!nooticers Amazon Prime does it again after Wheel of Time

when your casting director pulls out the diversity checklist

I think he would have looked more elven with elegant box braids

Edit: unironically tho, you wouldn't cast a white guy as an elf who looked like he come off the street with that basic cropped hairstyle

They aren't even trying...

The real question is, how bad is this going to be in the new Peter Jackson movies?

I didn't know @Sphereserf3232 was in this

this neighbors gimmick got old quick

I was amazed that they permitted a red-headed Elf, and even more amazed that he wasn't the one killed off!

i disagree intensely

i did not interpret her girlbossing as being deliberately showcased by the story and writers as being cruel or foolish in character, as if her bad behaviviour would be a vehicle to a character arc to later become a better version of herself

instead it was a byproduct of the writer's poor morals, and them not grasping they actually wrote an butthole person - like a feminist misinterpreting that men look up to butthole authority figures, and only decrying "bossy" characteristics if a woman does it, when men despise these personality traits in both genders

No it was unintentionally the writers baring their souls, and being so wingcucked by gender views, that they are incapable of realizing they are projecting douchebag heroines and douchebag morality - and i personally see this within your morality as well

I once worked in a mine in Limpopo province of SA , for my articles as a Land Surveyor where I had to accumulate a minimum of work days (example 30 days of mining-surveying, then 60 days of cadastral surveying), before i was deemed fully qualified as a Professional by the governing body for Surveyors in the country.

One of my immediate overseers who i was needed to be humble towards, because she was the authority whom needed to sign for my work diary end of each shift, was a Zulu black feminist woman, whom was very intelligent in my opinion.

She was 60 years old and for 40 years she had endured the bullshit of not just chauvinist men in a male-dominated industry and study field, but also had 2 decades of her life stolen by Apartheid separation of races, barring her Tertiary education. She overcame much opposition to become a mining engineer, and was truly a woman pioneer in her field

and she despised me - i was at times the only white face in a 20 kilometer radius in deep dark africa, in Limpopo province, the proportionally blackest province in the country, and i was subservient to her and dependent upon her for my work diary and article practicals.

She was never outright hostile or cruel to me, yet it became ubundantly clear that she had faced so much hostile discrimination in her life, from both black and white men, and ESPCIALLY from afrikaners from the apartheid era - and here was i, the perfect avatar for all the barriers she had faced inblife

the weird thing was that i was so emphathetic for her past struggles, i could clearly infer from all of her ramblings and outloud thoughts that sh had faced, and yet i had to bite my tongue and endure being the target of her ire and focus of her resentment - it felt like was being the magnet for punishment for my predecessors whom had fricker her over in life, all of them old afrikaners now dead and retiring, and now me a young strag boer coming in their place.

SHOW MORE

woman fighting in anything but most desperate situations is the biggest woke insertion here. It didn't happen in middle ages, and Tolkien was period realistic.

If they had made this as an original fantasy show, I'd give it 6 out of 10. It's not great, it's not terrible on its own merits (though the pacing sucks, they try to cram too much stuff in and yet nothing really happens).

What is the grit in my oyster is when they (1) copy scenes and dialogue straight out of the movies and (2) throw in crumbs of lore to appeal to the book fans, then immediately piss all over that lore (e.g. Cirdan name-checking Rumil then calling him a drunkard. There's nothing in canon about that. Daeron was a pissy little b-word, but that is because he had a crush on Luthien and was jealous of some scruffy mortal Man coming along and getting the girl). "Let's do Old Man Willow but call it Old Man Ironwood because we're in the desert and there can't be willow trees here" is the level of dumb that insults both the book fans and the casual viewer who only wants an entertaining fantasy show.

They should just drop the Isildur story line. It's going nowhere and doing nothing. We know he has to survive to do all he does in canon, so there's absolutely no tension or sense of suspense when the show tries putting him in danger. Oh, a burning house fell on him! He's gonna be fine. Oh, Baby Shelob tried to eat him! He's gonna be fine. Oh, a bunch of Orcs attacked! He's gonna be fine. Oh, he got ambushed by Wildmen of Dunland! He's. Gonna. Be. Fine.

I can see it being 7.5 if you're a woman who enjoys smut books

Wasn't there literally a scene with an orc family meant to look like syrian refugees?

I don't really agree with your assessment of Galadriel. You are right that a lot of characters think she is a dumb b-word, but by the end of the season she's proven correct for being such a b-word the whole time. Not only is Sauron back but he's actively plotting to overthrow the world and cast it into darkness. If only all those misogynist men had listened to her from the start then maybe Sauron could have been stopped.

The thing is; the show is executed terribly. The scenes where it feels like Galadriel is an awful c*nt were not intended to be interpreted that way by the audience. You're actually suppose to think that she's a brave bad butt who refuses to give up in the face of hardship because she's knows the truth of Sauron and she will save everyone whether they believe her or not.

Dark Wizard is gonna be Saruman, I feel it in my bones, because I can't trust them not to do something as monumentally dumb as that.

Saruman being not only present during the Second Age but being evil as well would be so incredibly stupid. His betrayal of the White Council and alliance with Sauron in LOTR was something that came out as a shock to everyone in Middle-earth, before that everyone ranging from Gandalf to all Elvish Lords and human Kings trusted him and saw him as a wise wizard and friend. And more importantly, he only became evil because he coveted the One Ring and thought they had no military chance against Sauron, so his logic was "I'll join the winning side and then get the One Ring for myself".

But the showrunners are taking so many idiotic decisions I can see that happening because "the audience will remember LOTR wizard villain".

!ringbearers

what is bro yapping about

I think the movies were in pre-production for half a decade, and a lot of time was spent on costume and set design. Most of the costumes were custom made and tailored to the person wearing it, regardless of how long it would actually appear on screen.

With a tv show like this the sentiment is probably closer to: We need to put 20 elves in this shot. Throw some shit together and let's move on to the next scene.

Eh if they're not pulling out a real life terminator puppet killing people is it really terminator?