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The best comparison I have is what Paul Verhoeven did to Starship Troopers.   Why Hollywood writers and directors think they can improve on literary genius escapes me.

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I had to update the thread title.

It use to be "$465M," but according to the Wall Street Journal Amazon has spent $715M on the first season alone.

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Watch party for tonight?

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Watch party for tonight?

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‘“The Rings of Power” Is Too Big to Fail’

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It's worth noting that the $715M estimate is just for the first season and Amazon's plan is (or at least "was") to make FIVE SEASONS of this.

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Corporatism is the death of the soul.  Bezos is thoroughly a corporate creature.  He thinks he can just demand "Give me GoT," then take a totally unrelated franchise in LOTR, and someone get GoT, at the same time a real GoT spinoff is airing, and that it will somehow work.  Oh, and of course it can be woke as fuck because fuck you, consume product.  

This isn't art, it's just more cheap product produced from the Amazon warehouse.

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Because Hobbits, Dwarfs and Elves aren't diverse enough? smh

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The best comparison I have is what Paul Verhoeven did to Starship Troopers.   Why Hollywood writers and directors think they can improve on literary genius escapes me.

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I do not get the push to pander to a group of the population that comprises of only 13% of the population, and a big chunk of that population is in prison, jail, on welfare, or just aint got no mo time fo dat...

If an alien was to watch our tv stations for 1 day, they would be sure that the majority of our planet is black people, that everyone marries either the same gender or a different colored gender, and white people are the slow dumb igits that are the comedic relief of the planet, like Jar Jar Binks...How the fuck did we become Jar Jar?????????  

How did this happen in our own damn country...???

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08DQcB7fH4

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Watch party for tonight?

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maybe just MAYBE this will be a wakeup call to all the over the top inclusiveness and wokism that is being shoved into so much of the media these days.

one hopes...

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How does Amazon decide if this was a good investment or not? People are getting access with their Prime memberships and there aren't ads playing

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to be fair the did have Black numenoreans but I think the reference was towards their alignment towards evil much like what the mouth of sauron would could have been. Fallen, Corrupt and dark in their ethics, it fits the description of the left to a tee. Not watching, not worth it as it's just another slander and an attempt to goad people into anger and division.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twmojN_N90Y

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Nah.  Gonna watch this myself.  Setting up a TV in the crapper.

After Telling Critics To "Shut The F*** Up," Morfydd Clark Now Claims She Was Surprised By Galadriel's Depiction In 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power'
John F. Trent
August 31, 2022
Television

Morfydd Clark, who plays Galadriel in the upcoming Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is now claiming she was surprised by the depiction of Galadriel in the show after previously telling critics to "shut the f*** up."

Clark demanded silence of critics of the series when she posted to her Instagram Stories earlier this month, "Anyone sending hate to my black cast mates, get off my page, get off the internet, and shut up."

She then shared a short video of her castmate, Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor, making a hand motion that reveals the phrase "Shut the f*** up."

Clark would seemingly ask in a caption below the video, "Who made this?"

In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Clark revealed she was surprised about the changes the series is making to Galadriel based off what she had read about the character in The Lord of the Rings and seen portrayed in the films.

She told the outlet, "It definitely surprised me because I thought I was a fan. I'd read The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, seen the films, but I had no idea about the First and Second Age.

However, it appears she might not have actually read anything about Galadriel and how she was depicted in the First and Second Ages as she continued, "I think it's really interesting that she is so conflicted and going through so much because I feel the people in my life who ended up the most kind of chill and serene as Galadriel  have usually been through a lot."

She added, "It was interesting to work with the opposites, you know? How far can she go from what we know she will become?"

She further provided more information about Galadriel and her interactions with Men in the series saying, "I think she's interestingly out of touch and separated from them, but also sees herself as a guardian."

"She wants them to be safe and protected but also doesn't understand how men exist. She is an Elf alone in many regards, and that was interesting to explore because I think so much of the power of all the characters in Middle-earth comes from their community and she's somewhat at odds with that," she asserted.

As noted by YouTuber The One Ring, the depictions of Galadriel as shown in the series' trailers is "not anything Tolkien ever wrote."

Speaking specifically to Galadriel and a clip of her indicating she's going to avenge her brother's death he says, "First of all, if she's talking about Finrod Felagund, her brother, who was with Beren and was killed by Sauron's werewolves, this is not how it would have happened."

"Her whole line that she is there to avenge his death has no basis in anything Tolkien wrote," he continues. "She was with Melian, the Maia, in Doriath, and didn't spend her time avenging the deaths of her brothers. She spent her time essentially trying to evade the doom of the Valar because she took part in the kinslaying at Alqualond ."

"So for her to be in this role of avenger is nothing that can be pointed back to what Tolkien wrote. It's just not there," he asserts.

He also points to a line Clark delivers as Prime Video's warped version of Galadriel where she says, "Not fate, nor destiny. Ours was the work of something greater."

The One Ring comments, "That makes her sound like Gandalf when Gandalf would speak of things happening with greater purpose, which is a call to the will of Iluvatar, the god of Arda, the god of E , god of the whole universe, and how he wills, he works things to happen."

"She is running from the doom spoken over her, and for the longest time she could not face it until The Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo offers her the ring and she says I passed the test, I will diminish and go into the West and remain Galadriel," he continues.

In fact, Tolkien wrote in Letter 246 a draft to Mrs. Eileen Elgar that Galadriel would not be leading soldiers in battle or would attempt to combat Sauron in single combat if she fell to the ring's temptation and attempted to supplant him.

He explained, "In any case Elrond or Galadriel would have proceeded in the policy now adopted by Sauron: they would have built up an empire with great and absolutely subservient generals and armies and engines of war, until they could challenge Sauron and destroy him by force. Confrontation of Sauron alone, unaided, self to self was not contemplated."

Tolkien also wrote in Letter 320 to Mrs. Ruth Austin, "I was particularly interested in your remarks about Galadriel.  . I think it is true that I owe much of this character to Christian and Catholic teaching and imagination about Mary, but actually Galadriel was a penitent: in her youth a leader in the rebellion against the Valar (the angelic guardians)."

"At the end of the First Age she proudly refused forgiveness or permission to return. She was pardoned because of her resistance to the final and overwhelming temptation to take the Ring for herself," he adds.

He further detailed in Letter 353 to Lord Halsbury, "Galadriel was 'unstained': she had committed no evil deeds. She was an enemy of F anor. She did not reach Middle-earth with the other Noldor, but independently. Her reasons for desiring to go to Middle-earth were legitimate, and she would have been permitted to depart, but for the misfortune that before she set out the revolt of F anor broke out, and she became involved in the desperate measures of Manw , and the ban on all emigration."

What do you make of Morfydd Clark's recent comments about Galadriel and her surprise about how she is depicted in The Rings of Power?

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I had to update the thread title.

It use to be "$465M," but according to the Wall Street Journal Amazon has spent $715M on the first season alone.

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Just finished the 1st episode.  Even if you can manage to ignore the woke nonsense,  this show is worse then I feared it would be.

The story sucks, the acting sucks, the music sucks, and the characters suck.

I'm debating if I will try episode 2 or not.