From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Led4acs@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Off-Topic: For those of you who hate ST: 2009   
      
   On Jan 13, 7:20aam, Graeme  wrote:   
   > On Jan 12, 9:04apm, Led4Aces  wrote:   
   >   
   > > No one cares.   
   >   
   > If that were true, there would be no problem. a   
   What I meant was, No one cares about one lame opinion in this group   
   about Thor's casting.   
   What annoys people is   
   > the feeling of obligatoriness about it. aThat they did it that way not   
   > because they didn't care one way or the other, but because they DId   
   > care and felt they HAD to.   
   By they, I assume you mean Kenneth Branagh, Thor's director? Ask   
   Kenneth Branagh whether he thinks only white actors should play   
   Hamlet. Do you see what I'm getting at?   
   > I'm not into Thor, so I probably wouldn't see it either way. aBut if I   
   > were considering it, then I might think that if they didn't even have   
   > the guts to accurately show a Norse cast that there was nothing there   
   > to interest me.   
   Perhaps Branagh is saying that race is as much an artificial construct   
   as are gods.   
   Either way, anyone who says "I'm not going to see Thor because the   
   Norse gods (aka Viking/Scandinavian types) are being portrayed by a   
   diverse cast, and that's their PRIMARY reason for not seeing it....   
   well they need to take a good hard look in the mirror about what is at   
   the root of their attitudes.   
    aI know it's a comic book, as you say, but one would   
   > assume that any adult considering seeing it would be hoping for more   
   > than a kiddie story.   
   Well I'll give you that.   
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