Once again, free speech means that the government won't censor your speech. It doesn't mean that individuals won't boo you and shout you down, or that they can be forced to listen to your speech.

That's my main point. There's no way Hollywood casts a super dark actress in this role. It's sad really.

it varies but back in the 90s, her mom (in flashbacks) was shown to be pretty light skinned, her dad darker. But it is hard to tell because every colorist gives her a different skin one.

On the one hand, I see your point (though I figure they're going for a Halle Berry analogue) but on the other, Storm didn't pop out of the womb with a commanding presence. She spent time as a waif on the streets. We don't yet know how they may adapt her backstory to present the X-Film version of young Ororo.

The issue here is what it always is. Black women are semi-ok as long as they have light skin. They're not desirable otherwise. They have to* cast a brown woman in the part but they're going to use the least** brown woman they can.

Huh... you know, I've been less than enthused about the casting, but the way you frame it makes it more interesting to me rather than less. I'd actually like to see what Cumberbatch does with a heroic role (though Strange is a little darker than some of the others we've seen out of Marvel), and Ejiofor, though he does…

Africans don't all have the same skin tone!

Yeah, the guys pretty cool:

Let me throw a curve ball in regards to Chiwetel Ejiofor in Doctor Strange…..Just spitballin'

In the heat of the battle we struggle to understand the gravity of it all.

Fun fact: Patrick Stewart got called in to talk about playing Professor X - when he said he didn't read comic books, they showed him one. He said, "What am I doing on the cover of a comic book?"

but hey Singer takes ridiculous liberties as it is.

As a former lover of the show, I find myself deeply ambivalent about this.

I'm not convinced a movie wouldn't work. But they made it as the wrong genre. They made it an action movie.

I believe as well that a series/serial is the best non-lit media for this story. But, it would need to be taken a step or two further. Keep the book as the foundation or dogma of this universe, but expand on the ideas, create new stories of similar type, but keep the series moving through it's history as the book…

You very well may be right. However, each of the chapters and locales have such strong characters and plots of their own that I think it would do well as a short series. Just look at Black Mirror, for instance—each of those is a compelling story in its own right, and all they have in common is technology.

Yeahhh, I get that you have an opinion but it's /wrong/. The scene when she's being "interrogated" in Russia? Gold. Her first interactions with Bruce Banner? Just banter but also great. And then when she tricks Loki into revealing his plan? Black Widow is far from useless, Scarlett Johannsen is a great actress, and…

I don't know. In The Avengers she has some good moments. She outsmarts Loki, which pretty much no one else has ever been able to do. She also survives The Hulk, which is an accomplishment on it's own. She's also pretty good in Iron Man 2 and Captain America 2. If anything, I would say that the biggest problem…

"We do appear to come at opinions differently. I can't empirically prove she's a stupid character, ergo that's my opinion. I take it as a foregone conclusion that just about anything out of anyone's mouth that isn't somehow supported by evidence is an opinion, especially on the internet."

The Gouro Mask Dance is amazing. The amount of strength and talent required to make such accurate, fast, fluid body movement isolations is incredible! All that with very limited vision.