i hate when people make it about race… and i hate pandering. i hate when good storytelling and plot are pushed in favor of a message or hot-button topic. and a lot of times, especially with reboots, it seems, or sequels to already popular series and sagas (i.e. the work of kathleen kennedy, as an example), that’s what you get. 2012-2019 it was especially popular to see that trend, and you still have it in series like Young Justice (longtime fan, still love the show, but the story… well, it sucks. it drones on and on with side plots and characters that are two-dimensional without a real story or any growth, who seem to be more a vehicle to check a box for representation rather than to forward the story), and characters like Catherine Fox in Greys Anatomy (don't even get me started). it isn’t racist to feel this way. but that having been said, A LOT of racists have used these argument as vehicles for their bigotry, and it makes it uncomfortable for those who legitimately want better-
- storytelling to express this.
give me Richard Webbers and Miranda Baileys, give me Martha Jones and Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor and just good damn storytelling, and stop checking boxes by rewriting stories that break down beloved and established characters or changing history in ways that are so obviously pandering that it’s insulting to the ethnic group or LGBTQ demographic represented (I.E. the treatment of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, the writing in Vikings; Valhalla, and like any time they “stray bullet the lesbian”, so to speak).
give me Richard Webbers and Miranda Baileys, give me Martha Jones and Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor and just good damn storytelling, and stop checking boxes by rewriting stories that break down beloved and established characters or changing history in ways that are so obviously pandering that it’s insulting to the ethnic group or LGBTQ demographic represented (I.E. the treatment of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, the writing in Vikings; Valhalla, and like any time they “stray bullet the lesbian”, so to speak).