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Ttthhasdf t1_j1vmdoa wrote

Reply to comment by SanSeb in Why still the push for "woke" tv-shows and movies, when almost all of them result in a flop? by [deleted]

I haven't watched house of dragons but aren't there black characters and female characters?

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jankyspankybank t1_j1vn0fy wrote

Yes, in fact early in the show the female leads mother dies from child birth in a gruesome way as a commentary on how women are valued in that society.

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lt_dan_zsu t1_j1vp0px wrote

Yes, his contrasting example is hilarious because they also race swapped characters lmao.

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TurrPhennirPhan t1_j1vqqyz wrote

The black characters were also white in the book.

The anti-“woke” crowd did, in fact, lose their collective shit over that.

Meanwhile, the Velaryons are probably the one family you could portray as black without breaking established lore and Steve Toussaint crushes it as Lord Corlys.

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