“Conceptually, it sounded amazing, and my friends and I were excited to watch this new Netflix offering. Turns out it was a movie and not a TV show. There was so much potential for fascinating world-building that simply could not be done in two hours.”
“The racism analogy that the film is kinda built around is super clumsy: they pose the question ‘what if Black people orcs were discriminated against because people thought they were violent and aggressive?’
Then they made the Black people orcs have a genuinely in-built, racial disposition of violence and aggression. This includes a historic, genocidal war that kinda does justify persecution, and them having a culture built around violence and xenophobia.”
