Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "Rings Of Power Finale - The Final Insult" video.

The whole season was largely padding and filler then in the last half-hour of this 9 hour snoozefest they suddenly cram in the making of the 3 Rings and damn if it isn't underwhelming (not too mention lore breaking). The rings are ugly as sin like the cheap gaudy jewelry big-haired grandmothers wore in the 70s and 80s that they got at Dollar General.
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@barryboucher4587 give it a rest, shill! Even the bloated Hobbit films didn't change the lore and characters to the level that ROP did just in the first episode. It's poorly written with bad dialogue, uninteresting unlikeable characters, contrived plot, and pointless mystery boxes
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When you think you're right for no reason except for existing you create these kind of terrible protagonists. It's the Captain Marvel syndrome. She's a hero because we say she's a hero without showing willing to sacrifice herself or do real heroic stuff. Galadriel did hardly anything to be considered heroic and on top of that threatened genocide for the sake of torture. Jeez!
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This whole "Galadriel will go on a journey of humility" sounds more like damage control after the fact when they realize how unlikeable her character really is. She single-handedly ruined everything. She brings Sauron back to Middle Earth, gets a bunch of Numenoreans killed and their Queen blinded, fails to stop the creation of Mordor, and lets Celebrimbor complete the making of the 3 Rings despite knowing Sauron was obviously planning something. And no one not even herself calls her out on it. Instead they give her the commanding moment of telling Celebrimbor to make 3 rings instead of one or two like she deserves to give any advice after all the stupid shit she had done.
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@MiddleEarthGirl75 that's a banking I wouldn't trust a penny with. None of it makes any sense because it's contrived lazy bad writing. There was no reason for him being out there in the sea nor on a raft except to create (ie force) a reason for Elendil to find them and bring them to Numenor. How on Middle Earth would Sauron know Galadriel was going to be sent to Valinor as part of a scheme to get rid of her and that she would unexpectantly jump ship at the last moment? He just decided to get a ship of humans off to the west for no reason then sink the boat and float on a raft with the hope of finding a swimming Galadriel in a wide open sea then further hope a passing Numenorean boat would spot them and save them? Hoping Galadriel would believe his pouch made him a reluctant king seems to be the least of his problem in this grand convoluted scheme of epic proportions banking on numerous coincidences and sheer luck.
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@trinelangohr6661 Good point. People calling ROP fanfic don't realize most fanfic wouldn't mishandle the lore and characters this badly for the fear of being flamed to bits.
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looking the people gushing over the power couple of Sauron and Galadriel is enough to make you wish an asteroid would swing by to take us out of our miseries. The other another group is those who like the show for the fee-fees and member-berries. It's like they have no idea what a good story is anymore.
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@Thissentenceisfalselosers lol as many have said in the wake of this tragic comedy that The Hobbit trilogy isn't looking so bad now in comparison. That's an accomplishment!
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@Nomalos no one calls her out on these flaws nor she is shown that she is in the wrong
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@Nomalos really? Where does she really acknowledge she messed up? She still feels confident enough to come up with the idea of 3 Elven Rings despite Sauron's fingerprints all over them and possibly part of some nefarious plot of his. She doesn't even tell them that Halbrand is Sauron.
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Boromir's death is a tragedy. Galadriel of ROP's survival is a tragedy.
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@MiddleEarthGirl75 yeah GOT was such a disappointment starting off so great. But what bugs me is when people stretch themselves into mental pretzels to ACTUALLY defend bad writing rather than to understand the writers' minds and see how badly the ideas were or how badly executed they were. People are trying to come up with all kinds of reasons Sauron was on that raft thinking it was brilliant 4D chess move rather than a contrivance
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@MiddleEarthGirl75 ah, trying to make sense of the writers' terrible writing? That's a recipe for a headache but yeah I can imagine that this could be what they trying to convey as Sauron's brilliant plan of manipulation ignoring how highly highly unlikely he would have bumped into her in the middle of the ocean in the first place. This is the Bad Robot way - force things to happen even if they make absolutely no sense and try to pretend it's somehow clever. There's a reason why these hacks had their scripts rejected over and over again methinks
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@dudewheresmycar6318 oh shut you! Wishing an asteroid is not actually wanting anyone dead. Take your autism meds
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The attempted unholy shipping I think was a step too far that they realized before it actually aired because I noticed shills and bots on Twitter and reddit immediately jumping in to try and say Sauron wasn't being romantic when he made his offer to share power with Galadriel and on top of that those who saw it as such don't understand human interaction (ie they're incels). There was too many similarities in their comments for this to be natural and it smacks of damage control. Somehow I think these same people would cry outrage if a manager (unhandsome of course) held a female employee's chin in their hand as they promised them a position in management. It's just amazing the depths the show and the shills will go to in order to gaslight people on what's right in front of everyone.
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@corneliusmaze-eye2459 you can't tell nothing as she just brushes it off and orders Celebrimbor to make 3 Rings as though she was in any position to give any advice given how much she had messed up over the entire season. A person with any self-reflection would be wracked with guilt and self-doubt but not our psychopathic Galadriel.
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