In all the discussions about whether or not it's a good idea for an international entertainment corporation to make an attempt to portray the world's diversity, Marvel kills many birds with one stone by developing a teevee series starring a homeless interracial teenage vigilante duo. Shut up, birds.
While its Netflix show Luke Cage reveals Marvel's desire to speak to people who get excited by episode titles named after Gang Starr songs or cameos by Method Man and Raphael Saadiq, Marvel is also looking to diversify it's demographic portfolio by aiming at younger viewers with CLOAK & DAGGER. Ultimately that's a good thing. I'm also pleased to see that they are not going to try to play the colorblind card when it comes to race, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it. I think this younger generation wants to wrestle with issues of race, so I'm hoping the writers on Cloak & Dagger will just take it on.
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Yes and no. Yes, there's room for a discussion about race in entertainment, even in the coming-of-age territory, but no, I don't want to see it myself. Reason is, when these kinds of topics come to the forefront it's more a ploy to make a PR-friendly statement resembling kumbaya than a true expression of those kinds of situations.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Chonkyfya.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that they let individual characters voice different positions in a sincere way. Not that I KNOW they will do that, but it's what I want to see.