Voice actors have been undervalued and underpaid for a long time and I hope this being a slightly higher profile case means maybe people will start giving a damn.

I speak from personal experience when I say, the average voice actor is just as talented as a normal actor, they USUALLY tend to be more humble and kind, and they put in all the effort.  4000 dollars for an entire video game performance is beyond insulting.  Voice actors deserve better. 

I imagine the actual way Ryan Reynolds was a dick to him was telling him that he doesn’t want to work with rapists, and since that’s not a very compelling argument for Miller, he pulled up this anecdote as the closest thing to Reynolds being rude to him that he could manage.

Ironically, the tone of this article isn’t nearly snarky enough - TJ Miller talked with Adam Corolla about how shitty Ryan Reynolds is, and the headline isn’t “Second-Worst Guy From Silicon Valley Dumps on Ryan Reynolds to Second-Worst Guy From Loveline.”

Ah, yes, Ryan Reynolds being ‘mean’ is why you won’t be in any more Deadpool films. Sure... that’s it.... 

“Mamma mia,” not “momma mia.”  

Definitely agree.  I always wonder why so many fanspaces seem to be so hateful and negative towards the thing they supposedly love.  Fandom in general has become such a shitty environment over the last 2 decades in particular.  Reminds me of when punk rock was full of people mad at “sell outs” when in reality it was…

LMAO. This was really weak.

Yeah, nothing makes me feel old quite like my sadness over the death of IP-specific forums and message boards. It was easier to avoid toxic people.  Though they grew their own toxic people too, I guess. 

...so, what you’re saying is that it’s not women and minorities getting opportunities that you hate, but rather you’re standing up for ethics in game journalism. Got it.

Córdova is so committed to his role that Arondir is the Elf hero we didn’t know we needed. Casting him was a creative swing for the fences against type and expectations and he paid off so much more than just another Legolas clone.

I love it. Everyone I know loves it. Especially the Tolkien diehards including me. Beautifully created, written, and acted, and amazingly reverent toward Tolkien within the license limits. I’m shocked at how good it is.

Also, European or other real history simply doesn’t apply. Middle Earth is a created world. Life didn’t evolve over millions of years. Elves and humans “awoke” fully formed in the First Age. Even after thousands of years that’s not enough time for our world’s ethnic differentiation.

It’s painfully nerdy, but I’m not sure if blond hair is really the standard for special status. The most “beautiful” people in Tolkien tend to be black-haired (e.g. Melian, Luthien, Arwen, Morwen, the Numenorian aristocracy and everyone descended from the Numenorian aristocracy). Which is cute, since his wife had…

That would be nice, but I’d really love to discuss the show in a fandom context without regularly dealing with racist misogynists. It’s hard to even discuss the show critically without having horrible people “agree” with you for the worst reasons.

criticism that I have seen of this show been all about how bad it is - and it is pretty bad thus far.

I think you’re spot on about the internet hate machine being to blame for this. Negativity generates clicks, clicks generate money, and before you know it so many people are pouring their time and energy into performative outrage that is insanely out of proportion. There are whole channels who are now dedicated to…

Ismael Cruz Córdova is somehow managing to convince me for a few minutes each week that he is a warrior elf, something no other actor has managed to do. I can’t quite explain it; there’s just something about his bearing and demeanor that makes me think yep, that’s what a warrior elf would do. So whatever process led…

It seems unlikely that the massive review bombing campaign that occurred before any episodes aired are the result of legitimate criticisms of the show.

Europe always had POC and evidence of them was intentionally and systematically removed from the historical record in the 19th century by racist historians in Europe and the U.S.