Is it me or do others actually not even think about peoples skin colour when watching movies or tv shows? If there is a story about race yeah sure there will be a black/asian/hispanic etc in there but on the whole actors/characters skin colour has zero interest for me. I really enjoyed this show and I am looking forward to the other shows and movies coming out. I did post earlier in this thread regarding race and how I didn't see anything about race in it. I now see I was wrong after the last few episodes but still if its about race theres going to be actors of different colours.
Very sad.
Up until say 5 years ago, no one cared because often it was organic. In the 80's we had female action stars and no one batted an eyelid. Heck Riply is loved by all movie buffs. It's only recently people are noticing because it's got to the stage there has been a load of gender swapping in movies and
THEY make a huge point about it, so it's signaling to everyone that this is a big deal. When GB2016 came out
THEY made a big deal out it, When WW woman they made a big deal out of it (although Gal Godot really handled it wonderfully) and when Cap Marvel they
really hamfistedly made a
HUGE deal out it and Brie Larson came out it looking like a total bitch in the end. And in the TV space, a vast majority of leads recently are almost ALL female (there seems to be a trend of "Magical Girl" series coming out every other week)
You can't blame people for taking notice and pushing back a bit when it's all done so hamfistedly and a total swap like No1newts mentions. Where's the balance? The trick with diversity is that it needs to include everyone and I think the creators have lost what the meaning of the word actually means these days. You have to realize in the western world 85% are still white and half of those are men. So in the end there's not much out there that they feel speaks to them, and I see people grumbling about it a lot recently.
You'll see, the MCU has peaked. It still has a good few years left in it but unless they don't disappear up their own asses they won;t be pulling billion dollar movies anymore.