Arch: Diversity Has Killed Fantasy
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You know what I hate about this all the most? They only care to put minorities in instead of using the in universe diversity to tell their stories. And no, I do not mean black Hobbits. Perfect example to me is Star Wars, the Disney shit almost always has mostly humans as MCs, aliens get a small look if at all. I've noticed this as I was waking up to how shit it all is(sitting in the cinema watching TLJ, painful wakeup call). You got this universe with tons of races in it yet you only go for humans and unlike when Lucas was helming it they didn't even have any in speaking rolls(tbf, the original trilogy did not have any aliens as MCs).
LOTR did it amazingly, you even have a human, a dwarf and an elf working together with tons of different pov characters like the Hobbits etc. They were also not real life diversity aka all black people. Rings of power uses the same idea but makes it about real life, we gotta have more black people.
This is what's been bothering me with fantasy, especially in series etc. They claim diversity yet when it comes to in universe they couldn't give a shit.
Why you should never hire activists masquerading as writers. But so many tv series today start with diversity and work from there
That might be underselling Chewbacca a bit, and R2 and 3PO certainly qualify as "main characters", even if they're droids, not aliens.
I was thinking more as the MAIN lead but yes, you are 100% correct, thanks for calling that out.