Every fantasy world is like Los Angeles now 

The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins flat out said that they were going to cast the show to look like "America will look in a hundred years". Which is why you can't have 8 people on screen without at least half a dozen different ethnicities represented. Everyone looks like they are from everywhere. So no one looks like they are from anywhere.

I miss the days when only people who cared about fantasy actually made fantasy. Now it’s made by people who hold the whole fandom and genera in contempt.

The biggest issue like you mentioned is that in the real world, everyone comes from a different place but in these fantasy worlds we are supposed to believe that all these regions have the same cultural make up.

The thing is the witcher is not any generic fantasy world. The netflix shows are😭. The books and games especially witcher 3 are such a mature fantasy world. The world and characters are so grey, complex and the theme that there is no right choice but only a less evil is so well done especially in the witcher 3. Its about choices and consequences. But the netflix franchise fails miserably at capturing the themes and essence of the incredible source material. Henry was the only good thing about it and now even he’s gone since he is also a fan of the games and books.

That scene in GOT when Dany walked into winterfell and the people was looking at Missandei like WTH was brilliant. That scene makes more sense than all the other BS Hollywood do now.

They're so obsessed with representation, but all they're representing is modern LA while ignoring the rest of the diverse world made up of countries of mostly homogenous populations.

I was born, raised, and have lived my whole life in Los Angeles---It is no fantasy world. It's a sewer.

This was far too reasonable of a take, you therefore, will be labelled as problematic for your efforts.

In the universe of The Witcher, there is actually a great way where they can be able to be diverse as much they want... That is, by dumping every race in the Empire of Nilfgaard since it is really accessible to the other race and since no matter how bad Nilfgaard is portrayed, they welcome change so it would also give the story a much more gray area than what it shows in the series.

Their idea of diversity is conformity (in all things)

Imagine ignoring racial characteristics of people in certain parts of the world just to be inclusive. It's the equivalent of visiting an eskimo tribe and meeting a bunch of african people instead.

The problem with Hollywood writing rooms today is they contain diversity of ethnicity, but conformity of thought.

5:04 - 6:22 Take a drink every time when Echo says "exactly the same mix of Caucasian, Black, Asian and Latino people."

Arcane is an example of how to do diversity right, it makes sense for the cast to be diverse because Piltover is in the middle of two continents and one of the most important port cities in that world.

What has struck me, recently, is the number of shows/movies I've seen that portray Victorian London as not just racially diverse, but racially diverse, without comment or friction, across all class lines. One can, if one must, argue that fantasy shows are fiction and need not subject to the forces that shape the demographics of real-world places. But I get very tired of indulging in fantastical re-writing of history to pretend that things always were in a shape that they aren't even in *now* .

Before the disasters of Rings of Power and The Witcher there already was The Wheel of Time which was an absolute travesty. NOTHING like the books and their notion of a modern audience is a bunch of other Californian writers and producers.

When it comes to suspension of disbelief, people will accept the impossible over the improbable. The diversity in some of these shows is literally more unbelievable than magic.

Notice that less diverse writers rooms produced better output. Diversity is not our strength; competence is our strength. Diversity is fine if it doesn’t replace competence.

It's gotta sting to fancy yourself a professional Hollywood level writer and KNOW that you are significantly less talented than the writers for a video game, who put out way better stories than you can.

"It's understood that Hollywood sells Californiacation."

They did exactly the same thing to the Wheel of Time, where one of the major plot points was that our heroes came from a tiny village that had no contact with the outside world - yet somehow was full of racially mixed cosmopolitan teenagers. And the wider world, which did have almost every race imaginable represented in the books living in their own nations, somehow had every possible type of person in every scene in every location - so the viewer had no idea where they were and why the characters had bothered going there, unless you were willing to try to study the half-baked stylistic and architectural differences between those locations. Which was useless because the showrunners hadn't cared enough to make any. So while in LotR the viewer instantly knew where they were due to the buildings/decor/clothes/climate, every scene in WoT, RoP, WitcherBO and Willow, could be anywhere and nobody cares.

A very solid point. Subscription earned. It also does break immersion as how all of these diverse races all end up in the same place at the same time. And makes things like Elves and Dwarves seem less like real differences beyond the tall and lean and short and stocky ones. They don't even have distinct accents or personality characteristics.

Netflix's series with Henry also has very little in common with Sapkowski's books (and the games). If anything it looks like a parody of the books' plot.

Turning fantasy worlds into Los Angeles…. Couldn’t of put it better myself that’s exactly what is happening

Ohh I sure have a few things I want to say about the original show and this prequel. I’m so SAD that Netflix’ Witcher is so generic… Because it’s not supposed to be! It got Americanized SO FUCKING hard. Like. Holy-moly. I thought we all about diversity? Well I tell you what - “Witcher” is a polish book and game series with very unique POLISH vibe to it. As an Eastern European, when I, for example, play games - I clearly feel this mix of euporean and slavic culture, little detail in how this all looks, how the story told, which motives and themes are explored... Netflix’ show gives me and everyone else NOTHING of that. They only say it’s diverse - when actually - it’s just very American and not diverse at all in a true sense. Witcher could’ve been a very strong, unique cinematic project, but because Nextfix never actually looked into what makes it special in the first place - it’s just “meh” at best. And that is such a shame.

A fellow southerner, I know how horrendous the heat feels these days. I'm glad someone finally said it. I live in a country where black people are such a minority I've never seen one in person until I became an adult, so you can probably guess our demographics are quite different to the ones I see in every US show. Yet these creators always came up with the same demographics every time! It's so boring.

This is the perfect environment for a great new fantasy series to drop. Imagine if a series like Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy was introduced into an environment like this. It would smash all records for viewership. These are silly times, with silly amateurs calling the shots in Hollywood. But something big is about to shake everything up. Hollywood is like a dry forest waiting for a spark.

Modern writers simply don't understand geography and it effect on ethnicities and races. Travelling was not an easy thing but was greatly hampered by natural borders and the lack of advanced mappings. So even if a certain culture is unusually cosmopolitan (which is another petty anachronism) the chance to mingle would be limited to certain important places like big trading hubs at seas and rivers.

In the past Fantasy Shows were written for Kids by Adults. Then came GoT, which was written for Adults by Adults for the most time. Now we have Fantasy Shows written by Kids for themselves. And when these Shows are filmed now, the roles are played in a way of a Comunity Theater. Even Brother and Sister are from different races and maybe in the Future, the young male Hero will played by an elderly Woman and the Dragon will played by a Horse.

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I think writers room can be diverse, and that a good mix of COMPETENT writers adds to a good story. But you should hire writers, actors and directors not solely on their skin color. So if 5 some 40s white dudes are telling a good story, be my guest. If a room full of lbtq black female Autors are hired, and their focus is writing an awesome story that's serves the audience and not an agenda, count me in! I enjoy and appreciate your creative content echo! Greets

Your’Prom/Ball’ analogy was pure brilliant! You think too much, such men are dangerous.

A yes, a medival European kingdom where everyone looks and talks like californian highschoolers

Good analysis, but by pointing out the difference between urban "diversity" and rural ethnic cohesion, you might have doomed the rural areas to "diversification".

i hate it when people say "she is the first black asian to have this position".... i dont care.. what i do care about is can they do the job.. are they qualify for the job.. or is this just a check on the Agenda List..

I don't have an issue with diversity in the Witcher. I have a massive issue with it erasing the actual diversity of the cultures the source material came from. Where the hell are the Turks, the Armenians, the Romani?! Now it just looks like American colonizer central.

When some producer says: "we made our casting choices to represent how the real world looks" - you know they mean LA. Chinese and Indians together comprise 3 billion people, yet the cast of modern shows are majority white, with like 2 black actors, one arabic, and maybe like one asian - on a good day. Just shows that the people in power in Hollywood are the same old white racist men as they ever were, and they are using people of colour just as a divercity card to shield themselves from criticism - not like they actually care about diversity or discussing the question of race and racism in modern media.

Disparu brings this up a lot in his reviews how the characters in the show are very much Californian, it's especially prevalent in Willow. This indepth video about why fantasies and a lot of media today are written the way they are makes it all come full circle for me.

Love the video, not only does making every fantasy world a huge mixture of races makes it slowly watered down to boring and uninteresting. It also actually puts difficult in following the story at times. As when there’s actually conflict between a specific tribe, country, kingdom-etc. you can get visually confused on which tribe is which especially if they’re outfits and architecture are bland and don’t have any thought into it. You can just see them all blend together and therefore have even more difficulty following into the story than usual as your only thinking “wait what location is this again??” I really wish writers would stop being so stuck up about “making sure it reflects the world we live in today” as what they’re doing untrue and the opposite of the statement they’re saying. Not every country is like Los Angeles or New York where it’s a melting pot of cultures in fact a majority of people like to stick to groups similar to themselves which goes back centuries in world history. I’d like a fantasy world where there’s is a distinct difference in ethnicity between tribes and yet there’s maybe one village known for its melting pot of all of them. This makes the melting pot of cultures feel much more likable and intriguing to how such a thing is made because it’s so rare and not just because “meh diversity box checked”

Same thing is happening in Star Wars. Planets used to be full of different types of aliens, now Disney just makes up most of the background characters with diverse humans. Even the Dhani tribe that was on Andor was made up of all different races.

The irony is they were never faithful to the source material, not even in the first season. Passing similarities aside, it had nothing in common with what the Witcher was actually about, and I don’t mean a focus on Geralt. They abandoned all of the moral and subtext. It’s sad really. Arguably more depressing than rings of power, and it’s only gotten worse.

OK, l don't have an issue with parts of a fantasy world being multicultural, such as port cities and the like. There are a lot of cool stories about places like that.. But I remember the stories where the heroes would go and visit new peoples and entire cultures they'd never seen before. . There was this sense of wonder and discovery (and the fish-out-of-water stuff could be fun too) ... I miss those.. Right now, it's like 'Hey, they look just like our neighbours'.. It's especially annoying when the original source material was very different, and you KNOW someone who didn't give a f*** about it was just ticking boxes. (I'd really like to ask the Rings of Power showrunners and supposed 'champions' of 'representation' why they completely IGNORED Tolkien's ORIGINAL CANON non-white races and cultures, and swapped them out for a few completely non-canon token/GIMMICK race-swapped, implausible individuals here and there. And why are the 'Southlanders' now mostly white?)

One touchy issue is that the source material for The Witcher, Lord of The Rings and The Wheel of Time are pretty much entirely white and especially for the main character. Perhaps diversity to some degree is necessary today, but indeed it needs to be done with context and purpose. You can't just throw an African and a European in a script and claim that they're sister and brother. It breaks the suspension of disbelief. Another biological and sociological fact is that if you had a bunch of black, white and asian people in one city and society, only 400 years later you would have a huge distribution of skin tones and most of them would be an average combination of black-white-asian. People would not remain black or white in a mixed society that continues for hundreds of years.

I think the diversity is not the main problem, is the low quality of the stories and characters, and those "diverse" people are just used as shields to any critic and, at the same time, as ragebait to the fans of the original story that don't want it RAPED by people that don't even respect the material that is given to adapt!

When the whole fantasy/sci-fi genre has been monetarily run into the ground, then , we'll start getting meaningful fantasy/sci-fi again.

I think there are two ways to do it. If you want your fantasy world to feel believable it needs to follow laws of nature. Genetically unique populations exist for a reason and are accompanied by cultures that give you a lot of room for awesome lore. Showing where populations moved, and merged and how long they have been in contact adds so much to the story. I think the world of Game of Thrones is amazing at this and learning about those cultures and their interactions is so cool. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a story where people from several different racial and cultural backgrounds had to come together to deal with a threat? Something like the myth of the Prince that was Promised in SOIAF could be translated into a story about a group of heroes with a different mythology about a threat, and we view the reality through each cultural lens. That feels like a way to work that in with more respect and dignity than a world where you see distinct racial profiles but no rationale to where they came from. Now, there is a place for that sort of colorblind casting. Shows like The Great, Galavant and Bridgerton manage to pull it off because the story is told in a way where it's not meant to be realistic. It's almost like a play, where it's all about the story and the performance, and it's not trying to get you to really believe in it. There is an expectation for the audience to be cued into this and dismiss it. A show like Rings of Power wants you to take it seriously but fails to bring the integrity that comes with a well-fleshed-out fantasy word that reflects elements of truth. By contrast something like Galavant and Bridgerton say from the start "This is a story set in a made up world where it is more important to be amusing than plausible".

Besides wokism a commonality between these recent fantasy works is that the elves are ugly... hell, in older works even evil elves were beautiful. One commenters pointed out was that Marxism denounced beauty as a classist evil.

The thing with diversity in urban environments or even cities. Many of those different groups still hold onto their culture, language and beliefs. In my neighborhood in Brooklyn, some blocks have predominantly Hispanic and Latino people and in others predominantly European particularly polish and further on Hasidic Jewish people. Even in my schools had a mix of black, Asian, Indian etc and many of kept their traditions from their respective cultures. It’s but the diversity in the cast, it’s the microscopic view in which these “writers” see these diverse neighborhoods. They probably also don’t want to be accused of “cultural appropriation” which is why many of these fantasy shows are all the same generic looking landscapes. But also they all hold European settings to a much higher standard than their own and even other cultures. Because now they demand diversity but they also demand that the creators “look like” or “is” of that demographic without ever asking if they’re exploring all aspects of that culture or just the bare minimum.

Reminds me of Phillis's Moroccan themed Christmas party lol..

"Conformity is our diversity, and whoever opposes must be labeled and punished" The Stunning and Brave crowd

It absolutely kills world building and a sense of "location" in the story when you can't tell groups of people apart because, ironically enough, they all have the same mix.

I dread for the Avatar: The Last Airbender show. I mean, I already knew I wasn't going to watch that shit when they said it'd be set in modern times and in a freaking highschool, but really, the whole deal about it is that the world is divided in tribes, all of which are from different races. The main cast is diverse, but they all come from different tribes. But we all know they're not going to do that in this show. You might argue that they're setting it in modern times precisely so they can have diverse people in every town, but as this video proves, this is not really a concern for showrunners. Even if they didn't set it in modern times you'd see people of all races in every tribe.

These are the same people who write stories set in victorian era London, WW1 and WW2, the roman empire and so on and everyone will be of all nationalities, gay and trans.

This just makes me miss those LOTR days even more man...No gender, race or political BS. Just a fantastic adaptation, that even tho when it distanced itself from book accuracy - The changes were actually because it made sense for the movie, not because you wanna force some modern agendas into it...So you completely change the writing aaand well we get cashgrabs like RoP, Willow and Blood Origin. I can't explain it, but everything just looks so fake - like it's actually so embarassing how obvious is the green screen or bad CGI...

Very fair and well balanced review. It kinda does sound funny how just putting people of diverse races in places without reason make the overall fictional world seem less culturally diverse.

“Travel to the far off, mysterious, magical, exotic, fantastical realms where everyone is the same homogeneous mix of White, Black, Asian, and Latino” had me crying after the 4th example! 😂😂😂

Admittedly I only watched one episode of Amazon’s LOTR, but what struck me was not only the incongruity of a gracile female defeating all and sundry in mortal combat, but also the superfluous nature of the clearly plastic armour, clothing and props. At least the original LOTR was remotely authentic, in the sense that the original’s screenwriters and prop makers were possessed of a modicum of historical, cultural, and practical knowledge.

HOTD is the only fantasy show that managed to incorporate diversity and excluding the wigs managed to pull it off perfectly giving us a diverse cast while staying true to GRRMs vision and work. If other fantasy writers wish to include diversity they should but make it natural and as close to the source material as possible rather than inventing a whole new story simply for diversity purposes and associating that story with a already established franchise.

Yup. Makes no sense in this medieval worlds were means of travel aren't advance and if it's a feudalistic system, peasants also can't move on freely. It's ok to have diversity in the big capitals and port cities because they receive foreign merchants, embassies, dignataries, etc. But even when our hero's village in bumfuck nowhere is also just as diverse it's weird. And it's not that a black person can't be living in a village bumfuck nowhere in the North, but does it pain the writers to throw a line like "Me/my family/ancestors aren't from here. We/They moved here in search of a better life." It's so simple but at least it's something. Also, the L.A diversity only apples to Fantasy Europe - Fantasy Africa and Fantasy Asia are mega homogenic. No white people in neither, as usually also no black people in Fantasy Asia and no asians in Fantasy Africa. Only Fantasy Europe (could say west as many white americans origins come from Europe) needs some diversity. Never Fantasy Africa nor Fantasy Asia. And if you point that out, you're called racist, even if you would be just as mad if you saw a black performing as chinese emperor (not even bringing white people into this discussion kekw). Oh well.

Those pictures of the people in the writer's room say it all.

Gosh. blood origin and Willow just seemed like they got them right out of a casting call off the boulevard

this is how you kill the fantasy genre faster than the superhero one.

I think it has to do with the politics of that entire area. The very political fabric of the west coast is defined by wokism. It's not diverstity that's the issue, it's wokism. By wokism I mean something that should be classified as a disorder with the likes of shizophrenia or the Dark Triad. These aspects are: 1. Worship of the "current thing," in this case being diversity and jamming in minorities and bullcrap where it doesn't make sense 2. Arrogance such that it means sufferers are unable or unwilling to do step outside of their social and cultural bubble, nevermind do research on what people wore (you can see this in how they think all medieval people look like stupid filthy peasants in sackcloth). 3. Narcissism such that instead of making their own shows they latch themselves onto pre-existing shows then suck the show dry to hang up their crap. I have to agree that diversity could work, hell there's ways one can show that without having 20,000 skin colors. Food, clothing styles, and hell social mores. What goes in a city like Dallas doesn't go in a small farm town in Hunt County. And if they have to have skin color diverstiy it can work. If it makes sense. If the series takes place on a fantasy version of Sicily where it's between a sea and so numerous ethnic groups and is a vital trade area it'd be cool, really cool. Hell, if they want women and minorities in power the focus could be on the city while the king, most of the nobility and the genuinely strong men are away fighting a war, leaving just a few to try and maintain stability. But they never do that. Instead what they do is they buy the rights to something popular then they ruin everything. And once all interest in the franchise is gone, the vandals move to the next one, like locusts

Arcane had had just as much diversity as blood origin but its diversity was ORGANIC!

Wheel of Time's diversity was so dumb. Two Rivers was a village isolated for hundreds of years but somehow there were still races of all types. In the real world they would have all been the same color within a couple hundred years.

Diversity of skin color and a monolithic borg like mindset... socialism

I like diversity, but this insanely homogeneous view of "diverse" society gives me a lot of pain. Also, putting black people into European knight armour is kind of disrespectful to their original culture. Black Panther did it right by creating Wakanda, which was inherently African.

It's like fast food of entertainment. Just like how anime just churn out a bunch of Isekai genre every season.

The thing is: Fantasy is autonomous from the real world. It doesn't relay the woes and fights of this present time, neither a concrete characterization of how should be the world. Rules in fantasy are unwritten & unspoken, but like glass cristal, once broken the fantasy itself fails. Fantasy is the last refuge of Mythos, the strong force of dreams that the Ancient Greeks and many civilizations before them, made to explain and give a moral to a world uncertain and perilous, full of wonder and danger. It's simple: The Neverending Story never cared for inclusivity and all that jazz, the moral of it was universal and easily understood regardless of gender, age and ethnicity. We're talking about the 80's of the last century...

You missed the Wheel of Time series! Come on. The small and isolated village, The Two Rivers was also mysteriously, ethnically diverse! It's on Amazon.

definitely feels like the filmmakers are the crazy girls from the band class and not the nerdy film class guys

What We are experiencing isnt representation… its americanization

Even the movie Bright was more fantasy than any of these shites

Cultural vandalism should be illegal.

I don't value diversity of appearance, I value diversity of thought. Over-representation and tokenism is irritating and distracting.

My Proms theme was "A Night in Paris" which consisted of a large tent set up out in a muddy soccer field.

Hope they understand that if all products are made in China by the same set of suppliers and factories they will all look the same thing. Same can be said about these shows and movies

Not one polish actor in Blood Origin though, funny thing

For people who constantly talk about the importance of seeing race and how colorblindness is racisim - they are completely color blind when looking at different cultures. Slavic fantasy? Los Angeles, i don't see color so i wouldn't know everybody there is white... Medival europe fantasy? You know the rest. And if some setting is asian in the anime/korean_movie - we will make a remake where setting is Los Angeles now! Such an appresiasion for divercity to make everything the exact same and completely erase specifics of different cultures. Everything Los Angeles now - oh how diverse!

People like different fantasy books because of their uniques. Hollywood cut off that uniques and made big pile of generic fantasy mix without soul, good story and relatable characters and without heroes and virtues. Not everything is DnD. And I dont believe that thoose people know what DnD is (or any FANTASY when it comes to it). People were ok with raceswap of Velaryon, because it didnt disturb story and actors were good. But if u dont have story to tell and only thing u want to show are selfinserts and diversity and representatiooon same evrywhere, there will be only fall.

Not all of the fantasy shows today have that much love in them, from writers not understanding how ethnicity works, why you can't force people who hold grudges against each others to suddenly work all because you wanted peace is laughable, why using violence to enforce your own rules over those who didn't vote for you, more so if you used to be their enemies, that is ten times highly unlikely and most likely a rebellion would occur, geography as well, none of the places felt different to each other, they all feel the same, this wasn't the case in Andor where each areas was rich and vibrant enough to give you what their culture is like, character motivations are laughably bad, the chick who became a bard wanted to redeem herself by becoming a musician, the same bard who burnt children btw, Arthur Morgan was much more realistic as he wanted atonement, not redemption. Worldbuilding is thrown out the window because muh fantasy, their ways of showing off lore isn't to give backstory and reason but show their opinions and biases, it sucks really.

We often underestimate how much our surroundings shape our storytelling, and here it's detrimental to the realism of the story, especially when your audience is millions of people who often live in the countryside themselves. Interestingly enough, the countryside remains highly homogeneous even in today's globalist society. Go to a big metropolis anywhere in Europe and you're bound to see people of all languages and creeds running around. But in the countryside? The people living there have been there for generations. And it takes A LOT to be accepted into a small community in the country, because they've been mostly homogeneous for that long.

One thing that really annoys me about modern fantasies story is that there's no diversity in them. Yes, there are people with different colors of skin, but what about cultural diversity? I live in a country that's almost entirely white, yet people from different parts of it have different and unique cultures of their own, we all speak the same language but in different ways (which makes it easy to identify from which part of a country that person comes from). And my country is small, with population of around 7 million people. Than you look at these "big" fantasy worlds and everyone talks the same way, behaves the same way, believes in exact same things etc. It's like some sort of bizarre dystopian, totalitarian world where everyone is forced to act in just one way and no other.

This makes me long for the time of Andy Griffith Show and The Waltons, since they actually represent rural America.

It's time for a change. It's time to start putting ugly people in everything instead of beautiful people. It's time to start fighting against hundreds of years of conditioning and art and fight directly against the current for no reason really, just make people's lives worse I guess, including for people who aren't beautiful, ruining the entire pot of soup just because you wanted to have the entire thing be ugly for sociopolitical reasons. Imagine the insecurity.

I hate how everyone that makes content criticizing this insane diversity agenda has to pretend that the diversity, in and of itself, is a good thing. It's not. What's good is creating interesting and believable worlds that make people want to pay for entertainment products. If diversity just happens to occur organically from that, then fine. But if it doesn't, then equally fine. There's nothing good about about diversity as a concept. It either occurs or it doesn't in the process of creating something good.

A brilliant video, not overly prentious, or even patronizing. Just a solid commentary on the modern day landscape of the fantasy genre.

Che gente, buscan diversidad y no saben hablar más de un idioma Desde el punto de vista de mi cultura, en el cine y la tv solo hay 3 tipos de diversificación, negros, mujeres y asiáticos. Y dentro de estos mismos hay muchas variantes, incluso dentro de nosotros los latinos hay muchas diferencias raciales y culturales. La diversidad llevada de forma errónea a la cultura popular ha matado IPs famosas y queridas, es una lástima

hopefully the upcoming witcher games wont succumb to the same fate as the shows, even as an asian american guy, I have grown tired of seeing random asian people everywhere

The clearest disection of Hollywood bollocks I've heard so far.

Representation is not great. A character needs to be a character, his own individual being, if he is a representative of a race or idea, he will be poorly written on a fundamental level.

Blood Origins is like the most degenerate show possible in modern television.

the fun part is they are against "opression" and "colonisation" but all they do is force their way of thinking on everyone else completly disregarding other peoples sensibilities. They cry triggerwarnings and isms if some view is opposing theirs but at the same time rub their views into your face as you scream stop. They want to make every show look like a modern us american city for diversity, completly ignoring that most places on earth dont look like this and diversity is in thinking and culture, not skin color. A small medieval town out nowhere with 100 people living there has to consist of 3 ethnicities that all live there for centuries. HOW. the only way that could happen in reality is if they are all severly inbred and are repulsed by the others skin color. Great message?

My prom did not have a theme. And this video was wonderful. 10/10.

I tend to look at diversity in fantasy through your basic DnD party. It is made up of different races (human, elf, dwarf and halfling) and classes (fighter, cleric, rogue and wizard). These can be done in any combination. However you can swap any of the races for different ones and even some of the classes but it is still a good idea to have a balance in the party along the lines of class rather than race. So you could have a party of all gnomes for example which covers all 4 classes and this would be better than a party of warlocks who are different races. My point is that what you do is more important that what you are.

Ive been saying it for years, their version of inclusionary casting is so so american.

Just say black. You said African-American, but you didn’t say Asian-American, Latino-American, etc.

Also, if you live in a ethnically diverse society the ethnic makeup is not static, unless you have segregated populations sooner or later, within just a few generations your society won't BE very diverse anymore, it will all start to blend together and considering the amount of mixed coupling they like to show in these shows, this process would be much accelerated. IF one wants to be realistic :)

Even good fantasy shows like House of the Dragon has this problem. Not. As bad as Rings of Power or Witcher. It breaks my heart as love fantasy genre. But maybe it's time to left go of the fantasy as woke pod people Californians has infected it.

The ONLY show where diversity was done right lately is ARCANE.