Rings of Power Review Episode 5 - This is ABSURD! 

Do you ever watch things you enjoy! I hope so cause I feel sorry for you guys watching this shit you couldn’t pay me enough man

Buh-buh-bye

the florist looks like a w

There are no words in Elvish or the tongues of men for this pure and utter trash

They wanted us to like the not-Hobbits like Druckman wanted us to like Abby.

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Thanks, but I for one will never know. I only come here to find out what sorrows Disparu suffered for our sake.

Oh no , you spoiled the most interesting part for me... thanks for saving me the time to watch this trainwreck.

Was it...a nice table? 🤔

Durin's shenanigans are the only good part of this show

Boromir even slips and pricks Merry's hand and he immediately stops and apologizes

@@silverscorpio24 I love Boromir, just putting it out there. At least these shows make me appreciate even more what an amazing job Peter Jackson did to stay true to Tolkien's vision, rather than making every single character and race a bastardised version of themselves.

@@tsnophaljakarax9963 boromir is a good guy at heart He actually walk alone to rivendell But still, the power of evil got the better of him because he been afraid that mens will fall into darkness soon The one ring succeed in luring him

@@silverscorpio24 But Boromir is bad because he didn't get promoted for it.

​@@dafuqgusdafrey60 The One Ring gets everyone except Tom Bombadill.

😂 Nazfoots

Instead of flying mounts he'd cover them with mounds and mounds of dirt, and they'd be happier than they'd ever been before.

@digifalc0087 😂

Mwuhahaha

The witchking is actually 3 harfoots in a trenchcoat

I’d give anything to see an appearance by the Knights of Ni demanding a shrubbery It’s so bad they might as well make it into a farce at this point.

lmao

"Fight with your head"

True

Uber-Elf, it makes about as much sense as everything else here.

Well, with that skin tone he looks more like a Romulan. He took a wrong turn at the studios, he was going to appear in Picard.

At this point, people are rooting for sauron 😂😅

I am rooting for anyone who puts Galadriel in her place 😂😂

@@dann5480 Than you're rooting for different Elf tribes, because namely they were constantly putting her on various thrones 😩 In the books, I mean. Really, it's time to invent names to distinguish those three Galadriels. Like... Original-Galadriel, Jackson-Galadriel and This-Humanized-Parody

I'm rooting for him at this point. At least then the show will hopefully be interesting.

I hope in the retcon sauron destroys all of arda and puts it out of its misery.

I like to think they only think they're hiding while in reality everyone just avoids them. The hunters in the first episode literally smelled them from a distance. They're just paranoid little dirty people

😂

Now everyone hates them. Well done amazon.

Thrown into the sky? You mean: The Valar 'took Vingilot, and hallowed it, and bore it away and ...there it was lifted up even into the oceans of heaven...and Earendil the Mariner sat at the helm, glistening with dust of elven-gems, and the Silmaril was bound upon his brow'.

Also mithril could be found in numenor. So this is the treatment of lore that passes me off, they should not spit on existing lore, ok fine add filler as long as it doesn't contradict established lore. Also I'm sick of member berries. Lines framing if scenes, sounds its smeared with them but doesn't make me feel family just cringe as the rest of the dialogue is gash and could never imagine it in lotr

Yep! Mithril had magical properties but that was literally it.

This thing with the Silmarils got me so mad.. unbelievable how they re-use the things and still get it wrong.

Trust Rangs of Power to bastardize the lore for absolutely no reason whatsoever! Oh no the Elves are all dying, we must bathe our bodies in mithril to be CURED!! WTF?

I'm sure we're going to be getting t-shirts & tote bags saying "Don't be a Harfoot" ;)

"Woah, calm down there, Harfoot!" Rolls off the tongue nicely, I like it!

It is gonna go down in history. They are somehow worse than the cannibalistic Halfling tribes in Dark Sun.

No, wasn't 80,000. 80,000 is the figure _per shirt_ for the silver-coated plastic mail used in strenuous action scenes. The actual mail, the two armourers spent two years making _12.5 million_ links. If all the links were assembled into a single line it would be seven miles long.

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touché ^^

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The writers clearly thought that line was so clever 🤣

My ancestors are smiling upon me Imperial, could you say the same?

😁

underrated comment of the day

That explains everything! ... And it is actually more true than you might think. In their obsession to 'see themselves' in the story and make sure it 'reflects the modern world' they succeeded in only drawing a picture of themselves.

Nice one!😂

As a millennial, I take offense 😁

maybe that's the idea behind the Rinks of Powder. After all, imagine "Lord of the Rings" if, instead of Frodo writing it, Sauron wrote it. We have denizens of Mordor writing Rinks of Powder, so yeah, everything is going to be inverted.

The villain of the story is the West and the Patriarchy

It's pretty SAD writing when Sauron turns out less evil than Galadriel and the Dirty Harfoots!

Well that's the thing... woke writers identify more with villains then they do with heroes. So they write heroes like villains and in turn make the villains more into the heroes because the "heroes" are more villainous then the villains.

YES

"armor pajamas" lmao

A woman wearing armor…..lmao!!

The Númenorian armor looks so fake and cheap

They're both activists, how can you get more chemistry than that?!?

I do think Donlemonlas is the best character of them all. Which isn’t saying much.

I think you mean it’s explosive like a barrel of wine.

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming - As explosive as an inverted jar with no oxygen in it.

@Wayne Daikon - According to Wikipedia the first modern bra was patented in Germany in 1889.

In their brains blacksmiths are just people who heat metal and bash it with a hammer. You know, dumb men.

Right you are. Clowns

@Anonymous Cheese money laundering. It went to Amazon owned subsidiaries as pass through orgs so the money can just go back to Amazon later

You really missed the point of that scene. He did more than "know balance, handle comfort, ...".

@@joeterzio7175 yeah, he did a little twirl too. A clear sign that he is an expert swordsman.

Does the Amazon Refund Policy allow the viewer to cancel the series now??

Go Dawgs😇

"You also want to come to Middle Earth with me!" "No I don't, I like it here!" "No, you will feel how I tell you to feel!" "Okay, I guess I can't argue with that."

He did go on to ensure that Merry and Pippin both did not get left behind or walk alone!

There is no way Saruman in this

Haha good one 😂

he's maybe Balrog..

Nah, he is obviously Gandalf, but they will never call him that for copyright reasons.

I choose the Orcs if meat is back on the menu

It's actually not... orcs!!!! :P

Orcs. No-brainer.

No, not at all. Galadriel every time. Unlesss of course you are talking about galadrrrrrrrriel in which case i'd go with the harfoots. But only because with the harfoots it's the easiest to get away from and try my luck living in the wilderness.

@@tranquilthoughts7233 I would have said I'd jump off the nearest cliff, but I like your plan.

You are right, Galadriel is supposed to be 6'4'' (193 cm) in the lore, and it was so unusual she had a name that meant ''man maiden'' because of her height. Morfydd Clark is 5'3'' (161 cm) which is even shorter than most actresses. You probably won't find a Cate Blanchett look alike that tall, but they could have done some tricks so she wouldn't be so much shorter than everybody else including the lowly Southlander lol

Elendil is supposed to be 7'11 so...

I thought it was 9'11?

“We require additional Mithril” The Elf Elders, probably XD

There are no extra Simarils. They are making things up, as they went, effing up Tolkien lore left , right and center. Unforgivable.

Hack writers: "Let's just make 1 or 2 more Silmarils so we can have a device to drive our retarded plot with."

These are the script writers that felt the need to write cringeworthy drivel about rocks and boats. Of Course elves need mithril to live. Breathing was invented later when Morgoth hid all the mithril.

Explanation (which is good enough for me): "Just like the Two Trees and the Silmarils, mithril possesses the Light of Valinor, the land where elves can return to live for eternity with the Valar. Mithril is the physical manifestation of the very thing that makes elves ageless and wise. The rotting tree is merely the “outer manifestation of an inner reality” that the light of the elves-the Light of the Valinor-is fading within them. If they can adorn themselves in mithril they might stem the decay that will soon overtake them. Without that special silver, Gil-galad believes elves’ “immortal souls will diminish into nothing” until they are “but shadows swept away by tides of time, forever.” And he says their demise will happen as soon as spring."

Actually they do rest a lot. But still evil.

Laughed out loud for real xD xD xD

Funnily enough, Sauron's actor played Sean Bean's son in the Medici show. lol.

Galadriel is meant to be 6’4”

YUP Numenorians are supposed to be the Middle Earth equivalent of the Spartans! But NOPE the show writers have no CLUE and instead establish them as INCOMPETENT fighters who need to be taught by Galadriel that you use the pointy end of a sword to STAB an orc! LMAO

@@veeclash4157 "the pointy end goes into the other guy."

@@artnull13 In the lore, yes. However, we all know how well Amazon is sticking to the lore and canon. It doesn't help that every male in the show is taller than her, too. We'll see what she looks like when she meets up with some non-Numenorian humans, but I have a feeling all the men are going to be taller than her as well.

@@artnull13 I thought she was supposed to be 6'6"?

The creeping horror! We're being overrun by snails and sloths!

My friend, if your prediction is accurate, I'll owe you a coke.

@Wayne Daikon LOL

Yep seems about right

@@SuperExtraSheep .... ha........ ha....... ha.

Because, without spending 3 episodes building tunnels, you'd have just skipped to the part where, somehow, it takes them "days" to walk up a hill. Their army is like 200 hundred. The shit peasents in the tower are like 12.

Because if the orcs wore full body cloaks they'd look a lot like middle eastern people. And we can't have a modern show imply that all middle eastern looking people(orcs) are evil now, can we?

More to the point, why are the Orcs building a TRENCH, which they then had to cover with material to protect themselves from the sun. and which, incidentally, is visible to enemies...why didnt they instead build a TUNNEL which would provide the necessary sun-protection AND WOULD NOT BE VISIBLE TO ENEMIES...

Because everything conveniently evolves when the plot needs. There's no deep answer.

@@MichaelHill-we7vt Or, since they retreated from the sun under the forest canopy at the end of the last episode, just march in the forest and supplement more open areas with material strung between the branches.

Good point 👍

Eh, because of reasons. Obviously.

@@billy-the-butcher Oh thanks for the explanation, man. I love the show now, such a masterpiece

Excellent Point! It ought to be at the bottom of the sea. Such a yawning great continuity error, it beggars belief.

They hired imbeciles to make this because most people haven't woken up to that this show isn't about Lord of the Rings, it is about a tax write off for Bezos.

i thought that maybe they were overpopulated and wanted to decrease the number of idiot citizen by sending them to their death 🤔 but then i remember the show isnt that smart 🤣.

@@superstd That's a good one haha.

I think that Putin has watched this episode and is taking inspiration from it with his conscription plans!

Perhaps this is more like the conquistadors of Spain. Volunteers to sail to the dangerous place

@@GKwan111 didnt biden just left billions $ worth of weapons when trying to flee afghanistan ? (that they invaded but got bored of it)

You turned out to be right...

I totally agree - I really love Disparu's reviews - they are just so awesome. Compared side-by-side I like the horribleness of She-Hulk even more, than the horribleness of Rings of Fail, as the former results in even more hilarious Disparu reviews. 😁

@disparu Just not the shows I like!!!

100% agree with this comment. I am getting more enjoyment on Disparu's take on this train wreck than the actual train wreck. Lol! Good stuff!

totally agree

im only watching your reviews, not even watching the show

Same with kingdom of heaven.

it's not like he's doing something that impressive with it.

Ah, using a fictional character to bolster your argument about another fictional character. Classic nonsense from someone who watches this clown.

@@joeterzio7175 Just like gunsmiths have no idea how guns work, or how to use them! Speaking of clowns...

@@joeterzio7175 oh wow I’ve seen you comment on another post now with something negative about Disparu lol hey do you work for this show? Are you being paid by Amazon to comment on RU-vid vids to make the show better? Seriously what’s your story? Is this Galadriels burner account? 😂😂😂

it just works

Ha ha, best description of the show so far.

yeah i noticed it too. Melodramatic or epic music is everywhere. Like they could make scene when Galadriel is shitting in privy and I bet you she would do it to the sounds of horns and trumpets

As a ML engineer I'm offended... an AI would do a better job than this

you joke but thats already in the works somewhere.

Most likely the way they're intending on spinning this.

*NumenoRRR

Fulfilling miriels visions of an elf bringing the end of numenor.

@@Fiercedaddyart, exactly

Or what about… a Halbrand so nuanced it could have gone either way. Keep him in Numenor as a smith. And the fan conversation is, was he honestly trying to do better but slid into a lust for power as his skill is recognized and he rises in influence or was this the plan all along to turn Numenor into one giant forge to launch an massive attack on Middle Earth.

If you let children/leftists write shows, you're going to get childish shows. If you let let inhuman AI write your shows you're going to get shows with no humanity or understanding thereof. ROP has put leftists in control of photographing an AI script. So we get this empty, soulless, childish mockery of creativity, spiked with a heavy dose of a political, social-engineering diversity agenda.

💯 that’s exactly my takeaway. They takes us from one subplot to another and this constant spinning around is making my head spin. I don’t get enough time on any of the subplots to attach to any character or story line.

Nothing will happen. Nothing at all. Don't expect it to. Season 2 won't be airing. It will probably end in a bad cliff hanger. Nothing will move on.

Bit harsh, I want to know where they got the table from.

And a huge part of this is because of the choice to set the story at this part of the timeline with established characters . We know Galadriel can’t die , we know the rings get forged , we Elrond can’t die , we know sauron comes back, we know the harfoots make it to brandybuk etc etc the ending of this story has already been written

probably the fault of the Terminator Franchise, but I thought the prequel had to respect the plot line of the original

If you've watched the episode closely, when Gil- Galad asks Elrond to recount the Song of the roots of Hithaeglir, Elrond says: "An obscure legend, regarded by most to be apocryphal." That's what it is. A stupid song, an obscure legend, in which Gil-Galad believes. It is not stated that this is exactly how mithril was created.

Lol @ smooth brains

Honestly even tho they dont own the rights, they could still refernce them (Giving FREE MAINSTREAM advertising to the OG cannon) as well as increasing their own...they just cant fallow the ENTIRETY of its contents, but reference should be absolutely fine, besides...the only ones who would understand said reference are those who trule enjoy the original works and giving them an extra tid bit of love....Like P.J. did...Ignoring original cannon i just...dancing on the grave of the creator. You HAVE ALL THE RIGHT to be pissed. I only know of Tolkein through J.R.'s movies...and even i can tell this is a mockery of his work. Seemed to me like in Tolkeins works, all were powerful in their own unique and interesting way, (1a) yet this show acts like the only way to make a great story is to create a Shonen/Shoujo with a self-centered ass of a character, with a tiny inclusion of backstory for the supporting cast. 1a - Galadriel's surface-level lore was amazing enough to put her on the same pedestal as Gandalf with a micro-fraction of the screen time. Tolkein's world, is probably the only world where the Elves interest me more than any race, and i am more relatable to a Dwarf (And Gladly) than the Perfect ideals of the perfect innocent form of life imaginable. (And yes, even perfection has it's flaws, why it interest's me so. So be mad, this show is a mockery of art, had it been ANY form of art, it would be supported...instead its a "We did it better" and that is a shallow way to come at any form of Art or literature. If they cannot accept or understand the signifance of escapism in A&L than why should any fan to be happy of the real world.

@@SolidKore if they were going to try a modern re-interpretation they would have been well-advised to make it more tooth and claw-like Game of Thrones, some scenes when they play it for laughs out of embarrassing lack of real content (Elrond, Gimli and the table) is a cringe.

The editing is atrocious - they're in the bowels of the ship - zoom out explodes - suddenly pulling themselves up on the docks.

Those were nice lanterns. Probably the most authentic thing in this show.

As Gollum would correctly say "Dirty nasty cruel harfootss!,".

O M G XD

knowing this show, it's probably iron man tech she got from tony before he died.

She ordered all that in Amazon. But, I don't know we're she had her credit card.

@@josepnebotrius872 dont forget that she said "I have a tempest in me!" she probably had her credit card in the same place..........

Portable Hole as a sanitary napkin. Keeps her goods in the hole....

Man talking to a crowd = Oh no! Everyone at home, boo at your screens!

I'm surprised Any Men bothered to show up for This Festival of Man Hate

From the unlikeliest of heroes to the most unlikable of heroes lol

Also notice how there are no inspiring friendships between the women either

​@@alaia-awakened That's because women are two faced to each other.

You think we can generate enough energy to construct some exotic matter?

&Daniel Leskov 😂😂😂😆😆

You could free Europe from its dependence on Russian energy!

Gollum is more likeable. He was a Stoor

It's less amazing when we realize that these showrunner only understand political attacks, and nothing of morality.

thank you. i keep screaming at the screen, why dont they just run. they have shown middle earth sparsely populated - run, settle so ewhere new, u cant farm a defense tower

not only: they escaped from their village with plenty of time to prepare themselves for the journey. Yet they found themselves at the tower with 4 potatoes and they realized "oh no, we didn't take the food!".

@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures It's the absolute pinnacle of crap writing: "Uhoh. We need a reason to send the kid back to town so various absurd subplots that are nothing more than actual fetch quests can happen. What if we..." "Can't, we already sent the script to repro." "Okay, let's say they forgot food. Then we won't have to rewrite what we've already got." "Cool! I mean, everybody has to eat, right?" "Right!"

They tried so hard to make a single mom a military leader lol

It's okay because she's learned how to teleport her armor. She jumps off the elven ships with nothing but the tin shows up on her at the end of the episode somehow

Well, you´re "just some werewolf", so you obviously don´t understand the intricate ways in which "strong women" enchant and enrich the world! What would all these people be without her?! (happy, content and in peace?)😉

@@jacookie9707 don't you see? she got 1 day amazon delivery on her armor! LOL

Guyladriel wont ever become a Lady, she will become a lord! Who will proceed to be overthrown due to being insufferable, egotistical, and tyrannical.

Simple, none of the writers at any point has talked to a woman, or went to highschool with a powerful woman or really been in a room with a successful woman at anypoint in their lives.

💥🙌🏻

Yes, this has been obvious for a couple episodes... these writers are as bright as a half watt incandescent lightbulb....

Basically it's Galadriel, Elrond, and Gil-Galad's fault that everything turns to shit by the Third Age

@@silverscorpio24 which could have been an ok plot line if it were done by writers with working brains...

I guess that means a certain someone will need to gender transition to take her place.

it makes sauron a transgender representation in the show, such a briliant writing.

@@ahyarhartanto1802 😉

But he was a Stoor Hobbit

@@mlapointej Our lovely ignorant showrunners have never heard of a Stoor. According to them all hobbits are descendants of Harfoots. Or perhaps Halfwits is a more accurate description of the showrunners and their filthy nomadic farmer hobbits. 🙄

@@mlapointej Do you think the writers know that?

Because... Strong Wahmen? The real answer is of course that the writers are borderline retarded.

Galadriel's superiority complex would stop her from getting any support from anyone, if this show made any sense at all

In this canon that hasn't happened. They don't seem to be having colonies and dominions on the shores of middle earth. An (exiled) king of men near where one of their colonies are supposed to be had no knowledge of them existing.

@@kevincousino2276 This is not canon since they have no right to the Silmarillion. Its in most part an original story, an awful one at that

A damn travesty because gilgalad had to call them for help to send Sauron running

David Benioff and D.B Weiss...

Well fucking said

Because “Progressives” write heroes as them, and the villains like the people they oppose.

Because "Good is being called evil, and evil is being called good"

It's because they want our society to see bad people as merely victims of their circumstances and the people fighting against them are bad because they're the ones who drove them to it. It's a disgusting recent trope.

The difference is that this time, its the bully that takes on every one.

They fight scene was one of the dullest, uninspired, parody vibe......it was quite possibly the worst sword fight in cinema history.

A line during the “let’s laugh at the dead” party about how tasty the guy who died by bees was in the stew they made from him wouldn’t have been out of place.

I'm pretty sure, when one of them got trapped and was sinking into the swamp, I heard one of the others standing around watching, saying "Looks like meat's back on the menu boys and girls!" 😁

“What about their legs? They don’t need those.”

That will probably be in the 'Annual Harfoot necro-orgy' episode. 🤮 🤮

Very true, and probably part of the core issues of this show, completely agree.

The writers likely have gotten most of their experience socializing through Twitter. They write what they know.

Sounds like women

Its one success...

Consistently fails to meet my low expectations.

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They did not. And it's better to think of the Maiar as angelic beings. But if you want to think of them as gods, then they'd be lesser gods, not demi-gods. A demi-god is someone who is half-god due to having only one of his parents being a god. None of the Maia have parents. As for Gandalf... Olorin interacted with the Elves living in the Undying Lands quite a bit; it's just that most of them didn't know it.

If you hold the bow in a particular way, you can avoid it making contact with your forearm but a slip can cause it to happen so it's nice to have protection just in case. I imagine it's even more necessary for higher draw weight. It is good advice however to not be so mindful of the string since it would cause you to tense up or shake and affect your aim. Writing is still shite tho.

How about they just leave the tower and keep walking?

With poh-tay-toes?

Now we know where orcs really come from! 😜

Makes sense how frodo and Sam successfully hid as orcs, orcs are actually corrupted hobbits!

Interesting.

Yes.

They're not trying to create; they're trying to destroy.

I bet they confused "Polish Dollars" (aka zloty) for US $...

As someone who gave myself a nasty burn before figuring out to properly use a bow, I agree.

I was looking to see if someone would point this out. I sure learned to "fear the string" when learning the craft.

Yeah, that was a mistake from Disparu. But the elf could have given the kid a forearm brace to protect it from the string instead of telling him to not fear it and suck it up ! ^^

If you'd actually shot a bow, you wouldn't talk about firing one.

@@rogerborg not everyone in the world is a native English speaker with a sense of linguistic nuance

Because you are racist for questioning it.

Keep pondering - you'll find your answer soon enough if you're not as dull as your comment makes you out to be.

@@billy-the-butcher I would tell you the same, honestly. In a series about wizards and dancing dwarf people, your biggest concern is a haircut.

He's got that eternal Elven fade

@@sg8853 if that was the only thing then sure, but its not.

The fact that they already had a full plate armour like that or were able to craft one in a few days for her just make the numenoreans look worse. So they KNEW what "good" armour is and still made that crap scale armour for their soldiers when they were capable of making armour protecting them. Bunch of bastard smiths who hate their own people and want them to die.

They must turn back because they also forgot to bring their food with them

@@GrafPathygoras hahaha!!!! Next episode we get ready to leave again.

And they disappeared at the 3rd Age as free people's slaughtered them to the last hobbo.

Hatefoots

() ... yes

Well Guyladriel was the Commander of the northern armies ... consisting of cca 10 wimpy elves as seen in ep 1. So hundreds of rookies is a major improvement.

She's like a nasty little chihuahua with superpowers, all bark and bite, but honestly disgusting

well of course.. remember at the start of episode 1 Galadriel, searching for Sauron, had a mighty force of 6 elves with her... if she thought that THAT was going to be sufficient to defeat Sauron then travelling now with a force of 300 horsemen will be sufficient to conquer the entire known world with plenty to spare.........and look at those boats......really LOOK at them, is there ANYONE who believes that each one has room to carry 100 horses, 100 riders and sufficient supplies for them plus the crews and leaders?...REALLY? Is there anyone with any intelligence at all among the show runners, writer, production staff and producers? looking at this garbage, the answer to that must be.. oh no, there isnt............

The 500 boarding the ships were the Numenorian equivalent of the "Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B", consisting of "telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants". How else do you dispose of those in your society that you deem surplus and must be gotten rid of? You send them outnumbered and unsupported in a war against thousands or hundreds of thousands of orcs.

@@MichaelHill-we7vt haha you’re right! 300 men with horses is indeed more than 6 elves. I also cannot understand the complete lack of expertise. Even though they obviously know (and care) nothing about anything military, they could at least look up ships from ancient Rome or 19th century Britain to get a realistic idea of size. They must also think that the audience knows nothing so that they can get away with this level of carelessness.

@@bill-nolastnamesupplied-958 OK, I had to look up the reference. That is so funny!

@@dronesclubhighjinks Yes, but that would require someone who actually cares, to do the necessary research, and from what I've seen of this bloody thing so far, there ISN'T anyone with any professional pride working anywhere on this damn show... there isnt any respect for the canon, there isnt any pride in the production team, there isnt any talent among the actors, there isnt any realism in what's happening on screen, and there isnt any sense or logic in the plot......but we have black Elves, white Orcs, Irish hobbits, Scottish dwarves, strong women and LENNY HENRY, so everything's ok then, that's obviously a recipe for strong gravy.......

Indeed, it's so painful to endure when you have a functional brain.. truly horrendous. .it contradicts its own lore constantly, full of nonsensical dialogue, hammy acting, terrible editing, and unlikable characters, ..I could go on..it's an affront to good cinema/tv..

Ah, but time passes differently when you look up at the stars under the light of the noon sun while the cockroach crows.

Yeah, that's one of the most frustrating things. I'm watching with a friend who is not well versed in the Silmarillion, so trying to explain anything is impossible because I have no idea where we are in the 2nd age. I guess we are at the end because Elendil, Pharazon, and Miriel are alive, but the rings should already be made then, so...whatever. I'm done with this shit.

Well tbfair. Episode 5 was far less cringe than 4. Even Isildur's sister was more useful in 5 than she was in 4, even though that's not saying alot. Episode 5 I could actually watch without pausing out of boredom, even if I knew lots of things didn't add up.

Reva was played by the worse actor. Terribly cringe.

@@spechund7109 the awful swordfight alone made this worse than episode 4.

i hated reva... another generic angry black woman how hollywood likes to portray them

@@spechund7109 Ep 5 had 1 good line in it. Got to give credit where it's due.