So as we all have seen that the Amazon LOTR based show will go down the usual representation route which wasn't a surprise. I have to admit I foolishly thought they would respect Tolkein's legacy when I first heard of this project but that was foolish. Also when they fired the lore expert that was a major red flag.
I am getting sick and tired of entertainment saying the whole "reflect the modern world" or "reflect modern society" BS. LOTR has always been for anyone who wanted to read it, and it has been translated into many languages. I remember someone once got mad at me for saying that if you need to see yourself represented in everything, then you have a problem because you can go online and look up anything or read a book on a famous female, black, Asian, latino, etc. scientist, doctor, or whatever if that is so important to you. Why shows have to cater to these morons is beyond me.
Of course Wheel of Time suffers from the same problem. In the books they meet people of different races once they go out into the larger world and women in power are all over the books but that isn't enough.
As for lgbt stuff, I have said for years... get your own channel and write your own stories if you insist that lgbt content needs to be in everything. I remember Nerdrotic responded to someone who said that not everything has to have straight people, and he said that is true but not everything needs to have gay people and in a larger point not everything has to have everything in it.
Honestly I wish they would just stop crapping on source material of much better writers than they could ever be. They should start adapting the garbage that wins the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Sorry for the rant, just so tired of it, but thankfully I have mountains of books. They can't take those away.
It has become obvious over the last few years that there are entities whose motivation is to destroy these works of fiction, even to destroy western history. This motivation transcends even profitability.
That’s the implicit function of postmodernism and deconstruction, whether or not people supporting it realize it. Find anything of value and then invert everything that made it of value to mock it.
I’d say imagine if we took great works of other cultures and made everyone white and how would people react to that, but non western/white cultures have almost no great works of that kind across all of them combined. I don’t mean that as a ‘your works suck’ comment, but that they never came to exist. There is no comparable framework to the great books of the western canon, or even the great movies of the west. Outside the west and you’d be hard pressed to call what most cultures consisted of as civilization for most of human history.
It seems demeaning to give black people a fake history. Just make new stories. Most of those new stories probably wouldn’t involve anything about the ‘blackness’ of the characters because that’s the part that has the least value. Or at least the blackness Jews gave them with degenerate media involving them humping each other and shooting at the police and dealing drugs like that’s something to look up to. Denzel has plenty of good movies that really having nothing to do with him being black in that sense. So does Idris Elba. And nobody is trying to remake those with a white lead because there’s no value to that.
There is folklore from every continent but they are too lazy to do anything but take European folklore and race swap. But the thing is, is that if I watch European folklore it’s because I want to see European folklore, not some moronic showrunners woke vision. Same with other cultures. Denzel is one of my all time favorite actors
Well the anti-white hatred has been clear as day for a while. The laziness as well of people who can’t create their own stories. If I want to read the great western thinkers I’ll read them or their stories. Not some bastardized modern day version