Finally I'm glad someone else said it. I really felt like I was alone in enjoying this series. Was it perfect? No. Was it bad? Also no. But I still smiled at certain scenes, and teared up at others. And I believed this could be Middle-Earth. So I'd call it a win
This shows biggest weakness is that its set in Middle Earth, feels like it wanted to be a generic high fantasy show but someone said "lets make it Tolkien". Heres hoping it can get its personality problems sorted.
Brown elves and hobbits, that Eminem looking thing? Boss babe Guyladriel… 🤣 No the fans weren’t dumb, they didn’t like Amazon bending over and having their way with Tolkien’s creation and using it as another carrier for “THE MESSAGE” It’s garbage.
Tom Shippey, the Tolkien scholar, was fired from the production for trying to warn them about polluting the lore. I doubt you're a shill, you don't have the viewership I'd expect if you were, which just makes this kinda sad. The show is absolutely woke, and if you need a lesson on what that means, maybe start with the DEI 'recommendations' from Vanguard and blackrock. You know, those two organisations that are the largest shareholders in virtually every major company?
@@doggans you called people with legitimate criticisms 'the dumbest people in the world', you said nothing about Simon Tolkien and why he might not be the best caretaker of the estate. I already mentioned Tom Shippey. Your dismissal of woke critics was lazy. Your suggestion that any depiction contains the cultural baggage of that era is equally lazy. While it at least contains a grain of truth, there is a big difference between adaptations that attempt to remain faithful to the source, and adaptations that intentionally insert the studios politics and ideology. Anyway, I'm glad you can still 'appreciate the attempt', but there was no failed attempt here. They got the result they set out to create. The only failure was in thinking that their army of bots and shills would compensate for the lack of quality.
@@aaronz1326 I called people who had stupid criticisms that they direct at people not even involved in the show "the dumbest people in the world". I agree with most legitimate criticisms of the show but that doesn't make any of the stupid criticisms any less stupid. I have complicated feelings about Simon's caretaking of the estate, but I did about Christopher's as well. Christopher hated most of the adaptations that I liked way more than I liked this one, which is why I address that involvement from an author's estate is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. I have found zero reputable sources on the claim that the reason Shippey was fired was "trying to warn then about polluting the lore". Is it true? Maybe! But until I hear it from a reliable source I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Criticizing something for being "woke" is an intrinsically lazy criticism, so calling a dismissal of that criticism lazy is so hilarious that I can't believe you did it unironically. If Amazon was really inserting "the studios politics and ideology," it would have been a show about how great it is to underpay your employees while hoarding all the profit generated by their work, because like I said, Jeff Bezos is the actual human Sharkey. Anyway, thanks for all this engagement on a highlight clip from a video I released over a year and a half ago, I guess! You should watch the part of the video where I make fun of Khraniteli, that part's way funnier than this clip.
Not so much mad that a girl can fight. More disappointed in how the whole fight made 0 sense. An entire, elite elven force could do nothing, but Galadriel didn’t even break a sweat while defeating the ice troll. That’s just the basic “you go girl!” vibe present in so many recent series and movies and it’s gotten so old so fast. If you enjoy that, good for you. It means you have a long list of series to watch. For me, I prefer series to at least attempt to make the story make sense.
If you're not mad about a thing I noticed some people being mad about, then you're not one of the people I'm talking about, so defending your stance against an observation I'm making about different people seems rather pointless.
It seemed to me that you dismissed any and all criticism of what could be classified as 'woke' by saying that people are mad that girls can fight. If that's not the case, all good. If that was the case, there is my clarification. 'Woke' is not the cause of the series being bad. It's merely a symptom of the screenwriters who have no idea what they're doing and how to write a convicing character. Series can be 'woke' and high quality at the same time. You just need good writers. One last point that may help you in the future: no comment on your videos is 'pointless', it helps your channel grow. But if that's not your goal, once again, all good. Have a good day.
That…sure didn’t make a lick of sense as a response to the comment you’re replying to! I feel like one of us is having a stroke and I’m not sure which one it is.
