Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150428200304/@comment-7345267-20150501175959

GothicNarcissus wrote: Well, to be honest, to me it's still about the characters: we've had a lot of caucasian one-shot characters that didn't get their happy ending or were dropped there and then or killed off as well, so I still see it as unrelated to the ethnicity of the actors as much as what the plot demands.

As for the articles, I think all those points are mostly in the watchers' eye rather than in the show itself. It would be interesting to know who wrote them and how much they actually projected their own experiences into something that has little to do with them. This infuriates me a bit because, speaking frankly, I have faced my share of xenophobia and homophobia in my life, but that doesn't mean I need to see them everywhere I look. Should I be angered that there has been only one LGBT character in OUAT and she didn't get her happy ending? Hell no, I'm more invested in where the show is going than in what could appease whatever happened in my life due to my being of mixed descent or gay. I can come to term with that on my own rather than blaming tv for that.

If anything, yes, I would love it if the show included more Asian, African, Native American, Aborginal, East European, Middle Eastern folklore beside the West European fairy tales they've adapted so far, so the "global heritage" feel would be even more distingushable, but there's still hope in the next seasons for that. :) Again, I completely agree!

What troubles me in Hollywood is that there always seems to be some push by fans to make pretty much every show the flagship for more "diversity". I think that it's unfair to expect any particular show to add in more POC or LGBT characters just to have more POC or LGBT, if that makes sense. Should there be more POC or LGBT characters in mainstream TV shows? Absolutely. But it takes a variety of factors to make that sort of change. Society has to be ready, the writers of whatever show have to be ready, and the actors have to be available. I have never been bothered by the ethnicity of the actors on this show. Granted, I am white, but I'd rather see the best actor for the role. I mean, I would have been pretty miffed if, say, Mulan was white or black, but as Gothic has said, the majority of the stories featured on the show were written by "white" people, for "white people".