It's frustrating how worthless user ratings have become as valid criticisms are drowned out by accusations of WOKE.
It's genuinely hard to figure out whether a show/movie has a serious flaw, or just a black person in it.
Wheel of Time was hard if you enjoyed the books. Not for casting, though.
Lol I recently saw someone mocking people complaining the witcher series is too woke by pointing out that having potatoes in medieval Poland is much less realistic than having black or brown people. The latter actually existed in medieval Europe, unlike potatoes, tomatoes, and other modern staples that came from the new world.
do some people actually think the witcher takes place in medieval poland?
The argument is that since it's a world inspired by medieval polish folklore, it should "look like" Poland. But you're right, there's multiple levels of stupid when it comes to crying about black people in the witcher.
There was nothing worse than browsing /r/wot and seeing people saying "they gave too many character moments to Nyneave/Egwene and left Rand/Mat/Perrin in the dust as a result" and starting to nod along only to read the rest of the post and see "because the show is WOKE and SJW and HATES MEN!" and realize you're going to have to preface every post about the show with "I swear I'm not an incel, I just have some issues with the writing" forever.
Yeah, I'm a little guilty of this because I hated the dragon reborn could be a woman this time we just don't know, but it is because I think the gender swapped original sin is an important part of the setting and the part where male channelers go insane is real important for understanding why next to no one is onboard with the prophesized savior & I just can't talk about it most places cause I don't want to provide a screen for the SJWs ruin everything bullshit.
I'm honestly not that broken up about it so long as they make it clear the idea that the DR could be a woman is just pure copium on the White Tower's part. My real issue is that they spent a bunch of time building up the question of who the DR is (and having to sacrifice a lot of character development to keep the answer from being obvious) and zero time on what the DR is, which is integral to the entire plot. If an Aes Sedai shows up in your village accusing one of four teenagers of being the DR, she would end the night at the gallows on general principle. Instead it's just presented as "the strongest channeler ever" and a mild comment or two about breaking the world.
They could've salvaged a lot of it if they'd just had the prologue as the cold open to the finale, but instead we got Lews Therin getting character-assassinated by implying he picked a fight with the Dark One because one of his frat bros dared him to rather than making it clear it's a desperate hail mary to stave off universal annihilation.
Yeah there is a lot that's glossed over. They didn't actually touch on the saidin/saidar distinction, the taint, the war of shadow. I've had friends ask me what the differences are and it's actually pretty hard to figure out where to start.
Definitely agree on the what is the dragon reborn point. Also even without giving the motivations for LTT just explaining why being him reincarnated isn't super exciting would have given some context. Some of the prophecy material about "and they shall weep for their salvation" would have also gone a long way.
You'd think they'd have peppered the entire show with prophecies given how fucking well written those are, but I guess Loial's actor was too busy
spoiler
being stabbed to do any voiceovers for them
On one hand, it's just the American military in space doing capitalist shit now, but it's also gota nonbinary character, so literally everyone hates it.
"Woke" "SJW" "Virtue Signaling" "Politically Correct" all words that have lost meaning and are used by the deranged.
"No that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I don't want to have to worry about what I say all the time because it might be 'offensive' or 'racist'. Did you know it's racist to say someone is racist?"
Hell yeah brother! I don't want to worry about whether calling crackers racist might be offensive or racist.
I've heard the rightwing version of PC called "patriotic correctness" and always liked it. I don't use it when they're listening though because calling their idiot shit "political correctness" is better at infuriating them.
"Politically correct" had already lost all meaning by the mid-90s.
but 13 year olds do swear all the time it's actually quite immature to swear all the time
Right, but you used to be able to dig through the reviews and find sincere grievances that give you an idea of what its flaws are, and decide if you're willing to overlook them to watch it. But nowadays? It feels like half the internet is waging a personal crusade against anything that even has a whiff of WOKE. It makes sifting through negative reviews a tiresome chore instead of a helpful aid.
before you are allowed to submit a review you should have to answer a multiple-choice test on what you're reviewing
PC culture has run amok also please stop swearing into my delicate earholes
user ratings have become as valid criticisms
they've never been that. professional reviewer vs. user reviewer is a marketing dichotomy they thought up to try and pass schlock off as 'crowd pleasing' but 'those snot-nosed critics' hate it. and the exchange for giving studios & production companies 'normal joe' review platforms to spar critical review is that the mouthbreathing culture warriors & gormless fanboys get to feel important and shove their opinions on everyone and get to use their market clout to force the rest of us to watch 8 snyder-verse movies and a fucking snyder-cut
Brings to mind the marketing around that otherwise extremely forgettable "Gotti" film from 2018.
thats an archetypical case. it's become normal practice to tout 'audience scores' from RT on every critical failure & underperforming film now. and to fan the flames on critics vs. fans 'disputes'---to encourage behavior like review bombing/whatever the opposite is
I hate how on some sites you can upvote "reviews" and it's framed as "found helpful". Obviously this is just cretins upvoting with each other, but the language implies some kind of utilitarian purpose in posting. Ugh.
Imagine it is Fairfax by that they mentioned that they went to Fairfax. Never heard of the show before the google though.
