Let's send a message to Amazon: "One does not simply WOKE into Mordor".

Well now we know why Sauron gave the ring a disapearing ability, so he can flee from that guy wanting to "bone" him.

I've come to the conclusion that I can outlast woke Hollywood with the huge backlog of non-woke entertainment out there, along with the few new non-woke titles which manage to run the gauntlet untouched.

3:00 "College taught them that equity, diversity, and inclusion trumped merit-based advancement." This is sooo true 😢

Honestly, that Peter Jackson LOTR looks more inspired with every passing year. You don't know how good something is until you see others fail miserably at replicating it.

Having recently graduated from a university with several film classes, your conclusion is exactly what I was hearing from teachers and professional actors. Word on the street is to cut costs so the production company can keep more of the profits and take less risk. Its gotten so bad that my last teacher told my class of video editors that being a freelancer or starting our own youtube channels will have a much higher chance of success and career enjoyment than going to work for a large production studio

This is partially the reason myself and other indie creators have been pushing so hard for alt-entertainment. Bobbleheads at Netflix and Amazon, along their their bluecheck hatchet men, believe that they have a monopoly on people's eyes and minds. This isn't and cannot be the case; we need a return to normalcy where merit and raw entertainment value beat out mass-produced Soviet-style propagandism.

It is much deeper actually. Chato, go look at last years Tolkien Society Seminar.. Critical Theory in academia has infested the departments of those studying Tolkien. The entire Tolkien Society Seminar was about criticizing Tolkien, decolonization, queer theory, etc.... Amazon probably wanted to be woke, but so did the Tolkien Society... the fantasy genre professors have been pushing this for a while now.

"paying someone 40k a year was much better than paying someone 240k a year" I work in talk television, and I've seen the same thing. Cheapness. They'll gladly accept excellence if someone's foolish enough to offer it for cheap. But in the end, they'll accept just about anything, so long as it's inexpensive.

The saddest part about the abomination Amazon has made is that they could had easily created in canon lore stories about POCs by setting the stories in Harad and Rhun which were never explored storywise in the books. Imagine seeing how the people of those lands lived and center it around those that resisted and resented Morgoth and Sauron's call since both saw them as nothing more than arrow fodder since canons didn't exist yet. Imagine also since those parts of Arda were not covered in length one can then bring in lore from those regions for example the Oliphants that we saw in the movies we could see Olyphant riders and trainers using Oliphants to build structures such as a bridge and then have Rok attack them (A Rok was a mythological giant bird that hunted and ate elephants so huge it could had gone toe to toe with Smaug. But no they chose to ditch the canon lore entirely and repaint white characters instead.🙄 Its because of 💩 for brains creators like these and megacorporations supporting them that instead of having an Static Shock movie we get a repainted Clark Kent/Superman instead. This Baizuo era we live under just sucks monkey balls.

Older executives being replaced because they were too expensive is (I guess) better than because they were 'too white' which is what one would expect from a woke HR department. California passed laws requiring women - or rather one member who identifies as a woman - be on corporate boards, for example. The question now is how do you get them out and return to a talent/merit-based production model?

For me you raise an interesting point. I've argued that one of the reasons Hollywood story telling has gone down hill is that "the best authors write to their own experiences". If, as you say, they're currently hiring young inexperienced people, well... I can see how that fits in with my own personal arguments. Interesting indeed...

It's sadly ironic that outsiders are trying to destroy the LOTR mythology because Tolkien created it because other outsiders destroyed his people's mythology.

The thing about the "woke" imperative is that it seems to require shock value. As if diversity doesn't qualify as such without the component of blatant in-your-face shoe-horning or tokenism. Representation that quietly nestles within the confines of a given narrative lacks the aggressive "wow- they wouldn't dare" factor that wokeness seems to require. A mentality where casting twists outrank plot twists.

Remember, there was a huge moral panic in the 80s that also dampened creativity and freedom of expression in Hollywood. This too will.pass

Sounds quite a bit like what happened to IT starting around 1995 when they started bringing in well-educated but inexperienced foreign programming talent or starting moving work offshore because of the impending year 2k disaster which never happened, both of which were far less expensive options. They also starting moving management to recent MBAs from experienced IT managers who had a disturbing tendency to say no to management's bright ideas. The surviving talent will get better as failures will eliminate the worst of them, people or companies, and they will once again discover one of capitalisms basic tenants, you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

I love how you ended this: "At least we have the Peter Jackson versions" Remember when Ghostbuster 2016 came out? The fans hated the trailer cos of how bad it looked. The critics and the woke immediately jumped at calling fans sexists and racists. They said "you have the old movies you can still watch on dvd" The movie flopped. Now Ghostbusters Afterlife has been released. It cost half as much to make. It has been released during the pandemic, even though we are nearing the end, many still wont go to the cinema yet. It's made more than the 2016 movie! It is a success! Now the 2016 fans were out screaming fans are still sexists. How?! the main character in Afterlife is a young female! Fans mocked the 2016 fans by quoting to them "you can still watch the 2016 version"......."it's on dvd in the bargain bin of your nearest dollar store!" Oh the irony, it triggered the 2016 fans further! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

So as a guy who works 2 active jobs and doesn't have much free time, when I do want to sit down and watch something, I don't want to be preached at or have a woke message shoved down my throat. I want to watch heroes struggle against villains, robots kick the ever loving crap out of each other, or just enjoy a good story with a great message weaved into it. I'm sure many other hard working people would agree that for our 1-2 hours of entertainment, I don't want diversity and pronouns screamed into my ear.

"But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters into his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of illúvatar; for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself." -J.R.R Tolkien (the silmarillion)

It seems really counter-intuitive. The whole "Get Woke, Go Broke" diatribe is not a 'myth' but rather identifies a pattern in company behaviour and the resulting outcomes. We have companies seeking to politicise everything and die on the sword of whatever message they are pushing; cutting their nose off to spite their face! Not only is this occurring in most things media; film, TV, books, videogames, etc. It is also occurring in advertising - where it is not inclusion but rather a focusing on minorities that has become the flavour of the day, hardly representative. It has become hard to not become lectured to. Take Virgin media for example, the recent UK adverts pay no attention to product but rather preach about how diversity, no matter how forced, is the best outcome. We have massive multinational corporations stating that people are all individuals yet collectivising everyone. Gillette telling us how a woman can be a man and vise versa. Shell and BP telling us to take better care of the planet. Companies have become soapboxes for wokism and identity politics. The issue is that this surely does not work. Do people really feel more inclined to buy a product because they have parroted the current progressive talking point? Amazon seems to be riding this wave. It is hard not to be cynical and state that the point of creating this woke 'disaster piece' is solely to upset and challenge pre-existing fans. They took a beloved franchise and decided it could be improved on. Why, because the story is not good enough? No, because those that are so indoctrinated to believe 'diversity is a strength' see a lack of diversity within LotR and thus believe it is able to be strengthened. To the executives at Amazon their 'Rings of Power' will be an improvement purely because of this point.

"Colorblind casting" only makes sense if a character wasn't specifically a particular thing. Would you cast Wesley Snipes as Emperor Hirohito and a Motley array of ethnicities as his generals and admirals in a WW2 movie? That would just be stupid.

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.” - J. R. R. Tolkien “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt, pervert and ruin what good forces have invented or made”- tvtropes (or a bad translation from Russian)

It's always about the money, they forget that age and experience always beats youthful enthusiasm.

"They don't know about anyone or anything outside LA" is especially hilarious when some Europeans copy their ideology straight from USA. I've seen many people in Finland who think that "minority" only means African ethnicity (0.8% of our population) while being completely ignorant of our relevant minorities such as Skolt Sámi, Inari Sámi, Karelians, Romani and Tatars. They also call every minority "people of color", even though some Sámi people are borderline albino with sky blue eyes and white hair (not that skin tone affects anything). Edit: The same black-and-white (heh) thinking can be seen in LOTRROP. Since diversity is so important, where are the Latino elves, the Maori dwarves and the Asian bonsai ents?

I think you are right that all the people with any sense are being pushed out of the industry. It's actually a great opportunity for crowd funded content and networks to take over. Even some of those same people who were pushed out could take advantage of that opportunity.

Most big productions involve generic corporate writing and use a beloved franchise as a façade like how the Bug in Men in Black wore an Edgar suit to blend in with humans. Fans have now become aware of this, and incredibly critical of these productions, so they wear Woke identity politics as a façade to protect from backlash; and this is conceptually similar to putting a rainbow colored BLM t-shirt on the Edgar suit and calling anyone who suspects he is an alien a racist/sexist/transphobic individual.

Wonderful video. I'm a bit late to the party but impressed with your channel. This is happening in the video game industry too. Most of the small to medium developers are getting gobbled up by the big boys and now imposing woke religious doctrine into the games and companies they purchased. There's a huge demand for staff with the influx of cash and most of those positions are being filled by freshly out of college kids. All woke and being backed by the new corporate masters. Every entertainment medium is infected now. It's not going away for a long time. These big corporations have deep pockets so can find this insanity for years to come.

I think there is a lot of good points here but maybe Paul Chato is leaving out how older creatives are jumping on the woke bandwagon either to save their jobs or now see a golden opportunity to make outright agit-prop disguised as entertainment. Example is Alex Kurtzman and Bad Robot with Star Trek projects where he describes the show as his platform to express his polemics. Then you have the tv show Picard where Patrick Stewart in Vanity Fair more or less brazenly says he hijacked Star Trek to create a show that would showcase all his political leanings and be a vehicle for his personal propaganda. The only problem is that they forgot what made the show click with fans and when fans say they don't recognize what they are watching as anything like Star Trek they are told they are bad people who we don't want watching "our" show. Great marketing.

Saddest part is, this isn't about making money for Amazon (though the 'normies' will lap this up lol), it's about co-option and twisting a landmark franchise to suit their own narrative and version of history, as though it were always so. . . -If they can change LoTR, then it's open season for any other fantasy franchise? Like instead of makings original content they're just going to continue with remake after remake and Western entertainment is going to stagnate even further.

That seems to be the most logical reason why producers are compromising beloved franchises.

This is a pretty good theory. One I hadn't thought of (i.e., new grad = save $$$). The ironic thing is the new grads are happy to cause their employer lose money to spread their wokism. Why, because corporations are evil anyway, and helping them lose money gives the finger to evil capitalism. Win-win right. I mean they won't say it like that but that's what they are thinking. But there's an upside called creative destruction. It creates opportunity for others to create better products. It may come from a surprising direction. I don't know what it will be but it's coming. Hollywood seems to have gone the way of the American steel and car industries. They still exist and do okay, but their glory days are behind them.

Them destroying the "Wheel of time" books was a catalyst for what they would do with LOTR

I love how Hollywood points at racism in the US while being the people who are incredibly racist in the country.

I suspect they're intentionally moving from beloved franchise to beloved franchise doing as much damage as they can so that when it all burns to the ground they can blame us and say we deserved it for being 'ists' and 'phobes', etc. If a franchise doesn't have their 'values'/programming then nobody can be allowed to enjoy it.

Thank you for this new perspective. I thought woke-ness had overpowered the entertainment industries. It likely just undercut it. I hope their losses outweigh their ill gotten gains. Both to avenge the fandoms and return to normalcy.

I've said before and I'll say here: diversity is NOT a story. And if you don't have a story, you don't have an audience.

I agree with some respects to the argument. However, another reason is the push to change Culture. To change culture all of the material that people consume have to reflect specific ideas. As to why the concerted effort to change culture, that is another discussion

Simple really: Networks don’t make shows for quality, but for profit. If Amazon or any production company can make $$$ by showing a blank screen, they would. So the reality I believe is that they are equating “woke” with “not broke”, meaning money income and profit for board of directors.

I have 30 years of non woke games to play, 100 years of non woke books to read, and I missed a lot of the golden age of Hollywood movies, so that too.

I really appreciate your analysis. I recently left government and had some experiences with young people that really thought they should be promoted because of their immutable characteristics. They couldn’t understand merit.

It seems like a lot of marketing departments (in entertainment and elsewhere) now care MORE about "engagement" on twitter or other social media than they do about increasing sales. So they way things are marketed is whatever get reactions (even very negative ones) on the internet. Also, I do wonder if there is so much entertainment being made now, and so much marketing being done for it, that there just aren't enough people who are actually good at it to do it all.

May the fall of this woke perversion that's an insult to Tolkien's work & faith be swift & hard!

This makes alot of sense. I used to think that maybe fan works might be the way out of this dark age of woke, creatively bankrupt, and unfaithful media but with the stark scorched-earth precedent set by Games Workshop recently I don't know if that is going to happen anymore.

Most expensive TV show in history, yet I have seen porn with better writing, casting, Marketing and overall production value

I am a consumer of videos made by the KZfaqrs fighting a good fight against wokism. Somehow I found your videos on LOTR and I liked them immensely. I hope to see you more in this area. Thank you.

Love your presentation and especially the perfectly chosen words you use, very entertaining.

Yes, we have the Peter Jackson versions to fall back on. And don't forget the books! Wow. Reading. What a concept!

I'll be honest. I already cancelled my Prime subscription over the Wheel Of Time series disaster. They poisoned and thrashed my favorite fantasy series. But this LOTR show would have instantly caused a cancellation as well.

This certainly answers the questions I had about Star Trek Discovery. How in the world could they have not paid any attention to canon, equipment, uniforms, characters, story lines, the universe as it had been described in several TV shows, movies and books over the past 50 years? How could the people making this new show that supposedly takes place "10 years before Kirk and Spock" have ignored everything that made the "Kirk and Spock" show so iconic and beloved? The fact that everyone involved in Discovery not only didn't know any better, but didn't want to know any better seems to be as good an answer as any.

You sir, are hilarious. I’m a conservative and I’m sure your a 20th century style liberal, however I’d be willing to wager you and I could have a much more fun and fulfilling conversation than you and a younger person on the left or as we call “woke” now. Lol keep up the funny videos.

Wow! Sir I don’t think you could have hit that nail on the head any harder or with more precision. Very brave of you and thanks for sharing your insight.

I feel like an idiot. I've been wondering WHY so many businesses (particularly the entertainment industries) allowed these twenty-something people who seemed out of touch with the fans to run things. I should have realized that simple money/salaries might hold the key.

"Just look at the awards shows" No thank you.

Chato nailed it; at least in part. This mass replacement of experienced boomer aged personnel with younger Millennial aged recent graduates did cause a major shift. Keep in mind this same thing was happening across all industries, not just entertainment. What Chato gets wrong is that this change wasn't simply about costs. While it is more appealing tp ay a newbie 1/4th - 1/5th of your seasoned employee those higher up making these replacement decisions also know that means you''ll have a far less experienced person in the role and if you believed it was a role anyone could do why did you ever agree to let the seasoned employee reach $240k a year? So why then would the people at the top replace their experienced marketing people with an inexperienced (and woke) recent graduate? Companies often use executive personnel services as a means to quickly find replacements especially at executive level positions. They contract out that process to one of a few firms who do nothing but recruit executive talent to then pass on to companies seeking executive replacements. This is a practice that has been around for some time and until 5-10 years ago was very reliable About 10 years ago the top 2 firms doing this kind of work were acquired by investment firms that deal with people like George Soro's and entities like Blackrock. For the last 5 years these firms have been sending pro-woke executive talent only to key companies. Where as in the past they sent the best qualified person they now were sending people based on ideoalgiucal adherence which wasn't hard to do as the education system has been for the last 25-30 years being conditioning millennials to be what we now call the woke. After enough years of doing this and with enough woke executives in place it became much easier to get support from the private sector for pushing ideological beliefs that are not popular with the majority. The Millennials are the bulk *(of the various generations) in the private sector among the 30-40 somethings but not every Millennial was effectively brainwashed during their k-12 + College years; some resisted while others were home schooled. If you wondered how a for profit company could act in ways that run counter to profitability it's because of this slow replacement of key personnel, mainly executive level positions, who now are decision makers and or influencers. The infiltration of executive level positions is not enough by itself because many companies are publicly traded and so shareholders have to be satisfied. Toi that end the ESG was introduced a number of years back; the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance rating. The ESG is to private business what the social credit score is to Chinese citizens. Since the US government can not implement a social credit like system,, at least not yet, this one for the private sector was implemented as a work-a-round, very much like how the US Government tried to use OSHA as means to enforce a vaccine mandate that they couldn't constitutionally do with the citizens. offload it to the private sector and the outcome is the same. With the ESG a business faces higher expenses and harsher conditions (with regards to competition) if they have a low ESG. The ESG is voluntary but it's made effectively mandatory by getting buy in from key industries like finance. Most major financial institutions are in on the ESG making it very difficult for business to get thins like a loan at a reasonable rate if they have a low ESG. I know it sounds conspiratorial but just google What Is The ESG and read about it yourself. It's definitely packaged as being something good but make no mistake it's a tool for control under the guise of being a better business. There is more to this than just executive recruitment infiltration and the ESG but those 2 are enough to get profit driven business to act in unprofitable ways by changing what the term success means.

Honestly, I think if Amazon gets the rights to those Jackson properties (they are in negotiations to purchase them), they will try to remake the original movies, and then suddenly, it will be harder and harder to find the originals. Sort of what like Lucas did with the original SW cut.

Subscribed! Thank you for this video! It's great! I love TLOTR!

It's the perfect package: cheap labor, "good" PR, and a custom-built set of excuses to spew at shareholders when it all fails.

I’m finding refuge in anime these days… yes it’s subtitles but it isn’t infected with Hollywood… there’s decades of entertainment and great stories over there being told by artists and writers who will literally work themselves to death striving for perfection in their craft…

This will be a fairly good indicator for how the entertainment industry will go forward. If it is a big success those of us who like great stories will lose. If it fails everyone wins. Kinda sad it's come to this.

The problem with Hollywood was that the money people were rapacious lizards and the talent people were left-leaning. And the fun was the negotiation that had to happen in order to get shows done. Now the Rapacious lizards are still at the top, but now the lizard's subordinates are selected on their ideological correctness rather than any talent they may possess. It's a wonder that anything gets produced at all.

There should be an audience warning when shows contain woke scenes. We should also speak in favor of a woke-free label in the industry, and only shows that respect excellence and don't have any reverse discrimination in their hiring and script writing would receive the accolade. We should also create a woke-free award for woke-free shows devoid of group politics and any form of discrimination (reverse or otherwise).

Appreciate the peak at the wizards behind the curtain.

Thanks for your thoughtfulness 🙌🏻🇪🇬🇪🇬

Thanks sir!! I really appreciate your perspective.

When you look at the production team of some of the huge shows he mention and you check what they've done previously, you'll be astounded by their lack of experience and previous projects. Particularly the writers. I'm a hobbyist writer and some of those Wheel of Time lines made me cringe to my toes.

Great summary of the state of things. If only we could sell to the fresh talent that they can earn their pride by delivering quality products for the customer.

Thank you for your dedication. I can assure you most young people outside of LA strongly agree

'PR miss steps' such a cute and euphemistic way to put it. XD

Thank you for at least so far, keeping your observations based on professional experience. Far too many channels that I used to be subscribed to for insight on the creative process or on tips for writing in general have been dropped from my feed because they have taken a hard political turn in every video they make. Sometimes it really is simply about a diminishing level of talent in an industry as opposed to and Insidious left-wing plot.

What I want to know is, why aren't the Tolkien Estate taking action? They've retconned huge elements of the Lore to effectively write the Second Age book that Tolkien never wrote, but doing so on-screen. I'm pretty sure when they bought the rights to the material they had, it was on the understanding that they didn't change anything substantial. For what they did to Galadriel alone, the Estate should be suing.

Finally someone my age telling it like it is... no one has been listening to us. YOU HIRE YOUNG NARCISSISTS, YOU WILL GET DRAMA & SHIT!

I saw something similar happening in the financial world, new and younger executives started to show up, soon the whole culture started changing

Well said. Ideas have a lot of sway. I thought Post Modern film theory was about movies like Ferris Bueller's Day off and Annie Hall, but I've found from professors like Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian, that it goes a lot deeper than just deconstructing the rules of film language to make a point. It's about deconstructing the institutions of society. If it's there, then it needs torn down. The past needs erased. It's become a new religion. Unfortunately, it seems to satisfy a really deep need in people. I don't understand it. I don't know how to stop it. It seems to especially effect people who've been hurt deeply and can't find a way to fix it or confront it, so they run over to solve the world's problems instead. There's a little Soviet Film theory stirred in. They thought film language was a tool they could use to reform society to the "right way" of thinking. And I guess it worked for a while.

I'm glad everyone is having in-depth discussions about the topic, but the amount of indepth ingredients Chato gives to form your own conclusion for what's really happening from the top down is incredible.

Amazon seriously thought having a guy who actually talks about banging Sauron, whose basically the Devil in Lord of the Rings, would be a good promotional material. Tolkien could dig through the earth he's rolling in his grave so much.

His point about university’s is BERY SIGNIFICANT. Because universities touch not only executives, but writers, artist, the whole gambit of people involved in the creative aets

Exactly! I was recently in California which has a number of "vice" taxes on the books and that many more things "known by the state of California to cause" who knows what kind of malady. But whilst they proclaim that evidence from their studies have shown that these vice taxes would slow consumption of tobacco products or make people drive less and so on_ the opposite seems to be true. Or at the very least remained unchanged. And in trying to be a beacon of magnanimity the state of California just so happened to rake in over 40 billion dollars surplus revenue this past year continuing a trend which even brought in huge gains during the heart of the pandemic. Yet as they continue to allocate funds to the various social programs on the docket, the homeless population in downtown Los Angeles has continued growing unabated. Now if one looks at a map of downtown the entire stretch called "Skid Row" in downtown around the fashion and toy districts are teeming with tents and human excrement on the streets only ending with some finality as on one hits the base of the hill leading up to the "financial" district with the Wells Fargo and Bank of America buildings looming above.

So Chato, is there an example of so-called "woke" media peices that actually work, in your opinion?

I went to your website and saw your Hungarian origin. It's interesting to see that poster and how the expressions changed in the language from back then.

Thanks for the great perspective!

Why Tolkien loved the Middle Ages? Because it was the age where science and peace begin to really matter in society. Before those were not the priority. Besides it was the Age of Creativity and Discovery: see the quite objetive data (manuscript production where much hugher than in place in the word) in quite Epic video (6 mn) in my channel "Age of Reason : Science in Middle Ages.

Covering an established franchise with deep lore and beloved characters in your own personal beliefs or agenda is MUCH easier than coming up with your own good, original series/content in general. Makes sense that the people directing this monstrosity would be fine to shoehorn their ideologies or personal beliefs into something as beloved as LotR. They don't care about the fandom or canon, they care about "finding the racist Nazis" by exposing them via their dog 💩 show.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. He is so on point it’s scary.

And now Netflix owns the rights to the Narnia books. Mr. Tumnus will probably be a black trans female who falls in love with Mr. Beaver who's actually a latino trans male. May God have mercy on us all.

Thanks for covering this. I was wondering today if there could be some motivation for rich elites to cause division in society. Seems like we see divides everywhere and it makes me wonder if someone or some people have serious vested interests in sowing division.

Hollywood: Let's recycle, reuse and regurgitate old material because it has some amount of a built in audience! Potential viewers: OK... Hollywood: A small number of highly vocal people insist that the entire world's past is evil and should be ignored and forgotten, this will work surely? This sounds like a viable plan, what could go wrong? Potential viewers: Umm, what? Hollywood: We've commissioned a survey that be will administered in a SoCal shopping centre. The survey completely begs the question and yields the result we decided we wanted. What could go wrong? Potential viewers: Hold on, all of this sounds lazy, stupid and horrible! Hollywood: Whoa now, that's racist talk! Our staff of young inexperienced liberal college graduates have assured us that it makes perfect economic sense that the customer is always wrong. So, stop being sexist, and eat the shit we are serving you, and don't forget to tell us it tastes like chocolate!!! Potential viewers: This whole thing seems like a steaming pile! Hollywood: That's it! We've had enough of your homophobia, you are censored and copyright stricken! We will now allow our promotional campaign to descend into some sort of demented dog and pony show. Recent Hollywood history has demonstrated that this has worked out wonderfully for other studios. Potential viewers: I don't care anymore...

The people making the decisions to hire these fresh out of college, inexperienced, unqualified quislings at discount prices do so because it frees up money they can then use to give *themselves* raises. See how that works?

Love your work. Keep it up.

It's the college crt indoctrination system that's mostly the problem imo, not the hiring itself. Companies have been doing that forever and there have been not much of a huge problem until now. Top that off with kids honed with so much entitlement, especially in first world countries.

We already seen what they did with the wheel of Time, and that show was a hot mess.... It's pretty obvious they're going to do the same with Lord of the rings

Listening to you talk shop is more interesting than anything Hollywood has produced in a long time. These videos are fun.

Amen! Thank you!

I think that that the executives at Amazon are counting too heavily on having a guaranteed fanbase they can count on to support their efforts no matter how bad they may be. People forget that this isn’t the first highly anticipated Tolkien adaptation that might fail miserably despite a huge built-in appetite for it. Just Google Ralph Bakshi.

I will always support the best actor for a character. However the creator of canon & lore must be respected so color blindness is irrelevant. Characters MUST be portrayed as they were created. And DIE has no meaning or bearing in depiction.

Great video. I just heard about your channel while watching the pop-culture KZfaq channel Midnight's Edge. They had someone send in a super chat and that super chat had a reference to this channel so here I am, subscribed with the bell icon on.

This is the smartest explanation I have watched on this train wreck. Thank you.

Amazon like many other megacorporations before just bought the Lord Of The Rings IP willy Nilly not understanding the history behind it. They never probably even Googled it and just glanced at the success of PJs LOTR trilogy films but never the actual reason behind it. They never researched that they were actually buying the TV rights to what happens to be the 3rd most sold book in the entire planet translated into over 40 languages. With millions upon millions of fans worldwide of all the skin colors under the rainbow and those are the fans they ended up calling Yatzee white supremacists. They called Arabs, Japanese, Latinos, Blacks, Native Americans collectively for being Tolkien fans reecist bigots and in their unmitigated gall not understanding the huge fire ants nest they stepped on they made the Superfan videos to boot. That show is 7 months away and the rage and hate against it is of Biblical and apocalyptic proportions and rightly so.

It shouldn't be so, but politics and ideology have always been a huge factor in liberal arts. A student could put together a wonderfully well-written essay, with zero spelling and grammar errors, filled with copious amounts of footnotes to substantiate the many points made by its author, with even the footnotes done perfectly, and that student will get a "D" for his effort if the conclusion of the essay is contrary to the beliefs of the teacher, while a student who submits a shoddy essay that confirms the teacher's ideology gets the "A". Diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism appears to be such a rage at major universities that all graduates these days view the world that way. It is not only what they have been taught. It is what they had to regurgitate to stay in school or graduate with better than a "D" average. When confronted with a real world outside of academia which bears little relationship to their indoctrination, it seems that rather than adapt to the real world, they have set out to make the real world adapt to their ideology. Even commercials these days depict a world far divorced from reality, a fantasy world where most couples are either mixed, gay, or both.

Brilliant. Keep’em coming. 👊🏻

Wow, you make so much sense and that seems the best explanation I've heard yet