[AppyPappy]

Pit Dragons

[Lysandru]

Did this group of woke idiots actually read the novels? Truly dark-skinned folks are not native to Westeros.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Game of Thrones was an insult to anyone who watched any of it.

[Colo9250]

” not another bunch of white people on the screen”

Well if it is another bunch of black people on the screen I won’t be watching it, so go ahead and ruin it.

BTW, GOT was NOT a bunch of white people.

[Houserino]

This amazon lord of the rings show is going to bomb hard too. It’s all woke. Gets disastrous reviews for the trailer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

An ancient European-esque fantasy show and they don’t want Whitey in it. Got it.

[TexasFreeper2009]

actually, after reading this, it’s fine. They did it in a logical way.

They are basically making a splinter group of the sea people black.

[Drew68]

Great. So HBO is going to do to Game of Thrones canon what Amazon did to Tolkien.

The original series did have plenty of non-white actors, but it worked because they put them in roles that made sense. Dothrakis were often swarthy, black roles were found in Qaarth, Latinos often played Dornishmen. It worked when you looked at Martin's fictional map.

Now were supposed to buy into black Targaryens?

Netflix wanted us to buy black Vikings.

I don't care if non-white actors are used in roles, for crying out loud, but, please, make it make sense. Don't just put them in rolls to satisfy racial quotas because it distracts from the narrative.

[redpoll]

I can see why no one wants public comment on published articles. I’m thinking that selecting roles based on race is apartheid. The producers of this new show probably don’t want to hear that. So I guess I’ll just not watch it, ever.

[databoss]

Zzzzz

[Boomer]

So the show runners are hard core racists against white people. Good to know.

[TalBlack]

Blacks are cast way out of proportion to their level in the populace. It is getting kinda overdone to be honest. At what point may we say we don’t want to watch something that is just another bunch of blacks moiling around onscreen? (Asking for a growthful concerned friend.)

[Rurudyne]

When will they correct the lack of minorities in Wagner?

[arizonarick]

Is it racist to presume the antagonist will be white?

[dfwgator]

Haven’t watched anything from Hollywood or the Anglosphere in years.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Is this happening in Wakanda?

[x]

The upcoming spinoff prequel series has a more racially diverse cast

Grey Worm is a little puzzled by that.

[dfwgator]

I want to see a remake of Roots, with a white Kunta Kinte.

[Sicon]

Let’s play a little word-substitution:

“It was very important for Miguel John and I to create a show that was not another bunch of white black people on the screen,”

[pepsi_junkie]

“We wanted to find a way to put diversity in the show, but we didn’t want to do it in a way that felt like it was an afterthought or, worse, tokenism"

So you added some tokens.