beachcryptid
re: That Amazon Show - if people start shipping Elrond with his mother-in-law imma scream
beachcryptid
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this is what I'm doing
𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦
gods my parents are eager to see it and I'm just gonna have to
𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦
"I read the Silmarillion, I would be insufferable if I watched it"
beachcryptid
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: 
beachcryptid
𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦
: sobbing into your shoulder
𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦
AT LEAST THEY BOTH KNOW that I am Like This
beachcryptid
hahaha
fu mr milkshake
I just know the actor they got for Elrond is just...wrong
fu mr milkshake
like he just looks....wrong
fu mr milkshake
nothing against the actor, I'm sure he's great
fu mr milkshake
but he doesn't really seem like Elrond
beachcryptid
I think its the wig /bleah
ʝєss
I’m still laughing at the celeborn one
beachcryptid
XD
{TharBG}
omg I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that impression
{TharBG}
GIVE ME CELEBORN
ʝєss
I mean I’m surprised people weren’t already shipping Elrond and Galadriel tbh
ʝєss
(Or. More of them anyway. )
Rival Fenix
I plan to watch this, but I also know nothing about the sillmarillion other than Feanor Broke Shit. 
Rival Fenix
and or will be on the couch for a Long Time, assuming he ever reunites with Nerdanel.
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
it's not gonna happen but I just want to hope for at least a mention of Bri ;;
delatour
They were busy shopping Elrond/gilgalad
beachcryptid
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
: I would like to know HOW they can write out Celebrian considering that we have to get Arwen, somehow, but then again, I'm sure the showrunners don't care about that sob
beachcryptid
delatour
: see, I would have zero issues with this
beachcryptid
ITS BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
sobbbb they never do
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
my precious girl
beachcryptid
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
: SHE DESERVES BETTER
beachcryptid
Rival Fenix
: you may be the only person who can enjoy it, tbj
beachcryptid
*tbh, because the more I see the more I hate
beachcryptid
{TharBG}
: YES
beachcryptid
ʝєss
: 
delatour
I'm going to end up watching it. I just know it.
delatour
I wouldn't last five seconds before looking into a palantir, I won't manage it now
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
^ same tbh
𝕻𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝕳𝖎𝖛𝖊
I'll end up bitching on plurk as I watch
beachcryptid
lol well, I hear the pirate bay guys are ripping it
beachcryptid
so at least you can watch it without giving bezos money?
delatour
Unfortunately, I already got Amazon prime for vox machina
beachcryptid
alas!
fu mr milkshake
I'm planning on torrenting it too, not spending money for that lol
ʝєss
Oh I plan to watch it. No point pretending I can resist
beachcryptid
XD
delatour
Gil-galad's weird gold bathrobe is probably going to be the best thing about it, but oh well
236 bees
i've been in the boat of the more i see the more i hate for a while now
236 bees
i had such hopes back when it was announced
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those were simpler days
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more innocent days
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i think the hobbit live action hadn't finished ripping out any faith i had in tolkien adaptations
236 bees
also the elrond/galadriel will have to fight the gandalf/galariel crowd but personally i'm not entirely sure which is worse
apple thief 🍎
i love the silmarillion and have obsessive knowledge of it but i for one am psyched to watch it and even more excited to watch people get mad about it on the internet.
apple thief 🍎
the hobbit cured me of having any faith or hope
apple thief 🍎
and now i'm just here to eat popcorn and watch middle earth burn
236 bees
XD equal but opposite reactions
236 bees
tbh i'm kind of glad that it's looking more and more like a dumpster fire the longer it goes on tho
236 bees
no temptation to sign up for prime
apple thief 🍎
the bit of hope i have is that it's at least a decent or fun to watch show rather than like... boring and bland, you know?
236 bees
when i'm philosophically opposed to amazon
236 bees
i mean eh, there's something for everyone but it does not look like my kind of show
apple thief 🍎
fair enough!
236 bees
like 'boring verging into active dislike' is my kneejerk reaction from most of the trailers
236 bees
and that could just be the trailers doing a poor job of selling me
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but yeah
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like the latest one kind of had all but girlpower bossbabe flashing in glittery pink text superimposed on the screen every time galadriel was on screen
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and while i am a big fan of strong female characters, done well
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MMM DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THIS WAS IT, CHIEF, and hashtag strong female characters just make me roll my eyes
apple thief 🍎
i also just... enjoy reading wildly off the wall like... tolkien aus or wild weird alternate takes people have on things, you know?
236 bees
haha i don't mind the occasional weird au
236 bees
but my thing is i analyze things basically to death and i like it to make sense
apple thief 🍎
i think when i was younger i just met a bunch of people with absolute sticks up their asses about LaCE so part of me has lingering spite skdlfj
236 bees
and so like galadriel, with a deeply complex personal history with violence, just marching around everywhere in a breastplate and sword has me like mmmm
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so does the fact that bezos apparently decided long hair for male elves is so last decade
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like there's just a lot of really weird choices
apple thief 🍎
there are, but im here to just see where it goes.
236 bees
lol i hope you enjoy it
236 bees
i don't have the spoons to waste on hatewatching a thing tho and i suspect that's all i'd get out of it
apple thief 🍎
me too xD whether enjoying it because it's enjoyably bad or surprisingly not terrible.
apple thief 🍎
if nothing else, maybe there will be good meme fodder. >_>
236 bees
i'm also Not At All Here for the modern trend of making everything grimdark and parts of the trailers sure looked like they were borrowing heavily from got
236 bees
which. mm. no.
236 bees
i know that half the world loved that show until the finale but like, man, i honestly tried to watch it just to see what all the fuss was about and after wading through a few seasons literally stopped mid episode because i was so incredibly bored i could not even make myself care enough to finish the episode
sarkat
oh did it start airing?
beachcryptid
sarkat
: no but it's about to
beachcryptid
amazon is pushing it real hard now, it's on all my feeds no matter what I do
𝕊𝕖𝕒 𝔾𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕜𝕚𝕟
Clearly, the way to watch this show is from the perspective of "Versions of Events as Told by Bilbo Baggins, Storyteller Extraordinaire, whilst attempting to Create a Distraction so Maglor can Sneak Out The Back, before Elrond's latest soirée Devolves into Fisticuffs"
𝕊𝕖𝕒 𝔾𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕜𝕚𝕟
Everyone's too busy trying to correct the nice elderly hobbit as the rendition gets increasingly worse, giving them Something Else to argue about
Rival Fenix
Honestly that would be an amazing thing to watch/read, because on on hand, it validates the show for being Its Own Thing, and on the other, we'd get to see all the changes it made.
ʝєss
I’m not even hate watching tbh? Like personally I don’t feel like it’s worth getting that worked up over when the thing hasn’t even come out.
ʝєss
I’d say a cat fight between the Elrond/Galadriel and Gandalf/Galadriel camps would be hilarious but honestly at this point it probably wouldn’t even be entertaining
ʝєss
I mean Feanor/Fingolfin is one of the top ships in this fandom and you can’t even blame a show for that. So Elrond and Galadriel shippy overtones doesn’t even have me blinking.
ʝєss
So I don’t have hope it’ll be what I as a nerd want, but maybe it’ll be a fun story. If not, I just will stop watching, like I stopped watching GoT. 
ʝєss
Or I mean, it might turn into a weekly gathering of my nerd friends where we make it a drinking game. Who knows. The world is our oyster. XD XD
PirateTaiga
ʝєss
i was blissfully unaware of this ... and now i'm 
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PirateTaiga
: you now suffer with me 
PirateTaiga
beachcryptid
PirateTaiga
: its still better than feanor/his sons which I have also seen!
PirateTaiga
the internet is vast and contains everything under the sun .... but also 
the internet is vast and contains everything under the sun .... but also
beachcryptid
XD
ʝєss
True...although that one’s not in the top ten list of ships that are on AO3 sidebar for include/exclude
Lofwyr
The hair thing annoys me, the show isn't even producing good PB material
PirateTaiga
hair is atrocious, but even the costumes are ... meh at best, what-have-happened-here at the worst
236 bees
the hair thing is such a pain given the absolute wasteland when it comes to finding icons for clean shaven long haired men
ʝєss
Yes I’m super mad about the hair
ʝєss
236 bees
: Fact. Unless you want a rail thin androgynous model with exactly one facial expression.
236 bees
I mean even those are relatively scarce on the ground
236 bees
let me tell you trying to find a pale blonde elf pb is actually suffering
236 bees
since the handful of men out there never seem to be blonde
Lofwyr
236 bees
Reasons why that one dude from Shannara is provablythe most overused PB out there