Posted on 09/02/2022 2:52:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If you aren't aware, the Tolkien fandom isn't happy with Amazon's new work of "art," the $1-billion-a-season "Rings of Power."
There are a lot of reasons why the show is being criticized so heavily – most of them having to do with post-modern, feminist, Marxist ideology that the showrunners are trying to impose on a franchise that is utterly opposed to such things – but I'll let you sift through those in-depth reviews for yourself.
As for right now, let's just glory in the fact that somehow, despite the beloved franchise having oodles of source material to work with, the creators of this hot garbage managed to get a worse initial rating than the current approval ratings of the most unliked President of the United States.
I love and hate to see it (cuz I want woke desecrations of art to fail but I really wanted this to be good).
You can ignore the critic rating. These days, it only serves as a benchmark of whether or not something is woke trash or just trash trash.
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
I bet Netflix will try the same woke shtick with their take on Narnia. I’ll just stick with the original three Walden media trilogy.
Count me out too. I have no interest in gender confused hobbits at all.
Go woke, go broke.
Lol! I was trying to visualize that, then I realized, NO! I don’t want to see it. Years ago, there was a little dust up online about the concept of ‘Black Munchkins’.
Are there black lesbian elves?!
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Haven’t seen any black lesbian elves. All the elves are white; its the hobbititiz and the dwarfs that have blacks.
But sometime during the first 15 minutes of Episode 1, I was hoping their would be a huge battle and all the characters would be killed off in a blaze of glory. Then with Episode 2, we could start over with a new cast, new script, new writers, and new actors that could actually act.
Well, Amazon rakes in the cash anyway even if no one watches if they don’t lose subscribers over it.
You spelled “Lawd” wrong..
>> Joseph R Biden
aka Joseph Stolen
They’re so stupid. They still haven’t figured out that woke makes for broke.
Um, Amazon had a second straight loss in Q2.
They wokified Tom Clancy’s work too. Absolute garbage. What’s really a shame is the conservators of literary masterpieces are so willing to sell out to an entity (Amazon) that they know will deface the source material.
Though they weren't perfect, I loved the first three movies, and I've read LOTR, the Hobbit, and the Silmarillion more times than I can count.
Won't be watching this crap.
Watched it and it wasn’t bad. Not great, but not bad. The story was a little slow, but the series is just starting. It should improve. Visually it’s really good.
And I’m a huge Tolkien fan. Read the Hobbit for the first time in sixth grade, and the Lord of the Rings in eighth grade (1979). I’m as picky as they come when it comes to Middle-earth, and it was OK.
I didn’t get either of those vibes from Galadriel, but it is true they’re really compressing the timeliness.
I’ll pass on Lord of the Woke..
It’s weird to me that these companies keep doing this. The people that run them are not dumb.
I wonder if they are getting something for this.
It’s not inconceivable to me that the Gov might be incentivizing this.
Just read an article on how the Fed Gov is behind all the censorship that has been going on.
I’m pretty sure they were paying companies to “encourage” the ‘rona shots.
Timelines, not timeliness... Damned auto correct...
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