GarbageShoot

Senku being a lib technocrat drives me crazy, especially since I think the author has communist sympathies (Sun Ken Rock is among the strangest ecchis ever in terms of writing)

When I was younger, just considering the nature of a system that demands hierarchy among the entire population based on a competition it all puts them in, with that hierarchy being one of deprivation for the many losers, was enough for my part. Even if you have some hustlegrinder who is more productive than anyone currently on Earth, if he is in a circumstance of competing only with equals, then they must nonetheless be arranged in brutal hierarchy where he may be at the bottom. If your supposed "meritocracy" has no interest in absolute productive ability but only ability relative to others, with the punishment being what we see on the streets in the US, then yours is clearly an economic system of needless cruelty.

There are many, much stronger critiques, but that is what I was thinking of when my mind really changed.

I would have been saved a lot of bullshit navel-gazing if someone pointed out to me when I was a teenager, idk, "the Transatlantic Slave Trade was mostly carried out by private companies" or some obvious thing like that which is kept out of the view of children who are supposedly being taught American history.

I think you are wildly underrating the creativity of pre-Tolkien fantasy. I personally have great affection for the writing of Lord Dunsany and there are some people who really like the elements of awe in Lovecraft (to paraphrase Ramsey Campbell), but it's a wide field that I'm not really an expert on.

I actually like the changes in characterization, I think they work well. There are also many technical aspects that I think are remarkable in the composition and sometimes the choreography.

It looks incredibly silly, and if it were to come out on its own (in a world where one piece didn't already exist), people would be baffled about wtf they were watching.

All of this is true, but none of it furthers your point. I love how silly it is, that's legitimately a core part of the appeal to me. There are pluses and minuses on both sides, but I honestly like the adaptation more than the part of the source material that it adapts (especially the oft-disparaged anime). I miss the better-developed Buggy crew and such, for instance, and I think the Gum-Gum powers really suffer from the mediocre CG rendering, but the ridiculousness of Garp on his dog-mast ship throwing a cannonball like a shotput is wonderful, and Luffy taking the impact looks surprisingly good.

More things should look weird and silly, and if the artists behind this adaptation made an original project, I'd be excited to watch it.

With respect, have you looked at fantasy media of the last half-century? The reception of Tolkein's work became one of the greatest magnifications of the problems in "genre writing" in the entire history of the concept, with endless, endless imitation that has so over-saturated the genre that it is legitimately difficult to imagine "fantasy" that doesn't use recycled Tolkein-esque tropes. Ironically, you can even see some of those issues in GoT, though it mainly has the issue of being directionless, misogynistic smut.

I strongly encourage you to read literally any pre-Tolkein fantasy to see what a difference it has.

And even for other things like Communalism, Libertarian Socialism, Proletarian Democracy, Council Democracy,

This is way too show-and-tell brained. All of these fit under the anarchist and/or marxist comms, subdividing into endless boutique sub-sects for the sake of having some kind of post-fordist flavor selection is pure polcomp-style brainrot

Also wth would "Astral Projection" merit its own comm? We have spiritual/pagan comms already, just use one of those. When you develop a practical use for it, then perhaps there can be a basis for pushing a new comm.

The One Piece adaptation was pretty good, idk what you're talking about

Yeah, but the critique as-presented is incoherent

tbf I don't think GoT will represent 1/100th of the damage LotR did to fantasy media (though for very different reasons that don't reflect as negatively on LotR). Capitalism loves fads, so the influence will fade to nearly the level of background noise in a decade or two (assuming we don't see some monumental event like WW3, which may shunt or perpetuate it depending on how it's absorbed).

I'm probably not the best guy to answer this, but the production resources being put into the hands of the total troglodytes who can't grasp simple aspects of a text definitely annoys me.

Do not put sexposition in Avatar, ty

No one is suplexing a deer or doing Rock Lee training exercises to cover up their yaoi authorship irl. Just having some gag comedy without the immense strife of an action manga seems like a good tradeoff to me.