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Thinking again about how writers did Kilmonger wrong, and then Danaerys wrong in roughly the same way. The revolutionaries are framed as irredeemably violent, bloodthirsty, out of control, and this ends up justifying the status quo with some minor kinda-cosmetic adjustments 
My tentative suspicion is that Kilmonger and Dany had to be *shoehorned* into villainy because the production machine assumes that mainstream western audiences can’t handle the idea of radical, revolutionary change. It’s edgy “enough” to just consider it and then mourn what-if
Previous thread thinking about this. In 2019 we still mostly have cartoon villains. I think the reason Winter Soldier is my favourite MCU movie is that it came the closest to escaping this gravitational pull of status-quo storytelling
I don't want to get into tedious discussions with fans about the nitty-gritty nuances of characters and plot
my request:
- a Killmonger/Daenerys character
- in a popular show
- who's *actually* successful at their revolutionary goals
- while minimizing casualties
- isn't a dick
my request:
- a Killmonger/Daenerys character
- in a popular show
- who's *actually* successful at their revolutionary goals
- while minimizing casualties
- isn't a dick
you don't actually need to make the successful revolutionary some sort of perfect jesus-with-guns type figure with no personality flaws, it doesn't need to end with a happily-ever-after in a perfect utopia. you can give them challenges. you can give them flaws and failures
(I had to google it, and tbh I'd watch this tv show. I think Christian Bale would pull it off)
but centrally all i'm asking for is for writers and producers to challenge viewers to imagine things they have not imagined before.
please,,, our crops are dying
please,,, our crops are dying
