Right but there's an argument to be made that it should (spin Batgirl into a hispanic character). The problem with color-blind casting is that it's "inauthentic". It's one thing to cast anyone as the Little Mermaid, but if Barbara Gordon grew up as a hispanic girl in Gotham City her character would likely be very different. Having a hispanic character playing a character whose caucasian on the inside is kind of not satisfying to both worlds.
That said, I think they did a pretty good job with Black Canary. At her core, BC was the relatively the same person, but they showed how she (and her experiences) would be slightly different as a black woman in Gotham.
Christina Hodson is also clearly familiar with the various source materials, but I do think that when you binge read all the series at once in your own bubble, your take and experiences of the characters would differ.
I do agree that the Cassandra Cain thing was a debacle.
Her experience can be altered enough to where it suits the new actress without changing the basic idea of Barbara Gordon. I don't recall her being a WASP as intrinsic to her character. It's not like she's Black Panther
And Latino isn't even a race, so I'm not sure exactly what people are complaining about.
I'll give you that. And I ended up enjoying that version of Dinah, after railing about the casting beforehand. Same thing might happen here.
I'm just... I grew up with these characters, you know? I've enjoyed reading them for over 30 years. I just want them to adapt the characters I love faithfully, and not forcibly diversify them just so they can say "Look! We have more black characters!" or "Look, now Batwoman is a black lesbian!". Here's a thought- why not create new characters, invest in them, and let them become popular enough to become adapted? They created characters in recent years like Luke Fox, or John Henry Irons, or Natasha Irons, or even Naomi, for a more recent one, and now they have all had or will have live-action adaptations (they kinda went backwards on Ryan ******** introducing her first in live-action, then putting her into the comics recently). That kind of diversity I can fully get behind.
If they went with colorblind casting than I don't expect it to impact Barbara Gordon's character that much.
Like, a character like Renee Monotoya I'd expect that to inform the character because she was created that way but I don't really see that happening with Barbara Gordon.
I'm kind of curious if being black will impact Jeffrey Wright's Jim Gordon in Reeve's Batman film.