Rings of Power Review Gets WORSE - Behind The Scenes Part 2 

Well, Making of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power didn't go better than the first. Spidey sense? No, ELFY SENSE?!! And of course can't forget the increased focus on the Harfoots as they continued their descent into darkness that apparently, none of the creators even realised?! Part 3 of this will cover the last 3 episodes, and Willow is out today..... the zoomer CW series that it has turned out to be, BOY does that front load a lot of horrible personalities and messages in the first 20 minutes. Reviews for the first 2 episodes of that will come out over the next 2 days too. But for now, let me know your thoughts down below, and as always, thanks for watching :)

"It's like being in your living room and then your bathroom. It's a whole different world." I spit my drink out laughing at that.

When Galadriel's actress said "I can suddenly do things," it just brings to my mind someone who can't do literally anything before this show and is suddenly remarkable for no apparent reason. Reminds me of Rey from the Disney Star Wars trilogy. She came out of nowhere, knows absolutely everything about everything, is incredibly overpowered and needs no Jedi training whatsoever

You know, Galadriel's arc got me thinking: both her most hated enemy AND her most beloved companion (her literal husband), are missing. And she's chasing Sauron forever...and not her actual husband who's also missing? How come no elf ever brings that up when they try to convince her to drop the Sauron thing...ffs...

50 years sgo: “We‘re going on location in Rome, the Teutoburg Forest, Istanbul and Aix La Chapelle.“ Now: “See that green tennis ball? That‘s the Orc.“ 50 years ago: “What‘s my characters background and motivation?” Now: “I‘ve heard of Tolkien. This is the greatest thing I‘ve ever done!“

All of this so-called professionalism and money put into this series, it still presents like a grade 8 play at any school.

Behind the scenes of RoP is a bit like watching a kid who finished dead last at a regional track meet getting interviewed on the local news: "I tried my best and had fun, and that makes me a winner!"

There's a huge difference when you compare the behind the scenes interviews from LOTR & ROP. In LOTR everything they said made sense and I didn't find myself thinking "what crap is this" even once. Makes you appreciate artists that aren't there just for the paycheck.

It was a real miss not having Elrond be the one to go to Numenor. The line of kings are his nieces and nephews, the children of a twin brother he will never see again. That would have been really interesting to explore.

A wood elf afraid of heights? Almost as shameful as dwarf tossing

Not only did they intentionally make Pharazon look like Karl Marx, he's being described as a "Working Class Hero"!

The trouble with this 'making of' is that I could understand if they just turned up on the day and winged it, but finding out how much preparation went into being this bad it is depressing.

7:28 "the canvases across the top gave it that warmth" "hearkening back to morgoth." Morgoth is literally described in the silmarillion as bringing "Ice and Burning." Warmth has no place in there, but these Hollywood degenerates are so lost in the idea of "relating to the bad guy" that they literally have no idea who Morgoth is. Morgoth isn't "fun chaotic shapes that are warm." He is death, torture, ice and burning.

I cant wait for Disparu to review the Willow series. I hear he's really enjoying the first episode.

These interviews somehow make Rings of Poo look retrospectively even worse then watching the show. I had no idea it was possible.

Very funny commentary, Disparu! I haven't even watched the show, and yet, I feel like I've seen every episode thanks to you 😂

Actor: What's my motivation in this scene . Paine and McKay: how should we know just do something you got paid .

I feel like this "Making off" exists just because the LotR had them and people loved them (just like many other aspects of the show). They have no idea what to show, what looks good, how to present their creative process... Well at least they confirmed that Morphine can look/be pleasant and her unbearable behavior and face is completely due to the directors...

"She knows swordfighting". No, she knows how to make fancy moves against some people who have been intentionally cast and written as useless to make you look more capable.

Who knew that by “numenoreans, a fair, mighty race” Tolkien actually meant “Like the hostess at your local restaurant, only not as tall or attractive”?

They sound kinda proud of their fight choreography, huh?

39:22 I think the best part is that Saurons (Helbrand) Armor has a lot of Rings on it. You can´t make this shit up.

Mid-watch... every scene is pure review gold for Disparu!!! Love it!

Every House of the Dragon episode was accompanied by a 20 minute making of a week after the episodes aired. They were fantastic. All the people on site seemed so skilled and it truly reminded me of the bonus material on the extended editions of Lord of the rings. These making ofs here they are as ridiculous as the show itself.

As time goes by, you start to realise, the rings of power wasn't just a terrible show, it was an abomination, a horrific stench oozing from the bowels of hell, and a shameful embarrassment to what was once human civilization! Never has so many crimes against the human senses, been committed in such a short amount of time! The monstrosity that is the rings of power, for the sake of all mankind, must be erased from history! I feel so strongly about this, I'm going to do something that I vowed never to do! I'm going to like my own comment, to help spread this vital message!

Speaking of time travel: pseudo-Galadriel jumps in to the sea at the beginning of the Second Age and arrives in Númenor at a time when its last generation is alive. So that raft was apparently a TARDIS and brought her around 3000 years in to the future.

The cave of orcs is similar in design to the crashed spaceship from the film “After Earth” with Will Smith: mattresses, someone’s dirty clothes, packaging cardboards...I totally believe

Galadriel putting the soldiers in the cells was pure comedy gold 🤣

Does it make me a bad person if I enjoy your take on it more than the show itself? Asking for a friend.

This scene was so amazing, we got the focus just right. It was wonderfully crisp and focused. Valor first needs strength and then a weapon. - Boromir P.S. They hired these no body actors so they would be so grateful for being on the show they wouldn't dare voice any arguments on the stupidity.

Shallow is just the word. When you compare this thin veneer to the bountiful discs of behind the scenes insights and painstaking attention to detail in the Peter Jackson trilogy. I lost weeks just delving into the extras and it was all fascinating to me.

All of this is so weird, Morfydd Clark looks more Galadriel in interviews than in actual show and Arondirs actor now that I have seen his real eye colour, just give him a wig and I can totally buy him as an elf.

"Surface Level" is SURE the first thing 'I' think of when I think "Tolkien"! Way to go, ROP!

Disparu is the best thing to come out of the anti woke, media crowd, by a mile. I like the way he leave political nonsense out of his criticisms if its not relevant

Hollywood-Disparu may be one of my favourite characters. The voice fits so well with the words. Does need a better name than what I just typed though.

Keanu Reeves is not only a great example of being humble and commitment to training for a role. Watching his training for John Wick was super cool.

“He’s not afraid of being close to the ground” sounds like a line from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place. 🤣

“There’s an element of selfishness to her.” That’s not something you want in a protagonist. You can have characters like Dr. Strange and Tony Stark, but Galadriel’s supposed to be a paragon. Besides, Tony and Steven eventually overcome their selfishness in order to be better people/heroes. And just like Disparu said, selfishness is basically this version of Galadriel’s ONLY personality trait.

Whenever somebody starts on about "modern" art (or anything that isn't technical), it is a nakedly desperate attempt to justify the ideology that they're exclusively superior to everything that came before - despite any and all objective standards. First they need to separate their work, to put forward the hysterical notion that you can't hold their BS to any, previous, standard. If challenged, they literally lie about the intentions AND works of anybody else, so they can pretend that they're "above" everything that came before. (above reproach) They _feel_ that by painting their "competitors" (enemies) in a bad enough light, that they'll never have to justify/examine what it is that they've actually done, themselves. (Reminder: art exists to be examined... and they explicitly do not want you critically thinking about what they've done, so much as what others have done before. Because they seriously have no gfd idea of what they're doing, or why.) Then they disingenuously make their "new" subset SOUND inherently impressive, in order to dissuade argument - "modern" Because they've got the same spine, mental acuity and moral compass as a used car salesman. These people are, literally, textbook examples of "depraved" Art speaks for itself, that's the whole point... Read: If RoP were ACTUALLY GOOD - we wouldn't need these vacant stares to "explain" how "diverse" their dwarfs are, or how "modern" their white chick tribbing on horseback, when not in full-plate, is supposed to be. (honestly wtf.) These people legit don't know right from wrong, or how to be a professional, in any measurable or meaningful way.

"You wear a Hardhat so the Harfoot's can't cave in your skull..." LMAO!!!! 5 star break down of this failure with humor!

"You don't need brawn to defeat evil, you just need plot armour... like the sun coming out just at the moment these creatures who had sunlight emerged".

I get the feeling that no one asked questions (those who did were removed for being -difficult- _disruptive),_ and no one watched the final product (they didn't "taste test", therefore everyone assumes that everything is fine). I work at a place with much the same issues. It does not run well. _It barely functions._ They genuinely think that positivity and effort is enough, when it's the *_end result_* that matters. It's a product that you're trying to exchange for _money._ It needs to have _worth._ They're working 'hard', but not _smart._ *And it shows.* Heck, this isn't the first gig for these people, is it? Everyone's talking like high schoolers doing their first big production. It's _bizarre._

The commentary by the actors is just absolutely ridiculous 😂 Sometimes they contradict what actually happened in the film

"Maybe you should have edited out all those scenes that never went anywhere in your first season." Right. That makes the first season into a title screen and then 28 seconds of credits. Actually, I'm good with that. I'm probably even better with that than I am with Stone and Parker making a "Terrance and Philip's Rings of Power" animated show, and that would at least have something worth watching.

By the way where did Galadriel get that armor ? All Numenorians have a completely different type of armor. And she definitely didn't have it on the raft.

Dang, it's devolving into a Pitch Meeting bit: "Why are they doing the thing?" "So the plot could happen!"

The funniest part of this is Numenor was a world superpower inhabited by virtual giants whose strength, abilities and lifespan far exceeded those of regular humans. There's no way that people from the "Southlands" would not have heard of Numenor. Also the series breaks its own lore, since Halbrand is like "wow I didn't know about Numenor" then a few Episodes later discount Eowyn/Bronwyn is leading the people who an abandoned "Numenorian outpost". So clearly, they not only *did* know about Numenor, but there were literally Numenorian settlements in the Southlands. Its like they just forgot what happened a couple of Episodes before. That's the downside of each Episode being written by different people, or just --- incompetent writers in general I guess.

5:45 What's funny is there ARE some people on the show that have some clue on how to portray aloofness in elves. The Durin/Elrond arc does a decent job at that, with Durin being pi$$ed at Elrond for wandering back into his life 30 years later, acting like they hung out last week. Matter of fact, if episode one showed the Durin/Elrond storyline and nothing else, I'd have been sufficiently duped into thinking this show could be pretty good. But nope. Galadriel is the biggest LOTR characterization fail since Radagast "I let birds poop on my face" the Brown.

This version of Galadriel doesn't deserve my boy Celeborn.

Numénóreans: We haven't had an elf here for hundreds of years. Also Numénóreans: Look at all these elves coming here and taking our jobs!

If I was at Galadriel's age, I would never call anyone a relic. I would however call them young inpudent upstarts. Looking at Stonehenge - Ugh...modern architecture Looking at pyramids- A few guys gather at a riverbank and manage not to die and suddenly they get delusions of grandeur Looking at great wall- okay...that one is actually impressive.

It's almost sad how Morfydd Clark obviously thinks that a bunch of highly-trained stunt people desperately trying to make her look good means that she was somehow doing some great fighting out of nowhere. She just looks so pleased with herself and not a single word of deference to the stunt people helping her look good. She obviously thinks filming the show brought out some kind of secret power hidden inside her and after seeing the look on her face, no one had the heart to break it to her that she didn't actually do anything, but that it was all just everyone around her doing their best to sell the fights (with greater or lesser success).

I recall watching the Lord of the Rings Behind the Scenes stuff and god I miss seeing actual talented and dedicated people working on films.

They really said Elfy sense? Is season 2 gonna expand on this new power?

Post-watch, great "review", can't wait for more in depth RoP insight & humor from him! RoP the failure that keeps on giving.

I like how these tiny snippets have conveyed more story and character than the entire show combined.

Elves are supposed to ride horses bareback. But in Gladriel's case the horse insisted on a saddle! # Horse too

How did they have to choreograph that fight scene in the pit for MONTHS, wonder how long it took them to design the Numenorean sets. AND THE SCALE TEAM OH MY GOD HOW MANY PEOPLE IS THAT. No wonder this cost them a billion dollars. Who knows what other completely useful and necessary expenses there were.

You killed me with that “proto-entertainment” line- I’ve been watching your episode reviews from the first, and it’s so much more entertaining than this garbage show. Thanks 👍🏻

8:03 Look at the guy in mid-right, who throws himself to the wall. 😂

I have never seen this show but have watched every single one of Disparu's reviews. Funny as hell. Thank you.

I wonder if the "superfan" = "my girl galadriel" saw ROP yet🤣

The thumbnail you used for this video made me giggle. My 7-year old makes this face when he's not getting his own way, I call it his 'miffy mongoose' or 'angry squirrel' face. Strange to see it on an adult 🤣🤣

He didn't say villains. He said antagonists. They only villains are the people who criticize them.

Your Harfoot commentary alone has me 🤣🤣🤣🤣! Thank you for actually watching this to prove to us how unbelievably shallow everybody creating this show is - maybe there were some people who were not interviewed who have a deeper understanding? This collection of individuals should never ever have attempted a Tolkien adaptation. At least it is so thoroughly shoddily done that it will never be counted as canon. 😂

Funny thing is, I distinctly stated the other day that the main problem with Galadriel's character arc is that it is perfectly flat: while she does get constant after constant reason to change her mindset and attitude entirely (the whole notion of having the Big Lie revealed to her that she needs to stop believing in in order to move forward), she never does so, only borrows the demeanour of having reevaluated things for a short spell and then *_off_* she goes again! More importantly, that that is possible because there are no real consequences *_she_* ever faces, but that the whole pivot point would be how she perceives things, which the show desperately tries to paint as so important, yet carries no weight as it gets ignored by the next scene, as she keeps trudging on others. That it is all about her feelings. Thank you, Clark, for proving me right!

Ar-Pharazôn, a working class hero? We're talking about Ar-Pharazôn "The Golden"? ...a working class hero? Confirmed, these people haven't read the books. Or they just don't care

Dispary "Hollywood" voice is the best thing I never knew I needed.

The only reason the Harfoots were in this show was to make Galadriel look a little less like a psychopath

If there is one good thing to come out of all of this, it’s that your audience is learning how to tell a good story. As a future game designer I find myself thankful that channels like yours are able to dissect bad writing and teach us how it could be better.

So to be clear, the director doubled as a fluffer for the extras to ensure that they act like they care in the LEAST about this show? Makes sense I guess. This show truly is a 🗑 🔥

"You don't want to disengage the viewers when the action starts" Disparu: "You have to engage them first" 🤣🤣🤣 Take a bow, Sir

The bit where they talk about Morfydd learning swordsmanship is SO clearly a callback to the LotR special features where you learn that Viggo Mortensen impressed his sword fighting coach so much that he did all his own stunts and was the only cast member who was allowed to use an actual steel sword. But, see, he actually put in the work and it SHOWED. Comparing THAT to... whatever Galadriel did in RoP is frankly insulting.

I just want to know where all the money that was supposedly poured into this series went? The first episode or two I could see some expensive looking shots, but after that everything appeared really cheap. I'm starting to wonder if this was a giant money laundering operation.

The first elf in hundreds of years, who are the pointy eared people stealing all are jerbs then?

The behind the scenes in the Lord of The Rings is a fun watch in itself because you can see the passion they all had for Middle Earth. The making of this show is just showing how the sausage they made turned out so badly.

I have been waiting for your part 2 of this , thank you.

The bow tie. The nose ring of the hipster.

3:16 Is that a "Mulan 2019" on the baseball cap? That would explain why the series turned out so badly. If you employ people who were proud of Disney's new Mulan....

i really wanted them to explain or at least talk about the "THE SEA IS ALWAYS RIGHT" line lmao

2:36 Doctor Who... I was sure you were going to say "Spongebob"

Galadriel reminds me of that cheerleader in high school you had a crush on. You finally get up the courage to ask her out but when she opens her mouth you realize the lights are on but nobody's home.

36:02 They're bragging about having such an insanely high budget for the show, but couldn't bother to find hair extensions that actually match the MAIN actress' hair. Things like these (just like the cheap costumes) just show how little they really cared. But it makes me really wonder where that money actually went. Thank you for another great video Disparu!

Dunno, months doesn't unreasonable for the stages of concept designs. Especially if you've got a client who's one of those "I don't know what I want, but I'll know when I see it!" or "Could you, I dunno, make it pop?" Or "Yeah he needs to have more middle earth in eyes.

Another entertaining video with spot on commentary. You're going to review Willow right?

I can’t believe it took me this long to notice Galadriel’s armor has the Cree star on it… … coincidence? I think not

Goddamn Disparu you made me spit out my coffee so many times with your quips

-Coming into the city we've wanted to experience it from our characters perspectives. -???

26:22 "as much as they were guarding us they were also protecting us" synonym: noun: a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close.

Disparu needs to do a commercial with the Kermit voice for the Numenoor Diet which consists of walnut milk and corn.

The actress saying, Galadriel sees the Numenors as relic, shows how little she was in character. And oh boy, what a shallow making of - showing us a few orc drawings and the rest is just „ah it was so fun and things happened `n‘ sh*t.“ 🤣

In defense of the duster it may have been difficult to see in their costumes.

the problem is that Tolkien thought like an elf; he was learned, not just via university but through combat experience where he witnessed the chaotic power of self will compared to the serenity of the natural world. Tolkien's galadriel symbolise that natural serenity, but guyladriel symbolises chaos. Even if the show runners wanted to give her a place to develop from, Tolkien would never have made it a place of chaos because her elvish nature doesn't allow it. Orcs are that corruption, and a bridge between man and elf.

An orc world? Maybe from Warcraft. With those bones and tusks and skins. I think Blizzard should sue them.

I simply LOVE your reviews! :)

"Have I mentioned how much I like the concept art" This should've been a animated series. If they made the show look like the concept art, it would've at least been watchable.

I cant even imagine how awful it would be having to be around Ismael Cruz all day for weeks

30:51 "Really feel like we're making a mountain out of a molehill here." Excellent choice of idiom🙃

Quick aside here... Trystan Gravelle (at about 17:40) actually looks really good with that side-shave haircut (in the interview). One of the very few times I thought that cut looked anything but terrible.

Now, just to clear that up, which fantasies exactly are we talking about? What is the list of those works where space and time do not exist? I would love to better understand “their” argument.