They will fire some innocent employees and move on.

"*Cast it into the fire!*"

@@thetavibes9021 DO IT!

@@t.kersten7695 they will fire some innocent employees and then raise their own salaries and pay themselves huge bonuses

This is why some level of government regulations on big corps are always needed, even under most open-minded democratic liberal rule.

@Nogent Yes its nice you're assuming there are no black fantasy authors

@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 They didn't though? That was their exact point. Read again

@@solidway there’s always one

@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 ​lol I have seen this guy he is a secret show runner for ROP

I'm 1% Nigerian. That practically makes us brothers. Lived in off campus housing during my Junior year in college. It was almost entirely African. They were a scream. Two of them were Nigerian. James Madozie who I played soccer with was a great guy. Quiet most of the time, but when he said anything it was always worth listening to. His roommate was Benny Chuks (I don't recall the full spelling). I got along with him just fine but he didn't seem to like the other black Africans in our house. He seemed to think he was better than them. I later found that both of them were Ebo and that Benny's attitude was not unusual.

It speaks to the current culture, the vast majority of people don't understand what it means to be a hero, or good, or decent, so of course the villains they write come off as sympathetic.

@@mpsorrentino Ikr, it's crazy that there's still people who think that DJT for example is a good or did a good job despite being an obvious criminal and charlatan.

@Hooch Smeeth sauron was just misunderstood. As we all know. Fallen angel afterall

Who? Eminem?

​@@realtsarbomba you don't mean Trump right?

Ditto

Same here.

I am Spartacus

Yup, stop going to the theater, pirate everything you want to watch, that list has become less and less. HOTD is the only show I watch

Same

Aegon 3 eventually becomes king.

@@reek4062 Seek help.

And great fan-blaming.

@@reek4062 you need professional help

Switch that around to "with great victimhood comes great power" and you have basically the motto of an entire generation

The Mystery box is about subverting any, and all expectations. Unfortunately, when the events are already known this storytelling ploy doesn’t work.

Brainless is the right word for Nerdrotic fans

Funny statement coming from you reek

@@reek4062 that or incel might be more accurate.

@@brianbetts5637 'InCeL'

@@reek4062 If the nerdrotic fans are this bad, I can't imagine what kind of mindless worms are the fans of rings of power then

Life is about detecting bullshit and avoiding it. And this bullshit is blatant, to your point.

They never did.

The only thing that has changed is that social media/the internet allows us to get a better understanding of the truth of things. It was always nothing but lies and propaganda. We’re still brainwashed on WWII, JFK assassination, Vietnam, Waco, even 9/11 to an extent, etc.

You can thank Obama for legalizing blatant propaganda. Only independent media now has standards applied to them, and only if you can weaponize the legal system against them (Jones). If you're CNN, MSNBC, HuffPo, NYTimes or anyone in their incestuous little cadre you can say whatever you want if it promotes the agenda properly. There's no burden of proof, truth, morals, integrity or anything else. Just blatant lies. They're lying. We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying and they're still lying.

@@ConsiderFirstCnE Lefties are not adults by definition. It's a childish and feminine ideology.

You are mistaking malice for ignorance. The creators of the show know how to read and they have reading comprehension. Identity politics has poisoned the entertainment industry and attracted the most wretched and forsaken individuals in managing positions. The show was specifically made to polarize the audience. It was made to mock the author. It was meant to be controversial and gain notoriety. You were meant to feel attacked as a fan. It was also intended to have more views. Gain notoriety, divide the audience and make one half watch it by making it feels like they're fighting the nazis and sexists by doing so. However this is like what... the 100th show in the last 5 years to do this? People got tired of it. Everyone is a sexist nazi now and it doesn't feel as exciting anymore. So what happens is that half didn't show up and the other half is bashing your show relentlessly. It's over.

@@itstime5138 I agree, this is just another attempt to destroy our culture and civilization. Well, they don’t want to really destroy the civilization they simply want to take control of it and mold it in their image. They are too narrow minded to create anything themselves.

Like Gary says, successful shows don't have to defend themselves. They don't have to respond to critics. Their success always speaks for itself.

HoD was slow this season but by the end of it, I wasnt mad I invested my time in it. Looking forward to the next season.

Tell everyone you can not to watch it so it just drops off the ratings and view count.

@@Dexatron it was world building and character building and yes you’re right it was slow. And even that, it was leaps and bounds ahead of RoP.

Your proof is ... a few friends Very scientific ...

At this moment, it is all lost cause. We'd rather see them just fail at this point than they devolve further. They shouldn't dig a grave and reanimate a corpse, pretending like the corpse is looking even prettier than its hayday. ...Especially when the corpse is rotting further as we speak.

I root for every Star Wars show/movie/game to fail. I'd like to see all Disney Star Wars be seen as one big failure by fandom so it can be forgotten.

But yes! We are starving for just good content and we wish to be respected by people who are suppossed to deliver us entertainment.

personally ive stopped watching ANYTHING other than youtube and twitch in may 2016 and never looked back....as the years pass i see that was the right call since its just getting worse by the month

I feel like a lot of people felt the same, that this was going to be a good show but as we went on, everything begun falling apart rather fast

Amazon stopped paying him after episode 2 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He’s a bought and paid for turd, just like all the Forbes writers. Not an original thought between them all.

it was difficult... they only had the rights to the appendices.... and LOTR, which is already filmed.... They should have tried to get the rights to The Silmarillion.... this was the first insurmountable mistake

Yeah, I know. But even with what they did get the rights to they could've done something much much better than this. Even if it was a completely original story that happens to take place in the universe created by Tolkien. Create new characters and follow a timeline that don't bastardize so egregiously what the man wrote. That's my only gripe about the show, how they twisted what Tolkien so lovingly an laboriously created. I don't give a damn about woke agenda or whatever.

@@marianogabriel8139 yes, you are right...such a waste.....

How else would I know not to like it? /s

that is all the prove anybody should need. Their reaction. If there was actual success they wouldn't have to say anything, the fans of the show would do that. But there aren't many.

Which says the directors are awful because Morfydd was extremely capable in Saint Maude.

@@tpac28 I'm sure she's very talented in other things.

@@tpac28 Hopefully your mother will get a r@ped

To be fair, she apparently gave the showrunners what they wanted.

@@tpac28 Which says that Morfydd was simply horribly miscast in this role. She simply has zero elven qualities. Even Peter jackson couldn't have made a convincing Gladriel out of her, perhaps a decent background extra at most.

Also in his words : how it came to this?

“corp Marxist”? WTF is that?

​@@pumasheen Corporate Marxist

Couldn't agree more!

I want that intro by itself

If only they could hire people who could understand the source material intimately, not to mention veteran writers.

There's probably some additional point to make about the fact that the original clip is from a movie that's 33 years old.

" GENTLEMEN! Let's broaden our minds ... Laurance?"

Aegon 3 ends up on the Iron Throne. Rhaenyra conquers King's Landing, but more of her sons die, so she becomes mad. She orders Daemon's lover to be killed. Daemon abandons her. He and Caraxes fight Aemond and Vhagar at Harrenhal: the dragons kill each other and Daemon kills Aemond.

What is Amazon claiming - 100 million views , and it cost them 1 billion $? So $10 per view? Gary makes a video that gets 75,000 views in 3 hours , and he and Mr Chan make the at their home studio, at a cost of a few thousand bucks - if that? It really is a David vs Goliath situation, and I back the little guy all the way.

@@reek4062 So you're saying by the end of this PREQUEL, everyone dies? Damn...that's heavy...

No that’s just his inherent white straight male privilege. It’s all for free y’all.

@@reek4062 You forgot that Aegon 2 feeds Rhaneyra to her own dragon as her son watches, but yeah, fun times.

And that was in the top ten on Netflix, and trending for weeks. And there was a re-run on TV as well.

*** Fellowship *** 😉

I'm the type of person that if I'm watching something I can't turn my head or go to the bathroom without pausing. Cuz I don't want to miss anything. But with Ring of Power I could walk away, pee and get a snack and I would still be fine. I've walked away multiple times throught the first season and I have not regretted walking away. Nothing is lost when you walk away.

Haha. It all makes sense now…. Stockholders: does it ?

Dodgeball!

On strategy: Kid: I got in a fight today (whimpering) Mom: Oh that's horrible, are you ok? Kid: Well, I hit the other guy's fist with my face, so I guess I'm better off than him.

It's all about optics. When you've hit rock bottom, you either stay there or go up. At least that's how they're gonna spin it for the share holders.

@@modolief That analogy is 100% accurate. They wasted one billion dollars, and are willing to waste even more. Just to make a point

100 percent

There are two reviewers who I think do a really good job and seem to be very organized and informative. Disparu is the British version while Nerdrotic is the American version. Both fit the characterization you gave in that their reviews have a flow and structure that is hard to find anywhere else. It shows how good these two are when people find their reviews more entertaining than the series itself.

i hate the generic border some of these youtubers have, with all their social media constantly showing, and then they'll put themselves in the corner of the screen while the focus is on some news story in the center? very lame. i like nerdrotics clean presentation

Garry is a real one

​@@SI00000 Disparu has become a go-to in the past two months for me!

Daemon kills Aemond at Harrenhal, while their dragons kill each other

@@reek4062 Nice try. I already know what happens dick.

@@reek4062 Look, I get you're unhappy that people pointed out you like the taste of windows and how you're offended that we don't want to taste the windows either but, no need to be an a** about it.

@@reek4062 Seek help.

somehow my own mother made it through the whole thing, but she's more normie than normies

Of course ROP is a runaway hit, just like She-Hulk, because some guy wrote an article that said so, referencing Salke who, um, said so! 🤔

@@guyincognito8440 Well, with how much money Rings of Power costs compared to their viewership, their show was a flop. HotD costs $20 million per episode and is doing much better with viewership and audience scores everywhere. RoP costs around $60 million per episode, which has been a waste of money...since they lost money. If you thought Peter Jackson's movies were cheesy, then you will die of a cheese overdose from watching Rings of Power. It does help you fall asleep if you have insomnia. (really tho, it's just dull and poorly written) There's a reason why the two showrunners will be sidelined for the 2nd season. If you're a hardcore Tolkien lore fan, you will lose your hair by the season finale. Even if you don't know anything about the lore, the show is still boring and even takes lines and scenes right out of the Peter Jacksons LOTR trilogy.

No.They happen to have huge viewership. You guys constantly forget the vast population of people on the Left! They live in Metro America and Europe. Huge cities full of millions upon millions of people. Since as you guys say, it's geared towards that "woke" audience, why wouldn't it have huge numbers. They don't need you when they have them.

@@PineappleBaconPizza Why would Bezos care about tens or even hundreds of millions when his children and ex wife wanted this done? The man is worth between 150 and 200 BILLION DOLLARS, what's merely one Billion to him? I wouldn't mind losing 1/150th my net worth to make loved ones happy, nor would he.

@@jonathancummings6400 copium

😅😅 Omg that’s exactly what I did the week I was struggling to sleep! 😭😭😭 I still on episode 1 🤢🤮

@@pamelathompson6783 😂😂😂 that’s crazy

Galadrlie: *_"N A H, I T ' L L B E F I N E . . . "_*

Elrond in Rings of Power: Yup, stunning and Brave. Elrond in Lord of the Rings: Wait, wat?

and she was searching for him for hundreds of years but without knowing how he looks like? No way for her to recognize him if she was to find him anywhere? So she can't even feel that she is being rescued at sea by him, then is sitting next to him for days alone on a raft. And plotting with him in Numenor, sharing a cell with him for days. Finally she is traveling on boat again and fighting along the most evil creature alive in their world? Yes just the guy she had dedicated her whole life to find and kill, to avenge her brother. Her nemesis for whom she lost the favor of her king, the respect of her subordinates and peers, renounced to Valinor...and bam that was him! Right there!!! But she couldn't know....???? WHY WOULD SHE LOOK FOR HIM FOR 100s OF YEARS THEN ????

@@MrPloopi That is actually a very good point. And one that, I'm sure, showrunners would have no answer to give.

"Yeah, that makes sense!" 😏

Most piracy websites are accessed in countries like India. Here Game of Thrones is massively popular while very few know Lord of the Rings. Also, Disney comes with Hotstar in India and Hotstar has the idea of how marketing works for Indians. Very few knew about Rings of Power in India and that's why it never appeared. Having said that, even if it would have had appeared, it would have disappeared in a few weeks because the show is actually crap. I hated episode 3 so much that could not watch beyond that.

Guys Take It Easy You’re Sharing Too Much Remember This Is KZfaq

YEP. This was also mentioned in George Giant Slayer's channel too.

You have to consider that Amazon Prime has far more users than HBO, so their piracy numbers will be lower than HBO. But for the sake of it, here are some stats. A qbittorrent search comparison for "Rings of Power" and "House of the Dragon". The top 3 most seeded results for RoP are episode 6, 7 and 4, each with around 3,000 seeds. For House of the Dragon it's episode 10, 10, and 10 again, each with over 9,000 seeds. RoP's top 3 most leeched result are Episode 3, 6 and 7 with around 900 each. While for HoTD has nearly 5,000 leeches for each of its top 3 most leeched results. Episode 10, 10 and 10 again. HoTD has over 15,000 leeches for it's finale, across the top 3 results. While RoP has just 1,500 leeches for its finale, across the top 3 results.

@@monkfishy6348 As someone else pointed out, most piracy happens in countries like India, and here I would say that HOTD had more penetration than rings considering it's available on hotstar and hotstar is the most popular streaming app here. Also, we forget that HBO is also a tv channel

Aegon 3 eventually becomes king. Daemon kills Aemond. Aegon 2 feeds Rhaenyra to a dragon.

You think those self-proclaimed activists have enough self-awareness to feel shame?

Bad guys/girls don't feel shame. It's part of the psychology of being a bad guy. Sauron never felt shame.

All it took was white text on black background Twitter posts to convince them.

@@praetorian3902 Sauron was a good guy. All he wanted was to bring peace and prosperity to the world.

​@@cleanerben9636 Sauron tried joining an art school and got rejected.

The show was too too slow. Literally, they would take 5 second pauses between sentences. Also, 8 episodes to tell us who is Sauron, a Wizard, and craft 3 rings…😵

@@hightide1500 I wouldn't call that a problem with the show. The lord of the rings is slow, the silmarillon is slow, Tolkien's works in general take a lot of time to tell you all the details. From the mountains and valleys and the elven family trees to the way a hobbit prepares their second breakfast. It's all these details and slowness that make the world believable and immersive. Sure, modern cinematography requires action to grab the viewer's interest in the first five minutes, but that's just not what Tolkien's stories are about. The problem is that rop dumped all that and decided to build their own world that was just a mockery of Tolkien's world. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and watched the first three episodes. The show showed the same level of knowledge and understanding of middle earth that an elementary schooler would have after explaining it to them once. Especially when Valinor wasn't a visible island in the ocean even though Numenor still existed.

@@hightide1500 no they created the whole name of it the rings of power in 5 minutes which should have been the main plot

Wow!

Don't listen to the online nerds, it's worth a watch.

🤣

What a roast ouch.

I also didn't see in there any respect towards the source material being adapted. Also no knowledge of it beyond the most superficial.

An idea just ran through my head, like lightning through a storm cloud. Could the increasing rate of functional illiteracy (poor reading comprehension) be correlated with poor understanding of written source material in show runners making modern adaptations? There's a thought to ponder...

@@mirceazaharia2094 Very likely since no one knows how to speak or write proper English anymore and by that, I don't mean American. I mean good English and not some water downed version of it. In my young days, we would get a spanking if we dare use some slang just because it is trendy or sounded cool. We were expected to write and speak proper English and my teacher God bless her soul was in her late 50s already and strict and not some young attractive sex graved modern teacher with blue hair. From Shakespeare to Tolkien you can see the difference in quality when you compare it to modern English slang even Rowling seems a bit on the more classical style.

Such show, much accomplishment

I can believe it because I opened the application and then went to Smallville instead.

The "halo effect" is actually people falling asleep and registering autoplay views.

It definitelly had a HALO effect, it sucked as bad as the HALO show.

Gee, I wonder why that might be. Maybe because Amazon doesn't want us to notice Matt Smith's bootprint on their backside.

I'm of the opinion that just not patronizing them is the right move. Trying to give any feedback just gets you dismissed as an istiphobe, so why bother. Let the hugbox shrink organically through your absence and eventually the access media will lose the ability to move the needle. See also black adam getting savaged by the politically correct reviewers and yet making bank.

They timed the premiere to Tolkien ‘s death anniversary. That says it all

@@RN1441 Agreed, time to go Galt on these woke idiots and just walk away, along with our $...

@@RN1441 nah, they will continue to say whatever they want without a voice to oppose them if we just give up on talking about it. i'll continue to call them out untill only their ashes (or mine) remains. i wont let what i love getting destroyed or perverted in total impunity, and yes each person calling themselves a fan should at least oppose a bit of resistance with their words AND actions, otherwise that just means you were just not that invested in it to begin with.

What all of that diatribe will hopefully amount to is the familial organisation that hold the rights to Tolkien's IP and legacy being a lot less willing to allow licencing of the IP without far more extensive vetting of the people who are to be handling the material from the offset. If they're not someone like Jackson who (outside of say The Hobbit movies, but I am more of the opinion that his hand was forced in that instance) treated the parent materials with a degree of reverence in the process of making the LOTR movies, then by the make up of the license agreement, they should be able to step in and essentially put a stop to whatever modern agenda (regardless of its makeup) they're trying to inject into the narrative.

That’s what rotten tomatoes serve! They’re selling their trustworthiness nowadays. Everything is on the market, including love🤦‍♂️

sadly, nice payment from amazon studios and he is a goner from youtube, this is the world we live in

yes he is indeed king cuck

He is the head figure of our resistance against hollywood.

Dude this is fake nerd culture. And you fell for it. HARD. 👊

nah seems like just hating just to hate, hard pass.

LMFAO

Which that's really sad for me, because i wasn't interested in GoT so seeing it as the only success leaves me going "but, but what about me?" As i slink back to watch K-dramas and Anime until hopefully another show or movie for sometime I'm interested in comes about again.

Exactly. I was biassed AGAINST HoD... and they managed to overcome my bias, by making me feel smart after each episode, instead of feeling my IQ drop ten points... if that makes me a misogynistic fascist, well...

As soon as the marketing for ROP focused on "diversity" and fan-baiting, I was done.

@@codyraugh6599 At least when it comes to anime, we're in Peaktober! Chainsaw Man debut and more Spy x Family and Mob Psycho 100!

@@codyraugh6599 Come to think of it, an anime adaptation of Tolkien's works could be great if good writers who actually love Tolkien were involved.

Pressing F increasingly

For a moment, I thought you wrote "A standing ovulation for Gary".

@@guyincognito8440 Gary has the talent of wording beautifully his thoughts. He has amazing ideas and he is loyal to the fandom he loves and he would never ill treat a show he would be working on. Sometimes the best talent to direct are not always those that are directing the shows made from books. Gary has my respect and I think he would be good at directing and even helping with scripts. I do not think i am wrong.

@@guyincognito8440 kinda dumb ngl

@@guyincognito8440 Because you have no real response

Rhaenyra is going to conquer King's Landing. Daemon kills Aemond, while Caraxes and Vhagar kill each other. Aegon 2 reconquers King's Landing for a short time. Aegon 3 ends up on the Iron Throne.

Eventually, despite all the lies, narrative control, media spin, inflated numbers, Reality doesn't go away. And the Truth makes itself known.

Exactly lmao we know you lied and so do you

@@TheMASTER4real this is so stupid from Bezos, it's like silencing the guy who spotted the Iceberg on the titanic and then go enjoy the party in the main dancing hall. This is such a foolish and losing strategy. Bezos, a piece of advice : when people don't like your show, improve your show.

I'm certain if it were up to Amazon, they'd probably strap us all into chairs as if it was the taser chair to force you to watch just to try and recuperate the cost of the show. Unfortunately, Jeff Bezos ain't nearly rich or powerful enough for that. Maybe if he knew how to just stick to having good products instead of trying to "get creative," he wouldn't be in this mess.

Lol whatever, alls I want is to know the crap (most of it) from the actual good shows so's I don't waste my time and money on dung like ROP. And I started ignoring the worthless critics long ago.

Count me in!

@@Wolffur Damn it, it seems like I missed it this year. So Tolkien's birthday is January 3rd but on the positive side that gives us almost a year to prepare for next year lol.

Hard to even classify the followers as fans. I doubt im the only one that follows shit because of how bad it is. They probably are curated subs though.

Considering all the Marvel shows and movies are mainly spoken about on the Marvel Studios subreddit, the individual shows would never have high reddit users

I took a look at Lotr_on_Prime and it feels like it's made up of bots. They seem so insincere and fake.

@@tiaaaron3278 Much like those fake 5 Star reviews on RT. Usually non-specific praise mixed with something odd, like enjoying the choreography or leaving the theater (?!) happy.

Just because rings of power is bad, doesn’t mean everything on Amazon is bad “Koff koff” The Boys anyone

Or how well the PR team for sonic knows that rage brings on fans I personally believe that Sonic never looked that bad, but making the effor to make the first trailer look like that made the entire internet do the advertising for free

It's shocking how Amazon didn't even take lessons from that PR team. Their just that moronic and arrogant to think they'd handle the backlash from a globally wide fanbase. Their egos are larger than any blackholes in the universe.

Jim Carry's poor fucking spine, carrying that whole movie and it still sucked lmao

@@more-reasons6655 No sir. Absolutely not. Their visual effects supervisor was on Corridor Crew and no, that is not the way things play out. It'd take an otherworldly genius to predict the audience's initial reaction, its perception, and finally, the fact that the movie would surely be a success. We'd like to think we've connected the dots but it's not always as straightforward as we might think.

@@klyxx8990 nah it was a fun family friendly movie

@@guyincognito8440 it was good and you’re mad lmao.

@@killeryhiltons8499 Don't bother with him, he's just trolling comments.

Damn after watching that intro I wanna go watch Batman. Nicolson and Keaton were great in that movie.

Didn’t watch the rings of bore. Not interested.

I mean they had good writers for the expanse,the boys, and even reacher their new show which is pretty good

@@saktigong1645 reacher is so good i agreed

@@saktigong1645 the boys > hotd