Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
Imo it's just a bit amusing that Orcs are apparently so weirdly progressive lol.
Even compared to humans.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that female Orcs are kinda like female Skaven in Warhammer, I really have a very very hard time believing it'd work differently.

Imo I do find it to be kinda immersion breaking with 50/50 armies in LOTR too, it's very transparently 2022 sensibilities and even then irl it's nowhere even anywhere close to that irl especially not in combat roles ( most ppl in the military are not in combat roles ).
In FFXIV?
Alright, I am not opposed to the concept itself.
But in LOTR it was never like that, the exceptions were very special.
It also kinda detracts from the coolness of Eowyn imo.

I mean I think anyone who's just a little intellectually honest can see and understand what's going on.
Whether it's a good or a bad thing is a different matter I don't think it's always a bad thing.
I do think in the case of LOTR tho that it is a bad thing because it's not a new setting and it's so well-established.
It ends up feeling like fanfiction.
I think the series is going to flop. Inclusion is fine. For me, that is a non issue. I just don't think that they are going to manage to tell a good story. To be completely fair though, the LOTR movie trilogy basically is THE bar, and very few, if any, attempts to meet it or rise above it are going to end well. I've seen some decent movie series since then, but nothing will ever take the crown that the LOTR movie trilogy proudly wears.