[ SECRET POST #4568 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4568 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

[(Anonymous)]

Totes fine with it, though I do have to admit to a moment of going 'oh. huh. okay?' because the Ariel I grew up with is white, so to me, she's always going to default to white.

And I tend to feel conflicted over taking a previously established character and changing their skin color mostly because it does tend to create a level of intellectual dissonance in me and because I feel like it would be better to create a new character, who is black, than take a character who is white and paint them a new color.

I liked the spider man movie and how they handled it? There's a black kid who is spider man! But OH LOOK there's ALL THESE OTHER spider men too, so I'm cool with alt. universes/two takes on the character existing alongside one another but I feel weird when one take is just meant to take over a previous take?

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed, honestly. It feels very... hmm. How to describe it... like they're making a big show of having diversity without actually putting in any of the work to do so? "Here, look, Ariel's black" feels like a huge copout when they COULD be coming up with brand new non-white characters and new stories for them instead of just slapping a different coat of paint on something old and acting like it's a big deal.

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—slapping a new coat of paint and maybe swapping end tables is what Disney does to existing stories, though. Like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast and The Frog Prince.