And therein lies the problem; whenever media companies start including minorities, an extra black person, a gay actor or (oh, worse!) a gay character or (ooohhh my god) a trans actor, you can bet your ass that it's not because they're sincerely try to be inclusive, they just have a shit product and use the minorities to reflect any criticism with "you're just minority phobic!"

Usually it's the writing that is just balls to the wall dumb, lazy, and just plain bad, sometimes it's the acting too. Either way, the show is bad, and if you dare to say so, you'll just end up in the "you hate trans!" camp even though you have nothing at all against trans

Just to clarify, AGAIN, give me a show with only black trans lesbians or whatever and if it's interesting or well written or just plain fun, I'll watch the shit out of it, as I don't care for a second about any of that, I just want good television.

Don't retcon existing characters into something different as that rarely works out (BSG Starbuck being a noticable exception to that, ST Picard's seven of nine being a very good example of that). Want a gay black character? Add one! But write the character well, give them a good back story, and FFS whatever you do, do it for the right reasons, not to cover up your shitty writing

With that in mind, yeah, they cast a black women in place, so I'm not holdingy breath about the new x flies being any good at all. I wish it were different

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

2 things:

First, there's no indication yet that they're retconning any characters. She was announced as one of the two leads, she wasn't announced as either Mulder or Scully (characters who may not even be in the show).

Second, this really comes across as you assuming she was only cast because she's black. Maybe, I dunno, she was the best audition for the role? Maybe the lead character she's playing is meant to be black to begin with?

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know homie I think Ryan Coogler is pretty sincere and he's made a billion dollars for the people who hire him so probably not a cynical as you think

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same could be said for JJ Abrams right before he tossed star trek off a cliff. It never recovered and now there is new worlds that everyone is raging about but I fucking refuse to watch it after having been disappointed to hell and back for over a decade

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lower Decks is great, it's a love letter to 90s trek. There is also a cool videogame called Star Trek Resurgence which is probably up your alley.

Also, X-Files already went off the cliff during its original run and when it was revived and they retconned everything in the first episode.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is a brilliant satire of bad faith arguments.