It is nothing like as bad as the trailers and other preview stuff indicated but kind of bland. The concept of a female black dwarf really doesn't work on screen but is a fairly short section, the rest of the diversity/woke elements so far are fairly innocuous and don't really intrude unlike a lot of stuff lately.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime)
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It is nothing like as bad as the trailers and other preview stuff indicated but kind of bland. The concept of a female black dwarf really doesn't work on screen but is a fairly short section, the rest of the diversity/woke elements so far are fairly innocuous and don't really intrude unlike a lot of stuff lately.
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I watched them both now, looks good, but everything looks too clean, even in the mines. But it's okay, the biggest problem i find is i am not connecting to the characters, I am meant to root someone right? but i don't.
It's produced by completely different people to the films, based on different sources material - they don't even have rights to use anything from the books the films were based on.
So, no, watching the films doesn't do much. Honestly, I don't think it does itself any favours by setting itself against them.
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So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”
So what did Amazon buy? “We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit,” Payne says. “And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” That takes a huge chunk of lore off the table and has left Tolkien fans wondering how this duo plans to tell a Second Age story without access to those materials. “There’s a version of everything we need for the Second Age in the books we have the rights to,” McKay says. “As long as we’re painting within those lines and not egregiously contradicting something we don’t have the rights to, there’s a lot of leeway and room to dramatize and tell some of the best stories that [Tolkien] ever came up with.”
Ah! My bad, I thought it was the other way round.
To be fair every time I tried to read the Silmarillion, I got about 20 pages in and couldn't get past Tolkien's archaic prose.
My verdict on the show is "open" at present, has the makings of a good story though I do wonder how they got this past the Tolkien estate/principals.
The casting is what it is, though in the books the only identifiable persons of colour were those from the lands south of Gondor - Haradrim and Umbar etc. It was not a multicultural society. Trying to work out why all the dwarves sound like Gerard Butler, though.
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Is he the innkeeper of Ye Olde Premier Inn? Please tell me he’s doing all his lines as Trevor McDoughnut!
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what's going on with imdb? can't see any review below 6*
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He has the most bizarre Irish/Jamaican/other accent and can't keep to it consistently.
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IMDB is a subsidiary of Amazon, wouldn’t be surprised for some moderating of reviews.
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With your "logic" you could never have a person of colour in any Shakespeare play/movie because they'd stick out like a sore thumb. In fact in any play/movie written before POC started living in Europe and/or didn't explicitly mention that this character wasn't white. Can you not see how ridiculous that is. For most characters skin colour is irrelevant.
How is that ridiculous?
Skin colour isn't irrelevant at all.
And here we have a film based on the survival of one of the last isolated tribes of the amazon...oh yes, there's their leader played by Trevor Armstrong from Chipping Norton. Look at his flowing golden locks and those glistening blue eyes, his classic pale complexion. That's ridiculous. The cast of black panther being white is ridiculous. Jamaican/Irish accents that can't stay consistent is ridiculous.
Geographical and sociological isolation is a fact of history and the modern world. In fact it's only very recently with the advent of mass transport that wider integration outside of major cities has become a thing. This is reflected in literature, particularly in the portrayal of historical periods. Individual skin colour of characters can be irrelevant but in a wider group it is not.
I'm sorry that reality offends your sensibilities.