I just saw the first two episodes of the new Ridley Scott TV series, Raised By Wolves, and it was awful. Not because of the cast, but the plot is just terrible. Nevertheless, I noticed how the characters are almost all Black, with the interracial couple, the good Black father... This is imposes by HBO? Just a thought.
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This is another non-sensical post that makes this sub look like a proving ground for right-wing SJWs: narrow-minded bigots driven by emotional bias rather than any common sense.
How does majority black = main character of show (Lamia) is white, her son is white, main male character of Mithraics (Travis Frimmel of vikings still looking like a viking) is white, his partner is white (as are their flashback characters), their child (who also appears to have a key future role) is white, the leader of Mithraics is white, all of Mithraic's first landing party were white (including the android). The entire Mithraics religion is also clearly based around a European version of Christianity and their clothing is completely based upon European medieval garb.
Among this you have the father character, one of the children (some others may be mixed, or Indian and other asian), an android, and that's about it as far as black characters go.
This is also not meant to be representing the USA, but the future remnants of a global population so by rights it really should be 60% Asian, 20% White and 20% Black.
It's unbelievable how easily some people here get triggered by their petty hangups.
Personally, I enjoyed the show a lot and found it a breath of fresh air among so much tired retreads and procedurals. But that's a purely subjective matter. The claims of this thread are objectively rubbish. The shows also thematically interesting if you actually know the myth of Lamia but it's strange how often people with deeply ingrained racial bigotry will have so little knowledge or appreciation for classical history.
Where did you get those numbers? According to the UN numbers there will be only around 5% Whites in 2050.
Good point, I was just giving the rough current numbers. So, my point is even more valid and I guess we should be complaining that there are not enough black people in the show. Right?
No. Art is not about "percentage repesentation". It is how a civilization portrays itself and dreams. I have been seeing a lot of Chinese sci-fi and they portray the colonization of space as an almost 100% Han endeavor. My point is that White America is disappearing from the screen and public representation.
Also notice that in the vast majority of sci-fi, non-humans do not figure at all. The exceptions would be the Pern novels, and Arthur C. Clarke's "simps" (Capuchin or other small Monkeys uplifted just enough to make them better slaves, as was envisioned back in the 80s-90s, when they thought Monkeys could make great slaves for the crippled. It's where they got the idea for the movie Monkeyshines from.)
According to sci-fi writers, Man won't even be bringing his Best Friend with him. (Well, Firefly did somewhat feature his Second Best Friend, but that scenario was kind of silly, just to have an actual Space Western.)
Oh, and as per the convo above, frankly, I kind of sympathize with the Mithra people (as a non-supernaturalist! The thing is, I don't believe in the supernatural, but I also don't think there's such a thing as "unnatural", either. A thing exists because the laws of Nature allow it. If ghosts or gods exist, they're just as much a part of Nature as you or a Sparrow or a tree. There is only the abnormal, and the unexplained.) The atheists who repurposed that Banshee thing must be utter fucking retards. I hate its mechanical guts, and want to see it destroyed, every bit as much as I came to hate the new Dr Smith (as she's a fucking psychopathic narcissist I'd love to feed to my similarly-diagnosed evil ex) and Grant Ward, the backstabber.
Well, you chose a bad example to represent this point. As I said, the ratios in RbW are not especially strange. 1/8 of the USA is black and another 2/8 are non-white. RbW main characters are: Mother, Father, Campion, Marcus, Sue, and Paul. Five very white characters and one black. Similar proportions among secondary characters. Whats your problem?
Do to the increasing focus on race for the past 12 years and the focus on whites being evil, open discrimination against whites in work places and school admissions and the celebration of the before mention discrimination has created an increased sensibility to change. Movies are suppose to be escapism but the increase in black characters is unusual compared to movies made 4 years ago so they stick out and instead of being escapism they are a reminder on how society is turning against whites. There is no way around that until race relations get better.
Race relations don't improve by being hypersensitive or over-exaggerating problems. I'm referring here to this specific case, i.e. RbW is not a good example of the problem of black-washing or over-representation. There are plenty of cases that are (Anne Queen of Scots is one of the most recent OTT ones). Pointing out the problem where clear examples exist is one thing, seeing the problem where it isn't actually present is a different thing altogether.
In my view its a sign that people are letting the SJW bullshit get to them and reacting emotionally rather than rationally and thereby letting the SJWs drag them down to their level of reactionary extremism. This is just what they want so they can say things are a choice between two extremes, rather than the reality that there are a wide variety of centrists stances (including left and right) that avoid any form of fundamentalist thought.
I agree with you. I was just pointing the reason why OP and other do not want a lot of black people in their movies even when it is not a problem. I honestly understand them as I do that sometimes but mostly with women in lead roles, and I know it is wrong I just hate feminists and if there is a lead woman I assume it was done by feminists and I just do not want to get involved in a movie /series from someone who actively hates me.