Board Thread:Movies/@comment-4651179-20140124221431/@comment-1458758-20140228091938

Actually Waffle, Supernatural questioned the Black Johnny storm further up.

But honestly I think Nausiated makes some good points and some bad. I mean even looking back on it, Alicia Masters has been portrayed as both white and black, as has Scott Summers, and that's not a bad thing, especially when dealing with something like Comic books where you have things like multiple universes and an sliding timeline. It's not like taking say To Kill a Mockingbird and making the main characters of that an interracial pair, as that would entirely change the core of the story, but if Johnny is black it really doesn't matter I suppose.

On the other hand, Waffle is completely right. Sure we can't expect to judge the entirety of a film just by it's casting choices, but there are elements, people who don't want to see a teenaged Reed and Ben might not be interested in seeing an FF with younger actors and yes, indeed, there might be people out there who are fans of FF who don't want to see a Human Torch of colour, as morally objectionable as that decision may be, looking at the potential cast and other leaked information about the film does prepare us for it and does help inform us and judge whether or not we want to spend the extortionate cinema fees to go see something we may or may not like.