#it is very obvious while watching it that the writer's room was Waaay less diverse than the cast

[overthinkinglotr]

RE: Amazon's Lord of the Rings series: I think this excellent video from Sarah z -- about the way that right-wing backlash against certain media properties makes it nearly impossible to have genuine conversations about them, because you can't talk about them in good faith without inadvertently adding to the right-wing dogpile of people criticizing them for racist sexist reasons -- conveys pretty much everything I should probably say about it ladjflksdfs. Sarah Z makes a great point that this kind of vicious right-wing backlash often tends to deliberately focus media properties that are mediocre because of other reasons (like boring corporate mandates) and claim they're mediocre because of diversity. Right-wingers intentionally ignore properties that have diversity and are Good, and intentionally ignore the billions of shows/movies that aren't "woke" but are also similarly mediocre. Because right-wingers don't actually care about the "quality of art" unless they can use that as a weapon to attack the people they hate.

#rings of power #i watched it in an airbnb that had it on while fleeing a hurricane #it's sad because i think the copyright issues dogging the amazon series are so interesting!!!! #and id love to talk about them #the show itself is a blandly fine okay generic fantasy show #because theyre like mandated to be generic since they dont have the rights to the specifics #but the rights issues are fascinating! #and really shows how copyright law in the united states hamstrings ANYONe's ability to create meaningful transformative work #like one interesting thing I noticed is that the series uses practically None of tolkien's words #almost as if the complicated rights issues also limit the amount of quotes they're allowed to use #(I counted only 2 highly edited Tolkien quotes within the 8 hours of the first 6 episodes) #and the absence of the language is so strongly Felt #which I think is fascinating #which separates it from every single adaptation before it as well (including the obscure low budget ones) which always utilize the language #like wow it's almost like Language is super important to the story #also wow I wish this series were as progressive and far left as right-wingers claim it is alkjsldkfjsdf #it is Not #it is very obvious while watching it that the writer's room was Waaay less diverse than the cast #and the cast itself really isn't all that diverse when you get down to it #lotr #is posting this a mistake? #idk I got dogpiled by right-wingers the other day so I dont fear death anymore