Rings of Power's Top 3 WORST Storylines 

Ahhh. Sorry sir, since I have not watched a single minute(Only channels that dunk on it) I would not be able to give you feedback. Good day!

Surviving a pyroclastic cloud and 400°c heat. Is Galadriel from Krypton now?

All this rewriting cannon I would not be surprised if Galadriel is Sauron.

The show runners must have LotR and GoT mixed up and though Galadriel has Targaryen blood and immune to heat.

I'm surprised you didn't compare Sauron's sword/key to the same joke that Red vs. Blue did many years ago.

Well, apparently to the writers, the entirety of Middle Earth is about 200 square miles or so. That's why they seem to think that sailing from Middle Earth to Valinor should only take an afternoon, walking from Eregion to Khazad-Dum should only take an hour or two, and that someone could realistically swim from Valinor back to Middle Earth. They have absolutely no concept of how large Middle Earth is. They just hand-waive the massive time frames it would take to do all the stuff they're doing, and so you have Galadriel's trip to Valinor, Numenor getting ready to send out its (tiny) army, sailing to Middle Earth, getting debarked and everyone geared up, then riding across the southlands to find the village taking about 4-5 days, rather than the 3+ months it should.

Thank you, you've articulated what was bothering me so much (besides the awful writing). It's just so small it's anti-epic

@@Dave_L913 Writer's logic: there's only 1 town in the Southlands. That's how Galadriel know where the orcs would be. Audience: But in episode 2 there was another village that was attacked by the orc. Surely there's other towns? Writer's logic: Exactly, there WAS another town, but no more.

Darkwing Duck, haven’t seen you in a while, old friend! Glad to see that you are using your analytical skills for a good purpose. You are right about the scale of the show. Another example is that swimming through the entire ocean is a pleasant afternoon dog paddle or possibly a nice relaxing sidestroke. 😂 Hey, what if the “worm” sea monster was Sauron in worm shape? Did we see Halbrand and the worm in the same frame? If not, he could’ve killed off the other people on the raft so he could have special alone time with Big G.

the south lands a 100 villagers? you exaggerating, if it is more then 50 it is CGI, but I think it is even less.

Discount Aragorn got his discount peasants and dollar-store Éowyn... Everything fits actually.

Yeah a king over a small hamlet of of 20 peasants which didn't recognize him lol

@@allenwilhelm7799 Hey you have to start somewhere, every empire in the world started with one guy with a dream.

"I'm your king" "Well I didn't vote for you!"

I know. This show is so lazy.

She took back her power. From a volcano. That represents the male patriarchy. So brave. I’m in tears.

I love the scene where Galadriel sees the cloud shooting at her and she holds out her hand and quietly says, "No." And then the cloud completely freezes in place. Then we see her pick a small rock from the cloud and look at it curiously, and then drop it and the entire cloud falls to the ground as ash.

She survives because at the last moment she said, "There's a tempest in me!" And the volcano turned and retreated in fear and anxiety.

It's obvious that Galadriel survives because of the tempest within her.

Empowerment

I would not be surprised at this point if Kevin IS Sauron in this show.

@@ninjasecret8418 jokes aside, if you check on imdb the actor's name portraying Sauron is Macaulay Culkin

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@@ninjasecret8418 Home Alone: Dol Guldur.

@@nhmooytis7058 they need to stop making these sequels 😄😄😄

New sport I love it

Ah! Yes! "Harfoot punting". Apparently, in middle earth, it is said you're never more than 20 feet from a Harfoot.

I love the smell of burning harfoots in the morning...

Now I want to see that.

Yea that makes more sense.

I've wondered if Galadriel isn't Sauron in disguise... She is making sure the events of the Lord of the Rings can't happen because she just killed off the future kings of Middle Earth.

She shall not pass.

Or knocked in the head with a rock and it's all a bad dream. They rip off other movies/shows why not Wizard of Oz

@@kathleenhensley5951 True, what we're seeing is the darkest timeline of Middle-earth.

Lol. That is hilarious. They looked for the master sword key the whole time they could have just destroyed the damn dam. The writing is meant for people that don't question a damn thing......a true master plan.

This is a modern master piece of a story telling. If you don't like it, then you're a misogynist

"Also I need you all to dig a trench so that all the water can flow from the bottom of a dam to the top of a volcano. You can do that, right?"

I don't understand why they are so afraid of using a supernatural explanation: the sword is obviously magical, but the way it works seemingly uses science, as if you could build such a contraption in real life. Considering that we have a canon precedent in Caradras, they could have made so that Mt Doom hosts a sentient evil spirit as well, and using the sword as intended can rile this spirit and cause him to erupt the volcano. But no, they had to introduce and foreshadow everything as "utter black magic" when it's just engineering, which makes little sense, as if Arondir, who just used the whole tower-crumbling contraption, can't tell them apart from 'sorcery'.

@@dariovirga7711 well said, and this extends to the entire show : the forging of the rings eventually doesn’t involve any magic, it’s just about combining materials… how is this supposed to generate all powerful objects ?

The shills won't accept the problems with the show until Ryan George does a movie pitch meeting video about it.

The writers seem to think that a pyroclastic flow is just a dust cloud. Perhaps when at college, they didn't read volcano books because of trigger warnings. If she survives the glowing boulders the size of a barn. 800-degree heat, toxic gases, dust that's basically powdered glass and a pressure wave travelling at 150 mph, she still has to reach the new surface level which will be 30 metres above her head.

@@eddielombardo Ryan George probably has too much material available to edit it down to one pitch meeting.

@@alexedwards6509 No problem, for her it will be barely an inconvenience.

She's a philosokaren-queen

Wrong. She is a Karen-Chad.

@Rafael Gustavo She is a TEMPEST 🤣

In Episode 1 she demands to speak to the elves' manager. In Episode 2 she demands to speak to the raft's manager. In Episode 3 she demands to speak to Numenor's manager. In Episode 4 she demands to speak to that manager's manager. In Episode 5 she demands to speak to Sauron's manager. In Episode 6 she demands to speak to Adar's manager. I'm on the edge of my seat wondering whose manager she'll demand to speak to next!

Well with how this episode ended, everyone can just stop watching here and head canon it to the Karen dieing and the real Galadriel waking up, realizing she had been trapped in a nightmare (brought on by dark magic) about being an insufferable bitch.

They did give an explanation already? In the aftershow?

Never underestimate plot-armour.

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@@ChristmasLore Don't know, don't give a shit. It's 100% un-survivable. End of story.

Now I imagine Sauron making a surprised Pikachu face when Adar actually pulls it off. "Holy frigg...That shouldn't have worked. Ever! Maybe I AM genius!" And thus the hubris was born that leads to hs ultimate defeat. x'D

@@monkeybusiness673 it was the motivation he needed to go through with his "enslaving the leaders of the races of Middle Earth with jewellery" plan.

@@insertclevernamehere1186 Sometimes all you need is a little bump in confidence, eh?!

@@monkeybusiness673 exactly 👍

That would explain why the big trench wasn't dug already...

I thought you Jackson fans liked dumb action figures

@@reek4062 - If you make war on love you end up with the ashes of your own civilization.

To be fair, the reason Galadriel wants to commit genocide on all orcs is because a non-orc killed her brother. So it's not COMPLETELY random.

@@reek4062 yawn

@@reek4062 No thats you. While youre on your superior tip, just consider the fact that you using incel in an attempt to invalidate anyones statements only proves you to be the fool. Noone else. I cant help but notice your posts on this channel dont consist of any arguments, but rather insults and buzzwords meant to dissuade any differences in opinion to your own. That might work on you and your nitwitted friends. Dont assume it will be as effective against actual adults.

Key difference: No one in Pompeii was a superstar girl boss commander of armies because they were ruled by toxic masculinity and the volcanic eruption was the ultimate feminist revenge, which unfortunately backfired (ha!) on the ladies as well.

@@dronesclubhighjinks "the Doom is always right"

Actually Pompeii had population of 20k and only 2k died in Pompeii , some fled to sea and on boats and rescued by navy some had fled to other towns further up and some had fled a weeks earlier as huge earthquakes and funny skyfall put the wind up them luckily.Those in the city who hadn't fled at the height of the eruption of course had no chance.

Haven’t you seen the ads- it’s just Cheeto dust!! They will spend most of the episode brooding around and saying “It’s not easy being cheesy”!!!

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I'm not sure they're storylines. More like random dots that aren't connected but had a line drawn through them to create a scribble.

​@@garrusv I'd say they are dots that the writers accidentally "connected" while scribbling

Yeahhh... Adar is the only character i like in the whole show.

I for one welcome our Mordor overlords. What pension benefits does Mordor Inc offer?

@@pocophonef1379 I did too, hoping we would get a solid story about how an Elf ( the only one looking like an Elf) could become so traumatised that he became a force of evil. It is lore that Elves who escaped from Morgoths prisons were not trusted by the other Elves, perfect material I would say. but no, they killed him off by taken a short cut as being Ur-Papa-Orc. Tolkien painted himself a bit in a corner with the origin of Orc's, he was never really content with about the four versions he toyed with. But it now seems the showrunners just walked over the still wet painted floor and painted themselves in another corner. The corrupted elf version is in the Tolkien lore they have no access to.

And yet, whatever you think of her actress, Disa is possibly the best person in this show.

Nah, not as good as Guyladriel literally saying 'come at me' to the trainees. She's speaking all Tolkienesque and then the best the writer's can give her is 'come at me'. All they're missing is, 'come at be, bro'.

@@CharlesUrban I take it you said that before she turned into a sith lord

@@pepincuatro2865 Yeah, I jumped the gun.

Actually they're all three, ALL OF THEM

lord of karen, coincidence of bad writing

I don't watch the show. I have Disparu watch and then I get to see how laughably bad and boring the show is

@@c.i.t.b.i.t.c...3678 It's far more enjoyable if you do watch it though. Ofcourse if you don't have the spare time...

Get your friends together and do a MST3K commentary.🤣🤣

I just listen to tge videos about how crap it us

I don’t even bother watching ROP, Disparu’s takes are enough for me. Much more entertaining too!

werewolves and vampires?

One wonders if that's down to the specific source material to which Amazon bought the rights I love LOTR but I'm not about to read a 1000+page novel plus Appendices in the next five minutes just to see to what degree Morgoth's army is mentioned

they didn't have the license to use the spiders so they had to 'improvise'...make up their own storyline for the destruction of the trees.

They don't have the rights. They literally don't have the legal rights to tell the story they're claiming to tell.

@@LordHerek yup, werewolves and vampires. Not exactly as you're probably envisioning, but they exist in Tolkien in Fellowship of the Ring it's heavily implied they were attacked by a pack of werewolves before taking the Moria road. It was cut from the film because admittedly the scene itself is a little vague and hard to explain Sauron, in fact, is the father of all Werewolves and was a shapeshifter himself in his physical form

Lol. This is hilarious. So true. They had just finished killing their own family and friends and they were like, "fuck it, we got a king, DUDE. LET'S DRINK"

Also they suddenly had a lot of food

When they were all starving just the day before. Hm... let's do the math on that. No food + dead friends = banquet. Uh oh... looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!

We were fighting our own...! Ah well. Let's eat! xD

The willingness to accept Halbrand as their king, I'm sure half the town were thinking, who the fk is this guy. But instead "SURE, he's our new king."

@My Namename The writers went to the George Lucas school for love story writing. They'll start talking about how coarse sand is, wait and see.

@@Hunt8rJob "I hate pyroclastic flow... it's coarse, rough..."

@@adamheywood113 Scowladriel is a walking dumpster-fire. She's fireproof. Maybe she's a balrog in disguise.

They hired an 'intimacy coordinator'. I'm actually vastly surprised that a series meant to be like 'Game of Thrones' has NOT had vastly more nudity and sex scenes. But if there's only going to be one sex scene in the entire series, it's pretty clear it will be between Galadriel and Sauron.

​@@adamheywood113" and burns my flesh to a crisp"

fandom? where?

You mean this water was to clean the fan after all the Sh*T that hit it during 6 weeks?

Almost as bad as shooting a burning arrow to burn a rope which was structurally holding up a watch tower. The engineer must of been a genius.

never heard of this story by Mark Twain, love it nevertheless. any idea which of his novels it was? by the way your theory has merrit, but it does not explain why the language shifts haven not changed the original name Galadriel into Karendriel yet.

LOLZ

@@kamion53 It was a "tongue in cheek" advice to aspiring writers' article. He also spoke of several other characters he didn't know what to do with and had them fall down the same well.

@@Kiddington-Oh sounds a bit like the answer of Augustus when someone asked what happened to the hero in his poem: "he fell on a sponge, like Aiax on his sword.""

Oh, I'm sure they'll have her pull something out of her ass to save most of the people there. Or at least all the Named Characters(tm). Even though the show has never showed her ability with magic before. It'll just be another contrivance pulled out to get a character out of the situation the garbage writers have put them in. The writers for this show are absolute trash. They keep wanting to toss characters into 'cool scenes', without realizing you have to build up to things like that, and give reasons both why they're there, and how they survive, without just hand-waiving it away or pulling insane contrives out of their ass. Like her jumping into the sea to swim back to Middle Earth. Yeah, it's only a 1300+ mile swim, she'll be fine. And of course she's not only picked up once but TWICE, in an area of ocean that NOBODY goes to. And the people on the first raft are worried about 'corsairs'. Pirates? Really? Who are the pirates raiding? The only land out there is Valinor (and pirates sure as hell aren't going to be raiding the home of the elves and gods) and Numenor, which isn't a trading empire (and no band of pirates is going to be dumb enough to try and raid one of their towns or cities). It's just another throw-away line to 'sound cool' and nothing more, with zero thought put into it.

Well put! Thank you!

Galadriel did have powers but those powers game from the rings and the rings haven`t been made yet

At this point the Galadriel in the show and the Galadriel in Tolkien's works are two entirely different people who just share the same name.

@@kurtnulf3362 part of Galadriel's powers in the third age come from her ring. Read who Galadriel is. Read who mentored her in Middle Earth. Read what that mentor's daughter was capable of doing to Morgoth and his entire throne room. Galadriel's powers aren't limited to the ring she gets much later on in her life.

It's certainly dumb enough for fans of the movies.

I didn't even pick up how contrived that plot was until I watched this video. The show doesn't cease to amuse me.

It's like different writers doing each episode and not giving a f* about each other.

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Oooh maybe the Beavers from Narnia can come over and thwart evil!

Ditto and Gandalf's roasts!!

For reals. And it was never an army. It was like 15 dudes and her.

Balloons yes they float and when your down here with me YOU'LL FLOAT TO !!!!!!!

also the water of the damm looks up to the stars, too... because then it can flow uphill to Mount Doom, that is the highest elevation in the area...

Stones sink and boats float because the sea is always right! In another comment section, a clever person brought up whether “sea“ also refers to freshwater because, if it does, then the sea was right about the volcano erupting. The logic is so logically logical that it would make Spock swoon amirite?

Time to make the rock float by making it look up Totally not because of buoyancy or whatever

He's going to use his Mount Doom to forge her Ring of Power

Pretty sure, it's "them/they" lol

Oooh it’ll bring them even closer haha … So romantic 🤢 It would be funny if they both choose “they” - or maybe they can make up cutesy little pet names for each other to nauseate us further. Gawadikins and Halbypoo?

I preferrrr "uruk"

@@dronesclubhighjinks i agree , timeless masterpiece

@@Wilma_Dickfit_huh Is he both at the moment in his most pleasing Eminem form , looks like he has bosoms ?

Yeah, good thing it only took a couple hours hahahaha

@@dronesclubhighjinks my theory is she already wore the armor under her dress. That's the reason she could only swim half the way. That would also explain how she got the elvish armor on Numenor 🤣 Or Halbrand made it after the sword and a dozens of daggers in his two day blacksmith workshop.

@@lal12 probably both of your theories are correct! 🤣🤣

I gave up before minute 2

@@colinmorgan2737 In retrospect I wish I had

It' the key to his Chasity belt, preventing him for ever really being a male.

It'll get sweaty, and at some point a butt plug will be needed. Halbrand takes the sigil out, and uses it vigorously. He's spent, weirdly regretful, almost immobilized. Guylad then whispers softly: Your turn. In the morning, she looks at the sigil still in her hand, and realizes... What she was missing in her marriage. Cut to Celeborn receiving an oddly shaped package from Celebrimbor, with a cryptic message from his wife. 🙈

Not after they fall in love and Guyladriel is betrayed by revealing he is not-sauron and promises the wrath of her fury.

Yup, genius stuff.

In the show it feels like Adar carried out the Sauron's plan to make a place for the orcs as he feels like they deserve their own land too. However, he feels like both Sauron and Galadrial are evil - One wants to use them, and the other wants to kill them all.

Sauron doesn't even want to be in the Southlands. He was just badgered into it to help Galadriel with her genocide.

I think Adar does hate Sauron/Halbrand. Because of that confrontation in the woods. "Remember me? Remember what you did?" According to Adar, he tried to kill Sauron/Halbrand. Adar thinks he is dead and Halbrand doesn't look like Sauron so he doesn't realize he failed. I think Adar wanted to block out the sun for the orcs and used Sauron's plans to do it. Honestly most of this is pretty dumb storytelling but we are stuck with it.

It's all done with manatees.

pardon me, Bronwyn isnt hwite, she has brown eyes, dark hair and light brown skin. Shes middle eastern or mixed race. They would never put a hwite person in charge, that role is reserved for the minority women (Miriel and Bronwyn)

@@TheSuperappelflap Guyladriel is as white as it can get. Down to the Karen attitude

@@JoSan3 yeah but she isnt in charge of anything, shes just a mary sue karen, nobody follows her orders. miriel, bronwyn and disa are in positions of power. the only white person with any authority is gil galad and hes portrayed as a fucking idiot

Except that....we know Galadriel is still alive. Unless they're going to completely rewrite history of the entirety of Lord of the Rings.

@@tsnophaljakarax9963 Elendil and Isildur too

@@esquilax5563 I bet one or both of the buddies made it too

I hope Galadrial dies, and that modern day Isildur.... I know that's impossible, but I'd be happy to see the show without these two

Considering how those people seems fine from having lava bombs land right next to them, I wouldn't worry too much.

Shhhh. Its supposed a secret

Well, if you take anything that Tolkien wrote into consideration, which the writers clearly didn't, then she is in possession of Nenya, which can protect people from evil. However, she wouldn't have used it because she swore to keep it secret as long as Sauron has the one ring, which he has already forged in mt doom, which wasn't created by water released by a magic key. He had also finished building barad-dur, started a war with the elves and given rings to the dwarf lords and kings of men who have now become the nazgul. Meanwhile, Celebrimbor is dead and Eregion has been destroyed, Elrond has established the refuge of Rivendell and Galadriel lives in Lothlorien with her husband Celeborn and their almost 3000 year-old daughter, and this is all before Elendil was born, and he should be over 100 in the show. So strange that a show called the rings of power seems to be taking place after the rings of power were made, but hasn't included them in the story at all. 🤔

I literally see this as d&d session in which DM forgot to prepare and just skimmed his notes, players forgot what kind of backstory they wrote and do not roleplay their allignement ( Hey, are you not supposed to be lawful good?) nobody cares about encumbrence rules and one girl had extraordinary luck with her stats and is also avid min-maxer so when she was creating her elven warrior she of course decided that charisma is a dump stat.

I have only a faint glimmering of an idea of what you two are talking about, but you seem way more intelligent and self-aware than the writers are. Please replace them!

Elves do not breathe and do not need oxygen, they could survive it easily.

the critical drinker is a moron

she was ready to ditch that too 10 seconds later. " F it, i cant wait, i must kill you NOW". this was standard behavior of the villains before the woke age.