is considered too stupid to understand what's good for them and must be educated, that's why they consider everything they do a succes.

If only someone had said something at the time.

@andrewmcguinness1845

Жыл бұрын

If only someone, anyone, even if it was just some guy on KZread, had said anything at the time.

@TheBlackRam666

Жыл бұрын

If someone did, he'd surely be called a white supremacist for it 🤣

@JoesCaribbeanVanLife

Жыл бұрын

Hindsight 20/2,000

@stephanc6138

Жыл бұрын

not like there wasn't. they WANTED this. "if you wish hard enough it (their crappy rehash with THEIR propaganda of 'virtues') will (succeed) come true". they will continue even as reality meets them like the pavement.

@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954

Жыл бұрын

@@stephanc6138 Haven't you heard? Gravity is problematic, and the pavement has been cancelled for its involvement in causing indiscriminate harm to all persons who fall on it from a sufficient height, instead of limiting itself to only harming those who 'have it coming', as determined by Twitter poll...

The new Hollywood motto is "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is!"

@TchHry

Жыл бұрын

Amendment: "If it has any male energy... get it 'fixed'."

@-dcoogan-

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure their mantra is, "If it ain't broke, buy it, and then break it until it can't be fixed."

@georgechapman9688

Жыл бұрын

If it ain't broke, make it woke

@brialapoint2608

Жыл бұрын

watch dungeons and dragons honor among theives. Get that nasty taste of rings of power out of your brain

@dumisa7

Жыл бұрын

"If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it's woke."

Imagine a world where Rings of Power was actually lore-valid, amazingly well written and acted. Why can't we live in that world? Stupid amazon...😔

@TMMReznor

Жыл бұрын

I prefer living in a world where RoP just doesn't exist. Pretty much the same way I feel about Jackson's The Hobbit movies too, after I made the mistake of watching the first one.

@ericjohnson7234

Жыл бұрын

as the saying goes. Money evetually rots everything it touches. Like the story of Midas touch. Even if you get everything you wanted was it really what you wanted?

@killgriffinnow

Жыл бұрын

@@TMMReznor The Hobbit movies are a masterpiece next to this trainwreck, don’t compare them.

@luispinzon1282

Жыл бұрын

why can't we live in that world? we don't deserve that world. we eternally suffer for our sins.

@LevattWolfheart

Жыл бұрын

@@ericjohnson7234 Communism rots everything it touches. Maoism, specifically, in this case, through ESG cartel. If they chased money we would be happy, because they would be courting us, the audience. They aren't, they are pursuing the top 100 Equality Index and forced into cooperation via Racketeering. They aren't stupid, this is how the new global economy works.

I wonder how much of that 37% completion rate was people who fell asleep halfway through the second episode and the rest of it just autoplayed through to the end.

@majorgear1021

Жыл бұрын

Probably all of them!

@saloz9483

Жыл бұрын

good point

@FullFNCode

Жыл бұрын

I had 3 episodes run this way for me. I did actually watch all of it because I kept waiting for it to get better. Yep still waiting.

@shanenolan5625

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. At least 2 of my friends said they fell asleep. Several times watching the series

@ladyerind199

Жыл бұрын

And the rest were KZread reviewers like JSG who sat through it so we didnt have too!

Salke: It's not reflective of any conversation I'm having internally. So...what, she's Gollum?

@wd2989

Жыл бұрын

Excellent!!!!

@harbl99

Жыл бұрын

"Nope. Not listening." -- Jennifer Smeagolke

Wait. So lying to your potential audience, insulting them for not liking your crappy product, then outright dismissing their feed back is a bad business policy? Who would have thought?

"Testing told us that audiences didn't want what we were selling. So we declared the testing wrong and pushed ahead anyway, and for some reason, we failed." You know, I used to think people who qualified from business and media schools had some basic level of competence in their chosen fields. I no longer labour under that delusion.

@mrpurple11

Жыл бұрын

Ironically it's now content creators like youtubers and streamers who are in tandem with what their audiences want. Also it's where true diversity exists since people from different cultures and ideologies can find something they like. Mainstream media was about getting liked by the common denominator and there's nothing wrong with that.

@hartmutholzgraefe

Жыл бұрын

"I used to think people who qualified from business and media schools had some basic level of competence in their chosen fields" ... some do, maybe even the majority of them do, but as in many other fields it rather seems to be those able to convince themselves and others of the impossible that make it to positions of influence ... :(

My mom who is one of those people who have read TLOR once a year for 40+ years and she has as far as i understand read every single piece of Middle Earth text/trivia possible, she is an avid reader and also watches alot of tv since retiring. I showed her the first trailer when it dropped and she was just plain disappointed and said she didnt wanna see it because the style and tone felt off. I forced her to watch the first episode because i really wanted a hardcore Tolkien nerds opinion. She absolutely hated it, she complained about almost every single thing being incorrect, confusing or missinterpreted. She laughed when i said how much Amazon had spent on buying the IP and producing the first season,

@MrSircharles05

Жыл бұрын

Why would you do that to your mom?

@andrewwoodhead3141

Жыл бұрын

Dude ! You forced your own mother to watch it ?! duuuude !!!

@RoninDave

Жыл бұрын

Can relate. Lifelong Tolkien fan since 5 re-reading Hobbit and LOTR multiple times along with Silmarillion and several of the other later books and the first trailer of ROP did not sit well with me at all for the same reason. I still gave it a shot but the opening scene killed me - the fighting elf kids in Valinor during the Time of Bliss. I stuck it out to 5 just to see how bad it would get but the mithril origin story caused me to skip 6&7. I only came back for 8 as a view party to roast it. Terrible series!

@misterfevillord1588

Жыл бұрын

Your mom is a good mom

@sovietunion6598

Жыл бұрын

You forced your mum to watch it? You should be charged with torture

The Wheel of Time and Rings of Power were two series that had so much potential to be adapted for television. All of the content was handed to them on a silver platter by great authors. All the showrunners had to do was pick out the exciting bits and pieces to put the shows together. Instead of creating their own shows they turn these purchased beloved IP's into very boring and diluted fanfiction.

@RoninDave

Жыл бұрын

Adapt does not mean distort beyond recognition but that was asking too much for Amazon apparently. I don't know Wheel of Time but as a lifelong Tolkien fan I could not recognize Middle Earth in the mess that is Rings of Power.

@TheLegendaryBillCipher

Жыл бұрын

Hubris. It's been the bane of Disney, it's the bane of Hollywood.

@colbunkmust

Жыл бұрын

I disagree, RoP had no adaption potential for a TV show. The reason? Amazon didn't own the rights to the Simarillion or LotR. They paid $250mil for the rights to a very limited amount of material to be able to call it "Lord of the Rings" without actually being able to use most of the lore. Warner Bros owns the actual film rights to the properties that Amazon wanted. It was doomed from the start. Of course, the nonsensical story and character development and mediocre production didn't help.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

Жыл бұрын

​@@colbunkmust All that money and they couldnt buy the rights to that S novel bare minimum? Is the Tolkien estate a bit restricted on who buys what?

@colbunkmust

Жыл бұрын

@@Thomasmemoryscentral They already sold the film rights to Warner Bros long before that. The Tolkien Estate can't sell the exclusive film rights more than once to the same property. Iirc Amazon bought the rights to the only the _appendices_ of Return of the King, and that's it... But yeah, it was a massive waste of money. They counted on the name being able to swing an audience to like the product.

"As greedy as a Ferengi and a Hut love child" classic

"It'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Oh, what the hell, I'll laugh anyway. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I've said it before and I'll say it again; Amazon said they wanted the next Game of Thrones. They neglected to specify which season so they got season 8

@user-yc5um2pl5v

Жыл бұрын

Loool that's a really good one, Sir!

Understanding the lore and respecting the fans when making a project based on an existing series is important to earn money and love from fans and potential fans.

@Biostasis5x7

Жыл бұрын

And a good fanbase will suffuse other people into being fans by talking about how awesome the series is. It's a win/win.

@steveb9713

Жыл бұрын

This text should accompany any adaption writing deal

@Gyrfalcon312

Жыл бұрын

Normies can get into this thing that the true fans already know of, too, if you market it right.

@CordeliaWagner

Жыл бұрын

People still buy their trash from Amazon.

@dodojesus4529

Жыл бұрын

You can still have a bunch of shit not in the silmarillion, just dont make it THIS stupid

I love how Salke admitted not being to tell the difference between reality and her “internal dialogue”. Don’t think she was being asked about her mental health at that point, but the insight is welcome!

@hisdudeness8328

Жыл бұрын

She’s never had to worry about being held accountable for failing, she part of a protected class that keeps getting rewarded no matter how much they screw up.

@alexfriedman918

Жыл бұрын

@@hisdudeness8328 Apparently, there isn’t much accountability at Amazon Studios anyway - they throw away hundreds of millions on trash, or projects that never even materialize, and no one so much as gets reprimanded, it seems.

@rogermoreno1152

Жыл бұрын

I found that hilarious too. And sad. Sounds like she’s delusional if she can’t see it for what it is: a failure

@user-yc5um2pl5v

Жыл бұрын

This "internal conversations" bit is either very badly put or says about her everything one needs to know. Very depressing both ways.

@wd2989

Жыл бұрын

The funniest analogy I heard about that was someone commenting “so what, she’s like Gollum now? “. 😂😂😂

"This desire to paint the show as anything as less than a success -- it's not reflective of any conversation I'm having internally..." Translation to English: "I am intellectually and emotionally incapable of accepting the truth."

@mxvega1097

Жыл бұрын

Also translation: "My therapist is extremely expensive. Like my shows."

@Syaniiti

Жыл бұрын

Also "We're not talking about it, it's actually forbidden for Amazon workers to mention the show in anything but a positive light".

@Thandi123

Жыл бұрын

"This desire to paint the show as anything as less than a success -- it's not reflective of any conversation I'm having internally..." I am perfectly willing to accept that internally, nobody at Amazon wanted the show to be a failure. I am sure that they wanted it to be a roaring success. We don't always get what we want.

@cristianasoltanei7848

Жыл бұрын

Internally, as in her wildly delusional mind

@Thomasmemoryscentral

Жыл бұрын

Tolkien being butchered by uncaring hacks is the last straw of this culture war at fans. If fans cant stand Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Star Trek and Doctor Who turning into new forms of garbage, Tolkien's works weren't escaping a butchered adaption by fan's wrath

My Schadenfreude is enjoying the heck out of this news! Serves them right for disrespecting Professor Tolkien's beloved source material.

Jennifer Salty getting internal feedback about ROP : "mirror, mirror on the wall...."

I can't wait for season 2. Listening to youtubers ripping it apart while I play video games is a slice of peace that I cherish.

@dinmavric5504

Жыл бұрын

Probably the last season. They may play like it's all okay, but they're shitting bricks, I expect a drastic change in writing. Either for worse or for better.

Old League of Their Own: "There's no crying in baseball!" New League of Their Own: "OK, here's your Safe Space, your adult coloring books, and your Therapy Pet Peacock. The game is suspended until you no longer feel threatened, just let us know when you're ready. Actually, since we can't have winners or losers anyway, because that hurts people's feelings, let's just forfeit the game and we'll ALL come join you for Coloring Time. The other team's coach has a giant teddy bear, he says he'll share it with us, if we share our milk and cookies. Whaddaya say?"

@SubZero-hs9xc

Жыл бұрын

Booh hoo

@s3.14dervision

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

My favorite Amazon Studios fuck up, is that, they were supposed to make a Conan the Barbarian show, but when Jennifer Salke came in she nixed its production due to 'toxic masculinity.' The guy that was supposed to be running that show then went over to HBO and made House of the Dragon. So instead Amazon gets RoP, and HBO gets House of the Dragon. Hilarious.

Wait a second, did Salke imply there were only 2 genders with that Quadrant talk??!

@lexnight8345

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

“Less than half of what we hoped”-Amazon after seeing the viewing figures for the finale

@pigeonpoo1823

Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid viewing figures were only 50. 50m ain't bad. No, not 50m..... 50

@nightstrike90

Жыл бұрын

And they actually think Season 2 is going to do better XD

When you hear Mark Hamill's Joker laugh, you know it's gonna be A good video.

@Thomasmemoryscentral

Жыл бұрын

Ricky Gervais struggling to not chuckle is too

I love how businesses are ignoring their own test data to make these train wrecks.

@user-yc5um2pl5v

Жыл бұрын

Looks like the big ones are led by the propaganda peddlers, and those are capable of destroying even the seemingly shatterproof industries. In fact they seem to get the kick out of doing so.

The saddest part about it is that the Silmarillion is structured perfectly for a TV series

@thehoogard

Жыл бұрын

no it isn't. It's like a mythology book, not good for direct adaptation at all. Besides, they don't have the rights to it.

@josue.ortega

Жыл бұрын

​@@thehoogard maybe like what the Cohen brothers did with the Ballad of Buster Scruggs: several stories that aren't necessarily connected in a timeline, but happen in the same universe designed by the same creator. Only the Ainulindale would be nearly impossible to do because it is basically God and its angels creating the world through divine music

@cevk

Жыл бұрын

@@josue.ortega So you just do Ainulindale as a 10-15 minute, narrated segment, and have it be that the narrator was Indis speaking to Fingolfin and Finarfin, and then you can introduce Feanor when she notices he's been listening, just out of sight, invites him over, and he acts like a little shit and leaves. Gives you the creation story, introduces major characters, sets up the relationships between those major characters, etc.

Nobody talks about this show and yet 20 years later people are still loving the lord of the rings P.J made.

I see stuff like this, and my immediate thought is that if we fixed copyright laws so culturally iconic series that are as influential as Lord of the Rings can actually enter the public domain so passionate fans can create their own works. Locking up franchises for 95 years or longer allows corporate media to make over produced garbage without actual competition.

@OmegaReaver

Жыл бұрын

This. For a good example, compare the pre-Axanar fan-made Star Trek productions and the dreck produced officially, ie Discovery and Picard seasons one and two.

@Dr.Strangmeme

Жыл бұрын

Having it locked up 95 years allows them to completely destroy any franchise over and over until either people accept the garbage or the people tell them to piss off.

@BillyTheCat128

Жыл бұрын

100% this! At this point I'm convinced that they only try to protect the copyright of those franchises just so they can control the narrative. They just know that if the fans would be let free with some of these franchises, their creations would run circles around whatever corporate media would ever even be able to think of- let alone produce. It's for this reason why I believe in: "Death of the author, +10 years grace period, after that: it's Public Domain" There's no reason a company should hold the rights over a franchise whose OG author has long since turned to dust.

@nathanperquin9910

Жыл бұрын

the opposite is also true , the previous rights owner managed to safeguard this franchise forever only to then have someone else sell it to amazon so they could butcher it. there should be strict stipulations to how franchises should be handled, but i can agree that massive corpos should not be allowed the reigns to products they do not care about

@DonVigaDeFierro

Жыл бұрын

Thank Disney for that. It's very curious how every time Mickey Mouse's copyright was about to expire, copyright laws changed... Now the character will never enter the public domain as long as it "continues to be used commercially by its owner".

6:17 It’s also important to note that the original A League of Their Own was really about the relationship between two sisters - Dottie and Kit. Any political or social issues that arose were highlighted because that’s the world the sisters lived in. Whether it was sexism, racism, or even the War, these things came into focus as a backdrop for the rivalry between the two sisters. In short, Art Before Ideology. All art is political, but art must come first if it is to be effective. And that’s why the movie ALOTO is beloved….and the tv series is not.

the fact you use the Joker's mad laughter to illustrate the sheer madness of those who finished the series and their state of mind is just 'chef kiss' nothing illustrate more the madness than the madman Joker himself.

I’ve been a Tolkien fan since about 1960 I found an old hard cover copy of The Hobbit in what in my small private school’s attic it must have been a library at some point, and have been a fan ever since. I had been excited about a new Tolkien big budget series. Fortunately KZread critics gave me a heads up on how Amazon was going to and was vandalizing and wokifing Tolkien’s work and I avoided watching even one minute, and have avoided the mind poison. Likewise I was a huge Star Trek fan from its original series airing and and went to two cons, and watched all the shows… until the Discovery and have not watched any of the new shows…I don’t want these counterfeits to poison my memories and the feel of Roddenberry’s creations.

Amazon did not destroy Tolkien’s legacy. Tolkien destroyed Amazon’s legacy.

@RoninDave

Жыл бұрын

too true. Tolkien will long outlive this mess as most will people will have forgotten it ever existed and hell that's proven by the fact few saw it to the end anyway!

@TheBombanater

Жыл бұрын

It also helps that if your interested in Canon. Only the books, and Tolkien letters are Canon. Even his own son wouldn't change or add to his work aside from clarification on his father's letters

It's like Ishtar, where nobody had the guts to tell the first female comedy director that she was stinking up the place.

Yeah I like it when they say "We know the first wasn't liked that much but TRUST US the second one will be better.." In creating media you have a short chance to hook viewers/readers/gamers. You need to do this early enough. And RoP is big, long, and didn't go anywhere quick. The only way to fix is, is to burn it.. forget it existed, and start from scratch! With better writers!

@hisdudeness8328

Жыл бұрын

Kind of like the Witcher. We promise season two will be way more accurate to the lore. Later… Yeah, we lied about season two. But trust us! Season three will really be true to the lore, we’re going to give the fans exactly what they want. Just please come back and give us another chance.

@Syaniiti

Жыл бұрын

Aaahh, season 2 of the Witcher, the reason for my cancellation of my Netflix subscription.

By "conversations internally" i think she means the same kind that Smiegel had when Gollum was talking in his head? "Filthy stinking Bigotsesss, they hates usssss!"

"This is a great property with a built-in audience. Now, how do we make it about *me* ?"

As an Amazon Employee and as a High Fantasy lover, this makes me happy. The company is going through some financial trouble with the layoffs and the recession as we have our hours and shifts cut as the customers are driven away because Amazon instilled a $15 delivery fee to make up for lost. All the while I heard the President of Amazon Movie and TV studios spends the company's money like no tomorrow while we in the warehouses barely get any healthcare. Amazon doesn't prioritize us who toil away in the warehouse.

@saralotti7174

Жыл бұрын

Serfs are never prioritized until they rebel 😉

When I was a kid, the "A League of Their Own" film came out, and even though I had no particular interest in the plight of 1940s women I was a baseball fan, so I saw the film. It was the baseball that hooked me in, and entertaining performances from the actors and good story that kept me entertained. But despite my lack of interest in the topic going in, I learned a little something about the misogyny women of the era faced, and the lack of respect women athletes were still dealing with at the time, and even into today. In other words, In other words, art can be used to educate people--even spastic young boys--if it's also entertaining and has something to draw their attention and interest in the first place. But if you loudly and proudly declare from the outset that your film about women baseball players is actually about lesbians who play baseball, you're going to immediately lose the majority of the potential audience. Amazon and Hollywood in general could have their cake and eat it too, i.e., make films or TV shows that were both financially successful and promoted a sociopolitical message--it's been done many, many times before--but the producers of said films and TV shows have decided that the sociopolitical message should be enough; demanding that it also be entertaining makes someone a racist homophobic bigot, and they shouldn't have to cater to THOSE people. Because they BELIEVE in their show.

@Shiirow

Жыл бұрын

the issues female athletes face today isnt the same as 1943... the issues they face is they are far less entertaining than their male counterparts that even the people who cried for them to have an arena cant be bothered to watch a game.

@krisrhood2127

Жыл бұрын

Plus it reinforces a stereotype

@sherrig2338

Жыл бұрын

WELL SAID ❤

5:08 Greedier than a Ferengi and Hutt Love Child Now that’s a sentence.

@nievesdarling

Жыл бұрын

It's forming an image that's going to haunt my dreams tonight I just know it.

@Shiirow

Жыл бұрын

a fat slug creature with huge dumbo ears living in a lair filled with so much gold and gold pressed latinum to make every dragon in fiction jealous.

My sisters pretty bluepilled but also a big tolkien fan and she gave up pretty quick on it

I feel like a lot of this could have been fixed if someone seriously the people sat the people at Amazon down and asked ‘but why?’

@kbo572

Жыл бұрын

"Because, I need to check the boxes" - Writing staff

@ahoramazda6864

Жыл бұрын

I think sometimes it's easier to start from scratch than to try to fix a mess. Because this show is terrible from head to toe, even if you forget that Tolkien exists (which is impossible, given that without a core audience, the work would not have received such attention and no one would have adapted it even in such a terrible way) Galadriel is terrible, and the actress who plays her twitches like she's possessed by demons or ate a stale burrito and then somehow took the subway train and realized too late that it was a mistake. Worse than Galadriel is only all of the dialogues in the whole show. The series can't have such terrible dialogues because that's what the viewer will hear 80% of the time.

@nightstrike90

Жыл бұрын

There's an easy fix for ALL of this, stop prioritizing Wokeness, Diversity, Girl Power, Feminism, and White Men Are All Evil and just focus on making a good show! That's why The Legend of Vox Machina is so damn good, the story and characters come first, then the focus on individual traits once you're well acquainted with them.

@ytsuxmuhd4998

Жыл бұрын

They did. The directors told him to screw off and stop asking questions.

"Relying on data is soul crushing"....You mean the data that shows how many people watch your show? Which has a direct correlation to how much money Amazon makes on your show? Which should, but apparently does not, have a direct correlation to your career? I'm thinking I see the flaw in this business model Amazon.

@thegoldavenger.3829

Жыл бұрын

“No no no, stop noticing things!”- Amazon probably

"Relying on data is soul crushing. " Whomever said this should work at any company, anywhere, ever.

That intro was chef's kiss editing. Great Job!!!

Saw a video today about The Rings of Power. Apparently, one of the reasons RoP was so expensive is because Amazon had hired Marketing Research firms to check how popular every decision made for RoP would be for every stage of production. And then the producers ignored everything said Research firms told them and doubled down on all the woke elements of the show.

@glanni

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I shouldn't be shocked, and yet I can't help but facepalm No wonder it looks so cheap lmao

@SoldierSpiderx

Жыл бұрын

@@glanni lol yea the fact they told them what the fan wanted and they complete ignore it and went full woke and now they act surprised

@user-yc5um2pl5v

Жыл бұрын

It's like nobody learned anything from the Soviet Union experience. Countless projects driven by ideological goals only, ignoring any expert advise, scientific evidence or even the Nature itself failed badly, more often than not leaving long-lasting consequences. You'd think that should teach even those that adhere to this ideology - but nooo, no way, we'll do it again and again thinking we'll succeed sometime. It's like they're beating their collective head against the brick wall in hopes to bring it down. You know what'll happen.

I like the Joker laugh at the beginning and it fit very well

We know these big corporations and especially Amazon are data driven. Apparently Amazon executives are not able to translate their Zettabytes of data into an experienced and talented production. Although I would suggest that their AI could have taken all that data and written a better script and generated more interesting and engaging onscreen characters. Certainly wouldn't have been any worse.

@BorisBelomor

Жыл бұрын

Data was actually correct in what audience want. They just chose to ignore it in favor of their ideology.

@matthewmosier8439

Жыл бұрын

One theory that I've heard is that RoP was written by an ai. At least the dialogue. I think that may be closer to the truth than it appears on the surface to be.

Love child of Ferengi & Hutt, you are killin' me

Yeah, we all have internal discussions. Often on the order of "Uh, oh, did I F-up on this one? Am I still going to have a job?" That might be one you want to pay close attention to, Jen.

If they wrote the show for men over 35 (LOTR's chief demographic), every man over 35 would watch it and so would a huge chunk of all other quadrants. Instead they slapped men over 35 in the face, insulted them, and wrote the show for the opposite of the chief demographic. Absolute brilliance.

@colmivers

Жыл бұрын

But those aren't real men to be fair

All this show did well was uniting Tolkien fans around the world in defense of the greatest fantasy universe ever created. For this, I thank Papa Bezos for dishing out his pesos.

First! And...that series was an effrontery.

The opening just said everything it needed to about the situation. Epic :)

Its been wild watching your content for years and now finally you've grown up enough for your voice to finally drop.

Salke seems truly incompetent. So incompetent that she has no idea how incompetent she is.

"...would be greedier than a Ferengi and Hutt love-child.." :D

Everyone: quits ROP after 1-3 episodes The entirety of all content creators: "We shall milk this to the end of humanity"

Well...at least League of Their Own didn't say "Oh all these actual real women were secretly gay"

The problem is Rings of Power Season 2 is going to get great reviews, and Amazon is going to say it's because the show is doing better, when in reality it's because all the Tolkien fans didn't bother watching it.

I did not need the mental picture of a Hut/Ferengi child in my head. It's now lurking waiting to strike.

Judging by the quality of the show's writing and characters, the only person who put any effort into reading the source material was tOlkIeN pRoFeSsOR Corey Olsen when he desperately searched through Tolkien's most obscure notes to find excuses for Dwarven women not having beards.

Loving your content, brother.

I finished. Last night. Two or three weeks of break between the ridiculous penultimate episode and the underwhelming finale episode. Watched it with my son who didn't predict Sauron being who he was--because it made absolutely no sense. ("He's a human? What?" Then, "He was never human? Why was he on that raft? What's he been doing all these years?") I had the prescient advantage of having seen some videos like yours. Yeah, I kind of hate watched. But gaining those kinds of views shouldn't be a flex on the part of Amazon.

Salke having a disassociation between what’s actually being said and what she’s telling herself without trying to reconcile them, yeah there’s a term for that

Dude, sick new intro. Love it.

A Ferengi and a Hutt love child would be the perfect businessperson. Pure unadulterated ruthless greed. Just don't think too much on what it would look like.

you have to consider that there are a ton of ppl watching this mess to the end and still think its a total disaster. dont think for a second that watching it equates a satisfied costumer.

Hadn't seen you in a while. Welcome back to my recommendeds.

New intro is magnific! Fire baby!

Fanx for the vid man. I like your view on things

Hey Guy. As always - Great content! I'm sorry this is not a concentrated critique of your main topic, I was just windering ( because your intros get better and better) if you would like to get the music to peak and then end instead of fading out in the end? Let me know! I would love to do that for you. Looking at your intro, obviously you know how to do that yourself, I just wondered a little. Anyway, great topic as always!

I forgot this show existed. And my god Just some Guy. Did you finally hit Pubrity?

@benjaminkenobi21

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Have you finally learned how to spell?

I like to think of it as a "career defining moment" for Jennifer Salke. Next season will have more action. And dead horses. Go Jen. Flog it.

Folks, let's not forget the elephant in the room: Christopher Tolkien. If it hadn't been for his attitude that nobody could touch anything about Tolkien's work ever again, there would never be a need to even try to write a new story for Middle Earth, since he left enough stories behind for the next fifty years. Instead, we get a weak attempt at a futile task, something that should never have been attempted. Just accept that we can't have anything else for another generation, at least. Who knows what the future will bring, but for now, it's off the table. (I'd much rather have nothing than badly conceived, sloppily produced self-aggrandizing egoboo like this.)

Also, RuPaul ABSOLUTELY IS one of the most ruthless modern businessmen, so a biopic from that angle would work splendidly. Drag Race is basically hourly installments of blatant ads for his new music, tours, and books. Dude's making BANK!

@adelucas4824

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Yep. Estimates are she's worth over 60 million dollars.

@joshwent

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@@adelucas4824 As the song goes, "...even when I sleep I'm makin', money money money money..." 😂

I remember Lenny Henry, Sophia Nomvete, and those two knuckle head producers brought in by JJA insulting anyone that didn't like the show. Calling me a racist and a bigot WILL NOT make me watch a show. Lenny and Sophia just did chest thumping about their skin color, but those 2 producers actually insulted anyone that didn't like their show. What gets me, is why Amazon hired two untested guys based on their relationship with JJA. Don't credentials mean anything for a multimillion dollar project?

@saralotti7174

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It would if there was any accountability. But there isn’t. So no it doesn’t matter.

This should teach them that bad writing drives us away, but I bet they'll claim it only proves how short our attention span is.

What they did to league of their own is absolutely goddamn disgusting. These people are mentally just gone.

@TheRezro

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It is complicated because director has the point. Focus groups are really bad way to test movies, because random people has no expectations and default to most popular things. Except mainstream is saturated, boring and washed. In reality not sell that well. So yes, it is biased to say that movie about gay to be too gay, when it target specific audience. Fact that adaptation twist original for own agenda is separate issue.

Spot on commentary!

Oh this'll be good

The most frustrating thing about the strategy of these streaming networks is that it's completely unnecessary. They're trying to make shows that appeal to everyone, which makes sense if you have a maximum limit of 24 hours of shows per day. But with streaming, people pick and choose what they want. Literally every show could be targetted to a different niche audience and it would still be successful, maybe more so. Instead they churn out middling, timid, orthodoxy. Just...why?

Well put.

Return of The King is returning to theaters next week, and there is more excitement for that than there was for the majority of Rings of Power.

Loving the new title sequence.

Love the new intro

Thank you "Just Some Guy" you are making too much since.

If you only skip one show this year, it should be Rings of Power.

This is what happens when you stop hiring writers, producers and executives based on merit, experience and skill and instead purely to check woke boxes. These corporate studios are littered with people at every level who's sole qualification was their 'diversity', so of course pushing their diversity becomes the only meaningful contribution any of them are expected (or allowed) to make.

It's me-I made it to the 4th episode and tapped out. I turned to KZread commentary after that to learn about the volcano that gives birth to Mordor or whatever.

Friend of mine told me he likes it but when i asked him to give me one character's name that he didnt already know beforehand from LotR he couldnt

@Thomasmemoryscentral

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Maybe he enjoyed the visuals more?

The one scene where corporate greed should take over and run things, it doesn't.

Yep sounds about right. I stopped torrenting it after about ep.3

They literally contradict the audience data for the sake of opposing it.

"Ferengi and Hutt love child" had me rolling!!! 😂😂😂

That beginning had me rolling 😂

Hollywood, get over yourself. You are supposed to court my pocketbook but you ain't making anything I wanna watch.

Wish KZread didn’t hide you’re channel

This is the best thing I ever saw.

Who could've saw that coming...... Oh that's right EVERYONE.

Amazon marketing budget for "we has Tolkien at home" season one just dry out and the extended pr department can finally pretend they unbias and tell that the sky is bloody blue