I wasn't placing it on his acting, but on them hyping him up (I vividly recall the Disney PR going on about him being the first black lead in a Star Wars film) and then giving him nothing to work with. It was like they were saying, we just need him for his race.
Which if this is Disney’s stance, then we need to place the blame on Disney not giving their character’s good writing, which still has nothing to do with having a diverse cast (or worse, means Disney is specifically writing out those characters)
So it sounds like it’s still not an issue with them having a diverse cast, but with writing out main characters from having interesting things happen!
Yes! I realize I may not be articulating my point very well (it sounds smoother in my head). It isn't that the cast is diverse, but the marketing being made BECAUSE of the diverse cast, rather than the marketing being made about the story. By focusing people's attention to the the cast being
of different genders and races, they hope that people won't realize they either rushed the writing without polishing it or that they didn't have a good one to start with, so they can push any neg. feedback as being about diversity and not the crappy plot/writing.
Hmm… I’m trying to think of a way to phrase it… Maybe something like ‘Disney is being disingenuous with their advertising because they claim to support diversity, however they are not supporting a key member of the cast (Boyega) through his character’s story arc to give him a chance to shine’ Close?
Kinda. And I used Boyega simply as an example. You can pretty much do substitute a lot of the cast and get the same thing.
Now I remember the original point! lol. It was the comment about the villain from Acolyte being good & someone else ripping on the fans for getting the show cancelled because they are toxic. There was an article right after it got cancelled where it said that the fans (general)
couldn't handle a cast that was full of different races and genders, so it was bigotry & sexism & racists that got the show cancelled. But they refused to accept that maybe people didn't like the show because the writing was really bad for a lot of it.
Yes, there is a SMALL number of 'fans' who will complain about the race/gender of a character, but it's come to the point that the fandom as a whole gets criticized being 'toxic' when they raise valid points about the writing.