Amazon's "The Rings of Power" & The Hypocrisy of the Conservative Culture Wars

[Webster]

Once more, the Right is making a mountain out of a molehill....

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Wikipedia

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How in the world can people be this outraged over fictional characters?

So, if you’ve followed my account for the now almost two decades here, you can find that I’ve written a lot about the arts. The arts, film, television, and recording industries are one of the largest, most profitable exports we have as a country, and...

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[PGen98]

The show itself isn't entirely faithful to the source material and the source material was written in a time when "equal rights" extended as far as the next white man. It's perfectly fine to adapt and take liberties, particularly in the name of inclusivity. Hell, Gandalf was played by an openly gay man, did anyone enjoy it less because he wasn't a faithful recreation of Gandalf? No.

 

[DrLeftover]

I need a drink.

They need to get a life.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I don’t care so much about the races even though it does make it confusing in the storyline like is that your daughter who is white but the father is black and the mother is Spanish. This kind of stuff is throughout the show. But overall it’s just terrible writing and boring! The woman hero elf is annoying and they don’t even make her likable. And the political Condescending tone throughout the episodes makes me hate every last character and wanting the bad guys to win and level middle earth to a wasteland.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

The show itself isn't entirely faithful to the source material and the source material was written in a time when "equal rights" extended as far as the next white man. It's perfectly fine to adapt and take liberties, particularly in the name of inclusivity. Hell, Gandalf was played by an openly gay man, did anyone enjoy it less because he wasn't a faithful recreation of Gandalf? No.

I enjoyed the original because he was a fantastic actor that created a fantastic movie and didn’t want to know or care who he sleeps with.

 

[Nebulous]

I need a drink.

They need to get a life.

Make me one too!