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Juggs said:
Watched ep 1 of LOTR. They went over the top do be different. Most elves had short hair. Half the population black of all races. Surprised they didn’t make Elrond gay.
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Agree, but other than that stuff, I thought it was good. Galadriel is pretty, the writing is good so far, and the visuals are good. I’ll keep watching.

Dude that plays Elrond is the same guy who played young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. I hate his face.
 
I didn’t notice that was young Ned. I thought he was fine as Ned, mostly because they made him look a lot like Bean. But in this show, he doesn’t have the same mannerisms or way of speaking than the original. They should have kept that consistent.

Agree though, overall it’s good. Galadriel is fairly close looking to older and they definitely put some money into this. I enjoyed it despite the unnecessary diversity.
 
Elvis on HBO max. Decent flick, little artsy but held attention for a longer movie. Not a huge Elvis person so most the story (mainly about the manager relationship, Tom hanks) was new to me. Whatever whatever's out of whatever.
 
I went through a phase where I listened to his music a lot. I could still listen to it on occasion, but rarely do. No desire to ever see his movies or care to know anything about him that I don't already know....unless he really does come back from an alien spaceship
 
I like the fantastical biopic genre, the best being about Edith Piaf and Elton John.

I find it amusing that the flamboyant Rocket Man was made by one of the scruffy Band of Brothers soldiers.
 
honest question (probably a stupid one here): do black dwarves, elves, etc. really bother you guys?


I can see an argument for the house of dragon show, but only because GRRM made such a big deal about the "look" of each major house (major plot point for Sean Bean to figure out his friend was cuckholded) and the fact that people of color exist in his world and could've easily been introduced in other ways.

i watched the rings of power show and the race of the characters was the last thing that bothered me. I'm more bothered that there's too many different story threads and they each seem to be moving extremely slowly
 
Only thing that bothers me is that there would be hell to pay if the casting swap went the other way.

I honestly don't give a shit about black elves or dwarves.
 
I don't care as long as it makes sense. The black elves and hobbits (er... Harfoots) are fine. A black dwarf? That race lives underground, how did a few of them get all that melanin?

Honestly, her lack of beard bothers me more. Female dwarves are supposed to be indistinguishable from the males.
 
Think about the woke points Amazon could have scored if they did give her a beard. They could announce her as the first trans dwarf of color in Middle Earth and ruled all of Twitter.

Missed opportunity.
 
DocZaius said:
I don't care as long as it makes sense. The black elves and hobbits (er... Harfoots) are fine. A black dwarf? That race lives underground, how did a few of them get all that melanin?

Honestly, her lack of beard bothers me more. Female dwarves are supposed to be indistinguishable from the males.
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This.
 
Juggs said:
The best scene in all of Lost is at the end of season 1 at the black rock when Artz is telling them how to handle dynamite and blows himself up.
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That is a good one.

I always liked some of the more dramatic scenes when we still didn't know exactly where the story was going - the light coming on when Locke can't seem to open up the hatch (followed in the next season by the cold open showing Desmond living in the hatch, rockin' out to '70s records) is a favorite. So is "not Penny's boat." There was lot of good stuff in the first four seasons.
 
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