Only Mixing to Match
There's a troubling culture of replacement circulating through our media. I think there's nothing wrong with it, per se, except that it shows a great lack of courage. For example: the new 007 replacement for James Bond is a black woman. That's exciting news, since it should breathe new life into the franchise. And, breathing new life is the problem. There's no real risk taken by trying to tout a 'woke' attitude with your franchise when you're really only doing it to look 'woke.' James Bond is already a hugely successful franchise, worldwide, so they not only have nothing to lose by replacing the race and gender of their namesake character, they also have nothing to lose because anyone who cries out against it looks like (and likely is) a xenophobe, a sexist, a racist, or all of the above. This vindicates the action from the studio if it acts like it's being martyred for being fair and progressive. In either case, it requires little courag