I think the answer is simply that the showrunners (who give the cast their orders) have a hazy understanding of the audience. That’s evident in their handling of all the rape storyline controversies, and it’s evident in their lack of foresight when writing those scenes in the first place.

Odds on them casting Japanese actors and white American fans complaining about reverse racism?

What you’re describing is not really what I’m seeing on the show. I mean, it is, but it feels SO false. I mean, if the point of your show is that “the world is chaos,” don’t start making half-ass attempts at contemplating the morality of Rick’s POV, just to knock it down like a bully kicking down a sand castle.

“it gets very hard to feel bad for them when people try to murder them back.”

- padding every one of your 42 minute episodes with 5 minutes of badly-choreographed martial arts or shoot-outs is lazy and terrible.

They’d be dumb to let it be Abraham - he’s one of the few entertaining characters on the show.

I get the whole issue with sexism in art and especially comic art, I do. The Manara spider-woman cover was ridiculous and brought attention to an issue that needed to get blown up. But I just don’t think these images are that bad? Well, the Black Widow one is moving slightly in to sexist territory, and making it worse…

It’s called artistic license.

Joss Whedon would have blamed it on Chewbacca.

That will be a really interesting way to explore martial arts in a superhero show, although there’s the horrible possibility of the writers accidentally turning it all into Beverly Hills Ninja. But I’m kind of stoked about this move anyway, if simply because I know beggars can’t be choosers.

I know, right? And yet he has over 250 stars. It’s fucking ridiculous and frightening.

Please explain how Iron Fist is an example of cultural exchange. I hope there’s something more to it than fictional Asian characters, created and directed by white men, giving their mystical martial arts to a fictional white boy with smiles on their faces.

Bullshit, they are not equally offensive. First, the story would have be an Asian(-American) person who had NO knowledge of martial arts, then discovering them via Kun Lun or whatever. The character, white or Asian, doesn’t know martial arts off the bat. This is not a case of an Asian actor being typecast, and anyway,…

So the main argument all these white commenters are making is that if Marvel DID cast an Asian guy, that would be racist, because an Asian who knows martial arts is stereotypical, (whereas a white guy who knows martial arts has never been done before!) And yet, why do I get the feeling that these same people never…

Maybe, but come on. Casting an Asian as the lead was never really one of the options in the first place.

Sure, but one is “tired” while the other is “tired” and offensive in its cultural appropriation. I say this as someone who loves the Karate Kid and Big Trouble in Little China.

Relax, all they need to do now to balance out their morality ledgers is to cast plenty of Asian (American) love interests, asexual comic relief, enemy fodder, maybe a backwards old father of one of the love interests - So many opportunities for diversity!

Is there a more tragic food victim of xenophobia than Chinese Food? The awful “happy ingredient with herpes” urban legend. The cat food myth. The week old vegetables - alright that one’s usually true.

For some reason it doesn’t bother me. I’ll admit, I stopped caring about the characters after season 1, beyond calls for visceral human empathy like Oberyen vs. the Mountain. Yet I still love watching the show - it’s fun. It’s a guilty pleasure, like The Walking Dead should be. Jon Snow’s you-know-what moment had no…

“People didn’t want me to die, but he’s dead. So there you go, everyone has to get used to it.”