Julie Plec turned the heroine black and proceed to sideline her, IN HER OWN STORY and everyone wants another season of it? Nobody sees anything wrong with this?
It just showed how performative the casting decision was in the first place. There’s been enough talk among both the media and the fans about the misogynoir surrounding Bonnie Bennett/Kat Graham since TVD ended that she knew she had to at least attempt to beat the allegations.
As for the fans that wanted it to continue, they just proved that they’re just as willfully obtuse as she is. Casting a black girl to be in the most popular ship in the series and acting like that solved the problem was reductive af because the issues with Plec and her previous works were always bigger than shipping. And I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for her or them to get it through their heads that
Black people are not canon fodder.
Black people are not plot devices.
Black people are not one dimensional beings focused solely on the advancement of white stories.
Black people are not invulnerable magical beings who prefer to suffer in silence.
Black people are not—sorry I did not mean for this response to be this long but I came across Plec’s garbage ass response to Megan Thee Stallion’s tweet about her struggles right after she was SHOT and it just sums up everything that’s wrong with that bitch and the shit she puts on tv better than any rant of mine:
FUCK HER. ALWAYS & FOREVER.