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There is so much to unpack in that post I'd have to ask for a retainer up front E-- not quoting it. Digging the awful snype. Bad thread continues to be bad.
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mind the walrus posted:There is so much to unpack in that post I'd have to ask for a retainer up front After reading it a couple of times myself, uh... Hoo yeah, it's something. It's something already. Something I'm not as qualified to respond to as I initially thought it was. Anyway, getting mad the casting of people of colour to play roles assumed to be, but not necessarily "meant" for white people, especially in a fantasy show is kinda sus, just saying that much. And it instantly lumps you in with a bunch of otherwise fairly sketchy likeminded folks on that matter purely by association. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Well one of them was dropping the equivalent of the n-bomb in her native language on Twitter back when the casting for HoTD was announced.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:Well one of them was dropping the equivalent of the n-bomb in her native language on Twitter back when the casting for HoTD was announced. Okay so then I would like to amend my post nine-gear crow posted:Do the two Scandinavian How's that work for folks?
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mind the walrus posted:There is so much to unpack in that post I'd have to ask for a retainer up front I can venmo you $3, or whatever your going rate is Actually it does appear there is a lot more. https://twitter.com/CNymerosMartell/status/1563116506354835458 edit: oops missed your post: nine-gear crow posted:Okay so then I would like to amend my post I prefer the word bigot, but yeah TERFherder fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Feb 9, 2023 09:44
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They should have cast a black actor for either Jaime or King Robert. All the other casting unchanged, plot and dialogue unchanged. Edit: actually, replace exactly one of either Jaime, Cersei, Robert, or Joffrey, that would be even better. Dare the audience to make an issue of it. Kylaer fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Kylaer posted:They should have cast a black actor for either Jaime or King Robert. All the other casting unchanged, plot and dialogue unchanged. I liked how Louie CK did that in his show. His wife was black. Both kids were super blonde. Definitely seemed odd at first, but got past it pretty quickly. Took about a show to realize they weren't going to address it, that it was supposed to be a non issue. Unfortunately they did eventually address it a bit ( a one off comment that his wife was bi-racial ) , which sort of ruined the whole thing, but it was great while it lasted.
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Kylaer posted:They should have cast a black actor for either Jaime or King Robert. All the other casting unchanged, plot and dialogue unchanged.
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TERFherder posted:I can venmo you $3, or whatever your going rate is quote:I prefer the word bigot, but yeah  To "go there" one of the more annoying things is the conflation of "racist" and "bigot" as equal definitions in colloquial space. It's not something that can be changed but it still shouldn't be contributed to. That loving Avenue Q song choosing "racist" over "bigot" because it was phonetically better didn't help. Racists are people who-- when given a clear choice, especially one that would not impact them-- choose to hold to systems that minimize POC to get ahead, even if their personal feelings on race as "eh whatever." Bigots are people who actually like, give a gently caress about the skin color and features and all that weird diet fascist rhetoric where they actively dislike people based on more arbitrary cultural/physical categories and form reductive stereotypes accordingly. And there's a lot of overlap of course. Most bigots are racists, but a hell of a lot of racists are not bigots, and we've all done at least one or two racist things in our lives whether we realized it or not. These weirdos working for GRRM are definitely bigots, and likely racist, but going with "bigots" is the more accurate and safer bet. TERFherder posted:I liked how Louie CK did that in his show. His wife was black. Both kids were super blonde. Definitely seemed odd at first, but got past it pretty quickly. Took about a show to realize they weren't going to address it, that it was supposed to be a non issue. Toplowtech posted:Or you know you could cast the characters who were black in the book but weren't in the show of the "sorry we want to make a show about the confederate winning" duo. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Toplowtech posted:Or you know you could cast the characters who were black in the book but weren't in the show of the "sorry we want to make a show about the confederate winning" duo. It's been a long time since I've read the books, the only black character I can remember from the first three books is Jalabar Xo, who does absolutely nothing except hang out in King Robert's court in a fancy feather cape. I don't think he gets a single line. There may have been more in Feast/Dance, I didn't re-read those the way I did the first three, so I don't recall them as clearly. Still, even if there are, there's a whole lot of book content in which black people are essentially nonexistent, and that's all on GRRM.
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There was Ben Plumm, who supposedly has some kind of Targaryen blood.
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Kylaer posted:They should have cast a black actor for either Jaime or King Robert. All the other casting unchanged, plot and dialogue unchanged. A black Robert would’ve been fantastic because it would’ve made the whole plotline of him not noticing his kids weren’t his like a thousand times funnier, plus Eddard feeling like a genius for realizing it would be worth a few laughs too.
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In the end, Robert was the black dragon.
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Nae posted:A black Robert would’ve been fantastic because it would’ve made the whole plotline of him not noticing his kids weren’t his like a thousand times funnier, plus Eddard feeling like a genius for realizing it would be worth a few laughs too. Or just change it so that Ned realizes it literally instantly. Like, Robert's carriage rolls up to Winterfell, he comes stomping out of it, everyone bows, Cersei comes out, everyone bows, then Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen step out, all of them lily white and blonde as gently caress and everyone starts going  , then have Jaime ride up like Prince Charming and hop off his horse and stand behind Cersei and the kids and Ned's face just goes  right then and there.
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Ironic that known bastard Orys Baratheon was the one and only man in the setting whose hair wasn’t the same colour as his dad’s.
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nine-gear crow posted:Or just change it so that Ned realizes it literally instantly. Like, Robert's carriage rolls up to Winterfell, he comes stomping out of it, everyone bows, Cersei comes out, everyone bows, then Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen step out, all of them lily white and blonde as gently caress and everyone starts going This would be spectacular.
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mind the walrus posted:Louis CK is not the guy I look for when I want to think about social equity. That was either deliberate or incredibly poor choice. It's the best example I can think of where it was decidedly odd to cast a black woman, and it made me look at my reaction to that. Maybe you can share a better example instead of just criticizing mine?
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nine-gear crow posted:Or just change it so that Ned realizes it literally instantly. Like, Robert's carriage rolls up to Winterfell, he comes stomping out of it, everyone bows, Cersei comes out, everyone bows, then Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen step out, all of them lily white and blonde as gently caress and everyone starts going This would require a
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Evil Fluffy posted:This would require a Exactly. Instead, he should channel Butthead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMH45P63jM&t=11s Buttheaddard Stark.
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Kylaer posted:Exactly. Instead, he should channel Butthead: Robert: I WANT THAT TARGARYEN WHORE DEAD! Ned: Uuuuhhh... Settle down, Beavis.
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So we're safely past the point where it'll be more than 12 years since the last book was released into stores with still no end in sight.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So we're safely past the point where it'll be more than 12 years since the last book was released into stores with still no end in sight. Truthfully I never expected him to live this long.
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nine-gear crow posted:Or just change it so that Ned realizes it literally instantly. Like, Robert's carriage rolls up to Winterfell, he comes stomping out of it, everyone bows, Cersei comes out, everyone bows, then Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen step out, all of them lily white and blonde as gently caress and everyone starts going I read a fanfic where Jon Snow looks 100% like Rhaegar Jr and the only one who believes Ned's bastard stuff is Robert Ned Stark lie? Inconceivable!
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Barreft posted:Truthfully I never expected him to live this long. I really loving didn't either
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Barreft posted:Truthfully I never expected him to live this long. My Weekend at Bernie's feat. Linda and the Cuban Fuckboy theory not looking so stupid anymore.
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He's still several years under the average life expectancy of a USA male, and his massive wealth would statistically skew him towards the farther end of that bell curve. With a bit of luck he could have another decade of procrastination ahead of him.
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Deptfordx posted:He's still several years under the average life expectancy of a USA male, and his massive wealth would statistically skew him towards the farther end of that bell curve. Yeah, with a little bit of exercise and a healthy diet LMAO
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He’s got a couple years left till he its the life expectancy at birth for U.S. males. A random U.S. man who is already seventy‐four years old would be expected to live to about his eighty‐sixth birthday. Now those are figures for a generic man, not one of his wealth, or race, or body mass, and the table I used is notably from 2019. I’m not his life insurance agent; I just want to point out that life expectancy at birth isn’t particularly meaningful when talking about older people.
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George is really fat which probably impacts his health negatively. On the other hand he's rich and seems fairly active and healthy for his age. He can easily live another decade or two, his lifespan is not the limiting factor on him finishing the books he should have finished ten years ago.
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The wedding of Dany and Drogo was sexually exciting for at least one silver‐haired male. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbDIq112Ms&t=265s
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Keith Carradine had a similar story on the Duellists ; apparently stallions gonna stallion.
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Doing my first reading of Wheel of Time, and I'm on book 2. My opinion of GURM has dropped even further. ASoIaF is really just 'what if WoT had rape?'
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banned from Starbucks posted:Is he dead yet No, but Lance Reddick is 
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nine-gear crow posted:No, but Lance Reddick is It should have been you, GRRM. It should have been you.  gently caress, I think the first time I posted this was for the late Sir Terry Pratchett 
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