I think I can explain it. I am qualified to answer for him, because I was one of The Toxic Fans™ that he wouldn’t want anything to do with.
You see, in Star Trek DS9 (especially in season 1) Commander Sisko wasn’t a particularly well-written character. I could definitely rant about how almost unwatchably bad season 1 was, and I’d guess you’d agree with me. Even fans of the show know how awful season 1 is. The key here is that there was a time when only season 1 existed, and many fans did not like that Sisko’s character was also some kind of space Jesus.
And in what was seems to have been a successful precursor to the modern attack-the-fans strategy, Mr. Stabmcstabby believes the people who criticized “The First Black Captain” weren’t criticizing his character on the grounds of questionable religious elements in a science fiction adventure show.
Mat Smith is in it, but his character is the weakest character in the show (in my opinion),I assume his character is supposed to be the Joffrey of House of the Dragon (but not as cruel to women).
When I think of Matt Smith I always think of him playing the 11th Doctor. I agree an argument can be made for the 4th (Tom Baker) and 10th (David Tennant) but my favorite was Matt.
He had a quirky style that I liked, less serious than Tennant or Capaldi and he also had two of the top companions.
The Istari (wizards) weren’t humans. They were Maiar (angels), same as Sauron.
The five Istari (including Gandalf and Saruman) were sent from the west (where the gods dwell) to fight against the power of Sauron. But they were absolutely forbidden “to match his power with their power”.
Gandalf was allowed to cut loose against the Balrog because it was also a Maiar.
The reason for the prohibition against their use of power was because of the devastation 6,000 years earlier from the War of Wrath… but that is another story…
Would make more sense if they could explain where she came from and how she became Queen of Numenor. Tolkien wrote that Numenor had a line of kings (and 3 Queens) as leaders.
Numenor is where the Valar gathered the best and brightest of humanity, I have no issues with diversity in the casting when it comes to Numenoreans. In fact it’s the most sensible place to do it.
I think having diversity in casting among the Noldor or Sindar is silly, just as it would have been silly to have diversity of casting in Wakanda or in a Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptation.
Does House of Dragon bother me because there are black people?
Does it bother me that Will Smith is Agent J, or Jamie Fox is Django knowing that they were white characters in the original?
It is not because elves of that color are worth it, they are just actors who came to spit in the faces of the fans and show their arrogant and selfish pride in a work that belongs to a conservationist author who, even though he is dead, is pathetic where he is doing.
What is the worst? that evil Bezos forces the public to not watch the series, they cancel The Boys and Invisible news season just because of its diabolical inclusionist adaptation and Woke.
Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made
Hopefully you get it, because he’s not going to get you why you like that Star Trek crap either, and I bet that guy is a fan of that franchise.
Still would be interesting to see how she became Queen. Also it is similar to Jarl Haakon in Vikings, in life Jarl Haakon was a Scandinavian man, but in the show she was an African woman. It is a stretch of the imagination that a sub-Saharan African woman would become a Jarl in Norway, but not entirely impossible, since Vikings did travel (although not anywhere where people that looked like her would have lived). The only plausible way was if she was a captive in the Caliphate and somehow was found by and fell in love with a Viking who was raiding Moorish Spain or North Africa at the time.
Some historical shows are just not a great place to have a diverse cast.
It makes perfect sense in a story set in ancient Rome. Norway, not so much. If you want to tell a Viking story with a diverse cast, do it on the Varangians set in Constantinople, that would make perfect sense.
Even in Rome it does not make much sense, there would be people from all of the Roman provinces, but even Egypt at that time was not ruled by the Nubians, so there would be people who looked Middle-Eastern or North African in the Roman empire and some would have been conscripted and a few might have rose in the ranks and became prominent citizens, but it would have been VERY rare and those people would have had to be VERY exceptional.
Reminds me of that movie “The Thirteenth Warrior” where they were sailing around in the Viking age with a group including an Abbasid poet and a Spanish conquistador. It’s like they took a spin through time in the TARDIS to put the group together.
Actually Thirteenth Warrior was based on some real life events and Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan was an real person, an Arab poet who DID travel to Viking Scandinavia. And the “Conquistador”, was just a Viking wearing a plundered helm (Tercio helms did not actually exist at that time).
