Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-108.49.79.202-20130613183103

Michael9797 wrote: I don't think a diverse cast is neccesarily a good thing, I think an inclusive cast is a good thing. Just because you have all races under the sun in your show doesn't make you a good person. Most shows try to put other races in their shows for the sole purpose looking politically correct. ^^^

I think with certain characters it can work, and with certain characters it can't. I personally didn't mind black Lancelot so much, but a Middle Eastern Ariel, for example, wouldn't work.

And that's because Ariel's appearance is iconic-the red hair, as someone said, represents her fiery personality. Her skin is meant to be light because the idea is that she doesn't fit in so well with her own people, but she fits in well with humans. And in the time period that story is set in, the bulk of the dominant peoples are light-skinned, because the darker-skinned were enslaved. It wouldn't work.

Same for Peter Pan. It wouldn't be the same if he wasn't blonde-haired, because the Lost Boys' appearance is a HUGE part of who they are. Personally, I think OUaT couldn't have done a better job there, they were fantastic and their outfits and appearances really capture what the Lost Boys are about. They even had a black lost boy, which worked fine, as long as Peter himself sticks to the image we know of him. Again, it's iconic, and it's meant to accentuate who he is.

With Lancelot, again, nothing changes with him being black. And the same with Jack being a woman, again. I don't see anything that changes because again, the protagonist of the story being male has little to do with the protagonist's personality and characteristics.

It works fine there.