DrZoidberg
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I've tried to find a review of Rings of Power. I like Lord of the Rings, and fantasy in general. But The Rings of Power isn't based on Silmarillion (which they don't have the rights to). It's based on footnotes in LOTR. Which is super odd. But anyway... it takes the pressure off them to be super strict with the source material. It's going to have to be a modern re-interpretation. And they will need to make lots of stuff up. I'm totally cool with that. I'm not a purist. I understand that a movie and a book are different types of media, and simply from a story telling perspective the films will be different from the books... well... footnotes in the book. I also don't see copyrights as sacred. People should be allowed to re-interpret other people's universes as they want.
That was a long way of saying that I will wait with watching this until I have seen a review that recommends it.
That's when my problems start. I can't find a review of this that isn't either pro-woke or anti-woke. The blackness of a character (the dwarf princess Disa) has all the attention. Based on what I've read Disa is a non-canonical character. She can look and be anyway they creators want. I don't understand how it's even possible to get hung up on that, even if you hate woke? Tolkien's works are chock full of one line references to vaguely described places, people and tribes that never come up again.
Woke reviews seem completely obsessed with the anti-wokes. As if the only thing that matters for a show is how much minorities are represented. I can't find a single review that isn't politicized somehow.
Do you know of a good Rings of Power review that only focuses on the actual content of the TV series? And not all the irrelevant shit. If you do, please share it.
Thanks.
edit: Oh, yeah.. I want actual reviews. Not obvious paid ads dressed up as reviews. I have no problems finding those.
That was a long way of saying that I will wait with watching this until I have seen a review that recommends it.
That's when my problems start. I can't find a review of this that isn't either pro-woke or anti-woke. The blackness of a character (the dwarf princess Disa) has all the attention. Based on what I've read Disa is a non-canonical character. She can look and be anyway they creators want. I don't understand how it's even possible to get hung up on that, even if you hate woke? Tolkien's works are chock full of one line references to vaguely described places, people and tribes that never come up again.
Woke reviews seem completely obsessed with the anti-wokes. As if the only thing that matters for a show is how much minorities are represented. I can't find a single review that isn't politicized somehow.
Do you know of a good Rings of Power review that only focuses on the actual content of the TV series? And not all the irrelevant shit. If you do, please share it.
Thanks.
edit: Oh, yeah.. I want actual reviews. Not obvious paid ads dressed up as reviews. I have no problems finding those.
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