when people talk about writing ‘the next Lord of the Rings’ they think it’s all about the wars and the languages and the histories, and Aragorn brooding in the corner of an inn and the Balrog roaring in Moria and the ruins of Isengard, and that’s how we got Game of Thrones and several dozen cheap fantasy knock-offs every year, not to mention whatever nonsense the Amazon show is going to produce
but Tolkien’s wars and languages and histories stemmed from his love of creating - of words and history and mythos - and that love infuses into everything he writes, and if you miss that then there’s no way in hell you can replicate it
and the people who want to write the next Lord of the Rings because they want to write the next epic don’t get that the story is about the hobbits’ soft and simple lives and Bilbo’s poetry and Sam’s love language being food and Eowyn discovering hope after depression and Gandalf making fireworks for hobbits even if he is a literal angelic being, and Aragorn weeping over Boromir’s body and Theoden’s kindness to Merry, and Beregond betraying his most prized orders to save Faramir, and the unlikely friendship between Gandalf and Pippin, and the even unlikelier friendship between Legolas and Gimli, and Sam and Frodo singing to each other in Mordor, and Boromir sacrificing himself for the hobbits, and Sam’s simple love for Rosie, and the restoration of the Shire, and the friendship of the Fellowship surviving down through the ages, and peace after war and hope in darkness, and the love between a gardener and a gentleman pacifist being literally the only thing that saves Middle Earth
and that is why people who try to recreate Lord of the Rings by starting with war always get it wrong. you have to start with the love, or it’s nothing: just another empty history
Its tiring going through the bad batch tag. It’s honestly tiring to see the show getting so much hate. Didn’t any of yall watch Clone Wars? There is always filler episodes so the Main story is spread out rather than rushing through it all in a few episodes. It’s good to breathe from the main story otherwise we would get absolutely no character development and no quieter moments
I see people complaining about how the Bad batch have failed Crosshair. Do you know what’ll happen to them if they even get anywhere near him? All of the empire will rain down on them. They all will be murdered, or worse tortured till death and Omega will be used for experimentation and then murdered when out of use or worse be used as a puppet to any new clones that are created.
Thats why the story isn’t crammed into 5 episodes with no real pacing or development for the story or the characters.
Its my opinion but I’d love to hear what people really think anyway
Superwholock is DEAD. Bee Shrek Test in the House is DEAD. Rise of the Brave Tangled Whatever is DEAD. The Dragon Tron-Ra or whatever y'all are calling that one is DEAD. All that matters is