Comment Re:If it's woke, I will ignore it (Score 1) 65
I saw a little of the comic when I was younger. Great art. Loved the Goth vibe. Loved the 80s punk vibe. It felt a lot like someone enjoyed The Cure, and wanted to make a comic about Robert Smith. I definitely did not read even half a dozen of them though, I was always more into the art than the rest of it.
The gripes I have heard about gender swapping and putting a large number of African heritage people in the show is distracting because it was so many for so many established parts. And the more reasonable asked, why not introduce new characters with their own qualities to introduce? I know I know, if you include enough, then eventually it will feel normal. But the problem is, if people like something enough, and then when it is switched to something that feels different, it hurts them on a personal level. Sadly people lash out when that happens, and it can have the opposite affect as was desired.
I read on IMDB that there were tons of swaps.
If you look at this poster thing, 3 of the 10 characters are straight white males. Seems a bit much considering most were standard white males in the comics if my guess is right:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1...
Some of the swaps I have heard about, please verify at your own leisure, because I'm not an expert and also need to finish watching the series:
Death swapped from a goth white female to a black female.
Lucifer is now a white female.
Librarian used to be a white male, now black female. She is a very likeable actor/character so far in my viewing I will say.
Many couples are not straight.
Desire is non-binary sexually, swapped from likely a straight white male.
Some black folks are showing up in historical 1910 era London but don't stick to historical accuracy.
Cain and Abel are perhaps Indian instead of being Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. And they were fairly goofy, by the way. I doubt they were so farcical in the grim gritty comic.