I don’t know anyone personally who would have a problem but we’re on the internet and you can definitely find people angry at even original casting.
To go back in time, Sisko from Star Trek was definitely an unpopular casting.
To come to a more recent time, Finn from the newer Star Wars film. He was shown in the trailer to be the next jedi, to sort of mislead the audience to not think it was 100% going to be Rey, and the comments from a lot of people echo similar to what you see folks get upset with in regards to race swaps. But in that case, people felt like it was an attack on their fandom for having a diverse lead character.
I agree with the notion that an original character is always the way to go but a lot of folks will find any excuse in the book to dogpile against diversity. Example being GoT House of the Dragon, or even better example LOTR (that cruddy Amazon show. Having a black elf was the least of its worries with how shitty that story was).
I don’t know anyone personally who would have a problem but we’re on the internet and you can definitely find people angry at even original casting.
To go back in time, Sisko from Star Trek was definitely an unpopular casting.
To come to a more recent time, Finn from the newer Star Wars film. He was shown in the trailer to be the next jedi, to sort of mislead the audience to not think it was 100% going to be Rey, and the comments from a lot of people echo similar to what you see folks get upset with in regards to race swaps. But in that case, people felt like it was an attack on their fandom for having a diverse lead character.
I agree with the notion that an original character is always the way to go but a lot of folks will find any excuse in the book to dogpile against diversity. Example being GoT House of the Dragon, or even better example LOTR (that cruddy Amazon show. Having a black elf was the least of its worries with how shitty that story was).