#i'm jaded in a way bc when you're black you learn to expect this when it comes to black characters. like as a rule.

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on the point of including black people in the show (or any period show), a lot of the outrage can sometimes come across as performative to me. it's one thing to feel upset about how little screentime black characters get compared to white characters (a valid criticism, believe me, I Know! give me an hour and i could talk your ear off about how this constantly annoys me as a black person who's damned to enjoy period pieces), but it's another to Only get upset while not actually creating content for said black characters, Especially when fandom (not just hbo war, but in general) is famous for taking Extremely minor characters and creating entire worlds with them, to the point where you wouldn't know they're minor characters at all until you check out the source yourself. richard macon, alexander jefferson, and robert daniels each have only 20 or less posts about them (at the time of publishing this post). in my own fandom experience (within fandoms both big and small and old and new, whatever), i've seen more content (posts, art pieces, analyses, fics, etc) made for minor white characters in less than a mere week's time (it's not a competiton lol i'm just giving a perspective here). so idk. obviously, there's nothing anyone here can do about a show that's already been filmed and released. we got what we got. thas it. at least in the great wide world of fandom, you can actually do something about it, turning the big into small. there's precedent for that. otherwise it just feels like complaining for the sake of complaining

#alexander jefferson only Just reached 20 posts according to tumblr's tagged search. macon's at 17. daniels is at 9 #i'm jaded in a way bc when you're black you learn to expect this when it comes to black characters. like as a rule. #but it's for that reason that a lot of these complaints feel kinda sorta performative #at the end of the day it's a show largely about white guys created largely by white guys #if you want to see blacker shows and movies- many Do exist. hbo war isnt the end all/be all of ww2 media #six triple eight will be coming soon. there's the 90s tuskegee airmen movie. watch overlord if you want a fun (and very fictional) time #and there's dee rees' own 'mudbound'. these aren't 'hbo war' but they're worth watching #i actually feel it's more worth being upset about the lack of representation of nonblack people of color during ww2 #i still want a show about the 442nd! i'd like to see more about native american soldiers! #we just barely saw some sikhs in this episode. they're often sprinkled into the background but they ought to be front and center too #and with that!!! i'm going to bed gnight #masters of the air #hbo war #alexander jefferson #robert daniels #richard macon