I write my own stories. I don’t like what the Hollywood machine is doing to good storytelling, so I create my own. I commune with other writers. We carve out a space for ourselves so we can read the things we like to read. We throw our money and support to the things we like, and we ignore the things we don’t. Its…

Well, do it yourself and we’ll see. Got a funny story to tell? Write it.

This wasn’t satire. This was a humorous description of an amalgam of relatively common black American holiday family experiences.

Write one, and get it published, and then there will be.

I’m setting the amount of money that was discussed in that 20 minutes of secret testimony at £750K. Over-unders?

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I thought that same thing last night, this has Alex Kelley written all over it.

Aaagh and its the actress who played Saffy’s midwife! Best character ever.

Not to minimize his douchiness at springing an “intro to the family” thing on you when you didn’t expect it but his family also sounds like a shower of assholes. I can’t imagine being so ungracious and unkind to a guest, no matter how unexpected their presence was.

Its so far beyond whitewashing its like in another realm altogether. That, plus the trailer looking like is were made on someone’s personal computer using some cheap graphic design program makes me run in the other direction. Not even nine separate instances of Chadwick Boseman can make me want to see this (I’m…

Like I said, I’ll defer to the community most immediately impacted — Asian Americans. From what I can tell, they’re leading the charge. I’ll stand with them 100%.

“Some of my best friends are Asian!”

An Asian dude learning martial arts is definitely the lesser of two evils here. That he doesn’t know martial arts when he starts out makes the story way more credible in that regard.

You think the writers of both of those movies had no prior information about the stories when they wrote them? How did the plots come to them then? In dreams?

So what if it is? You know Marvel is a money-making operation, right? They don’t exist with the sole purpose of being nice to you. If they can expand their financial footprint by making a slight alteration to a single character they will. If that aligns with a large underrepresented group getting a superhero who…

Why? Characters get changed all the time. What makes this so controversial and others not?

Why is it worse? Why is it worse to look at a group of under-represented people who want to give you their money, look at your own roster of hella white guys, and say “Hey, you know what? Why don’t we just change some things up? It will make some people very happy and doesn’t impact the story at all — in fact it may…

What “saving face” is going on? People are tired of white dudes at the center of every universe. We want something different.

No.

Why not change them? If Asian folks — and non-Asian folk — are interested in seeing Iron Fist as an Asian man, why not do so? Is there any particular reason things must remain static, or why not mix it up?