LOTR - The Rings of Power [SPOILERS]

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Sure at least half the Aussies have dirty Paddy DNA in them somewhere 

[Emphyrio]

Watched the first ep. Not bad. The older elves look like insurance salesmen and the younger ones look like fellas you'd meet in the off-license in Tesco. It's a feast for the eyes alright.

[blessed1]

Only watched the first episode so far but I enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the rest of it. Some dodgy acting here and there bit other than that it's good. Seems similar in tone to the first movies.
The level of hatred directed at it, even before a single epispde was aired is pretty pathetic.

[Caomhaoin]

"the harfoots are appearing, it's because they are going to have some kind of similar vital role. The hack martyr there calls the harfoots "dirty", etc., whereas a more up to date ecological view would say that they form a unit with their environment, as witnessed by the very first scene they appear in. That's a kind of ninja super power I don't believe 19th century Irish peasants possessed"

Some spiel there. Irish Tolkien fans can box it up any way they like but the Anglosphere will recognise it immediately as the Punch cartoon dirty thick Irish. A fuckin Aussie directed the accents as having an Irish base and Aussies love their dirty Paddy jibes.  Ive challenged plenty of the cunts on it to watch their lip
 

This guy rules.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Never cared about Russians and Arabs being cast as villains, not going to start caring about innocent rustic folk being portrayed with Irish accents. I'd be awful surprised if anyone complaining has ever cared when it was others being stereotyped, eh lads?

[John Kimble]

Christ you're a tiresome cunt

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

And the author of the IT article, exhuming the builder from Fawlty Towers again isn't tiresome? Grand so.

[Caomhaoin]

Never had a problem with anything in Fawlty Towers. Germans, Spaniards, Irish all mocked, who gives a shit? It's of it's time, and the gimpery of the BBC giving trigger warnings and outright censoring a classic comedy series is cringeworthy, grotesquely so. Another assault on comedy.

[John Kimble]

And the author of the IT article, exhuming the builder from Fawlty Towers again isn't tiresome? Grand so.

Not really, no. Fawlty Towers is well over 40 years old. There has been a huge amount of commentary about the Rings of Power and its more diverse approach to casting, so it's a bit odd in that context that they would revert to lazy stereotypes when it comes to Irish. You can prattle on all you want about the plucky little hobbits. Not everyone is well versed on Middle Earth and taken at face value, it's fairly obvious that the Hobbits or Harfoots or whoever are portrayed as unadventurous, small-minded simpletons. Am I personally offended by this? Not really. But hardly surprising that a journalist would fixate on this.

[son of the Morrigan]

Lads, ye're talking through yer rings of power.
Its fiction, grow up.
Yer time would be far better spent keeping an eye on how the Irish are being portrayed in reality by our own media and news outlets than getting yer nerdy knickers in a twist over some bastardised money making racket of a TV series.
Fuck sake.

[John Kimble]

You're another tiresome cunt. I'm not getting my knickers in a twist about anything. I posted a link. It's a discussion, on a forum. There's a thread about conspiracy theories if you want to fuck off over there.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yer man Ed Power, who in real life can only be some kind of unbearably over-sensitive dry shite, definitely got his knickers in a twist. Ending up with that, "If anything the Irish should be... the Elves!" shite. Jesus, proper spa goings on, seriously. I'm not associating you with the content of the article Mr.Kimble, just saying, christ, but that shite to me is the very epitome of tiresome, no matter who's coming out with it. And you'd all be saying the same if it was someone from literally any other nation under the sun.

[warhead]

I'm a bit surprised with one of the most expensive series of all times not being able to invest bigger part of the budget into better acting.

[astfgyl]

I think it's hilarious really that instead of anything about the story itself or the lore or anything like that it's the Irish accents that's getting everyone going.

Could just not watch it or get over it. And yeah the accents are shit but it's hardly a deal-breaker.

I have to watch the second episode again because I was on the sauce so it passed me by a bit. Might just throw the two on again altogether so maybe we can get the ball rolling on discussing the story instead of the accents. At least everyone stopped caring about the diverse cast anyway

[son of the Morrigan]

You're another tiresome cunt. I'm not getting my knickers in a twist about anything. I posted a link. It's a discussion, on a forum. There's a thread about conspiracy theories if you want to fuck off over there.

    
I'm sooooo sorry I expressed my opinion on the content of this tread and upset you johnny john, I'm a bold boy and should have my botty slapped.