IMO it's a bit of this and a bit of plain mean-spirited cultural vandalism, wrapped up in a cloak of self-righteous masturbatory wokeness. The pieces of shit maladapting one beloved cultural property after another seriously seem to have a major hard-on for trying to turn said properties into trashfires to spite both the fans and the original creators, for daring to create (and like) 'problematic' messages - like how a core theme of WoT is that men & women are different but complement each other and need to work together, or literally everything about LOTR from its naturalistic, anti-industrial themes to Tolkien's devout Catholicism and desire to create an Anglo-Saxon natural & cultural myth.

Welp, at least the LOTR fanbase seems a lot wiser & more united in bitter opposition to Amazon's bullshit than the Wheel of Time fans were. I'm still flabbergasted that any among the latter were still surprised that a modern (or rather 'postmodern') adaptation of their source material would turn out so badly this late in the game, but at least their experience has served to further put the LOTR crowd on guard against Amazon. If anyone can turn the latest project of woke cultural vandals into a Cowboy Bebop-tier dumpster fire that gets canceled after one disastrous season, it's probably them.

IMO it's a bit of this and a bit of plain mean-spirited cultural vandalism, wrapped up in a cloak of self-righteous masturbatory wokeness. The pieces of shit maladapting one beloved cultural property after another seriously seem to have a major hard-on for trying to turn said properties into trashfires to spite both the fans and the original creators, for daring to create (and like) 'problematic' messages - like how a core theme of WoT is that men & women are different but complement each other and need to work together, or literally everything about LOTR from its naturalistic, anti-industrial themes to Tolkien's devout Catholicism and desire to create an Anglo-Saxon natural & cultural myth.

Welp, at least the LOTR fanbase seems a lot wiser & more united in bitter opposition to Amazon's bullshit than the Wheel of Time fans were. I'm still flabbergasted that any among the latter thought a modern (or rather 'postmodern') adaptation of their source material would turn out so badly this late in the game, but at least their experience has served to further put the LOTR crowd on guard against Amazon. If anyone can turn the latest project of woke cultural vandals into a Cowboy Bebop-tier dumpster fire that gets canceled after one disastrous season, it's probably them.