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> I'm almost certain they cast these shows specifically so they can find someone on twitter to say something racist [..]

I cannot imagine being this cynical about something that is, at the end of the day, an Amazon Prime show.

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You can't imagine being cynical about a trillion+ dollar company taking advantage of serious issues and socially manipulating people so they can make more money?

Does the character work or not work? For me, the character works. Why do we need to be talking about his race again?

It's hard not to be cynical or entertain thoughts of Hollywood planning these things in case the show sucks. Because they can clearly do entertainment with diverse casting, non-white people, female leads and succeed:

  - Tom Holland Spider-Man does not have a red-head MJ, Flash is Indian and the made up best friend is Filipino. 
  - Domino in the Dead Pool movies is black. NTW doesn't seem to have the same powers and is gay. But I'm not sure what the current character status is.
  - Everything Everywhere All at Once
  - Black Panther
  - Shang Chi
  - Jordan Peele does good work: Nope, Us, Candy Man, Get Out
  - The Expanse
  - Life of Pi
  - Sandman swaps a bunch of stuff

Appetite for completely foreign media is much slower in English speaking countries but once in a while you get a major break through: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Parasite.

For iconic female leads: Terminator has Sarah Connor, Ripley from Aliens, The Bride from Kill Bill, Charlize Therons character in the last Mad Max movie. Buffy. I apologize for how narrow the genres are here.

I don't think the popular media for anything I just mentioned was too negative (maybe Black Panther?). Is it really just the fans? I bet the overlap of Rings of Power watchers and watchers of the stuff I listed is pretty big ...

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