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A woke or feminist, alphabet, hedonistic etc agenda is a bad thing and is in itself a cause for a piece of entertainment to be considered “bad” objectively. When deciding if something should be promoted you should do some mathing. If everyone did this, would the result be positive or negative? If negative, the thing should not be promoted. That doesn’t necessarily mean the thing should be persecuted, but certainly not promoted by our institutions

Yo Random! commenting to support you , love your stuff and you enjoying GOW Ragnarok , happy Thanksgiving to you and Wife

4:05:25 if you go look at your older vod at the moment where Kratos throws his axe into the water and Jörmundgander spits the axe out , you can see in the upper right a little text box that says '' Eitr imbued'' , Eitr being Jörmundgander 's poison that allows your axe to harm the nordic gods.

The game is not woke trust me

I gotta say, right out the gate, you go 100% into "let's dissect every single point in the most 'ultra-logicked debate' way possible, which is exactly what all those terrible channels he's alluding to would do. "poisoning the well, assuming intent, blah blah blah" This just makes me think you *are* one of those channels. Update: I watched this whole thing and you definitely are one of those channels. And you hide it very poorly.

Man, you mention Battlestar Galactica on stream and it just sends me into a tailspin for like ten minutes. It’s two seasons worth of my favorite show ever, and then two seasons of decline with a very weak ending. But every now and then I still want to go back and watch it because it includes some of my favorite characters from any media. Getting into that show is like being in an abusive relationship.

MauLer: How luckyyyyyy.

Would love to see you play more league

You are a lot of things…woke will never be one of them. It’s quite clear in your commentary on Mary Sues, Girl Boss and brown anything in a traditionally thought of as white role. And for the record, the “woke” as it is used by a lot of the reviewers isn’t correct or how it began. It reflects a negative view of caring about those who are considered “other”.

I'm glad to see you having a great time with the game, I was a little worried arcane season 2 would have left you heartbroken lol.

It's always fascinating to me how political activists try to give the impression that their opponents are, on one hand, completely wrong about basically everything and believe almost exclusively in crazy and outlandish stuff, while simultaneously being these manipulative masterminds and machiavellistic geniuses who just know how to convert anyone with high IQ propaganda. It's one or the other, you loonies. It can't be both.

Missed the stream, my bad Charlie, I was at football and then pub. Are we doing another "BOY" count with this?

finally I can watch someone who's opinion I gife a F about play this masterpiece for the first time again.

Two of my favorite movies of all times are alien and aliens they have a strong female character and i love the way she acts in those films she is strong in her own way and none of the men are pushed to the side on her behalf they are strong characters for the most part she was less affected by the by seeing the aliens because she has seen them before and everyone else was unfamiliar and that is the reason she is strong compared to them and then in the end of aliens she protects a foster daughter just like a regular mother or father would she never put men down because they are men but that they don't know what they are getting into and are unaware of the totality of the situation

Well thats bs. I didnt get a notification

Are the long periods of silence blocking out copywrite issues or is there a problem playing on my end? There are lots of blank gaps.

23:00 This is kind of ironic. He put Drinkers image over the racist character, but put his own image over the character that tells him to be quiet.. that character was essentially the antagonist of the film and is the last person to change his opinion on convicting an innocent man😂😂😂

He has very evil eyes.

Have to give M4 (Alex) props for salvaging these films. I originally watched the first one in theaters, I was annoyed, irritated by the call backs to LOTR and over the top comedic bits that I didn't bother to go back and watch the other two. By accident I came across Alex's fan edit and many ppl saying its the holy grail of Hobbit edits, and how the film should have been in the first place...a faithful adaptation of the Book. I was like ummm...I thought...let me see if Alex cooked here. I have movie projector at home, and being projected onto 100 inch screen. So it was like going back to theaters and giving the film a second chance. I have to say...gawd damn Alex! Props you've been able to salvage this film. Its true when I heard many say that there was good film in the 10hrs of footage. Its a shame we didn't get this cut of The Hobbit in theaters. Instead we got those dumpster fires to make a cash grab. Seems now that I'll have to watch The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy. Appreciated the idiotic call backs and subplots being cut, and also inclusion of film grain to make the film feel more cinematic than cheap and tv like production. 5 stars for me.

Rando, Rando, Rando...don't get into this shit dude. Just don't. Stay away from the YT bullshittery that is "reaction".

And when it comes to women in Fantasy- or SciFi media... there are no "normal women" in there. Almost never. There are no working women with or without kids just leading a normal life, doing the dishes, cleaning the house, doing laundry, all after work. Nor are there men. Characters in such media are by default heros and therefore exeptional, in which way ever. And that is okay. No one wants realism in Fantasy or SciFi.

I have been watching a lot of the named critics for a while now.. and I have to say, sometimes the "woke bashing" gets a bit tedious. I prefer my media politically neutral, I don't need US politics or culture wars or stupid stuff like that. And it is in there a lot. Most of the critisism it correct, but often the arguments vear off in a ideological or political direction. If they want to praise capitalism and harp on about how poorly men are treated, they should do it in a seperate video.

1:40:44 “you need to listen to Hello Future Me instead” 😂😂😂

1:34:14 right, like why is he allowed to tell him what to think or believe?? Wild It’s almost like as adults we can all have thoughts and beliefs and still listen to and enjoy people who don’t all have the same thoughts and beliefs as us. 😀

I wish I could like this video a thousand times. Brilliant.

49:00 😂😂😂😂😂😂

30:18 YESSSSS

17:00 YES. THIS. This is why I love your analyses - you look at the art as a whole as it really is. As you said, this is not well written and so, no, I don’t come away from this thinking “wow, these three masculine characters were so inspiring as they acted with agency and moved the plot forward, I agree, Hello Future Me!” (Whose channel I usually love, btw) - I come away from the episodes thinking “uh… did the writers really just make this character an idiot for the plot??? What!?” I love that you’re not afraid to approach this tv show as what it is: a tv show. Not pretending that every action we see on screen was “done by the character” but rather acknowledging that it was written by a scriptwriter, and seeing how that works (or doesn’t work) in the narrative. LOVE your videos, and I’m so glad you’ve made this one too.

I'm at the subtext bit and I have to say: if part of your audience does not understand the subtext, then part of the audience will drop out or have reasons to criticize it. It is up to the showrunners to make the subtext clear to the audience, it is not the audience that has to bend over backwards to make it make sense.

"Honorary wokebro" ... I am sorry, but this one has to stick. If I catch the next efap live and you are in it, rest assured a superchat will come for you :D

You bring up a good point. I think I’d prefer if the Harfoots were all black hobbits. I think it’s more believable that thousands of years before LotR, species weren’t very diverse especially when living on different hemispheres of Middle Earth.

25:30 I could imagine a world where the ideal of the RoP Elrond would swap places with Jackson's Elrond because that would make the most sense per Tolkien - he used to take part in every war when young, but in the Third Age he was mostly lord of Imladris (aside from wars against Angmar). - Adûnâi

09:00 The issue you're missing is that wokism, just like Christianity, is inherently opposed to rationalism. So when you're trying to use arguments such as the believability of world building, or indeed any critique of films as a storytelling artform, you automatically become opposed to wokeness. It may start with putting bipocs in, but it never ends there. And it's good because evil is self-defeating. - Adûnâi

I'm really scared to watch this video out of fear that RFT might turn out a lib. Of course, virtually every English-speaking person is a raging woke person, but it's nice to keep up the illusion. Yes, Matt Walsh is woke under my system of coordinates. - Adûnâi

So the Future Me guy says: "people please their audience and see stuff thats not there" and doesnt ackowledge hes a content creator, who serves an audience? And on top of that: drinker points out, when political agenda was more important than storystelling to a project but also paises good stories, even though political agenda wasnt hidden (like his review of fallout). there are dishonest channels like the quartering, that actually have their own agenda. but drinker? I dont see that.

The "Influencer" and "the influenced" view has gone too far and wide at this point, I believe. I myself watched this show, and saw the many faults on its storyteling structure, editing decisions, the episodic structure during the season, partition of story parts and portrayal of characters. In almost every aspect, this is, UNFORTUNATELY, one of the worst tv products Ihad to endure. I endured it because I read Tolkien before there were movies and a fan base, It affected me as a book, and I watched this show up to my breaking point. I don't really care about political manifestos, modern approaches and whatnot. But to claim this tv product has any merit in it other than VFX team's efforts, is I take as an insult to my intelligence and dignity. That is not cool. I understand that by being mentioned by name, you felt you had to react, and maybe you did to protect your image, but I am just sad as this all madness came to being as a follower for years, of both channels. Activism or not, this is a shitty show and furthermore, look at what it had done to my most dear youtube channels now. It massacred my boys. Later edit: oh shit, this video is 6 months old...

1:32:00 pattern recognition is a thing if isildur is played by a brown person you know the mindset of the showrunners you cant judge i guess but you can anticipate and the longer things go on the more accurate that anticipation becomes

The movie exorcise pissed off a lot religious people back then like they was sending death threat to the actors and the producers because a the evil devil they was portraying in the movie vandalized a god statue . Compare it like today these kind of stuff is pathetic, and the woke boys or something that HFM trying to call them will actually have an argument with you they aren't gonna attack you for liking something. HFM sit on his ass while talking trash about the people that he constantly try miss represent so his fans have a reason to hate them.

I'm sorry, Critical Drinker was called "woke"...?! Whatm

episode 3 of TLOU has nothing to do with the main story being told and i argue shouldn't have been included

Regarding the "white" orcs. I believe the show runners themselves at one point said that orcs are "black coded" or something so they made the orcs white to be less racist. Which is a ridiculous misunderstanding of both the PJ Films and Tolkien. Basically this dude ignored what the show runners said in order to make the "Woke Bros" look worse.

Does he explain why inoffensive is now above mostly functional?

25:32 While that may be a fair comment, Elrond's description extends to something like "On his brow sat wisdom, & in his hand was strength." ROP Elrond possesses neither of these qualities.

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Random Film Talk's analysis of Rings of Power is on a completely different level compared to most other critics. I started watching Rings of Power dunk videos because I was so frustrated that the show didn’t meet my expectations-I had hoped for something as enjoyable as Peter Jackson’s films. I don’t blame Amazon or the show’s creators for failing to meet my personal expectations, but now that I realize I probably won’t ever see a new Lord of the Rings show or movie that I truly enjoy, it’s led me to channels like this. Random Film Talk (on his main channel) has shown me not only the depth of media analysis, but also how entertaining it can be to watch hours of storytelling breakdowns. Sadly, most of these have been about a lore I wish I could have enjoyed watching. On the bright side, I got to watch Arcane before diving into the analysis on his channel-thank you for that unofficial recommendation.

ok I haven’t watched but heres my take: I dont trust Just Some Guy anymore

Thats a pattern for many left leaning TH-camrs that know what Hollywood Producers IS Shit but they agree with the political messaging in them, which IS only in my political opinion a Bit silly but to each their own. You Always have this with them they critize the EXACT SAME STUFF Like every Other critic but Always followed Up by "that doesnt mean the Message IS Bad ,i dont hate the minority Here pandered too" which IS also what the "rightwing" critics say but followed by a bashing of "rightwing" critics to make it absolutely clear to their Guys that they arent Like the Bad "rightwing" Guys . This IS Like a Ritual to Not Be Banned by their Side for critizing woke aspects of the movies they Just tapdance around IT three Times over only to say the Same Thing the evil "anti-woke rightwing incels" are saying

I'm sorry, but as a female fan and viewer of many of these channels (including yours) I don't think the message of "girl bossing is bad for society" really comes through those channels' videos. I'd say "girl boss" understood as the only acceptable female archetype portrayal is very harming, boring and shallow to girls and women is more like it. It's not that you can't have bad-ass women, it's that the toxic way is the only way. They not only do that in SF/fantasy/comic genres. Recently they butchered a beloved Jane Austen heroine: Ann Elliott. She has a different type of strength and many women can relate to her. But no, we're not allowed a heroine who doesn't fit into the modern mold. Netflix is threatening to make their version of Pride and Prejudice and fans of Jane Austen are already worried. The only difference between that corner of Internet and the ones that HFM is mentioning is the way dissatisfaction and disappointment are expressed.

As someone who watches shad a lot. He definitely dose not hide that he is a Mormon. Also shad and the others actually liked arcane. And that had a women beating up guys twice her size. The reason why they like arcane and not rings of power is simple. Arcane is really good, men are competent, the main character isn’t a marry sue.

Ah you must watch Us by Jordan Peele and then watch Drinker’s review. I think that was the first time I was really disappointed by bias.