"Amber Heard ruined Johnny Depp's career!"

After Amber Heard's allegations of abuse came out during their divorce proceedings, Depp kept his role in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. He appeared in the first movie in 2016, the year of their divorce. Depp would keep his role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, doing a full press tour for Dead Men Tell No Tales in May 2017, less than a year after the abuse allegations surfaced.

THREAD: Exposing Johnny Depp’s lies about May 21, 2016 - the night that led to his and Amber Heard's divorce. What surveillance footage, texts, and witness testimonies prove REALLY happened. 🧵🪡 BACKGROUND

By May 21, 2016, Amber and Depp had not seen each other since Amber's birthday a month prior. Amber alleges he abused her that day. Depp denies this.

Both testify that by this point, their marriage was coming to an end and this meeting was meant to be their last one.

*tw sexual assault

I remember watching Amber's testimony about what Depp did to her in Australia. I remember the commentators saying "Victims don't cry like that on the stand. Victims don't act like that. She's too emotional and over the top." They said this like there was any precedent for this.

As if there was any precedent for a woman having to testify about her rape in front of a packed room of his supporters who hated her, and on live television in front of the world that she knew was relentlessly mocking her.

It hasn't struck me until right now how much I just don't care about the lives of the human traffickers and the men who kidnapped Lois and Martha in BvS.

https://twitter.com/_wonderbat/status/1588966897433088000

Me watching Bruce kill men who were holding Martha hostage with a flame thrower

You know I honestly didn't care for Galadriel, Elrond, and Gil-Galad being so heavily involved in the creation of the Rings in TROP tbh. I get why it was done, because the reason the Rings were made was completely changed for the show, but those three characters going from being opposed to anything to do with Annatar in the source material to major players in Ring making is a little eh...

Unfortunately the Halbrand twist was too reliant on characters making wildly convenient assumptions about him, never asking him a real question, and ignoring very obvious red flags. No one in the Southlands has sword or horse training, but no one questions him as a master swordsman and horseman. Galadriel briefly did when he did the sword trick but then it never comes up again.

#NowWatching Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost I love that there’s a Stephen King character in this movie.

Sauron's manipulation and Galadriel's temptation

Breaking down Sauron's proposal to Galadriel 🧵 Quick warning that I will be addressing abusive language in this thread. There is an abundance of it in this scene.

Sauron's fixation on Galadriel is not only completely in character but also very much in line with Tolkien's themes and Sauron's self-destructive flaws. 🧵 Sauron is drawn to power like a moth to the flame. Here is how Tolkien describes Galadriel:

"Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Feanor maybe"

"the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth"

"Sauron lives because of YOU."
"And you will DIE because of ME."

Let's talk Galadriel, Sauron, and divine intervention. 🧵 Galadriel and Sauron's meeting in TROP has been described as a "chance meeting" by the writers. In Tolkien, that usually implies that it was the work of Eru, Middle Earth's God.

A meeting between these two in particular would not be an accident. It was pre-ordained.

Sauron's proposition to Galadriel in #TheRingsOfPower was an excellent scene. But here's a thread on how I think it could have been pulled off even better. 🧵 Sauron and Galadriel are alike. Tolkien deliberately parallels their characters. They're both immensely proud and have a desire to rule.

Galadriel left Valinor in part because she wanted to rule a piece of Middle Earth. Not so different from Sauron's motives.