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I don't know if it's been mentioned, but the BBC are doing a new show about Anne Boleyn....the casting is a bit.......off.

Even taking into account old portraits can be a bit stylised, I think its obvious what is wrong here.

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I don't know if it's been mentioned, but the BBC are doing a new show about Anne Boleyn....the casting is a bit.......off.

Even taking into account old portraits can be a bit stylised, I think its obvious what is wrong here.

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Black washing is just as heinous a crime as white washing. I am shocked that wokeness had so blatantly sunk to such a unheard level.
 
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Terthna

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I don't know if it's been mentioned, but the BBC are doing a new show about Anne Boleyn....the casting is a bit.......off.

Even taking into account old portraits can be a bit stylised, I think its obvious what is wrong here.

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The BBC is slowly turning into a British BET at this point; and personally? I wish they'd get it over with, and just cast black people in every single role. At least then, it would feel more honest.
 

Terthna

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The arrogance of those in business, particularly in the entertainment industry, has grown to the point where I think they believe they're owed money simply for existing. That's why they shit on their customers; because even if they drive some away, or even all of them, they think the human race is obligated to give them more.
 

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In...attempted fairness to Heavy Metal, it could be their new ownerships attempt at publicity. Make a big change to an iconic character, get an intern to throw shade on twitter that gets the attention of someone, bim-bam your company maybe gets a boost in sales and a brief feature-refernece in, like, Vox or somewhere's art editorials section (is...that even a thing? I admit I don't pay much attention to any of that space and even clicking on the YT vid for a brief instant came close to giving me a cringe-induced coronary just because 'YT vidoe reading tweets and expressing outrage' is just...such an aggravating and MASSIVE genre).

Basically, 'No such thing as bad press' writ into the comics industry, I suppose might be the defense?
Which seems easily beaten by the opposing 'Just let the character whose premise was rockin' boobage have rockin' boobage."
 

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In...attempted fairness to Heavy Metal, it could be their new ownerships attempt at publicity. Make a big change to an iconic character, get an intern to throw shade on twitter that gets the attention of someone, bim-bam your company maybe gets a boost in sales and a brief feature-refernece in, like, Vox or somewhere's art editorials section (is...that even a thing? I admit I don't pay much attention to any of that space and even clicking on the YT vid for a brief instant came close to giving me a cringe-induced coronary just because 'YT vidoe reading tweets and expressing outrage' is just...such an aggravating and MASSIVE genre).

Basically, 'No such thing as bad press' writ into the comics industry, I suppose might be the defense?
Which seems easily beaten by the opposing 'Just let the character whose premise was rockin' boobage have rockin' boobage."

This would make sense if we havent seen this pattern before, where a space is taken over, its past and base are denounced and purged, the space is redefined, transformed and destroyed. The only thing that ends it is collapse.

This how these people do things. They do it to forums, they do it to companies, they do it to entire countries. In thier minds the old fanbase are evil oppressors and they are the revolutionaries bringing social justice.
 

Captain X

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Actually watched a video by some rando recently that kind of made sense as far as their mentality. I've always kind of suspected that their intent was always to actually destroy these successful franchises, and this guy posited that they actually are trying to do just that, because they want the downfall of Western Civilization, and success stories not only work against their narrative, but are "stabilizing factors," so they go into it not wanting to be successful themselves, lest they be a stabilizing factor and work against their own goal of glorious communist utopia, which can only come about after our current way of life is destroyed. Actually kind of fit with what I've seen of their actions.
 

Lord Sovereign

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I don't think it's a case of all of them being out for the West's destruction (many of them really are just that stupid), but there's enough absolutely mad enough to hold such beliefs.

And that is a concern, if not concrete proof that we as a civilisation have lost confidence in ourselves.
 

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“Born too late to explore the Earth.
Born too early to explore the stars.
Born just in time to re-enact the Weimar Republic and the Fall of Rome.”

Or so it seems if the worse comes to pass. But I don’t intend to lay down and let it.

It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
 

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