Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who’s basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn’t know her.

    • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
      172·
      1 year ago

      It took me an awfully long time to realise that Legolas was played by Orlando Bloom, that Bloom was the name of that guy from Pirates of the Caribbean, and that that guy and Legolas were the same. In my defence I was around toddler age when the LotR films came out. It must have been a great time having LotR and Harry Potter plus other fantasy being put out.

      • solstice@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        The 2000s were a pretty great era for film and tv. LOTR and HP as you said, plus the first couple of Spider-Man movies with Toby McGuire, X Men, and the Star Wars prequels were very exciting, albeit disappointing. TV was great then with Lost, Jack Bauer, and House in full stride. And the Matrix! Holy fucking shit man, you’ll never understand being in the theater opening weekend and seeing Trinity beat up those cops with bullet timing for the first time. Whole theater lost its shit, we’d never seen anything like it.

        I feel like that was the end of the era where there were some core anchor shows and movies that EVERYONE saw. Now there’s just so much content on so many platforms, and big budget movies and tv shows are intentionally bad (google fan baiting) so the culture is changing. Who knows where it’ll go from here.

        • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m hearing a lot about cancellations. The growth of AI doesn’t bode well for quality. But I’m hoping the pay-dispute is settled favourably between workers and companies.

          Did you hear about the Eragon series that’s supposed to be due? It was confirmed some time ago.

          • solstice@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 year ago

            I hadn’t heard, no. I don’t really pay much attention anymore because everything I used to love has been systematically destroyed. SW, Star Trek, LOTR, the matrix, you name it.

            Seriously though, google fan baiting. Here’s the first article on it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-hollywood-uses-fan-baiting-pr-marketing-strategy-biresh-vrajlal/

            Hollywood knows it is dying and their work is no longer culturally relevant. So of course instead of changing strategy or making better content or whatever, they decide to intentionally piss people off with shitty rage bait content to drive engagement up.

            With all that in mind, I’m simply not interested in 99% of their content. I’ll catch barbie and oppenheimer when they get released on whatever streaming platform, and I’ll go see Dune in imax later this year, other than that I’m friggin done with their shit.

            • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
              2·
              1 year ago

              Sometimes I can’t help but think they use poc lead actors as human shields for bad filming choices. edit: that’s in the article lol.

              I think the rage bait stuff took off back in 2017 when idiots started smashing their keurigs and Keurig sales increased afterwards.

              On racism - I’d say intentionally profitting from and weaponising racism is racist in itself, and I hope the people at Tumblr or whoever is CEO of ‘authoritarian woke culture’ calls them out more often.

              • solstice@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                Completely agree on all points. It’s a touchy subject obviously but the results speak for themselves IMO.

                The Critical Drinker on youtube pretty much speaks for me on this lol…he’s a bit more aggressive and hyperbolic about it than I might be comfortable with but yeah, he pretty much sums it up more eloquently than I ever could.

                • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  No offense to people who don’t read, but it seems like somebody with a platform like that (300k subs) should use their voice responsibly. You can have good ideas, but if you’ve never got yourself a coherent political philosophy to work from, and you don’t read or at least skim over work from experts on the topic, you’ll end up being part of the unthinking mainstream and repeating whatever people with the deepest pockets need you to say.

                  Idk what CD’s angle is but he seems to be the average of his type. I assume he has avoided the pitfalls of some of his peers who complained about She-Ra wearing shorts?

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
    1311·
    1 year ago

    “Why are there no women or children in this band of medieval warriors? Social and societal division of labour, what’s that?”

    • Rachelhazideas@lemm.ee
      225·
      1 year ago

      The idea that female medieval warriors only exist in fantasy is made up by misogynists to gate keep female representation.

      Here is a list of named women that participated in battle. Keep in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg given the erasure of women in history

      Joan of Arc Eleanor of Aquitaine Æthelflæd Artemisia I of Caria Zenobia Matilda of Tuscany Margaret of Anjou Tomoe Gozen Grace O’Malley Isabella I of Castile Fu Hao Teuta Joanna of Flanders Lozen Jeanne Hachette Caterina Sforza Khawla bint al-Azwar Lagertha Sikelgaita Mavia Dihya Isabella of France

      • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
        1011·
        1 year ago

        If you want women in your fantasy novels, why not - it’s fantasy.

        Let’s be real though - sexual dimorphism is very pronounced in humans, and the women you listed were absolutely the exception. Militaristic societies overwhelmingly used men for fighting, if only because women were too valuable for their ability to bear children.

        It’s impossible to overstate the importance of women throughout history, but they don’t have to have been physically fighting in wars for that to be the case.

    • Ignacio@lemmy.world
      122·
      1 year ago

      LOTR is not set in the medieval period. Its a made up era with made up cultures and made up magic. And if you’re going to get all Thermian argument about it, LOTR lore has many female warriors.

  • Plaid_Kaleidoscooe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    There is an app called Easy XKCD on the play store and it’s a great XKCD reader. I just pulled this up on there to show my gf. I love it so much lol.