Thoughts on this

I've been wary of anything being "remade" in this day and age ever since the "Woke Era" started, because basically almost anything Hollyweird touches these days turns to crap.

Such feelings didn't abate when Nerdrotic and Midnight's Edge brought up the first photos and trailers for this show. They said it looked like a lousy cosplay convention, rather than a proper tv show, and I can see why they said that.

I recall a film that came out around the Millennium that gave me the same bad vibes as this does. It was "Dungeons and Dragons," which came out in 2000 https://moviechat.org/tt0190374/Dungeons-and-Dragons It was pretty much a B-grade flick that could be considered "woke" by today's standards. It had crappy writing, bad acting, diverse characters, cheap costumes and cartoony CGI, a cliched, predictable storyline, and black elves. It was forgotten by the majority of people who watched it less than 5 years after it came out (save for the few fantasy geeks who were desperate for entertainment at the time). None of the actors involved did anything noteworthy with their careers, save for Jeremy Irons.

Another vibe I got from this LOTR series was the same bad vibes I got from that "His Dark Materials" tv show the BBC made a few years ago. https://moviechat.org/tt5607976/His-Dark-Materials It looked like a cheap, crappily made version of of the 2007 "Golden Compass" film, and I was not impressed with what little I saw. You notice nobody talks about this show nowadays, and it's only been three years. It was just that memorable. [It also unfortunately exposed how shitty Phillip Pullman's writing got after his first book, sad to say.]

So yeah. It's gonna be so woke that I think it's gonna be the biggest Hollyweird dumpster fire of 2022. I'll happily miss this and go back to watching the Peter Jackson films, which are 100x better.