![[Maddening trope] More progressive casting happens at the same time as noticeable drop in quality, seemingly so fans can brush off criticism as bigotry.](https://preview.redd.it/x5pvgl7wdtkg1.png?width=140&height=78&auto=webp&s=3cceacbd2f83e39071383b3fc4a69f1ebbba400b "[Maddening trope] More progressive casting happens at the same time as noticeable drop in quality, seemingly so fans can brush off criticism as bigotry.") | 1 - Doctor Who: I'm sure most are familiar, but just in case: The main character of this show is an alien, who, when dying, instead of perishing completely, "regenerates", effectively dying and being born again, with new personality but all the same memories. Outside the story, it's a way to keep the show running for longer than one actor is willing to commit, still giving each iteration some uniqueness. When the previous showrunner stepped down, a seemingly complete moron took over the job, made the show steaming pile of dogshit, and made The Doctor regenerate into a woman. And now fans just say to critics "you just can't handle a female Doctor". 2 - MCU: MCU until recently used to whitewash characters a bunch, with for example the Romani Maximoffs and ?Tibetian? Ancient One being played by white people. Nowadays, the casting got noticeably better, with e.g. Ms Marvel, Moon Knight, America Chavez, being played by appropriate minorities. But since the well seem to be running dry on superhero stories, the quality dropped at the same time. And if you suggest that seeing Multiverse of Madness explored the concept of parallel dimensions worse than Red Dwarf, you "are just mad they cast a latina girl, and are a racist sexist". In the first example, I genuinely believe this was just E: *I knew that Whittaker's era was by Chibnall, Davies only came back later (with plenty issues of his own tbh), I just had a brainfart when writing the name. Like I said in a comment, RTD did way too much good for the series, for me to outright call him a moron. [link] [comments] |
