Just wait for Space Marine 2. Metzen lost his testosterone. He managed to kill factions.
This is World of Kisscam.
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Because itâs not naturally part of the story, setting, ect; instead it is shallow, surface depiction being interjected according to a computer program.
One of the points of diversity in media is normalization but that doesnât happen when something sticks out like a sore thumb like that character does.
But the worst example of this fake diversity to me in WoW is not actually that new character, itâs the innkeeper in the dwarven section of Stormwind.
Instead of creating a new character with a new name, dark skin and one of the new hairstyles, they basically painted her black and called it a day.
The lack of respect makes me cringe every time I see her.
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Yikes, if thatâs not racist, I donât know what is.
For me it depends entirely on the narrative. Does the story adequately and appropriately create a story that engages its audience? Does said story tie in such individual characteristics appropriately into the environment the characters exist in? Do the interactions past or present properly explain or give reason to why the characters look or act the way they do?
If the answer to all those questions is, yes. Then it really doesnât matter what they look like or how they behave because the content can stand on its own. But if they donât? Then it starts wandering into vaguer territory. The danger point being what is oft referred to as âwokeâ or the opposite (white-washing) territory. A classic example of this happened only recently with the Netfix Egyptian show Queen Cleopatra. They cast a mixed race person? to play Cleopatra. A completely stupid thing to do considering youâre dealing with actual historical events (Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek) rather than a made up story.
Now donât get me wrong. It is actually possible to pull off counter culture casting in narratives. However it is significantly harder to do than if youâre actually true and accurate and appropriate to the original content and its intentions. A good example of this was once again using Cleopatra with the casting of Elizabeth Taylor. But that was because the narrative was not trying to be lore accurate at all. Instead it tried to loosely base itself on the facts and then went in a more fanciful romanticized âhigh-styeâ (musical) version.
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Destroys everything it touches.
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For me, the issue with woke is that it doesnât properly explain itself. Its no different to how Rey from the new Star Wars movies can somehow magically master the Force to such a degree (without any training), that she can pull off things only a Jedi master is capable of with little to no explanation as to how that is remotely possible. The clumsy insert of retconning Palpatine to be alive and that somehow magically explains away this issue is sloppy and clumsy writing in the extreme. It is why her character rightly earned the title of âMary Sueâ.
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When it is done in a shallow, contrived, slapdash fashion, yes.
When it is done properly, with care, substance and respect, it adds depth and richness to a story.
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the writers had to backpedal realizing how silly it was to make her so OP for apparently no reason in the first film
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You realize nobody here actually said that, right? Youâre just fighting with your own shadow here.
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I need the Nerubians to be playable.
Unfortunately, they are going to go the way of Arakkoa, Sethrak, Saberon, and any other cool race. Forgotten and never touched on again.
You donât think using a diversity randomizer for character creation is low effort and contrived? I donât know if thatâs what they did. However, if you have a bunch of other characters that people took the time and effort to sketch out and iterate, and one character that was just âhit blendâ so she can reach a diversity metric and they decided she was âgood enoughâ, that is a difference in quality, no?
Itâs not a positive no matter how you slice it. A TV dinner wonât beat a restaurant or even a homecooked meal.
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Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek, her family tree is well known.
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TIL. Well then IDK what the Egyptian authorities where up in arms about.
Because she was an Egyptian queen being portrayed incorrectly for woke virtue signal points lol.
Edit: Not even just the portrayal either, just straight up lying and claiming she was black which is 100% not true lol.
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Oh I see. So they basically used a black person to play a Greek? Was that the issue?
Well that and they openly said she was black, which is false lol.
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Really sad actually.
Younger generations are going to get a false sense of history from all these woke casting decisions.
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They were up in arms about portraying her as black. The article itself talked about the actress being bi-racial, but the problem the Egyptians had was that the actress looked black to them, and Cleopatra is generally viewed by historians as most likely having been similar in appearance to the Greeks.
Iâd say the article writer was being deceptive with their headline by trying to spin the issue around the actressâs parentage making her bi-racial (I think because the article writer wanted to make the Egyptians look worse - like âthese guys arenât just angry that she doesnât look accurate, but are actually angry about the actress having mixed parentage,â which clearly wasnât their focus).
I do think this is true.
One additional aspect that creates more difficulty today is that in todayâs era of movies, the movie medium is treated as seeking to establish accuracy. Everybody views modern movies set in historical eras as wanting to establish some kind of âcanonicalâ official version of events.
Part of the problem is theyâre usually not wrong about the ambition of todayâs movie makers. Producers, writers, even actors often speak in terms that show that that is is exactly what they want to do in their movies (or TV shows). That Cleopatra thing was an example of that.
So when an inaccuracy creeps in, especially if it ties into a widely known cultural goal of one political side, it doesnât look innocent, but rather like an underhanded effort to set in place a false view of history. If the inaccuracy starts getting serious negative attention, only then do the movie makers start to fall back on, âGuys, itâs just a movie / TV show, itâs not meant to be totally accurate.â (Which is what the Cleopatra makers started doing, but it rarely comes across as sincere).
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I dropped a new wow cinematic trailer in the toilet this morning, It was better than this.
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