People are grumpy because Amazon gutted LotR universe, made it an empty vessel for their political ideology and now refuse to deal with well-earned criticism in an honest fashion.
Making as much money as possible requires being on good terms with the local ruling regime and adopting its ideology. That way your politician friends will ignore your misdeeds while going after your competitors. Hence rainbow flags everywhere, except for the Middle East branch
Based on what exactly? If anything the only complaint you can make is that the 2 episodes we got so far just dragged out the world building way too much.
We had almost 2 and a half hours of content and it doesn’t seem we’re even done with the introduction to the gang that would become fellowship of the rings ;)
I was asking the GP, Ive watched the first 2 episodes and I really don’t see an objective reason for ranking it below a 5 or so based on the current showing we had.
I also don’t particularly see any wokeness being peddled.
The problem isn’t wokeness it’s lazy and bad writing e.g. SheHulk which is just cringe as fuck.
I swear if the original trilogy would’ve come out today people would claim that the “I am no man” line was peddling wokeness despite the fact that it’s exactly how it played out in the book with the only change being the omission of living before man.
