Tiny irritations: The Rings of Power

Tiny hitch-hiking pricks.

One of the tiny irritations lately is the "Rings of Power" show on Amazon Prime. 

 The show itself is objectively rubbish, plenty of reviewers can attest to that. Some have admitted to falling asleep while trying to review it, one of them was an Amazon employee.

The ten minutes of episode one I had inflicted on me revealed a lot of time spent on costuming and cinematography, not much on characterization and building the world. Also, the producers trolling the audience with gay elves and MAGA rallies, just what one wants in a Tolkien story.

When you read the Silmarillion, Tolkien lays out how the world that includes Middle Earth came to be, why it is the way it is, and how and when it changed to be the way it was in the Lord of the Rings. He tells you who is who and how they got that way.The producers of course ignore all that and insert their own ill-conceived, fashionable nonsense, something we've come to expect from Hollywood the last twenty years. 

Irritating, but avoidable. I just don't look.

But then, adding to the stupidity, there are the wankers who fancy themselves 'fan intellectuals'. Today's irritation comes courtesy of the flopping camel, who presumes to ask: "Does Gandalf know the sun is a ball of flaming gas?"

Tolkien wrote that Gandalf was one of the Maiar, the spirits who sang in the choir that brought the universe into being. He knows it is not a ball of flaming gas.

"Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen."

Zzzzzzzzz.....

 

Salutations, readers. It seems it's been a month since I last posted. Mostly due to not really giving much of a shit about what's been in the news. 

Rings of Power on Amazon, sucks just like we all said it would. Critics admit to falling asleep watching it. Toldja.

Putin rattling his nukes, just like I said he would. 

Let'sGoBrandon mumbling incoherently on camera, just like we expected. There's still time for him to piss his pants on camera before November, so watch for that.

One thing unexpected, Let'sGoBrandon's puppeteers just shut down the entire Chinese computer chip industry. Like, bang. Done. Almost as if he's -begging- them to nuke the USA (or Taiwan, for that matter.) These people really are lunatics.

Meanwhile in Canada, our Dear Leader seems absolutely determined to bankrupt every single middle class family in the nation. They're not even pretending, they're just doing it and telling us all to shove it. Diesel is $209.00 a quart, whose interests does that serve? Expected.

Also the teacher with the huge fake tits is still teaching in Oakville despite the rather large protests, so there's that data point as well.  Fabulously expected.

Which I must say is boring, in a really evil sort of way. Fascists gonna fash, I guess... Keep your clothes and "accoutrements" where you can find them in the dark, friends. 

And keep some cash on hand. Remember, your local bank machine will not work if there is a power failure or a network crash. Nor will the gas pumps at the local gas station. (They don't have backup generators. Remember the last ice storm?)