Not quite the same thing. But a trope I loath is the fantasy setting used to explore racism and prejudice. Oh look at how people repress the elves and their magic powers. Like wait if x-people could throw fire balls using their will it would actually make a lot of sense to be afraid of them and treat them differently. I just feel like it's bad writing and counter to it's own point. Just reminded me of that.
Since money is a scarce commodity, the question is what is being left to do to maintain that military power. On the other hand, the real problem is that no one can beat the USA in a traditional war, but at least Russia also has the nuclear power to end the entire world, including the USA.
Yeah, several years ago, when this "woke" content started being injected into so much of the product coming out of the entertainment industry (including this type of appropriation and revisionism) some were making the argument that it's nothing more than the same old profit motive as always...because this is what today's audience wants.
Generally speaking, wars generate money and innovation.
It's like when a band spends years in the underground and releases its first album. What you're hearing is a distillate of years and years of writing songs and trying them out live. usually the 2nd album doesn't reach the same quality. Jackson spent years and years developing the script and production of the first trilogy and knew that he was betting everything on succeeding with the fellowship of the ring. The hobbit trilogy is a much more comfortable and safe work than the original.
The entertainment industry always has a share of failure, whether it is Woke or not. For every Woke production that fails, there is another one that also fails even if it doesn't have even 0.01% Woke. Specifically speaking of The Rings of Power, it has had a sufficient number of views for production to continue. It's been panned by critics, that's true, but it hasn't been a commercial flop.
The reporting I've seen on it says it's lost money.
Oh that's understandable. On your point, I was reminded of the X-men when you talked about fear of powers. Many Shows go into this type of argument, and I've even seen an anime which waded into the matter of psycopathic behavior with an analogy to psycic powers and those in the position, and mental constitution, to kill others without empathy. Anime is probably a wierd one to bring up, and may turn you off, but that show has had me thinking for the last 6 years or so.
That doesn’t even make sense. It’s a 5 season product that isn’t even for sale on an a la Carte purchase. It can’t exactly “lose” money.
Fair enough...I have no idea if given enough time it will eventually turn a profit or not, but I kind of doubt it given the size of its budget.
Yup, Disney/Amazon are just footing the bill for a lame attempt at social manipulation right now.
I loved the LOTR movies—even with some artistic licence, they remained true to the core and spirit and ultimate message of the book.
Below is a link to the original review mentioned in the piece you posted.
www.crisismagazine.com
