Lord of the Rings TV Series Purchased by Amazon

[Nask]

I am totally on board with that as well.

Not surprised that you are on board with the idea that women and minorities don't belong in media, and if they are everything "they" touch is going to be shit.

[Specialka]

Not surprised that you are on board with the idea that women and minorities don't belong in media, and if they are everything "they" touch is going to be shit.

Not surprising you do not understand what is being said.

[Nask]

Not surprising you do not understand what is being said.

I guess you are now going to say that highlighting means something other than what the meaning is? Like, highlighting main actor in adverts is not that? Or actors going to journalist for Q&A is not that?

[Melius]

i must admit that i find the touch of woke ideology rather disgusting in modern day cinema or tv shows. and since most of them usually crash and burn i must say i dont believe this one will have a better fate. so no, i am not interested in a ''modern day'' interpretation of tolkiens work but i wont fault anyone who doesnt think like me. kudos to you and have a pleasant watch

[Veggie50]

Telling nothing but in your sick head.

They do not travel as much as we do in the modern world. In the middle age, people rarely moved around their town.

And I perfectly accept a black elf if you give me a good reason why there is a black elf (or more) in a population of white elf. Same goes for the black princess of a white people. Good luck with that.

The elf fell under an enchantment that changed the colour of his skin. This is a painful memory and therefore not brought up tadaaaaaaaa

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i must admit that i find the touch of woke ideology rather disgusting in modern day cinema or tv shows. and since most of them usually crash and burn i must say i dont believe this one will have a better fate. so no, i am not interested in a ''modern day'' interpretation of tolkiens work but i wont fault anyone who doesnt think like me. kudos to you and have a pleasant watch

Thanks ^^ we'll let you know if it turns out shite

[Specialka]

I guess you are now going to say that highlighting means something other than what the meaning is? Like, highlighting main actor in adverts is not that? Or actors going to journalist for Q&A is not that?

Again ,you are wrong . When they spend , producers ,realisators and actors ,so much time speaking about inclusivity rather than the movie or serie itself , usually it means it will probably being shitty .

[Nask]

Again ,you are wrong . When they spend , producers ,realisators and actors ,so much time speaking about inclusivity rather than the movie or serie itself , usually it means it will probably being shitty .

So you just agreed to something, but you don't understand or care what the word "highlight" means? Can you tell me what the word means to you, and actions you deem fit for "highlight" then?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

So he is playing a black elf while being latino ? So that's acceptable ? Talk about double standards

I haven’t followed any of the advertising stuff but did they actually say any where that the elf was played by an African or caribbean actor or did you and others just see some one darker then a white guy and jump to him being African black?

[Veggie50]

Again ,you are wrong . When they spend , producers ,realisators and actors ,so much time speaking about inclusivity rather than the movie or serie itself , usually it means it will probably being shitty .

- Creators talk about Tolkien

- Black elf appears for 0.5 seconds

- Internet racists flood every social media channel with racist remarks around black elf appearance

- Creators respond to the turmoil

- Internet racists: "Look, all they wanna talk about is inclusivity"

[Mace]

I mean, like I said, the 'activism' has no real bearing on the quality or overall perception of whether a show is good or bad.
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What Iw as saying is that the activism is the reason why the writing is so poor - some of the ideologies some of these people hold to, just make for weirdsituations, lines, actions that generally spoil the movie - e.g. ithose who subscribe to the rule that a man can't tell a woman what to do, nor can he defend her - not every movie is like that off course, but WoT is a classic example.

Furthermore, when studios don't care about the writing anywhere near as much it allows activists to write scripts and no vetting or vetoing, especially if the studio bosses are that way inclined - the money people never are. What it means is that scripts that focus on the message and the ideology rather than writing a good story or sensible characters a just don't show up. And while these type of people are in control they never will.

If they are leading the major studios like Warner media (before it was sold), Amazon and Disney - then this is a large amount of our entertainment content and some of most popular brands that will have this type of thing show up reducing its quality.

The ideology actually affects quite a lot and is why many are blaming it for the poor quality of scripts.

the sad thing is that diversity is not the prolbem, it's the extreme the activists ghave adapted and the warped views that they are now inserting in their creative works that is oftne just awful. But then if you're writing a story to preach your message rather than writing a sotry about life, it's going to be different.

[Celement]

I haven’t followed any of the advertising stuff but did they actually say any where that the elf was played by an African or caribbean actor or did you and others just see some one darker then a white guy and jump to him being African black?

In every interview they take great pains to point out the diversity of the cast to the point they rarely if ever even touch on the actual plot. The few times they talk about anything else its them trying to explain away their rewrites and lore errors.

[cyberglum]

In every interview they take great pains to point out the diversity of the cast to the point they rarely if ever even touch on the actual plot. The few times they talk about anything else its them trying to explain away their rewrites and lore errors.

They also repeat the same phrases and sentences from interview to interview.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

In every interview they take great pains to point out the diversity of the cast to the point they rarely if ever even touch on the actual plot. The few times they talk about anything else its them trying to explain away their rewrites and lore errors.

Not really relevant. I didn't ask if they touched on the plot or lore, I asked if that one actor as actually been said to be African or Caribbean any where because they said a latino playing a black elf is a double standard.

[Celement]

Not really relevant. I didn't ask if they touched on the plot or lore, I asked if that one actor as actually been said to be African or Caribbean any where because they said a latino playing a black elf is a double standard.

I doubt anyone is following the tokenism to the point of knowing that.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I doubt anyone is following the tokenism to the point of knowing that.

The comment above mine is about how there repeating the same phrases and sentences in multiple interviews, So if people are keeping track of something like that id expect some people to know if they ever actually refer to the elf's race in any of them.

[Adamas102]

I doubt anyone is following the tokenism to the point of knowing that.

Being primary/secondary characters that parts of the plot actually revolve around means they’re decidedly NOT token characters.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Being primary/secondary characters that parts of the plot actually revolve around means they’re decidedly NOT token characters.

Minority actors are always token to some folk no matter how important they are to the actual movie/show. The only way they can see them being cast is to deflect criticism or to virtue signal never because of there actual talent.

[Triceron]

What Iw as saying is that the activism is the reason why the writing is so poor - some of the ideologies some of these people hold to, just make for weirdsituations, lines, actions that generally spoil the movie - e.g. ithose who subscribe to the rule that a man can't tell a woman what to do, nor can he defend her - not every movie is like that off course, but WoT is a classic example.

Furthermore, when studios don't care about the writing anywhere near as much it allows activists to write scripts and no vetting or vetoing, especially if the studio bosses are that way inclined - the money people never are. What it means is that scripts that focus on the message and the ideology rather than writing a good story or sensible characters a just don't show up. And while these type of people are in control they never will.

If they are leading the major studios like Warner media (before it was sold), Amazon and Disney - then this is a large amount of our entertainment content and some of most popular brands that will have this type of thing show up reducing its quality.

The ideology actually affects quite a lot and is why many are blaming it for the poor quality of scripts.

the sad thing is that diversity is not the prolbem, it's the extreme the activists ghave adapted and the warped views that they are now inserting in their creative works that is oftne just awful. But then if you're writing a story to preach your message rather than writing a sotry about life, it's going to be different.

But you haven't been able to actually string together a cohesive argument.

Your argument is akin to saying 'this cake is terrible because the bakers like dogs more than cats'.

There is no correlation between 'activism' and poor or better story writing. I've given you multiple examples where Marvel and Star Wars pulls the same shit and still comes through with decent writing, like Dr Strange movies or Mandalorian S2. Or it comes out with shit writing altogether like the Sequel trilogy.

There is nothing supporting your argument other than pure belief that something you don't like must be the reason it is failing. Same as blaming the quality of your cake on any external factors other than the pure skill of the baker, who is responsible for the recipe and quality of ingredients. Whether they prefer cats or dogs doesn't change how the cake is baked.

Does the script suddenly get better if the actress is white instead of black? Or Asian instead of white?

IMO, there is no correlation, because diversity is pretty much standard across most shows nowadays. Whether we're talking Star Wars or Marvel or anything, there aren't many shows that go out of their way to have an all X cast unless there is a good reason for it. Like, even shows like the Witcher have black/brown actors in it. Would you make the same argument that the agenda in the Witcher gets in the way of it being a good series? Because IMO, these are completely unrelated things; the existence of agenda and the quality of writing/production of a series. There's no direct correlation between the quality of a show and a decision to diversify a cast.

[InfiniteCharger]

I have to say, it's been a while since someone has been so consistently entertaining. This analogy-blindness of yours is fascinating.


Which was never in question by me or anyone, but I'm sure you know that. No one has ever disputed this, and the only reason YOU keep bringing it up is because you have no other arguments and so you're trying to make an argument out of something no one disagrees with or brought up or thinks is actually relevant to the point at hand.

You, sir, are a dishonest interlocutor unwilling (or unable) to engage with the ACTUAL points people are making.

So now back to trolling me with nonsense about me being dishonest about the fact that I have been repeatedly saying that casting all white people for a show set in Middle Earth is perfectly fine. You sit here and keep trying to play ring around the rosie because you want to call me racist for saying that.

You keep pushing this BS that there is a misunderstanding of the point when their isn't.
You want to be seen as "right" and virtuous in defending "diversity", when it is just your opinion.
And you want me to be seen as "racist" and "bigoted" for believing that the source material does not have to include "diversity".
You can sit here and talk all the BS you want. Everybody reading this knows this is the point.
You don't know me or anything about me but yet you can swear up and down that I am a bigot or racist without knowing me.
This is the point and has always been the point with your silly replies.

This is why you so desperately keep trying to seem to be 'right' in spouting your dam opinion like it is some kind of unchallenged fact.
GTFOH with that nonsense.

It's like it goes in one ear and out the other.

Yes your ears have tunnels between them because that is literally what is happening.

I'll pick this one to save time, but the same reply goes for a lot of your other ramblings: no one, not me not others, is in any way disputing the "FACTS" of Tolkien's work. No one is saying characters who are white in the text aren't white in the text. No one is saying Tolkien didn't write as a European and from a European context. No one is saying that if Tolkien wrote A it is in fact Not-A.

THIS. IS. NOT. WHAT. WE. ARE. SAYING. AND. NEVER. WAS.

So stop bringing it up like your personal safety blanket.

In other words, you cannot challenge what I said so you are back to defending your opinion.
You haven't substantially changed the point other than you are back to defending your opinion.
You cannot argue against facts because you have no choice to accept them.
It is all about your opinion which again is not a right or wrong issue.
But you persist in this nonsense that there is some "right" argument that I am missing.
No. That is not correct. You are trying so desperately to be "right" when you are only debating your opinion.

You're objectively wrong there (again). Argument and Opinion are not the same thing. I even went and explained it earlier. But as usual, it just went completely ignored because it doesn't fit your agenda.

Again another strawman. Nobody said that argument and opinion are the same thing.
What I said was you are arguing about your opinion on this show as an adaptation of Tolkien.
You cannot argue about the facts of Tolkien. You cannot argue about the facts of what Amazon is doing.
Everything else is simply you arguing your opinion of the final product.
You don't make any dam sense.

But not on what the WORDS "relevant" or "arbitrary" MEAN.

This isn't about what is or isn't relevant or arbitrary, it's about you USING THOSE WORDS INCORRECTLY.

That is not a matter of opinion, dum-dum. Words have definitions and usages. Consult a dictionary if you like.

Another silly strawman. I said what is arbitary, or relevant in Tolkiens work is solely up to Tolkien. Just like what is relevant and arbitrary in Peter Jacksons adaptation is also up to Peter Jackson. There is no incorrect usage of the term. The point is that YOUR opnion on it doesn't matter and this is where your little head just keeps blowing up because you swear you are "right". This has absolutely nothing to do with a dictionary.
This is about the fact that Peter Jackson, Tolkien and Amazon didn't consult you to find out what is relevant or arbitrary to their work.
So to sit here and argue about those two words and the usage of their words is just you obviously avoiding those basic facts to continue an inane attempt to be right about something. Again, you keep pushing this nonsense and then denying it at the same time.

Otherwise, you wouldn't be sitting here and trying to now argue that this whole debate is about how I use the words arbitrary and relevant.
You are absolutely losing and just grasping at straws to defend yourself rather than letting it go and leaving it at agreeing to disagree.

Like what? The fifty times you said I don't accept facts only for me to immediately point out I do and never didn't?

Because you can't and you know it.
Therefore all you are left with is opinions but you refuse to accept that.

Care to provide evidence, or is this just another bold-faced lie?

I am doing it now. You have accepted that the fundamental facts cannot be challenged.
But you insist that your "argument" is somehow misunderstood as not being an opinion.
You are absolutely being full of s---t on this acting like your opinion is some misunderstood set of facts that you are arguing and I must accept if I understood them correctly. This isn't even a defense it is a BS strawman because you know that what you are arguing is an opinion and nothing else.

And when I proffer an opinion, that's exactly what you should do.

Because the facts that I present you haven't challenged so all you are doing is supporting your own opinion.
There is no right or wrong in that. You can have that all you want. But to suggest that your 'argument' is based on disagreement on objective facts that are either right are wrong is just you pushing a strawman.
You keep agreeing with me on the fundamental facts. So whatever it is you think you are arguing is an opinion.

When I proffer an ARGUMENT, refute it with a better argument, accept it, or shut up and move on.

When you make an argument about your opinion I don't have to refute it because it is an opinion.
So you actually are agreeing with me that you wont leave this discussion where it is because you want to be right.
Because according to you this "argument" is about some kind of objective facts of reality not based on subjective interpretation that I am somehow missing.

No it isn't. You thought you could try and use certain words like "narrative" as if there is a single definition by all parties in a work of fiction or adaptation. I proved that there isn't. Now you are saying that well it is about my usage of the term "arbitrary" and "relevant" when you yourself implied that there is a single agreed upon definition for any specific work of fiction or fantasy by all parties, including the reader, when there isn't. Now you are just going in circles making up some other 'argument' outside of those fundamental points. You just wont agree that the only thing you are debating is your own opinion and that opinion isn't really right or wrong and I already accepted that. You just refuse to accept that and move on.

The fact that you're not versed enough in the epistemological bases of discourse doesn't give you license to misuse terms and pretend you're engaged in an actual, honest debate. I'll call out anyone who's full of shit in a discussion, doesn't really matter what the discussion is about.

Now you are going to introduce the philosophical structure of language to try and 'argue' that you are not debating your opinion.
Another strawman as usual. This isn't a philosophical debate. You have your opinion and I have mine. It is that simple.
The fact you are trying to turn it into more than that shows your dishonesty and the fact you just want to be "right".
And I have already said you have every right to your opinion and I am not going to try and change it.
But you won't let it go.

You've seen the show, then?

Have you?

Where and how? You seem very confident there is only "one black woman surrounded by all white people".

I said in what we have seen so far or did you ignore that on purpose? I knew you would try and pull that straw man.

Could it be... you're just full of doo-doo and making a racist rant? COULD IT BE?!

There it is. The root of all your angst. The fact that I would have the gall to think that most of these characters were intended to be white just bothers you so much that you can't stand it and have to reject it and call me names.
Finally the truth comes out.

Lie.

Again you keep ducking and dodging. I am going to show you how you keep ducking and dodging.

I posted this

This isn't about 100% accuracy, it is about the point you made which is that they should not be "excluding" people. You brought it up and now you want to pretend that this isn't what you said. Now it is about how tall these people are and not about skin color? Are you seriously saying this is all about how tall someone is when casting? Just stop. If the story is explicitly written about a certain group of people with certain characteristics, then of course the casting should follow that. Your nonsense about "narrative" is irrelevant unless the studio or those making this adaptation are deliberately making changes in casting for some other reason than staying true to the original story. We have been over this many times relative to the rings of power but you refuse to admit that this isn't about "narrative" but about DEI policies specifically for promoting diverse casting choices. This is a fact. You are just making up irrelevant talking points and then get mad when shown to be wrong.


Tar Miriel was written explicitly as white. Stop ducking this specific example.

To which you replied:

I'm not. I have no idea if it's true, since I don't recall the original, but that doesn't really matter. I'm entirely willing to humor the point, and say she was written explicitly and in no uncertain terms as white. 100% on board with that.

The point is, DOES THAT MATTER for the narrative, or is it just some cosmetic detail like many others, MANY of which are often ignored when casting for adaptations and nobody cares.

So you would have to show that either:

1. Her being white has a narrative function and is not just a cosmetic detail
-or-
2. No other cosmetic detail can ever be changed either, about anything in any adaptation

I'm fine with a demonstration for either one.

Which is a statement on your opinion. Whether you are OK with this is your opinion. It is not an objective fact.
Like I said, what Tolkien defined as something that MATTERS to the narrative is not the same as what Amazon decides "MATTERS to the narrrative". You already accepted that. And this also applies to what is considered cosmetic as well.
Those 2 things are explicitly based on different views between the work of the author and the work of the studio. They are not the same. Whether you are "fine with a demonstration of either one" is just your opinion. I don't have to be "fine" with anything because you are.
You just refuse to admit that.

I've said repeatedly and in no uncertain terms I don't give a shit what you call it, whether "adaptation" or something else. You are STILL pretending I do, after I've explained TWICE that I do not.

Just address the quote you made above. You keep trying to avoid that this about you pretending your opinion is some objective "truth" that I must accept.

Stop lying to my face.

It's pretty clear at this point you are not actually interested in a discussion. You're interested in promoting a purist, essentialist, hardliner stance about what YOU consider acceptable in terms of skin color in casting choices, and anyone who disagrees is either ignored or done away with "but that's just, like, your opinion, man".

You know what? You're free to have your opinion. It's a racist, bigoted, narrow-minded, and thoroughly undereducated and unintelligent opinion, but it's yours. And I'm not taking it away. Hold it close to your heart, precious one.

Finally you agree that my opinion is mine. Whew. That took forever.

[Adamas102]

You want to be seen as "right" and virtuous in defending "diversity", when it is just your opinion.
And you want me to be seen as "racist" and "bigoted" for believing that the source material does not have to include "diversity".
You can sit here and talk all the BS you want. Everybody reading this knows this is the point.
You don't know me or anything about me but yet you can swear up and down that I am a bigot or racist without knowing me.
This is the point and has always been the point with your silly replies.

Being dead set on pushing an anti-diversity, all-white agenda in a setting where not every individual or group of people is described as white is indeed racist, no matter what excuses you want to throw about. It has already been pointed out multiple times that Tolkien explicitly stated that this section of Middle-earth was never intended to be reflective of a solely white, solely Northern European world. No amount of “but the source material” is going to change that.

And to be clear on one more point; Tar-Miriel is NOT described as white in the source material that this show is working off of. In the appendices she’s relegated to a single line with absolutely no physical description.