TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Many times I've mentioned this is one of my big Sci fi and fantasy pet peeves.
Small village of 1000 people completely isolated from outsiders for 1000 years?
Yet....everyone is white except for one black extra.
Sure sure. Genes can hide in the background before popping out unexpectedly.... But really it's just crap casting of extras. They didn't think about it logically.


Black Anne Boleyn or Asian Russian nobles on the other hand I'm fine with. World building isn't at the core of what these shows are doing. They're about the characters and race blind casting is a valid choice.

I don't think the idea is that any of them are actually white or black or asian. They are just characters, and their identity, personality, and story is not more relevant to their ethnicity then their hair or eye color or whether they are tall or short.

Just ignore it.

They aren't characters. They're set dressing. And just as worthy of note as Romans wearing Rolexes.

[celedhring]

Squid Game notes: I agree with Tyr. The Korean version of marbles is pretty shitty.

How did you play it in your countries? Over here, the goal was to use your marble to first have it land inside a designed hole on the ground (or ring drawn on the floor), and then use your marble to strike the opponents' marbles several times and in several fashions (depended on the variant of the game played) and then have your marble land again inside the hole. First player to do it won everybody else's marbles (if you played "true", you could also play "false" and no marbles were bet).

[Josquius]

I remember it being pretty much bowls.
Roll one as a jack and then take turns to roll yours to try and get closest to the jack, knocking opponents marbles away, defending your position etc....

[jimmy olsen]

Many times I've mentioned this is one of my big Sci fi and fantasy pet peeves.
Small village of 1000 people completely isolated from outsiders for 1000 years?
Yet....everyone is white except for one black extra.
Sure sure. Genes can hide in the background before popping out unexpectedly.... But really it's just crap casting of extras. They didn't think about it logically.

Visit Brazil. Wildly different phenotypes pop up in the same family and it's not because of adultery.

[jimmy olsen]

The Wheel of time is not medieval, a common misconception, it is post-apocalyptic.

True, but the tech level in the series is generally 1700ish sans gunpowder.

[Eddie Teach]

So where are the clocks and the spectacles? It looks pretty medieval.

[The Brain]

Why don't they use gunpowder?

[Duque de Bragança]

Squid Game notes: I agree with Tyr. The Korean version of marbles is pretty shitty.

How did you play it in your countries? Over here, the goal was to use your marble to first have it land inside a designed hole on the ground (or ring drawn on the floor), and then use your marble to strike the opponents' marbles several times and in several fashions (depended on the variant of the game played) and then have your marble land again inside the hole. First player to do it won everybody else's marbles (if you played "true", you could also play "false" and no marbles were bet).

Matches my memories, with bigger marbles having sometimes a special role or more value.

[Josephus]

So far, I'm really enjoying Dexter: New Blood. It's very much like the early seasons.

It's watchable. It's predictable. You know where it's leading. But yeah, it's watchable.

[Josephus]

Squid Game notes: I agree with Tyr. The Korean version of marbles is pretty shitty.

How did you play it in your countries? Over here, the goal was to use your marble to first have it land inside a designed hole on the ground (or ring drawn on the floor), and then use your marble to strike the opponents' marbles several times and in several fashions (depended on the variant of the game played) and then have your marble land again inside the hole. First player to do it won everybody else's marbles (if you played "true", you could also play "false" and no marbles were bet).

Hmmm...it's been a while. I remember something like:

Four marbles in a square (two from each player).
Then we each had a bigger marble which we used to knock out the marbles from the square. You kept the marbles you knocked out of the square. there may have been rules like your big marble had to clear the square for it to count, etc.

[Josephus]

here is pretty much my game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewqFhNw9k7g

[Darth Wagtaros]

Why don't they use gunpowder?

Because only a small guild had access to the recipe, and they would kill themselves before revealing it.  It was put into general use later in the books.

[The Brain]

Why don't they use gunpowder?

Because only a small guild had access to the recipe, and they would kill themselves before revealing it.  It was put into general use later in the books.

Good. Good.

[The Minsky Moment]

Many times I've mentioned this is one of my big Sci fi and fantasy pet peeves.
Small village of 1000 people completely isolated from outsiders for 1000 years?
Yet....everyone is white except for one black extra.
Sure sure. Genes can hide in the background before popping out unexpectedly.... But really it's just crap casting of extras. They didn't think about it logically.


Black Anne Boleyn or Asian Russian nobles on the other hand I'm fine with. World building isn't at the core of what these shows are doing. They're about the characters and race blind casting is a valid choice.

I don't think the idea is that any of them are actually white or black or asian. They are just characters, and their identity, personality, and story is not more relevant to their ethnicity then their hair or eye color or whether they are tall or short.

Just ignore it.

They aren't characters. They're set dressing. And just as worthy of note as Romans wearing Rolexes.

I'm curious about how you are so certain about the way genetics and phenotypic expression works in a completely fictional universe with magic etc.

Maybe some people are born with lighter skin color because Mom had vanilla ice cream just before conception.

[garbon]

So as I said I don't have racial hangups like apparently multiple white people do on this forum.

I suspect that you have more racial hangups then most people on Languish. Maybe not ALL people....

It is true that race is probably a topic that comes up more often for me than the average Languishta given that I'm a non-white person often in white dominated spaces.

However, I don't really hold a candle to all the consideration that many appeared to have had about WoT's casting. Only thought I had about race when watching was oh cool they have a diverse cast and then thought no more about race until this thread.