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by plushpuffin
1375 days ago
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One thing which I thought was hilarious was a scene with an elf walking toward a village. He knows the village is there; it’s his destination. He’s been walking toward it for the better part of a day. Then he crests a hill and is like “oh shit the village is on fire what happened here?” Contrast this with Legolas who would often peer into the distance and then announce how many orcs there were in a raiding party far enough away that the others couldn’t even see them. That’s actually one of my biggest problems with this show. I don’t get the sense that the elves are a different species with different abilities and a different type of soul. Especially in the opening scene of episode one, when you see a bunch of elf children acting like stereotypical human bullies. I also really, really hate that halflings seem like they’re going to play a major role in world events. The shock value to the mythology of LotR was that the hobbits up until that point in history had been completely inconsequential. It kind of ruins the stories of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry if this is actually the second time that hobbits have shaped history. It just feels like they are relying on the names and visual effects and the set dressing to carry the show, while they cram in a generic fantasy plot. |
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I have the exact same complaint with star trek discovery which showed Spock being bullied by Vulcan children. They even had the elf ears