Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Rings Of Power Finale - The Final Insult" video.

  1.  @Red_Lanterns_Rage  Because the writers don't know the difference between strong and brutal. If a man would act like 'strong women' in our stories today, you would see them as psychopaths. Rightfully.
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  2.  @chasehedges6775  It's the reason they are terrible female characters. In contrary to the sexists who blame non existent sexism in the criticism agains their work, it's not about the sex/gender of their characters at all. If done right, no one would have had a problem with a new geneartion of Ghostbusters. Hell, you could even use some ghosty mind-swapping trick or whatever to change the original ones and make a movie about that. Just give it good writing.
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  3. It's one of the ore jokes of the "strong character", which just starts at the top so overall you simply can't do much to make them look actually competent, because then you would have left no plot at all. They are powerful, educated and act smart? Well, congrats you got an Utopia where nothing bad happens thanks to such wonderful characters. If they at least would got with this - you actually COULD write a story around that for example that even such a god or goddess could be unable to stop all that fear and greed inside humans which will very likely go against such power, even if it never did anything bad to them in contrary. But that's not what such "powerful characters" are about. So they just start there, already at the top, but since you got that standard boring plot, well, they are forced to be idiots. And it's not just the powerful protagonists, powerful antagonists also got the same problem. Overall, what is even worse than a strong protagonists is a weak protagonists put against powerful antagonists and still succeeds for no fucking reason, because everyone else, including the antagonists are dumb and they got the plot armor making them succeed not matter what dumb shit they do. In general this is always the same problem: An author just absuing his or her omnipotent power over their universe to make happen whatever they want without a single care to give it a reason. It's simply lazy. Way more about laziness than incompetence, because especially when you work in a team, you can't be that incompetent to write such garbage.
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  4. Just focus on the meaninful dialogs to establish the charaters - and not random nonsense. You can have some of that to flesh out the character more, but the focus have to be to show(!) who they are. Even when you got a manipulator, then your focus must be on the manipulation, even if you only reveal it later, but people must be able to think back to the scenes with that character and realise, how he manipulated the people around him or her into making them do what he/she wants. Acting trustworthy. Friendly. Not suspicious, not for example pushing odd solutions going in a very strange direction without ever be questioned. A manipulator would look at something and ask an innocent questions - making the solution he wants appear in the head of the manipulated, indirectly, without mentioning it themselves. Or they would manipulate others to bring it in, to not be the direct targer of possibe suspicion. For example manipulate dwarves into bringing things up. It would be fine, when the audience think, that you can't trust that dwarf, since he seems to be greedy and tried way too much into going into a very specific direction. But that's the point, this is exactly how manipulation would work. Distraction. The manipulator got no problem with people hating on that dwarf, he would likely be the one pushing it and even rightfully, since th dwarf could indeed be greedy and by that was so easily manipulated into unvoluntary helping the manipulator. He would end up as a victim and the audience might even cheer about it, as will be the protagonists, having won against such evil - just to follow exactly another evil's plan, blinded by their arrogance about how smart and powerful they are.
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