Rings of Power is a Financial Failure

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When it comes to mega-budget TV Shows, the stories themselves don't matter. The characters don't matter. Your, personal, emotional connection to stories and characters don't matter. You know what does? Ratings. Viewership statistics and ratings matter. Why is that? And what does this have to do with Rings of Power? Well you see, Amazon made the investment; putting up around 1 billion dollars to acquire the rights to create the Rings of Power show, and if we really want to get technical; we can consider the $8.5 billion dollars they invested into acquiring MGM a piece of this puzzle because Rings of Power is produced through the MGM part of the company. So right now, we're well over $1 billion dollars of investment into making this Rings of Power show. Amazon put up money to make a product to sell back to you in the form of viewership ratings and membership subscriptions. Rings of Power, in its current state, is not making Amazon a dime. Because Rings of Power is a complete Failure.
According to Samba TV data, 1.8 million U.S. households watched the premiere of Season 1 within four days of its launch on Prime Video. Season 2 is half of that, with just 902,000 U.S. households tuning in for the first episode within five days of its streaming debut. Worse than that, Season 1, on its own witnessed a 63% decline in viewership in just that season. Between episodes 1 and eight of that season, 63% of viewers stopped watching.
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@Pressbutan 25 дней назад

That is an insane amount of money to make something so boring,

@dbapto6994 25 дней назад

You make it sound like it's your money.......they have plenty of money to burn so don't worry about it.

@2424Lars 24 дня назад

It's an insane amount of money cause it 'a billion dollars' sounds good and pulls in new subscribers, which is how amazon makes profit

@gamesandplanes3984 18 дней назад

@dbapto6994 Incorrect. With corporations that large, their losses are subsidized by taxpayers and end-users, and their profits are privatized. Are you not paying attention to ANYTHING? lol. Dear god.

@dbapto6994 18 дней назад

@@gamesandplanes3984 I'm not as informed as you seem to be, my friend. I respect your outlook on this matter. Thank you for letting me know.

@TheJewishAzovMember 9 дней назад

I don't find it shocking at all. It's a soulless corporate slop that not only doesn't understand Tolkiens world, they don't care for it. Hard to make engaging art with such cynical creation

@Wolfaydragoon 25 дней назад

How they could have a roadmap to one of the most beloved fantasy settings and its history, yet somehow still fumble it is amazing to me.

@Kinuhbud 25 дней назад

The Machine got a hold of LotR and did what it does... They put it through The Machine... I'm not sure if it's ironic or tragic or...

@nobodyelse-m6b 25 дней назад

The show's writers knew TLoTR is an established franchise with a large fanbase, so they hijacked it and wrote their own version of a High Fantasy series using TLoTR skin so attract that fanbase because they knew NO ONE will ever gave a damn about their original story.

@gandalfgreyhame3425 25 дней назад

Simple, whoever was in charge of this series decided to go the whole hog DEI, woke, brown washing, black washing, female empowerment, male diminishing re-write of the ENTIRE LORE of LOTR, the same sort of treatment that has been destroying Disney's TV shows and movies of late (e.g., "Snow White"). I don't know, it started with the theatrical musical "Hamilton" which was a huge critical and financial success, despite it being a complete brown washing and black washing of American history. Other stuff like "Bridgerton", also very successful. So yeah, somebody thought there was a market for more of that garbage, applied to one of the most iconic fantasy tales of all time. A fantasy story based on Nordic/British/Germanic mythology where only white Europeans existed and males and females had very classic traditional roles (although female warriors were part of this mythological tradition, they were NEVER superior to the male heroes in this mythology to the point of diminishing them)

@auntykriest 25 дней назад

It's easy... If all you care about is using popular IP to preach THE MESSAGE and you don't care about the actual IP. So you hire all diverse and talentless people to make your show and just pretend it's all going fine. They don't make because of the IP, they make it in spite of it.

@DD-zh4by 24 дня назад

Because Tolkien is dry as hell, only Peter Jackson, one of the greatest living directors, can make it palletable.

@KNGDDDE 25 дней назад

Im glad to say ive never subscribed to disney plus 💯

@dariuswhite8776 25 дней назад

You, my good sir, are indeed a wizard of integrity! Here's to wishing you a speedy journey to 100K subscribers!

@RealLifeFakeWizard 25 дней назад

Thank you kindly!

@SonOfTheOne111 25 дней назад

Mystery boxes never work. When the writer doesn’t know what’s in the box at the time of writing , it always fails.

@Eirath 25 дней назад

I don't know. Stranger Things and Yellowjackets are pretty good, and they are mystery box shows. So while I agree with the last sentence, saying they never work is an exaggeration. They work when done well, but most aren't.

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Stranger Things is not a mystery box show

@Eirath 24 дня назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard Depends on the definition I suppose. I haven't seen any one that there seem to be a consensus around. But I will admit it's borderline in the best case, so yeah.

@donlewis470 25 дней назад

He who caters to the “modern audience “ will have no audience.

@Primarch19th 18 дней назад

Excuse me. But, knock it off. The "Modern Audience" is about 3% of the total population of the USA. Now, about wh....... wait. Errrrr. Never mind. Carry on.

@EverythingInMiddleEarth 24 дня назад

I’m still praying and holding on for Lord Waldreg to return

@mightquinnable 25 дней назад

2:57 this is a understatement; shipping was the lowest form of fandom cause of how stupid it was

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

“Shipping” is degenerate, perverted, and disgusting. I’m repulsed by shipping culture.

@captainlinebacker8894 12 дней назад

Rings of Power isn’t even good shipping. Sure, let’s take a being as ancient and wise as Galadriel and pair her with an irredeemably evil mass murderer plotting to take over the world. Yeah, I’m sure she’s **totally** into that bad boy persona of his. That’s the kind of bad fan fiction shipping teenagers laugh at on Reddit.

@kelljc 25 дней назад

I worked at a company that had a “let’s theorize/breakdown GoT after every episode of the final seasons” organized group. I couldn’t see any one being interested in RoP or Acolyte

@MasticinaAkicta 24 дня назад

Does even enough HAPPEN in RoP or The Acolyte... I am not going to watch RoP, or The Acolyte. It is not made for me, and it seems it is not made for most people. Enjoy the shippers Amazon and Disney... that is all you have left. People who are in Who F's Who! A rather sticky audience... but a very small one too.

@RianD-xp3kk 25 дней назад

I maintain that if Amazon wanted Balrog and cool fights with action, or a love story they should have done the 1st age. Or just Beren and Luthien. You could make a 2-3 season show out of Beren and Luthien easy.

@cernunnos_lives 18 дней назад

Netflix made the same mistake with the Witcher. Putting the wrong people as the show runners. It can't be saved. I would be happier if they cancel the show.

@raymathews1474 25 дней назад

MGM!? How have the mighty fallen.

@dirufanboy1971 25 дней назад

Yep. Morgoth is our last hope at this point. Morgoth and Ungoliant. Really rooting for THAT reunion tour.

@twinrotors 25 дней назад

You need buy in, you need to care. After watching one episode of acolyte and seeing trinity die from a small blade i switched off . I did not care

@setlik3gaming80 25 дней назад

Yes, it is Gandalf. AND... Yes, the hard-foots are the reason Hobbits ever existed. TROP is DOA & TROP isn't LOTR

@Bhenderson0001 25 дней назад

The amount of money being spent on RoP is incredible considering the quality, for that price it should be the best of everything and it clearly is not.

@2424Lars 24 дня назад

The "billion dollars' claim was just a marketing ploy to pull in new subscribers

@chadallen7474 25 дней назад

The acolyte was the worst show I have ever seen, with that said rings of power is right there with it. All both shows did is piss me off the more I watched them. There was absolutely no good reason to have a season 2 for both of these. I wanted both of these to be amazing, but got let down badly. Felt like I got cheated on. So good news that rings of power is not doing well. It deserves to be cancelled.

@ziplockcreations2313 25 дней назад

They're proteges of J.J.!?!?!? ............Ok, NOW everything in Rings Of Power makes much more sense. This truly is just a continuation of the bastardization of great franchises that J.J. Abrams started back with Transformers.....

@dragonforks93 23 дня назад

It's embarrassing for ROP's US viewership to be so low for such a massive budget considering that Only Fools and Horses, a UK sitcom from the 80s made on a shoestring budget, was regularly pulling in tens of millions of views per season just in the UK, which has a far smaller population than the US. Granted this was before Sky, the Internet or on-demand TV, but I think it still proves my point. Rings of Power is a wet fart in the void.

@timbothejedi4146 25 дней назад

My favorite newer channel! Keep up the great work brotha

@williamdistefano5698 24 дня назад

I wonder what Amazon Prime will cost next year. I'm starting to know what a cow feels like when its being milked and I'm gonna say, I don't enjoy it.

@slyaspie4934 23 дня назад

Old Jeffy B needs to put this real life fake wizard on the Amazon payroll, he'd cost less and earn him more. The best real life fake wizard I've ever seen subbed

@xk1390 23 дня назад

I don't care about Tolkien one bit. I just won't watch a boring series, it's as simple as that.

@TheGlobalForce 25 дней назад

A billion dollar fan fiction show 😭

@messertl 20 дней назад

Thanks for the nuanced, bapanced approach. Especially the analysis of the 3 types of audience.

@bencarlson4300 22 дня назад

There are so many good shows, movies, games, and books out there that a show needs to be really remarkable to keep my attention. The Acolyte and Rings of Power ARE remarkable in the way they are so boring and poorly written and deliberately give the middle finger to fans of their respective properties. I watched both. God have mercy on my soul.

@mobiusevalon 16 дней назад

I'm not even aware of anyone who watches anything on Prime Video. Everyone has Prime for the one or two day delivery.

@drawgam2946 25 дней назад

This channel is something unique. I think it will pay off.

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

I hope so! Gambling a ton of time on this stuff. We're growing little by little every day.

@drawgam2946 24 дня назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard Yeah it is hard to predict when exactly it will take off but this is better quality than most bigger commentary channels. More people will stick around eventually and the ball will start rolling faster.

@teddybear1342 22 дня назад

why couldnt they just make an awesome RPG Lord of the Rings game with half that money. Something like the old dragon age not this garbage about to release. Game would be dope. But noooooooo, need to destroy everything.

@luissosa320 24 дня назад

Just subscribed today! Seen two videos! Videos are really cool.keep it up!

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Thanks, Luis!!

@auntykriest 25 дней назад

I really hope your channel takes off, love your videos...stick with it. 👍

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

We’ll get there one day at a time!

@adrmark 24 дня назад

I canceled Amazon Prime! Also Disney +, but I still got it for half a year. So…

@Lornext 24 дня назад

"Inspired by the books"... No This was not inspired by anything Tolkien at all and just saying it was inspired by the books feels disrespectful to Tolkien.

@earlofdoncaster5018 24 дня назад

Rings of Power is a Lord of the Rings show for people who don't like Lord of the Rings. Which, given that demographic is very niche, raises the question: Why?

@short72hp1 24 дня назад

Your videos are very insightful new sub💯👍

@dbapto6994 25 дней назад

Great channel...keep up the content, man

@SilentKnightVII 24 дня назад

Because amazon prime gets you free shipping ...Disney plus .....headaches

@ProjectRedfoot 25 дней назад

10:50 like, I kinda feel that, even though I'm a lazy jackhole

@snakekingblues3017 22 дня назад

its easy to understand a good product that people wanna watch well sale if its advertise correctly a bad product even if its advertise correctly well get high numbers but once people see it and try to get into the story people will start to check out

@Wolverine276 23 дня назад

Wow, I hear you

@dbapto6994 25 дней назад

Wizard, you really do your research.

@dony2852 24 дня назад

I say Disney makes the second season. They have been burning money and pumping out trash for years already. Why stop now?

@Gwilherm 24 дня назад

Lord I love copyright Gollum, trying to make sense of what is on screen 😂 Edit : It's Gollum who's trying to make sense of RoP

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

I had to mess with the opacity on Gollum and it needed to be at 100% for RU-vid to clear it for copyright!!

@DD-zh4by 24 дня назад

No, ratings do not matter on streaming...

@twinrotors 25 дней назад

@RealLifeFakeWizard what are your thoughts on “expanse” on Amazon prime? I cared about those characters:

@TheRealBlackarrot 24 дня назад

Up next: Agitha All Along😂

@umbraelegios4130 25 дней назад

"Rings of Power and Privilege" - Vee

@2424Lars 24 дня назад

Just the announcement and trailer for season 1 got them enough new subscribers they already earned back their investment tenfold before the show even aired. They don't care if RoP is good or bad, it has already been more of a financial success for Amazon than they ever could have hoped for. Saying RoP is losing money is just wrong, they are not earning money through views, they're only earning money through new subscribers, of which they unfortunately already have had more than enough to justify the price tag of this show

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Any analytics or facts to back that claim up?

@2424Lars 24 дня назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard it's explained in this video /watch?v=NiqzsW8jvHI It's probably the most coherent and logical argument I've heard in a very long while

@cloudarc2060 22 дня назад

Love that robe ❤

@kidkratoski3778 День назад

What are the "fake wizard's" D&D stats?

@asdadsgsaadasf6043 21 день назад

You can't make something based on an existing property, disrespect that property and it's audience, and then expect the audience to care, because you lose what made it good in the first place. Even people who aren't fans will immediately clue in that something is terribly wrong. The culture at these production studios facilitates these sorts of attitudes where they don't respect the source material, and the writers want to turn it into something else that they think will appeal to everyone and their grandma, and you end up with these very poorly made products. They're putting the wrong people in charge of these shows for the wrong reasons, and that leads to them being bad. You make a fantasy show for people who like fantasy shows, you put experienced and talented fantasy writers on it, and if it's good you'll draw in the general audience. You think there's a limit to how many people will watch? SCALE BACK THE BUDGET TO SOMETHING REASONABLE. Maybe it was a bad idea to spend all that money on something when you clearly don't have a good plan to make a return. You don't make a fantasy show for people who don't care about it, because you're just going to end up with a bizarre mess that detests it's own existence. Even a casual audience knows what LotR and Star Wars, etc. are supposed to be, and if they tune in and feel like they're watching Twilight, they're gone. It's just rampant incompetence. It's shocking to me that GW wants these people to make a 40k show. I can't wait to hear about the space marine relationship drama.

@setlik3gaming80 25 дней назад

TROP... Lingers around like a far-T in a cave. You just want to spelunk your way out of there quickly.

@JohnnnyJohn 22 дня назад

Are his hands really that big? Is it a forced perspective trick? Is he wearing Hulk fists?

@RealLifeFakeWizard 22 дня назад

It's camera perspective. Objects in mirror may appear larger than they appear.

@sarahgould5435 21 день назад

Shippers have aways been a tiny subset of every fandom. They can be sweet enough when left to swap their fan fic *as* fan fic in their small, out-of-the-mainstream enclaves, where they have always been perfectly capable of feeding themselves. Throw them an official bone, thpugh, and they morph into the most rabid group you will ever meet, pushing their weird view onto other fans, diminishing an aspect of a work that many other fans found beautiful or inspiring for many different reasons by locking in one specific interpretation/application of that aspect. Never feed the shippers. And yes, this does mean that this rule can apply to other subsets of fandoms. Often the reason the original work was better was because it was written in a way that made it both entertaining and relatable to a vast number of individuals who saw elements of their own experiences or desires in the work, but almost never exact copies of themselves. Keeping as close to the original as possible keeps the work accessible to the fandom as a whole, including *all* subsets thereof. By appealing to a larger number of people, you sell more product.

@S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc 25 дней назад

You know you suck as a writer when any twilight movie is better than your show.

@johnnyhellfire6 25 дней назад

I font care about the lord of the rings, im here more so to find out why the cost limit to get free shipping on amazon went up, and well thats a crap reason

@MrTomemac 25 дней назад

Watched the first season. It was trash. The tokenism is off the charts, but worst if all, the entire product is just lame. Was willing to give it a shot but the liberties taken were too many and made no sense. It felt mostly like an alternate dimension telling of the second age.

@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 25 дней назад

I expect the same for hbos harry potter

@muzgash 25 дней назад

I'll never waste my time watching these awful shows, but I sure like watching entertaining videos, like this one, about them.

@jjusticenm 25 дней назад

You shut up! It could happen! A Balrog could certainly pop out and start eating cast members like peanut M&M's. It is fan fiction after all. I mean, if you're gonna go down that road, might as well make it thrilling. 😂 Personally, I might actually tune in to the part in one episode where this event is said to happen.

@lcmiracle 24 дня назад

If you are not the sceond camp, you can get bent

@goodputin4324 24 дня назад

WHY ARE THERE BLACK AND ASIAN ELVES!!!!!!!!!!!

@slayerstenis 25 дней назад

Komplete failure, I think not. I'm here because of, well The Acolyte actually but same same.

@yuvanraj2271 25 дней назад

Who wants to watch this fanfiction nonsense? Not even a good fanfiction.

@geraldglass5323 25 дней назад

🧙🏻‍♂️🤘🏻

@jimstormcrow 25 дней назад

I presume that when you say 'left' and 'right' you aren't speaking of political positions? I'm politically very much on the left however I am also a medieval/Tolkien scholar and I'm appalled at this shit-show. You are absolutely correct in your observation that this series owes more to Twilight than to Tolkien. I am one of the 63% who quit. I sort of have to watch it as part of my discipline but I just couldn't bear it anymore...four episodes was all I could stomach. The cinematography is often quite wonderful but that was simply not enough to outweigh the mess they have made of the masterpiece.

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Not political. It may have sounded that way, but wasn’t intended to be political

@jimstormcrow 24 дня назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard I thought not, but thanks for the reply.

@JKurayami 25 дней назад

Yeah, even if I didn't watch shows on Prime, I use the delivery so much, it's worth it.

@brendameistar 25 дней назад

1billion dollar parody. lmfao

@NeonAtari 24 дня назад

i love the whole shtick of this channel

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

It's all about the Magic

@Danbearpig 25 дней назад

I respect your position on not canceling Amazon Prime while using it for its actual other value. Same here! I wish I could justify canceling Disney+, but with twin toddlers in the house… it has too much value.

@fein4569 25 дней назад

why? - because im watchin disbaled americans larbing lord of the rings outta fancfic.

@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp 25 дней назад

All we have are the number of reviews, we don't have audience member totals yet. We know that the number of reviews is about half of the first season.

@RealLifeFakeWizard 25 дней назад

I literally provided the Samba TV households report screenshots in the video.

@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp 25 дней назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard Sorry, good point. I find your videos kind of hard to watch with all the theatrics.

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Theatrics like how I’m talking or something else? I’m curious - always trying to improve.

@Leo_ofRedKeep 24 дня назад

I'm torrenting the stuff. They're not making any money off me. And I'm watching you with a free ad blocker, so you're not either. But thanks anyway ;)

@bobbobby438 24 дня назад

same here

@RealLifeFakeWizard 24 дня назад

Don’t care about the ads. If you get value from my content, subscribe. The subscriber count is worth more than the $.0003 RU-vid gives.

@Leo_ofRedKeep 24 дня назад

@@RealLifeFakeWizard Ok, I did. Gave a like too. Keep going, you're making sense.

@setlik3gaming80 25 дней назад

TROP... 🥴🙄😴 Nobody cares.

@setlik3gaming80 25 дней назад

The Woke... Nobody cares.

@Wildcatbeer 23 дня назад

subbed you bearded bastad!

@RealLifeFakeWizard 23 дня назад

That’s not nice… AND WELCOME ABOARD. LETS GOOOOO!

@johnmiwa6256 25 дней назад

Rings of Power is fan fiction for females. It's not for us.

@dbapto6994 25 дней назад

Really???

@Lampoluke 25 дней назад

I wouldn't say that it's even female oriented, since there are no good romances

@johnmiwa6256 24 дня назад

@@Lampoluke Well, whether it's good or not, they are making Galadriel and Sauron a thing. But my real point is that if we Tolkien fans encounter people who like Rings of Power, it's best to keep our mouths shut and let them like it.

@dbapto6994 24 дня назад

@@Lampoluke so true. I felt bad for Isildur, but then I laughed my ass of when he went in for the kiss and the woman's fiancée popped right up like an SNL skit...too funny. But I've been there before.

@dbapto6994 24 дня назад

@@Lampoluke all beautiful woman have a guy a guy on the side.