True enough, however there wasn't anywhere near the amount of 'diversity rules' malarky thrown out by the showrunners or actors with Prey, people were still concerned however. WoT would be comparable, same rhetoric, same basic lack of understanding the source material and that was a ******* dumpster fire of a show.
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True enough, however there wasn't anywhere near the amount of 'diversity rules' malarky thrown out by the showrunners or actors with Prey, people were still concerned however. WoT would be comparable, same company, same rhetoric, same basic lack of understanding the source material, same glowing critic reviews and that was a ******* dumpster fire of a show.If you re-read that 'Prey' thread there was very little concern at all, other than recent Predator movies had been bad and people worried it was straight to streaming:
The next Predator movie - Prey (2022 on Hulu)
The next Predator movie is going to be called "Prey" and is due out in Summer 2022 on the streaming service Hulu. As a brief synopsis, it's set 300 years ago around Naru, a skilled native American warrior who fiercely protects her tribe as an alien Predator hunts them. It stars Amber Midthunder...forums.overclockers.co.uk
A few concerns that a "90lb woman" would be kicking the predators arse, but on the whole a decent enough discussion.
Not like this Trainwreck of a thread.
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I didn't watch WoT or follow that discussion
You mentioned RT previously so I can see the critic score is higher than the audience score, but only by 19% and 81% isn't overwhelmingly "glowing"
In fact if you filter the critic scores by 'top critics' only, it gets 52% which is 'rotten'
The Wheel of Time | Rotten Tomatoes
Moiraine, a member of a magical organization, takes five young people on a journey, believing that one of them might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, a powerful individual prophesied to save the world or destroy it.
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If you look at Metacritic in comparison, the reviews from critics are actually lower than the audience score, by 14%
The Wheel of Time season 1 Reviews
Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a member of a powerful all-female organization and five young people, one who is prophesied to be the one who could save or destroy the world, begin a long journey in this adaptation of the Robert Jordan's novel series of the same name.
www.metacritic.com
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But it's not bizarre given EVERYTHING we have heard from the cast etc - they never talk about anything else but wokery...and this is against a backdrop of 5-6 years of constant woke lecturing. And anyway there's always people like you who will defend any old crap and are too invested in brands and frnachises who will say anything is good and can't stand any criticising anything.
If it is good I will say it is good, I said I was pleasantly surprised about HOD after ep 1, except Matt Smith who is about as convioncing as his wig in anything outside of Dr. Who.
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You can just look at my reviews of things in this area of the forum to see that's not true.
I'm a Marvel cinematic universe fan and didn't like 'Thor: Love & Thunder'
I'm a Jordan Peele fan (back from Key & Peele days) and didn't like 'Nope'
I didn't like Bullet Train
Ironically the best movie I did watch recently was 'Prey'
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Well, stay out of it then, go and find an "Everything is amazing" echo chamber that reassures you everything you watch is fantastic. All that M-SHE-U crap you love so much must have dozens of fan sites, Discords, forums etc
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You think She-Hulk is good ffs...
I said the first episode was "enjoyable" and haven't seen episode 2 yet.
I like to actually give things a chance.
Can you imagine the internet being as it is now, in 1987 when Star Trek TNG was released? Season 1 and 2 are mostly **** with very few good episodes.
People like you would have written it off straight away.
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If you enjoyed that, especially as someone who I suspect is a huge Marvel fan that I have to cast doubt on your ability to critique TV, or be objective about a show from a brand you're heavily invested in.
I think when you look at ST, that had a long-history of quality writing behind it, therefore, people were prepared to give it a chance, and in 1987 there wasn't the internet, and there wasn't an endless proliferation of content airing all over the place. The M-SHE-U doesn't have any History of quality writing behind it and it also unashamedly woke AF. When OG Trek had a message and wanted to make you think it did so subtletly with quality story-telling, it did not tell you needed to be "educated" and then you call you racist when you said their shows were crap.
So I don't think the comparison is really valid.
You don’t think you’re creating your own echo chamber in here with others by droning on about wokery and how bad a show is before it’s come out with posts like the above telling anyone that calls you on it to leave?! Nah, you probably don’t.
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You can quite safely put people that say woke and M-She-U on ignore. It's pretty clear they have an agenda and you can't have an actual discussion with people like that.
God, it feels like school again.
Is it an echo chamber when there's differing opinions?
seriously, you need to catch yourself on. that's just about as embarrassing a post as it's possible to make. the person you quoted isn't looking for an everything is amazing echo chamber. it's not hard to see all they are looking for is a thread that doesn't have you constantly crying 'woke' like some demented person possessed with finding fault in something they've never seen.
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Do you mean the clear stated agenda the wokists who make "entertainment" these days have?
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Do you mean like the cast of ROP droning on constantly on about "redressing the balance" "diversity" "representation" "changing the world" "activism" "female empowerment and agency "seeing themselves on screen"" "first this and that on TV (usually found later to be BS)" and their endless self-delusion and selg-aggrandizement, while bareley mentioning Tolkien - you mean that kind of echo chamber?
Jesus Christ @Darujhistan, why are you so wound up about something you've never seen? Watch it when it comes out, if you hate it stop after the 1st episode. Is it not that simple? You're coming across as someone who feels they are under personal attack. It's really weird. The entertainment industry serves up what it thinks people want. When it's wrong, it adjusts, otherwise it would cease to be. This has been going on since the dawn of time. If you're so convinced this will be terrible, then nobody will watch it. Chill out.
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Why are you so wound up about what I think?
It's really weird that people can't handle anyone having an opinion.
Chill, maybe go and watch She-Hulk? that's fun...
people can handle others having an opinion perfectly fine. what's not so much fun to handle is when you come in here and whine constantly. give it a rest, it's beyond embarrassing now, everyone reading this thread knows your opinion on it so let it go.