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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 4827333" data-attributes="member: 21169">Yeah, settings can go out of date, attitudes change. What was fine in the 30s or 70s can look racist or sexist to us now. Fears of global warming, terrorism and the economic downturn have replaced the terror of a global nuclear exchange during the Cold War. The interest in Forteana, aliens and the weird of the X-Files era has given way to grittier more morally questionable fare such as 24.In fantasy settings, the treatment of black people in REH's Conan looks appallingly racist to us now, whereas it was unremarkable in the 30s. The 100% evil bad guys from Lord of the Rings seem better fitted to the World War 2 period than to today's world. Peter Jackson's LotR gives women a stronger role than Tolkien's. Present day retellings of the Robin Hood story make Maid Marion a lot more 'kickass' than she was originally. Out of 61 nations in the original Greyhawk boxed set, two have female rulers. Compare that to Eberron. The nuclear war parable of the Rain of Colorless Fire seems dated now, Dark Sun's ecological disaster feels a lot more relevant to contemporary concerns. The sexism and unexamined racism of the drow are a 70s timewarp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 4827333, member: 21169"] Yeah, settings can go out of date, attitudes change. What was fine in the 30s or 70s can look racist or sexist to us now. Fears of global warming, terrorism and the economic downturn have replaced the terror of a global nuclear exchange during the Cold War. The interest in Forteana, aliens and the weird of the X-Files era has given way to grittier more morally questionable fare such as 24. In fantasy settings, the treatment of black people in REH's Conan looks appallingly racist to us now, whereas it was unremarkable in the 30s. The 100% evil bad guys from Lord of the Rings seem better fitted to the World War 2 period than to today's world. Peter Jackson's LotR gives women a stronger role than Tolkien's. Present day retellings of the Robin Hood story make Maid Marion a lot more 'kickass' than she was originally. Out of 61 nations in the original Greyhawk boxed set, two have female rulers. Compare that to Eberron. The nuclear war parable of the Rain of Colorless Fire seems dated now, Dark Sun's ecological disaster feels a lot more relevant to contemporary concerns. The sexism and unexamined racism of the drow are a 70s timewarp. [/QUOTE]

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