[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Tbh that sounds fake? I heard that someone on social media shared some footage where they "fixed" her themselves, but I really doubt Disney would do that.
(Apart from for the China release)

Maybe it is for that, which makes a mockery of diversity which can becset aside when it comes to box office receipts

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Not following this at all as its a movie aimed at little kids but what the hell if this is true....

Just leave the character black ...dear me

I agree.

They hired her so they should stick by their decision.

Ironically what they've done is racist.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Amazon Studios says:

Though to their credit they allow exceptions if the verisimilitude of the historical or sociological context demands it.

ABC Studios (Disney) has some policies:

(Comes from a pdf linked under "Content") The website is region-locked, so I had to link it through a USA proxy.

The BBC has specific strategies too:


That wasn't a copypasta, I found all the info in about five minutes total by googling.

Whether or not implementing such quotas and strategies is a good, bad, or indifferent thing is another discussion (tbh I'd say indifferent) but to write their existence off as paranoid delusions is demonstrably false.


It's not really the stories that are boring, it's more the characters and pacing. Long form storytelling has its place, but the problem here is in the execution, which sometimes sounds quite appealing there's just episodes and episodes where noooothiiing happens. The first five episodes could be told in two or three without feeling rushed, y'know?

The characters are also a problem. They're nearly all boring or unlikeable. The best bits are with Elrond, Durin, and Disa. I wish it was just them three having Eleven and Dwarven adventures.

But that's my opinion. It's mirrored elsewhere in both senses of the word so, eye of the beholder and all that!

Yeah I'm not really into badly paced Shows.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a superfan of rushing things either, but I would take that flaw over episodes and episodes of a "slow burn" which is a term that's overused nowadays by writers & critics for basically the story is **** until you get to a certain junction.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Tbh that sounds fake? I heard that someone on social media shared some footage where they "fixed" her themselves, but I really doubt Disney would do that.
(Apart from for the China release)

I wanna hope that it's fake.

[LaLaLand]

I’m just not seeing Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. Sorry. She’s too tame.

I wish they’d have gone for Harvey Fierstein to play her, he’d have been brilliant. The animated Ursula was based on legendary drag performer Divine (RIP).

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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Maybe it is for that, which makes a mockery of diversity which can becset aside when it comes to box office receipts

I was just being facetious/sarcastic when I said it was probably for China ... But I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

Disney acts like they're being "LGBT allies" by including gay couples in some background shots you can see if you squint, only to remove them for China. They self-felaciated over hiring John Boyega in Star Wars, only to almost remove him from the posters and minimise his role in the latter films.

Passive-progressive idiots.