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This helps illustrate my point! Even if he had bragged about Aunty’s race or gender, it would still be the very same movie! Even if he had cast Debbie Harry instead of Tina, it would be mostly the same movie, just with different songs. As iconic as Tina and her songs are, Beyond Thunderdome...

I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. We are not talking about characters you like in movies you like. I never said anything about you or anyone else hating diverse characters in finished products. I’m saying you see a relationship between “modern forced agenda” and story...

I understand the point, I just fundamentally disagree that this is a “smoke and fire” situation. I see it as a “smoke and basement flooding”. Fundamentally unrelated. The suggestion is that these diversity mandates are sabotaging what would otherwise be good stories. I do not think that is...

I do not disagree! I’ve disliked nearly all the D+ shows and I could easily see this one also being super lame. But there are so many other things to complain about aside from the cast. It’s such a weird thing to focus on. Like trying to diagnose cancer with a horoscope.

Lucasfilm’s priorities are messed up, but it’s really greed rather than “diversity”. Again, J.J. Abrams was considered bankable. He was not a diversity hire. Bob Iger’s greed forced them all to release an Episode every 2 years. The ST never hd a chance under those conditions. The Kenobi show...

We’re going in circles. You’ve explained the perceived correlation between diverse casts and story quality. I’m saying it’s an illusion that fandom would be better off snapping out of.

I’m sorry, but I still do not see any evidence of this. Less diversity would not have improved any of the bad stories we have been given in the last decade. J.J. Abrams was not a “diversity hire”. We never recovered from that.

Well I wouldn’t hold my breath for the religious background (galaxy far away and all) but I’m rooting for you on the rest of it!

I agree. Blade rules. But we’re not talking about a movie we saw when we were 26 years younger. It is being explained to me how certain members of this forum interpret diverse casts with an unfortunate correlation to story quality. I am merely asking, does this go the other way? If a new...

Please define “core audience”. MCU has been pretty bad ever since the final battle in “Black Panther”, I dont know where this idea that it suddenly died after the mediocrity of Endgame comes from. Maybe if you are only speaking in box office. Just another confusion on my part.

I watched it. Honestly it sounds pretty innocuous to me, she had a mental image of her main character as a black woman and also really liked Squid Game and wrote a role for the lead of that show, etc. i guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

Also, I have no idea why people are feeling attacked by Lucasfilm’s pushback against Kenobi criticism. I certainly never felt attacked, and I thought Kenobi was a garbage show. End to end. I never singled out Reva as a special problem, the entire show was trash! Every part! So I knew they were...

So is the inverse true? Does more white people in the cast equal more optimism from us fans? Do we not see how terrible that sounds?

Cannot find that comment yet, will keep looking. No, I am not going to google “leslye headland diversity black woman” because then I’ll get nothing but angry youtube grifters.

My comment was not aimed at you, specifically. It was in reply to jaztermareal’s attempt at explaining the perception (not that they share it) that a diverse cast may signal a worse story. Which I am still very confused by. For example, your quote above. Where does this idea come from, that...