After giving up on Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk has found another calling. He became a serial critic.
He made two brief negative comments on the “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series, which arrived on Prime Video Thursday night (9/1).
“Tolkien is turning in his grave,” he wrote in the first post, quoting the author of the original books “The Lord of the Rings”.
Then he made his justification: “Almost every male character so far is a coward, an idiot, or both. Only Galadriel is brave, intelligent and understanding.”
It is, of course, bravado. Like all generalizations, the comment is not true.
The elves Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo) also show great courage, intelligence and sympathy in the first two episodes. The same can be said of other female characters as well, the hairy foot Nori (Markella Kavenagh) and the human Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi). And if Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) doesn’t seem very sympathetic at first, he doesn’t lack courage and intelligence in his scenes of him on the high seas.
The comment was made by someone who had not seen the series or only seen what they wanted, such as many who hated the “political agenda” behind the inclusion of the dark elves in the plot.
But the fact is that harsh criticism isn’t cultural at all. It’s a free shadow against Amazon.
Musk considers Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, his main enemy in the corporate world.
The fight between the two is due to the rivalry between Musk’s Space X and Bezos’s Blue Origin. The two space companies also sued in 2014, due to patent disputes and contracts with NASA. And the two have been fighting narrative wars ever since. In 2020, Musk even encouraged framing Amazon as a monopoly so that it would face sanctions from the US government.
Expecting the billionaire to praise an Amazon launch is like expecting Bolsonaro to praise Lula.
Almost every male character so far is a coward, an idiot, or both. Only Galadriel is brave, intelligent and likeable.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2022
Source: Terra
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