Posted on 10/08/2022 8:26:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I consider myself a pretty big Tolkien fan. I first read his stuff about 50 years ago. I have absolutely no interest in this show. Not even slightly tempted to watch a minute of it.
It occurs to me that this is a no-win scenario. They are facing a backlash. But, if they stayed faithful to Tolkien, the Wokesters would freak out.
Democrat scum soil whatever they touch.
“Attracts fascist-adjacent fans?!”
What BS
This show is for people who think Tolkien ripped off George R.R. Martin.
Same -10 years. Every male seem effeminate, and every strong "leader" is female and/or black. Forced diversity where it should not exist (Elves). Pass.
This is two failures who think they are better then Tolkien.
Which the money they had they should have been able to produce something at least passible.
But... they have no talent.
This was all a series of unforced errors.
They had the rights to a few pages of facts. They could have used that as a launching point to produce a story that took place anywhere else in the world. Or they could have at least not made their "heroes" horrible people. There was no need for it. But they have no idea how to write. Which is why all their screen plays got turned down by every studio and they could not get any money to produce anything independently.
I mean think about it. All the dreck pumped out and these two could not get a single project green lit.
No talent.
The question is why did Commiezon hire these two.
Did they need a flop for a tax write off?
I tried to watch the first episode but found myself fast-forwarding through this disaster. This series has as much to do with Tolkien, as gluing a Ferrari badge to a Ford fiesta has to do with exotic sports cars. The dialog is pretentious, the acting is weak, none of the characters are relatable, and the set and costumes are are nothing like what Tolkien described. The sad thing is, when I heard Amazon was creating this series, my conversations with friends was from the idea of how bad this was going to be. They didn’t disappoint.
I watched the first 3 episodes. It sucked, woke, female dominated, minorities in out of place roles, and just bad. Too many characters that have no bonding to the show and mostly women in the lead everywhere a minority isn’t. The few sting males were just serving stronger female or minority character. I found myself wanting to fast forward through some story lines they were just of no value but if the did have value it still wasn’t known or made to care.
Not my billions.
LMAO. Excellent.
I’ve tried watching the first few episodes, but it is just soooooo terribly written. The production values of sets and suchlike are outstanding, but the characters are just blah.
The show sucks bad.
Solution is to blame the fans and position themselves as victims.
When Galadriel was sailing (in effect) from France to New York, saw the Statue of Liberty and decided to jump back into the ocean and swim to France rather than ask to borrow one of the lifeboats...well, I gave up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnSXqQqvRI
Based on YouTube summaries, she has since then had superheated poisonous gases and a lava flow roll over her without even get a sunburn. So skipping the rest seems to have been a good decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxlqm1-oV_k
The worst problem with this is the first three episodes put me to sleep. Now, maybe this thing has potential as an insomnia treatment, that’s a valuable thing.
and I personally know McKay, the showrunner. He’s a fag lib of the highest degree. But he’s not the type to throw his politics in the open unless he’s got something to gain. He’s obviously taking orders from the Disney higher ups who are the faggest of the fags here in the biz.
My wife and I are long time Tolkien fans but wow, what a pile.
Couldn’t make it through the first episode it was so sappy.
Went to give it 0 stars but was not allowed unless you finish at least one episode.....
Then. We went on vacation and the house sitter brought her special needs son who apparently watched 5 episodes. Poor kid.
Now season 2 ? What a waste.
The Babylon Bee version is 5 stars !
If that was the intended demographic it explains why so few people are watching the show.
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