Beat40 said:
DallasTeleAg said:
Also, some of you could use a little empathy. Maybe think that some of us are highly critical because it is such a beloved IP. Some of you have watched the movies a lot. Some of us have spent hours and hours of our lives reading the stories, delving deeper in the other works, and it built our foundation on what we love about storytelling and fantasy.
It just means so much.
So when so much money is thrown at this IP, we want quality. We don't want woke agendas, or any other agenda other than bringing a world we love to life, in the most faithful way possible.
I think the show has been fine. It's good enough that I will continue to watch it with hopes it gets really good. This is more than I can say for shows like She-Hulk, which I abandoned after episode 1.
I get the reasons you're critical.
You say this in a previous post: "I'm sure the reason everyone in the Southlands isn't brown or black is because the writers didn't want to imply that all the darkskin peoples aligned with our big evil guy. But you can easily write a story where they are coerced or are driven into forced service to Sauron."
In the Third Age, the south most regions are Gondor and Mordor. Gondor isn't very dark. So, in the Second Age, why do the Southlanders have to be something different?
My point was more so around building a geographical story around a different race if you want to introduce one. I have absolutely nothing against putting other races in the world. It is a natural part of our human anthropology. At the end of the day, I also can live with how they did it, but it ruins any immersion the story held for me.
I've already said Arondir is probably my favorite character and best portrayal of an elf. I just expect storytellers to tell me a story around the visuals they present. I understand Hollywood is just pushing representation for the sake of representation, and causing story and world-building to suffer. That's fine, go for it. I'm going to call it lazy and claim the world they built is crap.
Hell, in my recommendation in introducing an entire region you'd not seen yet, as a different race, you would have EVEN MORE people of color in the series.
I just hate lazy storytelling. Take Into the Spiderverse, for example. I think that is the best Spiderman story we have been given by Hollywood. Did they destroy the Spiderman mythology we had spent the last many decades consuming and loving? No. They built a new story that fit within the narrative, and came out with an exceptional piece of cinema. That's all I'm asking for.