[ SECRET POST #4554 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4554 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dragonheart]


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[Dark]


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[Good Omens]


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[Murder Mystery]


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[Becoming Jane]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you, but I feel the need to point out that Gaiman's social awareness has generally been pretty good.

His books are generally quite diverse, especially in terms of black/white. There were two black characters in the main cast of one of his other books (Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas), one of his most famous protagonists is a mixed race man (Shadow Moon) and another book has pretty much a black cast barring the villain (Anansi Boys).

I don't think it's so much about his social awareness, more about, as you said, times have changed. Back in 1990, it's pretty friggin' likely that pretty much everybody in a small, quaint English village would have been white. Small, quaint English villages were like that. Cities are diverse, towns somewhat less so, villages very white. A set of four kids, one girl, all being white was pretty realistic for the era in which the book was set.

But that's less the case now and the show (like with American Gods and its depiction of technology -- something else which got complaints from book purists) has been updated so it's being told in the current era, instead of when the book was written. It's more accessible to the audience.

As such, the diversity will change to reflect that as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Fantastic comment!