I almost worked on Rings season one, and I have friends who did end up working on it. And given what my friends told me about how miserable their experience were on set and in the creative teams, and how Amazon treated people in NZ like crap to their faces, and how THEY hate the show even more than I do despite them having worked on it: thank GOD I did not work on it… 😂🙏 I feel like I avoided a bullet. And it’s a shame because there genuinely is some great art and designs done for the show, my friends did awesome work. Sadly what they did barely gets featured and is eclipsed by the cringe-script
You avoided a bullet indeed 🥲😂 Well, I'm neither surprised nor delighted with this. What's interesting is that they mistreated their staff after all that posing -to all corners- as saviors of diversity and other things. How ironic hypocrites can be
@@silver6302 They also did diversity in the dumbest way possible. They could have just had regional variations, or have one of the elven tribes be darker-skinned. That wouldn't even conflict with what Tolkien wrote, since his physical descriptions of characters ranged from minimal to non-existent. Instead they just made every single group have diverse skin colors with no explanation. Not even a throwaway line like "we harfoots formed from the merging of the pale-skinned hoonfoot tribe and the dark-skinned snarfoot tribe". You're adapting the work of a man who couldn't write a novel without being sure to include family trees for the people in it, for pity's sake.
@@ShibaiC922 Why would in need to prove anything to you? If you enjoy corporate drivel junk then congratulations. Just know that many people who worked on the show actually hate it and know it’s not faithful to Tolkien’s work.
I guess I will proceed as I did with "The Acolyte" for my mental sanity: instead of suffering through the show, I will enjoy the reviews. So thank you for suffering for all of us, you do a great service.
Looking forward to your reviews! I won't be watching it (again), I mean, sure, an adaption is always, logically, an adaption, i.e. an interpretation, especially if the material is complex or simply not made for direct adaptions (if the writers had actually understood the 'source material' they would recognized the genre and the place of the Akallabêth as well as of the appendices within Tolkien's work, but well...), but the writers totally screwed up the MAKING OF THE RINGS and the actual PURPOSE and POWER of the rings - how can you make such a mistake in a series called "The Rings of Power"? I don't get it. Chroological order, Sauron's betrayal, the making itself, it does not make any sense and does not have anything to do with the 'source material'. Oh boy. Anyway, keep it up! Your reviews are way more fun than the series itself. 😅
Looking forward to your reviews, and hope we get a bit of a costume breakdown as well :) Videos like yours are about the only joy I get out of this travesty
It was weird watching the prep for the release of Jackson's vs. the prep for the release of ROP. One was excitement and a bit of apprehension (back in 2001 we didn't know if Jackson was going to mess it up and it would really be 2004 or later before it was determined that it was officially "well loved") Whereas ROP was suspicious to begin with, messed up the promotional material, then turned out to be terrible And now can't seem to dig itself out of the hole, even with some slight improvements to the visuals
Changing the order of the rings left me a bizarre feeling, as if PJ's work were the only source material. Also, this Sauron looks weird as elf (7:07) 🙃.
Wow! They turned Sauron into a cone head with bad hair! I wonder whose “brilliant idea it was…. I forgot how much fun your review videos are, can’t wait for your assessment of the new season 😊
May the stars shine upon you to light your return as you look upon the deathly realm, of ash and death and the snuffing out of hope (three hours of it)
Take care, don’t hurt your sanity watching this horror. I have to admit, the All-Bran does look like a different man in this wig. To me, at least, and I have no conclusion to this thought.
