CNN: Rings of Power delivers spectacle, lacks dramatic power

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If you seriously think that applies here I think it's you that's turning a blind eye, not the script.

- unsubtle references to real-world racism, directed at Arondir (a racial epithet, 'you people', etc.) from white male characters
- unsubtle reference to interracial relationship, involving Arondir specifically (remarks made by a white male character)

Galadriel faced the same animus from the people on the raft, and Elrond from the Dorfs. Nothing to do with skin color.

Looks like you failed to notice how much they've pushed Galadriel, Nori, Arondir, Miriel, Sadoc Burrows and Disa as characters and conversely how the show's showing almost all the white male characters to be notably flawed in one way or another (with the exceptions being Galadriel's brother who's excused by being dead, and the Stranger because he's not all there right now).

Galadriel is hardly without flaws, for starters. They've made her a bitter, war-mongering, Ahab-like shrew who places no value on the lives of those under her command.

Elrond is a poor friend, overly political and gets put down for mansplaining. Gil-galad just wants to get rid of the Strong Female Lead because she challenges his authority. Durin's a bit of a man-child who gets put straight by Disa. Nori's dad contrives to break his ankle because he was insisting on doing something himself. The male villagers in Tirharad are unpleasant. Galadriel's men are shown as weak and ineffectual (they run out of steam, they get stomped by the troll, and Galadriel casually solos it). Halbrand is an anti-hero at best and will probably turn out to be evil. And Celebrimbor's pride will be his undoing (not that that's original but it's more about how the role is written here). Oh, and the other Elves in Arondir's company are racist.

So are the Elves in Tolkien's writings. And the Men. And the Dorfs. It's a world where people over-generalize and distrust each other, and carry grudges for millenia.

Beginning to see a pattern here?

Yes; you've somehow talked yourself into seeing even the most trivial story elements as elements of some vast, sinister conspiracy.