Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Disparu" channel.

  1.  @KemetledAfrica  The difference is none of those were documentaries. They were Hollywood productions loosely based on historical events. If you're referring to when Elizabeth Taylor played her in a Hollywood MOVIE, the studios put whatever star was popular at the time in the leading roles because they're MOVIES, not a documentary. In documentaries about her they show her images from statues and coins. If they have an actress to walk across the screen briefly, it's always someone that would look very similar to how she did according to the historical record. The actress being mixed has nothing to do with the historical accuracy of this DOCUMENTARY that's intentionally portraying her as something they know she wasn't. Edit: If they wanted to do black Pharaohs they have the entire, though shortly lived, 25th dynasty. There's no need to mess with the 30th.
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  2.  @reek4062  How much are you being paid to troll all the comment sections of every creator talking bad about this show? Do you know first that this person is actually male and secondly that they've never had sex because that's what incel means? Involuntary celibate. So you've stalked them in real life since they reached puberty to know such intimate facts about their life, and you think they are the problem.
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  3. I've got to say, I loved Colbert's expressions throughout the interview. You could tell he was not happy and was biting his tongue. Unlike Oswalt, Colbert is a HUGE Tolkien nerd. He can recite everything from the Silmarillion from memory. As much as I don't like his show or his takes, this was clearly painful for him. Which on the other hand I'm glad it was. He sold out to do the interview in the first place, but at least everyone could tell how he was really feeling deep down. The question about Elf hair and his reaction to the answer are chef's kiss.
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  4.  @MatthewCYN15  The show he was in previously is also by RTD. Disperu also said in this review that he's difficult to understand and highlighted some lines. There's little doubt why RTD picked him looking at the show and it's not rude to say someone is difficult to understand if they are. The truth isn't rude, it's simply the truth.
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  5.  @MatthewCYN15  "Do aliens think like humans"? You clearly don't watch the show. Old or NuWho. The reason he has a female companion is to be his conscious. To make up for the emotions he knows he doesn't have. To learn about them and the reasoning behind them. That's the original. Now after hundreds of years he's learned them himself, to a much greater degree, and has become very human himself.
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  6.  @KimmminemWest  We know it wasn't black. And yes, we kinda do. We know what Macedonians looked like and what Greeks looked like, which is what she was. Mediterranean, not sub saharan African. We have written descriptions of her in the historical record, we have coins with her image on them, we have descriptions of her very inbred ancestry, etc.
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  7.  @DAISY-cm8hc  Are you seriously trying to claim the play Macbeth is historically accurate? Romeo and Juliet was based on real people too, but nothing in that play took place in real life. Do you really believe Shakespeare somehow knew Cesar said Et tu to Brutus? Shakespeare is fiction. A documentary is non fiction just like a biography is non fiction. Fiction means not true. The director said she intentionally called it a documentary for political reasons. So you're defending her with claims when she made it very clear it's a historic documentary.
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  8.  @KimmminemWest  Because she didn't. She was not sub saharan African. Period. We know what she looked like. Documentary means historical facts. It means non fiction, the truth. That's not the truth.
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  9. They LOST! They didn't save anything. That's the worst part of what they're saying.
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  10. OMG yes! Love Viggo.
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  11.  @Amaranthine1000  You lasted longer than me. I dipped out after the 3rd episode. It was just not The Doctor and that's who I watched for.
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  12.  @jneumy566  But they aren't writing it. It's already written. All they should do is fill in blanks and adjust the material to fit the medium. You are correct that they are writing their own story, but they never should have so it's just more evidence of their own egos rather than just inexperience.
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  13.  @TroySavary  I don't think you understand this is a video and commentary about episode 1. Did any of that happen in that episode? No. Was the story in that episode that he abandoned them? Yes. The problem is that because the first episode is bad and takes this route with the characters, it will cause people to not watch anymore of the show. It's a perfect example of how writing out an entire series with the assumption that you're owed the audience backfires constantly. You destroy the previous main characters that are why people even want to watch it in the first place, and somewhere down the road, attempt to redeem them, but the built in audience is already gone because you destroyed the characters they care about. Doing it completely off screen is even worse.
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  14. I WAS a massive Disney fan. My Christmas tree is Disney themed with ornaments that I'd purchase from every trip so it held those wonderful memories. I loved all the classics (Lady and the Tramp is my favorite) and couldn't wait to go see their latest animated movies. I was one of those people. I don't give a crap what they do now, and will never step foot in those parks again. The experience has declined so much, they are a shadow of their former self. They're destroying the classics I loved by removing love as the driving force. I hope chasing that 2% of the audience was worth losing people like me who never batted an eye at dropping serious cash.
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  15.  @MatthewCYN15  Says someone who in other posts it's clear hasn't watched the series before because you've asked some pretty dumb things to have seen it in the past. It wasn't racist in the 70s which again you'd know if you watched it.
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  16. That look directly at the camera afterwards is gold.
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  17.  @jimmynaylor1759  There are tons of fantasy books that would fit their vision so much better than Tolkien. Even ones consider high fantasy. The fact they even acknowledge that you can't tell the difference by having the human male lift her hair to check her ears shows they have no idea what they are doing. Most of the Dwarves seem to be the only thing they got mostly right as far as costumes. I'm not sure why the humans look like they should be in the Middle East 2-3000 years ago.
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  18. Well they killed her husband who's also an Elf and her brother. Maybe it's just female Elves that are invincible.
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  19. That's about hippies that were doing a Hobbit fest kind of thing. It was rather disturbing and he wanted no part of it.
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  20. Worse really. They've made the LotR impossible to occur. It can't happen at this point because key figures won't be born.
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  21.  @shaneoconnor1407  They could have easily avoided that by following the source material which would resulted in a large audience that would make Bezos happy.
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  22. This was always going to be a problem with her having so many companions. Pretty much every companion of The Doctor has a tragic ending. With so many there's no real bonds created making everything very unemotional.
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  23. ​ @nadw2354 ​ Oh, you think so? The rights were partially sold during his lifetime. The animated movie and Tom show came of it. He hated them. "Super fans" at the time we're hippies that dressed up like Hobbits, which he also hated.
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  24.  @oliviamaynard9372  Because he husband led the armies. It lessens her and at no time after she enters Middle Earth is she described how she's being portrayed. She didn't traipse around Middle Earth hunting baddies. The Elves left most baddies to men which is explained by all dragons being slayed by men. They only engaged when things crossed into their territories. They are making her human instead of Elvish. It's not in Tolkien's work is the "big deal".
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  25.  @cubablue602  Galadriel didn't lead armies and leave her kingdom unprotected to hunt something nobody, including her, knew was a risk. Sauron was in the East building his armies so them having her running around Middle Earth hunting orcs is not even remotely true. Tell me, since she didn't lead armies, didn't do battles, and didn't leave her kingdom why would she be wearing armor or have a need for it?
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  26.  @oliviamaynard9372  George Washington is a historical figure that was real so no having him portrayed by a black person would not be okay anymore than having MLK portrayed by a white person would be. Every job has requirements. When it comes to acting those requirements include body size, race, facial features, and even hair color. Even in literature characters are described in great detail. Idiars Elba has already said he will not play Bond so your analogy that you're basing everything is false. There used to be a time when art was respected unfortunately people seem to thing anything created is for other people to rip off.
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  27. I know! They're mindless creatures whose only desire is to kill. That's why the one Sauromon was able to make was so scary. Not only could he travel by daylight. He had intelligence. Limited of course, but still.
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  28. Hallmark. There’s a reason it’s still around. It’s after Christmas so if you’re lucky it’ll be a mystery one.
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  29.  @superluigi6968 Which isn’t this time period. This is hundreds of years before that. Even you show unintentionally why this makes no sense. They started looking and investing after a single fight. Here they’re fighting multiple times but the Jedi somehow don’t know about them? Go rewatch the prequels. Some didn’t believe but a few were still looking into things anyway. Edit: The Emperor wasn’t able to get in the Senate because they thought there were no Sith. They knew there were after Darth Maul in the first one. Him being able to mask himself was part of his power. He was powerful enough to do that making him impossible to detect and more powerful than any Jedi.
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  30.  @joesmutz9287  The difference is that George had the same role in GoT. He left in season 5 or 6 to "work" on the next books and that's when the story went hell. So there's already a track record when it comes to his involvement in it.
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  31. It's making the good guys really be the bad guys and it's not Sauron's fault because he really tries not to become that. It's what Disney did with Maleficent. What they are doing is disgusting and intentional.
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  32. It's shocking that actors are now making everything about them personally rather than portraying a role. If they are being themselves and their personal stuff impacts the part, that makes them terrible actors by definition.
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  33.  @pjetrs  Amazon subscription is mostly for the shipping and other perks. Their subscriptions aren't directly tied to their streaming service like Netflix. Their success for that is based on hours watched.
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  34. Is saying you couldn't condemn an animal for killing to survive humanizing them? That's the same with orcs. Just because that's someone's opinion on how a Catholic responded to a question, doesn't make it what Tolkien ment. A Christian isn't supposed to condemn anything. That's God's job, and that's how he answered.
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  35. That's the odd thing with this one. Amazon and Bezos said they wanted it to attract a 100 million worldwide audience. It really is that Bezos wanted a cultural phenomenon like GoT was for his own ego. He wanted that with his name and company attached to it. So no, this isn't like Obi Wan where they're intentionally destroying established characters so people will like their new ones so they get all the merchandise money. It really was intended to be good. Just they've all forgotten what good is. Edit: The Little Platoon does a great explanation. It's a 2 hour video, but his take on why Bezos and the showrunners made this is the first little bit in the introduction. I think it's insightful. He makes the case, that unlike other shows where the people associated with it don't know or like the source material, he has no doubt they truly love Tolkien. They just don't understand why.
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  36. This is NOT Tolkien's language. If you pay attention, it's pretty regular English. It's not written poetically. There aren't these sayings or metaphors everywhere. It just seems like it is because of the setting. Meanwhile, they're trying to make it sound like Shakespeare.
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  37.  @darktenor4967  That's from the books. Book II Chapter 7: The Mirror of Galadriel. Why would they need a "more faithful adaptation". More faithful than Tolkien's own writing? Edit: The only thing added was her knowing how many times he'd worn the Ring.
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  38. I think it's more talking about her own abilities. She can see inside his mind, but keep hers closed to him. He's not in possession of the One at that time. She goes on right after that in the book, saying she knows his plans for the Elves. It's after that that Frodo sees the ring and she explains it to him.
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  39. Most likely the way they're intending on spinning this.
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  40.  @AlexandreLima-yu5jh  No. She was being court martialed for disobeying orders. Orders given by the council. They never said anything about "resources" or even the 2 pilots she got killed. Only that she disobeyed orders. Leia sanctioned the mission supposedly which she doesn't have the authority to do as a single Senator. Meaning they accepted Leia's authority over them like she's the Emperor. Edit: What do you think "unsanctioned mission" means? It means disobeying orders.
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  41. It was founded by Elrond's brother, Elros, who chose to be human because they were half Elves. So yes, you're correct.
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  42.  @reek4062  First, caps is yelling. Please stop yelling. Secondly this show isn't based on Jackson's movies, they're based on Tolkien's books (supposed to be). If they reference the movies at all, they'll be sued. They are desecrating Tolkien's life's work.
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  43. I've watched the same movie over and over and never tired of it. I'm always excited when I see it come on. I've read books like that too. Just because you know what's coming, doesn't mean it's still not spectacular.
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  44. My idea was each season focus on the fall of each group. They all fell. The Elves due to Celebrimbor's desire to out shine his ancestor, The Black Numenorens who chose to follow Melkor in their desire to be immortal, the Dwarves to their greed. Ending with the last battle of Elves and men that saw Sauron lose the One Ring. Each could start with Sauron gifting them the rings, except the Elves would be them making them. Edit: Unfortunately the showrunners want to retell the Fellowship which isn't what the 2nd Age is about at all. They've already destroyed enough of the canon that Lord of the Rings wouldn't have happened.
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  45.  @LeoS300  Don't forget there's also now black girls in the Lost BOYS in Peter Pan. I seriously hate this decade and can't wait for it to be over.
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  46.  @lauri3548  Absolutely not because that would be against the lore and against everything the author intended. Write your own fanfic fantasy and have published. You're free to do that. You're not free to take the work and art of another and do whatever you wish. That's called plagiarism and copyright infringement.
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  47.  @lotsofspots  They weren't colonized or subjugated. Whenever Egypt would get conquered the new rulers wouldn't move their people in and push out Egyptians. That would have been incredibly dumb because they were far more advanced than most other areas. They did tax them and take control of the coveted trade routes that went through there. There's little deviation in their DNA throughout those periods. When the 25th dynasty ruled, there wasn't a sudden influx of sub saharan DNA into the Egyptian people.
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  48.  @KimmminemWest  She had the same colored skin as most Mediterranean people because that's what she was. She was not sub saharan African however which is what this documentary is claiming.
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  49. Here!
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  50.  @teamfossil6312  Her finding them somewhere makes sense since she can just fly around in space super fast. Nick finding them one doesn't unless because she reports to Fury he was supposed to relay the information.
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  51.  @MatthewCYN15  The Pandorica The Doctor says a lot of things. This is actions, not words. You've never said something in anger but didn't act on it? Everyone has which is the point of things like that in the scripts. To make him relatable. Time Lord Victorious was way more than just that. It was predicted to the 4th Doctor by the Dalek that he would become everything he opposed. Proving the point of the comment. It was undone when the Eleventh reset all the fixed points in time during the Pandorica arch. Twelfth Doctor threatened that but did not do it. Instead he told her, Me is the name btw, to stay far away from him. He then brought Clara back (sort of) and she's out of time traveling with Me. The only time The Doctor eliminated an entire race was the Daleks which he swore to never do again. He was forced to kill but it was always with great regret. Even in the Time Lord Victorious he allowed a few to escape intentionally. People are allowed to comment as much as they like about the recent seemingly permanent development of a lack of empathy from the 2 most recent attempts at The Doctor. There's a reason the ratings took a nose dive and are continuing to drop regardless of Tenant's and RTD's return. I find it interesting that you only mention him changing a fixed point in time in the Victorious arch but not the much more heinous acts he committed. Like destroying an entire planet and creating a time rift and time loops. He didn't have a companion because he didn't want one. All The Doctor's companions have tragic lives except 1 or 2 across the entire 50 years. He couldn't stand the thought of condemning another person to that fate for a brief time. That reminded him of why he had them in the first place. To keep himself grounded and empathetic. Edit: Even though you claim to have portrayed The Doctor in audio shows (not cannon btw), you have zero grasp or understanding of the character. Not surprising. I've been told by those that work with them that actors are pretty stupid and surface level. Thanks for proving it true.
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  52.  @jbiz979  Hollywood makes a lot of documentaries. A documentary is a film based on historical facts. I'll stop caring when they do. I'm not the one trying to claim history is wrong because I want a historical figure to be my race.
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  53. Oh, the Tolkien Society does it all the time in their conference. They'll have things like Frodo and Sam are gay coded and crap like that. It's quite disturbing.
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  54. Celeborn. One of the last Great Elves looked like a clam. I can't. I just can't.
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  55. ​ @N.S.M.C1999  That we'll die off. I watched a video today of...something complaining about D&D players. It said they'd be breed out. I'm like, not by you! I'm afraid we're the only ones breeding here.
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  56. Put up is a very modern term that would not be used by Tolkien. You are correct that it doesn't fit the way the language flows in LotR. The rest is the modern day virtue signaling as each tries to reach higher on the hierarchy than the other.
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  57. I don't understand how Bucky isn't powerful. He's just as strong as Cap. He took the serum.
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  58. They're threatening some with removing their ability to leave reviews.
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  59.  @SecondTake123  They can be if they are written that way. It's not just a fictional world. That you think that shows your own ignorance. It was written as a mythology for Britain. Britain had been invaded so often, their ancient history was lost. They had no reference to ancient religions like the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and other civilizations. So he created it out of his love for his homeland and as a gift to it. This is one of the most influential books ever written and it deserves respect.
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  60.  @hardatworktom2244  The character Morgan Feedmon played wasn't from the lore. He was inspired by a British TV series. So he's a new character who the main character meets in Africa. It's completely feasible that that character could be black. That's not the same. The same would be if he played Friar Tuck, Robin Hood, the Sheriff, or King. Now if in the series they had someone who escaped from the lands in the East in RoP, they could feasibly be black. It's not feasible that a race that lives Underground with little to no sun exposure would be or have dark/black skinned members.
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  61. ​ @deez3913  Because they didn't do it. The elves all spoke fairly softly.
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  62.  @earlofdoncaster5018  That's according to Tolkien's writing. It doesn't matter what you personally feel about it or anything else because it's not your work or world to define the parameters of. Edit: It's clear you know next to nothing about ancient mythologies. All of them have examples of Gods that destroy people and places for turning away from them. It's thoss mythologies that Tolkien tried to capture in his works which is a mythology for Britain. Tolkien didn't agree with C.S. Lewis writing an allegory in his works. Tolkien didn't write them, which you're implying he did. You'd know that if you watched the video.
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  63. Morgoth made it with magic so that's why the ring could only be destroyed there. Now it was made by a random old man with water. It means the entire trip was useless because any fire could have destroyed it.
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  64. ​ @thedealmama3070  Not if all they are is who they have sex with or what body parts they have. I'm afraid Tolkien didn't "represent" them in his works.
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  65. ​ @ChaoticYak1  The Elves are an embarrassment and slap in the face to Tolkien's descriptions of them.
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  66. Oh, honey. We DID do this to the LotR films. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot to complain about, unlike this show. You must not have been around way back then. The discussions on the boards were rather heated. There is absolutely nothing about this show that resembles Tolkien's world. It's git names from it, but that's all. This show sucks. Even if it was a stand-alone fantasy. It might appeal to the soap opera crowd, but definitely not the Tolkien fandom. Edit: Do you go to people's offices and tell them that about their job? This is these guys' jobs. Don't like it, don't watch it.
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  67. She did off herself, but we don't know if it was by asp.
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  68. Correct or the 600 million people that have read and love his works. The true Fellowship.
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  69. Judging by the previous episodes they are indeed trying to portray them as the bad guys. Again.
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  70.  @5000G-x2z  Yes but 99.9% of Earths population identifies based on their country not continent. Russians are from Russia not Eurasian, Chinese are from China, Germans are from Germany, etc. There also needs to be context taken. She's claiming all of Africa is sub saharan African so yes, many would take offense to someone who has no connection to their country or history demanding they identify how she wants them to.
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  71.  @reek4062  Yes, stuff was changed which was discussed and debated within the fandom at the time. The majority decided that despite the changes, it was the best representation of Tolkien's work that likely will ever be made. Jackson addressed and explained most of the changes that were made with the fandom at the time. Him, staff, and Sir Ian Mckellen all communicated with us via message boards and blogs during production and after release. The books say Faramir interrogates Gollum rather than kill him for fishing in the Frobidden Pool (entrance to Henneth Annun). It's not unreasonable to assume an interrogation would involve some pressure. That's not "abuse" especially since he should be killed as his proper punishment. Faramir may have been wise and kind, but it didn't mean he didn't perform his duty. The Mouth of Sauron scene is only in the extended editions so if they don't have those, that is unknown to them and only a part cut for time (which it was). Frodo sending Sam away (not Sam leaving Frodo) was highly contested along with removing Tom, and not doing the Scouring of the Shire. The last two were removed for times sake and Frodo sending Sam away didn't change what ultimately occurred as a result of entering Cirith Ungol. These are things, that though debated within the fandom, doesn't take away someone's fan card nor does it call for degrading other fans who love the movies simply because someone else disagrees. That's not how this fandom works because just reading and understanding Tolkien's work requires an intelligence that behaving that way, is frankly, beneath us.
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  72. ​ @earlofdoncaster5018  He was Morgoth's pupil. His follower. He didn't want to "do good". He wanted control. Those are not the same thing.
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  73.  @authorpgbadzey5775  The fans have been asking about him since before the first trailer. They've yet to give an answer.
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  74. That's because Gollum wasn't originally evil like Morgoth or Sauron. He was corrupted. He was showing how corrupt the ring would make someone over time. Smegul (sp) was his original personality trying to break free. I'm just saying he wasn't a "villian" but more a look at the corruption being close to evil causes.
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  75.  @chrissymc886  The 25th dynasty was Nubians. They conquered Egypt with the help of religious leaders. They had lost a lot of their power because people were turning away from the gods. Nubia had the same religion and it was still fervently believed by them. So the religious leaders helped the Nubians take over Egypt so they would enforce the religious practices and restore their power. The Egyptian people did not become Nubians though.
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  76. Tolkien never really said. He wrote many possibilities on how they were originally created but never settled on one. 3 ways to be exact. That was one of them. None are in the books he wrote. They were published after his death. So not canon.
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  77.  @apjgraphix  Everyone knew he had problems long before how he was behaving became public and even after that it was constant excuses for it. That's not how it should be dealt with and the constant passes he got only encouraged and exasperated his behavior. It never should have reached the point that he put people's lives in danger. He should have been committed long before that point (and most anyone else would have been) but because he's an actor and protected by Hollywood and the press he was allowed to continue to escalate until he jeopardized their bottom line. Continuing to go "well he has mental problems" doesn't help him and doesn't help his victims. Edit: As for it "changing" him, if you look back at interviews and pay attention to buried reports, he's always been this way. It just happened outside of California where they couldn't better control the reporting.
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  78. ​​​​ @austinhill5550  ​ He didn't create one language. He created several. He was a linguist. It wasn't simple words like children do. He also didn't leave much open. The only place really left pretty much alone was the East. I'm going to assume by your comment that you haven't read The Silmarillion. In it, he maps out every character's linage, everything they did up until they're introduced into the other book, how each race came to be, how the world was created, the gods, why the world is how it is when LotR and The Hobbit starts, etc. Yes, he was and still is unmatched in world building. I've read enough King to know he builds off of what's already there. To even attempt to compare the two is laughable. Edit: Multiverse? That's not been claimed. At no point has anyone connected with this show claimed it's a parallel world or multiverse. The opposite in fact. They say blatantly it's taking place in exactly the same world Tolkien wrote. These are the same characters. Not different versions of them in another dimension. "This obsession with being 100% accurate to an author's vision..." You mean like Jackson did? Wrong work to attempt that card with.
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  79.  @aarons6935  We certainly know that money didn't go to costuming. They're terrible so far and cheap looking. People have found identical items on site that mass produce period pieces.
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  80. I don't know how to break this to you. That book isn't canon. It's a compilation of writings Tolkien made when he was working out LotR and thinking about expanding it. He described 3 different ways orcs could have been created but never settled on one. Just like in most mythology around the world, we don't know how every single creature was created. We do know Melkor/Morgoth created many creatures in Mordor, like dragons. We don't know how exactly he made them either, and it doesn't seem something people seem to care about. So this fixation on orcs is kind of strange. Edit: It was compiled and published after Tolkien's death by Christopher. He did that so people could see his father's creative process.
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  81. I believe that's likely. If Sauron is who has been leaked to be, they are portraying him as being forced into it and was trying to escape being a bad guy. It's disgusting because he always chose that since he was in Valinor following Melkor.
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  82. I think it's hilarious they are accusing the fans of gatekeeping when they are the ones that bought it and control it. Like we have some type of mystical powers to force them to not ruin it.
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  83. They've stopped saying adaptation and now the marketing says "based on". That's how you know they are starting to sweat from the backlash and they know they aren't winning the marketing campaign on this show.
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  84.  @kdnu27  It can't be her traveling to Middle Earth because Celeborn is dead in this series. Somehow he's alive in LotR, but dead in the Age before it. Since you've read the book and have no issues other than the time crunch, I guess you're fine with all the lore breaking. Hobbits in an Age they don't exist in, Celeborn dead, Gladriel leaving her kingdom behind defenseless because her husband isn't even there to protect it, Dwarves with no beards, an illegal relationship between a human and elf even though it was done several times in the past, etc.
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  85.  @bridgelaurie9490  No. The writers are projecting their crap onto another person's work. It's impossible for us to project onto it because we don't control it. What we do know is every other exchange between these two characters and their backstory and culture. Something the writers clearly don't. So we can look at all of those and understand this is not how they were portrayed by Tolkien.
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  86. It's because they want our society to see bad people as merely victims of their circumstances and the people fighting against them are bad because they're the ones who drove them to it. It's a disgusting recent trope.
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  87.  @waynetech10  I can understand that because it's a throwback more to the original character as a detective since DC is Detective Comics. He was originally the world's greatest detective before he became known as the dark knight. He wasn't a millionaire playboy or anything like has been portrayed in more recent movies. I've always preferred that Batman to his more modern incarnation so I enjoyed it despite its flaws. Edit: Alfred, as an example, wasn't an old butler that helped him out in that one. He's a former MI6 who wasn't a butler, but was close with his father so took up protecting him after his parents were killed. He's who taught him everything he knows. This would have been Batman's first time really putting those skills to the test so he's still learning and isn't as overpowered as the character is now.
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  88. Literally everyone knows that. Tolkien himself said it would need to be changed depending on the medium. He didn't change characters' motivations, he didn't make evil characters sometimes good, he didn't change the feeling of Tolkien's world. He made the clear distinction between good and evil. Edit: This series changes EVERYTHING about the characters and their backstory. It doesn't hold even a glitter of light to Jackson's movies.
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  89.  @GFarrsight  They weren't black. We have this thing we can tell genetics from skeletons with now. It's called DNA. They're as black as Nordic people in Europe are the same shade as Italians in Europe. We know who the rulers of Egypt were. We know when it was united and by who. We know the 25th dynasty was black because it was invaded by the Nubians. The intensity of the sun is not the same in north Africa as it is in sub saharan Africa. It snows in north Africa on occasion. It doesn't in sub saharan Africa. Edit: Next you're going to tell me all Natives have the same colored skin and I'll have to better educate you about my people.
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  90.  @eacaraxe  Letter 297 was never sent and was before he finished the Silmarillion. It was discussing how he used names and such. Letter 320 was very short and said she was like Mary in a Catholic sense. She was a leader in the rebellion (which says so in the Silmarillion, but clarifies she didn't participate in the Kinslaying) and rejected her pardon that allowed her to return. It was her choice to remain. She'd been forgiven just like the others. She is the one that continued her punishment. She passed a test she'd set for herself in her rejection of the ring. None of what you're attempting to claim is true. The showrunners also only mentioned the Silmarillion and appendices that were used for reference. You're attempting to create a narrative that's whole spun out of nothing. Edit: If by HoME you mean the Lost Tales, those are not canon and aren't considered so. They are unfinished stories that Tolkien had not completed and was working on. He wrote in a couple of letters about the folly and silliness he knew trying to flesh out every story was, but he still loved doing it. No author's work is complete until it's sent by them to published as every story goes through many alterations. Just like there were many iterations that he scraped before completing the Silmarillion. He wrote 7 different versions.
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  91. Ooooo an oldie but goodie reference!
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  92. So the writing, fight scenes, dialogue, and characters were all bad but it's somehow good? Being better than crap doesn't make something good or worth spending time on.
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  93. Show me a single successful trilogy that didn't have plot details and character development. I'll wait.
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  94. I definitely got RoP vibes from this writing since the first episode. I was wondering if there was an overlap.
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  95.  @englishlady9797  Oh dear Lord. They said at ComicCon that he's from the southlands and he's in chains presumably as a slave of the orcs or goblins. This is just going to be a steaming pile of Roots and feminism in a fantasy setting.
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  96. It's not in Britain where he is from. It also isn't one that's been used since the 1940s. It meant ghost or spy in the 80s and 90s. Just because something 80 years ago was a slur doesn't mean it's one forever. Gay used to mean joyful.
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  97. I'm sure most of them were bots.
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  98.  @hizzlemobizzle  That would be your US History courses. It appears you didn't attend high school because that's when World History is a separate subject and your knowledge of US History is grade school level. Don't try to claim that's what's taught now because my sons recently graduated high school.
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  99.  @etnomadaul  A movie made over 50 years ago isn't relevant to today. Why would you complain about something that happened so long ago? During that time studios owned the actors and they put them in whatever role they wished. Who was lead actor depended only on who audiences liked at the time. Liz Taylor was closer to what Cleopatra looked like than is in this current show too. Since Cleopatra was Greek aka European.
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  100. Um she killed her brother. Caesar wanted the money her husband owed Rome. All she was doing was buying time to prevent Rome from invading. That was her entire reason to get involved with Caesar.
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  101.  @WorthlessDeadEnd  He didn't keep quiet on the promotion tour. He kept giving the director evil eyes, refused to ever say it was great, and tried his best to let fans know they'd trashed his character. Of course that was with the second movie because he wasn't completely dog crap in the first one. That one was still holding him up as a major, powerful figure. The second one destroyed Luke. Now in Mandelorian they've got Luke and Leia torturing people when the resistance took control of the government. It wasn't enough to do what they did in the sequels, they had to take it to a whole new level and make the good people just as evil as the bad guys.
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  102. Durin
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  103. It can if there's enough pressure built up. There was no indication of that so no.
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  104. The article talking about the sword being just like the dagger in WoT and so they just blamed Jordan of copying Tolkien when that's not in Tolkien and it's the writers adding Jorden in.
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  105. He said he understood why some people think it's good. That so little happens there's not enough information to really form an opinion one way or the other. Then there's the concept of different opinions which is totally allowed. I've liked things they don't and they've liked things I don't. The problem is you expect an echo chamber rather than listen to those different opinions and are creating a reason to justify why he thinks differently than you want him to.
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  106. It's slang for tell the gossip you know. Tea=gossip. That's been slang in the US for several years.
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  107. You've made 5 comments on this channel. Mostly complaining that people are enjoying entertaining reviews of a crap show. Why are YOU watching this and complaining? Also, how are WE "bullies". We're bullying a multibillion dollar company? Do you think first?
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  108. I noticed in the listed review one was "out of the box". A bit of honesty crept in there. I applaud them for saying without saying. Out of the box doesn't belong with Tolkien.
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  109. Doesn't change all the race crap or bad writing. Usually if someone is going to have that kind of arc it's hinted at with inner dialogue or an aside between that character and another one where the one that's going to have an arc talks about being better or the other one encouraging them. The first episode should be your best foot forward to bring people into the show and make them want to see what possibly could happen next. This doesn't do that. Edit: Luke didn't have an arc in the sequels. He remained bitter until the end. Even his last scenes were him just wanting to die.
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  110. The best movie to depict high school, at least in the 80s, was the Breakfast Club. Most groups just simply didn't interact with each other. You had the occasional dare or prank, but there wasn't out right hostility or removal because you dated the wrong person. You might hide it though out of embarrassment. Yes there were tables that certain peer groups occupied. We were allowed to eat in the courtyards too so certain areas were where certain groups would be. Mine was between the buildings and the Gym because no one ever came back there and we could hide smoking. Edit: The groups were the preppie ones, the cool kids (heavy metal, druggies, wore mostly black), the nerds/weirdos (they socialized together), the gangs (bloods and crips), the jocks, and normies. The jocks and preps would hangout together and overlap.
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  111.  @TheCursedCat1927  She's been all over every video about this show. The last one I saw her on she was doing the "but we don't know who her mother was" which is one of the arguments black supremacist use to try to justify these claims.
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  112.  @nonmatt  Velma season 2 was already finished when the first season was. They just split it up. It was getting a season 2 no matter what. Netflix does that all the time. It's why no matter how good or bad the show is it almost always has 3 seasons. It's just what they order from the start.
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  113.  @AlexiosJG  Nothing wrong with Hallmarks. At least it gives us women what we want to a better degree than Hollywood right now. Women are still feminine and men are still masculine.
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  114.  @shabadooshabadoo4918  They're not horrible. Better than Robyn Hood. Formulaic for sure. Girl meets boy, girl looses boy, girl finds boy again, and they live happily ever after. You know, normal and a bit cheesy. Edit: A lot of them are up tight feminist city girl meets traditional country man and realizes that's what she wanted all along.
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  115. I noped right out of WoT after the first episode. They can claim " we turned the wheel" all they like. It's the played out trope of being able to destroy the work of someone else by claiming it's not the same universe, time line, whatever.
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  116. I'm shocked! Truly that they're not going to do what they said and make it closer to the books. Just so surprised
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  117. We don't actually know that. That's just the evil sister's interpretation of what happened. They just showed us what Osha saw and there's nothing there indicating the Jedi did anything.
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  118. The very start tells me they don't know anything about Tolkien. Bilbo wasn't throwing the party. He wanted no part of it and got so upset about it, he put on the ring to runaway from it. It was being thrown by his family and the Shire because he was now the oldest living Hobbit in history. It's a historic milestone for them as a species. So to characterize it as the Ring corrupting Bilbo and describing him as some type of Emperor when his own family just kept trying to take his stuff is insane. I'm going to find that podcast and see if you can comment on it.
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  119. They made more of them.
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  120. It hasn't been that in nearly 80 years. It was regularly used in cartoons and spy films to mean ghost or spy. This idea that context doesn't matter is insane. It's not the n word. It's a word with many different meanings depending on context. Edit: Are we going to rename crackers now too since it can also be a slur depending on context?
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  121.  @critica77y77  That's about as documented as the asp she killed herself with, which means not at all. That's a romanticized story created by authors later just as Shakespeare invented the asp story. She retreated to her tomb to kill herself rather than be paraded around Rome as a prisoner. Do you not know the difference between fiction and non fiction?
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  122.  @critica77y77  Except Antony killed himself after he'd been told she went to her tomb, which she did, to kill herself, which she did. She did NOT fake killing herself to see if Antony really loved her. That's from Romeo and Juliet. So obviously you didn't "know full well". Don't make upsurd claims then act like the person correcting those claims is making stuff up.
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  123. This series is Episode 9 all over again. Where they had to put out a book to explain what happened. Imagine if you didn't watch videos or interviews about it, you'd have no clue what's going on just from watching the show.
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  124. I know the person that spoke with Nerdrotic said the show they made is not anything like it was supposed to be. I will say listening and reading the showrunner interviews confirms that I believe they read Tolkien, but don't understand it. Only now I don't think they read it and if they watched the movies it was a quick skim through. Someone researched it and found things they could justify mutilating the work for sure.
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  125.  @Ithilienranger345  They don't have the rights to those so they are irrelevant. The source material is LotR and the appendices. That's it. So pointing to something not within those doesn't help your case like you think it does.
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  126.  @Translucent73  If he did, he would have. He went in great detail over the years about everything. What we've seen is not how he ever portrayed her to be. Hell any of the Elves. They should look ethereal. These look like cosplayers wearing bad ears. That's in the few shots you even notice them. I should know they are Eleves without seeing their ears. It should be obvious. It's not. They look like regular humans in most shots. Did you forget the sheild maidens of Rohan and Eowyn? He clearly was capable of putting a woman on the battlefield.
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  127.  @thanglongnguyenvu3815  This is correct. The thinking of these types of people is that a woman is strong if she acts like a man. They don't believe a woman can be feminine and powerful or strong. That's why they've done this to her. I know because I regularly get attacked by people with this ideology and told I'm bad for women because I'm feminine without being revealing. Now if I was wearing skimpy clothing that would be empowering.
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  128. They're remaking it. Gal Gadot has been cast as Cleopatra. A perfectly acceptable choice.
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  129. The falling at the same rate is in a vacuum. Not in a vacuum it doesn't because of resistance with air and stuff.
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  130. You must not have been to university lately to make that claim. I'll also point out his works aren't performed anymore and certainly not in Hollywood. What you think is coming from him, movies set in modern day that echo Taming of the Shrew for example, aren't taken from his work but inspired by the previous movies that did it before them. The ones making them have no idea it's a take on his work at all. They are rarely taught anymore. If you read the comments, you'd know he's being and has been removed from most English Literature courses because he's a huwhite man and that's been going on since I was in college 20 years ago. He doesn't enjoy the status you seem to think he does in the last generations. Edit: You also fail to realize the people highlighted in this video are professors currently teaching on university campuses and what they're talking about at this conference is what they're teaching.
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  131.  @KemetledAfrica  Because she looks nothing like Cleopatra and Cleopatra wasn't part sub saharan African. So biracial has nothing to do with anything. If you're trying to claim Cleopatra was you'll first need to prove that Macedonians and Greek are different races rather than just ethnicities. Hint:It's just a different ethnicity. They're both in the Mediterranean. Edit: You're that same person on Vee's video about this show saying the Sphinx "looked African" as if everyone on the continent looks like sub saharan African. That's as ignorant as saying someone from Greece looks just like someone from a Nordic country just because they're both in Europe. You're totally ignorant on the topic, but it doesn't stop you from trying act like you're not. You don't have even a surface level knowledge about genetics, anthropology, or human history. She was olive skinned, not black and was even described as fair meaning lighter than most other Mediterraneans.
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  132.  @danielaraya2423  Hasn't stopped them from introducing a black Elf from the southlands who's a slave or goblins or orcs which would only come from the Silmarillion or ignoring the intro to LotR and calling Harfoots not Hobbits.
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  133. ​​ @John-fk2ky  The EU was never canon anyway. It certainly isn't now since Disney completely removed it to pick it's corpse. Edit: The EU was fans writing stories and Lucas just allowed it. He wasn't involved in it in any meaningful way. It sold more merch for him over the years and that's all he cared about.
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  134. If it's not for Tolkien's world, which is the subject, how is he wrong then? What are you disagreeing with? He's not talking about in general. He's speaking specifically about adding that into a world it doesn't belong.
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  135. Naa. The Tolkien fandom has been through a lot. We're not so easily shaken. They've been trying the racist mess from the start and it hasn't and won't stop us. Fake fans can be easily spotted. I've already gone after a couple by pointing out things and then watching them change their comments because it's stuff they had no clue about. The professor has given us his words to use as swords against the incoming army of orcs and goblins.
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  136.  @KimmminemWest  You've posted this same comment under every comment. We do know. Stop lying.
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  137. When I first saw it was going to focus on a girl I was concerned for this movie. I had hope though since a bit of the people that worked with Jackson were on the team. Unfortunately my concerns were realized. Dang it! I wanted this to be good.
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  138. It was my major in college 20+ years ago and it was acknowledged that they aren't a science and that's why you got a Bachelor of Art instead of Bachelor of Science. It's extremely imprecise and doesn't follow the Scientific Method.
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  139. They do that a lot if you pay attention. The Acolyte did the same thing.
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  140.  @Ramsey276one  As others have said, yes. The reason all Pharaohs are depicted as having identical hair is because it was a ceremonial wig.
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  141. It's already clearly not faithful to Tolkien. I don't need an expert to tell me that. The costumes look horrible. The Dwarves are the only thing that looks correct. I can't tell Elves are Elves at all. I'm sorry, but it doesn't look great. It looks like the flashback that sets them being in Middle Earth looks good, but nothing in Middle Earth outside the Dwarves looks particularly great.
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  142. That's a good one.
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  143. It's just more racist wokeness. They think people won't ge able to tell because we're so racist we think they all look alike.
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  144.  @markn4779  Considering they both used the same mythology to take their work from, it's not surprising they'd have some overlap. I checked and they researched the same mythological stories from the same areas. Trying to claim that Tolkien basically stole it is a bold claim I doubt you have proof of. It's completely normal for people using the same sources to create similar things. In fact, it would be expected.
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  145.  @GreyMASTA  Gollum was corrupted by The One Ring and there's no example of him being good. There's examples of him trying to fight off the corruption, but his character even in those moments wasn't "good", just trying to survive. All of the wizards failed except Gandalf. So that means all but him fell to corruption. Saruman failing like the others doesn't make him unique, it makes Gandalf unique in being able to resist it. Hobbits weren't "isolationists". The nearby human towns knew they existed. Dwarves, humans, Hobbits, and Elves all lived apart from each other so again they aren't unique. Theoden was not how he was portrayed in the movie. He was under a spell, but he was not bad or evil. He listened to bad advice, but he never harmed anyone. Everyone you're trying to make out as being both good and bad, 2 were always bad in the books and 1 was never really a bad guy and was under a spell. If you find that boring then don't read them.
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  146. I'm watching a romance anime right now. I usually watch Shonen, but as woman, we just need that guilty pleasure every once in a while. It's not like that though. It's kind of a Cinderella type mixed with Beauty and the Beast. The count is obviously devastatingly handsome, but he's from another country and was treated poorly when young so he has a reputation of being difficult and mean. Because he's darker skinned Asian every time I watch it in the back of my head is Twitter made him black.
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  147. Not in the south.
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  148. It didn't crumble to ash. It was broken up and remained under Greek influence for 200-300 years. 3,000 miles is a lot for a single person to oversee. The same happened to Rome. There was the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. The Eastern remained a long time after the Western fell.
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  149. That they made it season 1 shows they know what they've done. That it's not part of everything else. It's not Doctor Who. This way it doesn't sully what came before and can easily be tossed away. So for all the talk RTD is doing publicly, he clearly knows it's not good for the legacy.
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  150.  @cattrissal3032  Because it's not just him. It's all of recorded history. Do you think no one researched Egypt before he did? Egypt especially kept extremely detailed written records of everything. Even just everyday trading was recorded. We know who they traded with, when, and for what. Just like we know Ramsses II had carved into stone his great victory against the Hittite Empire, he didn't win. They continued to dominate Syria and signed a peace treaty with them later. So you're claiming we know what happened the 19th dynasty, but we don't the 30th? Even though it's extensively recorded by both Egypt and Rome? Good Lord you're an idiot. Edit: You know nothing about Egypt and it's extensive record keeping. That's why the Library at Alexandria (in Egypt) housed all the world's knowledge. Because they were the best at record keeping.
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  151. The contract with the estate is 5 seasons. They have to make them. As one person said, they could make the last 2 seasons just Galadriel farting, but they still have to make and air it.
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  152.  @Endemoniada_1  So then Wakanda can be recast with a bunch of Asians, white people, and Latinos since it doesn't exist in the real world and that's totally fine right? Of course it isn't because it was specifically written to give a group of people a mythology. Just like LotR. Elves weren't humans. They weren't written as coming from a part of Europe at all, but from the undying lands. I bet you think orcs are black people too even though Tolkien said in letters that he made them after the Mongols and in the books they are Elves that were twisted by the darkness. So according to your claims, they were evil Europeans. You clearly haven't read anything he's written and are just a troll. I really want you to explain why it's perfectly fine for every culture to have mythologies about their past that only reflects them, unless they happen to be white. You can't claim it's because other groups are a minority when white people only make up 8% of the world's population. Meaning there are far more of other groups that have these types of stories than the native population of Britain has.
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  153.  @RichardPhillips1066  That's why we're being so vocal and not backing down no matter what mud they attempt to throw. Peter Jackson understood he HAD to appeal to the Tolkien fans. Him and every actor were very careful in everything they said in interviews. They are treating this like just another franchise and clearly didn't and don't understand the fanbase at all.
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  154.  @DJLtravelvids  The subscriptions are for Prime delivery. Most people don't watch the streaming service. That's the difference between Amazon and say Netflix. Since Netflix is only a streaming service, it's content directly impacts its subscribers. Amazon is based on hours viewed of their content instead of subscriber count for investors to judge their streaming service on. That's who they have to appeal to. With the recession now here, the investors are going to be much pickier about who gets their money.
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  155. Enjoy it?
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  156.  @altorins  Some with a couple of insiders are saying heads are going to roll and there's going to massive changes next season. We'll see.
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  157. It's kind of funny because they're calling her mentally retarded. I'm surprised leftists haven't called this out for being named a slur.
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  158. No. We don't know what will happen in the story because they don't follow the book, and the timeline is all over the place.
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  159. The movies had them come from mudpits and magic, which was another explanation Tolkien had. That they were made from mud and rock in mockery of the elves in Mordor. That would allow for a near limitless supply.
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  160. From who? It's not even 70% on Rotten Tomatoes with mostly Snyder fans having reviewed it.
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  161.  @BUNTOTILA  Yes Britain never had a Queen ruler. Get out of here with that bs. She wasn't illegitimate or she never would have been allowed to marry her brother to succeed him. We know the rules of succession that you point out and then just toss aside. No ruler of Egypt was ever illegitimate and they were all horribly inbred. That's the same no matter the monarchy. Her father didn't have a harem as was customary in many Egyptian dynasties. That last comment shows how little you know of world history. Britain had Queens, France had a couple, Ireland had them, Spain had them. Britain just lost their ruler Queen Elizabeth II. Her husband was not King, he was Prince. Just like her namesake Elizabeth the 1st who never even married. Egypt only had 4 female Pharaohs. Which given it's much longer history than other kingdoms was very few.
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  162.  @ahmedbelton8139  If emilien isn't qualified to speak on behalf of "your people" then why the hell are speaking in behalf of Egyptians where you don't even live?
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  163.  @trukeesey8715  You're just a little tyrant aren't you. You don't get to dictate what others say or make demands on them. No one died and declared you ruler of YouTube or the internet. If you don't like it feel free to stop using it. YouTube has no problem with it or it wouldn't be allowed on the platform. Nobody has to go listen to some crackpot you worship either. Like the other account, I've seen you all over every video about this in the comment section trying to act like some prophet or something. You have no power here now go away.
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  164.  @titanblooded6222  No they weren't. You do understand a desert and sea separate Greece from Ethiopia right? Ethiopians weren't seafaring people so how did they freely intermingle with Greeks? Coptics are the closest to original Egyptians and share their DNA. Not Greeks.
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  165.  @neutraliserjanine  No documentaries don't dramatize. That's why they're called documentaries. A docudrama does, which that's not what this is called. It's called a documentary. Documentaries present facts to the audience and that's all. Nature shows that follow wild animals around DOCUMENTING what's happening are an example of a documentary and why they're called that.
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  166.  @ajmachin1134  sigh You again. Every single video under every single comment you push the same bs that's been debunked repeatedly by historians and archeologists. That's not how succession works. She had to be of pure royal blood. They inbred to keep the line pure. If she was illegitimate she would have been killed to prevent her from raising an army and causing a rebellion.
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  167. I'm going to bet this stems from Burton being originally over it. He'd demand they understand the characters. I wasn't aware she refused an Emmy nomination, but good for her being brave enough to say no that was a piece of crap.
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  168. He can't. It'll get copyright claimed. You have pause every 30 seconds or so and be transformative. Is this your first time watching a review on YouTube?
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  169. What's even worse as far as she goes is she's never really been to the homeland she's referencing. She has no idea what the women there are going through to get recognition as having rights and just uses it as a virtue signal about how great she is somehow.
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  170.  @KemetledAfrica  That you don't even know she was educated in Greece shows how little you know about the subject. She was born in Egypt but spent most of her life in Greece. That's why it was so important to her to honor the Egyptian religious ceremonies and have all her statues in Egypt portray her as an Egyptian god like was customary. So the people wouldn't think of her as Greek but as Egyptian so they would follow her. When she was in Greece she wanted to be seen as Greek. Edit: When she married Antony she had an elaborate Egyptian ceremony so the people would accept him. Go away you ignorant twit.
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  171.  @chrissgchriss  That's not true. Actors just want to act. They love death scenes. Very few actors give a crap about the character they're portraying. Leonard Nemo famously was thrilled when they killed Spock because he got to act out a death scene. It was only later that he realized how much it damaged the character and the fans that he understood the importance of the character. To them it's just a role. The Rock cares because he's been a character his entire life as was his father and because it was in wrestling he has a different view. How his character acted directly impacted his fans which in wrestling are who makes you money. So he always understood the relationship with fans. This is why they say Tom Cruise is the last movie star. He's the only actor people will go see a movie because he's in it. He's cultivated a fan base and been careful with his character choices. Most actors don't do that. Certainly very few younger ones. Used to actors were much more concerned with how they were perceived by the audience from role to role. Now they only care if a role is going to let them do something they like to do. Edit: Patrick Stewart is a good example. Even though he's played Picard for years, he doesn't care about the character at all. His main concern is being able to act in away he hasn't before. If that means that character acts completely differently than he would before, that's a bonus to him. They only care about showcasing their abilities, not who the character is supposed to be.
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  172. Because that's not her. Galadriel is running her own kingdom with her husband and has a daughter at this point in Tolkien's story. She is given one of the rings as she's the most powerful Elf. This is Guyladriel. Her husband is dead, she has no children, and she's clearly not well respected. Completely different character that Tolkien never wrote.
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  173. It's also completely different. Those are characters created to be how they are by the author. Everyone is bad in his books. It's also a case of power being attractive in HotD and Game of Thrones, and lots of debauchery. Tolkien's world is not like that in the slightest. Good and evil are very much a constant in Middle Earth.
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  174. When referring to a spy it means spy. Just like a cracker is something you eat with soup but can also be a slur. It depends on the context.
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  175. See I don't get this. Disney has made every StarWars show terrible. Intentionally destroying established characters. You watch a couple of episodes of something you don't think is complete crap, and all is forgiven. Yes, people are going to have a bias. You have one too. The difference is you think yours is fine and expect everyone to share it.
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  176. Printed armor for the cheap cos player.
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  177.  @fantastopotomus  First off there's a big difference between no racism and half the population being racist. Saying that much less than half isn't is not claiming there is none. The US has less than 5% and that includes any race against another. They didn't say you can't be proud of where your ancestors are from. They said nobody else cares. I don't care where you're ancestors are from, though it maybe very important to you. That doesn't involve me in anyway. You either need to retake basic English or get your IQ checked because your reading comprehension is lacking.
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  178.  @TheHipisterDeer  Celeborn, her husband, is dead for some reason in the 2nd Age. Even though he's in the 3rd Age in LotR, he's dead before that.
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  179.  @mangeak1088  I read all that and it says nothing about a sword. How does she tear down the walls with a sword from a ship? You're really stretching that. Everyone of those feats she could have and would have accomplished with magic. Plus as stated, those were before he wrote the final draft so they aren't relevant other than in his process.
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  180. All of them. They all need to be there.
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  181. That's not how a queen would act. She'd be dead before the queen could even react. She'd definitely be imprisoned. After that, the queen might go speak privately with her, but a public act like that wouldn't go unpunished.
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  182.  @kuhanblock9380  You must be new to YouTube. YouTube deletes and hides comments and it's recently gotten extremely noticeable. I'll never understand why people automatically accuse the creator for something so incredibly noticeable in every comment section.
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  183.  @80PercentScottish  I didn't know they were making one. If it's good I'll watch it. The movie was a disappointment. When they were in the Dwarven city I couldn't wait to see the sapphire, then it looked horrible.
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  184. ​ @michaeltalpas ​ "There is more than one way to recognize and understand good, outside fictional stories. Parables" Parables ARE fictional stories with an intended lesson. Fairy tales ARE parables. They're parables created to teach young children important lessons about life. Because children will remember stories told to them repeatedly better than they will just from creating a list of rules.
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  185. At least that one guy was honest. I kind of like him. Not gonna lie.
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  186.  @hamsterrwrld6767  Reading audience reviews they're giving 4 or 5 stars because it's slightly better than Thor and Dr. Strange. The other most common reason is the post credit scenes. A high rating for just that is the definition of a pleb. I saw 4 stars that had absolutely nothing positive to say about it. The box office totals will tell the story and I'm predicting a big decline in the 2nd weekend which has become pretty standard now for Marvel movies. That means people aren't going back to watch it again which means it's not good. Edit: Another thing that came up often was it feels like StarWars. Contrary to what the reviewers believe, that's a bad thing and shows Disney's creatives aren't talented enough to make their franchises be different and instead blend them all together. The only "cope" I see is coming from you and other MCU stans.
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  187. But he was those things. This show hasn't portrayed him that way. More as a bumbling disappointment.
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  188.  @PyrrhicPax  $10 a hour is more than $20,000 a year. If you aren't able to work winter, it's around $35,000 a year. Above the poverty line for a single person. So yes, you still made more than is claimed in the original post.
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  189. I don't know any position in those fields that make that little. Medical for lowest is around $30,000 in the poorest states. Service industry if you only work part time sure. Even most fast food places are paying above $10 an hour now. Edit: The service industry also isn't a foundation industry because it's a luxury. Only wealthy societies are able to have a large service industry and it's regulated to the rich in poorer ones. Certainly not on the level of builder or plumber. That's why it's considered non skilled labor.
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  190. Hot tea should be made at specific temperature and the water should be brought to that temperature in a kettle. Unfortunately in the US many use the microwave to heat the water which breaks down some of the molecules in the water and affects the flavor. I've had "sweet tea" or what restaurants call sweet tea and it's horrible. I'm not British either, I'm southern and most restaurants have horrendous tea. Edit: Also the fact you seem to think Earl Grey is the exactly the same no matter what company makes it shows you don't know what you're talking about. I've had several different companies Earl Grey tea and none of them taste the same. They're wildly different. Then again I can also taste the difference in a Better Boy tomato grown in different areas because the soil affects the flavor.
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  191. ​ @kicknowledgesmith8608  From the comics: Bucky was given a Super Soldier Serum by Arnim Zola who created a serum bases on Dr. Erskine's original formula. It helped him survive a fall from a train and gave him enhanced physical abilities, similar to Captain America. He was indeed given the serum. Bucky was also Captain America from 2007-2011. Hardly "a few pages." Steve came back to the comics as Captain America the same year the first Captain America movie came out. It wasn't due to it being unpopular. It was because they were putting out the movie and having Steve as Captain America both in the comics and in the movie created sales. Just like when the concept of Captain America passing on the mantle to Falcon happened in the comics, a couple of years later Falcon and Winter Soldier went into development. The comic and movie side are owned by the same company.
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  192. They don't seem to know more than you. About which I'm not sure. Lord of the Rings or the Bible. Morgoth is a god. Neither Satan nor Sauron are. Sauron is a lesser being. Similar to an angel. Much like Satan, a fallen angel.
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  193. They can't. They're under contract for 5 seasons no matter what.
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  194. Is it just me, or does calling Tolkien's work a "franchise" ruffle anyone else's feathers. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me. He's not a franchise. He's one of the most influential and important writers in history.
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  195. So groups of men that hate women get infiltrated by a woman? I could see if it stayed online because she could be pretending to be a guy, but in person? Also I really believe a 6'3 hunk hates women because he can't get laid. Totally believable. If she'd just showed him how to use dating apps.
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  196. There's a reason no one remembers those movies. Just like this will be, they were left to rot in history. The big difference is we got a really amazing look into the world we cherish in our mind thanks to Jackson's love of the material. We saw the potential and it makes this feel so much worse.
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  197. ​ @ChaoticYak1  Agree. StarWars was important to a few. Tolkien created an entire category of literature.
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  198. ​ @bethanyh1637  ​ Oh no! Leslie Headland said Acolyte was her best and most important work she's ever done. She absolutely took it seriously and believed it was amazing. She really thought it was terribly clever and smart.
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  199. Kill Bill.
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  200. He's got an ego and calls himself the real life Indiana Jones. I understand why he guards Egyptian history so much and is very stingy with the allowing digs however. Egypt has suffered from a lot of stolen artifacts. That doesn't mean he's not still an ahole. I just watched a documentary of them pulling up a sarcophagus up from the bed of the Nile. The crane was pitching and then rope broke. He was livid. Not because it might have damaged but because he had news crews waiting to film it being lifted out of the water and brought on shore and it was running way behind.
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  201. ​ @LogosOfBabylon  Who do think young men traditionally looked to to help them learn how to be masculine? Other young men or grown men that already had what they want?
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  202. ​​ @unrealuknow864  Except we don't. The numbers show that. Tolkien's books are just behind religious books in worldwide sales. I don't believe a couple billion people tuned in. We watch reviews. Some of which have the show with subtitles running in the background. They're far more entertaining.
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  203. ​ @unrealuknow864  The vast majority don't watch it. You didn't watch the video. He clearly states it only retained a small percentage of its starting numbers.
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  204. This and Disney's Louder and Prouder are the most racist shows since All in the Family
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  205. It's not at all how Tolkien wrote. The more I listen to it the more convinced I am they haven't read a word of it.
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  206. We used to have phone books. We were all doxxed.
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  207. They'd stopped filming a bit ago and moved everything to England. I'm not sure it's started back up again.
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  208. Yes. That was figured out after the plot to kidnap Whitmore. That's why the 3 or 4 non feds were found not guilty. Especially when the fed forgot to delete his messages and was the one pushing to blow stuff up. Edit: It started as 3 guys getting together during the lockdowns to drink and blow off steam complaining. The feds "infiltrated" them and who came up with everything. Not a single one of the regular guys ever said to do anything the feds had planned.
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  209. You mean original shows, except The Boys which is based on a comic book exactly like that? There's a big difference between an original and twisting someone else's work. We've all said if they made something original with their ideas we wouldn't care.
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  210. You clearly weren't subbed or hadn't watched any of his other reviews of these kinds of shows. This is how he's made reviews since Wheel of Time.
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  211. The orc thing is showing the contradiction from what the show has tried to establish. The horse thing is a bad attempt at ripping off the movies. It was shown through the films that Aragorn and his horse shared a special bond. That's not been established in this.
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  212. If that is what they're hinting, the Tolkien community will explode. They'll destroy these people.
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  213.  @Jamesmc04  He's in Numenor because he wanted to be. He appears as Annatar to trick Celebrimbor to make the rings he intends to use to control them with. He was the lieutenant of Melkor/Morgoth in the First Age. After Morgoths defeat he went into hiding for 500 years refusing to face his judgement from the Valar. After that 500 years he's in Mordor gathering all that's left of Morgoth's evil creatures. His idea of making Middle Earth better for everyone was to have every being under control by his mind. Not really something I think most would agree with, so trying to say he really wanted to make Middle Earth better is discounting WHAT he thought was "better". He forged the rings to bring them under his control. He particularly wanted the Elves because they were the most powerful. The rungs he forged were a trial to see if it would work. The Elves felt him when he put on the One Ring and took theirs off enraging him. The Dwarves were resistant to them, but the humans (as he knew) became corrupt and became the Nazgul. That's what he wanted the rings to do to all the inhabitants of Middle Earth. This is all before he goes to Numenor. So trying to say he was still not evil when he went there is completely false. He lost his ability to shapeshift when the One Ring was removed because it contained most of his power. It had nothing to do with how evil he has become.
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  214.  @ronaldshelny9439  He never strayed from his goal. His goal was always to bring order to Middle Earth by bringing them all under the control of his mind and will. Morgoth wanted to destroy it. That was never Sauron's goal. It's just that he believed his goal could be accomplished quicker with Morgoth rather than the Valar.
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  215.  @anthonyplanzo1082  If he's deleting comments, why are the ones of you calling him a fraud and disagreeing with him still there? YouTube deletes and hides comments and it's gotten very bad recently. Other creators have made videos about it asking YouTube why they have 100s of comments but can only see a handful.
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  216. So because you disagree about 1 show, he's now completely wrong about everything? Seriously? I didn't like Prey, but many did. I didn't dislike them for it because I don't want to live in an echo chamber. Apparently a lot of you do. I guess just ignore all the comments agreeing because they obviously are completely fake too because it's not the same opinion as you. What a sad bunch.
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  217.  @Nyet-Zdyes  KK has had several bombs yet they renewed her contract. No matter how little she brings in or how bad her stuff is, they're never getting rid of her. She's got dirt on someone or something. Blaming a movie from almost 7 years ago is just cope.
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  218. ​ @jtowensbyiii6018  WTF does US politics have to Amazon shows?
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  219.  @laurendearnley9595  The children she had with them would be a good clue she did. Edit: Which marriage? She had several including her Uncle and brother.
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  220.  @laurendearnley9595  It was widely believed the child she claimed was Ceasar's was really her brother's and she was only claiming that to have a claim to Rome. We don't have DNA so his paternity isn't really known. Questioning if her marriages were consummated is pure conjecture on your part. All royal lines are extremely inbred to keep the line pure. That's true in every Monarchy. King Tut's parents were brother and sister so pretending she didn't do it is pure romanticizing on your part. Tut was also married to his sister and their deformed still born 2 children were buried with him.
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  221. I don't think the show makers know that.
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  222. Plus aren't the horned people supposed to be red? They're the same as Darth Maul. I guess they changed them for diversity.
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  223. Apparently, maybe, Mr. H is going to interview him. I can't wait. The clips are going to be great.
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  224. I don't believe he was married. I looked, and I'm correct. So that's from Shadow of War.
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  225. Have you seen every ceiling light fixture in the last ten years at least? They all look like a bob with a nip. No. No men can't.
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  226. I'm actually thinking of creating a Instagram account just to tell her why she felt like she said she did after reading the books in the Time article. She said she welcomes criticism so let's see if that's true.
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  227.  @ElPortaldeTera  Hello paid shill. No that's not how it works. THEY are the ones who need to create something new rather than change someone else's life work. That's exactly what Tolkien fans expect and want. This isn't a movie franchise that's updated to keep up with the times. This is a literary work that's considered extremely important to literature worldwide. It's Tolkien's world that he created. If YOU or they don't like it, YOU create your own. The fact that it's the 2nd most read and published work worldwide behind the Bible means that people from every race, ethnicity, and anything else you can come up with already love it as is. There's no need to add anything because it obviously already works as is. Edit: It already is for everyon except bigots like you who lack education and imagination so you try to dumb it down to make it appeal to a tiny minority rather than the majority of the world's population that already enjoy it. Pick one of the hundreds and even thousands of popular fantasy books that already contain the aspects you want. There are plenty available without having to mess with this specific one.
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  228.  @Right_Said_Brett  Don't forget, you're still more privileged than Oprah. Even a homeless yt (I don't understand why that's stands for huwhite) man is.
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  229. Yes Elves only marry once because they're immortal. Even if their spouse dies, they're reincarnated in Valinor and Elves can freely return. Only one ever was allowed to and that was because his wife was a Maiar and she refused to be reincarnated.
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  230. "We're representing so many groups in Rangs of Powah!" Except the one you're supposed to. The Tolkien and LotR fandom community.
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  231. I'll be honest. I thought the Harfoots were Travels and the Southlands was the US south. Either way, it's bad. The last episode really massively played up the stereotypes.
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  232. Joan of Arc not Jane of Arc was a real person. Xena was special and favored by the gods ( the explanation for her strength). I don't know who Samantha Carter is. Ripley won in Alien because she used her brain, not brawn. Same with the Terminator, before the last couple. This person has no reason to be stronger. No enhancements, no special abilities granted by a god, nothing. That's why it doesn't work in these movies. It's fine if there's an explanation. It doesn't work when you're just supposed to magically believe it. Edit: She didn't recieve any training the people she's fighting didn't have. Nothing. No reason at all for it so it doesn't work.
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  233. They are doing what Disney did with Maleficent. The good guys in the original story aren't really good. She tried to be but they forced her to do what she did, just like Halbrand is being forced to become Sauron because everyone around him is bad. It's deliberate and disgusting thing to do with Tolkien's work. I wondered from the start if that's the way they'd go, but it's clear now that that's the intent.
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  234. It also means spy or ghost. Context.
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  235. Why are you using past tense like you've seen the entire thing instead of a single episode? You can't have "loved" a series when it's not even a series yet.
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  236. I can't believe there's a comment saying it was fine and he's nitpicking. I'm going to assume that's an American or something that doesn't know historical monarchies.
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  237. Well, the one Elf did. He talked about how much he loved that people hated what he was doing. That's not a way to bring in the audience that made LotR the hit it is around the world. Not just the movies but the books.
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  238. I don't know. They posted on Twitter they'd cast an Indian to play him this season. I assume that'll be him in the human areas.
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  239.  @Bilboshaggins30  The Wheel of Time is one of the worst. I don't understand what point you think you're making. These are different shows done by different people. Amazon is just the backer. The only reason they are doing Rings of Power is because Bezos demanded a GoT type show so that's what's this will be. We already know they've broken canon because Celeborn is dead in it, yet he's alive and well in LotR book and movie. Elves can't resurrect so it's already in breach of contract with the Tolkien estate because not messing with canon was one of the stipulations in the contract. Then there's the very real issue with The Boys being written, green lit, and in production before the current trend in entertainment really got a big foothold.
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  240.  @jaceyking5015  So it's fake like Australia.
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  241.  @silverscorpio24  What does people enjoying Jackson's movies have to do with RoP and its showrunners? I'm genuinely curious why you brought him up because your comment makes no sense.
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  242. She also helped Morgoth distinguish the tree.
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  243.  @supertrendymoneymaker0722  Nobody "vandalized the noses". WTF? Are you trying to claim that the Arabs that made a lot of the discoveries vandalized their history to make it white? Are you insane? Statues of Ramsses II are still being found today and nobody is vandalizing the nose and replacing it before photos are taken. Do you understand how erosion works and how erosive sand is? Are you also claiming the hieroglyphs they painted of their rulers on the tomb walls were also painted over so they'd be tan instead of black? Just how far does this grand conspiracy go? Iraq is also in Africa, they're not sub saharan either. Just like people in Nordic countries are very pale but people in Greece are olive but they're all still in Europe. This idea that everyone from the same massive continent are the same shows how little you understand about anything you're talking about.
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