Spike0503 on 10 September 2018
| WolfpackN64 said: Just going to throw my two cents in. I know why people get upset when they do these kind of things. And most people are not upset because of some "SJW" stuff (although that seems to be present, but that's beside the point). People's backgrounds matter, and so does the color of your skin. You don't cast a white woman to play Mulan, you don't pick an eas-asian man to play Black Panther, you don't cast a black woman as Hermoine and you don't cast someone from a minority as Ciri just because. Why? Because if creators have so little regard for one of the most basic parts of a fictional characters identity, namely, how the character looks, it feels like they don't care for the character at all. People cosy up in a fantasy world, just for someone to pull the rug from under our feet because something is going to be changed that didn't need to be. And this is not a call against diversity because there supposedly where no minority people in a medieval European setting. For the Witcher does have people of color who travel from distant lands, just like we had some minority in medieval Europe (like the Turkopoles). This just feels like they want an empowering character for minorities, which is totally fine, but these characters already exist in the Witcher universe or if you want to be creative, just make a totally new character. All this would do is create a needless media storm and I don't want to see that happen to the Witcher. |
This. I agree so much, I've been saying the same thing on this thread: Create new characters, don't replace already made ones for BS forced "diversity".
