Nobody is making a big deal about it. I said it was a minor issue I had. Is it going to make me not watch this show? Of course not.
Nobody is making a big deal about it. I said it was a minor issue I had. Is it going to make me not watch this show? Of course not.
why is it an issue at all?
First thing I'd like to say is I don't want this thread to be turned into a topic of race. To answer your question I find it dumb to change any characters race. If an established character is white leave them white, don't make the black, hispanic, asian. If a character was black leave him black, don't make him white or any other race. TV shows/movies featuring superheroes have an opportunity to make a new character, not change an existing one.
That's what's bothering me, but like I said at the end of the day I'll still watch this show.
I disagree
if you find an actor that can do the job, they may not be the "canon" color but have the spirit of the character down, there shouldn't be an issue with that actor getting the role
and when adaptations create new characters instead of using plenty existing characters, there is a lot more backlash
I try and not judge on pilots - pilots are, for the most part, a rough draft of what a show is supposed to be
I enjoyed it, and its your standard CW show with aesthetically pleasing people and melodrama but amped up because of the content
I shall watch it and hope to enjoy its first season
I really don't see an issue with changing Iris' race. Sometimes race, religion, or sexual orientation is essential to the theme of a character, but I don't believe this to be the case with Iris.
Also, I get the idea that they mainly chose to make her black in the TV so that they could use Jesse L. Martin as he father.
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I hope you aren' t including me in the list of people making a big deal. I could care less about Iris's skin tone. I'm not a huge fan of the flash comics so I don't really know her. I do know Bart Allen and I am wondering if his persona would have to be changed when being played by a black actor. The Kingpin I grew up with was the guy on the fox spider-man cartoon. The perry white I grew up with was lane smith. I love Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury though.
No. just a general statement in reaction ive seen to the casting and now the pilot in various corners of the internet
If you don't want a thread to turn into a topic of race, don't bring the topic up. Most of us have made up our minds about the race change one way or another months ago, nobody was talking about it until you introduced it into the conversation. Sorry, you don't get to dictate how people respond to something you say or bring up. Don't want to talk about something? Just don't talk about it.
That'd be an admittedly wise policy to employ, but I will say that, rough draft or not, a terrible pilot can turn someone off watching the series at all, even if it becomes a lot better, if not brilliant, whilst a brilliant one, or solid one, could keep people flocking, or watching, each week, regardless, perhaps, of how weak a couple are early on.
The promise made so early on could keep them, or the warning to leave this series be.
Yeah, I get what you're saying, I think - though, with Flash, that's THREE CW superhero shows I've watched, five action, if you add The Tomorrow People, or Supernatural, even The Vampire Diaries, so I wouldn't be too sure what CW shows minus much action, horror etc would be like.
And, yeah, I think, if my parents are anything to go by, the aesthetically pleasing people thing's been going since The WB, i.e. Smallville on to now.