Rings of Power Season 2 Looks AWFUL - One RATIO To Rule Them All 

You're wrong Gary, it wasn't the first episode when we knew Helbrand was Sauron, we knew he was Sauron from the very first trailer we saw. Because he was the only handsome white guy.

RIP to Bernard. An amazing actor who helped define one of the greatest trilogies in film history.

Elves in lotr: "The dwarf breathes so loud we could've shot him in the dark" *As literally the entire party is ambushed by 15 wood elves out of nowhere, combat ready and all* Elves here: ".....he's sus, I feel like I've met this guy....hmmmmm"

One wig to confuse them all, One wig to hide him. One wig to fool them all, And now they cannot find him.

This show was so bad, Critical Drinker is now sober.

In Mordor's dark and fiery lair, Sauron's up to something rare. Not plotting doom or stirring dread, But fussing with his brand new head! "Enough of helmets, harsh and grim, It's time to show my stylish whim." He rummaged through his ancient chest, To find the wig he liked the best. A flowing mane of golden curls, He twirled and danced, gave it a whirl. "Now this," he said, with evil glee, "Will surely fool old Galadriel's tree!" With locks so lush, and quite divine, He thought, "This look, it will be mine." No more the Eye, with fiery blaze, But Sauron, in his fashion phase. Orcs and goblins stared in shock, As Sauron strutted 'round the block. "Is that our lord, so fierce, so big? Or did he steal a princess' wig?" He posed and preened, a sight to see, In Middle-earth's wild, new spree. Yet in the shadows, whispers spread, "Has Sauron lost his mighty head?" But Sauron, in his wig of gold, Felt fabulous, and oh so bold. "Let them laugh, let them jeer, I'm the chicest Dark Lord here!" In Rivendell, the elves did snicker, "Has Sauron joined the trendier ticker?" But even they could not deny, That wig gave him a certain...high. So if you see a shadowed king, Wearing curls like springtime's fling, Don't be fooled, and don't be big, It's Sauron, rocking his new wig!

Rings of Power feels like a pretend game a bunch of 8 year olds play after watching Lord of the Rings.

Cate Blanchet is Galadriel and Hugo Weaving is Elrond. The End.

I genuinely don't understand why or how companies like Amazon and Disney keep releasing shit TV series' and movies and seemingly keep making them shit on purpose. Whenever there's criticism from anyone, it's because all critics, whether professional or not, are racists or some nonsense.

Aragorn: "The trailer has dropped! Amazon calls for mockery." Theoden: "... and the fandom will answer."

We owe it to the memory of JRR Tolkien, Ian Holme, Christopher Lee and Bernard Hill, to phucking DESTROY this atrocity of a series.

My favorite comment.; Gandalf; YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Balrog puts on wig. Gandalf; Oh, my apology. You may certainly pass, Madam!

Imagine time travelling back 20 years and trying to convince people that every production of Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Doctor Who, Aliens, and more would be complete trash focused on identity and the only enjoyment people got out of them was endlessly mocking their shittiness.

My favorite part was when Guyladriel called the emergency meeting and all the other elves sussed out the imposter, after she found a wig on the forge floor.

Disney going through their check list. "What other beloved franchises have we not ruined yet?"

Remember the days when a diverse cast was just a cast without queer propaganda and without lecturing? We had a black Vulcan, a female Starfleet Captain, a gay time traveller, all colours, all races all over and no one cared, because the writing was great, the acting was great and no one told us how to live our lives.

As the Joker once said "Its not about the money, its about sending the message. Everything burns."

I'm expecting Sauron to remove his wig and say to an orc: "It is I, Sauron." In his most French-sounding accent possible.

The three Elven rings were forged AFTER the 16 lesser rings, bloody amazon couldn't even get that right!

I'm okay with women not being involved in writing and directing. I am totally okay with the best person for the job getting the job.

Tolken's books were set in a mystical world reflecting the high middle ages of northern Europe. But these adaptations have betrayed that legacy by putting in non-white characters who would never have fit into Tolken's world. Are we now going to make a version of Mulan or the Monkey King with lots of non Chinese (black) actors just to be PC? Or how about a movie of the Zulus 150 years ago peppered with random white characters completely out of place in such a setting? I see a double standard.

"If you don't like what we tell you to like, then YOU'RE the problem!"

The worst part of Gladiriel was she just looks like a reasonably young, okay-looking soccer-mom doing cosplay. There is not any 'tall, elven ethereal beauty' in her. Yet there she is...

Oh man, didn’t know Bernard Hill had passed. Very sad. He was an icon in the U.K. for playing an out of work hardnut called Yosser Hughes back in the eighties. RIP.

The only good thing about season 2 will be the memes.

“Give me the meat and give it to me raw” all i need to know about this show.

This thing is cancer on the eyes.

BlackRock, Vanguard, JP Morgan, and State Street are some of the top shareholders and they invest based on ESG and DEI. That is the problem, plain and simple!!!

I can’t believe Amazon has just completely fucked up Lord of the Rings and it’s even crazier that a family member of the creator allowed it

I’m starting to think these people derive some sick twisted joy from destroying beloved IP that people enjoy.

The Rings of Power is the reason I personally boycotted Amazon Prime video content. They wasted so much money on this failure, they charged members extra money to remove ads that were never there in the first place under the constantly rising Prime membership fee so they could recoup their losses. I didn’t finish season 1 and I only plan to find out what happens from Gary’s hilarious reviews.

From “The Force is Female” to “The Fellowship is Female”😂🤣🥴

*Scans Rings of Power with a tricorder* “It’s dead, Jim”

The show looks so awful, it's likely they're actively TRYING to lose money to sink their own brand.

Worst plot, worst actors, worst lines, worst scenography. Worst writing and story. The worst movie series ever.

I genuinely wish that every single writer and decision-maker attached to Rings of Power had to scrub toilets for the rest of their lives.

My wish for Lord of the rings would be Peter Jackson making movies based on the Silmarillion or just the first age

Jesus, they're still doing this shit? 😂

A note from Tolkien: "The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected." "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14

I still love the unsolved mysteries reveal of Celeborn. Makes me chuckle every time. Also rest well, Bernard Hill.

Turning Gayladieal into a Mary Sue was too much cringe for me.

I do not say this lightly to Amazon: Take note from Warner Bros and scrap the season for a tax write off, ya dummies!

I said this on the trailer and I was say it here. When August 29 comes with the next chapter of poorly written, delusional and insulting fanfiction, all true Tolkien fans should stream the LotR trilogy. I would love to see the numbers of LotR stream vs RoP Season 2 on that date.

This season 2 of Lord of the rings is not going to care anything about caliborn galadriel's husband because this is woke. This is intersectional feminism as part of wokism

I will always have the Peter Jackson movies and the books. That's all I'll ever need.

The best part of this show is that Galadriel was searching for Sauron for 1000 years, but couldn't recognize him when he was literally hanging out with her for a few weeks- the question becomes, how many times has he shown up and she not recognize him? Has he been stalking her for a thousand years? That is a series I would watch... also that poor search party who clearly just want to go home- and have no idea who they are looking for

The hobos that lived in my neighborhood had better storytelling capabilities than the writers on these millions of dollar projects. Sad.

2:55 "...with Female Frodo and Female Sam, who run into Totally Not Gandalf..." 😂

Who knew?! Making a show set in an era you didn't buy the rights for (The Silmarillion) for the sole purpose of making up your own story and inserting your own politics, then slapping LOTR on the title and expecting the audience you disrespected to support it was an awful idea! This surprised no one; only Amazon.

Reporting from Brazil: It's ratio'd here too. I did my part!

I can't believe young Galadriel thought being with Sauron could make her MORE of a tyrant! She's already more tyrannical than anyone on Arda 🤷‍♀️

RIP BERNARD HILL😢

Can't wait for the scene where Guyladrial and the Elves chase after Sauron with the Benny Hill music playing.

R.I.P Bernard Hill Théoden son of Thengel King of Rohan Tonight we remember those who gave their blood to defend this country. Hail the victorious dead!

This feels like fanfiction of someone who just skimmed a wiki and didn't actually read any books.

A disgrace to LOTR and its fans.

T:What can men do against such reckless hate. A: Ride out with us, ride out and meet them T: For death, for glory A: For our people T: Yes, YEsss. The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep... one last time

Don't worry Amazon, i won't be watching this

RIP Bernard Hill. Not only did you save Middle Earth, you went down with your ship, the Titanic.

that must be a the ugliest casting ever done in the tv history

Rest in peace Bernard Hill…. Hail the victorious dead!!!

When Guyladriel squints her face, she looks like a badger.

Words fail me. They had a golden opportunity to write a really terrific show. They didn't even read the source material. I doubt they even like the source material. They certainly don't like us.

My favourite part was when Morfydd Clark scowled and said "It's Morfyin time."

Thanks for the Bernard Hill tribute. Class act for a classic man.

Amazon had a golden opportunity to make this into what House of Dragon was for Game of Thrones. Not only bring back your loyal fans, but gain new & younger ones too in the process. Instead, they decided to take the routes of the Witcher, Doctor Who, & Wheel of Time instead! I pray that after the failure that is season 2, this new War of the Rohirrim movie coming out in December will help redeem the legacy/lore of Lord of the Rings while simultaneously exposing to Amazon how the success of that movie could have been theirs if they had actually tried to honor & respect the lore that Tolkien was trying to show in his works.

I do not have a freaking clue how they think this can compare AT ALL to Jackson's movies.

The most ironic thing just happened. Half way through your video testing the RoP season 2 trailer apart, RU-vid decided to give them the trailer as an advertisement. RU-vid is just as out of touch as Amazon. 😂😂😂😂

The RIP to Bernard Hill at the end was pure class.

Amazon: Everyone! I give you The Rings of Power! Everyone: CAST IT INTO THE FIRE!!

Id love to know how much Hollywood, Disney, Amazon and Netflix all lost from 2016 to 2024....got to be over quarter of a trillion in total....

Remember folks... don't be hate watching! It'll only serve Amazons interest

My doctor told me that watching this show will cause cancer. He said that the cells in the body refuse to continue to exist.

This show can be summarised with "ooohh I 'member... but why the fuck is there a black elf and dwarf'

I don't care what they do in the second season. I still haven't forgiven them for making me think Guyladriel died in a pyroclastic flow and "somehow" she lived.

The trailer beautifully shows what has been wrong with the show and is going to be wrong again. They treat and think of LotR as the same as some generic fantasy action popcorn cinema blockbuster. They grasp for their formulas and they are failing gloriously.

Shitting on Rings of Power is my favourite Nerdrotic series. There is so much unbridled revulsion for this show, far more entertaining than the actual product

As a Tolkien fan/nerd its astounding to me how they could screw up the narrative, marketing and overall delivery of the Rings of Power. The casting is horrible, the tone is horrible and other then some of the character names it has little in the way of the spirit of Tolkien. Middle Earth fans like me consume anything that is Tolkien related, this is one of the first ME based offerings we've walked away from. They left a lot of money on the table for the message, what a shame.

The biggest wakness of the elves is the wig. "Not the wig! Not the wig! Anything but the wig!" Elves are long lived race , adept at magic and archery, even has uncorrupted rings but one wig rules them all.

I bailed in S01E01 after realising her nose was twitching "I hate men" in morse code. The almost audible "ahhhhh..." after wiping the floor with a snow troll with less effort than opening a letter with a scalpel didn't add to the immersion or believability 🤬

Wait, Bernard Hill passed away?? I'm so ashamed that this is the first I've heard of it. Rest in peace, Mr. Hill. You were a terrific actor. There will never be another King Theoden like you.

The Annatar character is so mid-looking. He's supposed to be so dazzlingly beautiful that he's able to easily fool the Elves, aka "The Wisest and Fairest of All Beings." This dude, though? He looks like a copy and paste version of a LOTR extra.

lol...if I was an Amazon Prime subscriber I'd cancel just because of the existence of this disrespectful show.

I just noticed that Elfs being send to Valinor for being annoying is the same as politicians in Europe being send to the European Parliament for being annoying to keep them out of domestic politics ...

-The Story of Galahadriel and Tyrone and so Gondomir spoke towards the Beast of Red Skull: "by the power invested in me by the ring of greyskull, i say, back, back you foul minion of Gru! I shall cast you out, for you cannot handle the truth!" whip cracks "fly you, fools, Use the Eagles and be smart, so do not walk for ages while the dark lord totally raids our lands and almost wins this war!" he explained on his long way down using the project-voice spell. "And so it came to pass that the Rock, who once bathed in the rejuvinating blood of a thousand caterpillars, was buried alive with the ancient aliens that roamed Tristram..."

APPARENTLY AMAZON DID NOT LEARN FROM THE " GO WOKE, GO BROKE" I WONDER HOW MANY MILLIONS ARE GOING TO LOSE THIS TIME????

Will you wear wigs? Sauron: mmm… maybe

HAHA! The Rangs of Pa'r was the ad in this. I was just listening and thought 'wow, he's playing a long ass clip." I looked over and saw the skip button. 🤦‍♂️

Wow, Amazon really took a dump on Tolkien’s work. Shameless company.

The biggest ick for me was the blatant lie the actor playing Halbrand told when he stated, "I had no idea I was Sauron until the end" like dude how tf do you not know the biggest thing about your own character!?!?

I made it 20 minutes into the 4th episode before stopping. I came back to it to see how much worse it could possibly get. I'll be kind and call it a human rights atrocity. Maybe a class action lawsuit filed in the UN. Amazon did torture millions worldwide with Season 1.

Stuff like this makes me weep bitter tears for what will be done to Henry Cavill's noble attempt at a 40k series. So many brave and exciting ideas to make Warhammer relevant to today's times, and reflect necessary, important themes. "The Emperor, played by Viola Davis!" "The Blood Angel primarch is Billy Porter!" "The obligatory evil, cowardly European dude is played Henry Cavill!" "All Astartes are female, except for the cowardly, misogynistic European dude, who gets a lesson in humility from badass females!" "The Imperium is socialist now!" "The orc conflict is now a brave allegory for predjudice!" "Now it's, 'purge the robot, the bully, the bigot!"

How Amazon could take something so epic and destroy it is amazing...

More ice trolls, needs more ice trolls

"Rims of Power" 🤣🤣🤣 I love you, Gary

Why do they keep embarrassing themselfs over and over again?

Rather juvenile that these writers clearly don’t believe a woman could have an adventure if she had a husband. Even the Acolyte relied on the cheap drama of the head of the coven having a relational disagreement. Setting aside the blasphemous (and entirely unnecessary departure from the lore)…It’s like teenagers are writing this garbage. And why change Galadriel’s core character traits and strengths??? How is her character this shallow and stupid after centuries? The writing is insulting but the money spent on it is a war crime against us regular folk.

I tried to hate watch and get a good laugh and STILL couldn’t get past episode 3. I couldn’t believe how boring it was. Plus the worst dialogue I’ve ever seen on tv didn’t help.

Let the mental gymnastics competition for shills begin!

"Went out for pipe weed..." I knew a recently married guy back in the 1970's in the UK who popped out to the shop to buy some cigarettes and disappeared for 3 years then turned up as if nothing happened. I must say all my mates thought it was hilarious. Our wives and girlfriends couldn't see how funny though . 😂