Paris Marx on Nostr: “The struggle to remain good in a fallen and complicated world is compelling enough ...
“The struggle to remain good in a fallen and complicated world is compelling enough on its own; they don’t need extra arguments for evil or the prestige TV insistence that there’s no such thing as good and bad. By trying to turn The Lord of the Rings into great TV, all Payne and McKay managed was to rob Tolkien’s universe of what makes it special.”
https://www.polygon.com/lotr-rings-of-power/446640/rings-power-trop-morality-lord-rings#lotr #ringsofpower #tv
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