The writing has long been on the wall.

I agree more nuance is needed, but I'd like people to just be more aware that those conflicts are, and have been going on, in the first place. Again, not to disgree, with any of your points. /2

Good post. I agree on the nuance past, as you well know. That said, sometimes I'm just a bit shocked when the conflicts in Africa (and some other parts of the world) are mentioned at all. They are so rarely reported and so often forgotten by news agencies, and thus, by the occupants of the US. 1/

that one of the reasons Andor was so good is that the characters' inevitable death in Rogue One freed the writer's from trying to make the show endlessly open-ended. They left room for more but not to the same extent as other shows/films. /3

franchises leave casual fans to be filled by friends, doing Google bldeep dives, finding time to watch what they missed, or just saying "fuck it!" Disney is also trying to entice people to the next thing rather than focusing on the story in front of them. I suspect 2/

all the time. I'm just saying you don't go to Taco Bell to learn to cook, so maybe we need to better teach people not to expect popular films to teach them history. /2

the whiners today need to get over themselves. /4

except for his teeth. Morien is a badass. At only 14, he towers over Arthur's other knights, carries his warhorse onto a ferry, and fights Lancelot, regarded then and now as Arthur's best, to a draw. So if peeps in the 14th century could put Black people in these tales then 3/

both black and white skin in what some scholars suggest may have been based on the author's incorrect assumption that vitiligo may have been caused by interracial liasons. The other knight, Morien, despite being part European, is described as being all black of countenance, 2/

Europeans tend to either keep or burn everything.