Being Human on BBC3

[nath]

I think I see what Sparx means although probably a misjudgement. Promoting multiculturalism is one thing but the BBC recently have really been stuffing it down your throat. I have nothing against including people of different races in programs like this but when you're misrepresenting history for the sake of political correctness that's not right.

How are they misrepresenting history? Was the ghost white in real life?

 

[00dave]

How are they misrepresenting history? Was the ghost white in real life?

Wow you really are king of missing the point aren't you. I wrote "nothing against including people of different races in programs like this but when you're misrepresenting history for the sake of political correctness that's not right."

By that i mean ok fine this is a modern program no problem at all, but what I was trying to say and what I think Sparx was trying to say was that the bbcs shove it down your throat policy is getting on my nerves. Programs like doctor who and merlin are what I'm refering to. One day they'll do an episode of Dr Who where he goes back to the victorian era and meets someone from Israel, or maybe one of the guards in Merlin will be an American Indian.

 

[nath]

Well perhaps fair enough on those programs, I don't watch them so I'm not aware as to how out of place it is. I just referring to this program and I think it's interesting to assume it's something PC because a black girl gets an acting gig.

 

[Sparx]

Merlin is a great example of what the BBC are like. With regards to Being Human i dont see why they felt the need to change the cast, it worked perfectly fine. Knowing the BBC (I have/had friends who worked there) during a cast reshuffle they would have been concious that it was an all white cast and made decisions recasting on that knowledge, instead of pure acting ability

 

[DaGaffer]

They should at least make and effort to include things properly like in robin hood prince of thieves the dark skinned man was a moor who won respect, liked that, worked well, but then they had to make up for Costner somehow

LOL. Prince of Thieves was the start of a long and increasingly ridiculous trend. Morgan Freeman's Moor was just as ridiculous as black girls in Merlin (more so, there were Africans who served in Britain with the Romans). I have no problem with this kind of tokenism where it makes sense (any modern drama for instance), but shoehorning ethnic minority characters into historical dramas is just silly; its a bit like the whole Spike Lee rant where he moaned about the lack of black guys in Flags of Our Fathers; sure there were some black soldiers at Iwo Jima, 900, out of 110,000! Get a grip Spike. I also think this kind of tokenism actually does ethnic minorities a disservice anyway; as it gives the impression that back in the day it was all a happy-clappy multicultural love-in, rather than showing what it was really like if you were black or brown.

 

[00dave]

Yeah but at least in prince of thieves they made an effort to explain why he was there, a few anachronisms are in every film set before modern day. But yeah the shoehorning annoys me so much.

I was surprised there wasn't any complaining on the lack of ethnics in lord of the rings.