Asian is not some interchangeable set. Japanese people are not Chinese and vice versa. Nor are they Korean, nor Thai, nor Indian nor Malaysian,,. There are greater visual differences between all of these than there are between Spanish people (who Americans have decided no longer count as White for some reason) and…

There's an exchange where someone asks him why he bothers weightlifting as his limbs are cybernetic. But I don't know if that implies just his arms are or if his whole body is. I do know that trying to attach cybernetic limbs without reinforcing the body would severely limit their capabilities though. But then sci-fi,…

I honestly think Scarlet Johanssen more likely got the role because she's a major and well-known movie star in America than because she is White.

Her body was cybernetic though so the question is whether anything clearly showed her body was Japanese. To quote Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, "Can we go back to the false eyelids - is that a thing now?" "YES!". I.e. when race becomes a choice the base assumptions you're using cannot be relied upon and people do change…

I don't really see what "point" was missed, in all honesty.

Very impressive.

So not much difference to Americans today then, bar the different terms for races. I can't read a simple TV review here without the author referring to "the asian metallo" or "the Ichabod's Black partner". Americans refer to everybody by their race habitually.

Oh come on. Ayn Rand could be awesomely hillarious. Like calling out someone in the middle of a meeting for cheating on her and publically laying an actual no-kidding curse upon his manhood. I would totally have done LSD with her.

I made a comment about this a little further up. I wonder if you have ever read Robert Anton Wilson's Shrödinger's Cat trilogy. There's a quite long passage in there during one of the sex scenes where they discuss Krazy Kat and Ignatz, iirc.

The British did not "steal" words. Britain was repeatedly invaded by a succession of other cultures. Changes in language were violently thrust upon them.

Krazy Kat was sometimes male, sometimes female. Most of what I know about the comic strip is from a weirdly in-universe analysis of the strip inserted into the Shrodinger's Cat trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. One of the characters - a university professor, iirc, is delivering an extensive lecture on Krazy Kat and…

He honestly looks tougher to me now than back then.

98% of fashion decisions have no practical value, yet the clothes are designed that way anyway because the designer / customer thinks it looks good or sexy. Will that change in the future?

Four hours? Movies are getting far too long these days. I blame LotR.

Is it? But there's only a reason to narrow your range of actresses by race if there's some specific reason why the character needs to be that race.

*Major appears out of thin air*
"Where did she come from?"
*Major punches someone and re-cloaks*
"Where did she go?"

Was the cyborg body (so far as that's not an arbitrary thing anyway) Japanese in the original anyway? It's a female manga character. I couldn't tell.

Yeah? Well they missed the point and you missed the apostrophe! "Bah!" I say to you. It looks absolutely sumptuous to me! ;)

I consider Watchmen to be both a very good film and also a pretty faithful adaptation. The only significant change it made to the story was an improvement, imo, and didn't change the meaning or motivations at all, it was just a better idea.

I thought what I'd do, is pretend to be a deaf, mute, Japanese person.