Drinker's Chasers - Rings of Power Season 2 Rumours: Delays, Reshoots And Panic

Understandable. They have to progress Galadriel's arc, but they can't figure out how to make her more insufferable.

I'm just going to pretend season 2 doesn't exist, just like season 1.

Remember in season 1 when Sauron taught the master blacksmith celebrimbor what an alloy was 🤣🤣🤣

I've seen Lord of the Rings fanfiction giving more respect to the source material than Rings of Power ever did.

“The selling point now is that the Season Two episodes are all directed by women!” Meanwhile, in the comic book industry…

Somehow Galadriel returned.

Despot is the definitive critic on Rings of Power imo. His essay on Galadriel, the genocidal maniac, is a masterpiece. Glad to see him on a Drinker panel.

Evil cannot be allowed to endure.

2 things to tell you if something is going to be bad: modern audience and reshoots

Rings of Power reminds me of a rave i promoted once. The guys wanted 10k people to come to the rave. Someone told them some age-old truth: “only 10% of the people who see your advert will purchase the product.” So along those lines, they made 150k flyers for the show. A huge flyer, 4x bigger than normal flyers, glossy and colorful. Two issues: 1) the lineup was terrible. It combined techno and hip-hop, meaning it was a shitty rave and a shitty hip-hop concert for 4x the cost of a normal show. 2) the venue was ina. Small town at an ampitheater during the day… They needed 5k people to come to break even. 1500 people bought tickets. Even though we handed out over 100,000 flyers 😂 we tried to warn them the whole time that no one was going to come to this show, and they didnt listen. TLDR it doesnt matter what u spend on advertising and what $ amount u invest if the thing youre investing is is terrible 😂

I liked when Guyladriel said "I am all the Lord of the Rangs". STUNNING AND BRAVE 😍

In season 2, Gladriel and Sauron begin to raise a family, and they realize it's a lot of hard work and commitment. Sauron starts to spend a lot of time making jewelry. She thinks about riding horses along the plains, being chased by strong men in silver armor.

It's safe to say people get more enjoyment from the memes than the actual show. Bring on season 2.

Galadrimale: Okay, listen up. Whoever holds the conch gets to speak. That's the rule.

The least-pirated-show award nominations are in!

I'm happy Rings of Power was so bad. I was worried it would be good enough to change everything Tolkien while being popular.

It turns out that the tempest Galadriel felt inside of her was production delays.

Eru would see Rings of Power as a horrible fanfic story made by Morgoth being spiteful of the canon timeline.

I predict they are going to double down on stupid, if your thought season 1 was bad ... just wait until season 2!

What I find to be the most insanely idiotic thing about RoP is that Amazon had a third option between direct adaptation and completely original story, and it's to simply combine the two. Have a faithful adaptation of the events but have that run in the background parallel to the main story, which is original with original characters. This was their best option given what limited rights they had, and while it wouldn't appease the core fandom as much as a direct adaptation, it wouldn't have completely insulted and alienated them either. That way, they could've had their stronk female she-elf protagonist, but instead of a grotesque bastardized Galadriel, it's Estrogengilad. Would still be a shit character and a horrible idea for a main protagonist, but it at the very least would sting alot less than what they actually did with Galadriel. What's more, they could've had their dumb DEI bullshit without sacrificing the verisimilitude of Middle-Earth by simply focusing more on original characters and events instead of having to force established characters and events into the story. For instance, the two main leads could be a female Elf and a male Numenorean exile who makes a living as a mercenary. Their travels take them to Rhun and Harad, where they recruit more characters. That way, you could have a big buff black guy to play the strongman and a hot middle-eastern chick to play a sorceress (I know those are cliché, but clichés work for a reason). Toss in a Dwarf and boom, you have your discount Fellowship. Also, instead of prematurely busting a nut on Numenor, have the primary setting be a port town on the border of Middle-Earth, a precursor to Dale if you will. That way, you can have diversity that fits organically within the world and the story. I came up with all this in roughly ten minutes. There's no reason at all for Amazon to be as incompetent as they are.