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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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?