Not your last anon, but Doctor Strange specifically AVOIDED stereotypes by making the ancient one a woman instead of a Fu Manchu look alike as he was in the comics.
you’re thinking of iron man three, which subverted the evil asian villain trope by turning him into an asian diaspora actor playing a part specifically designed in-narrative to play on orientalist western stereotypes, who was secretly the pawn of a white industrialist.
the doctor strange team said, “hey, if we cast an asian actor as this asian character, that will play into stereotypes, bc there is NO WAY TO WRITE ASIAN CHARACTERS THAT ISN’T STEREOTYPICAL I GUESS, so let’s get a white woman”
“but let’s still have her running a magical monastery in tibet”
which, instead of having doctor strange come to asia to become the white person who is the best asian, now he is coming to asia to take the mantle of ‘white person who is the best asian’ from this other, different white person who stole it first
which is actually more colonial, more stereotypical, more offensive, and not less
and then when ppl got mad about that, they a, whined about sjws and the like and then b, suddenly found a way to write in an asian character who “wasn’t stereotypical”, even if, ultimately, they still just made him the white dude’s stay-at-home sidekick
like
come the fuck on
if they wanted to subvert asian stereotypes they should have cast lucy liu as doctor strange
when you start with ‘how can we make a white man coming to asia to learn asian magics not racist, without giving up any of those elements’, you have already lost
Gonna be honest with you. Browsing your white television tag saw “Hiram is literally a Bond villain” and went “Bond is fighting five headed dragons now? Hell yeah”
evrryone in the theatre is making fun of the wierdly condescending jesus movie trailers and the awful dog movie trailers they are for some rsn playing in front of a 745 screening of spidrrman
You stupid fucking first world shippercunt. Dr Strange trailer was great. Go fuck yourself with your whiteshaming privilege, you feminist piece of shit. Tumblr cunt to the extreme, with your embarrassing blog.
on that vein, i caught the end of doctor strange mordo’s heel turn was, exactly as random and annoying as i expected when i guessed it from the fucking casting announcement
i have said this in the past and i want to reiterate it: ppl who make lazy racist casting decisions? they make other lazy decisions in the production too. the casting, the script, the direction, ppl either give a shit about the details or they fucking don’t
There’s a bunch of nonsensically regressive stuff at this point. Like, I expected some of this, but some of it is just like “so we’re basically just getting space of thrones torture porn”
thinking about this some more it is EVEN WORSE bc when agatha put a bone saw to her own jugular in the pilot, it was clearly implied that she and rowan were the only ppl left alive, or that she was the only survivor who hadn’t gone purge-ey, and also that the ship was contaminated and that her message was a post-disaster, ellen ripley style sole survivor, don’t come here you’ll just go mad and kill each other too message
BUT now we see it in context and it’s just, no she just kills herself bc that way she won’t disrupt thale’s ability to complete karl’s mission? and even tho there’s a 100% chance she’ll be inside the volcryn as a teke ghost, this is still ‘a woman dies for a man’, specifically to enable him to live on bc there’s Important Work To Be Done (by him)
EXCEPT SHE DOESN’T STOP ROWAN, WHO GOES ON TO MURDER AT LEAST TWO PPL AFTER HER DEATH
even if there is also a 100% chance robot captain eris will be back if only just as a hologram, there’s still that random woman who rowan BRUTALLY just, axe murders in the corridor outside the bridge before AXE MURDERING CAPTAIN ERIS
agatha puts a saw(!?!?) to her own throat and sends a ‘don:t help us, quarantine this shit’ message while there are still, like, a hundred fucking ppl on the ship AND SHE WANTS THEM TO GO ON AND COMPLETE THE MISSION, and she’s FUCKING PSYCHIC and knows rowan isn’t going to look at her bleeding out un the medlab and say 'oh well job done’
and if she wanted to die, she didn’t even like, let rowan kill her while bone sawing HIS jugular, ending her pain and his threat in the same heroic sacrifice
and so instead they just, killed her for no reason, they chose to do that, wrote it, filmed it, edited it, and high fived themselves for making such a bold, transgressive choice.
Every time I think I can’t get fed up more, they double down on something that doesn’t actually impact the narrative (or it makes no sense for the impact it’s meant to have), but shows exactly who they’re aiming the show towards
being honest? every red flag that popped up during the pilot of this show popped up when i watched the pilot of altered carbon. this time i thought 'i should give them a chance, i want to see where this goes’ and i wish i’d truated my intincts.
now they’re billing this as the season finale and i’m just, you are going to run out of women to brutally murder soon, what’s your plan here
