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If only the writers had fought in a war, studied and taught in a world leading university for 40 years, studied myth for 40 years, and had a deep understanding of mythology and its links to culture. Instead they got someone who saw the Hobbif, part 1.

Comparing the troll scenes. Peter Jackson didn't tear down characters to elevate others. Even Merry, Pippin, and Sam threw in their all in the fight.

Wouldnt you consider your own feet to be normal size, and the other species to have freakishly small feet?

I like how every man during that troll fight scene was like: "Hold, guys! We need to endure until *Strong Female Character* comes to claim her spotlight!" Seriously, that sword boost was so dumb and obviously forced to make her look cool, it had completely opposite effect. 😂

They should have just made Galadriel a black trans-elf. Would have at least been a hilarious shit show.

I honestly tried to watch it with an open mind, I was like “ok just put the trailers aside and take it for what it is” But after like 10 minutes it became insufferable, somehow I watched both episodes using the fast forward button and laughing at how ridiculous it is at parts that are supposed to be serious. Absolute train wreck.

"Hey everyone look at the black elf, lets help him cause he can't help himself!!"the racism of wokism is so blatant

I found that the dwarves attempted to sound Scottish, whereas the harfoot( cue hobbits)) attempted to sound like Irish travellers, which when you consider the race baiting from Lenny Hendry( professional race baiter) about African American/Caribbean representation is hypocritical since he is culturally appropriating another cultures accent.

The bad framing and camera work was done that way because Wayne Yip from Wheel of Time is an EP and director of 4 of 8 episodes of Rings of Power because you literally can't fail hard enough to not keep getting hired by Amazon if you check a quota box and have the right politics.

"YOU SHALL NOT PASS THIS RUBBISH OFF AS LOTR" We the fans don't want an expensive FanFiction with tons of stunning scenery. It's not some generic high fantasy it's Tolkien's world. The first episode alone .....here Galadriel isn't married to Celeborn/and no Daughter... and she wasn't exiled but left on her own .... NOT open to interpretation but instead unnecessary and important changes among many others. No marriage/relationship = no daughter =no future wife for Elrond=no Arwen=you fucked up the timeline pretty bad Let's not start with bland pseudo intellectual dialogue, wrecked character design, simple concepts such as distances in middle earth, etc Diversity we COULD have that are lore: Haradrim, Easterlings or the Corsairs of Umbra If you tried to make Marvel's Wakandans in Africa white there would and should be a shitshorm, or image something closer to LOTR. A fantasy story celebrating African culture and myths 1000 years ago.....and then made some of the main character cast white because....diversity even though there were white cultures in the story they could have used instead of changing lore to fit their ideals they are proud to proclaim aren't Tolkien

It's weird how they're casting fifty-somethings as elves. Elves are immortal, they would NEVER look as old and broken down as Charles Edwards does playing Celebrimbor. Hugo Weaving was only 39 when he portrayed Elrond for the filming of The Lord of the Rings.

"The world has changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. It began with the forging of the great books. Ideas were given to J. R.R. Tolkien, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Film rights were granted to Jackson, great minor and craftsman of the mountain of lore. And nine, nine hours were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire quality and honesty. 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 massive flop. And into this show he poured his money, his malice and his will to dominate all shows. One show to ruin them all, one show to bind them, in the Land of Amazon where the shadows lie." -neilboxer00

I refuse to give Prime any satisfaction by watching a show that has been so universally and comprehensively taken apart. Thank you for your service.

On another video about this how, I brought up how silly it is for a thousand year old, magic wielding, immortal Elf noble to be less wise, less strong, and less capable than Aragorn, who was barely in his 70's. The string of bullshit defenses were a real achievement of human idiocy. "It's called character growth! Of course she isn't as mature as she is in LOTR!" "A 1000 year old elf is like being a 20 year old human. She is like 4000 in LOTR!" "It isn't a competition for who is strongest or smartest. Galadriel is learning at her own pace!" And then I felt a tug on the magical tripwire that brings the rusty steel jaws of realization slamming shut, bisecting them at the ideological waist... "Galadriel would make a terrible protagonist if she didn't grow or change at all. Who would watch that..." Mmmhmmm, and? "...Why even bother focusing on characters that don't have story arcs?!" Boom. And now you know why Tolkien never wrote a single word about elvish culture evolving or changing. Individual elves could be corrupted or tricked, but they NEVER acted outside of their nature, and they were NEVER shown in situations that displayed a change of heart. There are no stories about individual elves bringing their lessons learned into a later story. Humans and Hobbits are meant to be the focus of all Tolkien's work. Aragorn finally learns to take the responsibility he had been avoiding. Gollum learns to overcome his loneliness and shame.(until the end) Bilbo learns about courage and resourcefulness. Sam and Frodo learn leadership and sternness. The Hobbits learn to stand up to evil. The elves have to be set in their ways like Sauron so that there are two poles that the actual protagonists can wander between and align themselves with. Galadriel is a bad protagonist because she is either the badass, powerful ruler of the elves, or she is a moron that couldn't mature over millenia.

"Rings Of Power" is not Tolkien, just something made in the image of Tolkien in his name. "Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy..."

The moment Galadriel said "her palms are sweaty, knees weak arms are heavy" before fighting the misogynist troll was truly breathtaking. Tolkien (he/him) was ahead of his time👌

i still can't believe that guyladriel's face-twitching scene is real LOL, this is one of the cringiest shows ever made

I don't really understand how galadriel's men survived hundreds of years of fighting and traveling when they are so useless. Maybe they started with like 10,000 of them or something, lmao

The show tries to emphasize the power of its women characters by showing their being victims of the patriarchal society they live in. Young Galadriel is being bullied by boys, 'Commander' Galadriel is being bullied by 'Politician' Elrond and 'So Called High King' Gil-Galad. Nori always gets warned for being too adventurous by her parents. Bronwyn is gossiped about and is not trusted by the male villagers. Is this the only way to build up powerful female characters? By the way I am already exhausted by seing Galadriel's angry, annoyed and hateful face in every scene. Does she always have to be that angry all the time in order to be the most powerful female in Middle-Earth?

The only thing that trips me up about the HOD casting is that the Targaryens are silver haired, pale, and purple eyed "pure bloods" because of ridiculous amounts of inbreeding. It's one of the reasons all of them go insane. So, I don't know why you would want to recast a character for representation sake for that role. It's like: "See! Black people can be racist, incestuous, monsters too!" Lmao. All in all, I believe the best person for the role should get it. But if it betrays the authors work, I hold issue. I had similar issues with how they did Grover in Percy Jackson. Because they made him a pussy slaying gangster in the movie by the virtue of him being black (which IS racist, diversity warriors) instead of the dorky redheaded looking dude who turned out to be a secret badass.

Half the time it felt like I was watching this on an actual stage as the actors were simply doing a run through of their lines, some of the sets were so obvious that it instantly took me out of the world. Then again, my mind struggled to ever stay in the first place. Perhaps had it been at least consistent with a well written story, I wouldn't have minded that style, but it was too much all over the place. Convenient props appeared always at the right time it seemed, too fake looking for some while others almost too perfect. This world they created with all its apparent beauty, it never quite felt like it was actually lived in. It was very strange because some of the sceneries were so beautiful while other times it felt rather artificial and empty, soulless. The reviews appear to be extremely mixed online, but I think a lot of these could be bots based on how they write the same basic stuff over and over; twitter has it bad if not the worst. This is just my opinion, but to me, it seemed as though they were trying way too hard without fully understanding the source material, especially when it came to metaphors with their attempt to speak what I call, "fantasy proper." It's amazing to me that I can watch a low budget stage play while having no problems in suspending my disbelief because the story and actors were of quality and actually had chemistry to keep me engaged. Whereas ROP, with such an enormous budget, fell flat in their creation of this somehow desolate world. For some, maybe they don't notice such things and don't have this issue and that's fine, I really wish I didn't feel this way. Then again, even if I could get past that feeling, there's still so many other things that are wrong here. I have to wonder though, am I alone in this emptiness it made me feel? It gave off an uneasy feeling in a similar way to liminal spaces.

"Maybe the real rings of power were the friends we made along the way," I cried when I heard that line.

"Do you know why a ship floats but a stone cannot?” Umm, gravitational force and buoyancy? Oh, no, no, I know this one...light and darkness?

In about episode 6 of Walking Dead I realized that I wanted all the characters to die and I wanted the zombies to win. I am 2 episodes away in both HoD and RoP for rooting for human genocide.

that "you people never let the past go" scene could actually do really well, in theory. because men have lives infinitely shorter than elves, the potential for a storyline where elves learn the potential of the individual to change above their ancestor or race's past, and that "just because some dude was bad a decade ago doesn't mean that everyone is bad now," is fantastic. Had it not come after some dude tried to poison a black dude, and if we could trust the writers to come up with a coherent message other than "racism bad, lol," it could be a great, if cliche, plot point.

Worst part for me was the whole thing feels like they're desperately trying to set up these deep quotes or epic fight scenes, but fail miserably. That, and the Harfoots are just abysmal. I haven't even read the books, and am definitely not a "purist". I tried giving it an honest chance, but it's extremely mediocre.

Having more money doesn't magically give them filmmaking or storytelling skill. Affirmative action morons being socially promoted to making the series don't have to learn how to actually make a show.

House of the Dragon is an inconvenient truth. You can't claim people don't like your show because of diversity when that show exists and is being praised.

The cinematography is what happens when diversity is their strength and people are allowed to fail up.

The only reason this show cost a billion dollars is because every single contract gouged Amazon on prices. Something that should have cost a million probably cost $10 million. Talk about getting your pants pulled down and still going with it.

‘What? You guys call each other knife-ears all the time! It’s in every elf hymn!’

Sean, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been out for at least 5 days now. When are you people going to let the past go?

When Galadriel turned to agent smith and said “we’re going to need a bigger boat” I wept out of my penis.

It doesn't matter how well they write the character or how well Don Lemonalos is portrayed by the actor. Simply by him existing, the show now has to explain the genocide that MUST happen between this show and LoTR, without turning any of the cultures in LoTR into something horrific. It can't be done.

The show is dripping with faux intellectual dialog. I thought that myself while watching and I've heard several reviews stating the same. Its CW dialog involving some Tolkien characters and nothing more. So boring. Certainly not LOTR. But a boring slog as a generic fantasy. Who is it made for? The Tolkien story is only used as Easter eggs. So its not for the Tolkien fans.

One thing that I've noticed with the current era of 1 hr, 8 episode season TV shows, is that writers don't know what to do with so much yet so little screen time. It's like they get overjoyed with having 8 hrs to breathe but then have no idea how to fill run time. Obi Wan Kenobi suffered greatly from this problem, so very little happened yet each episode felt rushed and disjointed with the last. So far with the Rings of Power, there is at least continuity between episodes but not much has been told. I assume that they were trying to establish the world and the set pieces for the inevitable drama to unfold, but with 1/4th of the season done, I feel like the latter half of the season is going to be incredibly rushed. Compare that with TV shows from the 90' and 00's where a season was 24 episodes at 45 minutes each. Writing was succinct yet fit into the grand narrative of the show.

When people say it's good cinematography, I just think about Mr Robot and how virtually every dialogue scene in that show worked the scenery into the shot, getting the best possible angle for the type of conversation that was being had. RoP has pretty pictures, and then standard WB dialogue shots.

The one thing that bothers me the most is the way they portray Galadriel, as some sort of warrior. It just doesn't make sense from a story telling perspective because everyone knows she's still around in the third age. there's nothing at stake and she will always win and it makes it boring. and that's the main part of the story...

Galadriel was a wizard in the movie of The Lord of the Rings. All the sudden she's invisible warrior in this series of the rings of powers. What an odd change. This is not in Tolkien's writings.

Me and my wife told ourselves we would at least watch one episode. It was HARD to get through the entire first episode.

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

A stone looks only downward….. wtf that doesn’t even make sense!!!

In other countries people let history become history and move forward, like in Europe and also Vietnam for example, but not black people, they will never let 'slavery' go because it is gold, even if most black people most probably have never been slaves, one small detail never addressed is the Muslims made the 'slaves' into 'girls' to say it that way, also the reason why there is no blacks in the east, perhaps our black friends would prefer their forefathers had been castrated?

the funniest thing is that in the story of the rings of power itself, it's so obvious and even spoon fed to us that it's the humans who still love morgoth after he fell and worship him and hate the elves for killing him and want to take revenge and are also hoping to bring back morgorth and they're doing this very openly... so that line about "you people" doesn't make sense coming from a human to an elf because the elves want to leave as well... that human shouldn't be saying that... but they really needed that line in there, plot be damned....

Totally agree with Corlys Valeryon. Also, unlike with the Tolkien world, Old Valerya was a huge empire. And the difference between empires and countries/kingdoms is that empires are made up of many nations. So if you really wanna reach, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that the Valeryon's were a little different from other Valeryan houses. It's a big stretch but still, more believable than black Lannisters. Also his brother is also black and his kids are mixed, meaning the showrunners made it fit. But most importantly, no one cares if Corlys is black because his hair is white/silver, the actor is great and the character is well written with an interesting arch. If the RoP showrunners wouldn't be total tools they could've ***expanded*** the story to the East of Middle-Earth to include Turkic/Mongolian/Asian actors from Rhûn. They could've expanded the story to the South of Middle-Earth to include Arab/North African/Black actors from Harad. They could've focused on the Blue Wizards and cast actors like Clarke Peters and Morgan Freeman as the Blue Wizards. But we all know that these corporations don't want to actually expand the worlds they've bought out, they just want to recycle. Which is sad because Tolkien fans would've loved to see more of Rhûn, Khand, Harad and the Blue Wizards.

And the beauty of the troll scene was THEY FAILED! The fellowship of the ring failed to protector it's holder. It was Bilbo who actually saved the day by giving that expensive gift of Mythril armor to Frodo. I love how none of the characters had these super powers to over come a beast like the cave troll and they even had a wizard in the group.

She ran up the swords and was bouncing around like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This style was outdated 20 years ago. I can’t believe they’re doing it here.

I finally gave in and watch this Lord of the Rings that people are talking about. Honestly it is very good. The dialogue is great, the set design is top notch and the casting is very well done. I mean whoever casted Galadriel should be given an award. Seriously, casting Cate Blanchett as Galadriel is a stroke of genius and Peter Jackson should win an award for this.

"Ring of Power" seems wrong, in every aspect.

"Who let all these Elfers into town?" "D'you see the way that Elfer was looking and that girl?" "Typical Elfer Behavior."

Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel universe, DC universe, Tolkien universe are all already completely destroyed and in need of a complete overhaul where we don't just write these last iterations out of the lore, we also make special note that them and nothing like them will EVER be considered "real" for these universes. We have to show the SJWs they can't just come into a scene they didn't create and screw everything up like this. Anime and other works are also up on the chopping block next. We have to hope no more fall to these idiotic tendencies and we can begin deleting and preventing the future perversion of our fandoms and universes.

The Professional Critics are racist against the truth - the show stinks! Effeminate men. Androgynous teenagers. Boring Dialogue. Juvenile plot line. 5 foot nothing heroine. Just too "WOKE" - not one of the characters or actors has an "it" factor. Bring back normal...please!

But Sean, what's the difference between a stone and a ship tho?

The chick in HOTD is NOT a good actress bro.

To be fair Arya spent years on the run having to avoid detection and blend in and also spent years learning to sword fight from a trainer/having to defend herself while on the run. So there is a good argument once she knew the foundations from the faceless man she already has everything she needed to go out and do those things and didn't really need him as much as he thought. Still would have liked more explanation but she wasn't exactly Mary sue.

My favorite part was when she decided to swim back across the ocean in what was essentially a nightgown

When Elrond texts Galadriel to send n00ds, and then he looks at the camera and says "now we'll finally see the Galadri-bells" I nearly shit my pants.

Valaryon casting in HOTD is laughable and does appear to be impacting the writing in that they feel the need to constantly remind us that they are 'pure valyrian blood', something which should be obvious, but, yes, so far, we haven't had any ROP type crap It's annoying that they didn't race swap some other House or character as HOTD is - thus far - quite good, unlike ROP.

Elves only make up 13% of the population but commit 52% of the kinslayings.

Do you have a button you push when you inflect your voice for certain characters? Don't think I've ever noticed that before. But I also just listen a lot with the screen off.

Even the landscapes and cities and such are nowhere near the quality and character of the Jackson films. They BUILT Hobbiton like two years ahead of time. They BUILT Rivendell (except the larger background shot of it), they built Lothlorien, they built Helm's Deep, they built Edoras, etc., etc. They used as little CGI as possible, and it's like 20-year-old CGI now, and it STILL looks more believable than RoP. WHY? Character. The movies had character, there was love poured into those movies. They kept to the books as much as they could. They build as much as they could. They had guys putting together millions of little rings to make the chainmail. They had actual armor smiths making the costume armor (it was basically just lighter actual armor), like, you can't beat that as far as appearances. So, I really can't even give them the looks aspect, because they didn't even TRY on any of these things, you can tell they didn't give a s***.

Since when did hobbits become grubby hobos ?🤦‍♂️

You are 100% correct.. the hate from this show is disgusting. Plus everything else wrong with the writers, the directors, the fake manipulated reviews, the ultra modern feminism and the lack of character or storyline development is shocking. Real old fashioned feminism and great character and storyline development is great. Everyone or almost anyone likes that. But this horror show is a banquet of everything wrong.

Fun thing: Just when Shaun started talking about the Ice Troll fight, an ad came on, showing parts of that same fight...

Tired of the “woke” era.

I thought the first episode was unbelievably terrible, and the second episode was actually a little better - just bad. Lol. Personally I loathe the diversity casting - I just cannot watch anything with it.

Amazon's "Wokeness" corrupts faster than even the One Ring ever could...

The show can look good, but that's nothing to praise. Good cgi just means the producers had a lot of money. What I believe, is that the 2 episodes had one good moment. It's between Elrond and Prince Durin. Maybe just because I like dwarves, I don't know. Princess Disa is not even that bad as a character... now if only she had a beard. Prince Durin's grudge is very much in character for a dwarf. It's good. When they are on the elevator he shows some believable anger at Elrond for missing his wedding and the birth of his 2 sons. That's good stuff. Then the whole situation at Durin's home. Again good work on the actors side, I even liked Elrond there. I am not going to talk about how they butchered the lore, because they outright masacred it. It's bad, really bad. "Look how they masacred my boy" bad.

The King from The Walking Dead was a fantastic example of tossing a Black leader into a story not based on his skin color too. Dude was dope and had a FANTASTIC back story.

Lord of the Rings dialogue can be downright poetic at times. The rings of power tries at that and it comes off as try hard and cringe.

Amazon acting like the government of North Korea 👎 "You can have any opinion you want about the show, as long as it's at least 6 stars."

We have been wrong. We have been so VERY WRONG in criticizing LOTRTROP (that's a mouthful) as we have been doing. The series is not telling a tale of our Middle-Earth, the Middle-Earth of our fathers. This is the tale of A middle-earth, just one of a multitude of different possible worlds created at the beginning of time by Eru Ilúvatar and the Valar. At the end of Season 01, they will introduce us to a new character, JaReRaT el Khen, that will show to us all this diversity of stories. You could even ask yourself what if we could see these multiple universes. On Season 02 we will move from the middle-earth where Guyladriel has become the Overall Commander of all the armies of the world and will go investigate a different middle-earth where the Fourth Era has just begun. An Era of mostly peaceful protests spreading all over the forests and hovels, with demands for equality and representation to all the different peoples of the world. The Last Season will be the shortest and seemingly the longest, showing an All-New All-Different Not-Yet-Ready middle-earth, where Eru and all the Valar are all female and are still now discussing which are the better parts of the music and who will sing first and why should Eru take the lead as they are equally empowered female archetypes and could they just not bother creating males and such... Only 01 episode that will feel like 100 hundred.

How would you rank compared to other fantasy TV shows?

I wouldn't want Galadriel for a commanding officer. She'll leave you to die or use you as a stepping stone to glorify herself at the first opportunity. Also, if she's so great then why did she even take that squad of elves with her in the first place? So they could carry her stuff?

It began with the forging of the great films. Books 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.

No one who has been paying attention to the world for the past few years harbored any hope that it was going to be anything other than trash.

We need to stop calling this stuff “woke” or “leftist” or whatever, call it what it is-it’s pure antiwhitism. We can argue from the moral high ground if we say “I will not accept antiwhitism” instead of “we’re not racist!”

I actually have a guilty pleasure in watching these woke shows cause it usually exposes a lot of the writers' own biases. Like She-Hulk nearly annihilating three men for hitting on her. But Rings of Power is just so boring. At least in other shows you have something happening along with the cringy woke stuff but barely anything in the story has moved in the first two episodes.

Compare the Snow Troll scene to the Cave Troll scene in the Mines of Moria from the Fellowship of the Ring. In Fellowship, all the members of the Fellowship fight with bravery and competency. They get their ass kicked initially because they are being swarmed by a bunch of Orcs in addition to the Troll. But through teamwork, they win. Heck, even Pippin is on top of the troll pulling on the chain, causing the troll to rear back which gives Legolas his opening for the killing blow. I'm the Snow Troll scene, the males are incompetent or terrified into inaction and Galadriel wins with the barest assist from a teammate...

“Are you just going to stand there breathing like an orc?” -Galadriel I was utterly stunned by this clever comment made by Galadriel. I don’t know if you can read between the lines like I can, but I’ll fill you in. Galadriel is cleverly comparing Elrond’s breathing to that of a race in middle earth known as the “orc”. These orcs are disgusting and evil in their very nature, and they likely have very stinky breath (it’s so funny because Elrond most likely doesn’t breathe like an orc, and his breath is most definitely not as smelly as an orcs). It’s writing like this that really sets this series apart from other fantasy shows. you can expect the rest of the show to be as deep and insightful as this line.

The bluntness of the black elf scene reminds me of casting LGBTQ actor Ezra Miller as Credence in the Fantastic Beast movies in that Credence is obviously an allegory of homophobia - a boy who goes on rampages with destructive magic due to long-term suppression by his ultra-religious foster mother. No subtlety at all.

Making a million dollar franchise from a billion dollar concept is no longer a Disney experience.. Amazon joined the club proudly

The only entertaining thing about this series is the coming storm of backlash videos of people calling Amazon out on their utter bs. Such treachery will not stand in the face of Tolkien’s fanbase.

J Hard R Tolkien would shit down these writer's throats if he were alive today.

for me as a proud black person by the way I fuckin love lord of the rings to be honest one of the reasons I loved the story so much is even though they were all white skinned people in the movie there was a lot of bigotry between the races or beings of the story u could see how people were treated unfairly or different because they were Hobbits or elf’s or dwarves etc. that was interesting I could relate as a black person even though I didn’t see a black face and the funny thing with this situation I’m agreeing with a lot of people I wouldn’t agree with on a lot of other issues with this one a lot of right wing talkers but I love lord of the rings so much this talk has gotten a lot of my attention I’ll NEVER watch this show

I seriously slept through that “you people” scene. I had no idea it was in there haha.

50 000 000 mil $ for one episode of this shit? No way, it smells like some money laundering work

Didn't need you to make a whole video to tell me that

Hey Sean another solid gold hit as usual. Out of curiosity, have you talked to Devon?

I loved the part where Galadriel put on the yellow jump suit and jumped on a motorcycle with her hatori hanzo sword to go kill O-Ren Ishi

I have not seen what you've seen. Thank god. I instead have watched the extended trilogy twice in a row.

Kid Galadriel made a boat out of some paper and the kids that are both GIRLS and boys taunt her - the boat she makes is an origami of a swan and the children throw rocks at the swan. You're so full of it - so anyway, the fellowship fought a cave troll AND goblins and this was NOT the same thing or similar. The elves in ROP fought a Frost Troll on it's own. Also I already wrote this comment, so here it is again: *You're a liar, NOT all the troops with her were male when she fought the frost troll AND not only did 1 of the FEMALE elves get booted aside by the troll but a MALE elf vaulted Galadriel into the air, so both a MALE and Galadriel took it down So if you can't relate to Galadriel because she wasn't in peril vs a Frost Troll, what about when the Worm knocked her into the ocean and she actually drowned and had to be rescued, she was terrified and also knocked out, so...? What a terrible example of the harfoots being "cringe" I mean besides the fact I don't even know what kids you are talking about, one kid pointed out the paw print that was in the berry bush but the harfoot scenes are with adults, like 99% of it is with adults. The harfoots focus so far has been mostly on Elanor Brandyfoot and the giant who fell out of the sky and nothing about it has been "cringe" you just talk in infantilized memes cos your audience is comprised of meme sheep The human boy is upset cos he is lumped in with his ancestors actions from a thousand years ago and is mad with the elves. So how is the black elf part of a cringe race story? He isn't the one complaining. He also isn't being blamed on any individual basis or skin specific related bias. You've read into this as if it mirrors white people saying black people need to get over slavery even though the scene actually depicts humans under the elves thumb, so it doesn't fit your narrative. If on the other hand, the boy was black and the elf was white, then it would be more believable where you are taking this. Nobody who wrote the script for this show has to be sorry for the fact that you are hypersensitive. If the writers goal was to make white people look bad and racist, then why does the black elf have white friends and white elf allies and a white partner. Why do the black harfoots get along so well with the white harfoots? Why does a white man saved Galadriels life? If she had not been saved by him, she wouldn't exist in episode 3, she was going to die but whitey saved her. 15 minutes and you talk like you are a child "cringe" "cringe" "cringe" is this how you talk in the courts? Do they look at you like you are petulant? Is there any point in watching the remaining 10 minutes or is it more of this? Out of context and memes.

I don't care if House of Dragons is good. If I know that it has race and sexual identity quotas, I won't participate.

That 'my girl Galadriel' is the cringiest shit I've ever seen.

Disagree. I found the poc hobbits distracting, but the story is ok so far.

Guyladriel’s “bad smell” under her nose expression, her unintelligible delivery of the dialogue, her “super bitch” demeanour, makes you wonder why the writers thought having a narcissistic main character as an anti hero would be fun!

brie larson, Jodie Whittaker, Scarlett Johansson are no longer queen of the stone face

Diversity in Woke-dom means just Black - not Asian, Not Latino, Not India, just black.

I might get hate for this, but I don't think The Rings of Power is as bad as you are making it. Yes I can see the PC aspects in it but honestly it's bearable. First a correction. In Galadrials "elite" party (put quotes because there was no indication anywhere that they were elite, just poor suckered who were assigned Galadrial as their commander) there were at least one other woman so it wasn't all male. Also, Galadrial is super op and was even depicted as such in Fellowship, where she even says she is an equal match for the dark lord (with the ring of course). So having Galadrial be able to take down a snow troll while the others were having difficulties (also yes I know the others didn't really try to fight cause panicking) to show her overwhelming strength compared to the others. And she looks pissed off all the time because everyone is telling her to give up the search for Sauron when she has more than enough reason and proof to back it up to keep looking. Now the Harfoot story line is a different story. That I feel is a little bland and is trying to force Nori into the shoes of Frodo. However, the half foots (or hobbits) are all go lucky and loving and caring because that's just how they are. With the introduction of The Stranger though it starts to make that story line a little more interesting. Finally there is Arondir's story. The villagers in the tavern were not talking about poisoning the well, and Arondor was not implying that they were. He could hear parts of the conversation and as a self appointed caretaker of that village (because of his love interest) he wanted more information of possible poison in a pasture where cattle were falling ill and dieing. The villagers animosity toward the elf and that one dudes "when are you people going to let the past go" is their anger about the elves pretty much occupying their lands and treating the South Landers all like enemies, even though none of the humans alive now were the ones who sided with Sauron or Morgoth. Arondir is willing to let the past go because of love towards his human lover but the humans can't see him more than an elf. Now to go into the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, the human warriors woth the elephants in the Return of the King who sided with Sauron were South Landers, the same area that the people around Arondir is, which shows that their animosity and willingness to follow Sauron never really changed. I know this is a really long comment but there is one last thing I want to mention. It's not that all the male characters are "cowards" per se. More along the lines of some people are cowards and weak while others (ie. Arondir, Elrond and Halbrand (even though it hasnt been shown yet)) are braver and stronger. I feel it is a bit of a reach to say all the male characters are weak and cowardly.