After 2 seasons 'Rings of Cringe' is (almost) dead. No writer can fix this crap, it's hopeless. Give it one last season and then bury it deeply into the soil of oblivion.
Because the budget was mainly for the pre-release promo. That is what got Amazon Prime new subcribers, which was Amazon's main goal. The actual content of the show was an afterthought.
Season 1: "25 million viewers in just it's first day of availability in 2022." Season 2: "40 million viewers globally in 11 days" 4 episodes aired in those 11 days. That averages 10 million per episode. That's 3.6 million per day. 🤦♂
Sheer hubris. They could have painted by numbers, checked boxes, and the throngs of Tolkien fans would have made the show a hit even if it were slightly mid, but stayed true to Tolkien's lore and themes Instead, they bent the lore out of shape and insulted and ridiculed Tolkien fans, gaslighted them by saying Tolkien would have wanted this, and then when that didn’t work called the Tolkien fans patently evil. They turned the guaranteed flag bearers for this show into torch and pitchfork carriers. And the problem with hate watching it is that it's boring for long stretches, so instead of hate you have, apathy. Which is far worse.
The show is an embarrassment. It would have done better to make up its own names and an original universe. Tolkien fans may have enjoyed it MORE as a tacky knock-off.
The problem is they don't know how to tell a coherent story much less a good one. None of these show runners have written anything of merit. McKay and Payne have zero noteworthy writing credits to their name. This is the ultimate example of "fake it until you make it". They didn't come here from a directing background, a screenwriting or producing background, they literally need background checks to figure out how they got here.
They are blowing waay too much money on things people dont want to watch and its coming back to bite them....thankfully. fans deserve better than shows being written for anybody but them
The contract has a severance clause. If it’s cheaper to pay it off than complete all five seasons, then the show gets cancelled. I predicted this after season 1. There will be no season 3.
I find it fascinating that they are saying, “of course numbers are down from the opening season. They had an unprecedented first season of viewership.” No kidding! The first season attracted to viewers because it was Tolkien. But then these idiots proceeded to take a giant dump all over his work. No sincere Tolkien fan will ever watch this crap. They have managed to alienate their very core audience.
That's not anything to be proud of. That guy doesn't care about anything that he talks about. He's not a fan. He's just a grifter who is trying to cash in on people's frustration with Hollywood..
@@perceivedvelocity9914 Have you actually bothered to watch any of his videos or are you merely parroting what you've read on Twitter? The guy has probably forgotten more about nerd culture than most creatives in the industry today have ever known. You may not like him, nor agree with his politics, which are both fair enough, but to doubt that he knows what he is talking about is wilful ignorance.
@@perceivedvelocity9914you clearly know nothing about him if that is your opinion. Dude owned a comic book store and has forgotten more than most will ever know about nerd culture. Calling someone a grifter is not the win you think it is. It means you have no real argument and have to resort to character attacks. Very sad behavior. Do better.
@@perceivedvelocity9914I saw that "grifter who doesn't care about Tolkien" dropping deep Tolkien lore live and you could tell he was speaking off the top off his head not from a script.
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The show runners took the lazy way out: they jumped on the DEI band wagon hoping to get a free ride instead of doing the hard work needed to produce a quality production. Indeed, most of Hollywood is doing this. And they wonder why they keep failing...did they think we would'nt notice?
@@vercoda9997- Not even close. Hiring tick boxes rather than talent (which is available in multiple colors, btw) leads to poor quality work and pattern recognition is neither “ist” nor “phobic.”
The one time I thought the writers truly contributed something new occurred in Season 2, Episode 6 when Annatar tried to to sway King Durin and failed. That felt like real Tolkien. Sauron / Annatar could mislead the Dwarves, but not control them. This scene also explained how the Dwarves awoke the Balrog.
I'm wondering if it will be cancelled S2 or S3. I can't wait for their well deserved accountability. Let's see what the showrunners excuse will be then.
its who MacKay and Payne are, they really are those very naive and childish guys, they are incompetent hacks who never ever should have gotten that job in the first place.
"It wouldn't be a journey through Middle-earth without some trolls along the way." Sweet J****, no WONDER the writing is so terrible. They can't even properly clap back.
Thank you *Nerd Cookies* . I appreciate that I don’t need to keep up on the issues surrounding RoP because I know I can get an honest assessment here. Cheers!
The implications of "top 5" is that the show could be in any of those slots for rankings. In reality it means it is 5th, because otherwise they would use "top 3" or "no 1".
Funny how they are calling the Fandom trolls!! They are the most audacious bunch I've ever witnessed... Lol and No, they aren't happy to have us on board. Clearly. They can't silence the true fans so our mention is just damage control. They failed miserably at being stewards of only the greatest IP of all time.
I notice it's not just tv series but all entertainment products like games and movies that are produced by Californian studios, tend to have a thick serving of weird angry ideology, that obviously connect with few people outside that bubble.
😮 The show is complete garbage. Waited my whole life to see the 2nd age on film and they don't follow the lore at all and basically destroy Tolkiens vision. This isn't Tolkien it's modern agenda bs. It's just bad on all levels, acting, writing, everything about it. Every character including sauron make the dumbest decisions one after another. Nothing ever happens. 90 percent of the show is characters standing around arguing about things and not ever doing anything about it. Or the things they actually do are off screen. No sense of time. Can't tell it takes weeks for something to happen. It's like it's just a day when it actually took months. Or the opposite. What takes a day seems like a week. Elrond getting back to Lindon before the orc army getting to eregion is ridiculous. Durin goes back and forth from kazad dum to eregion multiple times but it seems like he's doing it so fast he's teleworking. Just horrible time management. Talking and talking and talking. It's so boring and again... it's a complete blasphemy of Tolkiens writing and lore. It deserves to be canceled. Period. If you're a true fan of lotr and Tolkiens works you'd feel the same. Horrible show in every way. Even the sets are small and unimpressive looking. Costumes look literally like cosplay. Every single thing is awful. I'm glad it's failing. Hopefully Amazon sells the rights to a platform that'll do it properly.
Lore, lore, lore...blah blah blah. Where were you guys when "Troy" desecrated the Iliad? Or when McTeigue slaughtered Moore's titanic graphic novel ("V for Vendetta")?
While they were not faithful to the source material they still entertained. That's the only difference. Same with gladiator. So many things are not historically accurate, but it delivered a good story. But I think gladiator 2 will fail there, after I've seen the trailers.
Hate campaign against the show has grown its fruits... Gollum Video Game ist pretty bad, Shadows of Mordor is pretty bad, The Hobbit too, Jackson films too and the violations to the canon are awful in every adaptation mentioned, but only RoP has got an intense hate campaign by noisy people on Internet. 😂
Justifiable criticism is not a jate campaign. Grow up. People are allowed to dislike things and discuss why they dislike it. People cry so much about "hate" when they are talking about criticism.
@@Meanandgreenbean Actually there is s lot of unnecessary hate. This people see the show only to shit on it... If I don't like something I Just simply don't see it.
