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[Alzwards Corner] EXCUSE ME?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (26 children)

Imagine if you just made Peter Parker black. Cool, I guess. But is it enough just to swap the skin color? IMO, it is not. You have to represent the culture as well. So you change the family dynamics, the character background, relationship dynamics etc... after all of that is it still essentially Peter Parker? If so you have succesfully race swapped a character but most of the time I think it fundementally changes the character. At that point I believe it is better to create new character like Miles Morales and call him Spider-Man. But that is just my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

How is that any different than any of the multiple other times they changed the "fundamentals" of peter parker?

Like when he is the sidekick of iron man who gets free robo spidey suit upgrades? Which completely changes everything important to his character?

Or when they make him a completely different age? Fundamentally changing the relationship he has with his romantic leads, with aunt may, with his villians, with his job, with his school (college? High school? Neither?), etc etc?

Short answer? Its fuckin not. Its the exact same as every other time theyve altered a key aspect of parker to shake up the story and tell a new angle with new spins and twists and turns.

It literally doesnt matter. Its just a big deal because its race this time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Look, I kinda get both sides here.

I strongly agree with you that the skin color doesn't really affect the acting or the story in general. I believe that the last Lord of the Rings show on Amazon actually did a spectacular job at it. It was probably the best fantasy show that I've seen in awhile. However, I can also understand it from a Lore perspective that I feel the other guy is trying to to point out. If there are other ethnicities of Hobbits (which there are actually three), then at least explain why they are there. Did something bring them together? Your not wrong that by just changing the skin color of a character doesn't really affect the story at all, but when you want to understand what's behind the story, you really need to look at and consider everything.

[As an interesting aside. It turns out that the Harfoots are actually a dark skin type of Hobbit, and the Fallohides are taller and fairly light skinned. I just wish the show explained that more and perhaps provided a reason as to why those two groups merged. If they did, I must have missed it. I would love an excuse to go back and watch that show..]

Like, if we were writing a script about a tribe in Malaysia, or about a K-Pop group in Korea, it would be really jarring to see a white or black guy play any of those rolls in effort to avoid a "diversity problem". Like....will it affect the overall story if the script and acting was the same? Honestly, probably not. But I'm still going sit there the entire time and ask why is famous actor Whitey McWhiterson playing the lead role as a singer in a K-Pop boy band.

The point I'm trying to make is that yes, I agree that race does not affect a story at all, but to be frank, including every race for diversity's sake (take many of the new Disney Star Wars shows, for example) is colorblind, and I feel antithetical to racial justice in general. It's denying that these people are different. I don't care what the skin color of someone is, but I would at least expect there to be some sort of explanation as to why things are the way they are. It just feels lazy, political, and shoe-horned in.

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