Let's stop pretending it's about the hair or the color. It's about clumsily shoving some politics down everyone's throats.
When Peter Jackson made some changes it didn't cause this response because it wasn't politics-shoving, and it wasn't clumsy. Maybe you liked it, maybe you didn't, but it was easy to engage with it at the level of art or entertainment.
When Amazon makes this show, it's so appallingly obvious that the number one requirement is on the politics level that people respond at that level. These are not artistic changes. This is propaganda. So it gets treated as such.
Can you be more specific? I’m a fan of the books and I quite enjoyed these first episodes. I didn’t notice obvious politic agenda and diversity was handled quite gracefully (i.e. not noticeable if you are not looking for it), nothing clashing with the spirit of the books and preventing the enjoyment for me.
Have you even watched the show? I expected after all of the outrage to find something political in it, and it's just not there as far as I can tell. Is there anything truly political besides black people and Galadriel as a warrior? Any dialog you found offensive?
What I expected based on all the cries of politics was something like the Star Wars prequel trilogy, where every 20 minutes or so someone would say something that was obviously a jab at a modern political party. I'm just not seeing that at all.
> clumsily shoving some politics down everyone's throats
I assume it is the presence of dark-skinned characters which you call politics-showing? If the movies had retained Tolkiens description of half-orcs as having squint-eyes, would you have considered it completely un-political?
When Peter Jackson made some changes it didn't cause this response because it wasn't politics-shoving, and it wasn't clumsy. Maybe you liked it, maybe you didn't, but it was easy to engage with it at the level of art or entertainment.
When Amazon makes this show, it's so appallingly obvious that the number one requirement is on the politics level that people respond at that level. These are not artistic changes. This is propaganda. So it gets treated as such.