Including "brown" people in a show/movie doesn't make it Woke.
What makes it Woke is if those "brown" people exist to remind the white protagonist of his privilege, or to be discriminated against to show someone or something is racist.
Just like having a woman isn't Woke, unless her purpose is to have girlboss moments where she humiliates the male protagonist by being smarter and more clever than he, and beats up 230lb stuntmen with ease.
Even if the reporter character was white in the book, having her be Chinese in the show, with her anti-authoritarian personality molded by her anti-CCP father is pretty unwoke.
Absolutely none of that is present in The Terminal List. Nobody seems to give a crap what color anybody is, only if they need to die. The female characters contribute, but none of them are ridiculous girlboss badasses. Nobody emasculates the protagonist or questions his need to murder the hell out of the bad guys.
There is nary a whiff of Wokeness in this show, which alone almost makes it worth watching just to experience what that's like in these Woke times.
Any female character who isn't a housewife, isn't a girl aspiring to be a wife and mother, or doensn't have a tragic backstory as to why she isnt or couldn't be a wife and mother is a political statement. The implication is that it is good thing when women take on roles other than supporting a family.
Including "brown" people in a show/movie doesn't make it Woke.
What makes it Woke is if those "brown" people exist to remind the white protagonist of his privilege, or to be discriminated against to show someone or something is racist.
Just like having a woman isn't Woke, unless her purpose is to have girlboss moments where she humiliates the male protagonist by being smarter and more clever than he, and beats up 230lb stuntmen with ease.
Even if the reporter character was white in the book, having her be Chinese in the show, with her anti-authoritarian personality molded by her anti-CCP father is pretty unwoke.
Absolutely none of that is present in The Terminal List. Nobody seems to give a crap what color anybody is, only if they need to die. The female characters contribute, but none of them are ridiculous girlboss badasses. Nobody emasculates the protagonist or questions his need to murder the hell out of the bad guys.
There is nary a whiff of Wokeness in this show, which alone almost makes it worth watching just to experience what that's like in these Woke times.
You can't even remember if the FBI characters were in the book, but you're upset that they're brown.
That's not you being concerned about disrespecting the source material, or white replacement. You just don't like brown people.
so?
Hating people because of their skin color is your prerogative.
I hate people because of their character and actions.
Any female character who isn't a housewife, isn't a girl aspiring to be a wife and mother, or doensn't have a tragic backstory as to why she isnt or couldn't be a wife and mother is a political statement. The implication is that it is good thing when women take on roles other than supporting a family.
Reality doesn't conform to your fantasy of women as nothing more than baby factories.