2nd June 2010, 8:14 AM
You're being deliberately obtuse and you have to know how stupid of an analogy that is.
Ya that was a bad analogy. But if I'M OBTUSE, you're SCALENE!
Spiderman and its themes have nothing to do with race relations and the color of Peter Parker's skin is pretty arbitrary in the scheme of things.
Sure. So why stop at Spider Man? Let's recast every iconic American hero and role as different races. A black Clint Eastwood? A Vietnamese John Wayne, maybe? (After all, why can't we have black cowboys? A la Will Smith?) And Darth Vader will be Hispanic! Indiana Jones is half Philipino--didn't you know? My point is that these are established and beloved franchises and I for one DONT like them being rebooted at all... let alone changing the ethnicity of the main star. To cite examples, I H A T E the latest reboot of Bond... I loathed the woeful Star Trek reboot... and I never watched the newer Battlestar Galactica, but when I heard that they recast roles not just to different races, but from gender to gender...? They're NOT being original or creative here, they're JUST BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT for FUCK'S SAKE! Peter Parker has been established in a plethora of media forms as a white guy. If he had been established as a black guy, then LEAVE HIM BLACK. But he was not. Don't go back and change a hundred years of canon because it suits the prevailing liberal Hollywood winds!
Ya that was a bad analogy. But if I'M OBTUSE, you're SCALENE!
Spiderman and its themes have nothing to do with race relations and the color of Peter Parker's skin is pretty arbitrary in the scheme of things.
Sure. So why stop at Spider Man? Let's recast every iconic American hero and role as different races. A black Clint Eastwood? A Vietnamese John Wayne, maybe? (After all, why can't we have black cowboys? A la Will Smith?) And Darth Vader will be Hispanic! Indiana Jones is half Philipino--didn't you know? My point is that these are established and beloved franchises and I for one DONT like them being rebooted at all... let alone changing the ethnicity of the main star. To cite examples, I H A T E the latest reboot of Bond... I loathed the woeful Star Trek reboot... and I never watched the newer Battlestar Galactica, but when I heard that they recast roles not just to different races, but from gender to gender...? They're NOT being original or creative here, they're JUST BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT for FUCK'S SAKE! Peter Parker has been established in a plethora of media forms as a white guy. If he had been established as a black guy, then LEAVE HIM BLACK. But he was not. Don't go back and change a hundred years of canon because it suits the prevailing liberal Hollywood winds!
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