Babaláwo

4y

Black people with white hair is what kills your immersion in a world where dragons, elf children, giants, people being resurrected from death exist. But it’s niggas with hair dye that is just too much.

Babaláwo

4y

These conversations would go a lot smoother if y’all would just say what you really feel with your chest. You don’t want non-white people in the fantasy & sci-fi genre.

Shooa

4y

"Right from the start I wanted the Targaryens, and by extension the Valryians from whom they were descended, to be a race apart, with distinctive features that set them apart from the rest of Westeros, and helped explain their obsession with the purity of their blood. To do this, I made a conventional ‘high fantasy’ choice, and gave them silver-gold hair, purple and violet eyes, fine chiseled aristocratic features. That worked well enough, at least in the books (on the show, less so).

But in recent years, it has occurred to me from time to time that it might have made for an interesting twist if instead I had made the dragonlords of Valyria… and therefore the Targaryens… black. Maybe I could have kept the silver hair too, though… no, that comes too close to ‘dark elf’ territory, but still… if I’d had dark-skinned dragonlords invade and conquer and dominate a largely white Westeros… though that choice would have brought its own perils. The Targaryens have not all been heroic, after all… some of them have been monsters, madmen, so…

Well, it’s all moot. The idea came to me about twenty years too late." -George RR Martin

you think this is race retconning co-signed by the man himself? couldn't go all the way with the targs, but the velaryons are largely absent from the show...

Babaláwo

4y

These conversations would go a lot smoother if y’all would just say what you really feel with your chest. You don’t want non-white people in the fantasy & sci-fi genre.

Babaláwo

4y

@Aight for you

Aight

4y

Ofc it does. You want white ppl in wakanda? Scarlett Johansson shoehorned as an asian woman in Ghost in the shell?

SUPERMAN

4y

You can tell a lot of you people know zero Black people in real life

SUPERMAN

4y

You can tell a lot of you people know zero Black people in real life

Babaláwo

4y

These conversations would go a lot smoother if y’all would just say what you really feel with your chest. You don’t want non-white people in the fantasy & sci-fi genre.

SUPERMAN

4y

ayyo
@neal_walter

Aight

4y

You agree?

jordan at wizards

4y

i don’t know what i walked into with this thread shut something tells me it’s been an eventful 30 pages in here

Shy

4y

I'm black and I don't need representation in the art in order to enjoy it.

SUPERMAN

4y

Shocker

SUPERMAN

4y

With you? Naw the scar jo s*** was stupid

Aight

4y

Lol then why is this not stupid as well then

Alders0n

4y

This looks cool but what the dragon does makes no sense 😂😂😂😂 people are so fascinated by how cool it looks they don’t care about the story

SUPERMAN

4y

Because Wakandans being alternate African and world history is set to juxtapose European conquest of African nations.

Now if Wakanda was a planet or some s*** like that with racial diversity and not based off real life then maybe you can argue.. hell even Hunger Games wouldve been a more similar comparison but changing their skin color really changed the story in House Of Dragons??

.I could write an essay about the ghost in the shell but I wont