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I didn't care for BP1 and the fact it is the highest rated Marvel movie on RT from the critics is still laughable to me. It wasn't even in my top 20 Marvel movies and I loved all the BP characters in Civil War and Avengers movies. I would agree killing and not just replacing T'Challa is a mistake and yet another white superhero changed to a person of color and rewritten backstory just to appease the woke agenda. I'm pretty fed up with Marvel at this point. You don't have to poopoo on one culture and gender just to prop up another one. Hard pass for me on this one.

What Jackson did with LoTR and the Hobbit did not change the storyline a huge amount. People point to the removal of Tom and giving Glorfindel deeds to Aragorn and Arwen but for me it doesn't change the story that much for me. The Hobbits are still the main heroes or do people choose to ignore the fact that Aragorn as King bowed to them and told them they bow to no one? This does and it does it in the all mighty name of wokeness to prop up a strong female lead and purposely make men look inferior in the process. That is the current agenda is seems in this country after all. Jackson had three very strong female characters and it worked. This doesn't imo. The problem with Tolkien's work is yes there is so much that is to interpretation and having several books published after his death by his son also complicate the matter but the main outline of the Second Age is covered in LoTR and they are changing it to such a degree to prop up Galadriel and then add things that expressly happened in the Third Age to make it cool I guess.... In 1966 Tolkien received a letter form a fan with their intention to write a sequel to LoTR. He sent that letter to his publisher with some not so nice words about the writer at the time and asked them to get legal involved to stop it. That is how he felt about people adding to his story and RoP bastardizes it for me. And someone said Elrond met Celebrian in the Third Age and that is false. He met her in the Second Age when Galadriel and her went to Rivendell looking for Celeborn which people use to point to a time where they were apart. That of course is completely different then making it so Celeborn wasn't in the Second Age at all which is what the agenda seems to be here to again make Galadriel the main protagonist. Ridiculous.

If you look at what Tolkien said about the planned 1958 movie that never came to fruition he certainly cared about the perversion of his characters and changing them. I'd say this show changes them quite a lot but no one truly knows how he'd feel about it. He did say respecting the canon above all else was incredibly important to him and they certainly did not do that here. I'd even go as far as to say they disrespected it. Respecting Canon. "The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies" On changing his characters "I do earnestly hope that in the assignment of actual speeches to the characters they will be represented as I have presented them: in style and sentiment. I should resent perversion of the characters (and do resent it, so far as it appears in this sketch) even more than the spoiling of the plot and scenery." No one truly knows how he'd feel about the LoTR movies either though so it's an argument that no one can truly say how he'd feel about any of it. To say he'd love the movies and hate this would be inaccurate. We just don't know but I'm pretty sure any author would be upset at the magnitude to which they changed the story here though. It's significant changes not just a few things here and there for me that matter. I take what he said about LoTR to his publisher to mean he wanted his stories to encourage others to write their own not change his stories.

The final episode did very little to move the bar for me and actually made it worse. Not a fan of the story, dialog, music or any of it really. They changed the characters and story to much for me to fit their agenda. Gil-Galahad is a jerk, Elrond clueless and Celebrimbor is naive and Celeborn is I guess dead all to make Galadriel the hero of the story. I fall into the side of Tolkien did not want his characters changed or his story as he thought it was a perversion and only hoped his stories would inspire others to create their own stories not re-write his which is exactly what they did. Truth is we will never know as people use quotes of his to support whichever side of the argument they fall on but since he is dead we never can truly know. What we do know is he sold the rights in 1969 so those that have the rights can do what they wish. I'm not happy with the series but at least it is Middle Earth so better then nothing I guess. I don't fall into the camp of while if I don't like it they never should have made it. Hopefully it gets better for me but the fact they keep throwing Third Age stuff into the Second Age because they think people love the Balrog and The Stranger (who we all know who that is) is pretty silly to me. And the 3 Elven Ring Pops was quite the laugh as well smh. Really? And what was up with that Fiona Apple song during the credits? God awful it was....

The show has reached "something to have on while I am working on other stuff" level for me. Something I just go ahead and watch because it is Middle Earth and "loosely" at best based on the books. The writing is horrible and it's unbelievable the music is Howard Shore considering how unappealing it is and how amazing it was in the movies. This show has changed the story and characters so much that if you didn't have the names from characters in the books you'd have no idea it was based on them. They essentially have taken about 4500 years of stuff and crammed it all into what will most likely be a few years. At this point it would not surprise me at all if they have Galadriel save Isildur and cut the ring off Sauron's hand at the end of the series. Then Celeborn shows up, "Hey babe I'm actually alive" and now the show can fill the GIANT problem that you know Celebrian (Elrond's wife) can now be born and Arwen will have existed.

People that say it will be a colossal failure in my experience seem to want it to fail. I have my likes and dislikes about the show certainly but I am willing to give it chance (just starting episode 6 tonight). Will it make Amazon money? Time will tell. And I point out the privacy numbers because they point to popularity of the shows and HoD is pretty much beating RoP at every metric even the illegal ones. The fact that people want to see it is a good thing. That means it's getting good reviews and people are talking it up.

That article really doesn't tell the entire story. Amazon Prime has almost 3 times that amount of subscribers globally (Over 200 Million) that HBO Max does (75 MIllion) so has access to more possible watchers by far. Prime is also available in 200 countries while HBO Max is only available in 60. House of Dragon had 45% more piracy than RoP in the 1st episode and 127% more piracy in the 2nd. It's google trends continue to rise while RoP have been stagnant since the 1st week. I'd be surprised given all that if it didn't have more viewership minutes but they will try and paint anything with this show as a success.

Durin's Bane (The Balrog in Khazad-dûm) did not awaken until the later part of the 3rd Age by Durin VI not Durin IV so if they do that in the 2nd Age or even early in the 3rd Age that is a big change. I wouldn't put it past these fools to do it though.

Episode 3 was much better. Galadriel showing signs of likeability but annoying still at times. Certainly an improvement over the first two episodes.

I don't hate the show but I don't like it so far which has nothing to do with race or girl power and everything to do with the storyline, character development, writing and not following the source material. I hope it gets better but right now, it's a disappointment for me for sure.

I don't care what color the dwarves, elves or anyone else is I just want interesting characters and a story and so far the show has not provided that for me. Why is Celeborn not in it? He was married to Galadriel since the First Age this is the Second Age and he's not in it at all? He even gave her the name Galadriel ffs. That right there is a telling agenda to me. Girl don't need no man. The hypocrisy of this whole race thing is what gets me too in Hollywood. It's ok to spoon on white culture in the name of forced diversity. That I have a problem with in Hollywood. If they made the next Black Panther a white guy people would lose their ever loving minds and call them racists. Fact.

They just don't get it but it's funny watching them freak out and get the past actors involved. It has nothing to do with race it's just a bad show so far. None of the characters are likeable. I don't care what color an actor is as long as the story is good but it's not. They decided to push an agenda instead of Tolkien's story and now they are mad cause people are calling them out for it being a bad story because of that. I find that hilarious but expected from Hollywood. In comparison because they will always be compared to it now, HoD is killing it. That show is great and this is coming from someone who is a much bigger LoTR fan then they are a GoT fan. I will still continue to watch it in hopes that it gets better but I find myself going back to the movies and watching them again now so the franchise isn't ruined for me and I can watch again what a good Tolkien story looks like.

They need to rename this the Funko Pop Con. It's an absurd amount of those things. Had no idea they were that popular. Excited to meet Jim Lee today and get his sig.

Thinking about it and trying to be objective (which is hard because I dislike any actor who tries to push a political agenda even Chris Evans) it's kinda silly to think Brie Larson is not a good actress. They don't just give oscars away you know for decent performances but hey, everyone has their opinions and they are just that. Her character IS former military and was in the Kree military and it's a stereotype but military individuals are typically pretty rigid so in that regard she maybe plays the character as it should be. To a certain degree that is how Chris Evans plays Cap and only towards the end starts to lighten up. I actually liked her more the second go around in Avengers and they used her just enough to make her relevant without taking away from the main 6. As to Captain Marvel being the linchpin and being able to keep Marvel successful to this degree, well I just don't see anyone capable of that. You just don't just replace RDJ and move on. He had IT, he just did and some people do and some people don't. You could see it when he came out at SDDC or any of those events. People went bonkers when he was around. The movies will still do good but is any of the leftover actors capable of doing what RDJ did with Avengers and the possibility of $2 and 3 Billion movies? I really don't see it happening but if it does good for them and I am sure it will be an entertaining ride if so. Not much a bold prediction without Avengers hype to grab onto neither BP 2 or CM 2 will make over $1 Billion worldwide. I just don't see it happening but we'll see.

This whole conversation and the conclusion from some people just blows my mind. People say they like Black Widow and Scarlet Witch and didn't like Captain Marvel or her movie and the response is basically "they are sidekicks and you hate women" That's really what you are going for here when someone just doesn't agree that a movie is good? racist feminist? haha ok A few people here took the blue pill, that is for sure