Doesn't black people get offended?

It's more ridiculous that they cast an ugly woman as Guinevere, than the fact that she is black.

It is relevant to the story to make MLK and Malcolm X black. They are also real people. Was Guinevere real? I thought she was just a legend.

Anyhow, I have Shakespearean plays where characters were black and they most likely wouldn't have been had it been real life.

Doesn't black people get offended?

Gwen in show does not get ill-treated so no it's not racist. Merlin's not racist.

What's ridiculous is that anyone can possibly believe the FAIRY TALE that there was ever an all white place in this world. That is the fantasy. Black people have been the first people everywhere on the planet. Your education is sorely limited.

The ONLY fantasy is that there was ever an all white place on the planet...you know...the one that appears on TV and movies where casting directors decide who is living and who doesn't exist. The TRUE FACT is that the oldest people on the planet are BLACK...everyone else came after.

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fully agree with the OP. In fact, this happens consistently with plenty of movies and TV series coming from Hollywood lately. I asked a similar question on the Once Upon a Time forum, when I've seen a black Lady Marion or Lancelot, and later a black Portuguese Gueneviere.

And it's either the Hollywood Jews are plaing a dirty game here with a mass of uneducated blacks. Or the black community simply doesn't care and they do today what the "bad white man" did to them in the past: they paint their face in black, when playing historical white characters. And they end up looking ridiculous.

So you get upset with anachronisms like breast implants. Does this mean you hate stone castles, knights in plate armor, chivalry, and courtly love as they have no place in 5th Century Britain?

Also you're incredibly ignorant over not knowing the difference between a real person who we have photographic evidence of what they looked like (Martin Luther King Jr.) and legendary characters whose appearance changes in each telling.

Don't you lay a hand on my Sasquatch!

I agree with much of what pol-edra said.

jakslev - I don't see your initial question as being racist. But you suggesting that changing Gwen's skin color is akin to having a white actor play MLK is a large jump. And you also make certain remarks that are quite immature and only lend to invalidate your point of view. (As a side note, I have no idea why you think any of the women have breast implants. None of them look to have fake breasts in the slightest, their breasts are pushed up from their costumes.)

If Gwen were strictly a historical figure based on a 100% factual person, than changing her skin color might bother me a little by being inaccurate. But this version of the tale has been changed in many ways.... so many of the tellings of this story are different anyway. I see Gwen's color only as a way to change a dynamic in the story, much like making Arthur and Merlin the same age. It's not meant to be pandering to black people, or somehow making black people feel better by being included. It's just simply shinning a different light on a old character.

Maybe we should view it as the show being color blind and choosing an actress regardless of color, rather than choosing one specially to push one agenda over another.


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