BBC changing history

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Lets not forget BBC propagets it as a "typical" family in Roman Britain...

 

[Borachio]

The BBC has my sympathy on this issue.

Having neglected, ever since its inception, to hire black and other minority actors, apart from one or two minor exceptions which haven't been positive in the main, it would seem that it now considers it its public duty to portray more black people in a positive light in mainstream tv.

 

[Berzerker]

with cartoons depicting them as Roman officers and slave owners?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

You know I was just thinking: Someone should write an alternative history novel where the American Civil War is not South against North but white against black and in the end the black people enslave the whites.
And then HBO makes it into a TV show. Or the BBC; I suppose.
That would be pretty hilarious. And empowering.

 

[Borachio]

Er.

Ursula Le Guin wrote a novel (or was it a short story) where black people do exactly that: enslave white people.

It made no difference though. It was still about people enslaving other people.

And it didn't make much difference to the Arabs either did it? They didn't seem to mind who they enslaved.

Nor did the Romans, or the Greeks.

with cartoons depicting them as Roman officers and slave owners?

OK. Well maybe not.

I confess I haven't actually bothered to watch the thing.

(My mind's still on Scarlett Johansson.)

 

[warpus]

Ursula Le Guin wrote a novel (or was it a short story) where black people do exactly that: enslave white people.

Has that never happened before?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Well never is probably a stretch. But not on a large scale, I presume.

 

[Arakhor]

everybody has a British accent, even the kids who are just learning about Britain

The people in the video are (Romano-) British. What do you expect?

Lets not forget BBC propagets it as a "typical" family in Roman Britain...

Remind me where in that video that rich family are described as "typical".

 

[Berzerker]

OK. Well maybe not.

I confess I haven't actually bothered to watch the thing.

(My mind's still on Scarlett Johansson.)

hehe, I had to watch it to find out... and I was thinking, portraying a black guy as 'the man' might offend a few Africans.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ursula Le Guin wrote a novel (or was it a short story) where black people do exactly that: enslave white people.

A.M. Lightner wrote a novel called Day of the Drones.

 

[Borachio]

A.M. Lightner wrote a novel called Day of the Drones.

Yeah. It's fair enough as a premise.

But once you've assimilated the fact that it's black people enslaving white people, there's no difference, I found, between that and the historical situation.

Which is, of course, the whole point.

But I don't think it takes an entire novel to say it.

 

[Berzerker]

The people in the video are (Romano-) British. What do you expect?

I'd expect the family members to have accents from their native lands, not their new home

 

[Borachio]

That's pretty hard to determine 1500 years after the fact.

I can just about distinguish different accents in the country I live in now.

But I have enormous difficulty distinguishing different accents in different countries in the present day.

For example, can I reliably tell if someone Spanish is speaking French with a Spanish accent?

 

[Arakhor]

I'd expect the family members to have accents from their native lands, not their new home

Well, given that they're living in a villa with all the mod-cons, they've clearly been in the country for a long while (and that's not forgetting that Mum and the children might have been born in Britain).

 

[Cutlass]

Er.

Ursula Le Guin wrote a novel (or was it a short story) where black people do exactly that: enslave white people.

Robert Heinlein did too.

 

[Zkribbler]

I'd expect the family members to have accents from their native lands, not their new home

I'd expect them to be speaking Latin, not modern-day English.

 

[Berzerker]

I'd expect them to be speaking Latin, not modern-day English.

True, but I guess budget limitations and an english audience are the relevant factors

Well, given that they're living in a villa with all the mod-cons, they've clearly been in the country for a long while (and that's not forgetting that Mum and the children might have been born in Britain).

If a Roman Commander arrives in Britain to oversee the construction of a wall, I imagine he'd be assigned living arrangements, maybe even the same villa occupied by the previous commander. But if I was writing his history he'd be from N Africa, rose in the ranks and married an Italian woman and had a kid or two before his latest job took them to Britain. But hey, you're welcome to your screenplay

 

[warpus]

A.M. Lightner wrote a novel called Day of the Drones.

An incredible adventure in the radioactive ruins of the world, where whites live like insects and blacks are the elite.

I wonder what happened to Asians. Maybe they got the hell out of there when white people started scurrying around like insects

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's been 35 years since I read the book. I still have it, though I'm not sure where.

 

[Ajidica]

All I know is I support the BBC because they are annoying racists and edgelords.