‘House Of The Dragon’ Viewership Falls Sharply With Episode 3
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I hope viewership ratings for all these shitty fantasy shows plummet. Rings of Power, House of the Dragon, The Witcher, fuck all of them. They all need to die.
plus WOT (which died with Jordan in 2007, but the publisher and the 'estate' did/does/will do anything to besmirch him and his books)
"fuck all of them"
Truer words have never been spoken.
Forgot about that one. Then again, it seems like everyone has too.
All "modern adaptations" are doomed to collapse into obscurity and forgotten.
You either spend inordinate amounts of time and effort with an original author and give them full creative liberty, or a complete obsessive originalist fanboy of the original author to whom price is not an object. Otherwise, it fails.
Yea i hate the “you can’t have an exact adaptation” straw man. They know exactly what we mean.
World of Tanks??
What happened with the WOT adaptation, did they claim it as a success or not?
Pretty sure it's universally hated. Shadiversity on Youtube did an episode by episode break down on his second channel, Knights Watch. Shad read the books and loves them. He even ignored a lot of the warning signs in the first episode or two, but caught on to the butchery after that and tore it a new asshole. It was turned into generic (((Hollywood))) fantasy, with all of the modern woke tropes.
I refused to watch WOT and when I saw the summary of the episodes it was clear they had no interest in adapting the book. The showrunner pretty much said so.
I'm surprised people are giving it a chance after GOT turned into the Mount Doom of dumpster fires.
There is not a lot to see. She-hulk, ROP, RE adaptation all trash. At the end of the day it has name recognition and the bar for quality is low.
Is left over comfort food.
Current year entertainment is a barren wasteland, but there's an all-you-eat buffet of great older shows and movies.
That's why I bought DVDs of the original Star Trek show, since I grew up watching TNG and DS9, but had never seen the original. I cancelled cable years ago and don't even pay for any of the degenerate trash streaming services. TOS has some fantastic episodes, and some really cringe ones, but overall it was charming and pretty great, especially considering how cheap the budget was. It was also interesting to see the differences in viewpoints back then, which ocassionally made it hilarious.
For instance, in one episode Kirk and a few others are abducted and forced to fight in a gladiatorial arena for the amusement of some powerful aliens. Kirk's gladiator mentor, of course, was a hot alien chick. He ends up seducing her, and mere seconds after kissing her, punches her in the face and knocks her out, so he can escape. You would never, ever, see that in TV nowadays.
Now stop and realize that TOS was a very progressive show. Pilot had a woman 1st officer, show had a black woman officer, Japanese pilot 20 yrs after WW2 kamikaze was a thing, Russian weapons officer in the height of the Cold War, mixed-race human/alien 1st officer, anti-racism messages, 1st interracial kiss on TV.
Friends was an even more progressive show in its day, now it's accused of being everything-phobic.
Yeah. It definitely highlights how bad and blatant the propaganda has gotten.
Everyone's like Beavis and Butt-Head. Everything on TV sucks, but they'll still keep watching it.
Yellowstone is a flawed show, but it's a cut above Netflix.
Lol.. I prefer this goyslop!
Lol you have no idea what you're talking about. Most of the problems with Yellowstone trace back to its masculinity.
I finally tried watching 1883 but gave up once it became obvious that it was heavily focused on the blonde cunts romances. Maybe it gets better but I don't care to find out.
I tried to watch Yellowstone but gave up after a couple of episodes because everyone was an asshole.
Is it that hard to just not watch any TV then
I've heard a few anti-woke people say it's good. Haven't tried watching it yet though.
I've not watched the show but I've heard people say it is ok but I do hope it fails because of the race swap and feminist angle
Nerdrotic said it was kinda good but he did mention the race swap. Just seems so dumb that GRRM would allow that. Honestly if they want black ppl do a spin-off show set in the summer isles.
If I can find the book used I’ll get it
The original series did have black characters and it was fine. They could have done that but they wanted to add black characters to the center of the story. I kind of understand that but I would like them to do it in a good way rather then this forced crap. At what point can we just admit that most of it is anti-white racism.
There was a time race swaps didn’t bother me since they were sporadic, but now it happens so much that I’m certain of the motive. Also this show annoys me because it’s a reminder he can’t finish the main series.
Yea the original series had black characters and other non white characters. The Jon Snow series will be in the far north. I wonder how they will shoehorn diversity there
Either they'll pull some all-black Wildling clan out of their ass, or they'll just sporadically add some black Wilding characters here and there. Neither makes any damn sense coming from a race of people who spent the last couple thousand years isolated in a frozen tundra where no one could get in or out, making it impossible for a dark-skinned ethnicity to ever develop there.
If they followed logic they wouldn't have added a black dwarf to Rings of Power, since they live almost excusively under ground. They also wouldn't have made a black elf, since they were created under starlight, before Eru even created the two trees, or the sun, after the trees were destroyed.
The only explanation that makes sense, that I've heard, for the black elf is he's a half breed, of an elf and black human. However, that wouldn't really make sense cannonically, since Tolkien made elf-human pairings incredibly rare. They were so rare, that the Silmarillion was almost exclusively about Luthien (an elf) and Beren (a human), or at least was the most important part, according to Tolkien. If I remember correctly, the children from that pairing led to Elrond and Arwen, as well as the entire Numenorian line, and kingdom, then to Gondor and Arnor, the Dunedain, and eventually to Aragorn. The Silmarillion amd the appendices read more like a history book and genetic lineage than a comprehensive story, all of which shows that elf-human pairings were exceedingly rare, and documented. Furthermore, every single description of elves says they're fair skinned, meaning white.
Still, that would require the writers/producers to know about the lore, and care about it.
I’m laughing as I read your post because I can totally see them doing that.
Yeah ... dark skin = melanin ... which is your genetic sunblocking chemical. Side effect, no vitamin D.
So two things this idea of northern-waste niggers have against them ...
One ... not enough sun at high latitudes to cause a genetic mutation for darker skin.
Two ... A lack of a critical nutrient provided by what little sun exists would ensure that those that did develop darker skin would have a harder time with passing on successful genes.
That being said ... the Inuit are still somewhat olive-skinned, due to a relatively short evolutionary time in the frozen north after being separated from their Mongolian ancestors. 50k years is a blink of an eye. 2k years, as you proposed is even less, so ...
I can suspend my disbelief ... but I just can't suspend it with a rope around its neck.
Well, if you measure evolutionary rates by generations rather than years, and keep in mind that northerly adaptations are rather smallish changes that can happen over a fairly few generations with enough pressure* and a smallish population .... but that would just argue more for the loss of melanin, unless they have some way to make up for the vitamin D and lack of sunlight issue, possibly through diet; if there's enough in their food, then skin absorption won't matter so much.)
The Pern stories kind of started with the same premise, though most of the "evolution" - beyond the survivors of the og 5000 settlers breeding into mutty "future people", as would be expected - was cultural and linguistic, and we see how culture can almost completely change in, like, three generations (Ontario is actually a good example. It was very (Small c, kind of rightish Liberal for the most part in the cities, large C outside) conservative WASPy when I was growing up, and didn't even legalize "Sunday Shopping" until the 1990s - now it's primed to vote federal ND fucking P.)
*pressure, of course, means deaths caused directly, or at least more or less so, because of the trait in question, whether that trait is physical, or mental/behavioural ...
Well, with McCaffery's work, if you get to the point where just before the meteor strikes the planet, she details the landing of the colonists ... and the disaster of the first threadfall as well as their efforts to bread the fire-lizards into full-sized dragons to char the thread while airborne.
Fast forward to Moretta's Ride and you get explained about the 200 year gaps in the passing of the red star.
Finally they find that the southern continent is a paradise because of the soil worms that consume the thread. Soil worms that the original colonists bred and introduced.
(Sorry, I found Dragonsinger/Dragonsong/Dragondrums early in my 6th grade year and spent a long time collecting and reading the rest of the works. Must like Piers Anthony's Xanth series.)
Because with race swaps, we know there is an agenda. Its not organic.
Yea. I joke that the only race swap ill accept is Denzel Washington since he is one of my favorite actors, but seriously you can’t tell me “they were the best for the role”. Especially when the only way to win awards is by shoehorning or race/gender swaps
I'm not sure why you would. They're taking successful white entertainment and shoehorning in blacks in the hopes you'll watch it with the same zeal. You won't. Noone does. That's why they don't come up with original content for blacks.
I understand wanting to have good black characters I just want black characters that make sense and not be forced.
Blade or Spawn are great, the addition of black characters in the original Game of Thrones series was fine. You can make some very good movies in Nubia and their conflict with Egypt for instance. I would like something like that. You can even make games, problem is that if you make accurate representation people get offended.
This is a big issue, accurate representations of black african nations tend to offend the left. This is extremely annoying as you can build upon the fact they were less developed to create more obscure mythos that can leak in to modern day. You just need some creativity and focus on positive aspects of their cultures.
Unfortunately current PC culture does not create new things, they want to "fix" representation that equals bastardize existing mythos or even history. Because showing black nations as less developed and violent is considered racist, despite being true. You need to show them like an idealized 17-18 century France but with black people instead of whites.
Your argument is thought out and well written. I'm just not sure, as a white person, you would even try to understand it or accept it.
Compromise and tolerance is what got us here.
It's not just anti-white racism. It's propaganda meant to condition people to accept the changes in demographics of the West. The same people that push this crap are the same people pushing for open borders and mass non-white immigration. It's the Kalergi plan in action.
However, that's not all. They're also intentionally buying up beloved stories, IPs, franchises, and heroes, and remaking, sequelling, and prequelling them to death, ruining them. It's a form of humiliation and demoralization. They're intentionally robbing us of all of our good stories and heroes, giving us no one worthy to emulate. It also allows them to push all of their failed, degenerate, and destructive philosophies, like nihilism, anti natalism, sexual degeneracy, LGBTQ, anti-white hatred, hatred of masculine men, hatred of feminine women, feminism, non-whites and women being potrayed as perfect, diversity, affirmative action, anti merit, relativism, communism, intersectionality, post modernism, and so forth. It's ts why it's so difficult to watch. It's nothing but propaganda.
Lots of people make the mistake of thinking this is due to greed or incompetence. Neither motive makes sense. If this was incompetence, they wouldn't be making the same choices over and over, and they would've made something good by accident. Some decent things are made, but I figure that's more due to some good people still remaining in these institutions. If this was greed, they would've realized a long time ago that "go woke, go broke" is true, and completely abandoned the woke crap. The only motive that makes sense is maliciousness. They're intentionally doing this. They're intentionally putting out unpopular propaganda to condition the masses. Obviously some of the middle men are being driven by greed and/or incompetence, but the string pullers are malicious. They have to be laundering money to fund this. I hazard a guess that's why government "budgets" are in the trillions, and foreign "aid" never goes to what it's allotted for. It's clearly a globalist money laundering scheme, forcing the taxpayers to fund the very propaganda used against them. That's why all these globalist controlled institutions put out the exact same messages and propaganda. It's all being pushed by the same people.
GRRM was on the wrong side of the sad puppies thing iirc, and he clearly craves being "in" with Hollywood so it doesn't surprise me one bit.
Yea and he got attacked and denounced as a racist both the lunatics at the Hugo awards so he should’ve known better.
Pretty sure ROP will follow the same pattern. Itll die out in 1 season.. these fucking streaming sites need to know you cant fuck around with the fandom. The only one that is still around is Witcher, and that show (which is plagued with same issues.. like replacing redheads) did semi-decent and started the gold rush for all these streaming sites to so something similar.
These streaming sites blow chunks. For example, squidgames. I bet if they made an american adaptation of it, it would fail hard. Filled with joggers and rainbow bullshit and gen z.
I predict it will plummet with episode 4. Episode 3 had a battle that was just nonsense so anyone who was hoping for something more like the early seasons of GoT and less like the later seasons of GoT may stop watching.
Do bot rentals only cover the first couple episodes?