Monetizing all sides of the issue for dubious media companies?

I can accept a fantasy world of elves and wizards but a woman holding a sword is just unrealistic!

As the examples another poster made above demonstrate, the armor doesn’t so much conflict with her portrayal in canon so much as with the additional projections many readers made to that canon.

I’m giving this series a chance, but I admit... seeing Galadriel as a sword-wielding warrior? Yeah, that’s really not consistent with what we know about the character.

“I’m sure people would be outraged at a version of Aladdin with random white people in it.”

I do wonder sometimes if companies do feed the trolls a bit. But it clear that when backlash does hit hard some companies will actually change course and end up making shit no one wants. See “The Rise of Skywalker”

Why are you assuming that Amazon isn’t going to touch on the super obvious, unavoidable themes of this world? The trailer alone shows pretty much every thing you mentioned.

The actual narrative books of The Lord of the Rings have enough elements that can appeal to a broad audience, hence part of the reason Jackson’s films were so successful beyond the pre-existing fans. However... Amazon’s Rings of Power isn’t based on a pre-existing fleshed-out story with well defined characters.…

I think the show looks like absolute garbage. I’d be happy to be wrong, but I was talking to someone about it and they agreed but immediately went into “And Elves were created before there was a sun and moon and dwarves lived underground. They shouldn’t be black”. Then I had to kind of backtrack and defend a show that…

You liked the character when they were white but you don’t now they are black. I’m sure your intentions are good but one can see why people think that sounds racist.

it’s a pretty clear giveaway that the studio knows they have a turkey on their hands when the marketing strategy revolves around scolding you for not liking it!

Weird, socially inept chuds aren’t worth listening to. Not now, and not in the days when their ilk had to write actual letters to Marvel/DC/Universal/Whatthefuckever.

I honestly would love to know where you’ve been reading about this show that hasn’t been infected by toxic, racist, sexist trolls who are openly rooting for it to fail, because I find them inescapable.

Any word yet as to whether Lindsey Graham is upset about the portrayal of his people, the Orcs?

Johanna Constantine as a genderbent John was a bit of a miss. Nothing about her really felt like Constantine, you didn’t get working class punk from her, she was chic with immaculate make-up. There’s no meat to this Constantine. No cynicism, no feeling of “I’ve seen shit that would turn your blood ice cold”.

The first is not backing up the Reconstruction Amendments with fire and brimstone.

Religious conservatives always need something/someone to hate because in reality, they’re going to hell once they’re dead. No amount of jesus freakin’ will save their souls.

My evergreen question to conservatives: “Why the fuck do you care about this issue?”

Im not even gonna hide it.  I'm trans, and I politely say, eat shit JK I'm glad this movie is flopping.  Maybe if we're lucky there won't be two more sequels.  Nothing of value is lost, the quality isn't there and she is profiting from it.

Or more accurately, if the franchise never creates another compelling lead character.  There is so much potential in the Wizarding World for a compelling non-Harry Potter-centric story or even an MCU style expansion, they just didn’t stick the landing. Personally I thought from the start Fantastic Beasts was a dead…