martian, on 18 November 2023 - 07:34 AM, said:
I would avoid complicating the things too much, i.e. too many characters, too many factions, too many agendas, too many places, etc.
Essentially, you can have a good story with two factions (for example, two Great Houses), maybe with ComStar and some secondary factions thrown in.
Something like the first Gray Death trilogy.
Or even more down to earth, start with a merc crew in the *** end of nowhere and keep faction politics in the background until the sequel.
epikt, on 16 November 2023 - 05:24 PM, said:
You're totally delusional. It's YOU that entered this conversation fantasizing the presumed woke audience wanting that "natasha kerensky is black and hans davion is a gay woman. melissa steiner is trans" when nobody ever said anything like that.
Was he?
Or was he talking about what modern film studios would do because they
presume there will be such an audience?
In recent decade it's become common for them to pursue such audiences and prioritize political messaging over producing good entertainment.
Disney, Netflix and Amazon Studios have done that to various degrees, but it's neither limited to them nor even contained to the film industry.
There are good and bad ways to have inclusion and representation in a story, and retooling characters or retconning lore to meet DEI checklists is the latter - while being a common, even default, approach for writers who are lazy, uncreative or lack the talent to write characters with any actual depth.
Hell... as of late, I've heard that 1984 has been "updated for modern audiences" - and if you know anything about 1984, that's irony itself.
Edited by Horseman, 24 November 2023 - 09:54 AM.
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