The 2024 version focuses far more on the Japanese perspective. The white characters appearing in the first episodes representing Portugal, Spain, England, and Holland could hardly be deemed heroic. However, the character John Blackthorne, now played by Cosmo Jarvis, is already a pivotal figure and will be a hero, along with several Japanese characters. Others are already praising the new 10-part series as a cultural sea change from the 1980 version. I ask the question now that I naively didn’t ask in 1980. Where are the Black people?
Indie Rock is Full of Privileged White Kids. I Know Because I???m One of Them.
The following is a transcript of the keynote address I gave for Sonic aGender an event held as part of Darebin Music Feast on…