I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

I'm not really prepared to absolve him because of that. The premise didn't have to be executed in such a way that, for example, exactly one line was delivered by a woman, and exactly one woman had a name, and these weren't even the same woman. Or that the only sympathetically portrayed POC was killed in a stupidly unnecessary way. It had problems aside from the central concept.