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I don't know what it is but for whatever reason I think Robin is significantly more sexy with this hairstyle than with longer hair.

OMG, she is absolutely gorgeous!

Well yes, modesty rules for women are invariably sexist and are usually the result of extremely patriarchal societies repressing any form of female self-expression.

But they have always been race-swapping so what is different about it now as opposed to ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, ... years ago?

I have no idea what you are talking about. I will start with "blame-shifting from Hollywood", since it's the first thing on your list. Who are they blaming? What are they blaming them for?

It's not just 100 years ago. I gave examples from movies that are less than ten years old. My point is that non-white-to-white casting has always been common, so why the sudden concern about white-to-non-white casting? Arguments/ideas have to be internally consistent for me, otherwise I don't see why I should bother.

Thank you! Gorgeous as always. Her freckles are adorable!

The woman is a walking piece of art.

So can you explain to me how black elves are "problematic" but Hollywood's 100+ years of race-switching isn't? Because I don't understand how any one person can have both of those beliefs at once.

I have no idea what you are talking about. The entirety of the debate has been like this: You: I hate it when they change the race of characters from their source materials in movies and TV Me: But this is not new, Hollywood has always done this

You are the one who brought this up!

I gave two examples because those are the first two that came to mind. There are so many more. Not just in classic Hollywood either. Jake Gyllenhaal playing a Persian. Scarlett Johanssen in Ghost in the Shell. Johnny Depp playing native America Tonto in the Lone Ranger. Anyway, I digress. I don't really care about any of those. And I don't see why I should care about black elves either. The thing I don't understand is caring about one and not the other. Either you want characters to conform to the racial identity in the source materials or you don't.

Do you think that that San Antonio PD would bother opening an investigation if they had absolutely no reason to believe that things weren't above board? If you are fine with politicians using taxpayer money for political stunts, that is up to you, I find it distasteful and frankly far beneath the level of seriousness I would expect from even a local politician, let alone a Governor.

I would say that was one of the best shoots of the modern era and they didn't even seem to have realized what they had...

How did she not get the cover that year?

I didn't know they were close but now that I do I find them a super-cute pairing. 😛

Mella giving the people what they want!

I notice that you haven't addressed my point about race-switching in Hollywood being almost as old as Hollywood movies themselves.

Those people were lured under false pretenses. That's why San Antonio PD has opened an investigation. As for the rest of this discussion, my only opinion is that Governors should try not to break the law. A controversial opinion, I know!

Sexy abs on her.

Her smile is adorable!

I honestly have better things to do with my life than worry about some online "culture war". I just abhor hypocrisy and much prefer honesty. So when people complain about too many black people in a fantasy show I would prefer they are honest about why it bothers them instead of hiding behind "authenticity" or some other bullshit. At least have the courage of your convictions. Secondly, Hollywood has ALWAYS changed the races of historical characters, it's not like they have started doing this in the last decade. That's how you can have John Wayne playing Genghis Khan or say Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra. On the subject of Cleopatra, the black community has claimed her as well, but it makes no sense either. She was Macedonian Greek which makes it very likely she was Mediterranean in appearance. But I digress, the reality remains that race-switching characters is almost as old as Hollywood itself. The only thing that has happened more recently is that whereas this was primarily white actors playing non-white characters in the past, we now occasionally also have a non-white actor playing a white character.

My point is that I cannot take seriously anyone who is supposedly a stickler for authenticity, but the only authenticity he/she ever complains about are matters of sex and race. Each historical drama gets so much wrong. The bad ones are even ridiculously poor in getting even the basics right (e.g. medieval settings where a character is wearing a garment with a zipper ).

DeSantis probably used tax money to break the law with his Martha's Vineyard stunt, so if that is political genius I guess we have a different definition of the word. I know that over here any Governor who uses tax payer money that way would instantly end his or her political career.

I don't care about Kathleen Kennedy or anything else. Four episodes in, Andor is a very good show. IF they can maintain this quality, it will easily be the best Star Wars show on Disney+, by some distance.