Well by all means write your own stories!!! Crap like this makes me immediately not want to watch anything with a black/female lead or cast because I question the motives or if it’s a lecture on race or sexism but if someone I trust recommends it I’ll check it out. Well anything prior to 2014 I’ll give a chance and Denzel has an exception. I also ordered the first comic book of the Rippaverse because I feel he has earned that much. But honestly if a black dude or a woman was actually a good writer it would be hard to get traction because of this. People are turned off by this after it happens all the time. The obsession with putting blacks and women in everything is beyond ridiculous. Someone once told me “white ppl don’t have to be in everything”. I said that’s true but it applies across the board.
Sorry for my rant. I’m so tired of this. Yes GRRM okayed this but forgive me for being cynical but since you get awards based on diversity you can’t tell me he just decided the dude was the best for the job.
I’ve been reading sci-fi and fantasy for years. Never once whined about representation. I must be a unicorn. Lol
Yes! You are right about non whites in Ice and Fire world. Also there are the summer isles which is essentially Africa. A story based on Gilgamesh would be cool actually. I think I mentioned to you I’m working on a satire where a Shaka Zulu movie is being done and they hire a Scandinavian woman to play Shaka Zulu
Idea: one of the requirements is that she must speak Zulu; she can only pretend but that's OK since the translator who translates the script also only pretends and in fact wrote nonsense.
Good point. I’ve done some writing. Mainly trippy sci fi but this is tough to do comedy. I may do a big outline and consult someone. But that’s the premise. I want to mock the current Hollywood mindset and race/gender swapping obsession. In my mind I can see “Shaka Zulu” riding with the Zulu nation to fight neighboring tribes.
Well by all means write your own stories!!! Crap like this makes me immediately not want to watch anything with a black/female lead or cast because I question the motives or if it’s a lecture on race or sexism but if someone I trust recommends it I’ll check it out. Well anything prior to 2014 I’ll give a chance and Denzel has an exception. I also ordered the first comic book of the Rippaverse because I feel he has earned that much. But honestly if a black dude or a woman was actually a good writer it would be hard to get traction because of this. People are turned off by this after it happens all the time. The obsession with putting blacks and women in everything is beyond ridiculous. Someone once told me “white ppl don’t have to be in everything”. I said that’s true but it applies across the board.
Sorry for my rant. I’m so tired of this. Yes GRRM okayed this but forgive me for being cynical but since you get awards based on diversity you can’t tell me he just decided the dude was the best for the job.
I’ve been reading sci-fi and fantasy for years. Never once whined about representation. I must be a unicorn. Lol
Yes! You are right about non whites in Ice and Fire world. Also there are the summer isles which is essentially Africa. A story based on Gilgamesh would be cool actually. I think I mentioned to you I’m working on a satire where a Shaka Zulu movie is being done and they hire a Scandinavian woman to play Shaka Zulu
Idea: one of the requirements is that she must speak Zulu; she can only pretend but that's OK since the translator who translates the script also only pretends and in fact wrote nonsense.
Good point. I’ve done some writing. Mainly trippy sci fi but this is tough to do comedy. I may do a big outline and consult someone. But that’s the premise. I want to mock the current Hollywood mindset and race/gender swapping obsession. In my mind I can see “Shaka Zulu” riding with the Zulu nation to fight neighboring tribes.