Burn wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:Just for the record, I want to state that, although I don't like characters changing ethnicities, etc for no reason, I'm all for SJ issues, more inclusivity, etc. I am really looking forward to the new female Doctor Who, would love to see Edris Elba as James Bond, etc.
No see, I have to disagree.
I'm all for women taking a more starring role, I'm all for more ethnicities in starring roles. But why take existing characters and swap their genders and/or races?
It's just plain lazy. Why not make the effort to create new characters?
They hype that such gender / race swaps are ground breaking. No, it's not. There is nothing ground breaking about casting a female to play The Doctor. There have been a number of women in sci-fi shows for decades who have had the lead role. Has no one heard of Eleanor Ripley? Sarah Connor? Katherine Janeway? DANA SCULLY?
I've ready many people say Marvel are pandering to the SJW's. How? They're actually introducing diversity in the right way. They don't take existing characters and gender/race swap them. They introduce NEW characters based on existing characters.
nah **** this gender/race swap for diversity sake. If people are going to create, then put some **** effort into your creativity. Don't just take an existing character to change them for the sake of diversity. It's just lazy.
I totally agree. I don't think changing existing characters for the sake of it is a good idea, either (unless it's in Hollywood, and using certain actors just makes more sense, due to "star power" or a lack of actors with the "correct" ethnicity/gender having the talent needed, etc).
I'm all for a change in position or roles for the same character, or new characters taking over.
However, in franchises like James Bond and Doctor Who, these lend themselves perfectly to gender it ethnicity swaps, due to ambiguous nature of their character or appearance (they always change and never remain constant).
For me, in "live action" situations especially, I loved Katie Sakoff's "Starbuck" in Battlestar Galactica, "Missie" in "Doctor Who" and Samuel L Jackson's "Nick Fury" in "The Avengers".
I think we are both on basically the same page, at least, here, Burn. Perhaps different paragraphs, but certainly not like the outburst a few posts upwards (which was in a different Library, in a different territory).
also think you squeezed too much text in those first two balloons, couldn't work out what they were saying.
