already 5/8 episodes aired andp basically nothing even happened so far, meanwhile HotD fleshed out its characters and story and generally is going strong despite some flaws
It only gets worse. Way worse. It's probably the only show I've seen that 1>>>2>>>>>>>>>3>4>5 and counting. It doesn't even sound like the same people wrote/directed from episode 2 onwards.
it isn't though. It isn't even close to the source material at all.
they lost me when they introduced the black queen of Atlantis.
from the source material: >elves are white >Númenorians turn against elves because they're jealous of elves being immortal >Galadriel isn't anything like the character in the show and didn't do any of those things
The way they ruined Galadriel is also unforgivable. In the source material she is awesome.
I think they made this show to destroy the memory of the original.
>It also effectively filters spics, capeshitters and Amerigoblins.
Yeah, having tons of Blacks in a show really filters out the dregs and only allows the best people to enjoy it, you moronic piece of shit idiot.
The first four episodes were going too slow for no real reason, but I liked the fifth episode. Currently my biggest gripe is with the cast for Galadriel. She can't act for shit, and she just doesn't have the elegance and confidence expected from an elf. Even the black elf and the bald faced dwarven women are OK, but this is just bad.
>she just doesn't have the elegance
I agree with everything else except this here, and even then only slightly. They're going for a PTSD thing with her character so she isn't acting as suave as all the others but more shrill/high strung. People are grumbling about rats but I feel like she should be that unnerving. The problem is, whatever she saw won't justify how she's acting.
I wont even bother to pirate it. Like if it was a decent story, decent adaptation but just with Black folk in it id pirate it maybe like I do with witcher but by all accounts its not even good.
Kek it's so bad that I can't even hatewatch at this point. 1hr 10min per episode. No fricking thanks. Even if you ignore books, lore whatsoever, it's not bearable at all. The show feels as if it's written by AI, maybe it is.. But then where did $1B go? IRS must trace that money.
This, I watched the first then half of the two and stopped, and actually just bought a new edition of the first book with nice Alan Lee drawings in it that I am happily reading.
>But then where did $1B go?
This is the most blatant money laundering scheme throught media I've ever witnessed. Amazon will keep pumping this sludge out irrespective of how cancerous it is. Season after season because it's fricking MONEY LAUNDERING.
dont forget the 250 million to acquire the rights. also the marketing which is everywhere so probably another 100 to 200 million there for a worldwide budget. oh and the toys and other merchandise which will sit on a shelf and not sell.
>different armor
Same armour as the other Numenoreans on the boat. Follow the convo chain, it's only like 5 replies back until you get to the image, brainlet
It's getting hard to sit through, they've really fricked it up. It has a few good moments here and there but they are sparse and it feels like the production value of stargate.
managed till half of ep 3, but frankly there was no reason to go on. it wasn't even cringe fun, and no one I know likes it, not even my fricking parents who watch any shit on tv. one billion dollars my ass
Where did Galadriel get a suit of elf armor? She arrived with nothing but the clothes she was wearing when she was rescued from the sea, and she's in a city that's whole schtick is being xenophobic.
Probably robbed a museum or antique shop. The armor has the star of Fëanor on the breastplate, so it would have to be like a thousand years old at this point.
Sauron made it for her. When the time is right, it's designed to release cheese bits all over the battlefield, taking Galadriel out of the fight as she scurry and scampers to feedies on the cheesies.
>You probably get hard at boob shaped clouds, incel.
Yes.
in Rick and Morty there is a scene where Morty describes being so lonely he jerk offd to a curvy piece of driftwood. if you can't relate to that, I don't know if you are really a man.
this was the scene she had to get therapy for isnt it?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>get therapy for isnt it?
I think you are referring to the mental training she did prior to shooting the battle scenes
2 years ago
Anonymous
>mental training to stand in front of a green screen
do women really
2 years ago
Anonymous
>stand in front of a green screen
The battle in the southlands is on location against real men dressed as orcs
2 years ago
Anonymous
>akshually
2 years ago
Anonymous
yes read the story, they put her through prep to make sure she didn't flinch during the action scenes due to orcs swinging swords/axes/etc at her
Pretty standard thing to put actors through
2 years ago
Anonymous
>they put her through prep
then why call it a fricking therapy?
who is lying here?
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's called exposure therapy, they would have men with weapons run at her looking scary to get her used to it before they shot those kind of scenes.
Do that loads of times and this would reduce any flinching and other involuntary reactions.
Its just training through experience really.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>clickbait articles never have misleading headlines
are you legitimately moronic?
2 years ago
Anonymous
nah, just literally not giving a flying frick
even this thread bores me now
Imagine if she were playing a likeable feminine woman instead of an insufferable feminist c**t mary sue dressed up like a man. She could have been an actual proper Galadriel.
Fricking gay stupid reddit Black person cattle homosexual show. Basically the goyslop of television. Dogshit in every way and is just a female/Black person/israeli power fantasy that subverts LOTR because these cum guzzling wiener gobline aren't capable of creating anything new. All fricking trannies must fricking hang.
Pour $1b onto a bunch of expensive CGI. Hire unexperienced actors for cheaper. Hire the cheapest showrunners you find. There. $998,000,000 spend successfully. You still have 2m to buy the audience and reviewers.
The entire story they cooked up is just lame. Literally everything is made up and it shows. What a dumb idea to try covering a period of time where you don't even have the rights to the majority of writing.
You could still make a good show, even being constrained to just the appendices. Tolkien left a roadmap for the story - just fill in the blanks. But they detoured off the map so hard it's not the same story or universe anymore. It's like writing a western movie, but the characters are all named from Star Wars.
I don't even care about the blackwashing. Fine. Have black actors and actresses. But make them GOOD characters, and hire good actresses and actors.
No, I gave them 2 hours to grab my attention. They failed to do so.
The first 5 minutes of starwars rebels was more entertaining than 2 whole hours of a show that cost $1B to produce. RoP smells funny, what is amazon doing?
At least Amazon had the good manners to let us all know it would be shit well in advance so we didn't get our hopes up. When this is your Tolkien expert and you start the series by shouting racist at the fanbase it's not a subtle signal.
My cousin is a humongous Tolkien fangirl, she's read the hobbit, the lord of the rings, the silmarillion and probably everything else the dude has made hundreds of times since she was little and she's been LARP'ing as different elf roles from she was ten until she had her first child and no longer had the time. She saw Jackson's films in theatres three times each because she wanted to go once alone, once with her boyfriend and once with the family to enjoy the experience on levels I'll never be able to comprehend. I'm not kidding when I reiterate that these stories has been a major part of her life to the point where she wanted to be a fantasy writer and got a book published (it didn't sell well at all so she fell back on being a "history consultant" or whatever it is called in English).
But now this show has broken something inside of her. You couldn't mention Tolkien without her eyes lighting up in the past but her disappointment is so palpable I haven't tried to get her honest opinion on it after asking once and her saying she doesn't feel like talking about it. I'm kind of afraid it had given her a depression of some sort to see something she loved unconditionally figuratively raped and beheaded like that. I know I felt the same about what happened to Star Wars after Disney bought it but this is on a completely different level. It's so sad.
>until she had her first child and no longer had the time
If the reason a woman old enough to have a child stopped dressing up as an elf was because she "had a child and no longer had the time" and not because she grew out of it, deeming herself now too old for childish behavior, it's no wonder her mind is now broken.
I think you have it backwards. It’s a good thing she’s putting her kids above her interest and the way RoP turned out probably disappointed her because she can’t share this with her kids. I saw the original trilogy multiple times in the theatre and I will show my kids that but not the Hobbit or this series.
It really did take up a lot of her time. Work AND a kid, and then she had three more in close succession which really meant she couldn't just get back to it. She gave up a part of her life to be a mother, and I'm not going to give her shit about that. They're wonderful kids.
I unironically think her casting is great as Galadriel
I dont see the problem wit the casting here, especially since there is so much worse in the show
>Cinemaphile NEETs have endless free time and can barely be arsed to watch. >Hate-watching nerds looking for mentions of Silmarillion lore or ammo for their YouTube critiques can barely be arsed to watch. >Contrarian quasi-nerds who want to impress nerdettes and spite "the incels" can barely be arsed to watch.
I'd wager the normies aren't bothering either. I mean, they have goldfish brains and I guarantee they aren't sticking around for shit like Galadriel farting around Numenor. I mean, Jackson LOTR at least had good music and action scenes and GoT had lots of T+A to entertain them.
I don't know anyone who's talking about it, at all. They're all talking about HOTD. Same for Marvel and Star Wars, nobody is watching. It's like World Of Warcraft - I know the company is still there, the game is still being played, but I don't know anyone who is - or admits to it.
I won't even hate watch it, I know from reviews they fricked with lore so hard, there's no point. I'm a big enough Tolkien gay that I see no point in intentionally getting upset.
>Directing class yesterday >Talking about shooting with 3 actors and the perils of jumping axis >Even big budget films make the mistake sometimes >Watching RofP >Scene where the 3 are standing around the map >Shots jump axis like 3 or 4 cuts back and forth
Holy frick who directed this shit?
but this is the basics. Directing gets exponentially more difficult the more people you add. This is why like the majority of scenes in movies are just 2 people talking.
from the source material: >elves are white >Númenorians turn against elves because they're jealous of elves being immortal >Galadriel isn't anything like the character in the show and didn't do any of those things
Don't even get me started. They have Ar-Pharazon and Isildur larping around before the crafting of the rings of power, when they were born 1500+ after they were made. Frick if I know what they're intending, the best I can figure is they're condensing 3000+ years of story into one generation, which is basement level clown shoes shit writing.
Celebrimbor couldn't have met half the cast - he died in a war on Sauron that happened after the rings were made, when he destroyed Eregion.
Too boring to hate watch, at least in the first two episodes. Wheel of Time was infinitely more hateworthy and awful. Rings of Power is just LotR flavored sleeping pills or for people who "just want something to put on in the background" because silence is terrifying to them.
Jackson didn't invent balrogs, moron. Tolkien did, and he borrowed heavily from Celtic mythology, but you'll just cry harder if you're told of more examples.
Nobody ripped off anything, troony cum bucket. But I knew you'd keep crying, because you can't help being a sniveling little b***h who thought he'd won a Cinemaphile gold star.
fricking hell, this show is terrible. Truly awful. Sure, it might be very slightly better than the new GoT spinoff, but that doesn't make it not shit. They're both shit. The original LotR trilogy was a masterpiece and the first four seasons of GoT were amazing. And now we get this tripe.
It's fricking over. There's no coming back from this. These shows are going to doom any chance of quality fantasy adaptations for the next 20+ years. Fricking wank.
>They're both shit.
Yes. >Sure, it might be very slightly better than the new GoT spinoff, but that doesn't make it not shit.
HotD is better, has better writing and much better actors but it gives off the vibes of the Season 8 of the GoT.
>better writing
HotD has terrible writing. Truly woeful. They have sucked all the excitement and tension out of the universe with their terrible writing. They have made a world of import and weight seem irrelevant and flimsy. Compare to the first half of GoT. Characters and storylines set up well, interwoven with a mix of themes, actual variety in the kind of drama presented, genuinely interesting and captivating people/cities/stories. GODS I'M ANGRY
>It's fricking over. There's no coming back from this. These shows are going to doom any chance of quality fantasy adaptations for the next 20+ years. Fricking wank.
yeah GoT-related shows are dead now that HotD is only getting like 16 million viewers an episode lol.
It doesn't ruin the memory of anything you fricking nerd. The original LOTR movies still exist and you can still watch them and totally ignore Rings of Power and the Hobbit Trilogy.
this is about the source material, not the LotR movies. And yes it does ruin the memory of them because from now on most people on earth will believe that this show is an accurate representation of the story.
>original LOTR movies
I'm a fan of the original books. The LoTR trilogy by PJ is pretty close to the source material with some liberties taken, so technically they ALL ruin the memory to some degree.
You're a passive pussy who isn't worthy of my attention beyond this post.
The movies don't ruin the books, because Jackson was mostly respectful of the source material and story. Well, until he made the Hobbit movies, anyway. But at least he didn't have Bilbo walking around with characters that weren't born yet, and wouldn't be for thousands of years.
These talentless fricks just took names and locations and are making up their own lame story. It's disrespectful and obnoxious. It's pure hubris from c level film school hacks who think they know better than Tolkien, and disregarded his life's work and passion for lame, tired, played out social warrior memes.
But what do you expect when a movie production company writes for the HR department, and not the customers?
I have never read the books because reading is for queers. Your a fatherless mongrel and your parents should have put you in sports so you wouldn't care so much about gay fairytales as a grown man.
Emma Darcy says Daemon is a groomer https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/emma-darcy-house-of-the-dragon-interview-b2173714.html
Notice the HotD general has plenty of queen posting, but also a lot of actual discussion about what's going on with the show and what people actually like about the show.
This is false. Aside from some moronic casting choices, the show is great.
2 years ago
Anonymous
This some season 8 of the GoT cope. HotD has so much terrible fanfiction:
1. Viserys cutting open and killing his queen.
2. Knights murdering each other like morons on a tourney.
3. Feminist princess taming the bad boy on a dragon.
It also has so much feminist cringe and Alicent is literally women for Trump.
Does the show have one noble and kind man?
2 years ago
Anonymous
the current hand of the King, Strong or whatever his name is, and his son who didn't snitch on the princess and saved her from the wedding brawl
2 years ago
Anonymous
> wedding brawl
More fanfiction then. Remember how it worked out for the GoT in the end.
She is such an insufferable c**t. If she had only been instructed to keep her trap shut and not speak about minorities the illusion that she isn't a brain dead c**t could exist.
>Rey was a Mary Sue, but Daisy Ridley at least had some charisma and didn't come off like a b***h.
Right. Captain Marvel and Brie Larson is the perfect blend of the unlikeable character and an insufferable b***h actress.
I feel this show will follow this pattern: >First episode has epic CGI battle to hook you up. >The rest is just boring shit that goes nowhere. >Final episode is has epic CGI battle to hook you up again. >Rinse and repeat for 5 seasons.
I don't know who's this show for? It's not for men clearly.
And women prefer the soap opera drama of House of Dragons over unrealistic female power fantasies.
<<<<< YOU
<<<<< YOUR THREAD
>thread has 3x number of posters than the rope generals
You sure showed him.
and 80% of those 50 posters are shitting all over the show in ROPe
lel
her face is really unappealing. i dunno if she's good in the show though
It was mostly shills and they've left now.
Rings of Reddit failed.
After the latest episode I'm going to double down on hatewatching.
>mfw going into RoP threads and shitposting
i got Amazon prime just so i can hatewatch this fricking trash
Why would you pay money to bore yourself.
its just too boring
already 5/8 episodes aired andp basically nothing even happened so far, meanwhile HotD fleshed out its characters and story and generally is going strong despite some flaws
Pretty much, HotD is just way fricking better.
basically this. RoP(e) is amateurish compared to HotD
>Consuming goyslop in the current year
Surely no one on Cinemaphile actually does this, that would be embarrassing.
>look at me, I'm so cool on the internet
wow, please come over to my house and frick my sister
how old is she?
You post here way too much.
Not hate watching after episode 5’s moronic mithril shit
These writers deserve to live a life of homelessness
how bad is episode 5?
episode 3 was the last one i saw
Oh it's SOOOOO fricking bad. It legit makes you want to drown Galadriel in a shallow pond.
Episode 5 is the best yet
Galadriel's scenes with Halbrand are the standouts again. They have given the best performances in the show so far
It only gets worse. Way worse. It's probably the only show I've seen that 1>>>2>>>>>>>>>3>4>5 and counting. It doesn't even sound like the same people wrote/directed from episode 2 onwards.
they make a joke about poop
So..... have they actually come across any of the Rings yet? Has a Ring even been crafted?
It's so shit.
A VERY HAPPY MATCH
AW LAWD
SHE COMIN
Disa is the best part of the show THOUGH
of all the shit you fricking homosexuals b***h about this mid show, she is definitely not a bad casting for A FRICKING DWARF WOMAN
Durin is the one of the 2 that looks like a fricking bum, instead of a dwarven prince
HAS ACTUALLY ANYONE SEEN AT LEAST ONE PIRATED EPISODE?
nop
lol no
never watching this trash, but i WILL enjoy watching trannies defend it while it crashes and burns
come on troonys, entertain me while also keeping me rich by supporting garbage. lol I love it
It's no longer "The Current Thing™", the normies are done with it.
I know I stopped. Can't stomach it any longer.
Yep, it's great. It also effectively filters spics, capeshitters and Amerigoblins.
Really couldn't ask for anything better from fantasy
based, the show is excellent and a near perfect adaption of the Appendices at the back of lotr
Kek
Love it when shows adapt appendices and footnotes
it isn't though. It isn't even close to the source material at all.
I think they made this show to destroy the memory of the original.
>It also effectively filters spics, capeshitters and Amerigoblins.
Yeah, having tons of Blacks in a show really filters out the dregs and only allows the best people to enjoy it, you moronic piece of shit idiot.
Based amazoncomrade. If we use slurs to praise our show may be these stupid stinky nszi chuds will be tricked into watching our show. We're so clever
Ohhh lawwd dem chicken wangs
The first four episodes were going too slow for no real reason, but I liked the fifth episode. Currently my biggest gripe is with the cast for Galadriel. She can't act for shit, and she just doesn't have the elegance and confidence expected from an elf. Even the black elf and the bald faced dwarven women are OK, but this is just bad.
>she just doesn't have the elegance
I agree with everything else except this here, and even then only slightly. They're going for a PTSD thing with her character so she isn't acting as suave as all the others but more shrill/high strung. People are grumbling about rats but I feel like she should be that unnerving. The problem is, whatever she saw won't justify how she's acting.
I wont even bother to pirate it. Like if it was a decent story, decent adaptation but just with Black folk in it id pirate it maybe like I do with witcher but by all accounts its not even good.
Kek it's so bad that I can't even hatewatch at this point. 1hr 10min per episode. No fricking thanks. Even if you ignore books, lore whatsoever, it's not bearable at all. The show feels as if it's written by AI, maybe it is.. But then where did $1B go? IRS must trace that money.
This, I watched the first then half of the two and stopped, and actually just bought a new edition of the first book with nice Alan Lee drawings in it that I am happily reading.
Alan Lee is one of the GOAT
>But then where did $1B go?
This is the most blatant money laundering scheme throught media I've ever witnessed. Amazon will keep pumping this sludge out irrespective of how cancerous it is. Season after season because it's fricking MONEY LAUNDERING.
1 billion was made up by clickbait site and you homosexuals keep parroting that like mentally ill lemons
>google "rings of power budget"
>every single result confirms that it cost a billion, probably even more
Deboonking bros...
Cost per season will be around $200m
So 200*5 seasons = $1b
dont forget the 250 million to acquire the rights. also the marketing which is everywhere so probably another 100 to 200 million there for a worldwide budget. oh and the toys and other merchandise which will sit on a shelf and not sell.
250 m is for the right alone, the rest is the cost of the first season.
Deboonking bros, DID WE GET TOO wienerY!?!?!?
>parroting like lemons
Do you write for this shitty show?
The AI was expensive to develop.
Its literally garbage.
What race is that?
can we talk about the armor
The sense of design in Numenor and the armors is a mess, it's all over the place
Is that wire coming off his foamcraft armor?
If you're talking about the should armour, I think it's two strings of fabric holding it on.
I didn’t see that at first, just the stuff around his head. I see it now, maybe they forgot to clip it. Embarrassing.
why does his scale armor wrinkle underneath the armpit
any comments about the helmets
>why does his scale armor wrinkle underneath the armpit
Because that part isn't armour
gambeson is also armor
>Because that part isn't armour
it's not gambeson either, shill, it's a printed t-shirt
>Printed t-shirt
It's literally embroidered
moron
>posts another actor in different armor
moron
>different armor
Same armour as the other Numenoreans on the boat. Follow the convo chain, it's only like 5 replies back until you get to the image, brainlet
I didn't watch more than 30 minutes of episode 1. Only show i could hate watch was Dexter.
so boring and so bad. i cant even finish watching it. even wot was more enjoyable and it fricking says something lmao
It's getting hard to sit through, they've really fricked it up. It has a few good moments here and there but they are sparse and it feels like the production value of stargate.
I like it
Not watching.
Never will.
Amazon should stick to torturing minimum income morons in cages instead of making visual diarrhea shit slop for streaming.
>Amazon should stick to torturing minimum income morons in cages
That's what they're best at.
managed till half of ep 3, but frankly there was no reason to go on. it wasn't even cringe fun, and no one I know likes it, not even my fricking parents who watch any shit on tv. one billion dollars my ass
It just wasn't made for me.
This show is crazy popular in Europe, audiences love it too.
No wonder Cinemaphile doesn't like it, kek
Stop lying swine, none of my friends and no one at work still watches this drittshow.
T. Norwegian
If apathywatching was a thing then this show might have more than 5 viewers.
ROP sisters..
Such bullshit. Amazon could tank a billion and manage to survive.
its happening
pink wojaks coming to Cinemaphile
Do I really have power to cause starvation of millions of people? Neat!
>i'm killing globohomosexual not watching ~~*ROP*~~
goooooooooooooooooood
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you reason #1 why Capitalism is superior to Communism.
They are this desperate to get people to watch lol
It's too boring to make fun of.
It's fricking horrible.
i have boner for she
So hot
Where did Galadriel get a suit of elf armor? She arrived with nothing but the clothes she was wearing when she was rescued from the sea, and she's in a city that's whole schtick is being xenophobic.
Too many questions, you are supposed to turn your brain off while watching.
Probably robbed a museum or antique shop. The armor has the star of Fëanor on the breastplate, so it would have to be like a thousand years old at this point.
>Where did Galadriel get a suit of elf armor
Miriel, her senile father was surrounded by all sort of weapons, helms and artifacts
Sauron made it for her. When the time is right, it's designed to release cheese bits all over the battlefield, taking Galadriel out of the fight as she scurry and scampers to feedies on the cheesies.
too short
Based and truth-pilled.
Manly Tears finally got a girlfriend?
it's easy to get them confused with one another, but that's actually tinytrip.
Kek at her autistic facial expression.
How can anybody take this seriously?
Unfortunately that's just her face
I live for these girl power boss moments.
she actually looks like constantly seething about the patriarchy
You probably get hard at boob shaped clouds, incel.
Elizebeth Debicki was the perfect person to cast as Galadriel.
>You probably get hard at boob shaped clouds, incel.
Yes.
in Rick and Morty there is a scene where Morty describes being so lonely he jerk offd to a curvy piece of driftwood. if you can't relate to that, I don't know if you are really a man.
Sort of glad my fav giantess didn't become a global embarrassment.
like literally 90 % of all the scenes in this show are in slow motion lmfao
Mogged by cate Blanchett
Hahahaha cate fricking Blanchett
She really is like an anime waifu in this show
No she's not she fricking sucks.
Thank you for your contribution
go to your general and hide there, homosexual
this was the scene she had to get therapy for isnt it?
>get therapy for isnt it?
I think you are referring to the mental training she did prior to shooting the battle scenes
>mental training to stand in front of a green screen
do women really
>stand in front of a green screen
The battle in the southlands is on location against real men dressed as orcs
>akshually
yes read the story, they put her through prep to make sure she didn't flinch during the action scenes due to orcs swinging swords/axes/etc at her
Pretty standard thing to put actors through
>they put her through prep
then why call it a fricking therapy?
who is lying here?
It's called exposure therapy, they would have men with weapons run at her looking scary to get her used to it before they shot those kind of scenes.
Do that loads of times and this would reduce any flinching and other involuntary reactions.
Its just training through experience really.
>clickbait articles never have misleading headlines
are you legitimately moronic?
nah, just literally not giving a flying frick
even this thread bores me now
now do one where's she's looking at walking cheese :DD
My new boss at work looks exactly like Morf and has been giving me strange looks during meetings. The frick do I do... Its maddening
Distract her with a piece of cheese.
She wants your half elf babies.
>Anon, you look sexy!
Imagine if she were playing a likeable feminine woman instead of an insufferable feminist c**t mary sue dressed up like a man. She could have been an actual proper Galadriel.
Get a cat for protection
Did she touch your dagger too?
Kill her brother, women love that.
Actual adults created this billion dollar turkey. Amazing.
>Please watch "obnoxious c**t: the show"
Uh?
No thanks.
First two episodes were also boring as frick, who the hell greenlit this for frick sake.
Same thing on Twitter. Now She Hulk makes more buzz even if it's mostly bad buzz.
Fricking gay stupid reddit Black person cattle homosexual show. Basically the goyslop of television. Dogshit in every way and is just a female/Black person/israeli power fantasy that subverts LOTR because these cum guzzling wiener gobline aren't capable of creating anything new. All fricking trannies must fricking hang.
Saw the first two episodes and cancelled my subscription.
it's just so fricking boring and empty. there's nothing to make shitposts about.
How does it manage to go worse and worse every episode? What's the secret sauce?
Pour $1b onto a bunch of expensive CGI. Hire unexperienced actors for cheaper. Hire the cheapest showrunners you find. There. $998,000,000 spend successfully. You still have 2m to buy the audience and reviewers.
The entire story they cooked up is just lame. Literally everything is made up and it shows. What a dumb idea to try covering a period of time where you don't even have the rights to the majority of writing.
Dumb esl poster
And also your fricking waifu is ugly and can't act for shit.
You could still make a good show, even being constrained to just the appendices. Tolkien left a roadmap for the story - just fill in the blanks. But they detoured off the map so hard it's not the same story or universe anymore. It's like writing a western movie, but the characters are all named from Star Wars.
I don't even care about the blackwashing. Fine. Have black actors and actresses. But make them GOOD characters, and hire good actresses and actors.
>30 dudes from Numenor fight 60 orcs over a tower with 50 peasants
So epic. Truly worth a billion $.
It's suppose to be 500, but they're down a ship. Either way, it's gonna suck ass.
>6 episodes just to lead up to season 2 bait
Cringe
No, I gave them 2 hours to grab my attention. They failed to do so.
The first 5 minutes of starwars rebels was more entertaining than 2 whole hours of a show that cost $1B to produce. RoP smells funny, what is amazon doing?
I watched the first 2 eps and they were mediocre to bad.
I downloaded the remaning eps but just cannoyt bring myself to watch them. I have no desire to.
At first we were hilariously disappointed
now we are just bored by it
Rings of Power meme is dead
At least Amazon had the good manners to let us all know it would be shit well in advance so we didn't get our hopes up. When this is your Tolkien expert and you start the series by shouting racist at the fanbase it's not a subtle signal.
My cousin is a humongous Tolkien fangirl, she's read the hobbit, the lord of the rings, the silmarillion and probably everything else the dude has made hundreds of times since she was little and she's been LARP'ing as different elf roles from she was ten until she had her first child and no longer had the time. She saw Jackson's films in theatres three times each because she wanted to go once alone, once with her boyfriend and once with the family to enjoy the experience on levels I'll never be able to comprehend. I'm not kidding when I reiterate that these stories has been a major part of her life to the point where she wanted to be a fantasy writer and got a book published (it didn't sell well at all so she fell back on being a "history consultant" or whatever it is called in English).
But now this show has broken something inside of her. You couldn't mention Tolkien without her eyes lighting up in the past but her disappointment is so palpable I haven't tried to get her honest opinion on it after asking once and her saying she doesn't feel like talking about it. I'm kind of afraid it had given her a depression of some sort to see something she loved unconditionally figuratively raped and beheaded like that. I know I felt the same about what happened to Star Wars after Disney bought it but this is on a completely different level. It's so sad.
Frick man, hope she feels better. Maybe the war of the Rohirrim movie would lift her spirits
>until she had her first child and no longer had the time
If the reason a woman old enough to have a child stopped dressing up as an elf was because she "had a child and no longer had the time" and not because she grew out of it, deeming herself now too old for childish behavior, it's no wonder her mind is now broken.
>no fun allowed
sad
I think you have it backwards. It’s a good thing she’s putting her kids above her interest and the way RoP turned out probably disappointed her because she can’t share this with her kids. I saw the original trilogy multiple times in the theatre and I will show my kids that but not the Hobbit or this series.
It really did take up a lot of her time. Work AND a kid, and then she had three more in close succession which really meant she couldn't just get back to it. She gave up a part of her life to be a mother, and I'm not going to give her shit about that. They're wonderful kids.
I unironically think her casting is great as Galadriel
I dont see the problem wit the casting here, especially since there is so much worse in the show
i dont watch the show but thats unironically hot
Couldn't even bother watching it for the first two, awful episodes, and I have zero plans of every picking it up again.
>LotR ended with RoTK
>Cinemaphile NEETs have endless free time and can barely be arsed to watch.
>Hate-watching nerds looking for mentions of Silmarillion lore or ammo for their YouTube critiques can barely be arsed to watch.
>Contrarian quasi-nerds who want to impress nerdettes and spite "the incels" can barely be arsed to watch.
I'd wager the normies aren't bothering either. I mean, they have goldfish brains and I guarantee they aren't sticking around for shit like Galadriel farting around Numenor. I mean, Jackson LOTR at least had good music and action scenes and GoT had lots of T+A to entertain them.
Dumb esl poster
even that moronic stoner shitiflic got elves right
I don't know anyone who's talking about it, at all. They're all talking about HOTD. Same for Marvel and Star Wars, nobody is watching. It's like World Of Warcraft - I know the company is still there, the game is still being played, but I don't know anyone who is - or admits to it.
I won't even hate watch it, I know from reviews they fricked with lore so hard, there's no point. I'm a big enough Tolkien gay that I see no point in intentionally getting upset.
>Galadriel farting around Numenor
is this real
Bottom tier writing, unlikeable characters, lacklustre cast.
Rings of Power would probably increase in quality if Bollywood took over the production
I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to call this the blunder of the century
Goyslop in tv form
Why did they pick an alien to play Elrond?
>an alien
you actually might be on to him
something is just seriously off about that fricker
>Directing class yesterday
>Talking about shooting with 3 actors and the perils of jumping axis
>Even big budget films make the mistake sometimes
>Watching RofP
>Scene where the 3 are standing around the map
>Shots jump axis like 3 or 4 cuts back and forth
Holy frick who directed this shit?
Wayne Yip, who directed 3 or 4 episodes also was a director on the Wheel of Time
How the frick did this dude get the job? He's terrible, it looks like some high schooler work.
Of fricking course.
>jumping axis
Qrd?
Not
but this is the basics. Directing gets exponentially more difficult the more people you add. This is why like the majority of scenes in movies are just 2 people talking.
the 1940s called
they can do a fast-paced conversation filled with double entendres between nine characters, no problemo
It's boring as frick.
On Sundays I say great another HotD episode today
On Fridays I say frick I have to waste 1 hour in this shit
So don’t watch?
One good shot out of the $1 billion show.
Looks like shit, like a cinematic from a video game. You know the dudes making this are fricking frauds.
They couldnt even show Melkor and Ungoliant killing the trees, lmao.
Aye. Too cheap or they'd probably use an excuse of not having rights.
they lost me when they introduced the black queen of Atlantis.
How about Blacklas, Xena the warrior princess and a literal Trump as the High King of Numenor
from the source material:
>elves are white
>Númenorians turn against elves because they're jealous of elves being immortal
>Galadriel isn't anything like the character in the show and didn't do any of those things
Agreed.
This is one of the many things that pissed me off. This fricking c**t is unnecessary and not part of what happens to Numenor during this time period.
The way they ruined Galadriel is also unforgivable. In the source material she is awesome.
>ruined Galadriel
Her jumping ship was this shows jumping the shark.
Don't even get me started. They have Ar-Pharazon and Isildur larping around before the crafting of the rings of power, when they were born 1500+ after they were made. Frick if I know what they're intending, the best I can figure is they're condensing 3000+ years of story into one generation, which is basement level clown shoes shit writing.
Celebrimbor couldn't have met half the cast - he died in a war on Sauron that happened after the rings were made, when he destroyed Eregion.
Too boring to hate watch, at least in the first two episodes. Wheel of Time was infinitely more hateworthy and awful. Rings of Power is just LotR flavored sleeping pills or for people who "just want something to put on in the background" because silence is terrifying to them.
Maybe because the show is pretty mediocre, there is not much to hate and not much to like either.
Balrogs are ripped off from irish balors. Jackson is a hack.
Jackson didn't invent balrogs, moron. Tolkien did, and he borrowed heavily from Celtic mythology, but you'll just cry harder if you're told of more examples.
It looks nothing like the description in the book compared to the movie.He ripped off the look.
Nobody ripped off anything, troony cum bucket. But I knew you'd keep crying, because you can't help being a sniveling little b***h who thought he'd won a Cinemaphile gold star.
moron.
Also, Balor was a singular entity, not a race, you sputtering homosexual. He was the king of the Fomorians.
>if we elves don't get mithril we will die
fricking hell, this show is terrible. Truly awful. Sure, it might be very slightly better than the new GoT spinoff, but that doesn't make it not shit. They're both shit. The original LotR trilogy was a masterpiece and the first four seasons of GoT were amazing. And now we get this tripe.
It's fricking over. There's no coming back from this. These shows are going to doom any chance of quality fantasy adaptations for the next 20+ years. Fricking wank.
>They're both shit.
Yes.
>Sure, it might be very slightly better than the new GoT spinoff, but that doesn't make it not shit.
HotD is better, has better writing and much better actors but it gives off the vibes of the Season 8 of the GoT.
>better writing
HotD has terrible writing. Truly woeful. They have sucked all the excitement and tension out of the universe with their terrible writing. They have made a world of import and weight seem irrelevant and flimsy. Compare to the first half of GoT. Characters and storylines set up well, interwoven with a mix of themes, actual variety in the kind of drama presented, genuinely interesting and captivating people/cities/stories. GODS I'M ANGRY
holy shit anon, i'm going to get Prime right now after reading this post!
rings of power is also shit though, so you'd just be wasting your time, wouldn't you? Eh? You little b***h
It's bad with Sapochnik and another hack are already writing fanfiction while butchering the lore and characters but the Rope is much worse.
Try 30+. The young SJWs screenwriters, writers and casting agencies will still be calling the shots decades from now when they're old
>It's fricking over. There's no coming back from this. These shows are going to doom any chance of quality fantasy adaptations for the next 20+ years. Fricking wank.
yeah GoT-related shows are dead now that HotD is only getting like 16 million viewers an episode lol.
>it might be very slightly better than the new GoT spinoff
lmao no
It's a pretty bad show, but I find myself being interested in it more than HOTD, albeit that's a low bar.
just took a MASSIVE piss, feels so good
Thanks for the update.
tfw we will never get Turin kino
Thank god. It would be made into dog shit
I'm still watching it. And its ok. Not good but no worse than the rest of the mindless goyslop were fed. Not really worth discussing.
>a billion dollar shitfest that ruins the memory of one of the most beloved stories ever crafted isnt worth talking about
Frick off.
I mean the content of the show isnt worth discussion. Criticising Amazon is fair game.
It doesn't ruin the memory of anything you fricking nerd. The original LOTR movies still exist and you can still watch them and totally ignore Rings of Power and the Hobbit Trilogy.
this is about the source material, not the LotR movies. And yes it does ruin the memory of them because from now on most people on earth will believe that this show is an accurate representation of the story.
most people on earth won't remember it existed a year from now
Most people on earth think fantasy in general is for gays anyway
>original LOTR movies
I'm a fan of the original books. The LoTR trilogy by PJ is pretty close to the source material with some liberties taken, so technically they ALL ruin the memory to some degree.
You're a passive pussy who isn't worthy of my attention beyond this post.
The movies don't ruin the books, because Jackson was mostly respectful of the source material and story. Well, until he made the Hobbit movies, anyway. But at least he didn't have Bilbo walking around with characters that weren't born yet, and wouldn't be for thousands of years.
These talentless fricks just took names and locations and are making up their own lame story. It's disrespectful and obnoxious. It's pure hubris from c level film school hacks who think they know better than Tolkien, and disregarded his life's work and passion for lame, tired, played out social warrior memes.
But what do you expect when a movie production company writes for the HR department, and not the customers?
I have never read the books because reading is for queers. Your a fatherless mongrel and your parents should have put you in sports so you wouldn't care so much about gay fairytales as a grown man.
You're trying too hard, homosexual.
Doesn't change the fact that im right. Reading fiction is for queers and women.
the kino return to monkey advocator has arrived.
I'm actually enjoying it. I was ready to be seething at Blacklas but it's a pleasant watch.
I also think gladriel is attractive but I am British so it's only natural I have superior taste to you American dogs.
>I also think gladriel is attractive but I am British so it's only natural I have superior taste to you American dogs.
Based
Wow. Notice how nobody is even waifuposting anymore. It's all over for Morphy.
Anyone else here really hate this shit? It's like really bad...
Have there been and steamy sex scenes between Brown-win and the Mexican Black person yet?
Emma Darcy says Daemon is a groomer https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/emma-darcy-house-of-the-dragon-interview-b2173714.html
Lesbian is injecting the current year morals into the fantasy story.
no one gives a frick Black person
>Doesn't change the fact that im right. Reading fiction is for queers and women.
Cate is fricking ugly.
Morfydd is perfect
The thread mocking the ROPe has almost three times as much posters than the “general” ROPe thread.
>Posters: 134
That's literally what the ROP general is though. Just people shitting on it.
Seems like half of the general is shitposting and the other half is waifugays, then again most generals are like that now that I think about it.
>waifugays
Nobody likes nu-Galadriel. Those are just shills attempting to appeal to the crowd here.
Some people like a fanfiction big breasts sister of Isildur and a pretty Hobbit, yeah.
Notice the HotD general has plenty of queen posting, but also a lot of actual discussion about what's going on with the show and what people actually like about the show.
The show is shit though.
This is false. Aside from some moronic casting choices, the show is great.
This some season 8 of the GoT cope. HotD has so much terrible fanfiction:
1. Viserys cutting open and killing his queen.
2. Knights murdering each other like morons on a tourney.
3. Feminist princess taming the bad boy on a dragon.
It also has so much feminist cringe and Alicent is literally women for Trump.
Does the show have one noble and kind man?
the current hand of the King, Strong or whatever his name is, and his son who didn't snitch on the princess and saved her from the wedding brawl
> wedding brawl
More fanfiction then. Remember how it worked out for the GoT in the end.
>Posters: 63
The last general.
She is such an insufferable c**t. If she had only been instructed to keep her trap shut and not speak about minorities the illusion that she isn't a brain dead c**t could exist.
Is Galadriel the most unlikeable protagonist in the entire history of television and film making?
IGN normies seem to like her
Captain Marvel earned more than a billion dollars. Trump lost by the way.
That has nothing to do with Galadriel being completely unlikeable.
>completely unlikeable.
See
I question the validity of that poll.
Rey was a Mary Sue, but Daisy Ridley at least had some charisma and didn't come off like a b***h.
>Rey was a Mary Sue, but Daisy Ridley at least had some charisma and didn't come off like a b***h.
Right. Captain Marvel and Brie Larson is the perfect blend of the unlikeable character and an insufferable b***h actress.
Stupid sexy morf
I feel this show will follow this pattern:
>First episode has epic CGI battle to hook you up.
>The rest is just boring shit that goes nowhere.
>Final episode is has epic CGI battle to hook you up again.
>Rinse and repeat for 5 seasons.
>Final episode is has epic CGI battle to hook you up again
nah that will be ep6 and maybe continuing into ep7
I don't even watch it anymore, but still do my part commenting "this fanfiction is shit" in every RoP video..
I don't know who's this show for? It's not for men clearly.
And women prefer the soap opera drama of House of Dragons over unrealistic female power fantasies.
Still not watching it shill.
why does he CGI look photorealistic and souless at the same time.
>why does he CGI look photorealistic
I'm not seeing it.
I care so little about this show that I didn't even hate watch it.
frick off goypigger, get back in your general thread Black person homosexual