It's hard to even make sense of your writing. But there's nothing inherently tying Joel and Ellie to being white, it's a TV *adaptation* not a direct shot for shot replacement. The character is the plot arc and motives of the person, not the color of their skin.
Internally consistent means the family groups make sense, i.e in some low quality shows if there were two white parents with children of color that wouldn't make genetic sense. Everything here checks out, and it's not peddling any sort of agenda and sticking close to the reference material, so I'm not sure why the word woke even crossed your mind, just because Pedro is Chilean-American? Hm.
Characters of different cultures have long been cast by white leads and still are, so you're not just off base but off planet with this attempted rebuttal. It just becomes "woke" when a character that was white isn't in an adaptation, for super duper mysterious reasons
Whitewashing in film - Wikipedia
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When white actors play other races
The practice of casting white actors in non-white roles is still prevalent in Hollywood – despite widespread condemnation and protest. Why does it continue? Tom Brook reports.www.bbc.com
it's hard to make sense of yours too, because i wasn't against the cast because they didn't look like me, as you said. that was kinda rude. and you don't even know how i look. yes joel and ellie and the other characters could be of any color. but the game doesn't give the option to choose the characters colors or does it? or change other body characteristics. we got what we got, so why not keep that now?
about pedro, yeah because it seems that in america he's not considered white. so not from my perspective, because i see him as white, but from the perspective of the casting people.
well that must have been happening and still happening in every's culture cinema too. do you think that in asia or africa, for example, people have been carefully casting other cultures characters with actors from said cultures? it's not "woke" when the actor is the best fit for the character, which i feel it's the case, and not cast just for the sake having to fill quotas. don't put things on my mouth.
