I'd say the CGI and scenery actually looks pretty good. It's just the CGI and fight choreography that looks bad. CGI wise it looks like a show that a lot of money was spent to make.
They were shaped by extremely strict patriarchal societies, and the total aversion of others to their shittiness. Being of decent intelligence, there was nowhere to go outside the group, so they became mindblowingly skilled at parasitizing host nations and returning the profits to the in-group. And now that they run things, it's like the bursting of a fungal spore across whole societies.
Canonically there are:
Harfoots, these are the nomadic ROP ones from Mirkwood ("Great Greenwood"), which is why they're all filthy. We don't have any specific ones mentioned in non-ROP works.
Stoors like Smeagol and his cousin or w.e. Deagol. I think they were a more settled, agricultural development of the Harfoots and
Fallohides, which were like the rare hobbits. The main hobbits we know are part Fallohide, part Stoor. Can't say for the rest of the shire. It's like the being white of hobbitness which is probably why they were all the big swinging dicks around the shire.
It’s because they only bought the rights to certain characters and locations e.g. they’re not allowed to reference any Silmarillion characters like Ancalagon but they can reference the name “Silmarillion” (and they did) its genuinely the most soulless thing you could possibly imagine. Nothing but ugly corporate assembly line product. Of course some corporation deifying pedophiles (leftists) will disagree with me because 2+2=9 with those creeps, but.
>they didn't actually call them hobbits and called them something else
yeah, they are called hairyfoots. some purple hair female diversity hire was real proud of herself for coming up with that one
To be unfairly fair to ROP, this is was a realistic nomadic forest hobbit would probably look like. Just like toiling peasants in medieval times can be romanticized, but they were certainly nothing to look at, or smell.
>le pesants were all filthy, poop covered animals like Monty python
I’m sure like all creatures on Earth they would groom by a river in the mornings and wash their face/brush their hair. Your post is stupid.
>The viewership was abysmal past the first episode
The finale had higher viewership than any episode from any HBO, Disney, Paramount, Apple, etc show from 2022.
There was only a handful of Netflix shows that had an episode more viewed than the ROP s1 finale, such as Wednesday and Stranger Things s4.
And that's just America, the finale actually broke national streaming records in some countries.
Ok shill. I'm sure billions of people came back to see the finale of a dogshit show that they dropped at episode 3 at the latest.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Please list all the other shows from 2022 that had a single episode exceed 1.1 billion minutes streamed in the US.
Bare in mind that the record breaking ROP premiere weekend was only slightly higher (1.2billion minutes) when they released two episodes at once.
9 months ago
Anonymous
You mean the first episode before everyone stopped watching? If the show was such an amazing hit then why did Amazon disable negative reviews shortly after the first airing? Kys shill.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>why did Amazon disable negative reviews shortly after the first airing?
Just a coincidence. Everyone loved the show! Can't wait for S2 🙂
9 months ago
Anonymous
>You mean the first episode
No, I'm clearly talking about the finale. The episode that had viewership, engagement, 'demand', however you want to measure it, only just behind the premiere weekend.
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so why does nobody at all talk about this show ?
the hobbit movies had more hype and discussion
It's a demo thing, nobody talks about Yellowstone online yet it's the biggest network show in America.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>nobody talks about Yellowstone online
I reckon they do, pardner
It's a runnin' joke 'bout them thar woke cowboys
>The viewership was abysmal past the first episode
The finale had higher viewership than any episode from any HBO, Disney, Paramount, Apple, etc show from 2022.
There was only a handful of Netflix shows that had an episode more viewed than the ROP s1 finale, such as Wednesday and Stranger Things s4.
And that's just America, the finale actually broke national streaming records in some countries.
so why does nobody at all talk about this show ?
the hobbit movies had more hype and discussion
9 months ago
Anonymous
on -not Cinemaphile people talk about shows, on Cinemaphile people b***h about shows, which is in fact, talking about it. You are talking about it right now. Also you are a fricking liar nobody cared about the Hobbit, it came and went and it had way more cross-promotion and product than this trash.
>nielsen cope (they can't measure viewership for streaming) >contradicts all available evidence like google trends
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=house%20of%20the%20dragon,rings%20of%20power
Yeah that's shill cope, this shit will get canned if season 2 gets mogged by HotD as hard as the first one
they'll keep it up until at least S3 simply so they don't get laughed at for wasting the money.
It will be an open secret anyway, but they'll keep some face
>streaming
HBO still has millions of boomers using cable though, that graph shows ROPE "beating" like half of HotD audience, so it lost and lost hard >first episode is the least watched
Also it's 100% made up bullshit but whatever
>HBO still has millions of boomers using cable though
HBO said only 6.5% of the audience came from cable, so vast majority from streaming.
Also boomers are not watching HOTD in big numbers it's actually one of the most zoomer dominated audiences around, like Netflix YA drama tier.
>most zoomer dominated audiences around
Not really, on IMDB HotD had higher ratings for all demographics, all ages and sexes. Barely beating half of a game of thrones prequel's audience (the streaming one) after spending 4 times as much money is pure cancellation core
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Not really
Shows that adults were watching in 2022 was stuff like Ted Lasso and Wheel of Time.
House of the Dragon audience was much younger, much more similar to shows like The Wilds and Umbrella Academy.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>no source >contradicts third party data like IMDB and google trends
Dude just give up, ROPE bombed and HOTD turned out to be good I was as surprised as you but it's time to move on
How does this even happen, who ignores an entire series and then just watches the final episode? And episode 6, the least worst of them, has the lowest viewership.
Also hard to believe that HotD had so low viewership in it's premiere episode. Who skips the first episode of a series and then watches the rest?
>ACKCHOOULLY CHUDS words words words
You people want to cut the wieners off of children and call them women. Who gives a frick about your creepy pro-corporate post.
>bunch of numbers >no label on x or y axis
alright, so barring any other information, 1253 dogs peed on 8/29/2010 wearing ROP collars
B-, see me after class for help
It was the third most watched new show behind Wednesday and some other female shit I don't remember the name of. For comparison House of the Dragon did not make it into the top 10.
Christopher was a miserable c**t but he also refused to give the rights out once he felt he'd been burned.
The literal day he died his relative bent over and prostituted it out for amazon
All of JRR's works are gonna go public domain within their lifetime so I guess they wanna make their bag while they still can and never have to work a day in their life. Honestly, I'd do the same.
Tolkien (lord of the rings) is a fantasy D&D story with eloquent prose. What the frick does trannies and contemporary racial politics have to do with it?
Yeah that shit sounds like a pile of euphemistic doublespeak in service of the worst kinds of evil. I hope their meeting rooms become excessively hot. Excessively.
In the UK, but not for anywhere else in the world. Harry and Meghan and some Ricky Gervais show got higher viewership than it too but still ROP was up there with some of the most popular Netflix shows in the world like Stranger Things and Bridgerton
They spent like a billy on LotR's rights so they have to spread that cost over multiple seasons. Otherwise ROPE would be the biggest flop in the history of streaming and basically the very existence of amazon prime would be questioned
Yes this is what they all do. The best part is the money they lost in production is paid to subsidy companies they own so they recoup most of the costs anyway
Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich and why they were reasonable and the good guys. Start maybe with the Treaty of Versailles and go from there. Maybe an ancient flashback of kvetching in the desert and how the israelite became the israelite. The truest story ever told.
The crowd of hideous LGBT/BIPOC dwarves in Rangz with how horrible and filthy and demonic they looked really made me wish for a scene with that aesthetic as all the hasidics are frothing at the mouth to free Barabus while Jesus is sentenced to death.
I'd make an autistic continuation from movie canon with some SG-1 stuff thrown in where they actually speak the Goa'uld/ancient Egyptian language along with other ancient languages that have since diverged
the first half hour of any encounter on a new planet is spent with Dr. Jackson or a linguistic equivalent working on the language in some fashion and then some ancient device allows them to get around it
A realistic fictional documentary about how oil princes in Dubai buy beautiful girls to shit and sodomize for money, starring me as the Oil Prince.
Starring also a lot of beautiful girls, the docu is 10min of introduction of 4 girls, 40min of sodomy, and 10min outro on the girl's aftermath, trashed and filled with cum and shit, telling what they are going to do with the money.
Every episode features different scenarios and different girls, with one recurring girl that is exceptionally beautiful, coming to 4 episodes
>The chief rabbis at Amazog give you 1 billion dollars to produce a 10 episode series on anything you want. What do you make?
Babylon 5. Whatever JMS wants to do.
Imagine not just making a shitty spin-off of something, but directly shitting on the source material as squarely and liquidly and stinkily as possible while so doing.
This but unironically. By making every country/race a diverse melting pot you make them all feel the same, every city the same, every country the same. No sense of scale, culture or identity. As much as I disliked black panther at least all wakandans are black
It's allegorically akin to defacing the temple with the deity being fricked by a pig. It's not about a new, different chapter in the world of Middle Earth. It's explicitly and purposely intended to deface and destroy something revered by white western culture. They got all the Christians they're going to get, now every piece of deep-interest media (nerd shit like sci fi and fantasy, in all the forms that intelligent people get very invested it) to be mangled, rendered communist-compliant, and ultimately disillusion people with the communities by showing up everywhere they gather and going "but POC, misogynist, racism hurr durr my veganaaa" until there's not desire to associate anymore. White genocide.
LOTR has the worldwide appeal and Asian Tolkien fans were disgusted too. i.e. Egyptians were outraged and said that Cleopatra was white. Few except shills and the far-left wanted the black Elves and Dwarves.
Yes but israelites aren't doing this to spite other groups. Although with Asians splitting a little too down the middle with some on the White (right) side, I'm sure the disruption of nerd culture affecting them to is a welcome side effect.
The flaring nostrils had powerful Boyega energy. I’ll give Rings of Power this, those images really conveyed the smell of these characters and surroundings…
I don't mind having non-whites but they should at least be coherent
why are they a different race? they should belong to a separate people in the show/story
It's this weird insistence that everywhere has to look like a US metro area. The reality is that in preindustrial times the majority of people aren't ever going more than fifty or so miles from home, this means that populations in that area are going to be mutted together and all look the same in like 3 generations.
I remember this was fricking terrible in Wheel of Time, like they say their village is one of the most isolated in the world, yet every family is a different race. Unless they're all committing incest every generation to keep themselves racially distinct that's just not fricking possible.
>The show runners never made a show before and were directly recommended by JJ Abrams, who met them at a synagogue
also every time they tried to pitch a show it was rejected for bad scripts. Now Hollywood has finally rejected JJ Abrams but his legacy lives on.
Our parents let it happen, served us up on a platter to these demons because they’re the greatest generation or some shit and you kids just got no work ethic!
Complacency and regression to the mean.
israelites today have fallen just as much as Whites, compared to ther grandfathers. Probably moreso due to a life of zero struggle.
To be fair, if you're gonna be a bawd anyway not saving it strictly for marriage, don't deny a decent guy pussy. It costs so little and improves the world so much to be more generous with pussy.
Yes, also isn't she Elrond's aunt or something? He acts like her gay BFF and Galadriel is acting like she's single, not married at all and wants to frick Sauron. I think in S2 they will revise this by having Galadriel and Celeborn were fighting and "on a break!" during the time of S1. They can't tell this story without Celeborn can they? I only saw 3 episodes so dunno if he appears in S1 or not.
holy shit is she acting or is she ACTING!
fricking hell people watched this shit
how the frick does that even end up in the finished show
not only did someone actually come up with this and did it but also all the people who approved it
>holy shit is she acting or is she ACTING!
She's more of the classical style actor. Lots of oldy time actors were but I guess it's less common now. Blanchett has the same acting style actually, not that I think she's trying to imitate her just they picked an actress with the same kind of background
Go look at most of Blanchett's performances, they are often ott and theatrical but v.memorable
>What the frick did they spend all the money on?
I was thinking about it. I reckon it's something like this: >$60m/episode - $480m production cost - due to the insane amount of cgi every episode along with all the props, costumes, background actors and preproduction meetings (bear in mind that this still works out as cheaper for its runtime than your typical hollywood blockbuster) >$200m or thereabouts just on attaining the rights for the show >$100m or something on props/costumes that normally could've half-assed but did better due to the coming s2, along with storage for everything they made
Basically, it's an 8-hour long blockbuster that they had to spend a truckload of cash on the rights for and that they made with the assumption that it will continue for 6 seasons. So some of the money they spend now will save them more in the long run.
Also, hollywood is fricking trash at handling budgets these days
I disagree completely with that. The largest set had to be numenor I think, which was essentially a medival town with streets and vendors, nothing crazy. The only other location was the shanty town where the black elf and herbalist lady lived. Even the numenorian camp they made was like 20 tents. Do you have any idea how much work they did on the Shire, Rivendell, helmsdeep/Minas tirith, osgiliath and all the other sets in LOTR.
The costumes ranged from okay with the orcs and elves to dogshit with the numenoreans
The CGI is pretty decent, I could see that intro battle in the first episode being expensive and some of the shots of locations like lindon were good.
The battle/action scenes were laughably bad, with the largest being that 1 min intro battle and then the battle in the shanty town with the orcs which was not remotely large enough to cost so much money
There's also the half-foot camp/sets, the workers' camp prison, the dwarf mine and (a big one) the outpost for the Orc battle near the end.
Then you've got the small town where the mordor reveal happens, minor sets like the intro where Galadriel fights the troll, and the expensive props like all the boats that were rigged up on animatronics as far as I'm aware.
And then on the cgi front, if I remember right there wasn't a single real horse on set. And there were a lot of horses. That's just one example. Every half-foot scene would've been a pain as well. They really used cgi as if they had an unlimited budget
The overall point being, the show's production values easily rival your typical $200m blockbuster, but over 8 hours instead. Factor in cheaper actors, more talking, less action scenes per minute and reused content and I think $60m/episode is probably not that far off.
Bear in mind that HotD cost $20m/episode reportedly.
I still don’t think any of those sets are justifiable. The harfoot camps are literally just wagons in a bush, most of the dwarf plot takes place in the main guys room or an empty cave, the workers camp was not extensive.
The CGI aspects I’ll agree with though that’s somewhat by choice. Real horses weren’t a problem in the trilogy, same with hobbit design.
Basically my point is the trilogy was superior in almost every aspect including set, costume, design and action sequences by a mile and at a fraction of the cost. CGI being the major difference i guess
The funniest scene from this shitshow >Some numenorean teenagers (they are supposed to be 6ft gigachads in the book) are the soldiers >They are numenor strongest soldiers that don't even know how to swordfight >Galadriels teaches them to kill orcs and humilliates them on the procees >Elendil randomly says he will make a lieutenant who manages to scratch,Galadriel. Yes a rookie is now a lieutenant
Take this statement however you want: HOTD is just as good if not slightly better than post-S4 game of thrones. It’s literally just more/ another season of game of thrones. And I say, yeah, obviously there was a hideous drop in qual and the final seasons were garbage, but still god-level kino compared to creepy modern corporate slop like Rangz
/got/ would still be going on every day but it was spammed and derailed endlessly by some troony posting pics of the child characters from the show in bondage gear and shit, jannies never did shit and this was endless spam for days and after awhile no one bothered posting there anymore and it just went away, I think it was a janny intentionally destroying the thread because there is no reason why that grotesque spam should ever flood a series of threads like that nonstop for days without, gee, I dunno, pruning the fricking images or banning the poster? had to be a janny/mod, question is why
Of course “/rop/“ just went away after the first few episodes dropped. Go in the archive and look at any given /rop/ thread, endless spam of what look like fake YouTube comments or fake yelp reviews like “This show was amazing! Can’t wait for the next exciting episode!” “Everyone I know loves this new Amazon series!” “Best show evah!” etc. just endless literal bot posts like that not ever mentioning anything specific from the show or actually talking about it, just stick bot spam, and of course a handful of anons going “what the frick is this shit?” and maybe one actual troon damage controlling the thread and calling everyone who doesn’t praise the show bigots or whatever, literal creepy ass shit
People always joke about how jannies aren't paid shit but this is exactly how they can get paid. Especially when you have a megacorp like Amazon pumping money into all forms of marketing through outsourced marketing firms that Amazon has insane expectations of with very little pay.
The worst attempted troon shill campaign for this was pretending this talentless, ratfaced c**t was hot. I only watched the first two episodes when they came out so I could meme about it with Cinemaphile but unironically how could anyone sit through 10 hours of that miserable c**t “acting.” A welsh wife simulator? If she was my wife I would have ripped open her jaws like King Kong after 4 months of being married and got thrown in jail for life and it would have been worth it.
>participates in this flagrantly evil anti-white hatred campaign that cost a billion dollars
even if she looked like Aphrodite I would still look at her and see Hades
If she was exactly the same but had big boobs or a big ass I would post a Pepe with his eyes popping out in response. Without all that what do you got? a flat, no-ass fridge that looks like a rat.
Make sure to check out the Agatha Christie adaptation she's starring in as part of this year's Christmas TV schedule.
The BBC changed her characters' love interest to a black man, should be good!
>hate White people >(pretend to) believe men are women >advocate for the importation of millions of third worlders to live off welfare >advocate for or participate in trans kid child strip shows
So just be a leftist and you’re in. Helps if you have israeli connections too obv.
>moronic giant corporation decides it can just start producing films and series >production companies turn up and get billions from them >make the show as cheaply as possible >pocket the difference
this is the business model of people making shows for amazon, the insane thing is that amazon has enough money to keep pouring down the drain like this for prime video which most people just have as a side benefit of amazon prime
giant corporation decides it can just start producing films and series
companies turn up and get billions from them >>make the show as cheaply as possible
the difference
I want to say at least 50% of the budget was spent on marketing with the rest essentially put into the pockets of people who do frick all, with a small fraction being used on actual production
Black folk
It didn't cost one billion.
>250 million for the rights
>750 million for ALL FIVE SEASONS
At least don't be dishonest.
So fewer seasons than GoT, for more per episode, and they look worse?
Again, what the frick are they spending the money on? Crack? "Laundry"?
The rights to lotr
Is laundry code for something israeli
Where do you think the term "money laundering" came from?
Oh that's what they're referring to. I thought it might be a euphemism I didn't know.
Diversity is not cheap.
I'd say the CGI and scenery actually looks pretty good. It's just the CGI and fight choreography that looks bad. CGI wise it looks like a show that a lot of money was spent to make.
>I'd say the CGI and scenery actually looks pretty good.
It's just the CGI and fight choreography that looks bad.
they're gonna make 5 seasons of this shit?
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lmao get fricked
>entire scene where they laugh about people dying horribly and being left behind
The harfoots were buttholes
Basically israeli gypsies before they were Holocausted. No israelite will admit it, but Hitler did their race a favor.
Jews as a group are the most intelligent race now because of the Holocaust.
The holocaust didn’t happen and stinging the frog you’re riding isn’t intelligent.
They were shaped by extremely strict patriarchal societies, and the total aversion of others to their shittiness. Being of decent intelligence, there was nowhere to go outside the group, so they became mindblowingly skilled at parasitizing host nations and returning the profits to the in-group. And now that they run things, it's like the bursting of a fungal spore across whole societies.
Never watched this series but hear that they didn't actually call them hobbits and called them something else. Why is that?
Well they're like an offshoot tribe, so they refer to themselves as their tribe.
>Why is that?
didn't have the rights
If that's the case I guarantee it's cause it was viewed as "ableist-adjacent" or some mind-broken commie horseshit like that.
Canonically there are:
Harfoots, these are the nomadic ROP ones from Mirkwood ("Great Greenwood"), which is why they're all filthy. We don't have any specific ones mentioned in non-ROP works.
Stoors like Smeagol and his cousin or w.e. Deagol. I think they were a more settled, agricultural development of the Harfoots and
Fallohides, which were like the rare hobbits. The main hobbits we know are part Fallohide, part Stoor. Can't say for the rest of the shire. It's like the being white of hobbitness which is probably why they were all the big swinging dicks around the shire.
It’s because they only bought the rights to certain characters and locations e.g. they’re not allowed to reference any Silmarillion characters like Ancalagon but they can reference the name “Silmarillion” (and they did) its genuinely the most soulless thing you could possibly imagine. Nothing but ugly corporate assembly line product. Of course some corporation deifying pedophiles (leftists) will disagree with me because 2+2=9 with those creeps, but.
>they didn't actually call them hobbits and called them something else
yeah, they are called hairyfoots. some purple hair female diversity hire was real proud of herself for coming up with that one
Do they actually say hairyfoots? Or harfoots. Cause Tolkien came up with the latter.
Is it necessary for them to be so grotesquely misshapen and hideous and unhealthy? How are they all fat fricks traveling in a nomadic lifestyle.
To be unfairly fair to ROP, this is was a realistic nomadic forest hobbit would probably look like. Just like toiling peasants in medieval times can be romanticized, but they were certainly nothing to look at, or smell.
>le pesants were all filthy, poop covered animals like Monty python
I’m sure like all creatures on Earth they would groom by a river in the mornings and wash their face/brush their hair. Your post is stupid.
I didn't claim they wouldn't. Your post isn't applicable to mine.
You said “it’s totally how they would look!” I said it wasn’t.
>all 5season
kek if you unironically think that's true
Let's be real, there's not gonna be more than one season. The viewership was abysmal past the first episode.
They're already finished filming the second one.
You know how many things get "greenlit" only to then die during production?
It's literally been filmed and edited, moron
Lmao, it's idiots like you that's the reason Cinemaphile is always wrong.
they greenlit season 2 shortly before or after season 1's release
>The viewership was abysmal past the first episode
The finale had higher viewership than any episode from any HBO, Disney, Paramount, Apple, etc show from 2022.
There was only a handful of Netflix shows that had an episode more viewed than the ROP s1 finale, such as Wednesday and Stranger Things s4.
And that's just America, the finale actually broke national streaming records in some countries.
Kek is that what Amazon is actually claiming?
That's Nielsen data, not Amazon's
Other data analysts have talked about the finale driving a big spike in viewership aswell
Ok shill. I'm sure billions of people came back to see the finale of a dogshit show that they dropped at episode 3 at the latest.
Please list all the other shows from 2022 that had a single episode exceed 1.1 billion minutes streamed in the US.
Bare in mind that the record breaking ROP premiere weekend was only slightly higher (1.2billion minutes) when they released two episodes at once.
You mean the first episode before everyone stopped watching? If the show was such an amazing hit then why did Amazon disable negative reviews shortly after the first airing? Kys shill.
>why did Amazon disable negative reviews shortly after the first airing?
Just a coincidence. Everyone loved the show! Can't wait for S2 🙂
>You mean the first episode
No, I'm clearly talking about the finale. The episode that had viewership, engagement, 'demand', however you want to measure it, only just behind the premiere weekend.
It's a demo thing, nobody talks about Yellowstone online yet it's the biggest network show in America.
>nobody talks about Yellowstone online
I reckon they do, pardner
It's a runnin' joke 'bout them thar woke cowboys
so why does nobody at all talk about this show ?
the hobbit movies had more hype and discussion
on -not Cinemaphile people talk about shows, on Cinemaphile people b***h about shows, which is in fact, talking about it. You are talking about it right now. Also you are a fricking liar nobody cared about the Hobbit, it came and went and it had way more cross-promotion and product than this trash.
How does it work out that people tune in for the finale of a season they didn't watch all the way through?
I call bullshit
>nielsen cope (they can't measure viewership for streaming)
>contradicts all available evidence like google trends
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=house%20of%20the%20dragon,rings%20of%20power
Yeah that's shill cope, this shit will get canned if season 2 gets mogged by HotD as hard as the first one
they'll keep it up until at least S3 simply so they don't get laughed at for wasting the money.
It will be an open secret anyway, but they'll keep some face
>streaming
HBO still has millions of boomers using cable though, that graph shows ROPE "beating" like half of HotD audience, so it lost and lost hard
>first episode is the least watched
Also it's 100% made up bullshit but whatever
>HBO still has millions of boomers using cable though
HBO said only 6.5% of the audience came from cable, so vast majority from streaming.
Also boomers are not watching HOTD in big numbers it's actually one of the most zoomer dominated audiences around, like Netflix YA drama tier.
>most zoomer dominated audiences around
Not really, on IMDB HotD had higher ratings for all demographics, all ages and sexes. Barely beating half of a game of thrones prequel's audience (the streaming one) after spending 4 times as much money is pure cancellation core
>Not really
Shows that adults were watching in 2022 was stuff like Ted Lasso and Wheel of Time.
House of the Dragon audience was much younger, much more similar to shows like The Wilds and Umbrella Academy.
>no source
>contradicts third party data like IMDB and google trends
Dude just give up, ROPE bombed and HOTD turned out to be good I was as surprised as you but it's time to move on
Stop shilling shit.
How does this even happen, who ignores an entire series and then just watches the final episode? And episode 6, the least worst of them, has the lowest viewership.
Also hard to believe that HotD had so low viewership in it's premiere episode. Who skips the first episode of a series and then watches the rest?
>no source for the graph
Amazon lost and so did you.
>ACKCHOOULLY CHUDS words words words
You people want to cut the wieners off of children and call them women. Who gives a frick about your creepy pro-corporate post.
>bunch of numbers
>no label on x or y axis
alright, so barring any other information, 1253 dogs peed on 8/29/2010 wearing ROP collars
B-, see me after class for help
Blame Variety mag, that's where it's from
So many entertainment related things are breaking records lately and I don't think objective quality has anything to do with it.
Gonna have to dispute the truthfulness of that one hoss
It was the third most watched new show behind Wednesday and some other female shit I don't remember the name of. For comparison House of the Dragon did not make it into the top 10.
as if viewership matters to megacorps surfing on spookbucks and prime
I’m pretty sure they’re contractually obligated to do multiple seasons.
There will be. Shit or not they likely signed for a set amount of seasons, and by god they will deliver or be sued.
>the series didn't cost $1 billion
>it only cost $250MM plus another $750MM
Why are you so dumb?
Math is tough
>750 million for ALL FIVE SEASONS
>only one season is made
>the other four are cancelled
>somehow, 750 million disappeared
I'll pay you a quarter of a billion to take a shit inside your mouth, would you take it?
>be Tolkien estate
>bitch, moan, and whine about bad adaptions of the materiel
>also happy to prostitute the materiel out if the price is right
Tolkien's prostitute (great?) granddaughter is Tolkien
Imagine just being born into the rights to this AND be female. It's not even easy mode, it's like your whole life is the tutorial.
further, it's let's play tier
you have no agency, no input, just watch the experience of your life
That was Christopher. He's dead and replaced by his greedy heirs
Christopher was a miserable c**t but he also refused to give the rights out once he felt he'd been burned.
The literal day he died his relative bent over and prostituted it out for amazon
All of JRR's works are gonna go public domain within their lifetime so I guess they wanna make their bag while they still can and never have to work a day in their life. Honestly, I'd do the same.
they should be getting zero money for whatever their grandpa wrote
It's their inheritance.
As has been said, the hardass was Tolkien's son. He's dead and now this is the age of LOTR slop. This show, that Magic set, Gollum, etc.
do tolkien c-ucks really?? lmao
stagger your posts m8, bit of a pathetic display really
>TOLKEIN society
>the only thing they ever discuss is trannies and White people bad
Wtf does the ~~*“Tolkien society”*~~ have to do with Tolkien?
tolkien worship minorities, makes sense, their continuing his legacy
Tolkien (lord of the rings) is a fantasy D&D story with eloquent prose. What the frick does trannies and contemporary racial politics have to do with it?
Yeah that shit sounds like a pile of euphemistic doublespeak in service of the worst kinds of evil. I hope their meeting rooms become excessively hot. Excessively.
tolkien is the anglosaxon impulse of worshipping brown and asiatic pipo to the detriment of europeans in general
lord of the rings is the sjw's bible
I'm sorry what? Have you ever read those books? The brown people and Asians all work for Sauron
Women get paid $100k salaries to eat lunch all day.
Laundering of the Rings
LAWD DEM RANGS
If Bezos spends 1B on a series it is the same as you spending 40 bucks on take away, it's fricking nothing
I dont spend $40 on takeaway
40bucks? i could buy a meal for my family for that price
I see a blackwashed character or an out of place non white i just dont watch
Its really that simple
Meanwhile it gets hard mogged by pic related with a minuscule fraction of the budget.
Imagine what he could do with 1 billion.
In the UK, but not for anywhere else in the world. Harry and Meghan and some Ricky Gervais show got higher viewership than it too but still ROP was up there with some of the most popular Netflix shows in the world like Stranger Things and Bridgerton
money well spent
>All the races are valid
>All the racism is justified
The end.
Rebuilding Epsteins island
The fun part is knowig that after the first season generated all of that loss for low ratings, they approved a second season.
They have to be money-laundering by creating artificial loss they can use to make profits disappear on paper. Nothing else explains this shit.
They spent like a billy on LotR's rights so they have to spread that cost over multiple seasons. Otherwise ROPE would be the biggest flop in the history of streaming and basically the very existence of amazon prime would be questioned
Yes this is what they all do. The best part is the money they lost in production is paid to subsidy companies they own so they recoup most of the costs anyway
We really need to go to war and slaughter all these fricks, it’s because of shit like this that milk is 7 bucks a gallon.
this show is a big money laundering scheme
typical Hollywood accounting back at it again
and yes its the israelites
The chief rabbis at Amazog give you 1 billion dollars to produce a 10 episode series on anything you want. What do you make?
Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich and why they were reasonable and the good guys. Start maybe with the Treaty of Versailles and go from there. Maybe an ancient flashback of kvetching in the desert and how the israelite became the israelite. The truest story ever told.
The crowd of hideous LGBT/BIPOC dwarves in Rangz with how horrible and filthy and demonic they looked really made me wish for a scene with that aesthetic as all the hasidics are frothing at the mouth to free Barabus while Jesus is sentenced to death.
I'd make an autistic continuation from movie canon with some SG-1 stuff thrown in where they actually speak the Goa'uld/ancient Egyptian language along with other ancient languages that have since diverged
the first half hour of any encounter on a new planet is spent with Dr. Jackson or a linguistic equivalent working on the language in some fashion and then some ancient device allows them to get around it
Id make a found footage style documentary about the life of a man who recently received $999,999,000
I make an animated mini series based off that Herakles comic.
A realistic fictional documentary about how oil princes in Dubai buy beautiful girls to shit and sodomize for money, starring me as the Oil Prince.
Starring also a lot of beautiful girls, the docu is 10min of introduction of 4 girls, 40min of sodomy, and 10min outro on the girl's aftermath, trashed and filled with cum and shit, telling what they are going to do with the money.
Every episode features different scenarios and different girls, with one recurring girl that is exceptionally beautiful, coming to 4 episodes
>The chief rabbis at Amazog give you 1 billion dollars to produce a 10 episode series on anything you want. What do you make?
Babylon 5. Whatever JMS wants to do.
Child orgies and sacrifices, drugs, etc.
Fricking hell.
They made Galadriel have a romance with Sauron, who is just an angsty rockstar.
Imagine not just making a shitty spin-off of something, but directly shitting on the source material as squarely and liquidly and stinkily as possible while so doing.
Sauron tortured and murdered Finrod, he killed countless Noldor and other Elves. The show depicts a romance between them.
So moronic
Season 1 of RoP cost $715 million.
Bezos cracked the art of storytelling, chuds.
>diverse worldbuilding
they must have read that wrong
The cast is so aesthetically unappealing
This but unironically. By making every country/race a diverse melting pot you make them all feel the same, every city the same, every country the same. No sense of scale, culture or identity. As much as I disliked black panther at least all wakandans are black
It's like they chose most unappealing extras and side characters ever.
It's allegorically akin to defacing the temple with the deity being fricked by a pig. It's not about a new, different chapter in the world of Middle Earth. It's explicitly and purposely intended to deface and destroy something revered by white western culture. They got all the Christians they're going to get, now every piece of deep-interest media (nerd shit like sci fi and fantasy, in all the forms that intelligent people get very invested it) to be mangled, rendered communist-compliant, and ultimately disillusion people with the communities by showing up everywhere they gather and going "but POC, misogynist, racism hurr durr my veganaaa" until there's not desire to associate anymore. White genocide.
LOTR has the worldwide appeal and Asian Tolkien fans were disgusted too. i.e. Egyptians were outraged and said that Cleopatra was white. Few except shills and the far-left wanted the black Elves and Dwarves.
Yes but israelites aren't doing this to spite other groups. Although with Asians splitting a little too down the middle with some on the White (right) side, I'm sure the disruption of nerd culture affecting them to is a welcome side effect.
I was watching the first episode in full screen, and when the baboon hobbit showed up with that constipated face I turned it off.
The flaring nostrils had powerful Boyega energy. I’ll give Rings of Power this, those images really conveyed the smell of these characters and surroundings…
I don't mind having non-whites but they should at least be coherent
why are they a different race? they should belong to a separate people in the show/story
that would require effor- er I mean shut up chud you're just an alt right bigot
It's this weird insistence that everywhere has to look like a US metro area. The reality is that in preindustrial times the majority of people aren't ever going more than fifty or so miles from home, this means that populations in that area are going to be mutted together and all look the same in like 3 generations.
I remember this was fricking terrible in Wheel of Time, like they say their village is one of the most isolated in the world, yet every family is a different race. Unless they're all committing incest every generation to keep themselves racially distinct that's just not fricking possible.
star wars bullshit
>what is breaking bad or the sopranos
lmao, lol even
>bezos thinks worldbuilding is literally worldbuilding
bro...
Money laundering. Same as Ukraine.
laundering
The show runners never made a show before and were directly recommended by JJ Abrams, who met them at a synagogue
So I’m guessing at least 200 million was spent on underage prostitutes
>The show runners never made a show before and were directly recommended by JJ Abrams, who met them at a synagogue
also every time they tried to pitch a show it was rejected for bad scripts. Now Hollywood has finally rejected JJ Abrams but his legacy lives on.
the first season was so dull I couldn't even hate-watch it.
your loss ^^
wtf is he made of paper?
In the past 10 years the film and tv industry has become just a money laundering front for billionaires. How did this happen?
Our parents let it happen, served us up on a platter to these demons because they’re the greatest generation or some shit and you kids just got no work ethic!
Complacency and regression to the mean.
israelites today have fallen just as much as Whites, compared to ther grandfathers. Probably moreso due to a life of zero struggle.
On making Galadriel a girlboss who acts like a rebellious teenager and Sauron an incel who becomes evil because she denied him pussy
To be fair, if you're gonna be a bawd anyway not saving it strictly for marriage, don't deny a decent guy pussy. It costs so little and improves the world so much to be more generous with pussy.
One of the most cringe things ive ever read tbqhfam
I really don't give a shit.
Isn't galadriel married?
Yes, also isn't she Elrond's aunt or something? He acts like her gay BFF and Galadriel is acting like she's single, not married at all and wants to frick Sauron. I think in S2 they will revise this by having Galadriel and Celeborn were fighting and "on a break!" during the time of S1. They can't tell this story without Celeborn can they? I only saw 3 episodes so dunno if he appears in S1 or not.
In ep 6 she said Celeborn is dead. Yes it's distracting how gay Elrond is considering he marries Galadriel daughter
Yikes what a gross image.
She's got a bit of a witch phenotype, it works for Galadriel though
>evil
Lmfao. Looks like target won’t validate her expired coupon.
chekd
this is the face I imagine the anons who say
>have sex, incels
holy shit is she acting or is she ACTING!
fricking hell people watched this shit
how the frick does that even end up in the finished show
not only did someone actually come up with this and did it but also all the people who approved it
>holy shit is she acting or is she ACTING!
She's more of the classical style actor. Lots of oldy time actors were but I guess it's less common now. Blanchett has the same acting style actually, not that I think she's trying to imitate her just they picked an actress with the same kind of background
Go look at most of Blanchett's performances, they are often ott and theatrical but v.memorable
>I'M ANGERY
holy shit, I hate digital cameras
>What the frick did they spend all the money on?
I was thinking about it. I reckon it's something like this:
>$60m/episode - $480m production cost - due to the insane amount of cgi every episode along with all the props, costumes, background actors and preproduction meetings (bear in mind that this still works out as cheaper for its runtime than your typical hollywood blockbuster)
>$200m or thereabouts just on attaining the rights for the show
>$100m or something on props/costumes that normally could've half-assed but did better due to the coming s2, along with storage for everything they made
Basically, it's an 8-hour long blockbuster that they had to spend a truckload of cash on the rights for and that they made with the assumption that it will continue for 6 seasons. So some of the money they spend now will save them more in the long run.
Also, hollywood is fricking trash at handling budgets these days
I disagree completely with that. The largest set had to be numenor I think, which was essentially a medival town with streets and vendors, nothing crazy. The only other location was the shanty town where the black elf and herbalist lady lived. Even the numenorian camp they made was like 20 tents. Do you have any idea how much work they did on the Shire, Rivendell, helmsdeep/Minas tirith, osgiliath and all the other sets in LOTR.
The costumes ranged from okay with the orcs and elves to dogshit with the numenoreans
The CGI is pretty decent, I could see that intro battle in the first episode being expensive and some of the shots of locations like lindon were good.
The battle/action scenes were laughably bad, with the largest being that 1 min intro battle and then the battle in the shanty town with the orcs which was not remotely large enough to cost so much money
I don’t see where the money could have gone
There's also the half-foot camp/sets, the workers' camp prison, the dwarf mine and (a big one) the outpost for the Orc battle near the end.
Then you've got the small town where the mordor reveal happens, minor sets like the intro where Galadriel fights the troll, and the expensive props like all the boats that were rigged up on animatronics as far as I'm aware.
And then on the cgi front, if I remember right there wasn't a single real horse on set. And there were a lot of horses. That's just one example. Every half-foot scene would've been a pain as well. They really used cgi as if they had an unlimited budget
The overall point being, the show's production values easily rival your typical $200m blockbuster, but over 8 hours instead. Factor in cheaper actors, more talking, less action scenes per minute and reused content and I think $60m/episode is probably not that far off.
Bear in mind that HotD cost $20m/episode reportedly.
I still don’t think any of those sets are justifiable. The harfoot camps are literally just wagons in a bush, most of the dwarf plot takes place in the main guys room or an empty cave, the workers camp was not extensive.
The CGI aspects I’ll agree with though that’s somewhat by choice. Real horses weren’t a problem in the trilogy, same with hobbit design.
Basically my point is the trilogy was superior in almost every aspect including set, costume, design and action sequences by a mile and at a fraction of the cost. CGI being the major difference i guess
they used a lot of it on building studios and put it all in the israeli typewriter to make the show the most expensive ever for marketing purposes.
ai writer
Well it sure as frick wasn't the costumes or the writing. This was an obvious money laundering venture.
making a bad fanfiction of lotr appendices what does it look like?
The funniest scene from this shitshow
>Some numenorean teenagers (they are supposed to be 6ft gigachads in the book) are the soldiers
>They are numenor strongest soldiers that don't even know how to swordfight
>Galadriels teaches them to kill orcs and humilliates them on the procees
>Elendil randomly says he will make a lieutenant who manages to scratch,Galadriel. Yes a rookie is now a lieutenant
It's called money laundering.
Yep, just look at Wheel of Time. Totally mismanaged but the adaptation gave Amazon a cost-effective way to build a new studio for the long term.
It has to be money laundering, nobody ever talks about this show, hotd at least was popular for a while
Wasn't HotD also cheaper and looked as good if not better?
Take this statement however you want: HOTD is just as good if not slightly better than post-S4 game of thrones. It’s literally just more/ another season of game of thrones. And I say, yeah, obviously there was a hideous drop in qual and the final seasons were garbage, but still god-level kino compared to creepy modern corporate slop like Rangz
/got/ would still be going on every day but it was spammed and derailed endlessly by some troony posting pics of the child characters from the show in bondage gear and shit, jannies never did shit and this was endless spam for days and after awhile no one bothered posting there anymore and it just went away, I think it was a janny intentionally destroying the thread because there is no reason why that grotesque spam should ever flood a series of threads like that nonstop for days without, gee, I dunno, pruning the fricking images or banning the poster? had to be a janny/mod, question is why
Of course “/rop/“ just went away after the first few episodes dropped. Go in the archive and look at any given /rop/ thread, endless spam of what look like fake YouTube comments or fake yelp reviews like “This show was amazing! Can’t wait for the next exciting episode!” “Everyone I know loves this new Amazon series!” “Best show evah!” etc. just endless literal bot posts like that not ever mentioning anything specific from the show or actually talking about it, just stick bot spam, and of course a handful of anons going “what the frick is this shit?” and maybe one actual troon damage controlling the thread and calling everyone who doesn’t praise the show bigots or whatever, literal creepy ass shit
People always joke about how jannies aren't paid shit but this is exactly how they can get paid. Especially when you have a megacorp like Amazon pumping money into all forms of marketing through outsourced marketing firms that Amazon has insane expectations of with very little pay.
It's easy to forget that this isn't reddit but it's in fact not reddit.
Who cares, only watch as a Welsh waifu simulator anyway
The worst attempted troon shill campaign for this was pretending this talentless, ratfaced c**t was hot. I only watched the first two episodes when they came out so I could meme about it with Cinemaphile but unironically how could anyone sit through 10 hours of that miserable c**t “acting.” A welsh wife simulator? If she was my wife I would have ripped open her jaws like King Kong after 4 months of being married and got thrown in jail for life and it would have been worth it.
That's not nice she's pretty 🙁
>participates in this flagrantly evil anti-white hatred campaign that cost a billion dollars
even if she looked like Aphrodite I would still look at her and see Hades
Fair.
Not really. I'll grant that she's slim, white and a woman but she looks like a rodent bro
If she was exactly the same but had big boobs or a big ass I would post a Pepe with his eyes popping out in response. Without all that what do you got? a flat, no-ass fridge that looks like a rat.
Make sure to check out the Agatha Christie adaptation she's starring in as part of this year's Christmas TV schedule.
The BBC changed her characters' love interest to a black man, should be good!
we’re eating good tonight Morftrannies! 😀
One waifu to rule them all, one waifu to find them, One waifu to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Their own salaries and bonuses.
What a poorly worded headline. Do you need ANY qualifications to be a journalist in 2023?
>hate White people
>(pretend to) believe men are women
>advocate for the importation of millions of third worlders to live off welfare
>advocate for or participate in trans kid child strip shows
So just be a leftist and you’re in. Helps if you have israeli connections too obv.
for the importation of millions of third worlders to live off welfare
the only problem you should worry about
>moronic giant corporation decides it can just start producing films and series
>production companies turn up and get billions from them
>make the show as cheaply as possible
>pocket the difference
this is the business model of people making shows for amazon, the insane thing is that amazon has enough money to keep pouring down the drain like this for prime video which most people just have as a side benefit of amazon prime
giant corporation decides it can just start producing films and series
companies turn up and get billions from them
>>make the show as cheaply as possible
the difference
this is how south america works
Anybody else looking forward to their kino coming out soon?
They play husband and wife
No.
fried chicken
Someone who gets paid to write professionally wrote this headline.
the cultural impact of the TV series is 0
meanwhile people still post the same dogshit LOTR threads that existed before the series
I like those tho
https://vocaroo.com/1TNJGKGqacHA
I want to say at least 50% of the budget was spent on marketing with the rest essentially put into the pockets of people who do frick all, with a small fraction being used on actual production