Rings Of Power
The Rings of Power
The Hollywood Reporter
The Rings of Power‘s cast and trailer were released
Could have been so good without the heavy handed ‘today’s values’ clumsily injected into the story and casting,” said another, which is both grim and ridiculous.
The Rings of Power
Morfydd Clark
Inverse
Lenny Henry
They have no trouble believing in a dragon, but they do have trouble believing that a Black person could be a member of the court. Or that a Black person could be a hobbit or an elf,” he told GQ, referencing a conversation with House of the Dragon‘s Steve Toussaint.
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Rings of Power
J.R.R Tolkein
might be getting review-bombed by trolls and salty fans.
The possibility that the show’s being review-bombed has cropped up thanks to Rotten Tomatoes. Basically, there’s a massive gap between the critic reviews and audience reviews of the show.
The average critic review pops at a solid 84 per cent, but for audiences it’s just 36 per cent.
And over on Amazon itself, reviews for the show have actually been suspended.
According to , a source said reviews had been suspended for “72 hours to help weed out trolls” and to make sure all the comments are legit. Apparently that source then said Amazon’s review-pausing policy was started over the US summer for all its shows.
A number of the Rotten Tomatoes reviews were critical of how diverse the show’s cast and story is. This unfortunately isn’t unexpected: back when , there was racist backlash from trolls and Tolkien “fans”.
Because of course having a story that focuses on more than just white men is the worst thing that can happen to your precious fantasy world!
“Rings of Wokeness,” wrote on person in their one-star Rotten Tomatoes review. I’m sure they were very proud of themselves for cooking that one up.
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Quite a lot of people also commented about female elf Galadriel — one of the main characters of the show — being “unlikeable” and “irritating”.
Ah, the classic “female characters are only valid if they’re likeable” argument rears its ugly head!
Back when the trailer for was released , Galadriel’s actress, criticised backlash of its diversity.
“[Tolkein] was a really complex person who wrote a really complex world and this idea that anyone could know exactly what he would’ve wanted or what he would’ve liked is, I feel, nonsense,” she told .
Similarly, — who plays the harfoot Sadoc Burrows on the show — spoke about the backlash from fans regarding increased diversity in fantasy.
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As pointed out by though, a big chunk of reviews weren’t explicitly critical of the show’s diversity. A number of fans seemed mostly annoyed about how interprets ‘s writing.
Despite the criticism and apparent review-bombing, the show’s so far received a bunch of praise from critics and other fans. So it’ll be interesting to see how the reviews on Amazon shape up after their suspension is lifted.
For the moment, I’m just excited to relive my teenage crushes on all the elves.
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