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Just let the dead stay dead already.
Sep. 2nd, 2022 05:27 pmAbout the new LOTR prequel series:
I'm all for diversity in fantasy. I'm even for diversity in Tolkein's story. I applaud diversity in media, can't get enough of it because it's new and interesting. So the diversity isn't the issue for me. The issue is that a children's book (The Hobbit) got stretched into three movies and was a burning sack of g@rbage. This new series is just a shameless, soulless cash-grab by another evil corporation.
The Hobbit was to LOTR as the Star Wars prequels were to Star Wars, and this new series is just going to be all the other new Star Wars movies all over again, where most of the griping is going to be from r@cists and s3xists griping about women and minorities existing in a story that is no longer all about cis white men, which like the Star Wars sequels is already causing people to ignore valid criticisms of the series for having been written by a bunch of suits. The things I've been hearing about the story and the effects so far don't bode well to me.
I'm putting my money on the series being hot g@rbage soup full of meaningless fan service and horrible writing just like the mess that was the Hobbit trilogy, but even worse now that Bezos's pet monkeys have their grubby little paws all over it. It's gonna be Disney's milking to d3ath of Star Wars all over again, because corporations can't just let things go.
LOTR was great, it had its three movies to tell its story and was over. It should've been allowed to remain that way. But no, they resurrected its c0rp$3 and made it shamble around for three movies in a gr0ss mockery of the original trilogy, and they're doing it again. They saw how well the diversity controversy worked at covering up the r0tt1ng flesh of the Star Wars sequels, so they're relying on that again.
Whether you're for or against diversity in fiction, focusing on that angle is just playing into their hands. This series is going to be hot g@rbage baking in the California sun, but people are still gonna watch it and make Bezos billions of more dollars because they didn't learn their lesson from the absolute clvsterfvck that was the Star Wars sequels. Which is just going to further encourage big evil mega-corporations to reanimate even more completed stories and make them moan and shuffle around while parts fall off of them.
PS = I'm also astonished they're doing the same thing to Game of Thrones after that series caught fire and crashed into a boiling lake of rotting human corpse juice.
PPS = I couldn't be arsed to undo the stupid censorship I had to use to get around Facebook's miles-high tower of bullshit they don't like.
I'm all for diversity in fantasy. I'm even for diversity in Tolkein's story. I applaud diversity in media, can't get enough of it because it's new and interesting. So the diversity isn't the issue for me. The issue is that a children's book (The Hobbit) got stretched into three movies and was a burning sack of g@rbage. This new series is just a shameless, soulless cash-grab by another evil corporation.
The Hobbit was to LOTR as the Star Wars prequels were to Star Wars, and this new series is just going to be all the other new Star Wars movies all over again, where most of the griping is going to be from r@cists and s3xists griping about women and minorities existing in a story that is no longer all about cis white men, which like the Star Wars sequels is already causing people to ignore valid criticisms of the series for having been written by a bunch of suits. The things I've been hearing about the story and the effects so far don't bode well to me.
I'm putting my money on the series being hot g@rbage soup full of meaningless fan service and horrible writing just like the mess that was the Hobbit trilogy, but even worse now that Bezos's pet monkeys have their grubby little paws all over it. It's gonna be Disney's milking to d3ath of Star Wars all over again, because corporations can't just let things go.
LOTR was great, it had its three movies to tell its story and was over. It should've been allowed to remain that way. But no, they resurrected its c0rp$3 and made it shamble around for three movies in a gr0ss mockery of the original trilogy, and they're doing it again. They saw how well the diversity controversy worked at covering up the r0tt1ng flesh of the Star Wars sequels, so they're relying on that again.
Whether you're for or against diversity in fiction, focusing on that angle is just playing into their hands. This series is going to be hot g@rbage baking in the California sun, but people are still gonna watch it and make Bezos billions of more dollars because they didn't learn their lesson from the absolute clvsterfvck that was the Star Wars sequels. Which is just going to further encourage big evil mega-corporations to reanimate even more completed stories and make them moan and shuffle around while parts fall off of them.
PS = I'm also astonished they're doing the same thing to Game of Thrones after that series caught fire and crashed into a boiling lake of rotting human corpse juice.
PPS = I couldn't be arsed to undo the stupid censorship I had to use to get around Facebook's miles-high tower of bullshit they don't like.