Having watched the first three episodes of Shadow and Bone, which I’ve otherwise really liked, the anti-Shu/anti-Asian racism Alina faces for being biracial is jarring and unnecessary. Frankly, there was no good reason to include it.
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Which is a real shame, because Jessie Mei Li is doing a wonderful job as the lead - as are all the main actors thus far; the Dregs crew are *perfect* - and there’s great background diversity with characters like Nadia, Poppy and the Conductor. It’s just this one bit that sucks.
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I won’t say the racism is constant, but it has cropped up more than once an episode thus far, and feeling outcast by virtue of being biracial is cited as a bonding thing for Alina and Mal, so: YMMV as to how much of a dealbreaker it’ll be.
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But again, the rest of the show is thus far great, and I’m keen to watch more! And like. It shouldn’t have to be said, but it’s possible to critique the failings of a piece of media while still enjoying it. And I do want to be aware that harsher judgement tends to fall on shows -
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- which are female-led, or which are actively *trying* to do diversity even when they fuck it up at times, whereas big franchises like Supernatural or the DCU, we just tend to resign ourselves to a certain base level of fuckery, bc we didn’t expect better of them.
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All of which is a way of saying: this one aspect of Shadow and Bone sucks, it may very well be a dealbreaker for some & that’s fine, but the show is otherwise trying and doing a lot very well, and we can critique the one aspect while still supporting the other.
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In the books there's class bias against Alina for being a poor orphan. Those 3 times there's a slur in the show, there was an equal slur in the book. They changed that to racial bias in the show. But it's uneven and shitty. Don't add representation just to shit on ppl!
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