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belfryo's avatar

Milchick's cracks started showing in the most recent episode.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Your. It wrong here…milkshake will help the innies at some crucial point because of this IMO. Maybe join forces with Kobel.

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belfryo's avatar

The cracks really started showing in the last episode.

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Greg's avatar

Some day - maybe far far off in the future, but I certainly hope, that we'll all look at black, white, any gradation of color in between humans the same way we look at black, white or any other gradation of color in our animal friends.

I like white cats. I like black cats. I like white and black cats. I like brown cats, grey cats and cats with stripes, cats with no stripes, cats with spots, cats with no spots.

They're all cats.

Same goes for people.

When we can all start looking at each other as people and not through some bizarre racial looking glass, we'll all be better off. Probably some other thing will divide us then, because people are just like that.

My $0.02 FWIW.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Whoa. Lot of food for thought in this article.

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Erin's avatar

Thanks for expanding on this. My white partner and I recoiled pretty hard when we saw that painting because it was such obvious bullshit that he was supposed to feel grateful for. I appreciate the perspective from someone who's probably been on the receiving end of such.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

I thought they’d gone for color-bind casting, I didn’t realize they’d planned it all along. Such a terrific show: “This is the tallest waterfall in the world.”

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Suzie Greenburg's avatar

In reading about Hamilton casting, I remember coming across someone reacting to "But these actors could not be related in real life, how is the audience supposed to believe they're sisters" and someone wrote back something like "The audience actually bought tickets to, then entered and sat down in a theater, to see a play which they don't confuse for a time portal to the American Revolutionary period. They were already pretending, and doing so on purpose."

I mean really, use your imagination. It's fucking art, lose yourself for a second or two. Sheesh.

Lots for me to chew on in the piece, thanks as always.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

I don’t know if Kenneth Branagh gets enough credit for colorblind casting in his Shakespeare films.

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