We LOVE a queen

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Why the hell would she receive hate? All hate needs to go to whoever was responsible for that hair.



Despite this I'm still weirdly excited for this show. I just want DC to be great in live action

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because people have been PISSED that starfire was black and were waiting to pounce on anything wrong with her representation of her.

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Yep. The pics from yesterday showed pretty crappy styling for each of the characters that were seen, IMO, but the racist fanboys were looking for any reason just to shit on a WOC being cast as an alien.



Apparently extra-terrestrials are all white people...who knew?

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Exactly, if the outfit was good or not, she'd have dealt with ugly, racist comments anyway.

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How is this her own fault? The fuck lol. You go gurl

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she's really sweet, the backlash should have nothing to do with her

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Idk anything about this person or that show, but I wanna be friends with her now.

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That wig was very sloppy but that wasn't her fault, and that doesn't justify hate speech and vitriol.

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Omg I didn’t know she was playing Starfire. I’m suddenly interested in watching the show.

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The pics were horrible but the hate brigade was spearheaded by the “well why was there a black Starfire anyway???” people. Her being black was not the reason she looked a mess. Sis didn’t need this extra negativity

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Everyone on set looked like shit but of course the black woman got the raw end of the deal 🙄 blame the shitty costume design team, not her.

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iirc you couldn't really see anyone else except, like, their heads.

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Nope there were more pictures where you could see all of raven and beast boy and they both looked like shit too

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I agreed with the last half of her statement 100%, but yeah, ummm those photos are pretty damning for Beast Boy and Raven too. Is this going to be a Hulu TV show or a movie? Cuz if it's the latter, they'd better have some serious post-production costume effects.

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I'm sure some of it was racially motivated, but Starfire also looked there worst, so it's justified fans would be most vocal about it.

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SHE got no hate on here....the costume designer did though for throwing her in that she by sheree exclusive. 😂😂.

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not on here but elsewhere for sure

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i hate some people smh.

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"hateful"



Well, obviously anything racist was going too fucking far (and probably said racists were just waiting for an opportunity to spew their shit), but those pics, as we could see them, the only way we could see them, looked completely heinous. Like, competing-with-Inhumans heinous.

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I have yet to see an actor dressed as a superhero who didn't look like a fool on bts pictures. Those costumes look like arts and crafts shit without proper lightning and editing so anyone who sees a pap picture and thinks that in any way represents the actual final result is an idiot.



Edited at 2018-04-12 10:53 pm (UTC)

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Well, I guess we've had different experiences.

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Yeah they all look dumb. Sebs plastic arm comes to mind. Ms Marvel's green suit. The Flash (movie and show). Etc

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Why would you use a "but"?



Basically excuses the hate speech that was directed towards her and the production.



But you do you, boo.

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People are trash.



I'm holding out hope till official photos are revealed.

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She either got a fantastic PR team or she's just genuinely amazing bc that post is flawless. So is that picture.

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Racist pricks aside, this makes me wish more "mainstream" shows made an effort to get hair and makeup who were black or at least knew how to deal with black hair/makeup. So many black women look like shit on "white" shows cause the studio didn't think to check if their crew can properly service the needs of all their cast.





That being said her hair could have been layed to the gods and she would have faced the same racist backlash.



Edited at 2018-04-12 11:20 pm (UTC)

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Yep -- the same thing happens with the lighting, when the... lighting director (?) has been trained how to best illuminate light skin and doesn't gaf if darker-skinned actors look muddy or fade into the background.



iirc that's why Ryan Coogler insisted on bringing his own lighting people to Black Panther.

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