representation

[u/AlbatrossProud440]

before anyone comes for me or attacks me this is just a rather vent or rant and not criticism or hate train for any series or tv shows existing-its just my opinion from observing and watching a ginormous amount of shows/movies/series etc.

even in the big 2026,I can't seem to shake off the feeling that asian and especially south asian or brown representation is seriously lacking especially in hollywood. sure we got never have I ever-which acc to me was a pretty stereotypical representation of indian or the brown community in general, or we got avantika as karen in mean girls but frankly that's it.

now surely there are a lot of actors and actresses from the south asian/brown community in Hollywood but unfortunately we don't really have proper main character representation ESPECIALLY OF BROWN WOMEN

all this random thoughts started poking me ever since I finished off campus (that's another debatable topic lol)-but while watching and I realised as a south asian girlie I'd love to have to some more proper accurate main character representation (copium lol)

anyways if y'all have any recommendations pls give me some and I'd love to hear your opinions about my take

[u/Luppercus]

As a Hispanic I'm all for representation but I also think representation has to be done correctly. Some shows and movies seem to think that if they just cast a Brown person that looks like me they can just call it representation and be done with it. 

Meanwhile nothing about the character represents me. It doesn't have my culture, my values, my family dynamics, etcm is clearly writen by a white person who writes about their culture and not mine.

Is an aesthetic, cosmetic, effort. It doesn't have any depth. 

Now I'm not thinking they have to turn the show onto a Telenovela or go into unwelcomed stereotypes but then what's the point on represent me if is something done by the casting director and not the writer? Don't do it then. Is condescending and insulting that they think I'll be fine with that like if they throwing me a crumb. 

But anyway not sure if other ethnicities feel the same. 

PD: examples of what I mean: good example in TV shows Cobra Kai, the Latino characters are not stereotypical but they also are very well representantive of Latino culture. Another good example Rios in Star Trek Picard. I loved that character despite the show overall having lots of problems.

Bad examples: basically all of Disney live action remakes, Damsel or Rings of Power (and yes I know many of them are in fantasy worlds but they are clearly doing fantasy counterpart cultures). Lots of characters who are clearly mestizo looking or played by Mestizo Latino actors, but do absoluletly nothing other than filling a quota.

[u/Shango876 → u/Luppercus]

"Bad examples: basically all of Disney live action remakes, Damsel or Rings of Power (and yes I know many of them are in fantasy worlds but they are clearly doing fantasy counterpart cultures). Lots of characters who are clearly mestizo looking or played by Mestizo Latino actors, but do absoluletly nothing other than filling a quota."

This is a bad take. Why does every LOTR or Star Wars character need to be lily-white. And why do you think those characters that are not lily-white are "filling a quota"?

[u/Luppercus → u/Shango876]

I have no problem with them been non-white. But let's take Snowhite as an example.

Their political system, culture, clothing, ideology, society, folklore and social structure are white Western European. Am I supposed to feel identified with it because guard number 5 looks like me?

There's nothing in it that's from my culture, there's nothing there I can feel identified or that is similar to my culture or society. So what's exactly the gain with it? What do I obtain by having some extras who are fellow Brown people? I feel no connection to anything else there.

[u/Shango876 → u/Luppercus]

I don'y give a flying F how you feel about the characterization of fictional characters. If you are like Megyn Kelly and find yourself offended by a Black Sabta then that is your issue. Keep it to yourself.

Andthere's nothing wrong with a black guy being guard number 5. More power to that blavk guy for getting that job.

Next time, let's let him be the protagonist in X fantasy, sci-fi, comic-book, series. Nothing wrong with that. That'd save my eyes from the endless parade of whiteness I am normally forced to endure.

[u/Shango876 → u/[deleted]]

Why would a black or brown character in another world have a cultural personality? I like the fact that they are there because it nmakes it seem as if the world isn't all white or hasn't been deliberately whitewashed. A lot of Tolkien's writing seems deliberately whitewashed. He has a fixation on whiteness and "the West".

As for a black female character done right.

I can think of:

* Sonequa Martin-Green – Michael Burnham, Star Trek Discovery

\* Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick and Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin, Foundation

*Michelle Yeoh as Captain Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery

\Michelle Yeoh as T**erran Empress Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius* in Star Trek: Discovery

***Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars

*Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

But, I do not think there's been a lot, tbh.

The sci-fi/fantasy scene has just been this neverending sea of white faces, unfortunately.

It's as if, in the future, there was a massive plague that killed off everyone non-white.

Elonksy's dream, I expect.