Creators today are so hooked on the word "relatable" instead of focusing on making characters/words/stories "compelling". As a 19 year old black man I got nothing in commonly with a 30 year old white cowboy (Arthur Morgan), yet I love him as a character because he is compelling. I don't watch/read or play entertainment media to see my life mirrored back at me. It's escapism. I get to be someone else, or be a part of someone else's journey, exist in a different world similar to my own but with different unique things going on. None that requires relatability as a foundation.

Black people wouldn't be "excluded from lead roles" in period dramas if they made the period dramas about black cultures. Simple solution. But since Britain was always predominantly white, that's why most period dramas are about white people.

As a ginger I prefer the term, “chromatically challenged”.

On a similar note, "The Witcher" features a character by the name of Triss Merigold. In the books she has red hair and blue eyes, in the video games she also has red hair. In the TV series she has dark skin, eyes and hair. Why the war on redheads?

Race and gender swapping isn’t remotely “imaginative” by now; it’s lazy and obligatory.

"As a person of ginger..." 🤣 In all seriousness, however, less than 2% of the global population has red hair. They're a minority within a minority. Red hair is beautiful, rare, and as a society, we should prize our red-haired brethren - not stand by as they're erased and replaced within our media.

I used to wonder, "Why not just create an new franchise with original characters who have the characteristics it's now fashionable to appreciate?" But then I realized that that's not the point. The point is to subvert existing franchises for propagandistic purposes and replace the traditional audiences for them with a new set of "right-thinking" adherents. All forms of entertainment can be used to promote a political agenda in this way. If they are actually entertaining, and the propaganda is subtle, it's an effective way to influence audiences' attitudes and opinions. Gradualism works. But the current woke offerings are ham-fisted and inauthentic, very much like theatre in the Stalinist and Maoist regimes, so they end up losing the old audience without really engaging the interest and imagination of a new one. People do recognize bad art, if only subconsciously, so the good news is that this era can't last very long. All but a few will just tune it out until no one sees the point in making it anymore.

Can’t wait for the Critical Drinker/Dave Cullen stream that’s definitely happening in the future.

They don't make these things for you to love them, the make them because they hate you. No one has to buy or consume their shit. Write, record, play and share your stories with the world and let them shake with rage.

As I stated before: This is rewriting of history.

"The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and *PENETRATES* us. It binds the galaxy together." - Obi-Wan Kenobi, in A New Hope. The force is clearly male.

Zendaya is the epitome of Hollywood's casting policy. An activist with no talent, no charisma, just someone who's there because she ticks the right boxes. The product of pure tokenism.

Another big one that’s coming up is Amazon’s *The Wheel of Time.* When Robert Jordan wrote the series, he was very clear on how the characters looked, and you see that on the book covers. Look at their casting; there are very few accurately cast characters, and they decided to make a female support the main character.

Remember the late 90's when we would get a sitcom for every race? There was a time when it was common knowledge that we had very different cultures. Now having a different culture is not allowed and i am reminded of the old adage "What a boring world it would be if everyone was just like you."

As a person of Ginger.............. I love it. Seriously what's up with the purging of Gingers lately? Also this woke nonsense is why I've started exploring the films and TV series from prior decades. Recently I've gotten into watching film noirs from the 40's and 50's. Forget streaming services which can be victims of Soviet revisionism........... being updated to comply with modern standards, buy DVD's and Blue Rays.

What would have been so wrong if they just decided to do a proper Doctor Who spin off with his daughter River Song? She is her own character. She is original and pre established.

Talking about this kinda stuff among family members, even my mother is saying she's getting sick of women.

It's our version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, but the culture is being killed by a death of a thousand tiny cuts.

When people say stuff like "I never had a character that looks like me/that I could identify with because they did not look me when I was growing up". I feel bad for not that is it sad. But pathetically sad because you have so little self worth that you need a character cartoon to look like you.

It's not even fictional characters anymore. Didn't they just race swap Ann Boleyn, a real life historical person?

Face it all these changes are basically feminist fan fiction and bad fan fiction at that.

One day when the world turns - and it will - society will look back at these times with horror, and some hilarity at all the nonsense.

As an actor I’ve been denied roles because they only wanted to hire BAME actors rather than just casting who’s best for the role. Seems very “inclusive” to me.

I'm still waiting for a production of Shaka Zulu, with the cast being ALL ginger. It's only fair.

The Force is Female - What total BS. How does a magical energy field have a gender, Kathleen Kennedy? Please explain that to me and once again prove how little you actually know about the SWU.

James Bond seems to be going the same way. Not only were they talking up Nomi as the possible next 007, but the recent character profiles demonstrate how unaware these new actresses are. Lyshanna Lynch thinks she's reinventing the wheel for women in Bond when strong women have been in the Bond franchise for decades. Nomi will likely be forgettable and too on the nose. Not to mention Bond seems to be getting cucked in several scenes in his own movie. Like when he's riding behind her on a motorcycle (so long the days where Bond and Wai Lin fought to get control of a motorcycle) and her being magically able to operate an aerial vehicle she admits to having no experience flying whilst Bond sits in the back like a good boy.

I love red hair & freckles!!! It’s beautiful to me. My son had a few red hairs as his grandmother is a strawberry blonde. I’ve never understood why being ginger was looked down on at times.

As a fellow redhead, I really appreciate you pointing out this ousting of all these redhead portrayals

Also in the Witcher, Triss a redhead was also removed.

Imagine the fury on Twitter if a company announced it was making a biopic of the life of Nelson Mandela - and had cast Peter Dinklage to play him. Or a biopic about the life of Oprah and they'd cast Emma Thompson to play her. Or a drama about Jay-Z and Beyonce with Kevin Costner and Scarlett Johansson in the lead roles - the 'Progressives' would have a stroke. But casting a black actress in the role of Ann Boleyn or making 'woke' history shows for kids showing how the Picts were mixed-race or medieval England had black nobles - that's stunning and brave and better represents society (of TODAY not THEN) - riiigghhhttttt......

It wasn’t even possible for timelords to change their gender originally. They did that just a season or two before the female doctor to set it up.

Doctor Who already had not one, but two interesting, strong female Time Lords. Romana and the Rani. Missy could even be counted in that as well.

Race and gender aside, I think it's a very dangerous precedent they're setting now whereby modern culture takes a character someone created and decides to change this element or that. We're all used to movie adaptations where they take liberties, like Sherlock Holmes, but it is "sheer fucking hubris" to think that the character Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created was just a partially completed template for you to modify as you see fit. Modern producers and audiences seem to think these classics are choose your own adventure books, where you can modify it to suit yourself. No, the creator didn't create 50% of a character, they created 100%, and if that doesn't fit with someone in 2021 then they are free to find something else that does, or create their own original work. It's becoming a real problem, with folk genuinely thinking it's ok to say "why can't James Bond be black etc."

Can you please give me a notification when dr who is a charismatic, masculine, problem solving man again.

Doctor Who had multiple "strong" women characters. Sarah Jane (who got her own successful show), Martha Jones, heck I'd argue that Clara Oswald was definitely a strong female character. She 'saved' the Doctor on multiple occasions and he wouldn't be who he is today without her. They even had an amazing LGBTQ+ character (done right) with Captain Jack (who also got his own successful show). All these claims about being "diverse" for the first time is just bullshit and everyone knows it. It's the CRT version of diversity.

Erase one's history and replace it with lies, and he can no longer find pride in his ancestors and their values, and will live his life in shame for he does not know of his proud heritage.

Actually Time Lords couldn't change sex until the 2011 episode The Doctor's Wife.

It's Cultural Maoism. Calling this Marxist crap for what it is.

The trend of taking classic, beloved characters and replacing them with women or persons of colour has begun. And it's clearly not working if Ghostbusters 2016 and Doctor Who are anything to go by.

Great video, its good to see people talking about this. Another point I like to bring up is how they always have to recast existing characters, rather than actually puting in the effort to write original characters. Shows how bad most of the writers behind these shows must be if this is all they can do. As an amatuer writer myself, I've written characters who are female or non-white, as well as both, and it's not even hard to do. You just need some creativity in you, something these writers clearly don't have.

Thor, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Hulk, they are all being replaced by women. Wtf? And I'm sure there are more coming.

Ya know, period dramas could easily have lead roles of any race you could imagine - just tell stories from different parts of the world.

The first mention of Time Lords changing sex is the the story The Doctor's Wife. Nothing in the rest of the show's long history before that says one word about it.

Man, I've been saying EXACTLY THIS, for the past few years now. I've actually lost friends over it, but I don't really mind losing "that kind of friends"... The truth is the truth, no matter how much it hurts.

“ filmmakers have become increasingly more imaginative” ...basically a euphemism for dishonest and lying about history”!

I admire the courage of The Dave Cullen Show ! ! ! You need a lot of courage to raise such topics on the Internet. I have recently been brutally attacked by the author (by a woman with very left-wing views - I am not judging, but just presenting who this person was) of the analyzes of James Bond films only for trying to explain (in comments under her video in youtube) that society treated African Americans differently than whites in the 1970s, and not everyone considered it wrong (in the sense that they did not feel that African American status should be equal to, not inferior to, white Americans - or to say it better they just did not understand what equality should really mean). For just explaining this, I was brutally attacked and labeled a racist. Hence ... HUGE WORDS OF RECOGNITION FOR ADDRESSING SUCH A SUBJECT ON THE INTERNET. THE DAVE CULLEN SHOW YOU ARE BRAVE MAN ! ! !

I can cope with the odd bit of race or gender swapping if by some miracle it's well done (and the character is fictional - black Anne Boleyn ffs? No way!), and I'm happy with a strong female lead, if the character isn't just a perfect Mary Sue (Buffy and Xena were my heroines, back in the day), but if I'm honest, as a woman, I really want an interesting (and preferably hot) male lead, who isn't undermined or ridiculed by his female co-stars, who isn't picked solely for his skin tone and who can act well enough to keep me involved with the story. I'm probably being old-fashioned or dare I say it, even sexist, but is that too much to ask?!!

If this is representative of the modern culture, I'll happily stay averse of it and continue reading Berserk and Invincible. All these new leads are so empowered that it strips them of humanity. How am I supposed to cheer for their victories and watch them struggle against genuine tribulations, and perhaps even grow into better people, when the plots are so vapid and insecure?

I can only say, its painful to watch new shows. Fact is, I cancelled Netflix because of this, and what happened was they tried to lure me with the junk that made me cancel in the first place. The idea of dismissing our treasures for politics is a sad byproduct of communist take overs. I love Karate, and the origins are completely relevant... Karate originated in the island of Okinawa. They had very close ties with China... But then China was overtaken by their current Communist regime, martial arts schools were heavily oppressed, some of the masters were killed, some went into hiding others left,.. To Okinawa. Likewise, I find Russian Futurism fascinating. Music that emulates all the excitement of the first impressions of the industrial revolution. It has hefty dissonance, complex arrangements and is often very intense. When Stalin rose to power, that music was banned. Much of it was destroyed, many composers were murdered and those left had to accept the regimes requirements. All music was dumbed down as much as possible (just like those woke garbage series, which could hardly be any stupider), and like China, and Nazi Germany, forced to become mere propaganda. As usual, Marxism enshrined mediocrity in a no holds barred race to the bottom. Luckily, Ive found a few actors and creators have turned their back,to this propaganda machine. They make low budget shorts (which if you think about it, gives them access to better equipment than was available to Twilight Zone, so it should be more than enough) And at least for the moment, this kind of material can be seen here and there Thank you for your excellent work! Seriously, big fan (though usually watch on bitchute, nothing like freedom of speech)

the reason for redhead erasure is what's the anagram of ginger

There is a strong female character the producers could have been given a show: Romana.

Great video, Dave! Keep up!

It is not just a reflectiom. It is propaganda, to break our morale and accept the downfall.

Let me turn your attention to the recasting of Guinevere in Merlin.

Actually, there’s a rumor with strong evidence in the 8th Doctor Audio series and some leaks years ago, leading up to McGann’s last appearance in “Night of The Doctor”, that there WAS a plan that got scraped halfway through the Capaldi phase, that would have had the Doctor FINALLY become the Valleyard, and SUSAN would return, played by the original actress, one last time, before being tragically “killed” by her grandfather’s new, overwhelmingly sociopathic persona, and regenerate into a NEW Susan who would then take her grandfather’s place as “The Doctor” in a quest to stop his evil and turn him back into his good self. But by the time they would have been building up to it, the latest lunatics to run the BBC decided this plan wasn’t “woke” enough, so, screw the fans, screw 30 years of continuity.

As someone who has a soft spot for redheads, I feel your pain, bro

In Dr Who, Riversong was loved by many, and is a very strong female character-many would have watched a series of her adventures (which could have taken place during her lifetime).. Similar for missy.

5:25 - No Dave, Britain wasn't "much less diverse" it was around 99.99% White pre-1948 Windrush invasion. There was no Diversity here, we were a safe peaceful ethnostate.

Love how critics of all white historical dramas conveniently forget that Morgan-fucking-Freeman (absolute legend) played the lead role in an Old Western adaptation of Taming of the Shrew. You can add colour to casts and pull on minority backgrounds and upbringings, just make it good. Don't preach.

I hate the new acronyms, BAME? It’s inherently racist in its woke hierarchy, same as BIPOC. Makes me sick

I just don't understand why they can't just make their own shows rather than changing existing ones.

TV is a mess at the moment. I don't watch anything on TV anymore. Just old favourites, which is completely insane, given there is more on TV than ever before. There is nothing but crap on TV now. After I finish Lucifer this week, there isn't a single TV show I am waiting for next season.

There was a time when there used to just be female characters not “strong female leads”. Terminator being a great example. The first film in the franchise had a female main character lol.

So happy your uploading these vids again.👍🏾

It is easier to race swap or recast gender than it is to write a good story. The same can be said for relying on over-the-top CGI effects with displays of entire cities flipping over and collapsing inward rather than character development. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It took place with four characters in a living room. Skillful writing, storytelling, and dialogue. not a gaggle of McWriters sitting at the table pressing the menu button: One gay lead, One POC. Supersize that, please. One twist of lesbian love scene added to shock the jaded audience.

I changed my preferences on entertainment from made in Hollywood shows and movies to foreign ones... Russians and Europeans are making better shows and movies, than Americans these days, specially the Turks.

I've been reminded once again lately why I love Star Trek so much, and why I hate so much what they've done to it. This applies to so many stories, characters, even individual themes of movies that influenced my life. They're just not accepted anymore. In fact, it's all being actively looked down on, if not outright demonized by modern media.

From what I can tell, whoever writes these shows and movies feel like high school fanfic writers, usually girls, who have very specific tastes and writes fanfics that most people wouldn't care for and now they get hired into positions of power and they are abusing it to serve their fetish.

It's been great to see you posting, even a little bit, here again. Poignant too. Not bad for a soulless ginger. ;)

Thanks Dave, and you definitely have more soul than many!

Herbert Marcuse's essay titled "Repressive Tolerance" explains everything...

Dave , you have one of the best takes on Star Trek. I am also a Star Trek, Tolkien and Star Wars. I saw you on Drinkers channel with Platoon and Mauler as the resident Trek expert. 😎🎸

Diversity is not a strength.

The era of wokness will soon come to an end once every woke company goes broke.

The Doctor is one where I half agreed with you. If it had not been used to create constant political plotlines, but instead been used as a twist around getting past the original limitation on regenerations, a consequence of going beyond the limit I thought it would have worked. In fact, the first female doctor could have had a running plotline of the Doctor adapting to a female body. That's why the female Doctor makes me so mad. It could have been a fun and creative choice to jump a limitation the character has had for decades (the regeneration limit) but instead was just a lazy wokefest.

Welp, time to make a reboot of the Dave Cullen show, presented by a black lesbian woman.

You deserve a bigger following. I wonder if you realize just how many people you speak for. Well done.

Glad to see your videos come up again. I'm subscribed to you but never get notifications.

I mean hell. They made Achilles and Zeus to be black in the recent Troy BBC show. Ah, but they are fictitious you may say. Well, you know the next step is a Alexander The Great film with a black actor playing the role. What excuse will there be then? Me and my people (Greek Macedonian) will be called racists and told to shut up when this happens and we cry out against this. The West is finished.

They had the perfect characters for an female led series in Doctor who universe. Me (the viking), Clara and the Doctors daughter (more recent one). They have a Tardis in shape of diner. That would have worked. How well it did would be up to show runner, actors, etc. They could have done crossovers. All canon. It could have been good. Oh well.

Soul privilige got me so hard that alone is a thumbs up, also the video as a whole is very good!

I’m a red head. I feel your pain as I’ve also noticed this switching trend

Speaking of period productions, Anne Boleyn is being race swapped in a miniseries. Sigh

We had these politicised films here where I live, in the 70'ties, and in general called 70'ties films, political garbage, just as bad and embarrassing today as then decades ago, our 70'ties films was 'woke' as woke films are political correct today, and will be embarrassing stupid garbage today as they will be in decades into the future, unfortunately this wokeness will destroy a whole industry forever, there is no return to quality workmanship again, but at least, I save a bunch of money, so it is not all bad

I gave up on modern tv/movies a while ago unfortunately(except some gems like dark). the good part is now im discovering all the movies from the 50s-60s-70's that i never gave a chance to which are like breathes of fresh air.

Dave, I'm so looking forward to the livestream with you & the drinker, please drink a few Irish or Scottish whiskeys along with him, I'm a vodka man myself but will try and avail myself a single malt & drink along with you two in the chat...cheers rollo

You forgot Bill and Ted. In the last film 30 years ago, they had sons Little Bill and Little Ted. But they retconned them to have always been girls. On top of that, if you looked at the future, there was no white men on the high earth council. All women and one black man. And, instead of Bill and Ted being the chosen two to save the earth as established in the first two films, it turns out it was their daughters. Despite the fact we saw holograms of them in the future clearly showing Bill and Ted as being the ones who were the chosen two, not their daughters. It clearly is a sin now to be a white man who is straight.

Smart people (10%): This is the subtext of the movie in question and this is the agenda it's meant to serve. Stupid people (40%): It's just entertainment. Why do you have to think so much? Really stoopid people (50%): Huh? Say what? Stinkin thinkin!

Another Great Video!!! Keep It Up!!!👍🏻

Thank you for the Video.

Try being a university student these days!!!!!!!! They are obsessed with woke ideology, mostly Arts students who do 2 or 3 lectures a week, and lots of free time to "do stuff".

This is why I no longer support tv or movies. I read more now.

Hell in the end even Bill and Ted didn’t write the song that united all people and bettered the planet. It was changed to their daughters.

Really appreciated to hear plain speak, not racist, not sexist, just calling out the book burners.

You forgot to mention the mega woke tv series The Equalizer!

This is what I've been thinking for some time, particularly about Doctor Who. If whitewashing is regarded as offensive and racist, then replacing the Doctor (who is a male character) with a woman is offensive and sexist.

Many of the old Doctors gave their previous selves a put down. Colin Baker's opening lines put down Davison, Troughton famously puts down Pertwee in his return appearances and even on a Children in Need special. One could put down Whitaker's one line as yet another example of this.

2:21 they did, and then Liz Sladen passed away in filming season 4 of Sarah Jane adventures. And they could of also went with Missy being an anti hero doctor, or taking the mantle of the Doctor, and we see 12 regnerate into the Valeyard. (we was an amalgamation between his 12 and final regeneration...when ever teh hell that was supposed to happen, thanks too 11's extra regeneration energy finale, or the complete retcon of EVERYTHING with Tecteun)

Man, I do enjoy the defilement of my favored franchises

If they keep this up it will be funny to see how they depict "current" historical figures in the future. 100 years from now will they portray Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Donald Trump with Asian, Latino or African actors ?🤔... 😂😂😂 *NUFF SAID"™*