I saw a contrived inter-racial romance between a black "elf" man and a white village woman. The slanderous rumor in her village is that her white husband deserted here because she was having an affair with an elf. We are supposed to approve.
I saw black hobbits and a cute white tomboy girl. No boys.
Yes, I am thoroughly tired of seeing blacks cast in unsuitable roles as obeisance to current political correctness. Can you say, "cultural appropriation"? The "woke" crowd sure can.
I saw Galadriel cast as a neurotic warrior-princess, defying orders from the male patriarchy and experiencing mutiny by her cowardly male squad of soldiers. It is a trope which has been used in dozens of other movies and they weren't any good either.
The old white guys cast as the elf high king and councilors look like a bunch of hair-salon poofters and metro-sexual politicians. Their decision to disband military forces makes no sense at all, considering that the high king admits that he knows "the shadow" is still extant somewhere.
Apparently, he does not want to stir up any trouble by keeping Galadriel around to find "the shadow".
The cinematography was stunning. That was the only good part of the episode.
Yes, I watched the first episode. That is all I will watch.
The whole thing about Gil-Galad essentially exiling Galadriel back to Valinor was bizarre.
Poncy Hairdressers?
The "black" elf is played by Puerto Rican actor Ismael Cruz Córdova and the "white" woman is played by Iranian actress Nazanin Boniadi.
My husband tried watching the first episode. He kept saying, ‘Boy, they are taking incredible liberties with this!’
(Wasn’t Galadriel Elrond’s mother-in-law, or something like that, in the family tree?)