I hear some youtubers say that the tide is turning and they cite things like the Chappelle special or the Gervais special. I can kind of see where they are coming from, but people still flock to see Marvel movies and Marvel along with other studios still can't shut up about representation.
I would have to see the following to believe a major tide is turning:
Black character in a movie where they don't need to discuss race
Male character doesn't need to be surrounded by "much better" women
Gay character has a devout Christian friend/relative who still loves and respects them despite their beliefs
A book adaptation where the main character is white..... is actually white in the show/movie
Period pieces actually look like the people from that period.
Any show/movie that addresses immigration doesn't make anyone who isn't for open borders an evil person.
Yes, I know that is unrealistic but seeing as how Wheel of Time was a book that had plenty of females and non-white characters once they leave their area and they still had to butcher the source material I have little hope and will continue with my rule of "be very wary of anything made after 2014".
What do y'all think? Is the tide actually turning and I'm just too cynical to see it?
When the student pilots were introduced, I saw what looked like a pretty easy-going, cool group that was getting along well, and a couple of obvious (white male) misfits. I guess you didn't see that. Even though you agree that all of the flawed pilots were white men and the other pilots had no flaws. Whatever. Fortunately, the pilots' individual personalities had very little to do with the rest of the story, which is why I said it didn't really detract from the overall movie experience.
It's also not a trope or a climax or a dinosaur or an encyclopedia or a Volkswagen, but I never claimed it was any of those things, so I'm not sure what your point is. Unless you're just disagreeing to disagree. In that case, feel free to list all of the other things that you think it isn't until the end of time. I promise I'll read it when you're through.
Either way, I'm out. You've just repeated my arguments back to me and then split some irrelevant hairs about what you think is or isn't "cool," and I don't feel like clarifying for you further.
My point is very simple, that characters without obvious flaws or strengths are insignificant to theme.
Flaming out because you were pressed on this, not even with a hint of personal attack, shows you're not very "collected" yourself.