So I'm surfing the latest media news and such and I stumble upon the latest news of the Game of Thrones Spin-Off show called House of the Dragon and I see this article, where the showrunners literally say this stuff.
“It was very important for Miguel and I to create a show that was not another bunch of white people on the screen, 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.” Martin “toyed early on with the idea of depicting the Velaryons as Black conquerors who came to Westeros from the west,” which Condal immediately saw as the future of the series. “Once we had that idea, it just felt like everything fell into place,” Condal explained.
And now I feel like something is wrong here for me because I see that sentence, "create a show that was not another bunch of white people on the screen" And I am just thinking, How is this not a racist thing in of itself? Swap white with black and you can see the deal there. And then I read comments pointing the ironic problematic elements, the idea of a Targaryans as black supremacists and that in the actual canon we have now, the Targaryans engaged in the continental slave trade in Essos.
All I am saying is, have we gone too far with this trend of diversity casting and casting established white characters with black actors now? Like I didn't made a big fuss about what's her face in Obi Wan because she's a new/original character in the end, (still would not care too much about Obi-Wan with or without her), but the diversity casting here? It feels like it went full circle to be ironically racist.
‘House of the Dragon’ Showrunners Didn’t Want ‘Another Bunch of White People’ in ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff
"House of the Dragon" co-showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik set out to create a "reimagining" with more race representation.
www.indiewire.com
“It was very important for Miguel and I to create a show that was not another bunch of white people on the screen, 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.” Martin “toyed early on with the idea of depicting the Velaryons as Black conquerors who came to Westeros from the west,” which Condal immediately saw as the future of the series. “Once we had that idea, it just felt like everything fell into place,” Condal explained.
And now I feel like something is wrong here for me because I see that sentence, "create a show that was not another bunch of white people on the screen" And I am just thinking, How is this not a racist thing in of itself? Swap white with black and you can see the deal there. And then I read comments pointing the ironic problematic elements, the idea of a Targaryans as black supremacists and that in the actual canon we have now, the Targaryans engaged in the continental slave trade in Essos.
All I am saying is, have we gone too far with this trend of diversity casting and casting established white characters with black actors now? Like I didn't made a big fuss about what's her face in Obi Wan because she's a new/original character in the end, (still would not care too much about Obi-Wan with or without her), but the diversity casting here? It feels like it went full circle to be ironically racist.