Rings of Power S2 Episode 6 - DUMBEST ELVES EVER! - Angry Review 

"Legolas! What do your elf eyes see?" "I dunno bro, buncha rocks and hills? The fuck you want from me, binoculuar vision? I'm not a velociraptor."

6 Elf spies can spot Sauron entering Mordor without knowing Sauron is back or what he looks like, but nobody can spot an army outside the city walls, or Mass deforestation and trenches hundreds of miles long.

What's with all the screaming and panicked elves running around in Eregion? If you compare them how elves are depicted in lord of the rings books and the trilogy, it makes no sense. They seem like humans with ears.

“Throw her into the sea!” *Proceeds to gently guide her into a lagoon as if she’s taking a bath*

The Power of Joe The Power of Joe The Power of ...ALEX

Can we start calling it 'Vulture Fiction'? These writers aren’t fans; they’re scavengers.

50/50 chance the writers use "black powder" to get through the walls, instead of creating and filming a proper siege.

Find it baffling that at some point, a group of writers sat down in a meeting and actually agreed this was acceptable?

Numenorean politics in a nutshell: Pharazon: I activate my spell card "Eagle", it makes me the rightful king of Numenorrrrr. Miriel: hahaha, you activated my trap card "Giant Sea Kraken Monster Thing", it allows me to reverse Uno your Eagle and it makes me the rightful queen of Numenorrrr.

I like how Alex doesn't even try to hide his sadness and disappointment anymore

I lost it when Tom Bombadil did the whole “many that die deserve life” speech. Absolute cringe

Amazon’s adaptation of Tolkien’s material makes the 2006 adaptation of “Eragon” look like a masterpiece in comparison and that’s saying something.

To be fair to the crowd complaining about the diversity, it'd been nice if it made sense is the greater point. Like if all the desert hobbits were darker it'd been perfectly logical. The Dwarves all being super pale would also be perfectly logical. It's the fact every single area looks like a modern society is the problem, and gives that sense their priorities aren't where they should be.

This whole season ive been screaming at my screen "WHY IS EVERYONE SO DUMB" 😂

Amazon: did you know season 2 came out? Gamers: I dont know you and i dont care to know you

The problem with durin, is that each successive durin is supposed to be a reincarnation of the last one... "oh hi dad"

The only entertainment that Rings of Power ever gives me is watching Joe, OJ & Alex hilariously ripping into, mocking & trashing on each & every episode of this dumpster fire of an adaptation.

There using Orks from other source materials like "War of Warcraft" which is why the Orks have families, babies and etc (they think all orks are the same )🤣

Angry Joe "DUMBEST ELVES EVER!" Amazon prime "Hold my beer" The writers "DUMBEST ELVES EVER! So far"

its really getting under my skin how they reuse lines of past movies. that is just a big NONO...you are telling me Gandalf was just parroting Bombadil when he imparted wisdom to Frodo in Kazadum....TF

I'm shocked you guys missed that old lady stool spends so much time talking about her special tree that she's looked after for years and years. That's what gandalf will get his staff from. He'll go help his friends AND get is staff. The secret fire showed him Nori, he's meant to go there. Can't you see it's a deep and meaningful test, going to help his friends is how he passes the test. That's where his staff is. ...this show is fucking horrible.

The secret flame was actually a dumpster fire.

Why is Shadow of Mordor's Celebrimbor better than this show?

I hate celebrimbor in this show. He is incredibly gullible.

They are making Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War look like masterpieces by comparison when it comes to portrayals of Celebrimbor and Sauron

The best way to describe Season 2 of RoP is Orc Lives Matter. 🤦🏿

Billion dollar budget Best I can do is rubber knife

Jackson's LOTR made me want to learn more about the lore... this show makes me wish I never had that knowledge now.

AJ: "Alex, you explain this bit now" Alex: "Well," AJ: "IMMA SHOUT NOW!"

Celebrimbor shouldn’t feel bad for forgetting that woman’s name I can’t remember the names of pretty much all of the made up characters in this show and also Can we agree that for god's sake, legions of orcs this near should have been goddamn spotted by the city ?

my god, I love Rings of Power. Every week it provides peak entertainment. Not the way they intended, sure, but this is great.

A couple of things about the Sauron Vision scene that bugged me... 1.) It was night when the orcs attacked, but the vision was full daytime with sunshine. Sure, it made for a nice visual contrast, but it also implies that Celebrimbor was so wrapped up in his work and his forge not having any openings to the outside world at all that he would miss that. Mind control handwavey, still, bothered me. 2.) Celebrimbor is standing there, out in the open, talking to Annatar, without a care in the world. Not one of the elves running around thought to maybe seek some help or solace from the two leaders of the city?

Forget the pronunciation of weird elf names and cities….who else can’t unhear “Wonton” violence? 😂

They have removed the most important themes of the series. God, love, and mercy. No person can resist evil alone. Everyone plays their part in the Devine plan. Morally grey characters are Game of thrones, not Lord of the rings.

There is also a Tom Bombadil Batman moment too, when he suddenly vanishes.

Such a bad episode. They literally made it so that all the wise things Gandalf said in the Lord of the Rings books, he just stole from Bombadil… it’s unbelievable how lazy writers of modern movies/television are these days… especially the ones for this show.

the biggest Sin is making the ORC's more human or not as Evil! This needs to Fail! Tolkien would never stand for this!

Balrog are corrupted Miar and are in the same order and rank as Gandalf, Saruman and Sauron. What makes them different is the level of combat skills, and if the questions were does Sauron have the ability to command the Balrog. The answer is no, remember they are in the same order of power but serve different masters. Another question I heard someone ask is whether the Balrog and Sauron would join forces. The answer would be no, the Balrog was loyal only to Gothmog the leader of the Balrog and by extension Melkor alone. Sauron wanted world domination, Melkor wished to destroy all that Eru had created, and both villains would immediately try to destroy one another. Sauron did not bother forming an alliance because the Balrog had no intention of leaving Moria nor did it care for what the outside world was doing and what was stated above.

32:10 Sauron literally was so powerful he could bring things into existence, he used to make flowers appear with every step he took… he is literally that powerful he can do that. The only reason he fails is because of his own Hubris and he believes himself unbeatable which left him with weaknesses he could not foresee.

Take a shot every time they rip off a line of dialogue from the films or the original Lord of the Rings books.

Simple solution. Every time you watch an episode, you subsequently rewatch the Lord of the Rings trilogy to cleanse your palate and you remember good scenes like "Looks like meats back on the menu boys!"

Joe keeps popping into Alex's sentences like a fuckin ad midroll

It’s quite the accomplishment to make Gandalf the worst part of a show when he’s one of the best parts of the movies.

Cast John C Reilly as Tom. And ya got the comedy and whimsical ness...

I'm just watching the show for the comedic relieve now. I know they won't stick to the source material and it's become a fun game to watch and see how they keep digging their plotholes deeper and deeper. For me the show went from "Weird, but ok" in the first two episodes, to "this is terrible" until the end of season 1, to "it's so bad it's funny". I hope they can at least keep that up.

Saurons fast travel is insane 😂😂

Watch the Penguin instead

Gives me something interesting to do while watching... These are my notes, before I see this Video's review. - The hammer scene was bizarre. A shot shows the hammer is there (when celebrimbor says "she is called Mirdania"). Then Celebrimbor first talks about the hammer (the background shows its gone) then Sauron says "That hammer" and its back again. I'm guessing the first shot was a continuity error. - Adar and Galadriel's scene was ok in spite of her stuck up, hateful, spiteful personality. - Elendil's courtroom scene was ok, a bit on the nose - Hobbit scene is terrible of course. > Please don't subject me to a hobbit love story, that's disgusting. > Trying to be funny with lizard breath, please stop - Why is Gandalf standing on a cliff chatting with Bombadil if he is so worried Nori will die. - Its always stupid when a person must choose between saving the world or saving one person. And in this case its even worse because Gandalf the blue is specifically told "Every soul in middle earth is in peril" which includes ALL hobbits, elves and men that will ever exist... but of course Gandalf the blue is an idiot and will choose to save the two stupid evil hobbits. - Now we got Bombadil quoting Gandalf's movie lines... I guess they were lines from the books, but I wish they would find new/different lines to use. "Many that live deserve death etc..." - Why would Sauron summon prince Durin to ask the king for Mithril? - What did Sauron see the fire? the Balrog I guess? - Disa defending the tunnel with bats was especially stupid, when she summons the bats of course they fly around her and they would have just flown around the miners had they stood still. I would have liked to see that scene. Also, how much time do you think they bought by a few bats chasing 4 miners 20 meters down a tunnel? 3 minutes maybe? - It doesn't make sense that the queen can take the punishment for Elidil. He was charged with "inciting a violent conflagration that led to loss of life and high treason" what has the queen got to do with those crimes? - The queen makes zero effort to save her own life - The topography doesn't make sense. The queen is in a rock pool separate from the ocean. It has a different water level. Yet somehow the sea beast phases through matter in order to grab her from below. - Pretty epic looking sea beast... but I would still like to know the mechanics of how it managed to get into that rock pool and tie its tentacle around the queens feet - They show the pool from above you can literally see through the water and see the ROCK at the bottom of the pool. it is not open to the ocean. So dumb! - Wait what? the camera pans around and all the orcs are already 200meters from Eregion? I thought they were miles away... I guess it makes sense, Galadriel was travelling there when she got caught. - I like Sauron vs Celbrimbor scene and Sauron's illusion - I would think the elves to be a little more organized in defense rather than screaming and panicking. - great siege visuals at the end. There are a lot of stupid little annoying mistakes, but they are definitely getting better than season 1, but Its still kinda below average, maybe the production value brings it up to 5/10 for me.

Some people like to discredit "postumous reviews" and suggested rewrites like the ones being suggested here by the guys by sayin "well it is easy to complain and propose fixes after the fact". But let us all remember that there were two main writers and surely a whole round table of screw ups being paid fat checks by amazon who, when being pitched this awful mess, couldn´t even come up with a simple fix. If this is what a full room of writers came up with after pitches, writes, rewrites, table readings, pre production, and everything that goes on before a show is even filmed... what the hell was in that first draft the two morons wrote? like seriously, did they just walk up the bezos, kissed his forehead at the nape and delivered a crayon scribbled parchment that said "Sauron clever, orcs good, protagonists cool, gib money?"---- AND IT WORKED!!!???

Has anyone seen any one soldier of any faction in this show that looks intimidating or competent at fighting. It seems all the soldiers look like undernourished high schoolers with a few older skinny guys thrown in. These soldiers would lose to a company of boy scouts.

If only Adar sent a messenger to tell the Elves stop harbouring Sauron. That might be useful insight to share before bringing your "children" into war.

I’ve legit just started fast forwarding through all the harfoot scenes. Their story is a snooze fest and they’re just obnoxious.

Modern writers have no imagination, they just project their own angst and silly current world problems etc into the scripts

Every week and episode is so BORING. Thanfully we have AngryJoe and crew to watch

24:52 The Elves at Helm’s Deep would never..

29:36 I love that Joe is just riffing and coming up with a better storyline than the actual writers could have.

That’s a small ass crown for Morgoth lol.

Yet another call back to Peter Jackson’s films. When Bilbo sees the ring on Frodo and his face turns demonic for a sec. Guyladriel has done it multiple times in this series without cgi

head piece + Ring = 2 item set bonus Get all 8 pieces of gear to get full set bonus

"She also has an actual brother" is too hilarious

Just tax writeoff at this point

Sounds like they are trying to do mystery box storytelling without any kind of spectacle substitute. Smoke monster - mysterious and scary. The bunker - mysterious and tense. This story sounds like they are doing mysterious and banal.

17:05 WTF is on his armor? Is... Is that the Green Man? 🤦‍♂ *CrrIIINNNGE!!!*

Why would you panic if inside the walls? You close the gates, and you're good for a bit. It takes time for an army to deploy to set up to siege a fortified city. And they do need to set up. They'll want to fortified camps outside of the range of the city's siege weapons. They'll want fortified camps to stop relief efforts. They'll want to block off supply routes, which means surrounding the city. They'll want to set up good positions for their own siege artillery. You need to set up defensive positions for your troops in case of forays by the city's defenders. You need the tail end of your columns to catch up with the vanguard.

I don't even watch the show, but man it's so annoying that so many modern writers are just copying and reusing things that were written before. Rings of power, Alien Romulus, and Acolyte... It's like they only learned how to google and use AI on their essays in college and never wrote ANYTHING GOOD of their own. It's just a sad, line-recycling machine.

I did not read the books, but I bet Tolkien did not put a teen couple in love in every group.

I don't know what channels you're talking about, but all the ones I see none of them trash entertainment properties just because there's somebody of a different color in it. A lot of times there's a person of that color on that channel. Which means you probably don't even watch those channels to know, you just listen to The same type of people who accuse you of being a troll and go with your own bias.

Waiting for Gandalf to sing "my stick, my stick, my stick is better than bacon!"

DWARF BATMAN?! What is this show?

Don't watch this. Please. Don't give Amazon the views, don't give some dumb executive at the company the power to say "look, they watched it, let's make more like this".

I cant believe they dont use establishing shots in this daytime soap opera. Using establishing shots is filming 101 for big budget projects.

I ordered plain Jello but the shop sent me jello with fruits, which tastes worse than the plain, but more expensive. It is so funny because this is exactly my experience with this show now.

Everyone in this series is already so extra, but they went ahead and made the non-white cast members extra extra.

Best I could do was up to season 1 episode 5 when galadriel was training the numenorians. I physically could not tolerate anymore. My hats off to you, gentlemen.

Did you not enjoy the fact Tom Bombadil is teaching "Gandalf" about the sacred fire? TOM! WHO NO ONE KNOWS WHERE HE CAME FROM AND IS BELIVED THAT HE WAS THERE BEFORE THE SONG!!!

Galadriel gives off major racist energy…. ORCCCCCC 🤣🤣🤣🤣

All these random plots are just the writers saying "Weade the shire, we made mythril, we made Tom, we made grandelf the tan, we make Saruman the kinder bueno."

What’s wrong with being right winged?

i think we all really need to stop watching and talking about ROP and let it RIP

The actual argument about the diversity casting is it makes no sense, these are not people with cars and planes to intermingle like modern day. you want a black dwarf, that's cool have her be from one of the dwarf hold in the east... where people have darker skin. i mean she is a princess a political alliance would make sense. (though i'm still of a mind that this entire show should have occurred in Rhun, multiple different ethnic groups that have not been explored, multiple dwarf clans and elfs and two blue wizards running around opposing Sauron)

Dude when you said "how could they fuck up a battle scene" My first thought was "don't test them, they will lower your expectations".

So boring. Credit to you guys for sticking with it.

Anyone else not watch the show but watch every minute of these reviews?

Well, even AJ is now able to write better scenes than friking billion dollar Amazon project contributors, I have seen everything...

Imagine being able to show the contrast to how the elves react to a army attacking where they are composed and experienced conflict before compared to humans who are terrified.

Remember Orc can be an offensive term. Refer to them as Uruk.

Galadriel is the Activision/Ubisoft/EA equivalent for this series I know I have a lot of armies. But I want ALL the armies

I understand why someone would want everyone to know they are progressive, but I don’t understand why anyone would be when you see the results and outcomes

‘The one ring, return it to the mountain you should’- Yoda

AJ's impression of the Don Lemon elf is gold! 🤣

When will show writters/producers learn not to badmouth people trying to watch the show? Yeah, there are those that get angry at everything, but saying that "haters are trolls" is a blanket statement that is going to alienate those that maybe weren't on the extreme, but just didn't enjoy the show. It's so fucking stupid and arrogant lol.

Season 3??? How many Viewers will be left till then? 🤔😅

It would be perfect if they revealed that the person holding the baby is actually an enslaved elf woman. That's what orcs do.

I'm fairly progressive. When anime got an adaptation it was always whitewashed. That was disrespectful to the original character designs in my opinion. Tantamount to character assassination. DEI does the same thing but in reverse. Character assassination and disrespect to the source material either way. Progressives back then screamed for diversity. I didn't join them. I just wanted the characters to be respected. Conservatives now scream diversity for different reasons. I still want the same thing I wanted 20 years ago. Cohesiveness. Respect. Faithful adaptations. You can't have cohesiveness if you whitewash or diversify. Many populations in stories are homogenous.

dude on amazon right under the amazon icon to go back to the home page there was a ring of power logo so people miss click on it thats why its up no other reason

"You have not seen what I have seen!" Correct, I have not seen Rings of Poo-er. And I have no intention of it.

I just love all the Diversity and Representation. I was just upset I didn't see an elf with Down Syndrome or a Dwarf in a Wheelchair. lol

Remember the days when Joe called everyone who criticized movies sexist and racist XD

I’m calling jt now btw, the hobbits will turn out to be the origins of Baggins

I'd love to see angry Joe actually watch nerdrotic or geeks and gamers or mauler or any of those channels because they have the EXACT SAME OPINION as he does. I think he listens to idiots or out of context clips and assumes the worst. He should give them an honest shot. I watch Joe, I watch nerdrotic, I watch a bunch of reviewers and believe it or not they usually have the same gripes about the show and similar viewpoints.