House of the Dragon

Warpath said:

yes, it sure can be easily explained.

'House of the Dragon' showrunners reimagined some characters as Black because they didn't want it to be 'another bunch of white people on the screen'

Cocreator Ryan Condal says diversity was a priority for the first "Game of Thrones" prequel show, not an "afterthought" or "tokenism."

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The rest of Essos: Am I a joke to you?

Have they ever thought about not specifically picking stories entirely based around bunches of white people?

Gravel said:

This one is extra retarded though because they're doing it for diversity when GRRM actually included fuck tons of different "real world" races.

The LOTR one is more bullshit overall though, and doesn't fit with the world.

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Yeah, neither one is good with both are aiming accommodate people who proudly claim to be too sociopathic to empathize with people who don't share the same melanin level, but Wish.com Rings took the lead early on by corrupting instead of creating.

With HotD, their reasoning that Warpath posted are the main problem because (1) racism is racism and (2) having to force a narrative behind a "creative" decision actually stands out as a distraction because of (1).

It's weird because personally I'm up for creative liberties and wouldn't mind the casting if the actors themselves just do the job well considering that this is fantasy and that there at least can be a plausible reason behind diversity even amongst Valerians. However, when they're pretty much paraphrasing Peter Dinklage on a show about "a bunch of white people," then it's hard to overlook even in spite of any slight possiblity that the content of the show could hold up.

RoP just takes it to all new levels of stupid, though, and might as well be the largest budget for a Netflix Anime adaption that outright says, "fuck you" to the fans. In light with what I said above, apparently things that already explicitly existed in Tolkien's works like the Easterlings and Rhun are a joke to them, too. Likewise, nobody forced them to adapt from an author who struck out to essentially create an Anglo Saxon mythology, just as nobody forced Netflix to fund a show about bunches of white people in longboats. It's all just people who claim to care about other cultures who clearly have never been exposed to any other cultures outside of their collective bubble that I'd guarantee is mostly just the most out of touch Hollywood white people on the planet.

out in 2 days, if you wanna know who is who in the first episode i guess this guy did a lot of lore videos for GoT

Soygen said:

Wonder how the fights will be...

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Well if I wasn't uninterested before, I've just dropped into the negative. Martin is such a sellout.

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Did you really want a bunch of lady jogger sex scenes?

Gravel said:

Did you really want a bunch of lady jogger sex scenes?

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Lady?

is Joffrey a bastard or a true hero for spoiling the entire House of Dragons show in 30 seconds?

Big Phoenix said:

No because those stories are usually garbage and no one cares about them.

They rape existing IPs because they are entirely unable to create their own interesting ones.

"If you look past this huge piece of shit on your steak, theres really no shit at all on your steak!"

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For sure.

Plus the way these virtue signalers are, they could never lead a project based on another culture or else they'd be called out for some bullshit twitter reason and have to hand it over to someone from that culture. This way, they get to dole out some race or gender swapped roles while throwing in some alphabet people for good measure while still having full control and be able to take all the credit. Nobody remembers the white Hollywood actor, director, showrunner, ect. who backs out of a project to give it to someone who checks the appropriate boxes, but they will remember those who congratulate themselves for providing a platform for others. And idiots eat that right up.

Daezuel said:

Lady?

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They didn't have biologists, so everyone can be any gender at any time.

Which really makes the whole female successor drama all moot since for all we know Daemon could identify as a princess during the finale.

Ossoi said:

That isn't the extent of the woke though. The plot is based around challenging the patriarchal order, legitimising female succession and features a non binary eminem lookalike as the main female lead.

They've also gone big on the "look how diverse we are compared to the old show" and "it's a different era now"

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Matt Smith still stated he was surprised by the amount of "traditional GoT" scenes, given it's a different era.

Whether that made it into the show or not beyond post-production isn't clear. Not like it would salvage the plot anyway.

spronk said:

if you wanna know who is who in the first episode

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it no longer matters

jayrebb said:

it no longer matters

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i already know who's who. Matt Smith, discount Daenerys and Joggaeryans

might be better than expected, critics so far don't seem to like it and nowadays i tend to like stuff critics don't and vica versa. i think they only got 1 episode though



of course thats pretty much the same score as She-Hulk so who knows

doesnt this series suffer from the same problem as GoT? the other half hasnt been written yet? you think they are gonna wait around for GRRM or are they gonna "wing it"?

A Dunk and Egg mini series would've been easy to make and popular but they would probably gender swap Egg and made Dunk a figure of contempt.

Sinistkir13 said:

RoP just takes it to all new levels of stupid, though, and might as well be the largest budget for a Netflix Anime adaption that outright says, "fuck you" to the fans.

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Netflix adaptation syndrome just shows off how disingenuous the whole thing is.

Take a Japanese work, which by their rules is 100% diverse, set it in California with white actors, then take the most visually striking characters (usually redheads) and make them brown.

Like Death Note. Let's take the pale half English half Japanese guy with messy hair and sunken eyes, now he's a generic black guy.

HOW ABOUT A 100% ASIAN CAST!? WHAT THE FUCK.

I would be interested in a 100% black cast show about African mythology or an African great work of literature, woke people are signalling to me that those things don't exist which is a making me more racist.

Chukzombi said:

doesnt this series suffer from the same problem as GoT? the other half hasnt been written yet? you think they are gonna wait around for GRRM or are they gonna "wing it"?

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No, it's been written.

Chris said:

Netflix adaptation syndrome just shows off how disingenuous the whole thing is.

Take a Japanese work, which by their rules is 100% diverse, set it in California with white actors, then take the most visually striking characters (usually redheads) and make them brown.

Like Death Note. Let's take the pale half English half Japanese guy with messy hair and sunken eyes, now he's a generic black guy.

HOW ABOUT A 100% ASIAN CAST!? WHAT THE FUCK.

I would be interested in a 100% black cast show about African mythology or an African great work of literature, woke people are signalling to me that those things don't exist which is a making me more racist.


No, it's been written.

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i was going by this