Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Rings of Power Cast Lie u0026 ATTACK Fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings" video.

  1. Man, this thing is like the crew of the Titanic having radar saying: "The hell with what's on that screen, I feel like hitting the damn thing because it just needs to be hit. Someone should have hit that f***in iceberg years ago and by God we are going to be that someone." I get the ruse, put out the black lady, call any attack racist, and create a built-in reason for the disaster, the bigots and haters. It just seems to me, if the people at Amazon who are in charge of marketing this thing had half an ounce of self-awareness they would have started from the premise that their production is a story of fantasy based on their views and that while the retelling may not appeal to Tolkien's fanbase because of differences between it and the written works they hope people will give it a fair viewing for what is and judge it on that, a stand-alone entity based on the world of Tolkien but not necessarily of the world of Tolkien. At least then you disarm the traditionalists to a degree and at the same time acknowledge the thing was never built for them. It is aimed at Gen-Z and fellow travelers more interested in subtexts and messaging than storytelling which only acts as a backdrop, something to keep the kiddies coming back. It will no doubt flop with die-hard Tolkien fans but it may do quite well with that younger generation who don't hold Tolkien and his stories in the same regard. But they are playing a dangerous game getting nasty with that Tolkien fanbase because now it is not that group who are coming off as the bullies, it's the producers of the series and the half famous actors they plucked off the casting couch to act in the thing, not the traditional Tolkien fanbase who have simply expressed an opinion. At the end of the day, nobody likes a bully. So why set yourself up to be one? Perhaps it was just how they were raised.
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  2.  @nathanielalderson9111  I agree with your points but I don't think they aren't aware of who they are attacking. It's that they don't care, that's what bothers me most I suppose because it's just a dumb marketing strategy, and anytime I see somebody do something foolish it gets to me. But, as I say, I think it was just how the producers and actors were raised, maybe not by their parents, but certainly by their peers and mentors in the business.
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  3.  @nathanielalderson9111  You are correct. It's more zealotry on their part than anything else. The woke agenda is a religion to them, and they see themselves as modern-day Puritans, out to set up a shining city on a hill. It is their cause, one more based on Moa than Christ but the passion burns within them as deeply as it did within the zealots of The Great Awakening or The Cultural Revolution. The message must come first. It's the same thing that kills a lot of faith-based movies. They get so consumed by the message that they lose sight of what it is that brings an audience in, the story, not the storyteller. Unfortunately, for the woke Puritans, slash and burn is a standard tactic. As I say, that is what bothers me. Want to make a woke Middle-Earth? Fine. Just admit as much and respect that people like me, who grew up with those books, just aren't going to be into it. That would be the wise strategy, but they just can't help themselves and I have just never suffered fools easily. Being ignorant is one thing. Doing something you know will not do you or your project any good is foolish. Unless your out to make a point or pick a fight. Then it devolves into the realm of stupid, and as the great southern philosopher Larry The Cable Guy put it: "Ya can't fix stupid."
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