Magic Story Announcement and Regionally Blocked Stories
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Posted on Dec. 16, 2020, 12:16 a.m. by RicketyEng
This announcement was made by Wizards last week. I think this is a strong positive stance for them to take. I look forward to the freedom the stories will have going forward.
Many people have lost faith in the Magic story so I hope this help them regain some of it.
I think Wizards' positive moves deserve some discussion too.
RNR_Gaming says... #3
So, the stance is great. However, with that stance will come a lot of "forced diversity" at least that's what I'm expecting. I'm not sure if I'm ready for all of the drama that's going to arise from it. Now, if we can get well written full fleshed out characters that actually contribute to the narrative in a creative/interesting way, I'm all for this but if it's just mindless pandering and tokenism I'm going to be slightly perturbed.
December 16, 2020 1:47 a.m.
DarkMagician says... #4
RNR_Gaming as a writer i whole heartedly agree with you.
December 16, 2020 3:12 a.m.
After the Chandra stuff following War of the Spark and Wizards shitty internal stuff I have no faith in them. They had have many opportunities to unqueer bait but they didnt want to use them and now I am done.
December 16, 2020 4:02 a.m.
RicketyEng says... #6
LeaPlath, I don't know what "unqueer bait" means. Could you elaborate?
December 16, 2020 3:11 p.m.
RicketyEng To queerbait is to dangle/hint at a queer relationship to excite fans who want to see that representation, but fail to make it "canon" or legit because in the end they privilege the straight relationship anyway. So in this case I believe LeaPlath means they had plenty of opportunities to make Chandra/Nissa a real relationship instead of just hinting at their attraction for one another and then dropping it entirely.
I didn't read the terrible War of the Spark novel that sparked (heh) all of the backlash, so I don't know the exact plotline/how it "ended" with those two.
December 16, 2020 8:02 p.m.
It’s worth noting that the most recent Zendikar story tried to rekindle the Nissa-Chandra relationship through Nissa’s internal dialogue being very focused on missing Chandra’s company/what Chandra would think. Then they completely undermined that by having Jace’s internal monologue also be focused on Chandra, downplaying the importance of Nissa focusing on her.
Also, the entire Zendikar 3.0 story was complete garbage that ultimately had no tangible effect on the lore or characters. But that’s a discussion for another thread.
December 16, 2020 8:16 p.m.
Omniscience_is_life says... #9
I think you should start that thread, Caerwyn. We all want to dump on WotC's terrible writing skills
Caerwyn says... #2
Though this does little to give me faith in Wizards' writing quality and character development, they do deserve some credit for their new stance. The new planeswalker profiles seem like interesting and well-thought-out character concepts. I'm sure they'll be less interesting when we actually encounter them in the written story, but we'll hopefully get some good flavor text out of their existence.
December 16, 2020 12:59 a.m.