So, as a result of a few of us found the primary two episodes of Amazon’s uninteresting, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and foolish Rings of Power sequence uninteresting, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and foolish, Amazon says we’re racist.
Because this tactic labored so properly for that Lady Ghostbusters film.
No one I do know, and I do imply nobody, is criticizing Amazon’s billion-dollar boondoggle over pores and skin coloration. You’ll discover these complaints on the Twitterz. But if the company media weren’t turning its corrupt highlight on these nameless Twitter accounts, I wouldn’t even learn about this dumb non-troversy.
But that’s the fantastic thing about Twitter. You can discover any narrative you need on Twitter, blow it up, and fake it’s THE narrative. This can come in useful, particularly while you’re Amazon, and also you’ve spent a billion {dollars} to start a stillborn like Rings of Power.
So as a result of the primary two episodes of Rings of Power stink, as a result of nobody likes the present, as a result of the first grievance is that Amazon adopted by way of on its menace promise — to show Tolkien’s beloved story into one thing well timed slightly than timeless — these of us who’re sad with the consequence are Hitler.
Better nonetheless, this phony narrative permits Amazon to fake that the chilly, oily sheen breaking out throughout their our bodies isn’t flop-sweat. No, as a substitute, they get to fake it’s a righteous indignation that provides them license to apply ethical exhibitionism from the excessive floor. To wit:
We stand in solidarity with our forged. #YouAreAllWelcomeHere pic.twitter.com/HLIQdyqLmr
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) September 7, 2022
You suppose you may disgrace us into watching your stillborn present by calling us racists?
That tweet is useful in a single essential manner… It’s a wholesome reminder of simply how poorly Rings of Power is written and the way in love the present is with its ethical purity. My favourite components of that tweet learn just like the diary of a 13-year-old woman:
We, the forged of Rings of Power, stand collectively in absolute solidarity and towards relentless racism, threats, harassment, and abuse a few of our castmates of coloration are being subjected to every day. We refuse to disregard or tolerate it. … BIPOC belong in Middle-earth, and they’re right here to remain. [emphasis mine]
You have a billion {dollars}, and that’s the consequence? If it was me… I’m simply saying if somebody at Amazon had been paying me to information that horrible present, my recommendation would have been to tweet nothing (see: Ghostbusters, Lady). Even if this weren’t an nearly wholly manufactured controversy, I’d recommend y’all present a bit of class, rise above it, and make the work so good folks don’t discover issues that don’t matter, like pores and skin coloration.
But for those who insisted and requested me to rewrite the tweet, I’d have made it a tad much less purple and obnoxious. Take the phrase “absolute.” Bad writing. Opening with “We.” What’s that about? And nobody who lives in the actual world is aware of what “BIPOC” means, and we’re too busy watching Yellowstone to Google it.
If it makes you are feeling any higher… Since that is the one factor you appear to care about…. I swear on my eyes that for those who had forged Rings of Power with solely heterosexual white guys, it could nonetheless suck.
My recommendation? More give attention to the writing room. Less give attention to the Twitter dregs. More give attention to telling a compelling story with fascinating characters (versus uninteresting Mary Sues just like the blonde chick). Less give attention to signaling how morally righteous you’re.
They say a billion monkeys in entrance of a billion typewriters will give you no less than one work worthy of Shakespeare. Amazon handed Rings of Power a billion {dollars}, and the very best they may give you is a present so unhealthy that they’ve been diminished to calling the purchasers racist.
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