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
Unfortunately Martin's world is poorly constructed, and the societies of Essos & Sothoryos make even less sense than the worst parts of Westeros' worldbuilding. The Dothraki for example, with their insistence on fighting unarmored and charging headlong into enemy formations over & over as their primary tactic (most infamously doing that eighteen times against an Unsullied phalanx, resulting in their crushing defeat even though they outnumbered those Unsullied like 8:1), should not realistically pose a threat to any enemy past the Stone Age.
Also, GRRM has been catching increasingly vitriolic attacks for 'orientalism' over the years thanks to how he depicts Essos/Sothoryos as, bluntly, a jumble of the most negative Victorian Era stereotypes of peoples like the Mongols & ancient Carthaginians than anything remotely accurate or sensible, when he isn't just writing a big question mark over them and declaring them to be a mysterious land that nobody sane would want to explore (Asshai, Sothoryos). I don't like it either (because it's shit worldbuilding) but I wouldn't call him a fascist over it as SJWs have and I can imagine why he wouldn't want to show, say, the Ghiscari in all their harpy-haired, stilt-walking, puppy-eating glory these days. Man almost certainly doesn't have it in him to muster up even the slightest response to the hate he'd get for it.
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
Unfortunately Martin's world is poorly constructed, and the societies of Essos & Sothoryos make even less sense than the worst parts of Westeros' worldbuilding. The Dothraki for example, with their insistence on fighting unarmored and charging headlong into enemy formations over & over as their primary tactic (most infamously doing that eighteen times against an Unsullied phalanx, resulting in their crushing defeat even though they outnumbered those Unsullied like 8:1), should not realistically pose a threat to any enemy past the Stone Age.
Also, GRRM has been catching increasingly vitriolic attacks for 'orientalism' over the years thanks to how he depicts Essos/Sothoryos as, bluntly, a jumble of the most negative Victorian Era stereotypes of peoples like the Mongols & ancient Carthaginians than anything remotely accurate or sensible, when he isn't just writing a big question mark over them and declaring them to be a mysterious land that nobody sane would want to explore (Asshai, Sothoryos). I don't like it either (because it's shit worldbuilding) but I wouldn't call him a fascist over it as SJWs have and I can imagine why he wouldn't want to show, say, the Ghiscari in all their harpy-haired, stilt-walking, puppy-eating glory these days. Man almost certainly doesn't have it in him to muster up even the slightest response to the hate he'd get for it.