See my previous "Even the Non-righties Are Ripshit."*
Dan Murrell is no conservative, so you know he's not going to go into problems of race-swapping and anachronistic feminism when he discusses Amazon's series "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." But as with the sources quoted by Disparu (see my previous post on the topic), Murrell thinks the new show is bad because of its story and characters. This is arguably an even more trenchant criticism than the battle cry of "woke nonsense." Hell, even some rightie reviewers acknowledge that they'd be okay with some degree of wokeness if it's at least couched in a good story. But from what Murrell is saying, "Rings of Power"—at least the first two episodes of it—is anything but a good story.
Next up is Nerd Cookies, another YouTuber who is nobody's conservative (my first link, above, talks about her). She, too, sees signs that the new series stinks. In her video, Miss Nerd Cookies surveys the top reviews to come out after the review embargo on "Rings of Power" had been lifted, and the picture she finds is not pretty. I assume that Miss Nerd Cookies will put up her own review once she herself has had a chance to watch the show, and frankly, I have a feeling she's not going to be bringing us any good news. All the more reason for me to stay away from this dumpster fire of an Amazon project. What the hell was Jeff Bezos thinking? I assume he's ultimately the one who green-lit this monstrosity.
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*Okay, the title of the linked post is really, "Even the Non-righties Are Pissed." At a previous job, a coworker from Maine introduced me to the New Englandism ripshit, which means "extremely pissed off." To me, ripshit sounds like diarrhea gone horribly, horribly wrong, but I'm not from New England, so what do I know? The expression is evocative enough to be amusing, and I gladly use it here. Now, shut up and eat your lobster roll.
I won't be wasting my time on this, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to give these a look. Most of the reviews that I've seen have been from right-leaning sources, (Nerdrotic is a prominent one), but they've also made valid criticisms related to story and character that helped me decide long ago that I was not going to be part of this nonsense. Tolkien famously wrote: "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers." I wonder how he would feel about a show based on his works that puts social messaging front and center and feels that the story and characters need to be changed to reflect our current times. I mean that rhetorically, of course, because I don't wonder at all--I already have a pretty good idea.
ReplyDeleteI'll be really interested in Nerd Cookies's own review. She seems like a very nice person, so it's always a little surprising when she gets critical. Normally, she makes every effort to give a show or book the benefit of the doubt, but the news coming out of Amazon has been bad for a while, now.
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