I Need More Alastor Ears Movement I Am Going Insane

Amazon’s casting choices don’t reflect the true racial diversity in Tolkien’s works and are focused on tokenism over real efforts to tackle the flaws in the text and make an inclusive vision of Arda

Amazon’s one major POC actress is playing a role that canonically involves her throne and her power being stolen from her by a genocidal colonizer who wants to exterminate the religious minority she’s part of

Amazon fired their Tolkien consultant and their unsafe set conditions caused the injuries of stuntpeople

Amazon as a company is unethical, directly opposed to progressive causes, and openly emotionally manipulating viewers to get them to watch the show

Amazon has done more real harm to actual people of color and other marginalized groups than their efforts to include nonwhite actors in relatively small or stereotypical roles can address

Amazon’s promotional materials for this show treat fans of color as props to further their agenda

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Oh

This is worse than the time we all were hazbin hotel characters

What if Thorin was really fine and he didn't pass away and he just took a long nap and he and Bilbo got married and Fili and Kili survived and were only pretending and what if I wasn't going insane? What then?

I think we are sleeping on Charlie's determination and goals

Because when she, Vaggie and Angel confront Pentious and the last two want to kill him, Charlie lets that out as an option. She doesnt tell them "NO", she knows they are in Hell and that's normal, and that redeeming the souls comes from EACH one of them. She knows Sir Pentious story, so she knows how to help.

That's why she hasn't been able to help Angel, because she didnt know the extend of the abuse. And since Angel didnt want help she couldn't do it.

So when we go into episode 4 you see the reasons why forcing yourself into helping isn't that easy. Sure, Charlie could have killed Valentino but that doesn't help Angel and what he is going through. It's not only the abuse, but the cycle of self-hatred that came with it. And it's not one day, it's a process and Charlie KNOWS THAT.

I dont know, im so used to see this "oh, one song, 2 episodes and we are all fine" it's refreshing seeing the protagonist actually stoping and say "this is not easy, i need to work with this people and find ways to help" instead of just pressuring them to change in one second or one single speech.

And that's how redemption works! It's a process and you have to start somewhere!

Im babbling at this point but like, props really to Charlie and how they are handling her character and her ideas.

mentally destroying myself thinking about how most of the denizens of Hell perceive Charlie as a naive pushover, but she stomachs it and refuses to abandon her morals because she just wants to make things better for everyone regardless of how they think of her.

YAAAAYY!!!!!!!!!!! SILLY LITTLE GUY ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!

the two cakes meme but make it about

✨ DADS✨

Bonus, she wants them to get along:

Watching Monk open up to a nice old lady and have a genuinely nice time for once and seeing some improvement in all aspects of his life, but then something catching in his head that leads him to the conclusion that he has to find the catch, the reason she would ever want to be close to him, to push her away and close himself off cause he can't believe anyone would love him for any other reason than to use him and he doesn't want to get hurt again and again and again-

This is so deep 😭😭

Saint pentious!