It was only interesting when it was still in Europe and the time travel was still a mystery, which both concluded with Season 3. The mystery being solved + them going to America completely ruined it. Nobody wants to see colonial America, especially Americans. And especially with no mystery to keep it fresh.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the show more than the show itself, though probably because Ansel Elgort is a charisma vacuum. I think almost anyone else would've been better.

Co-opted old IP (Addams Family) + influencer culture (Jenna Ortega) = easy views.

I understand and I'm just saying that I disagree. I think there needs to be a narrative reason for virtually every facet of a story. No story is perfect, and some poor logic is more forgivable than others. It has nothing to do specifically with skin color or race. But a visual inconsistency is more apparent than non-visual because you're constantly reminded by it and it takes you out of the immersion.

Because we have Tolkien historical lore that follows the logic of our reality. Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, even Humans themselves were separated into homogeneous groups, most of whom despised each other. A group of humans in Harad were dark-skinned.

People were mad when they added a hot elf character in the Hobbit movies so they could make a love story with a dwarf. It directly shits on the historical lore of the books because there wasn't any narrative logic for it, it was purely external.

Yes. For the same reason why I would need a reason for White, Latino or Asian people to exist in Wakanda before they went international. If there's logical inconsistency, it will rub people the wrong way.

It's really no different logically than if WB cast Stephen Hawking as Superman. It doesn't make sense. He physically just could not be Superman. If something doesn't make sense, it causes friction.

I'm not saying history doesn't favor white people, and it definitely indirectly causes 17-20th century European and American stories to naturally favor white people as well. But at the end of the day if there's a historical context to the fiction, then it's weird to be shocked when people hold it to historical logic. And when it fails to adhere to that logic, it's normal for people to be annoyed by it.