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.
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.