Rings Of Power Season 2 Is Actually Good, But Why?

Agree about the Sauron actor. The cast is alright. It has a look to it. I have not watched it yet, but they have good story to work with.

It’s been so long since I’ve seen those movies. Eerie I came across this today, and it immediately hooked me and took me to Middle Earth.

ROP actually has story to work with. The cast is adequate. Overall look is there. Hard to put it all together. Huge challenge, but come on, for the money. Just like Acolyte. So much money. It should be just a bit better.

It’s an interesting question to ponder. What if we’ve become the other side of the same coin. For so long the left has hated many things just because they had religious undertones (creed for example). It became cool to hate stuff in those circles, a part of their brain just went irate if watching works from other groups and they wouldn’t be able to see the good in it even if there was talent and hard work put into a production.

It’s such a crazy divided world we live in now, with people hard wired to like things that cater to their ideology.

Wish we could get back to just liking good stuff without any accusations of bigotry or communism.

That said, I can’t bring myself to even give this show a chance. Season one was too egregious. That’s where I draw the line. You shit on Tolkien, you sacrifice all that was good and true leading up to now to impress your commie friends. I’m out. I don’t give a shit how good it might end up being we have a duty the future of humanity not to abide subversive trash.

For so long the left has hated many things just because they had religious undertones (creed for example). It became cool to hate stuff in those circles, a part of their brain just went irate if watching works from other groups and they wouldn’t be able to see the good in it even if there was talent and hard work put into a production.

This is what normally happens and why society usually functions as a slow moving pendulum.   Once a “movement” starts and gains traction there is normally some reaction to it that begins to build.  And what was once fringe is now mainstream. And what was mainstream is now fringe.  I think the social engineering and non-organic way the lefty stuff happened has very much exacerbated that process.  At this point, if the left/establishment does not institute tyranny the pendulum swing back will be harsh.  Look at the UK for example.

The thing to watch for are the chameleons. Most of the politicians now (not all) will jump to whatever agenda keeps them in power.  People like Pelosi and Biden (it’s not just the Democrats) were all about Christian values back in the day because that’s what gained them influence.  Now they are super progressive. What they believe and what they say are 2 different things.  “You have a private position and a public one” – Hillary Clinton

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@IllTemperedTuna

That’s a bit too broad in my opinion.  Everyone is not a chameleon in the sense that, like a politician, you intentionally route to the “team” that gathers you the most influence and money.  Human nature will cause people to gravitate to what is safe and comfortable, but that’s always been the case.  Even the American Revolution was fought by a small minority.  That’s what make people like the founding fathers so special, because they are rare.  Most people have always gone with the flow because it’s easy. It is rare to find people who will make it hard on themselves to help others. This was always the case.

But to your point, that’s gotten far far worse because no one in the west knows anything but comfort to the point they no longer realize nothing is gained without pain and effort.  And the politicians have taken advantage of that and now consistently trade freedom for a safety they never deliver.

I now know this was about money/defense but Franklin’s quote is correct as it seems without the defense money context.

‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’

At the point we expect the government to save us or take care of us, you have abdicated your freedom to them.  No one entity outside of God can guarantee safety and freedom.  Even when not disingenuous, it’s an exchange.  And today it’s all a lie.

So people today are abused in a way.  Constantly kept in a state of fear so ,like farm animals, they are herded in one direction or another.  But this does not remove the responsibility we each have to work and see beyond that.

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