Lord of the Rings TV Series Purchased by Amazon

[Makabreska]

wow even as a bi/pan guy I feel embarrassed xD

But lets be honest that whole thing is corporate back to front. It was like some white guys in a meeting through of it.

Geebus, everyone still keeps spamming that supposed Tolkien quote in the comments.

[Orby]

Geebus, everyone still keeps spamming that supposed Tolkien quote in the comments.

I have that extension that keeps youtube comments turned off. For the same reason I don't use twitter. Mental health protection lol

[Makabreska]

I have that extension that keeps youtube comments turned off. For the same reason I don't use twitter. Mental health protection lol

And I simply do not scroll down.


often :v

[Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang]

i agree with that and i was 100% disappointed with Fin treatment, i thought it would be dope as hell to have a "stormtrooper" changing sides and fighting for the good, maybe even learning some jedi shit, cause i can't stand skylwalker bs, but meh, wasted.

I agree that what they did with Finn was an incredible waste of potential. For once a character that was both novel and had protagonist development potential and instead of dealing him justice, by Ep 8 he had turned into the replacement for C3PO...

[Triceron]

Dear god... what a disaster that video is. Every time something new comes out, people tell us not to start panicking about the series, then the next thing comes and it's just worse.

Some of us are telling you stop carrying needless expectations that cause yourself to panic.

Bad shows and movies happen. No reason to panic over em. I mean in all honesty, as shit as the Hobbit Trilogy is, was it ever worth panicing over? Hobbit book fans will always have the books. A bad movie or show won't ever change that.

Hobbit Trilogy is forever gonna be a thing, and we can choose to forever disregard Dwarf/Elf romances having ever existed. If people are upset over Black Elves or Beardless female Dwarves, this shit ain't canon anyways. Never will be.

[Orby]

Hobbit Trilogy is forever gonna be a thing, and we can choose to forever disregard Dwarf/Elf romances having ever existed. If people are upset over Black Elves or Beardless female Dwarves, this shit ain't canon anyways. Never will be.

Thanks for reminding me that was a thing lol

[Nerovar]

So we have 99K idiots and 102K morons weighing in on a TV show they haven't seen yet.

You know the like/dislike function is for the actual teaser video and not for the series itself?

[LTN]

I mean it could defy the odds and be good... I don't believe it will be but watching a trainwreck is entertaining in itself.

[Biomega]

I mean it could defy the odds and be good... I don't believe it will be but watching a trainwreck is entertaining in itself.

Maybe, but that didn't save WoT. It was too bad even to watch ironically.

[Orby]

palate cleanser :P

[Shadowferal]

Thank goodness!

...keep up the good work!

[eschatological]

Potter's parents weren't the main characters. Now if we see a hp movie where we see Potter alone, and derelict after a couple of decades I'd think an hp fan would want more than a half-assed scene that were supposed to believe that was the point where he gave up on everything that meant something to him. And considering Luke's beliefs, Fighting the good fight, even a "hopeless" battle...that would be him. "Giving up" should never have been an option.

Hint: Luke wasn't the main character of this sequel trilogy.

I mean, Kylo is supposed to be in his mid-20s? Assuming maybe Han and Leia had a few years of a relationship before having a kid, can we assume that at least 25 years have passed?

Are Star Wars fans so pedantic that everything of that 25 years has to be spelled out in some media format somewhere? The growing unease of Luke as he trains Kylo, the seduction of Kylo by Snoke, Luke retreating to the island and his inner struggles about whether he should continue the Jedi order, and so on, and so forth? Maybe you want a movie of him reading all the books in the tree temple to the audience?

The whole point of TLJ was that the two stories from Kylo and Luke differed. What mattered was how each character saw that moment. For Kylo it was a betrayal by a parental figure that he could never forgive. For Luke, it was a "moment of doubt and pain" (put it in quotes so y'all can draw the easy parallels to Jesus' moment of doubt in the garden of Gethsemane) that he instantly regretted, and that sent his life careening into chaos.

I thought it was brilliantly executed. But Star Wars fans are like, the most reductive assholes on the internet who A) cling to character archetypes of characters from 40 years ago, not accepting change, and B) only accept change if it's spelled out explicitly in 2 decades worth of now-defunct EU books.

I mean for Christ's sake, look at The Mandalorian vs. the reaction to Boba Fett. Star Wars fans love Mandalorian because it's exactly their image of what a Mandalore bounty hunter would be, as established in....well, let's face it, side material, since the original Boba Fett had absolutely no backstory. Smash forward to the Book of Boba Fett, and from what I can gather, people think it's worse because......Boba tries to do something else, like be a leader?

[bledgor]

I thought it was brilliantly executed. But Star Wars fans are like, the most reductive assholes on the internet who A) cling to character archetypes of characters from 40 years ago, not accepting change, and B) only accept change if it's spelled out explicitly in 2 decades worth of now-defunct EU books.

You call that brilliant executed? It was a 10 second flashback with little context, they basically said the guy who never gave up on his father, Darth Vader, gave into doubt sudden with his nephew? That snoke from across the fucking galaxy was poisoning his thoughts? It was shit tier execution with terrible/no build up, just thrown at us as a surprise!

If you don't want to proper build up this monumental fuckup/failing of a major character (lets be real, while Luke isn't the main character of the sequels, he is a major one, and was a driving force in people wanting to see the film, as the character has a massive legacy) and instead we got, cause it happened!

Honestly would have been 1000x better just to have him send Kylo out on missions to prove himself a Jedi, and Kylo run into Snook and fall to his corruption, and that cause Luke to feel he failed as a Teacher/Uncle and abandon his work starting the order again. Even then I don't think the character of Luke presented in 4-6 would have fucked off to an island and ignore his now evil Nephew and abandon his sister, like he did in the movie. Sorry my expectations for movies is higher than that.

[DarkAmbient]

Anyway...

palate cleanser :P

No matter what, there will always be the Jackson trilogy. Thank fuck he made them when he did. They still hold up well now. One or two of those forced perspective shots look really bad though, especially the scene where Frodo and Gandalf are talking to each other across the table in Bag End. But I think they always looked bad tbh. The balrog still looks amazing.

[Orby]

Anyway...



No matter what, there will always be the Jackson trilogy. Thank fuck he made them when he did. They still hold up well now. One or two of those forced perspective shots look really bad though, especially the scene where Frodo and Gandalf are talking to each other across the table in Bag End. But I think they always looked bad tbh. The balrog still looks amazing.

Glad I wasnt the only one who thought that. The forced perspective of them on the cart at the beginning still holds up though. some of the CGI also aged badly like Legolas skirting down the Oliphaunts after dismantling it in RotK. a lot of the Legolass scenes for that matter lol. But the Gollum stuff still holds up so wel (and yes the Baelrog stuff too still looks great)

[Shadowferal]

Another take on the painting "American Gothic;"

[DarkAmbient]

Glad I wasnt the only one who thought that. The forced perspective of them on the cart at the beginning still holds up though. some of the CGI also aged badly like Legolas skirting down the Oliphaunts after dismantling it in RotK. a lot of the Legolass scenes for that matter lol. But the Gollum stuff still holds up so wel (and yes the Baelrog stuff too still looks great)

It looks so bad lol



What's up with all the Star Wars shite ITT?

[Ivanstone]

You know the like/dislike function is for the actual teaser video and not for the series itself?

You know we've had several pages of whiners crying about a fucking teaser that isn't worth watching in the first place.

Don't watch teasers. Don't watch trailers. Watch the fucking TV show.

[Nerovar]

You know we've had several pages of whiners crying about a fucking teaser that isn't worth watching in the first place.

Don't watch teasers. Don't watch trailers. Watch the fucking TV show.

Tell Amazon to not release trailers then if you have a problem with the concept.

[DarkAmbient]

Yeah, fuck us LOTR fans for having the temerity to watch a trailer for a LOTR show.