Dinsey's casting of Halle Bailey as the Mermaid!

JeanLee

This is Miles Morales.

Dinsey's casting of Halle Bailey as the Mermaid!

Miles is awesome, and he’s a completely original character.

He’s NOT “Peter Parker but black” . He has his own separate personal issues, and separate road to victory.

This is the proper way of introducing diversity: make original characters and original story lines.

I don’t like Halle Bailey as Ariel.

Dinsey's casting of Halle Bailey as the Mermaid!

Ariel (at least half of her) was meant to look a certain way: red hair, blue eyes, light skin. And the faithful thing to do is to just get a human who looks the same

It would be terrible if they casted a blonde haired woman, or an older woman, or a woman with short hair. No one would accept that.

It’s unfaithful.

It’s unfaithful because it’s supposed to be a shot-for-shot remake of the original, or at least very close to it.

And I’ll say this: white-washing is just as bad, especially with the new Netflix adaptations of anime.

The right thing to do is to get people who look like the original characters.

OR

Make an original storyline and cast a character of any race you want.

Anything else is just lazy, and disrespectful.

Dinsey's casting of Halle Bailey as the Mermaid!
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