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Yeah, the writing is the issue. I have no problem with ethnicity or even gender swaps. Honestly, a gender swap of a male character would have been better than changing Galadriel The problem is that they’re more focused on tying the series to Peter Jackson’s work and ensuring that children can watch it. The original stories were better.
Maybe the casting shouldn’t be a problem, but the kids asked what happened to all of the black hobbits and elves in LotR. I had to sidestep that landmine very fast.
I’m not saying that you don’t have a valid critique, but you’ve played into their trap just by publicly posting this online. Now instead of having a valid discussion as to how they’ve butchered the actual story, now they can just lean on how most critics of the show are “racist”, which will garner ratings