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  • Mog_Pharou [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Have you seen the Bridgertons? If you haven't, don't, it's trash. One of the main characters, the Duke of Hastings, is black, along with a bunch of other characters, including the queen. I thought they were doing a color blind cast, which I mean that's cool I don't really care one way or another on that, it's a schlocky romance adaptation after all. But it's not color blind casting. There's a completely unnecessary scene where one character explains that black people were accepted into English high society because the king chose a black woman to be his queen. I was dumbfounded. This raised so many questions. What happened to the old white Duke of Hastings? Was his title expropriated and given to a black man? Who and by what metrics were the new black nobility chosen? Lottery, relation to the Queen, some watery tart threw a sword at them? None of the implications are examined, its the laziest writing I've ever seen, and I'm left feeling like the only point is that somehow Meghan fucking Markle is going to solve racism.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, that's the worst of both worlds to me. If you're gonna do a colorblind casting, ok. If you're going to go with a sort of "fantasy" world loosely based on 19th century England, ok too. But to go with something SO ahistorically ridiculous like early modern Europeans being totally cool with creating a multiethnic society just because the king had a black wife, c'mon that's ridiculous. Reality is if a king did that back then he'd probably find himself murder by his brother and no one would give a shit.