@robertos:
I'm reading the critic reviews for it right now. None of them mention a black elf being the reason for the show being bad. It would be very silly suggest a show is bad due to a side character having a slightly darker skin tone, and no other real reason. It was bad due to bad writing through and through. I have comprehensive citation showing you are wrong by any critic review link I can find.
Just like how race swapping for a major character (and gender swap for minor ones) in Dune had zero negative impact afaik. Like how black Valarians didn't stop House of Dragons from doing well. A female Stormfront didn't tank The Boys. Black Nick Fury didn't destroy Avengers. Black Domino didn't harm DP2. 97' is doing great on all fronts.
Race/Gender swapping doesn't really alter quality, bad writing and bad acting does. Most well adjusted normal adults don't care about this and do not have political brainrot. If the show or movie is good, they'll watch it. I thought this is something everyone understands once they reach
No critic would ever criticize the race of any actor unless they were white. If you had a fictional universe deep in Asian lore and half the cast was white progressive critics would have a field day with it. It's the same reason they destroyed " God's of Egypt ". and specifically mentioned the white cast. All you have done is proven my point that most Metacritics are nothing more than leftist shills. They will never criticize a race swap unless it's a non white character being swapped.
Looking at the ratings of " House of the Dragon " it is still significantly less popular than " Game of Thrones". So black Velryons do not seem to have done the series any favors.
@robertos:
Yet X-Men 97' is still doing great. No one cares that it's clearly steeped in progressive ideals and full of blacks and women. Or that they made Morph gay or whatever. Because the writing, va, and art are good. That is what matters most in a medium.
The show literally has two black main characters and 8 strong straight white male main character. When is the last time a modern piece of entertainment had 8 straight white male characters that were bad ass ? Most modern media would make the white male characters useless are completely inept( modern Star Wars) and X-Men 97 did the opposite. Hell this is the best Cyclops has been in 30 years.
As for the original intent.
Speaking on Coast to Coast AM with guest host Ian Punnett, Lee stated unambiguously that the analogy was not his intention when creating the X-Men in the 1960s.
“No, it was the furthest thing from my mind,” Lee said when asked if the X-Men were meant to symbolize gay rights issues at the time. “I was just trying to think of something that would be dramatic.”
Lee explained that the theme of mutants feared and persecuted by society for their differences was simply a plot device to drive engaging stories. There was no conscious paralleling of the X-Men’s struggles with real-world discrimination or against LGBTQ+ people.
Hmm but what about Chris Claremont? The guy who wrote some of the best X-Men stories?
Claremont noted that it would have been "incredibly presumptuous" for him to base his characters on King and X, America's two most famous black civil rights leaders, though the opposing mutants share some tangential similarities with both activists. Rather, Claremont drew on his own experiences in Israel, and his understanding of Menachem Begin as inspiration for his stories.
Prejudice is bad is not a modern progressive idea. As we know it it's modern leftist who are primarily calling for the Death of jews. X-Men is written in away that anyone can enjoy it. So although progressives want to believe mutants are a stand in for any discriminated minority the story is written in a way that it can be interpreted differently based off your beliefs.and yes it also happens to be really good.
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