Also doesn't make any sense in the context of Grease...
Like, fuck, why not take an original IP, and set it in the 1950s if you really must...
Oh wait, we know exactly why.
But the Pink Ladies, I mean, it just... Only in "topsy turvy current year" could they become the near exact opposite of everything they were in both Grease movies (and the stage musical which came first)...
And I noticed at least 2 of the main characters are Asian chicks… with NO Asian accents… in 1954, during the Asian Exclusion Era when Asians were basically barred from immigrating to America.
How the fuck can anyone suspend disbelief that this is really 1954 America? Why not just have them using cellphones at this fucking point?
But of course, I’m sure the show is still somehow paradoxically still rife with examples of “racism” and how racist the 1950s were. Fucking insane...
Also doesn't make any sense in the context of Grease...
Like, fuck, why not take an original IP, and set it in the 1950s if you really must...
Oh wait, we know exactly why.
But the Pink Ladies, I mean, it just... Only in "topsy turvy current year" could they become the near exact opposite of everything they were in both Grease movies (and the stage musical which came first)...
Eugh.
And I noticed at least 2 of the main characters are Asian chicks… with NO Asian accents… in 1954, during the Asian Exclusion Era when Asians were basically barred from immigrating to America.
How the fuck can anyone suspend disbelief that this is really 1954 America? Why not just have them using cellphones at this fucking point?
But of course, I’m sure the show is still somehow paradoxically still rife with examples of “racism” and how racist the 1950s were. Fucking insane...
Because it's about the demoralization, I think...
They want to ruin the memory of Grease, for everyone. That may indeed be the point.
So they can claim it is "authentic to the spirit of the original", while it isn't. In any way...
That is a great question and I'm going to start asking it every time they claim to be blackwashing something for "modern audiences".