I get tired of this, because every single time they add someone from a "minority" they make the character unbearable and unlikeable. I start rooting against them.
I'm even more on the fact, if the movie or series they are making comes from somewhere else, like a book, comic, game or something, they should cast the character that best represents it. But they prefer to grab something, race and gender swap instead of creating something with the characters already created that represents the people they want.
Heck, why can't they use the example of Spartan? They needed diversity on Arrow. So they created a very good character that didn't exist in the comic. He grew up as a character, had flaws, battled against it, and more. And he quickly became my favorite character. I know, CW of all things. But I guess their creativity went all on the creation of Spartan, and now they are a mess! heh!
Instead of BATWAHMXN, they could have made SPARTAN tv show... But nah!
Exactly. Race/gender swaps are so lazy. Also there are characters in comic books that aren’t used. And a main annoyance I think is the constant push that we have to love it.
Well I can’t disagree but there is some laziness. Take the upcoming Wheel of Time show. In that larger world there are people of other races, however they are being lazy too by race swapping the main characters. The main subversion is stating the main character is someone who it is not.
Eric July had a video on how much this irritates him, especially when they race swap a popular white comic book character while ignoring dozens of existing black characters who sit on the shelf and never get a shot.
Absolutely. I’m a big fan of his. Discovered him through geeks and gamers and nerdrotic. It’s also funny how with every race and gender swap they pay themselves on the back like it’s some major accomplishment
I loved Diggle too. It really comes down to good actors and good writing. Granted CW stuff’s cheesy, but it’s cheesy in an enjoyable way. Plenty of great black actors in things, like Idris Elba and Denzel’s son. I haven’t seen their full catalog or anything, but I can’t recall either of them being in anything that was about them being black.
I don’t watch much of anything, but if movies or shows look like they’re about the race or genders or sexual preferences of the characters, it’s a good filtering mechanism to know it’s going to suck. In part because with the current SJW belief system, they can’t give characters any flaws or be critical of their culture in the process, which would be the fucking point of a narrative work.
We don’t exactly need more things about gay people, but as an example, if they made something about gay people that hated the current alphabet movement and they called each other fags and joked around about things, went into being gay maybe not at all defining them, questioning whether or not they would want to marry a woman to have kids because maybe they still wanted that despite loving cock, or went into how many if not most gay people have some fucked up childhood experiences that amount to molestation or rape, it would at least be interesting. Maybe go into how some people probably aren’t gay but just want attention. All kinds of things that could be interesting if well written that would be about gay people. But they never do that and can’t because it’d present gay people as flawed. They always present gay people as these super human Gary Sue’s that just want to suck dick in peace but everyone’s giving them shit about it. In real life nobody gives a fuck. It’s not enough to make for the basis of being a character in a story.
Any narrative work that presents all characters as flawless isn’t a narrative work in any deep sense.
I agree.
I get tired of this, because every single time they add someone from a "minority" they make the character unbearable and unlikeable. I start rooting against them.
I'm even more on the fact, if the movie or series they are making comes from somewhere else, like a book, comic, game or something, they should cast the character that best represents it. But they prefer to grab something, race and gender swap instead of creating something with the characters already created that represents the people they want.
Heck, why can't they use the example of Spartan? They needed diversity on Arrow. So they created a very good character that didn't exist in the comic. He grew up as a character, had flaws, battled against it, and more. And he quickly became my favorite character. I know, CW of all things. But I guess their creativity went all on the creation of Spartan, and now they are a mess! heh!
Instead of BATWAHMXN, they could have made SPARTAN tv show... But nah!
Exactly. Race/gender swaps are so lazy. Also there are characters in comic books that aren’t used. And a main annoyance I think is the constant push that we have to love it.
Race and gender swaps aren’t lazy. They are malicious. They are deliberate subversion. They are an attack.
Well I can’t disagree but there is some laziness. Take the upcoming Wheel of Time show. In that larger world there are people of other races, however they are being lazy too by race swapping the main characters. The main subversion is stating the main character is someone who it is not.
Eric July had a video on how much this irritates him, especially when they race swap a popular white comic book character while ignoring dozens of existing black characters who sit on the shelf and never get a shot.
Absolutely. I’m a big fan of his. Discovered him through geeks and gamers and nerdrotic. It’s also funny how with every race and gender swap they pay themselves on the back like it’s some major accomplishment
I loved Diggle too. It really comes down to good actors and good writing. Granted CW stuff’s cheesy, but it’s cheesy in an enjoyable way. Plenty of great black actors in things, like Idris Elba and Denzel’s son. I haven’t seen their full catalog or anything, but I can’t recall either of them being in anything that was about them being black.
I don’t watch much of anything, but if movies or shows look like they’re about the race or genders or sexual preferences of the characters, it’s a good filtering mechanism to know it’s going to suck. In part because with the current SJW belief system, they can’t give characters any flaws or be critical of their culture in the process, which would be the fucking point of a narrative work.
We don’t exactly need more things about gay people, but as an example, if they made something about gay people that hated the current alphabet movement and they called each other fags and joked around about things, went into being gay maybe not at all defining them, questioning whether or not they would want to marry a woman to have kids because maybe they still wanted that despite loving cock, or went into how many if not most gay people have some fucked up childhood experiences that amount to molestation or rape, it would at least be interesting. Maybe go into how some people probably aren’t gay but just want attention. All kinds of things that could be interesting if well written that would be about gay people. But they never do that and can’t because it’d present gay people as flawed. They always present gay people as these super human Gary Sue’s that just want to suck dick in peace but everyone’s giving them shit about it. In real life nobody gives a fuck. It’s not enough to make for the basis of being a character in a story.
Any narrative work that presents all characters as flawless isn’t a narrative work in any deep sense.
Absolutely correct! Make the character grow! It is fine for the character to be good at something. But at EVERYTHING?!
Fuck the maREY Sues!