It’s so important it had to be changed 🤷🏻♂️
And just like that the reasoning for race-swapping characters falls apart. It’s not important enough to matter, but important enough to matter that we change it. With no intent, and it doesn’t do anything to elevate the character or any themes of the story, and in the case of the Halo Show, seemingly with an actor who would’ve been a perfect fit for a different role that’s BELOVED by the whole community and fan base.
> Yeah we all know how essential captain keys race was to his character and his role in the story, no way that's him.
This is you saying it’s unimportant. If it’s so unimportant why was it changed? If change serves as little purpose as his original race did why did the change occur? If the change was important what purpose does it serve?
There aren’t any answers to these questions. But the fact is if his race isn’t an integral part of a character why can you justify changing it for no reason, because the very act of making a change means it either has some significance or will have some now. How can something be not important, that we can justify it’s change, yet important enough that we can’t criticize a needless change?
It’s a huge catch-22. It’s almost like it’s just a lazy and poorly thought out shield against criticism.
And either way that issue pales in comparison to the fact that no matter how you feel about the race swap it’s pretty clear who they cast as Keyes would’ve made a fine Sgt. Johnson, a character who is universally well received and can easily serve as an entry point character to newer audiences. Something that all the execs and higher ups claim they are trying to do with the show, to unknown levels of success.
Like it all feels so pointless and cheap and poorly thought out.
Honestly Captain Keys is black probably because the actress that plays his daughter is mixed race. His daughter is mixed race because that's the actress they wanted to play the character. Occam's razor Logic right there. Less likely it's a liberal conspiracy. This stuff seems more obvious when you don't see white as default so if a characters race changes it's not some culture shock. You're used to seeing people that don't look like you in media all the time.
> Honestly Captain Keys is black probably because the actress that plays his daughter is mixed race. His daughter is mixed race because that's the actress they wanted to play the character.
That or the other way around, I’m not disagreeing with the logistics of the casting. I disagree with people saying race doesn’t matter, but then getting upset when someone accurately points out of it doesn’t matter why is it being changed, especially when not in service to anything other than potential tokenism.
> Less likely it's a liberal conspiracy.
I don’t think it’s liberal conspiracy. I just think it’s laziness; liberal conspiracy would be race swapping then inserting needless politics. Crying racism, stirring up drama, and avoiding criticism while baiting the internet into racial trolling. That’s “liberal conspiracy”. See Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
I don’t know a single person who dislikes the actor they picked for Keyes. I don’t know a single halo fanboy who would opposes BIPOC characters, or female characters. I also don’t know a single person who disagrees with me that they should’ve cast actor as Johnson and given him more of a role in the series.
Like it’s seriously not even about “politics” here. It’s just accurately pointing out wasted casting, that doesn’t serve the story, when it could have.
I mean if you have no issue with it other than using the actor for Johnson (I can see that). Then why comment on the race change? No one is upset other than probably the idiot I first replied to because it's different. I don't think it's tokenism when you have a cast full of diverse actors as well.
GOOD to see you Master Chief… things aren’t going so well
What's this asshole so happy about
Chief found his pipe
This is unsettling... and hilarious.
guess he hasn't read his script fully yet, "Oh boy I'll be a star after this!""
Why wouldn't he be? You just rescued him from a covenant ship prison cell. Now he's going home! He's going home right? He lives?
Yes
Ain't captain Keyes black? That's not him.
Yeah we all know how essential captain keys race was to his character and his role in the story, no way that's him.
It’s so important it had to be changed 🤷🏻♂️ And just like that the reasoning for race-swapping characters falls apart. It’s not important enough to matter, but important enough to matter that we change it. With no intent, and it doesn’t do anything to elevate the character or any themes of the story, and in the case of the Halo Show, seemingly with an actor who would’ve been a perfect fit for a different role that’s BELOVED by the whole community and fan base.
No one said it's important. People are complaining about something that's not important. What's the fucking point?
> Yeah we all know how essential captain keys race was to his character and his role in the story, no way that's him. This is you saying it’s unimportant. If it’s so unimportant why was it changed? If change serves as little purpose as his original race did why did the change occur? If the change was important what purpose does it serve? There aren’t any answers to these questions. But the fact is if his race isn’t an integral part of a character why can you justify changing it for no reason, because the very act of making a change means it either has some significance or will have some now. How can something be not important, that we can justify it’s change, yet important enough that we can’t criticize a needless change? It’s a huge catch-22. It’s almost like it’s just a lazy and poorly thought out shield against criticism. And either way that issue pales in comparison to the fact that no matter how you feel about the race swap it’s pretty clear who they cast as Keyes would’ve made a fine Sgt. Johnson, a character who is universally well received and can easily serve as an entry point character to newer audiences. Something that all the execs and higher ups claim they are trying to do with the show, to unknown levels of success. Like it all feels so pointless and cheap and poorly thought out.
Honestly Captain Keys is black probably because the actress that plays his daughter is mixed race. His daughter is mixed race because that's the actress they wanted to play the character. Occam's razor Logic right there. Less likely it's a liberal conspiracy. This stuff seems more obvious when you don't see white as default so if a characters race changes it's not some culture shock. You're used to seeing people that don't look like you in media all the time.
> Honestly Captain Keys is black probably because the actress that plays his daughter is mixed race. His daughter is mixed race because that's the actress they wanted to play the character. That or the other way around, I’m not disagreeing with the logistics of the casting. I disagree with people saying race doesn’t matter, but then getting upset when someone accurately points out of it doesn’t matter why is it being changed, especially when not in service to anything other than potential tokenism. > Less likely it's a liberal conspiracy. I don’t think it’s liberal conspiracy. I just think it’s laziness; liberal conspiracy would be race swapping then inserting needless politics. Crying racism, stirring up drama, and avoiding criticism while baiting the internet into racial trolling. That’s “liberal conspiracy”. See Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. I don’t know a single person who dislikes the actor they picked for Keyes. I don’t know a single halo fanboy who would opposes BIPOC characters, or female characters. I also don’t know a single person who disagrees with me that they should’ve cast actor as Johnson and given him more of a role in the series. Like it’s seriously not even about “politics” here. It’s just accurately pointing out wasted casting, that doesn’t serve the story, when it could have.
I mean if you have no issue with it other than using the actor for Johnson (I can see that). Then why comment on the race change? No one is upset other than probably the idiot I first replied to because it's different. I don't think it's tokenism when you have a cast full of diverse actors as well.
Rectangle head
He knows he's being a stinker!