Oh man, that is a nice little twist on this knife in the gut situation. I managed to get to Episode 7 of Iron Fist and then completely lost interest. I stand by my feeling that the real issue isn’t anybody in the cast or the fact that they ended up going with a white Danny Rand, but that they seriously dropped the…
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My headcanon is that it went down something like this:
Heady skateboard kid, let’s call him Travis Birkenstock, was sampling some baked goods he and his buds had made with their best batch of weed butter yet and Drew was like, “Yo dude this shit is nioce” and Adam, shaking an old lollipop stick from his magnificent…
A few really obvious ways:
Yeah, plus I heard they were murderers
Well, I signed up for some stunt races but now my Mazda is all fucked up and I can’t afford the take it to the autobody shop
Well, I signed up for some stunt races but now my Mazda is all fucked up and I can’t afford the take it to the autobody shop
Good topic. I am wondering though, do you have tips for making money IRL? Feels more useful
I don’t think he is interested in reducing his sentence or anything. He’s an ideologue and thinks that his actions will convince white women to stop fucking men of color and inspire white people in general to embrace white supremacy. Like all terrorists, he’s disconnected from reality. In his world, white folks think…
Word, she’s already in the Marvel TV family. It is sort of baffling that nobody asked the experienced Asian American showrunner who has an office in the building (figuratively speaking of course) for her opinion about the controversy. I mean if Buck can be working on both Iron Fist and Inumans, there’s no reason why…
Uncrustables (you can find them in the freezer aisle)
Yeah, I’m pretty early into the show myself and have heard it improves somewhat, but I agree. It has been very formulaic so far. I remember on the first episode I was predicting what was going to happen out loud (somersault, mugging, that guy is dead ect ect) and then cracking up when it did.
I disagree. Not that casting Lewis Tan or somebody couldn’t have been good, but I don’t think were Marvel really screwed up was in keeping Danny Rand white, it was in hiring a white dude who apparently has little to no internal critique of white privilege or racism as showrunner for a show with a problematic history.
Yeah, I am honestly hoping that what happens after Defenders is that they take a cue from comics history and just fold the flailing Iron Fist into Luke Cage. More specifically, that they just give Danny and Colleen to Cheo Hodari Coker and the team on that show to use as they will
The problem with Iron Fist isn’t that Danny Rand is white or that Finn Jones does a bad job playing him, the problem is that it was poorly written, poorly directed and there was only like half of a vision of who the character is and why people should be interested in him.
I mean I don’t know, but based on the kind of insular nature of young people’s FB community, I’d be willing to bet that the majority of the viewers were teenagers themselves and at least one of them DID do something and notify an adult
Unlikely, it seems like most places are reporting it as accidental
I think that’s part of OPs point. It wasn’t just the trolls that made that section so painful, a big chunk the “smart, hilarious and opinionated” not overtly trolling folks did their share too with the whole “I support trans rights, but transwomen aren’t women” thing.
Oof. Those comments were a painful reminder of how far behind the curve even we the “liberal” bulk of kinja commenters are. So many people claiming to support the rights of trans people but also claiming that trans women aren’t women. I agree it wasn’t just the trolls. Seemed like Adichie’s comments were taken by a…