In which whitewashing in the media is serious and Saphie and I talk about it seriously

[andurz]

[In which kpolil and andurz acknowledge the reasoning behind Anders' use of a POC PB for the human form of a nonhuman character]

psychicsaphie 12:20 am
Can I just say I am super happy that you chose a black dude for goliath because why not
that makes sense
VAed by a black guy, dark skinned as a gargoyle...

Chalkwitch 12:20 am
Dude seriously

psychicsaphie 12:20 am
I know it was a conscious choice on your part and I think that is cool
I hate when people pick PBs that are always white.

Chalkwitch 12:21 am
I mean it was half-conscious because he's very dark-skinned as a human in that one episode . . . There was another episode in the third noncanonical season I know where he was human and white but I said fuck that.

psychicsaphie 12:22 am
XD

Chalkwitch 12:22 am
You could make the argument that since they're from tenth-century Scotland their human equivalents should all be white but I make the counterargument that fuck you.
Counterargument over.

psychicsaphie 12:23 am
XD
/high fives

Comments

[farasha]

He always sounded like a black dude to me, so it makes total sense. I remember that one episode where they were all human and I kind of tilted my head and said "Oh, that's the direction you're going in? Ok..."

It probably helped that the most recent time I saw Gargoyles was like, a year ago, and I was watching for that kind of thing.

[andurz]

He IS voiced by a black man, and even in the VA world there's a whooooole lot more white folks I can name than POCs. And this was a show that made very deliberate choices about having minority characters in varied roles.

Basically even if Keith Hamilton-Cobb didn't seriously look the part, I think whitewashing him in human form would be really shitty. Hell I'd have used Keith David as his PB if he had appeared in more movies shirtless and with long hair.