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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

I don't view anyone as a sidekick in Avengers but as a team just like in GoTG. Everyone in the MCU at some point in time was important to the storyline. I find it incredibly arrogant for people to constantly push a fallacy that if you did not like BP, well then it is because you hate black people and if you didn't like CM then well, that's because you hate women.Do people go around saying if you hate Thor Dark World well that is because you hate white men? No. because it's a silly argument and not based on any sort of factual evidence. No, I didn't like either because they were just ok movies in my opinion. If you liked them, grats. We're they wildly successful? Sure. That doesn't make them good movies (*cough" The Last Jedi). All three movies in my opinion road the coattails of other movies/brands so that is why they were successful and a lot of help from a media agenda to push them. Time will tell how these Marvel movies do w/o RDJ and Evans. I personally think it will take a nosedive but they will still be viable. The days of them breaking records are over I think. The whole situation reminds of the Amy Schumer defense of her awful 2017 Netflix special after she go caught stealing other comedian's jokes. So many people hated it and what was her response? Those people just hate women. No Amy, your special sucked and you are not funny no matter how many time you say the V word and think you are being shocking. I choose to look at Endgame as a culmination of all the movies which are one big story and it was great even BP and CM in that regard as they are important to the overall story. Everyone played their part and that is what makes it so good.

Completely disagree with this. Captain America and Iron Man have had a central role in Marvel since the 1960's and have most certainly been A-listers since then. I also said I think Avengers doesn't work without them, I didn't say anything about Marvel not being able to move on without them. I would certainly include Thor among the A-listers but Black Panther and Captain Marvel? No, don't make me laugh. Just because they have a movie doesn't make them A-listers. Both super heroes have been failing and succeeding in comics for years but you know who has been steady selling? Cap and IM, true A-listers. Both Black Panther and Captain Marvel huge success imo came from how close they were to an Avengers movie and a possible tie-in. I'd bet the next of each we'll see more Ant-man numbers which isn't bad but they just aren't on the level of Avengers without the Avengers movie storyline going forward. And no, now that RDJ and Evans are done with Avengers even if they keep the series going on I doubt we see anything close to this again. MCU will be fine but it won't be breaking any records soon I think as you don't lose 2/3 main guys and don't expect to lose a step. I could be wrong and hope there is plenty of other good movies slated but i don't see anything being this epic again and certainly not with BP and CM trying to take the helm. People just seem to think you take the comics throw in a bunch of heroes and you are good. it doesn't work that way. It took them over 10 years to develop this storyline. Can they do that again? Maybe. But not as the Avengers especially without Cap and IM.

So much wrong in this episode I don't know where to begin but it will be interesting how they take on Cersi now without an army. I guess there are a lot of the north still that decided not to fight but what motivation do they have to fight now for the Iron Throne? While cool scene I will say it was ridiculous for Arya of all people to kill the NK not to mention how did she even get to him? it should have been John. She had no history of battling the NK at all as far as I can remember she never even met him before.

What an awesome movie and perfect way to end the Avengers. I didn't like that Tony died but it made sense especially when Cap once commented "You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you". Thor, IM and Cap versus Thanos was awesome even though it was Fat Thor. Epic fight and just showed how strong Thanos was even without the stones. I was hoping to see Hulk versus Thanos but seeing SW against him kicking his butt was just as good. I'm glad they focused on the original 6 with Ant-man especially focusing on him and Hawkeye as they both missed out on Infinity War. SO HAPPY that it wasn't a Captain Marvel saves the universe and they really minimized her but she had key points in the story. I always thought it ridiculous that her with the power of 1 stone could go toe to toe with Thanos with all 6 stones so glad they didn't go that route but she still did ok against him. As Thor has always been my favorite Avenger even growing up it kinda sucked seeing him go downhill but thinking about it, Thor has lost more than anyone really. His mother, father, brother , best friends and Asgard with most of it's population all destroyed. How could he not just give up after that? It's totally understandable. I'm super excited that it looks like he'll be in GoTG now. Makes for a lot of great humor. AS far as Cap and the shield goes. I think people are putting way to much thought into that. He lived his life with Peggy the way he should have. Wonder if he ever told her he mugged down with her niece OR if she ever actually was born? Thor took his hammer out of his past timeline as well. Just one of those things. I didn't think Sam was the right person to get it though. He has no powers and I have no interest in watching the Falcon and SW series but oh well it was a nice gesture I guess. I think the MCU going forward will still do good but nothing like this and Avengers again. Without IM and Cap it just doesn't work. It's like taking Superman and Batman out of JL. Just doesn't work and I don't see the newer characters having that star power to do this again. Certainly not Brie Larson. You can see in all the interviews the other actors just did not like her at ALL.

That's rich coming from the poster that actually said "girl power"

It doesn't matter it it is at best a mediocre movie. You must respect the wamen and say you loved it. Haters.

You need to understand you are arguing with a bunch of male feminists right now. You know the guys that go to women's marches and try to show women they understand their plights to try and get lucky? Those are the guys and they argue like women too. Reading these here and there it reminds of how Bill Burr describes how women argue. If they are right, they argue the point and they stay on point and make sure you do as well. But if they are wrong they go rogue, they go crazy in a last ditch hail mary to try and get you angry and call them an obscene name. That's what nearly all of them have done here. Case in point the "spaghetti western" discussion. It's all about insulting you because you didn't know what that genre of films was and then using that to invalidate your points. It's a classic women's tactic in a relationship when they are wrong. Why would you have a lot of knowledge about a genre you are not interested in but to them they jumped on it to make you seem stupid. Don't fall for that trap, look it up in google and just let them punch themselves out trying to get you to admit something you have no knowledge of. I have a lot of younger friends in their 30's that have no clue what a "spaghetti western" is. Those movies were over 50 years ago, why should they? Many of them haven't seen such classics as Gone with the Wind, Giant either so should I call them stupid? That's a ridiculous way to argue. You are most likely arguing with the kids that struck out playing kickball in elementary school and this is their stage to show people they have a brain. That's really it so don't take it personal, you've already won.

Loved this movie. Don't mess with the Black Kaiser! Soundtrack by Deadmau5 is pretty sick too.

Really enjoyed the series as I have never read the comic but now I want to read that too. Might have to go with the TPB though as prices are skyrocketing

I see we've reached to the calling someone stupid part of the discussion. I find being called out by someone with 21,000 posts on one website as dimwitted as VERY funny though but you forget, I've read your posts and it's fairly easy to see you are overmatched here. Your only saving grace is your determination and the fact that you clearly live on this site and therefore hope that I will give up on this particular topic. You would be correct because I have no desire to mix words with someone who so clearly owns the website and can tell others to BEGONE! That alone if nothing else sums up your mental state to me. Maybe it's all those bugs you all eat in Thailand, who knows. I will help you though as you seem very confused on this matter so in the immortal works of Inigo Montoya "Let me explain...No, there is too much.Let me sum up" Discrimination to achieve diversity is bad and that is what in my view Brie seems to have been promoting. I don't agree with that, period, in any industry. I'm not trying to convince you otherwise and quite frankly I do not care about you. If that isn't what she meant then great but words have consequences and I have decided not to support her now. I'll wait for Avengers Endgame. I only responded because I always find it amusing when someone acts like he owns a website because their post count it high. This is a laughable person to me but you be you bro, don't let anyone crush your dreams! I'm rooting for you to hit 30k, you can make it! I'll skip the movie and reading any more comments on this matter but go have fun at the movie showing superstar. Tell everyone in your row about your massive post count