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If you ignore skin color, The Rings of Power is actually very good

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Serious q, is Tolkien even interesting or compelling anymore...
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That’s interesting. I think the original LOTR univers...
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  09/06/22
I don’t get the skin color obsession. Man played ...
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  09/03/22
Yes, it’s a slap in the face reminder of the scourge o...
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Okay but why aren’t they the best for the role? None o...
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It's the black doctor issue. That black doctor may be great ...
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Also isn’t it only like 1 dwarf and 1 elf that is blac...
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It’s not half the cast. It’s 2 characters who do...
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i don't watch TV anymore, but i imagine it's supposed to be ...
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Men were playing women as women and in the minstrel shows th...
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With opera though, usually they are cast because they have b...
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It offends mise-en-scene. Whites played blacks in minstrel s...
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Is it all girl warriors? Things like dragon show don't just ...
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but i can't ignore skin color (xo poa
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if you ignore the taste, shit is pretty good too
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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:47 AM
Author: twisted place of business



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Date: August 2nd, 2025 5:38 PM
Author: autistic jap

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:51 AM
Author: comical deranged stag film

Serious q, is Tolkien even interesting or compelling anymore after we’ve had more dark and nuanced intrigue with Game of Thrones and HotD? The Rings story has been told ad nauseum and it is standard “Good vs Evil” boilerplate at its core.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:56 AM
Author: Violent learning disabled famous landscape painting

That’s interesting. I think the original LOTR universe and story are the greater masterpiece, but GOT is more compelling for spin-offs and exploration

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Date: September 6th, 2022 8:07 PM
Author: razzle hunting ground

You're scum

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:56 AM
Author: Gold Godawful Boistinker National Security Agency

I don’t get the skin color obsession.

Man played female roles in Shakespearen plays. Hell, whites even played black peoples in monstrel shoes. But Black people aren’t allowed to play as elves or dwarfs?! Because it offends your racial realism sensibilities?

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:57 AM
Author: Violent learning disabled famous landscape painting

Yes, it’s a slap in the face reminder of the scourge of DEI. They aren’t being cast because they are the best for the role, but because Amazon needs to say that 50% of actors are BIPOC

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 8:59 AM
Author: Gold Godawful Boistinker National Security Agency

Okay but why aren’t they the best for the role? None of the black elves or black dwarfs or black Targarians are bad…

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 9:04 AM
Author: scarlet galvanic foreskin gaming laptop

It's the black doctor issue. That black doctor may be great at his job, but due to AA you have your doubts. This bullshit where studios, etc. agree to have a certain percentage of BIPOCs takes you out of it. Would they be cast without this shit?

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 9:04 AM
Author: Gold Godawful Boistinker National Security Agency

Also isn’t it only like 1 dwarf and 1 elf that is black and rest are all white?

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 11:13 AM
Author: Honey-headed cheese-eating indian lodge genital piercing

It’s not half the cast. It’s 2 characters who don’t get nearly as much screen time as the main white cast. The cast is still 80%+ white.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 9:07 AM
Author: French Theatre

i don't watch TV anymore, but i imagine it's supposed to be an escape from everyday life. if you want a story that was written by an englishman in a very different, old world before DEI, this is going to disrupt that. it would be like redoing the andy griffith show with similar casting - it's not the same small town you're trying to escape to after you're tired from work.

there were native blacks in GoT, but they weren't pretending northmen were suddenly black. that wasn't grating.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 9:09 AM
Author: scarlet galvanic foreskin gaming laptop



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Date: September 3rd, 2022 1:08 PM
Author: Honey-headed cheese-eating indian lodge genital piercing

Anything to get people watching less tv is fine with me

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 9:19 AM
Author: Outnumbered navy brethren

Men were playing women as women and in the minstrel shows the white players were playing black characters by putting on blackface.

Opera has always been color blind and Shakespearean plays have long been color blind and fantasy is fantasy so who cares what the skin colors are. At the same time the deliberately diverse casting is part of a significant shift in film productions. You can't do a movie about Tudor or Medieval or Victorian Europe without shoehorning in a bunch of sassy black characters. But no one is going around pretending there were whites in Zulu tribes in 1500. To do so would be seen as distinctly racist and whitesplaining.

So I can see why many feel history and culture is being deliberately distorted for ideological reasons - westerners aren't allowed to own their culture but other cultures have to be treated with hyersensitivity. And it's also affecting how the stupid woke masses believe "real history" to be, I've come across a few instances of woke warriors insisting there really were lots of black people in Regency Britain.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 12:19 PM
Author: Beady-eyed mexican

With opera though, usually they are cast because they have beautiful voices, not (at least back then) to fulfill some diversity quota.

This seems to be force memed. Reading the Sandman comics just now and surprised how many of the OG characters were white and turned black on Netflix for no good reason.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 10:24 AM
Author: Dashing codepig dilemma

It offends mise-en-scene. Whites played blacks in minstrel shows since it was grotesque and hence comedic. This is inappropriate for, and ruins, any piece meant as serious. All the more if it's a work of fantasy that depends on suspension of disbelief. The fact that it brings to mind our current racial Maoism amplifies the issue.

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 1:34 PM
Author: Spruce electric center depressive

Cr. It makes middle earth feel like america

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 1:48 PM
Author: Dashing codepig dilemma



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Date: August 2nd, 2025 5:25 PM
Author: Vivacious Cream Cuckold

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 11:15 AM
Author: floppy cyan hairy legs

lol

it just looks bad aside from the over the top forced diversity

it's not cheesy camp either this cost hundreds of millions

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Date: September 3rd, 2022 1:10 PM
Author: Claret diverse sandwich old irish cottage



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Date: September 6th, 2022 8:07 PM
Author: twisted place of business



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Date: September 3rd, 2022 2:25 PM
Author: mahogany excitant native new version

Is it all girl warriors? Things like dragon show don't just suck because of the diversity, but you can use the diversity rules to figure out the plot within the first 5 mins of the episode.

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Date: September 6th, 2022 8:09 PM
Author: bull headed swollen senate

but i can't ignore skin color (xo poa

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Date: August 2nd, 2025 5:19 PM
Author: Claret diverse sandwich old irish cottage

if you ignore the taste, shit is pretty good too

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Date: August 11th, 2025 8:58 PM
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Date: August 11th, 2025 9:07 PM
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I tried to watch the second season, and within a few minutes Sauron got killed by some orcs? wtf

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Date: August 15th, 2025 12:44 PM
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