IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P... by inopinatus on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:28AM (#32700788)

Tolkien’s legendarium isn’t a “franchise”, brigading is the work of trolls not fans, and the degree to which it panders to an existing audience is the most tawdry, and least interesting, measure of any creative work.

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Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P... by dnh44 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:35AM (#32700828)

Reducing OP’s argument of “alienating fans” to “pandering to fans” is a logically false and intellectually dishonest argument.

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Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P... by inopinatus on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:22AM (#32701146)

It is simply the other side of the same coin. The actual intellectual dishonesty on display is the suggestion that an identifiable “core audience” exists, and can be alienated at all.

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Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P... by dnh44 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @09:31AM (#32701740)

I don’t agree at all.

Emotionally invested fans of these stories clearly exist and describing them as the core audience isn’t a dishonest claim. Neither is it dishonest to claim that some of these fans feel alienated by the new versions of these stories.

You can debate both claims, and my views don’t align perfectly with OP’s either but there is no intellectually dishonesty on the the part of the OP in making the claims.

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Re:IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of P... by inopinatus on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:40PM (#32706918)

If someone self-appoints themselves as a “core audience” and then complain when the creative output doesn’t meet their self-appointed in-group demands, they are not fans, they are over-entitled whingers.

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