Here’s what’s at stake for HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ and Amazon’s ‘The Rings of Power’

CNBC ^ | SAT, AUG 20 2022 | Sarah Whitten

[Chode]

[gibsonguy]

They are both woke crap. The leftist Machine is scrambling to save them after the promos got slammed big time.

[EEGator]

:)

[MinorityRepublican]

[Angelino97]

Because it is a historical and scientific fact that all Elves were White. Do I have that right?

No, but elves are a creature of European folklore.

If do a film rooted in Greco-Roman, Nordic, Aztec, Hindu, or Japanese myths, you should cast actors who ethnically reflect that culture.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Is “cultural appropriation” not a bad thing anymore, or just in this situation? Elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, etc. are unique characters from Celtic Mythology and folk lore. So African elves make no sense.

[proust]

[Caipirabob]

CEASE THIS FAGGOTRY AT ONCE!

[Chode]

[Reily]

To me it came across as deliberately rushed!
To me it all came across ‘We’re done! Let’s go cash our checks and get some other gig!’. The actors seemed to be walking it in.

[Caipirabob]

A perfect opportunity to not get involved. We know HBO will screw us over with crappy writing between gay porn orgies, then insult the entire audience with a crap fest finale like the first series. We know the Amazon take on LOTR is so misguided and non-lorefriendly, so incredibly woke as to be completely irrelevant, even before they get to the gay porn orgies. To hell with both shows, I will never watch then, and shove that misogynistic racism right up your “corresponding gender parts.”

I feel better now. /rant off

[MinorityRepublican]

To me it all came across ‘We’re done! Let’s go cash our checks and get some other gig!’. The actors seemed to be walking it in.

I get it. But it was just before the coronavirus pandemic and with all this wokeness that is going on right now, it was time to end it there. If it's still on now, it'll be crap and nothing like what we are used to seeing the first couple of seasons.

[Caipirabob]

I’m not sure he’ll even live long enough to finish the books. His legacy looks like its shaping up like a hot mess of disappointment.

[MinorityRepublican]

A perfect opportunity to not get involved.

I have a feeling that many fans are being alienated and that both Amazon and HBO will take a bath on both productions. Will they learn their lesson yet? Probably not. But it's part of the process. Eventually Hollywood will learn that in order to survive, they'll have to return to making entertainment. But the 2020s decade is going to be terrible.

[Caipirabob]

I should add /rhetorical rant off

[Caipirabob]

Actually I would watch that. Let the Wayans brother write the script. Lol…

[Billthedrill]

Anyone with respect for authors living or dead

"Will purchase it and no other." I have a dog-eared set of the old Ballantine paperbacks too. Nice shout-out.

[MinorityRepublican]

Actually I would watch that. Let the Wayans brother write the script. Lol…

LOL. Or Dave Chapelle.

[unlearner]

If Amazon screws up LOTR by going woke or trying to ramp up sexuality by copying Game of Thrones, I’ll cancel my Prime membership just like I canceled Netflix. I also won’t feel at all guilty if I selectively watch bootleg copies of their movies and series. Casualties of the culture wars.

[Telepathic Intruder]

With the original Tolkien painting cover art? So did I once. Awesome. Don’t lose those!