Cate Blanchett nailed galadriel. She was feminine yet commanded massive respect. So elegant, graceful, and mysterious. You really get the sense she was an ancient being with great knowledge to the point where she gives off eery vibes. This new girl gives none of that energy, she just wants to be a girl boss.

My favorite scene is when galadriel said to darth vader "That's not a knife", pulled out excalibur from the stone and said "That's a knife". My spine imploded

It began with the forging of the great films. Threads were given by Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Rights were granted to Jackson, great miner and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire 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. (credits:RegensDominor)

I always imagined Galadriel as a character who was queenly, angelic, magical and wise beyond mortal humans. In this travesty she reminds of someone who would serve me beers at the local bar.

Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Galadriel is unparalleled.

When the actors all said they loved LOTR and Tolkien’s work…I thought to myself “then why would agree to be in this show?”

I would’ve paid money just to watch PJ’s reaction to seeing these episodes.

When you cut to Frodo saying "I wish the ring had never come to me..." I legit started tearing up. You can't rip the heart from a world and expect us to have the same feelings.

"Our hearts are bigger then our feet". Said the people who abandoned those who are ill or cannot keep up.

My favorite part is where Galadrial used the Elder Wand to knock the T-1000 into a vat of molten steel while shouting "76 CENTS!" So inspiring I voided my bowels.

We had three Pinocchio-Movies in 2022, but still Galadriel was the most wooden protagonist.

I liked the scene where Galadriel said "it's Galadriel time" and Galadrielled all over the place.

My favorite part was when Galadriel took out her lightsabre, and smashed the Horcrux, saying "I am no man."

After watching this show, "I hope Sauron wins" is something I thought I'd never say.

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt” - J.R.R. Tolkien and that statement remains true today Thanks for the video

I just started rereading the books after this show started. All I can say is the disdain I have for the show continues to grow each page I get deeper into Tolkein’s universe. Rings of Power needs to be cancelled. I’m convinced Tolkein is going to haunt Jeff Besos in the afterlife.

It might be worth noting that the Cave Troll scene in Fellowship became a teamwork scene. No one member of the Fellowship was shown to be worthless. They all worked together to bring it down.

No one has appropriately addressed how stupid it was that galadriel jumped ship. They were literally at the shores of valinor and she decides to just swim 5000 miles back to middle earth?!

I adore the scene where Sauron T-poses over Galadriel before banishing her to the shadow realm. I got shivers down me spine.

You all simply misunderstood the movie. This movie is brilliant! It is a brilliant deep sleep ASMR movie! I personally fell asleep on each episode of this wonderful season! Thanks Amazon!

So... the Tolkien Estate absolutely loathes Peter Jackson because, they claim, he did not do Tolkien's story justice. I guess they're happy with Amazon's handling of the lore. I can only imagine the producers bringing the script to the lore master and the lore master disagreeing with every decision made. So, instead of figuring out how to use the existing Tolkien story/characters and flesh it out, Amazon promptly fired their lore master, surrounded themselves with yes-men, and said "we can write whatever story we want without consequence"

Peter Jackson's elves: Extremely pretty, almost ethereal, peerless presence, characteristic talk, immaculate in every sense, actually look like immortal beings. Exactly as Tolkien described. Amazon's elves: Cranky humans with pointy ears. By the way, if that truly is Gandalf, that's also absolute BS. None of the Istari came to Middle Earth until half of the Third Age had passed. And Gandalf was the last one to arrive.

I couldn't write anything anywhere near as impressive as Tolkein. The man was an absolutely insane beast at world building and writing. That being said, I have read all of his material enough times that I could have absolutely outclassed these fools and at least have made something that was a pale shadow, rather than a mockery. And this isn't my job. I'm just a huge fan.

It's crazy how the LOTR trilogy was made with 94 million dollars per movie and this takes up 715 million.

Galadriel is epic. Not because of her acts in the show. The real Galadriel is a princess of the Noldor or High Elves. She founded three elf kingdoms in her time in middle earth. She actually founded Ost in Edhil, the very place the rings of power were fashioned. During this time she was visited by a powerful lord of the Numenoreans who later became the 6. king of that realm. She was a sorceress and a politician. She was married with a poweful telerin prince and mother in law of Elrond. When Ost in Edhil was destroyed she retaliated in kind and sent for help to Numenore and Tar Minastir sent vast fleets at her behest to save Gil Galad and the elves and completely rout the forces of Sauron who afterwards did not have the manpower to seriously challenge the elves and men for almost a century. That was Galadriel! I would not have minded to be shown that Galadriel and not the whiny Mary Sue daughter of Karen we got!

A couple of my friends: Before it came out: "just wait until the shows out it won't be as bad as you think!" Now: "there's still only been 3 episodes it will get better" When the first season ends: "that was all just the set up for the real stuff that's coming!!" No. No no no. It's bad. Sorry.

When Galadriel inspired her soldiers by saying: They can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom, i almost cried.

5:55 Dude, what you said is literally 100% correct. When rings of power was out, all I did was watch scenes from the original LOTR.

It's already dated, movie studios have dropped completed projects due to political posturing boring the tits off of even casual audiences, the glaring issue with RoP is that Peter Jackson's movies won 17 academy awards and expectations were high, fans wanted a cohesive authentic and accurate adaptation and Amazon wanted to hire writers with the emotional range of a toddler.

All this series does is make people realize how dam good PJ's Trilogy is!

Recommendation: The Expanse. Grown up writing, excellent character development. Best sci-fi series for more than a decade. Maybe longer.

The part where Galadriel said "it's elven time" and performed that 360 no scope bow headshot killing Isildur's horse was awesome tho.

I like when Galadriel was mourning her wife and she gets a dog her wife gave her before she died, but then a group of robbers broke into her home and killed her dog. Theeennn she found out who and started not aliving everyone while being called the boogeyman. Super sick.

You left out the Not-Hobbits: who love and look out for one another other, until one of them falls behind, at which point they leave the slow poke to die. As they reminisce about those they've left behind, the Not-Hobbits also laugh at those who died funny deaths, like being stung to death by bees. They're not just filthy and lack any semblance of individual personality; except gender flipped Frodo, they're despicable. When gender flipped Frodo says of Not-Gandalf, "What was I supposed to do, just leave him?" her entire village should have shouted as one, "Yes, that's what we do, we leave people to die."

That brief scene with Thor and Odin was incredibly powerful and heartfelt at the same time. Every time I see that scene, I am left thinking, "oh, crap, Thor, you are going to get punished, big time." Two incredibly powerful and prideful beings, squaring off in an argument... yikes. But in that moment, you can FEEL Odin's power in his voice. Thor is about to get schooled.

Pretty much agree with everything you bring up. I didn't have high expectations to begin with. I was able to enjoy some aspects, like the visuals. However, much of the CGI still looks CGI... The main issues are the acting and writing. The one thing that also seemed very silly was that they had 5-10 different ethnicities in a single hobbit tribe, or on a single boat. Like diversity, we get it lol... Why not have a dwarf play an elf and an elf play a dwarf etc. I'm sure Galadriel will turn out as a lesbian.

The bastardizing of Tolkien aside, this show is still awful. Amazon knows they have a turd on their hands.

Remember in Fellowship how it took everyone in the party to beat the troll? Now it's that everybody is incompetent except for the one protagonist. I hate that kind of writing. It's just unbelievable and it reeks of writer's self insert. I despise self insert fanfiction type of writing. It's the equivalent of wanking one's ego

This video does a great job of putting a voice to everything I've felt about this show. Thank you, thank you so very much. Also I read someone on Reddit describe the music as sounding " like it was created by AI" spot on

I couldn't finish the second episode. When sister-in-law started it during Thanksgiving "Knowing I'd love it", I had to excuse myself after ten minutes saying, "I actually didn't care for this show, but continue, you might enjoy it." Now I see how I may have insulted her. I should apologize.

I love the “oh you just hate women main characters” nonsense. No, we hate “already made, poorly written, know it all, love me because I’m me” main characters. Everyone’s completely inept and protagonist is always right and always the strongest. Boring.

The 3rd episode made me laugh so hard, although it was not intentional. The part where the Harfoots remember "fondly" the people they left behind to die was INCREDIBLY FUNNY, in a tone-deaf kind of way. They are TERRIBLE people! 😂

I also find people don't mention the music enough. While I myself am little more than a layman in the topic, I've seen a few videos detailing all the things Howard Shore does to make the music work so well - and the fact is, just as the music works to enhance the movies, so too do the movies let the music BREATHE. The music isn't just there to tell the audience "YEAH THIS IS EPIIIIIIC" or "boohoo this is so saaad :(", the masterpieces of Howard Shore basically tell the same story the movies do, just in music form. His masterful use of leitmotifs is *legendary* and in contrast, the music in Rings of Power is just... Well, it feels... Basic. It's like they just ripped it out of a free stock music website. Like they wrote "epic free music" in Google and just used whatever showed up on page 2 (they didn't wanna make it too obvious).

To be fair the show runners were right about one thing : Back to the books, back to the books, back to the books. And that is what I did, I re read Tolkien from Silmarillion to Children of Hurin, order the last book fall of Numenor and bought the WoT series and it feels like a treat, no woke nonsense - as most of these people don't read fantasy - and great stories from great writer.

The scene where she was riding the horse on the beach was just inexplicable.

I agree. The dwarf King had to be the best actor or best felt moment in the show yet.

I love the part when Galadriel said "Its powa ringin time!" And proceded to powering all over Darth Sauron

Bro, you missed an opportunity, she strait up did a "Crouching hidden dragon off the tip of his sword to smash not only the troll, but the actual successful dragons show everyone is actually talking about."

I know it's such a small thing but I hate that the elves in rings of power doesn't really feel or look like tolkien/peter jackson elves, they just look and act like humans with pointy ears. The reasons the elves in the other films act and look the way they do is because they can afford to, they are immortals, they have no need for practical (like keeping your hair short) and they are fond of beauty (long hair) and also diamonds and silver, not gold because that is for humans and dwarves

If the elves didn`t have pointy ears in this show nobody would even know they were elves. Tolkiens elves did not have pointy ears but they were instantly recognizable as elves.

Personally I think this series is vitally important going forwards. From now on anyone involved in teaching creative writing, especially classes aimed at those seeking a career in film as writers, will have the perfect example of how not to do an adaptation. Pretty much everything about this series, the characters, dialogue, scene transitions, costumes, and so on are executed in a way that stands head and shoulders above the competition in awfulness. The amount of money this series stands to lose will also (one hopes) be an object lesson to all studio execs in the importance of choosing show runners with extreme care. Making sure that, when adapting a well-known IP in particular, you select those who both know and care about the original works and are passionate about creating a work that pays tribute to the source material in a way that can be recognised and respected by all who watch the adaptation. The Witcher series was bad (not counting Henry's portrayal of Geralt)....but Rings of power is just so much worse in almost every respect.

Modern definitions: Villain - the male character with the most (although not much) personality and charisma, who get's punished for his evildoing Hero - the female character with the least (if any at all) personality, who is the biggest asshole in the story and get's away with commiting even more evil than the villain I might just watch this show only to root for DefinetlyNotSauron. Someone has to take a stand against evil, even if it has to be the dark lord, right?

I’m disgusted by what they did to Galadriel. She’s been my favorite character for years and they made her “human”.

The first ten minutes, Galadriel is proving to be more of a villain then Sauron is. And the Harfoots weren't ancestors, they were just another tribe from the 2nd Age.

The amazing thing is, each episode cost as much to make as the peter jackson film did to make, Yet the show has as much depth as a sticker of a puddle on a concaved surface.

It was never about making money or writing a good story it was about pushing the message

The biggest issue in film/tv right now is 99% of the production companies have it backwards. It should be: “I have a great story that needs to be told, let’s get it created in a film/show” Not: “I want to have a film/show made, let’s go create a story for it” Approaching something with the attitude of the latter will always result in an underwhelming creation

This can't even be placed in the "So Bad, it's good" movies/series to watch... it's obviously a poorly written rip-off wrapped in expensive golden production. This will be forever remembered for the memes, lol.

All I can add: “I’ve seen things you people would not believe….lost like tears in the rain.” - Rutger Hauer (Writer and Actor).

"You have nottt sssseeeeeennnn what IIII have ssseeeeeeeennnn!" In fairness, she has seen ALL of the scripts for 'The Rings of Power...'

The funniest thing about this show is that while THINKING they made Galadriel a "strong independent woman" the actually did the exact opposite. Galadriel already was the STRONGEST most INDEPENTANT and most virtuous character in LotR... Then they made her the ASP, the Anime Shonen Protagonist. Which is SOOOO much less than what she actually is.

If I were watching Band of Brothers and I see a Japanese guy fighting for the Nazis id question it and ask "why isnt he on The Pacific instead?" Its not racist to question that especially when it doesnt seem like it fits.

More than a year later and the scene, where Isildur says "No, you are my father" to Elendil, but Elendil rather jumps down the drain of Cloud city yelling "NOOoooo", is still making me cry evurydai.

True LOTR fans would never like this sad excuse for a show. IT'S INSUNTING TO TOLKIENS LEGACY

Another reviewer asked why Lady G didn't just swim back from Numenor. That was her plan anyway. This show is so rough. You've inspired me to Return to Fellowship

Galadriel having to be shone as a bad ass every single scene is like when legolas was just bouncing around slaying everyone playing some sort of temple run on water in the Hobbit. That scene was HILARIOUS

I loved the part where Gollum comes in and uses the lasso of truth on Rheanyra's dragon to fly to Hogwarts to collect the last infinity stone. The rest of it made my bum hole turn inside out.

It feels like they're sort of mixing the vibes of the Hobbit, with LoTR, with SIlmarillion, not understanding that, while all taking place in the same world, each of those works are written in very different tones for a very different purpose, from different regions of Tolkien's mind.

when I watched the first episode i expected a woke dumpster fire but it was just boring. Galadriel is as likeable as a mosquito in the toilette and the elves are basically just humans with pointy ears. not even very competent. mowing the lawn is more exciting than this bs

16:08 I found Galadriel pulling on the random pointless rope for a whole scene so funny 😅

I love watching that extra turn to look at the camera with an annoyed expression while everyone says "the sea is always right"

They cast that guy as Elrond because the previous actor, who looked more like Hugo Weaving, dropped out because the scripts were terrible.

In Jackson's trilogy, Haldir gets less than 5 minutes of screentime and yet everytime I watch his death scene I feel absolutely terrible for Aragorn. It's baffling to me that even I as a regular member of the audience can figure out how I get attached to both these characters, but showrunners that are getting paid by AMAZON of all companies, can fucking not.

Galadriel was supposed to be a witch queen why did they rewrite her to make her a warrior? Why couldn't they just do it with her using magic? I would have loved to see elf magic. The Istari weren't allowed to really use their magic. There's great magic in this world and we touch on almost none of it. None of that came from the ring Nenya either, it was all her. And she's supposed to be wise, have foresight (seeing into the future) and basically entrance all that see her. The elves are absurdly enamored with her and they're normally familiar with such beauty. I think in this she has about as much charm and charisma as a rock thrown in your face.

The fact that's a scene about "stealing jobs" in Middle Earth is so painfully transparent and laughable

The 1st commercial I got when I clicked on this video was a guy talking about how he had found out he had Metastic testicular cancer, and I thought it was the actual video about ROP

I can’t believe how badly they’ve fucked up this show. Like the amount of people this had to of been approved by on multiple levels…. Somebody thinks they’ve made the next great show… which blows my mind. I mean the casting is shockingly bad idk what these people were thinking

People don't want CGI, bad actors, bad characters, bad storytelling, LOTR memories, or the butchering of tolkeins story. Quit using CGI, instead, make models, film at real sites, hire background actors, and use costumes. The audience notices. The only thing they did decent was costumes for orcs and some dwarves. Which was already done excellently 20 years ago.

I can't imagine Galadriel's daughter marrying Elrond, when Galadriel and Elrond seems to be the same in this series.

Thank you for going through the painstacking process of watching this show and sparing us from it.

I've watched a few of this videos ripping apart ROP because well, I'm petty as shit and I love the fact that these people who bastardised a series and universe that I absolutely adore are probably gonna actually lose a fuck tonne of money because of sheer hubris and egotism alone. That and I have no life. But I notice a lot of people calling this fan fiction, a rather unfair comparison really. While I admit I have never seen LOTR fan fiction though I'm 100% certain it exists. What I have seen is a lot of star wars fan fiction, another franchise I hold dear to my heart that has been butchered by identity politics and virtue signalling. And honestly some of the fan fiction is infinitely better than anything disney has come out with, the possible exception being Rogue One. Anyway I'm ranting while my dinner goes cold. But yeah, give a little credit to the fans because they produce some proper amazing content.

Yes. Remember that Galadriel is the granddaughter of the king of the elves, and Elrond's mother-in-law. Then have another look at the handmaiden's line "Your friend has arrived." The series is so far from what was writtenby JRRT, and so badly written itself, it deserves every skerrick of the derision directed at it.

It’s almost like the literature professor knew what he was doing.

Funny fact, when i watched all the episodes i had diarrhea for an entire week, i still can smell it in my house.

Holy crap. This does have a MASSIVE CW vibe to it. There's simply no way they spent all that money for an hour long CW "made for tv" show. Someone is either a liar or they ran off with a fuck load of cash.

Yeah, the elves don't feel like elves. They just seem like Humans with pointy ears

What sucks is that- THEY HAD A BOOK THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THIS SERIES!! THERE WAS THE SILMERILIAN! And clearly this show wants to reference it. But it refuses to do so!

Problem is, Galadriel comes across as this half-civilized wildling despite the camera's loving, lingering gazes at her angelic face. Which wouldn't be such an issue since this story takes place in the Way Back, and nothing says an immortal character couldn't eventually make the transition from barbarian to enlightened sophisticate, but Elrond is RIGHT THERE, acting like a cultured gentleman. We're meant to believe that they came from different backgrounds and that perhaps she has been traumatized by her experiences, but that doesn't change the fact that our protagonist behaves markedly less maturely than her dueterangonists, and it isn't in an apparently self-aware, Holden Caufield kind of way where you get the impression it's being done for effect. I think if you're a writer you owe it to your audience to occasionally appraise your own work and see if you aren't using your plot or characters as a mouthpiece for your own feelings and beliefs. If you are, stop, or at least present a contrary viewpoint that does more than act as strawman to be easily defeated. People don't give a fuck about your Mary Sue, the fun of fiction comes from uncertainty and believability, not how "likeable" the characters are. The only people who prioritize "likeability" are idiots. The problem with Mary Sues isn't that they're unlikeable or even unrealistic, it's that their value to the author rests on their likeability and "cool" factor, rather than their complexity or believablily or any of a thousand other nuances that bring characters to life.

It has one huge and welcome advantage over Jackson's (er, and of course Tolkien's) original: it's so shallow and self-absorbed (without absorbing us) that it's easy to answer the door bell, find just that right beer glass lost at the back of the cupboard, phone home, etc, etc, without even pressing pause. Ah... what a relief! No more crossed legs waiting for the dramatic tension to ease off - there isn't any. Well done, Amazon, true content-free content.

Finally, a reviewer that understands just how terrible this show is. I know it's getting ripped to shreds all over KZfaq, but most people seem to be giving it about 4/10 and focusing on the race-swapping and lore-changing, and how terrible Galadriel's character is. But the writing and acting are both incredibly bad. It's hilariously 1/10.

It's like watching the great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt announce that he is sending all the trains running into the Bronx head on into each other at the same time every Friday. First crash was interesting but think of the children.

"The dog may bark at the moon, but he cannot bring it down" --- I literally clicked off and went to cancel amazon prime

Tolkien experienced and fought in WWI. You simply cant emulate the emotions and fears embedded into his writing.

I have chosen to watch the extended edition of LoTR over the same time TRoP is running - what is apparent already is just the difference in the filmmaking art - Jackson and Fran spent a year rereading all Tolkien's source material and lovingly recreating the movies - they only made changes to help the movies flow - not because they wanted to 'be Tolkien' but because they understood how the movies needed to differ from the books (time) but always founded themselves they were writing for for an audience of people who loved the source material. If only Amazon understood that!

i can't unsee that terrifying smile at 18:18

I have to believe that of the >7 billion people on Earth, there are a handful of people who can write LOTR stories for TV with same quality we got in the original trilogy. It’s sad that their talents were not captured.

i misheard "this dialogue makes me wish I was deaf" as "this dialogue makes me wish I was dead" and both are excellent lol

I watched 15-20 min. and I fell asleep too! That was enough for me. I actually enjoy these videos ABOUT how truly horrible it is. In what little I saw I thought the acting was HORRIBLE. Just awful awful acting. NOTHING engaging about any of those characters and Galadriel’s brother’s hair cut. Woah. They have hair salons in Valinor??

"I just watch it to get angry." - said somebody and, damn, I feel you. Oh, how I wish I could fall asleep while watching the show, like you did, man, what a blessing!