Rings of Power is a Disappointment, Here's Why | An Overdue Critique

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"The sea is always right" was Amazon's painfully transparent attempt at trying to have their own "Winter is Coming."

Rings of Power? Disappointment. Tim's video? Best shit I've ever seen. -B

One thing I remember from the Rings of Power is the lack of respect for Tolkien and his works. "This isn't your grandfather's Tolkien" and "We're updating it for a modern audience" just made me think, "If you're doing all this hard 'work' changing the story, why are you even doing an adaption in the first place? Why not make your own fantasy show?" then it hit me, "then they won't have gotten anywhere near the budget or attention they did."

I cannot wrap my head around why anyone would attempt a Second Age story without access to the extended material. How do you tell Galadrial's story without access to her literal story? It was doomed from the start.

Sanderson's face saying "an 8 out of ten??" will never not be funny to me

Cinema Therapy did a great video on how Aragorn represents healthy masculinity. He's equally capable of being strong and being warm and considerate. In the scene where Boromir dies (spoilers) he goes straight from decapitating an orc to tenderly comforting his dying friend. As a King, he's brave enough to lead the charge into battle and humble enough to bow to the hobbits. Dude sings a sonnet at his own wedding to an elf princess. He's a great example to young boys that "being a man" can mean a lot of different things, and crucially that it doesn't mean putting others down.

I wanted the reveal to be that Sauron was fractured- that the Stranger was The Power, Halbrand was The Regret, and (maybe) the sword was The Intent, and that by the end of season 1 he pulls himself together and then goes on to be Annatar with season 2 seeing the progress of the rings.

LOL “Galadriel was shipwrecked” Come on. That entire chain of ridiculously plotted chance occurrences and terrible decision making was kicked off by her jumping into the middle of the ocean, because reasons.

"Why are there no emotions in this show, I specifically requested it?" - Jeff Bezos

"Rings of Power is simultaneously structured around the Halbrand reveal, but not written to give it meaning." That is a great summary!

In the books, the letter C is always pronounced like a K instead of an S. In Rings Of Power, it's pronounced however it feels like because the C is always right.

How the Hell is Random Film Talk a woke bro?

1:35:30 Perhaps the saddest part about the Hobbit trilogy is that, in 1960, Tolkien himself tried to rewrite The Hobbit to be closer to The Lord of the Rings, and he ultimately scrapped the rewrite because it was no longer The Hobbit, so the movies were ultimately trying to do something Tolkien had tried and ultimately considered a bad idea.

My husband walked in and asked me what I was watching. I replied, “A critique on the Rings of Power, you know, that show we watched a while ago.” He paused and said, “I can’t recall that show at all.” For context, he’s someone who didn’t grow up watching LoTR but enjoyed the movies as an adult (even the Hobbit ones). But his response sums it up: the Rings of Power is pretty forgettable.

The tragedy of Halbrand being Sauron is that he is the perfect setup to be a nazgul, perhaps even the witch-king. This man who becomes king over a southern kingdom with a chip on his shoulder who desires power, which would give a perfect reason for him to accept a ring of power. Then his proximity to the main characters would make his slow descent into becoming a ringwraith as he is slowly bent to sauron's will all the more tragic. It would give us as the audience a really interesting perspective as he envies Elendil and Isildur and feels that the fledgling kingdoms of gondor are favored more by the elves than his. Etc etc Could have been really interesting. Now the nazgul are probably just going to be dudes with hoods that show up randomly in season 2

Random Film Talk doesn't belong on that little list of yours mate. And the fact that he's included just shows off your little need to push your own politics. You clearly don't watch his content or understand what he is even criticizing in your own example lol.

just a quick quibble in regards to the the Murder Hobbits section: leaving people behind is not something that real nomadic societies would do and is not realistic. Particularly in regards to injuries that can be healed. An adult human represents an incredible amount of resources that that society has invested in them. abandoning an entire family group because of a minor injury would be unthinkable to any semi-successful human society throughout history. one of the earliest signs of complex social groups is mended bones. Additionally, there is just a whole mess of issues with the realism of the societies that the showrunners have invented for this show, the hobbits worst of all

I remember when the news broke that Amazon didn’t even have the rights to adapt most of the actual works that dealt with the 2nd age. The question of 'why even?' rung so loud in my head.

This is going to be blunt and perhaps too harsh, if you want to criticize other content creators then do it, snide half remarks and vague gesturing accomplish nothing and only hurt the video. I'd say some of the arguing going on in the comments prove the point.