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that guy strife said:

While I agree with you that seeing black people in a modern re-telling of a story where black people weren't present is jarring - those minorities have all been oppressed for a looong time and absolutely deserve their turn in the spotlight.

I wish we could just move to normalizing them and stop shoving them everywhere, but sadly the vast majority of people will need plenty of exposure to start accepting. So while it's grating to me, I'm glad it's happening.

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Imo its fine in a strictly fantasy setting but too many shows try to use it as a shield for bad writing.

For example they made it work in S1 of The Witcher but not after that. Now the writing is atrocious and every village looks like Los Angeles. Then in Rings of Power they did themselves a disservice by surrounding the minority characters with bad writing. Like Durin's dwarven wife was actually one of the better characters in the entire show but then was overshadowed by being in such an overall poorly written show. And of course public discourse will never have enough nuance to truly articulate and understand why the show was bad. Which was the poor writing and not the minority characters.

Which all circles back to the same kinds of problems you get which such thigs. You get creators that are more concerned with propaganda than quality storytelling and the propagandists always seem to end up taking over and running the entire thing into the ground. Mainly because quality was never the #1 priority in the first place.