Honest Trailers | Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Season 1) 

That was a very good summary!

It's almost like it was purposefully designed to punish anyone for knowing more than some casual fantasy viewer.

spot on lol

oh cmon how can you not like the moment when guyladriel says "ThErE iS a TeMpEsT iN mE"' sounds very book accuraty tbh

@@darwinxavier3516 I don't know if I'd say 'punish' but this very much feels like it's expecting people to be familiar with just the Jackson movies, rather than the books and is at most taking inspiration from the extended indexes.

Cognitive dissonance to the extreme 😅

Did they actually say nobody gets left behind? I thought they said "nobody goes off trail and nobody walks alone." Which sounds like a nice philosophy until you realize it's more of a threat. "Nobody goes off trail...OR ELSE!"

They are the SADFOOTS!

@@williamscott2580 it wasnt a crime. in fact, it was famously made into a crime later on. even more so, plenty don't consider it a crime to this day. specifically the same ones who were selling them from way before.

@@ItsNotaTuhmah Harfwits

True, didn't see that coming

They're not sporting skulls on their attire so they should be safe... In telling themselves that they aren't but regarding how the show portrayed them... Not so much. Now if someone could photoshop that skull-featuring coffee mug or something like that into Galadriel's hand...

I mean... most of the "good" people in LotR are from settler-colonial states. Even the movies explicitly draw attention to how the Dunlendings were driven out of their own lands by the Rohirrim (who themselves were "gifted" that land by the rulers of Gondor). Tolkien was definitely far from being a Nazi, but the attitudes of his time bled through into his work.

@@cass7448 Attitudes of every time. It's just common sense. We just happen to live in a culture that despises common sense in favor of good feelings and pretending we are so much different than the natural world or our horrible ancestors who got us here. Things will come full circle again.

@@fortusvictus8297 What do you mean?

The Simpsons reference at 5:37 had me nearly wetting myself :)

There are some who call him... ... ... Tim

Yeah, that one was good.

This is also where I literally guffawed. Like goddamn Goofy.

Ohhhhh. Didn't connect the Monty Pythons reference. Well caught!

He forgot about the mysterious box! and the mysterious sword. And the mysterious mysteriousness! Jeez these creators really had to end every single scene with a cliffhanger. Not even soaps have that many cliffhangers.

The "mystery box" really is the bane of modern writing.

and a mysterious person likes what a mysterious Esta has written mysteriously

@@donder91 Let's not forget the Stranger having amnesia for most of the first season. That's a soap opera staple. The only thing missing was one of the characters having an evil twin.

@@tutuadefolalu3661 That's in season 2 🤪

At least he is more loyal to his servants than harfoots are to each other

It’s so weird how they managed to f up so much that inherent evil has become a character we support more than people who represent good usually. My god these writers annoy me

@@richardmangelmann4975 that's becuz they intended to create plots, but they made it so artificial, and failed. They write the characters based on the pre-determined ending. And the evil characters are not going to make stupid things cuz they know what they are doing. So, that only left the good characters to stir things up a bit and make some shits before they can finally realize that they need to team up together. Just lame with all this money wasted. They should really learn from the HoTD team that puts in work, and has passion in it. The Amazon team gives me the feeling that they are arrogant, thinking money can solve everything, no viewership in their eyes.

He's definitely less annoying than Galadriel.

thats not coincidental or just a mistake in a very long and expensive production

Kirkland stuff is pretty good. This Galadriel is more like Walmart "True Value" Aragorn, or whatever that Walmart crap is called.

I burst out laughing in public when he dropped that line

Oh I bet!

Thats not difficult.

@@LuffyuzumakiPotter Totally, a lot of people (ie ACTUAL storywriters) can do better. I can do better than that show. My heroes are actual heroes for one thing.

@@celeben9463 Some aspects of the show remind me of what Mark Twain wrote about the scene in J. Fenimore Cooper's _The Deerslayer_ wherein six men try to ambush a raft but really screw the pooch--and the stream is unrealistic: "The scow episode is really a sublime burst of invention; but it does not thrill, because the inaccuracy of details throw a sort of air of fictitiousness and general improbability over it." For "scow episode" substitute "volcano sword".

@@KororaPenguinOhh that's where the volcano sword comes from.

Although I loved the show, this comment was genius 😂

BEST COMMENT EVER!!!!!! XD

This is brilliant 😂😂

This is one comment for the ages🤣

👏👏👏

Somebody earlier said it well: "Nobody leaves the trail and nobody walks alone... OR ELSE!"

cute lovable back-to-nature not-hobbit psychopaths

"Nobody walks alone, but you better make sure you can walk."

It wouldn't have surprised me if they just made them cannibals where they eat the sick and the lame and the weak. "Nobody walks alone" (because if you do the others will make you into second breakfast). Could that be why the bees was so funny? Cause it turned him into "Honey-nut Harfoot-tOes"?

Its a responsibility to stay with the group, not a promise that your individual whims will be supported by the rest of the group. I don't understand how so many don't get this ... oh, wait, yes I do. We live in a world where everyone expects their individual whims to be supported fully.

Oh, I knew the problem: "awful writing."

I damn near choked in my coffee right there

He also looks like Skrillex.

Oh hai Ugluk

YOU ARE TEARING ME APART GALADRIEL!!

@@matayolandas this. I'm not the only one LOL. So basically, we have Skrillex, Eminem and Jack Black (numenoran beardy politician). ROTFL

Ya. This company is indeed opposite of all it portrays itself to be. 😂

'trailer excerpts of slavery do not accurately reflect amazon working conditions - honestly guys'

@idontcare Disney: Finally, a worthy opponent, out battle will be legendary.

The Scrooge McDuck thing cracked me up.

thanks for the markers, I have a challenging time catching all the funnies.

That's how he tricked the elves. Should have looked like an elf though. Elves love elves. They're borderline racist towards humans. Though to be fair, I know a lot of humans, and the elves have a point.

@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human they have two points actually, one on each ear… No, I’m not sorry

@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human Wasn't Annatar supposed to be a Valar or some other immortal? Elves love those.

@@VinceValentine He was supposed to be an emissary from the Undying Lands so probably a Maia. Which is Sauron's actual species, he just lied about who sent him.

considering Sauron HATES Men (the species not the gender) him taking the form of a Man and not an Elf is completely against his character

HOW DO WE NOT HAVE THIS ALREADY??!

@@keanehorner5906 i know its ridiculous

Was just about to comment to do one for the best prequel of all time

Yes yes we do😁

I think they respect the show too much to roast it, lol

@Svenger Mc. Spazzy The curse of knowledge is a catch twenty two, damned if you don't and damned if you do...

Pause Click the X-ray while watching the show, it explains a lot of useful tidbits without spoilers... Still is homework but it's on screen haha. I never read the books and am a casual fan. I'm not searching online :p

Dont bother, they didnt stick to any canon lore anyway..

My wife asking me who people are and then getting annoyed when I need to pause the episode for 10 minutes to explain the complex universe of LOTR.

@Svenger Mc. Spazzy I turned out to be the perfect person to watch this show because I know enough lore to not be completely clueless, but don't know enough to be annoyed by the inaccuracies.

It's ironic, since that area of the state has some of the most expensive real estate outside of San Francisco. And now it's a name that means "cheap".

@@patricktracy1966 - Kirkland is the name of Costco’s in-house brand. Hence, why the word is slang for cheap.

Loved it!

I'm surprised they didn't go with "Great Value-brand Aragorn."

@@sachertorte1000 That would imply there was value.

Gold. Somebody could forge an actual ring from this!

Wait, I think Sauron forged a second ring of power....this show.

I did this to myself with the Witcher.. never again, not worth it, 0/10.

I hate the Harfoots so much.

"we will leave you behind if you slow us down." - harfoots

Seriouslee!!!

Agreed 100%!!!

cannot unseen it now...🤣

Should've thrown in a Hugo Weaving joke in there too

I laughed sooooo hard I woke up the whole building

Tobacco addicts can get testy if they don't get to smoke.

classic 90's reference

They literally said something along those lines

Yep they thought they could do better, what a joke

I figured it was more along the lines of: "We hates nasty white English male authorses!"

This crap is problematic and we can do better than what Tolkien did... The "modern audience": This show sucks...

they tried to read the cliff notes version but it was written funny 😂

why

@@no.9516 because this series was garbage

@@samcochran8203 how

@@samcochran8203 wasn't actually garbage, and Tolkien's not spinning in his grave, he sold out knowing full well the meaning of the words in the sale of the rights. "adaptations" But if you can do better, Sam, why aren't you out there writing, producing , casting? Just criticizing? Ok, that's all you're good for. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who cannot even teach, criticize.

@@ThePwebb yes it was actually garbage from the poor acting, clear over to the horrible writing. And I dont have to be be a writer before I can criticize a thing screw off with that crap. Are you gonna claim now that I have to be a chef before I can say a meal was crap? You want to claim all we're good for is hating on things and here you are not even being good at presenting your point you absolute donkey of a man

It gets really good in the last episode, for what it's worth.

Except it fell apart halfway. IF we had taken all of the oil or something or occupied it for centuries then perhaps it would have made sense. Truth is, we never even got oil out of the deal. While American soldiers were dying in Iraq during the first days of the Iraqi government, Iraq was selling its oil mostly to China and India.

@@fortusvictus8297 The US did get oil out of that war. It is called Quatari oil.

​@@fortusvictus8297The most ironic part of that whole debacle for me was that the whole time the U.S. invaded Iraq under the guise of "We suspect they have nuclear weapons," meanwhile North Korea was screaming at the top of their lungs "We have nuclear weapons! Come get them! We dare you!"

The problem with the entire show is literally what you just did. They remade the series their way, about them, and brought their own politics into it.

@@fortusvictus8297 lol, the American pretends they didn't do anything wrong!😂😂🤣👉

Ah....Osse

O MY GOSH lolol so contradictory! 'good writers' my foot, make way business men and let the REAL writers in! those guys write like 12 year olds, with heaps and layers of special effects

@@celestialhylos7028 Yes, Osse. Glad to see another deep fan

Except she's more of a took than a baggins.

@@qbasicmichael Ι think it refers more to the character archetype than the in-universe lineage.

Just be careful not to dig too deep or too greedily

I feel like there's a Fullmetal Alchemist joke in there somewhere.

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole...

Circular... would be ideal.

@@ArawnOfAnnwn The good old days

What? You have watched this show!? I'm out...

same. it was like she had her jaw clamped shut

i feel like its on purpose, since being an immortal enlightend beings and warrior, she probably looks at mortals like we do at dogs

@@sh1tpickle for an immortal enlightened being she sure acts like a teenage girl a lot

she doesn't move her mouth much because when she opens it she looks like 01:44

So so good

I legit just learned that that is supposed to be the same character. ...and i'm not buying it.

@@ZeroB4NG Same character, but nearly 2,000 years earlier.

The Matt Smith and Orlando Bloom in a blender bit got to me. That description will stay with me till Season 2.

@@jchildermass5833 That was such a good line. :D

I gave up on the franchise mid way through the two towers, feel more justified than ever after seeing that

The original LOTR movies benefited from an extended edition. The Hobbit movies would have benefited from a condensed edition - no Radaghast, no necromancer, and severely cut sequences in goblin town, the river escape, all the Laketown subplots, Tauriel, arkenstone, Battle of the Five Armies. Could probably trim a good 2 hours out and make a more interesting movie.

I love Desolation. It's easily the best Hobbit movie and the second best Middle Earth movie behind ROTK.

Whatever, I love The Hobbit movies

@@drxym Eh, it's dragged out sure, especially compared to the source material. But still a fun ride imo.

epic revelations. The meteor man is not sauron but gandalf and the the hero Aragorn is in reality Sauron. No one could see it coming, shocking.

@@artolaganus LMFAO!

I think that was the intention--mirrored storylines of self-exiled kings--to hide the Sauron reveal. Doing that in conjunction with all the allusions to The Stranger being Sauron was meant to be misdirection. It half worked on me, honestly. I was pretty sure The Stranger was Gandalf, but I was distracted enough that I wasn't even thinking "Who is Halbrand, really?"

They took a page from the GOT season 8 writers: SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs

"It's Like Poetry, They Rhyme" oh wait, wrong franchise.

The happy chemicals were released

This Is America!

@@drphot6050 Wow, what an unproductive comment.

I understood that reference. 😉

i had to scroll too damn far for this comment

But then, so is everyone else. Some even more so.

Which goes against everything Tolkien was trying to say in his writing

We ARE the baddies. And this show is our punishment...

I suppose it depends who we are.

@Svenger Mc. Spazzy Hall & Oates - Out of Touch

same but i didnt even watched it after i understand how shitty it was

Thanks! That helped me remember where that reference was from!

I hope honest trailer make a video : Honest trailer Monty python and the holy grail movie

No messing with a Tim! Enchantment!

They couldn't drift any further from the lore anyway, so no harm in turning it into a Monty Python movie really. Too bad they'd bungle that too big time.

Alright Boris, chop his head off!

10/10 ... but he wouldn't actually Do anything to her...right?

@@TragoudistrosMPH of course not, but she's thinking that he will because of the implication.

@@RyanMan1337 You Golden God you.

@@TragoudistrosMPH godammnit frank!

But she said no, right?

That honestly checks out for a noldar though

I now cannot unsee it.

@@ashakydd1 🤣🤣🤣

Which character was he referring to?

@@Nopeasaurus elrond

@@Zeri420 oh my gosh, i see it.

I thought it was the forbidden forest, and Was more interested in the following scene where john wick burst in guns blazing riding Hagrid who was transfigured into Blue the velociraptor

Yes, these reddit cut and pastes were so very droll like 6 months ago.

@@thanesgames9685 they're still gold because they're still clever satire

Nah, best part was when Jack Sparrow broke out of Azkaban after saying, "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Then he roared and transformed into Optimus Prime. Just insane writing.

iT rEmEmBeRs nAmEs

ok Lord Corlys.

The north remembers

Pretty sure they only have the rights to the three Lord of The Rings movies. So that's why they're making so much stuff up instead of following the actually canon lore.

They have the rights to the Hobbit, LOtR, and the appendices.

Personally, I would love to see Glorfindel, but given these writers, I would hate to see what they do to him.

Then u would aslo like netflixes witcher. The only thing that makes it better than RoP is Henry Cavill... Or, should i say, were.

You might need to see a doctor about that.

Yep, and they didn't even mention the Queen going blind, her relationship with her sick father, who sees a vision of her experiencing darkness, to save Numenor. A place where a politician guy has another subplot with his son, who is apparently in love with the sister of Isildur, who wants a promotion or something.... Oh and the King of the Elves having an issue with Galadriel (his great aunt), becuase of the tree, so he has Celebrimbor build a tower... of some kind.... SO MANY SUBPLOTS!

@@Ex0dus111 Next season, friend, with the fall of Numenor plotline. Not everything has to come to an end at the end of the first season 🤣

@@colereeder5653 oh, I'm sure they'll introduce another 8 new side characters they randomly begin to follow. What's the relationship between Orcs and Goblins? Where are the eagles? One new character is Rob Bombadil....

Whats really baffling is that with all the stuff going on, it still manages to be really boring.

It's cuz they had no good ideas, so they crammed all their stupid ideas in the hopes that they would distract us

You are so lucky

It doesn't

Better than the whole season

You do realize those movies are based on books?

@@gaebren9021 Only if you change the meaning of the word 'based'

I'd say it's been detected by pretty much everyone

I'm scrolling the comments looking for butthurt Americans lol

@@krystofhanzlik7592 haven't seen/heard this analogy anywhere until now

@@jacobcardinal8041 i meant everyone who watched the video

Wait, did Tolkien prophesied 9/11?!?

The most deflective and deceitful type of lore lol

The "Are we the baddies?" punchline made me pause the video I was laughing so hard. The lead-up was brilliant.

@@austinkoos6842 Killed me :D

I must say that given all the material to use to troll on the show for the usual content we expect to see in an Honest Trailer, I am quite disappointed with this one and can’t help but wonder if they were instructed to take it easy (either by Amazon or by the Screen Junkies producers, that have links to Amazon). This is definitely one of the weaker Honest Trailers they’ve ever done.

The "Scrooge McDuck cartune" reference cracked me up and forced me to pause the video. I hadn't laughed that hard since the meta reference in the She-Hulk video.

I even laughed at the "ugh" part

His wife, too. Such a couple!

Legend has it LLCOOLJ approves of it!

Absolutely, he Disa and Elrond are just gold on screen

Only one that is mildly likeable the rest range from forgettable (pop quiz, what is Isildur's sister's name?) to horrible people that are supposed to be the heroic leads (Galadriel).

Durin and Elrond are the best pert of the show

Making a bad tv show is… evil?

@@Umbrellagasm it's a reference to how the writers attempted to defend their abysmal writing by calling any and all persons who validly criticised the show - patently evil.

@@Miluielle Plenty of valid criticism out there. Also plenty of racist attacks on the show for daring to cast POC.

@@unkindestcut because everything is racist 😂😂 Some movies warrent an all white cast, some an all black cast. What‘s the problem? You wanna see a historical war movie with black Nazis next time? Criticising the casting for breaking established lore or historical facts isn‘t racism… It‘s valid criticism.

@@meganoob12 You're comparing an historical movie with a movie with elves, goblins and dwarves to make your point. You've made mine for me.

Yes, I also watched the video

Has anyone here taken a look at Aegon from HotD? A whole bunch of people thought that his permanent smirk was created with prosthetics. No! The actor does look like that.

Diarrhea I had yesterday was more fun than this show.

The folks that know the books (and I mean more than just the LOTR and the Hobbit) may enjoy it, but probably not because everyone sees parts of it differently (ah humans!). Enough might want to see it to make it be a direct to video type movie with no fancy sets, etc. For most people who have never read the books or heard about them and watched the movie without ever reading them, the long backstory mostly about Elves would just not be that much of interest. If you looked at home many total copies of LOTR, Hobbit and compared either/both with any other book in the Tolkien legendarium, they'd be magnitudes below the Hobbit and LOTR. The viewership won't support what Amazon was trying to accomplish but they at least recognized that they needed to be relatable to the non-fans or lightly-fans and that wouldn't have been the long history to get to the rings. Not saying the product was amazing, but I liked some parts of it, regardless of its flaws. But it really was never going to be what the hardcore fans would have liked and if it had been that, it wouldn't have reached the audience they wanted. In short, they reached off-script and most people thought it was a flop (and thus, so it was). Had they not, they might have made something for the hardcore fans, but they'd not have the numbers and it would have flopped in a different way. It was doomed from the start.

I have no idea about this since I didn't read the books, except The Hobbit and I just felt chills reading your comment. I would actually love to see that story be made for it to be seen.