"Oh no! The YouTube trailer
The video I linked not a trailer. Try to watch it - I know, it is painful.
didn't go down well! Cancel the series!"
They can't. They spent a
billion on it.
People will watch it.
Sure. Who doesn't love a trainwreck?
And the Tolkien fanboys
...Who, right now are "racist, misogynist incels" - yes, even married black females...
will watch it multiple times
This is a given: this show will generate memes for decades. I'll see it as soon as it hits the stream. I already have the outline of a Hitler Parody in mind.
so they can explain in copious detail on reddit exactly what is wrong with it.
They are already doing that under each and every trailer, interview, YouTube video, paid fluff piece on magazines who - lo! - have undisclosed distribution deals with Amazon... Basically, the main point of criticism is "this is fan fiction - and a bad one at that".
Ironically, Reddit is RPG.net in this. The North Korea vibes are strong there.
And this will make other people curious, and go and watch it.
...So that more people will obliterate it. My guess is that the premiere will do good numbers, the reviews in MSM will praise it to high heaven, then silence.
Haters are the best publicity anyone could hope for
If so, Amazon has the best publicity ever. They managed to offend
everybody: fans, normies, PoC, LGBTQ+... The level of hate this show is getting from every corner of the World (literally) in not simply the highest ever: it is unprecedented.
You haven't a clue about what is happening here, do you?