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"I will cure it" is golden.

If you haven't seen him in Pushing Daisies, he's a real heartthrob there. I got into baking pies because of Ned.

...between "this thing has flaws so we have to shun it forever" and "we need to ignore all the flaws because critiquing things is bad". Like, I personally don't question why people enjoy books like Twilight. I have students who do! And that makes me happy because that means they're interested in something in English and we can talk about it! If I can gently tell them about some of the issues in the books, I would like to do it in a way that doesn't stop them from enjoying it.

Similarly, I've come to detest Martin Freeman as a person because his brand of humour seems to be offending people for fun and giggles (and he once called Lucy Liu a dog, so eww), but I can still acknowledge that he's a phenomenal actor, and I still enjoy how he portrayed Bilbo in the Hobbit films. Similarly similarly, The Author Who Must Not Be Named is a dumpster fire terrible person, but there's no dodging the impact her books have had on fandom as a whole, and I still have some nostalgia for that world even though I love pointing out its flaws now.

It's really about being balanced and nuanced in media consumption, but lots of social networking sites (read: Twitter) don't give you the character space to do that.

Lee Pace as Thranduil the reason I continued watching as I am a Tolkien purist and dislike much of what the Hobbit films did.

A blank slate muggle player character isekai'd into a wacky school of wacky, hot wizards? It's (more or less) Touken Ranbu with its saniwa all over again, you bet that premise is a fertile Sue breeding ground!

Well, I'll say that Eragon's not my favorite character. And leave it at that. Without having to strikethrough everything - Oh wait.

I still feel it's important to acknowledge said flaws, not to pretend they don't exist and write off any criticism as fake news the woke agenda conspiracy *AHEM* baseless. Sorry, I digress, but I've been in some comment sections lately with lots of people whining about how they just want to be ~*entertained*~ and why does everything have to be so political (read: challenging to the status quo) nowadays. Let's also acknowledge that not all criticism is created equal. >.>

Digression over: I love the Dragonriders of Pern series, but I'm not gonna pretend like the dialogue isn't sometimes awkward or that the feminism doesn't show its age and the author's somewhat off-kilter opinions, ya know? Gotta take the bad with the good as well as the good with the bad.

And for the love of Glod recognize when one vastly outweighs the other.

~Neshomeh

And planning to mission in that continuum in the future.

Movie!Thranduil makes me hot and bothered.

I mean, it was basically made for the Japanese market and is only just getting overseas, but still! I know it's a Disney cashgrab gacha game with some fancy villainous Hogwarts Houses or something but the art is great and there's a lot of merch in Japan.

fleshed out the Dwarves and gave Thorin's quest a bit more nuance than what was in the books. Not as much of a fan of the timeline and geographical compressions needed to make the Dol Guldur subplot work, but I sort of understand why they did it in terms of setting it up as prequel to LotR for casual viewers who aren't steeped in the books. Also not a fan of the overemphasis on Legolas and the overreliance on CGI, but some of the content was put in through studio meddling :P

The original LotR movies were a work of love and it really shows; the Hobbit movies were trying to capture that, but the studio really messed up the heart of those movies -- but there's still a lot of good in there, and I do enjoy the first and second Hobbit films because of the additional depth they brought to Thorin and Company. Especially adding an arc to the Thorin and Bilbo relationship.

I thought you were talking about the Disney Villain dating sim thingy wherein all the villains are turned into hot anime bois. It's called Twisted Wonderland and it is...

It

It is a thing.

It is a whole entire thing.

Hot Anime Boy Disney Villains.

...

Yay?

I know you say that canon knowledge not required, but I want to know before I beta so that I don't point out a character being weird when it's just a different Transformers than I'm used to.

-kA

I do really like them! It was my introduction to LOTR (I only read the book later, for school). How could I not? (And the hedgehog scene won me over because I like hedgehogs).

-kA, who really wants to interact with a hedgehog again. Cute little things!

I like the Hobbit movies.

Nom nom nom

You can enjoy things with Canon Sues in them! Life is too short not to indulge in some wish-fulfillment once in a while.