[you're the worst, LOTR:ROP, vikings] Icon posts from the week of August 28 - September 3! Plus a question for LOTR peeps

also I got a new icon so that's fun - Colbert was a long holdover from the first mod

anyway, Sailor Moon season 1: 70 Zoisite icons by ~malagraphic

Star Trek: Lower Decks 03x01 (spoilers): 102 Beckett icons by ~malagraphic

You're the Worst: 488 Gretchen icons by ~svalbard

The Sandman part 3 (OP offers a warning about his eyes which I figure the canon-familiar/people who are actually gonna play the dude know about more than my canonblind butt): 205 Corinthian icons by ~squarebox

Star Wars: 123 Rey icons by ~malagraphic

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power 01x01: 150 Galadriel icons by ~malagraphic

question: is Rings of Power in the same continuity as the Jackson films? I have tagged this Galadriel as "galadriel (amazon)" in the memories to differentiate her from filmladriel but unsure if this was necessary (purely talking continuity-wise, not age)

Vikings: 3423 Ivan icons in seasons 4B and 5A by ~makes

re: rings of power, I for one appreciate that distinction ❤️

I honestly have no clue

I think that's a pretty common confusion lol

I like that this confusion comes from the first person to post ROP icons heh

shh

So apparently while they deliberately aim to evoke the look and feel of the original movies, ROP isn't officially in the same continuity as LOTR/Hobbit movies, since those are owned by Warner Bros, andthe WB isn't involved with the ROP show in any way. So I think the question of continuity is a question of IP rights in this case.

we sure live in a day and age

like they can't legally connect the show to the actual movie continuity in any meaningful way because of the rights.

afaik: there is no continuity difference.

it's effectively a prequel, not a reboot or redo of anything.

i'm really not sure the rights ownership makes a difference

the best scenario i can think of - which is not ideal - is xmen vs the mcu. we still tend to lump it all in as marvel live action, don't we?

maybe star wars is a little more comparable: the sequels were technically owned and produced by another company, but we don't differentiate those.

(and technically, LOTR was done by New Line, not WB proper like the hobbit was; there's really no difference in the source material or overall continuity)

I'm going to take the example of Spider-Man since unlike X-Men (so far??) it has characters in both continuities: all Spidey movies are tagged in entry tags as "marvel: movies" but the characters are tagged in memories as "Peter Parker / Spider-Man (mcu)" and "Peter Parker / Spider-Man (tasm)" because they're different continuities

similarly Batman: all movie Batsies "dc: movie" but Battinson's distinct from Nolan-verse and Batfleck

*all movie Batsies are entry tagged "dc: movies"

*but Battinson's distinct in the memory tags

with Star Wars, we have characters like Leia who we see at different ages and Anakin who we see in different mediums who come under the same memories tags

they're different actors anyway, I know if I were playing Galadriel I'd be looking for either one or the other

up to y'all, obviously, I just figure people would be able to tell the difference.