Fantasy land has died a firey woke death

Anyone who loves the lore and magic of the original books, of the beauty of the movies will hate this woke-ass crap. They’ve shoved in everything from racism to transsexual reproduction, the whole litany of alphabet puke. Avoid at all costs.

Not Woke

DISCLAIMER: Keep in mind everyone views "woke" as something different. As for this show, anyone who's a 'purist' as they call it will not like the show. There's much talk about the attraction, skin color and various other things which to me, do not make a television show woke. My definition of 'woke' is when a forced ideology of acceptance is being placed in a story in lieu of story-telling

The show is a slow-burn story and is a 'prequel of prequels' in the LOTR series. It's not strictly true to the books and definitely takes on it's own twist with the story. Though very slow-paced, the writing and scripting were great, the build-up albeit also slow-paced is engaging just enough to keep interest and the visuals are quite amazing. The acting is above par and while the story does bounce around a bit, it's easy enough to follow if you pay close attention (or watch it twice) If there are any woke elements to this TV show, they were not blatantly placed within the story and if present, does not hinder the story in any way. I seen no obvious ideological pandering or forceful indoctrination. Just Very good story-telling.

I didn't find this woke. I'm only 3 episodes in, but there was no gender or alphabet ideology that I could see from 3 episodes. No woke sermons. It might be a bit slow moving for some but the I found it worthwhile. There are some gaps in the story that purists might not like, but I understand they only got partial rights and couldn't write for those bits. I'll keep watching and update the review if it goes downhill from there.

Woke!!!

Obviously the people calling this not woke aren't paying attention or don't know how to identify it. Aside from being the lore and canon, Galadriel is also portrayed as a Mary Sue character that can do no wrong, but is unlikable in every way. Completely different from her film counterpart.

Insanely poor...

From the girl = good, boy = bad messages, changing of the source material, awful dialogue and some lame special effects, LotR: RoP is just bad- the wokeness AND the overall series. I couldn't finish it. I got about 4-5 episodes in and couldn't take any more.

Destroyed by woke activists

Tolkein's work has been destroyed by woke activists. Not only that, it's boring af. (Normally woke = boring) Don't waste your time.

Vintage woke is a thing now?

Full disclosure: did not watch past the 2nd episode, and pretty quickly was doing something else during the time.

Also disclosure: I grew up on the books, and take exception to a few alterations from Jackson, so there.

Very obviously lots of money in there, except it didn't go to the script. Or dialogues. Or casting really, although it was very charitable on their parts to give jobs to palsy victims.

Stallone made a career with half his face paralyzed. But it was only half. And he had talent.

Many shots look expensive. As in, how lack coherent cinematography can ruin a huge budget. And then you're left buying your Hobbits on Temu.

The woke is very retro: no lecturing, no pushing pronouns (yet, I guess), but man bad, white bad, girl good (scratch that, girl best, obviously), and severe case of the gay bug I would hazard.

I tried!

Big fan of the books. Loved the movies as well, so I gave this a hard look. Had to give up. Why!