Sadly, Idris Elba won't be the next James Bond

[LanternWaste]

86. You're in effect stating, "this imaginary character can only be X,"

You're in effect stating, "this imaginary character can only be X," despite the character being, well... imaginary.

You're placing arbitrary limits on the limitless.

No one of rational mind gets upset if a Shakespearean drama is set in the early 20th century (Love's Labors Lost, 2000) or the ghetto of New York (West Side Story). No one of sound mind gets upset when a white man plays Othello against an all black cast. And no one (except annoying fanboys) pretend sound science is applied 100% of the time to science-fiction movies.

And yet, you're railing about the immorality of a mere gender change to a fictional (let's repeat that for effect: an imaginary, made-up story) character.




Though I'm betting you'll rationalize your intolerance of a benign change as something else.