Posted on 10/08/2022 8:26:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It needed better editing for certain and better writing. Most of the actors are very good. It's very uneven, the woke multi-culti elements in the first episodes are intrusive. I expect most such series to start off slow as characters are introduced, but this is really turgid at times. Some scenes however are very very good. Some are cliched to the point that when a character does something, you know he's going to be toast.
The writers do quietly poke a little fun at the woke-stuff, as when Galadriel uses "orcs" in front of the bad elf who is father of the orcs and he says, "We prefer Uruk." I did LOL at that.
Most important to me is that they do keep a core part of Tolkien that absent from most comic book or action movies: the fight against evil is not easy and involves almost unbearable loss, including the risk of letting evil become your own motivation in seeking revenge. A good lesson from a man who survived the Somme.
The elves are just... plain. They’re supposed to be ethereal characters but they’re just humans with glued on pointy ears.
Humans are dirty, ugly and incompetent “deplorables” with no redeeming qualities except the medicine woman who is immaculately clean and knows whatever needed.
The “Mary Sure” here are as shallow as the men are stupid.
I’m rooting for the orcs and sauron.
How long before claims that Tolkien was a racist and a sexist and his works must be purified by being reimagined by our Woke betters?
Game of Thrones prequel similar race silliness
Naturally they're complaining that their critics are racist for their attempts to make a mythical past reflect a politically-correct present, but in fact they've torn out Tolkien's deep messages on interracial comity and replaced them with superficial skin-color tokenism. That is, sadly, the very least of their problems. The thing is boring. And that Tolkien never was.
Amazon says if you do not like “The Rings of Power” then you are a racist. Hollywood ruined Star wars and Star Trek and Lord of the Rings and later Marvel films with “girl power”.
The “The Rings of Power” actors look like high school actors. They do not fit the part. I have seen reviews on youtube and the excerpts show the acting and dialog are real bad along with the special effects.
Laughably Bad Copy & Paste Crowd in Rings of Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt1vdPEOr1M
God that is a long article. It isn’t internet trolls that are killing the show it’s that it is woke garbage which has no appeal to actual Tolkien fans. The people that like fantasy programming are the people they are calling trolls for expressing opinions contrary to what Amazon is trying to accomplish which is to make their money back. It doesn’t derive from any actual Tolkien works it is entirely made up by the show runners in a committee. There is no unifying creative force it is a bunch of people trying not to offend any of the protected groups. Fans are not welcome.
So gay.
"highest-rated yet on IMDb"
AND.. the elves had short hair..
Correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t 12.6 million viewers used to get you cancelled?
Now, that’s funny right there. Don’t care who you are.
Loved the end when uhhh... “they” threw the ax.
So there you go, a how many thousand word article to try to convince you that any criticism is basically just a bunch or racists….
This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to humanity and if you don’t like it YOU are the problem.
You are living in an age of pre-cable.
There are entire broadcast networks these days that don’t have a single show that average a million viewers.
CW I don’t think has a single scripted program that averages a million viewers and it’s a broadcast network.
How things have changed! Go back and look at the numbers Bing Crosby put up in terms of sheer size and percentage of population in audience and sales. It’s no wonder that they guy always seemed so cool and confident. 12 million is a rounding error to him.
As I told you you are living in pre cable days. Only 3 networks at most in any market and maybe 1 or 2 independent stations.
Cable destroyed the world you are referring to, and streaming has eroded it even further
Today the highest watched scripted network broadcast show doesn’t even pull in 11 million viewers a week.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/most-popular-tv-shows-ncis-fbi-chicago-fire-1235263770/amp/
He sounds like Michael Scott or David Brent from The Office.
People talk that way about places where nothing actually happens.
There's no fighting in there.
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