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Honestly, I'm thinking if there are drow they'll just be blue. Not unprecedented, as Acq Inc. will tell you.
Honestly, I'm thinking if there are drow they'll just be blue. Not unprecedented, as Acq Inc. will tell you.
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So ... we're going to have a blue drow Stabby Smurf?Blue. That works.
They are not moronic, but they also aren't concerns that couldn't raised for any movie that might get made.
Guess what? Whenever you make a fiction, there's a thousand different ways that it might be bad, or be taken the badly. You cannot address every single concern everyone can ever voice - if for no other reason than some of them are mutually exclusive, nor can you stop trying to make new stories just because they may not be perfect, block-busters.
A drow with beard, or a half-drow?
Oh, sure. Totally agree. But, again, it's not like the issues with Drow are subtle or require really sideways views in order to get offended.
Like I said, if you're going to have evil, beautiful (since drow women are always depicted as hot) matriarchs that hate men, worship a black widow spider demon, and then enslave men, I'm thinking that it's not too hard to see the message here. It's right freaking there. In big, bright, neon letters. Add to that the fact that they are all elves in blackface, and well, it's not exactly a stretch to see where this might be problematic.
Thor got away with it because, while the dark elves were, well, dark, there are no "light elves" in the movie to contrast with. You don't get the "light=good" thing going. And, most people can make the connection between dark elves and fairy tales. Not a big issue. But, had they used D&D drow in Thor, I think there would be a much larger negative reaction. Maybe not. Maybe I'm worried about nothing.
But, surely you can see why this might be an issue.
That is certainly one thing they can do, and there is nothing to suggest there are any surface elves in the movie. D&D does not need an "elf role" party member. I can think of plenty of games in which elves and half elves have never appeared, either as PCs or NPCs. They are supposed to be rare and reclusive, and the world is human dominated.And you solve your own problem: Just don't have any non-drow elves in the movie.
I think you are over reacting. I think most people will be intelligent enough to understand that drow are primarily inspired by broadly "dark elf" types of fey from norse and other germanic and western euro mythology in general. Just like i think people are smart enough to comprehend that nyarlathotep is not a "black man" racially, hes a thing, in roughly humanoid form, who is the color (not the race) black. As in unnaturally and supernaturally physics defying levels of pure darkness. You should assume people are smart enough for basic things and not worry about that gettung in the way of audience reception. I give people credit enough to not be considered dumb by default. I dont assume. If they prove otherwise then they prove otherwise. Have a little faith in the average human to not be too dumb to know drow are fey and not black. Sad day if they cant do that. People tend to be reasonably intelligent (enough) and roughly sane.Oh, sure. Totally agree. But, again, it's not like the issues with Drow are subtle or require really sideways views in order to get offended.
Like I said, if you're going to have evil, beautiful (since drow women are always depicted as hot) matriarchs that hate men, worship a black widow spider demon, and then enslave men, I'm thinking that it's not too hard to see the message here. It's right freaking there. In big, bright, neon letters. Add to that the fact that they are all elves in blackface, and well, it's not exactly a stretch to see where this might be problematic.
Thor got away with it because, while the dark elves were, well, dark, there are no "light elves" in the movie to contrast with. You don't get the "light=good" thing going. And, most people can make the connection between dark elves and fairy tales. Not a big issue. But, had they used D&D drow in Thor, I think there would be a much larger negative reaction. Maybe not. Maybe I'm worried about nothing.
But, surely you can see why this might be an issue.
???????I think most people will be intelligent enough to understand that drow are primarily inspired by broadly "dark elf" types of fey from norse and other germanic and western euro mythology in general.
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Have you actually met a human?!
Not exactly, I'm saying that a typical human is more likely to know the judges on X-Factor than the slightest thing about Germanic mythology, and has not the foggiest notion what "betwixt" means.???????
Are you saying that humans cant tell the difference betwixt real racial mockery and something that has nothing to do with racism and that not all human's distress about percieved racism is equally justified?
Ah. Then we should educate them. Culture is a wonderous thing and as we know, and we must be inclusive.Not exactly, I'm saying that a typical human is more likely to know the judges on X-Factor than the slightest thing about Germanic mythology, and has not the foggiest notion what "betwixt" means.
This is the book for you:Ah. Then we should educate them. Culture is a wonderous thing and as we know, and we must be inclusive.
Lol. Probably right about the x-factor judges and betwixt but coincedentally ive bever watched x-factir and dont know who judges it.
Dont crush mah dream of people being smart enough to not be dumb. Please dont
Im very ideologically attached to people not being utterly unreasonably incensed by non-black face that they should recognize as non-black face.
Dont tell me people are stupid. Please. Stahp.
Do you realize that most people don't know anything about "dark elf' types or norse, germanic, and western mythology? I think you have your blinders on a bit.I think you are over reacting. I think most people will be intelligent enough to understand that drow are primarily inspired by broadly "dark elf" types of fey from norse and other germanic and western euro mythology in general.
It has little to do with intelligence and more to do with ignorance. Western mythology is barely taught (if at all) in most of the world. Even in western countries there are hundreds of millions of people who are ignorant of the mythology. Heck, in the USA mythology is not a required class and I would bet 2/3 or more of the population would have no idea what your talking about. Your lucky if they know the greek gods. You can't expect someone to know what your talking about if they never been taught.Dont crush mah dream of people being smart enough to not be dumb. Please dont![]()