News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series. Parent comment

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by freilanzer on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:34AM (#31999047)
It's also sus if the only thing that gets changed is the skin colour for no apparent reason, other than to appease twitter. Like I said, the setting is important.

The world was designed in this way for a reason, by the author. It's the same thing the other way around: changing every character from black or 'asian' to white, if the story is otherwise unaffected, would be ridiculous.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by ceejayoz on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:00AM (#32001020)
> It's also sus if the only thing that gets changed is the skin colour for no apparent reason, other than to appease twitter.

"It must be to appease Twitter, can't possibly be because the actor had a good audition" seems pretty racist. If Amazon was afraid of Twitter, they'd be pro-union.

> It's the same thing the other way around: changing every character from black or 'asian' to white

That's not the same thing, though. The new LOTR series hasn't changed every character to Black or Asian. Nowhere near it.

[ Parent | on HN ]