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Mixed raced lesbian show gets cancelled and journos lose their mind(i.imgur.com)

75 points74 points77 points submitted by beerghal

LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

Exactly. Buffy did wokeness the RIGHT way because it, like most '90s "woke" shows, were about showing diversity without making it the crux of every character's whole being and making the show about that and only that. The characters were more human, and had hopes and dreams, positives and negatives, and many other character traits independent of their identity.

Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

I've seen complaints from movie critics about how modern woke characters aren't allowed to have flaws. Even if they come off as insufferable, within the storyline the character is presented as something better than what the viewers see.

In Buffy the characters were clearly flawed.

LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

Well, of course. Remember. These woke characters are specifically built to woke people, and they WANT flat, bland characters who are only their identity.

The flatter a character is, the easier it is for the reader to project themselves onto the character and imagine THEY are the one in all these adventures, and Hollywood knows the Wokesters are such vapid, mindless narcissists they cannot empathize with anyone who's not themselves- so the flatness makes it "this character is like me. No, scratch that, this character is LITERALLY ME, and I'M the one having adventures with all these characters and doing these things and I'm special and not a pathetic loser, honest!"

Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

The flatter a character is, the easier it is for the reader to project themselves onto the character and imagine THEY are the one in all these adventures,

Holy shit, i had never considered that but it is the exact same way they see men and women outside of movies too.

LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 1 year ago

Of course, and Hollywood knew that "super flat characters work because the viewer/reader can project themselves onto them" is money; it's been said that Bella being so flat and generic is a big reason for "Twilight" being so successful for that exact reason.