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Originally Posted by Nelson
Agree. It even has a name in the media: "color-blindness". It means that the person in charge are not necessarily racists, but a little clueless about race themes. A little like what happened recently with Michael Bay and the twin robots in Transformers 2.
I'm usually against suddenly changing the race or personalities of the characters just to be PC, but I think that, when making an adaptation, the people in charge should educate themselves on why the original characters where created that way, and then decide if they should continue doing it just as it was or make some adjustments. April was a damsel in distress (and also a somewhat selfish person) probably because the OT writers were just used to see female characters be like that and not because they had have a secret agenda against women. But no matter the reason, the end result looks a little bad and a little ignorant.
In short, authors should write about what they know. I'm against introducing a "minority" character in a show just because, and specially if the people in charge don't know anything about that world. If you are going to have a, say, japanese character in your show, you should either be japanese, or lern about japanese people and culture beforehand, or change the nationality of the character to one you know. If not, the creators just end embarrasing themselves.
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Exactly.
I'm by no means saying that the people behind the OT are racist, but that their choices with the show are a bit suspect and dodgy. It's quite possible they didn't even notice it, which right there is really rather telling.
And yeah, tokenism doesn't do anyone any good either. Trust me when I say that I'm kind of against April being Ninjafied after a single montage. I don't need her to kick ass, I'd just like her to be competent and more than just a plot point.