Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160123215734/@comment-1916997-20160124163710

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: Moved to Off-topic Fun as it sort of isn't about Once.

Once has diversity, lol. They just have the diverse cast having an unfair proportion of terrible roles. i mean I'm glad they did a black Rapunzel and Ursula, despite that racial insensitivity from some voal online fans not understanding that purple people don't exist or the Rapunzel story is part of tons of cultures.

They do great things like an POC Gwen, which isn't really a first, but then they have her in a magical "r+ape" situation and still stuck in it. They have a young, POC Merlin which is new to me and now they depower him and kill him off. We have Gus Gus, dead, Lancelot was dead, but now is in Offscreensville as he tends to be, Marian disgraced and dead, The Dragon dead, Mulan unhappy, Lily not Latina and off-sceena and not resolved, and so on.

Handling diversity is the part they do decent to bad with. A great message to sedn to the Audience than to cast a POC as the first major person you realize and then have them killed off (The FGM, or a stretch, Henry Sr.) or unhappy, the EQ versus the light magic wielding blonde-blue-ey(actually green, but you get my point)....I'm just going to stop, lol. Well, yes, it has diversity, but as you pointed out, they are not really equal to the white straight characters. Even when we add new mains (like Will, Robin, and Zelena), they are white and straight. I think that would mostly be coincedental due to the fact that most of their added roster per arc are primarily white actors/actresses and the character orientation is left at least at straight. I may want diversity but I'll be totally fine not having Mulan and her random bff become a main, primarily because it's sort of too late to really matter. So, continued diversity is fine, just don't really expect them to be in the main cast. Because truth be told, we don't really need this big of a cast when people like Robin are twidling their thumbs in the background doing nothing. I get what your saying, but at the same time, every other drama currently on ABC has at least one main cast character that is a POC, and most of them also have a main cast character that is not straight. It just makes Once look bad.