Lord of the Rings TV Series Purchased by Amazon

[Ivanstone]

Yeah, fuck people for having the temerity to watch a trailer for a show.

Fixed that for you.

Trailers tell you nothing at best and at worst spoil the show for you.

[DarkAmbient]

Fixed that for you.

Trailers tell you nothing at best and at worst spoil the show for you.

We all know that trailers can deceive. But of course we're still going to watch, it's the first chance to get a bit of the flavour of what's coming.

[Dorothyjean]

The second Death Star was already under construction when the first was blown.

Anyway, wasn't that whole connection to Kylo supposed to show she had been receiving passive training through him?

True but there was still a time frame of years there which I think was the assumed time disparity in those movies which was a common thing for earlier movies from that era. I don't honestly care too much because I really do not like the new 3 but to each their own but it just didn't feel genuine because she seemed to go from literally nothing in skill to full blown Jedi and had the ability to confront/fight alongside Kylo Ren who had been trained by not only Luke but Snoke also.

My problem with the latest 3 (not so much The Force Awakens) but the amount of errors and completely oddball story bites are off putting for me and with the last 2 movies I can point out like 1-2 things every 5 minutes that make little to no sense and I'm not even trying to hate on the movie. The stories could have been more fleshed out and the time spent on non-sensical things like Poe Dameron and the Admiral scene -- it adds nothing to the story and is disruptive to continuity and flow and resolves into nothing from a story perspective. They should have refined the story timeline and smoothed things out and fleshed out things like her training and other areas.

[Rennadrel]

Those fake as hell "superfans" say all I need to know about how this show is going to ultimately go. These people are so vapid and incapable of separating fiction from reality and that whole video was just people projecting their own insecurities. They are so engrossed in idpol it's quite astounding. No one gives a fuck if characters in a fictional story in a fictional world aren't disabled and queer, that shit isn't a personality trait nor a character arc. I swear these kinds of vapid narcissists are going to be the death of nerd culture because they just want to project their pathetic insecurities using other people's works as the vehicle. This is gonna bomb so hard and the obvious damage control half a year before the show even drops only reinforces that.

[Smallfruitbat]

My final drop of enthusiasm dried out at 'mah gurl Galadriel'

[s_bushido]

Those fake as hell "superfans" say all I need to know about how this show is going to ultimately go. These people are so vapid and incapable of separating fiction from reality and that whole video was just people projecting their own insecurities.

You do realize that this is what literally everybody else thinks about the idiots who lose their shit every time they see a black person or a woman in something even remotely related to "nerd culture"...right?

This same garbage was being tossed around about the Witcher when people found out that Triss was a few shades too dark, that the bad guys had silly ballsack armor, and Cavill was way too pretty to play Geralt. And how did those predictions of doom and gloom turn out?

[ReleaseDay]

Such an atrocious contempt of the Tolkien's legacy

Jesus, that's the worst thing I've ever seen. Atrocious isnt enough to describe that..

Sorry is that a female dwarf WITHOUT A BEARD?

Tell me they didn't.

Skin color idgaf about, as long as the acting is on par. But no beards is just a mean-spirited change >:[

Gz, you're part of the problem.

[jonnysensible]

death of nerd culture

would be good if this was true, cant die soon enough

[Biomega]

Gz, you're part of the problem.

Today on "tell me you're racist without saying you're racist"

Skin color was never a relevant point in Tolkien's descriptions of the dwarves OR elves. It certainly wasn't relevant to the plot. Therefore it doesn't matter for the TV show either.

[Shadowferal]

Hmf...elves...dwarves...humans... maiar.. Yeah, Tolkien was very racist. However skin color just never seem to enter the equation.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I swear these kinds of vapid narcissists are going to be the death of nerd culture

Would this be the same death people said was coming when they made Jane foster thor or put a black girl in a iron man suit or even made a storm trooper black? Because if so it seems to be a very long death and from all appearances doesn’t seem to have slowed harmed of said culture at all, its actually seems to have grown it quite a bit.

[Shadowferal]

Would this be the same death people said was coming when they made Jane foster thor or put a black girl in a iron man suit or even made a storm trooper black? Because if so it seems to be a very long death and from all appearances doesn’t seem to have slowed harmed of said culture at all, its actually seems to have grown it quite a bit.

Imo, comics books died the death it deserved when it imploded in the late 90s. Breevort (editor) said the thing that saved them later was creating controversial shit that pissed the readership off.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Imo, comics books died the death it deserved when it imploded in the late 90s. Breevort (editor) said the thing that saved them later was creating controversial shit that pissed the readership off.

comics are a billion dollar industry if they make that much out of making people mad then Lotr and every other part of "nerd culture" should likely aim for the same.

[Shadowferal]

comics are a billion dollar industry if they make that much out of making people mad then Lotr and every other part of "nerd culture" should likely aim for the same.

It wasn't a billion dollar industry back then. Like I said...imploded. Marvel went bankrupt in '96.

[Biomega]

comics are a billion dollar industry

Though to be fair, they're not making their money on comics. They're making it on non-comic products that are branded with comic-book IP.

Actual revenue for comic books for the entire industry is less than $1b a year. That's what a single Marvel movie makes, not counting the toys, video games, etc. etc. THAT is where the money is coming from. Actual comics are in steep decline.

[Polyxo]

Jesus, that's the worst thing I've ever seen. Atrocious isnt enough to describe that..





Gz, you're part of the problem.

What are we supposed to be mad about?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Though to be fair, they're not making their money on comics. They're making it on non-comic products that are branded with comic-book IP.

Actual revenue for comic books for the entire industry is less than $1b a year. That's what a single Marvel movie makes, not counting the toys, video games, etc. etc. THAT is where the money is coming from. Actual comics are in steep decline.

while yes the big bucks come from else where the comic industry has been over a billion a year since 2015 and has been on the rise since every year but 2017 since atleast 2012.


https://www.comichron.com/yearlycomi...ustrywide.html

[Ivanstone]

Imo, comics books died the death it deserved when it imploded in the late 90s. Breevort (editor) said the thing that saved them later was creating controversial shit that pissed the readership off.

Not at all true. The comic implosion happened because of poor business practices. Reading quality wasn’t relevant. Every time a comic makes someone angry, someone else is delighted by it. A fair chunk of the business is driven by people who like their monthly stories and want to keep what they have after they read it. Combine that with the North American industry being somewhat more diverse in its offerings and a variety of Japanese and European comics being more readily available, we have an industry that’s at least functional. It’s tough to compete in a streaming universe but some people just like the format.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Ah, we're talking about comics yet again?

American comic books begin to collapse in the 90s due to genrefication. Comics became about capeshit, and they were all soap operas following the same heroes regurgitated over and over again for the past half century. Thus, comics go from being mainstream to being niche.

X-Men was cancelled for low sales in 1969, but it was still selling almost 250,000 copies per issue, and X-men was on the newstand at Wallgreens. Compare that today's comic sales, where Marvel and DC are struggling to sell even 5,000 copies a month, sold in a comicbook store that is a 40 minute drive away from your house run by a fat smelly guy who knows way too much about them, and the comics are made by unlikeable narcissists.



Anime overtook over American comics and cartoons because Americans renounced their ability to tell good stories about 40 years ago. It took anime and manga a long time of building up a word of mouth reputation before Americans realized that they had a choice to consume stuff that wasn't garbage.

The manga industry also puts out high quality art in a timely manner. Meanwhile, American comics don't even look good, and you barely get 40 pages every 2 months, and the plot moves at a snails pace. *Snooooore*

Japanese Manga is extremely popular because it serves multiple markets. You have highschool slice of life. You have fetish manga. You have epic shounen adventure stories. You have sword and sorcery manga like Berserk. You have romantic comedies. You certainly don't see any romance comics coming out in America. Marvel is stuck in a genre that died 30 years ago. This is why American indie kickstarters that promise YET ANOTHER SUPERHERO COMIC struggle so much, and indie kickstarters that don't fill that hole are so successful.

The hate for manga in the West comes from the West's jealously. The West is upset that their comics haven't been mainstream since the 90's. Eastern European comics also exist, but they didn't have the decades of word of mouth built up like manga did.

You can't have stakes in American comics when the story is going to be rebooted in a couple years or so. The stories aren't as interesting when they are variations of the same story (Batman protecting Gotham from the Joker, interacts with Gordon, etc etc). Notice how in Japanese manga, you don't have stories that go on for forever. You don't really have sequel mangas or spinoff mangas or alternate continuity reboots. You have the one story, with a beginning, middle, and end, and that's it. That's the manga.

while yes the big bucks come from else where the comic industry has been over a billion a year since 2015 and has been on the rise since every year but 2017 since atleast 2012.

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This does not account for inflation. Sure, the American comics business might be making more money today than it was 10 years ago, but it is still dwarfed by comics industry of eld.

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Imo, comics books died the death it deserved when it imploded in the late 90s. Breevort (editor) said the thing that saved them later was creating controversial shit that pissed the readership off.

It wasn't a billion dollar industry back then. Like I said...imploded. Marvel went bankrupt in '96.

Yup. When Jim Shooter was fired and Marvel started turning into soap opera crap, that was the death knell.

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Not at all true. The comic implosion happened because of poor business practices. Reading quality wasn’t relevant. Every time a comic makes someone angry, someone else is delighted by it. A fair chunk of the business is driven by people who like their monthly stories and want to keep what they have after they read it. Combine that with the North American industry being somewhat more diverse in its offerings and a variety of Japanese and European comics being more readily available, we have an industry that’s at least functional. It’s tough to compete in a streaming universe but some people just like the format.

In addition to the abysmal quality of Marvel comics, awful distribution practices also killed the business. Customers buying a comic does not result in that comic being renewed to continue/prevent it from being cancelled. The fate of the line is decided before it even goes on sale. Readers don't know what's coming out until it's already out and that pre-release period is when the business decides whether or not to axe a line.

[Shadowferal]

Not at all true. The comic implosion happened because of poor business practices. Reading quality wasn’t relevant. Every time a comic makes someone angry, someone else is delighted by it. A fair chunk of the business is driven by people who like their monthly stories and want to keep what they have after they read it. Combine that with the North American industry being somewhat more diverse in its offerings and a variety of Japanese and European comics being more readily available, we have an industry that’s at least functional. It’s tough to compete in a streaming universe but some people just like the format.

They've only had to go the controversial route in comic books relatively recently. The quote is from a decade ago. (After the late 80s...they tried to hold on, but the 90s became a hole sucking away interest.. after years collecting comics I myself quit, only sporadically poring through an occasional issue in a book store of all places.