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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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The only other thing I’ve heard, as someone who still hasn’t seen it, is portraying Galadriel as a kind of a Mary Sue warrior which seems to some like a transparent attempt at female empowerment messaging. When you have a character that is naturally great at everything with no flaws, it doesn’t leave much room for growth or character arc, and makes them feel a bit unrelateable. Granted, Galadriel is supposedly one of the most powerful female characters in Tolkien’s mythology, but people might be getting a bit tired of a string of overpowered flawless female heroes like Rey and Captain Marvel one after another in modern movies
(Note: I also haven’t seen She-Hulk and heard that’s bad for a host of other reasons like horrible CGI and bad jokes, but one of the many criticisms is that the main character is kind of a bitch. I never had a problem with that. At least that leaves room for growth. Think about Thor in his first movie. He was arrogant and didn’t respect his own dad, who was a very good person. So I personally have no problem with a character starting with negative personality traits)
Also, making Galadriel a plate-wearing, sword swinging warrior is also much different than how she’s portrayed in the books (supposedly) and the LOTR movies. There seems to be this desire to copy male characteristics in modern female heroes such as being physically strong, a front-line fighter, not showing negative emotion, not being vulnerable, and calling that empowering. You’re just copying masculine traits. It’s more nuanced than this but I don’t feel it’s the best way to portray empowered women
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As someone who has watched the show, I disagree with pretty much all of this. Spoiler warning.
They openly portray multiple character flaws. She’s obsessed with destroying the thing that killed her brother, to a point where it’s consumed her. It’s a story as old as time. She was convinced to sail west back to elf land, but then her obsession caused her to jump off the boat and start swimming back. When she got picked up by the drifting raft that was attacked by the seaworm thingie, she didn’t nobly stay and protect the humans, that bitch jumped off the raft and swam away. Of course she’s a bad ass, she’s a thousand year old max level BIS elf warrior. The fuck you expect?
In the LOTR movies she’s another thousand years older. Does it not make sense that she would be more mature and less warlike?
I feel like a fucking nerd defending Galadriel here, but with both House of Dragons and Rings of Power, I keep hearing about how it’s all woke this and pandering that, but I’m just not seeing it. Are there super woke shit TVs shows out there? sure. But if you can unclench your butthole a little and just watch HoD or RoP, they’re really not bad.
Unsung, am I correct to say that you’re not watching either series due to the wokeness? I feel like I remember you posting something like that at some point. Doesn’t that seem silly to you? You’ve obviously a fan of fantasy, and here are two new well produced fantasies series available. And rather than watch them for yourselves, you chose not to based on clickbait reviews other people wrote?