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the first two episodes of the lord of
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the rings the rings of power are
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currently streaming on amazon prime and
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i wanted to check them out because i'm a
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huge fan of peter jackson's original
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lord of the rings trilogy this show is
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an epic drama set thousands of years
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before the events of the hobbit and the
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lord of the rings and it follows an
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ensemble cast of characters both
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familiar and new as they confront the
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long feared reemergence of evil to
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middle earth but i also want to let you
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guys know that if you're really into the
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fantasy and historical setting of the
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show i've partnered with crusader kings
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out it's a historical strategy game that
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i think you'll really be into if you
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like the world of the show crusader
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kings 3 has two historical start dates
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you can take control of your armies and
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own one great thing about the game is
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that there are so many possibilities of
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what can happen no two runs are ever the
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exact same the game also has a really
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mods on steam is actually a total reskin
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of the game set in middle earth where
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you can play as many of the famous
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characters from the lord of the rings
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universe if you want to try it the game
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is free to play on steam this weekend
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only so use the link in the description
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to check it out thanks again to crusader
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kings3 for partnering with me on this
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video let's get back into the review
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similar to game of thrones i'm not very
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well versed in the lord of the rings
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novels i have read fellowship but i
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haven't read two towers return of the
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king the hobbit but i'm coming at this
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show from the perspective of somebody
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who loves the original trilogy those
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three films are some of my favorite
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movies ever made i do find myself
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wanting to marathon them every couple
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years beyond just being three really
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entertaining fantasy epics i respect
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peter jackson so much for actually
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bringing that vision to life when it
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seemed impossible something i've noticed
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though is that when we tend to perceive
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something that has been created in a
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form of media as essentially flawless or
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at least very close to flawless and it
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was just really good and everyone was
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happy and pleased
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that whenever there's more
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we come at it
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really hard we get very upset anger and
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cynicism are at their highest peak at
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that point and even when peter jackson
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decided he was going to make the hobbit
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he faced a lot of that as well because
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living up to something that most people
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thought was pretty much perfect
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is almost impossible so the rings of
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power show has an uphill battle that i
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don't necessarily think is fair
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everyone's going to either compare it to
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peter jackson's movies or to tolkien's
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work which of course makes sense because
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there are these massive accomplishments
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and they should be given respect but the
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discourse now around big movies and tv
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shows like this seems to suggest that we
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have a very difficult time accepting
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anything new i've been there myself
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there have been remakes and reboots
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announced that i thought was the worst
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idea ever and they seemed to be dead at
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this point momento i remember they were
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going to remake and i thought that was
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just insane that they would ever touch
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that i get it when it comes to the rings
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of power though i don't see anything in
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these first two episodes that warrants
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outrage
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i don't necessarily see anything that
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immediately hooks me either though and
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so i'm very much
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in a state of wait and see i think these
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first two episodes are exceptionally
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well directed j.a bayona is a wonderful
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filmmaker check out his movie the
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orphanage it's [ __ ] awesome he is
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very very good at his job a monster
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calls as well really damn good even
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though i wasn't a huge fan of jurassic
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world fallen kingdom i do think it's the
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best directed of the jurassic world
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trilogy he's very very very good behind
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the camera and that shows in these first
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two episodes it's always strange when
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you hear that a company spent a lot of
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money on a tv show or a movie and when
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you're watching it you're like where did
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that go was it the actors jets and
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private airfare that's not the case when
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it comes to this show every single
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dollar is on the screen they also went
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out of their way to hire great actors
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that aren't absurdly famous getting the
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lead actress from saint maude to play
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galadriel was a fantastic idea and she
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is wonderful so far i really love her in
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this show the cgi work the production
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design the costumes the musical score by
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bear mccreary all top-notch really
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really strong stuff there's nothing yet
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in these first two episodes that makes
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me go oh my god this is going to be
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absolute [ __ ] i have read a lot of the
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complaints i have watched multiple
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reviews that people have posted on
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youtube as well as read mini critics
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reviews to really get a sense of what
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people are upset about and i get it i
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think if you're very invested in this
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world there are certain things that just
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aren't going to click with you it's
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going to feel as if it is an imitation
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of something that you love or that it's
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trying too hard to be something that it
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isn't and i understand all those
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complaints but when i watched the show i
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found myself intrigued enough to the
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point where i am interested to see where
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it goes but there wasn't a particular
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storyline where i thought oh yep i'm in
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i am hooked so i also understand that if
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you want to be hooked from the first or
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second episode of a tv show and really
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feel like watching the rest and just
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absolutely not want to think about
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anything else except the story lines
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that you can't wait to see resolved
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you're not going to get that in these
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first two episodes because to me they
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were just really beautiful exceptionally
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well crafted and
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interesting enough to the point where i
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do want to know what happens next but i
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am not on the edge of my seat yet maybe
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the show will get worse maybe the finale
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will be really bad maybe there'll be
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something that the internet really hates
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and because of that everything that the
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show tries to do is going to be bad
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because of one specific thing that the
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internet hates i've seen that too
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i just don't think that a show that is
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this well crafted to start
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is just going to be [ __ ] in the end
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it might be
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fine it might be okay you might think
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you know what
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nice try but not quite i just don't see
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this show being worthy of anger
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i don't see it guys i mean
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there's way worse [ __ ] out there i just
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think that over the past few years and
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not just in entertainment we have gotten
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to this point where we are either all
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the way over there or all the way over
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there there is no middle ground anymore
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with opinions there is no you know what
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i'll wait and see or i thought that was
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okay it's either i hate or i love and
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when it comes to this show
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i'm neither of those things i am a
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little indifferent and unfortunately
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nowadays it feels like that's the least
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popular way to talk about entertainment
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because it usually generates the least
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amount of views or retweets or shares or
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whatever the [ __ ]
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you have to either be super pissed or
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just in love with something for people
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to really want to get behind you if i
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sit here and say rings of power is not
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too bad i'll see where it goes people
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are like that's [ __ ] boring why don't
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you be mad why don't you scream and yell
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and be angry or why don't you make fun
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of it a lot or why don't you just like
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cry over it and everything it's like no
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i it's all right we'll see how it goes i
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don't know what else to say i watched
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the first two episodes genuinely
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expecting based off of the reactions
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that i've seen to have some sort of
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extreme reaction to them but i didn't i
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thought okay what the [ __ ] is this it
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almost felt like
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the extreme anger that i saw
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made it better
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because i was just expecting some kind
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of dragon ball evolution last airbender
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thing and i just didn't get that
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and i don't think that's what this show
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is and i hate that i have to spend half
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this review talking about the goddamn
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reaction to the show and i can't just
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discuss the fact that the show is one
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that has potential moving forward and
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we'll see that's why this video is
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called first impressions don't have a
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lot to say yet i feel like i'm intrigued
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enough to keep watching but i'm not on
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the hook so to speak like when episode 3
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comes out i'm not going to rush to the
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tv to watch it i can wait a few days
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guys those are my very middle of the
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road thoughts on the lord of the rings
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the rings of power i uh
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i can't give you extreme either way yet
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we'll see how the rest of the season
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goes i hope you guys enjoyed this video
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though thank you so much as always for
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watching and if you like this you can
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