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[chicafrom3]

Discussion on ExIsle about an imagined Andromeda!reboot. Some of the ideas left me "...", some left me "o.0", and some are "YAY". (Enver Gjokaj as Harper? YES PLS.) (I still LU, GMW, promise.) (Although the later idea of gender-flipping Harper and Rommie and letting Enver play all of Andromeda's incarnations is fabulous. Also, Gina Torres as a

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[wemblee]

I WANT GINA TORRES!TYR! And Enver!Harper and Enver!Rommie would also be awesome. <333

[chicafrom3]

Maybe I will be SAD FOREVER about this not actually happening. ♥

[_snitchbitch]

Such an awesome concept, really. Maybe that would be a good idea for a future andromeda_fans challenge! A little picspam with updated actors :)

I would really like to see a more serious version of Andromeda. Someone mentioned over there about Beka & Harper cracking jokes, and Dylan & Rommie being straight and serious.. this would be perfect. And so true.

Wow, I think I'm going to sign into ExIsle (for the first time in years) and make a few comments :)

[chicafrom3]

*coughs* I've actually put together a fantasy!genderbent!casting for all of the S1 crew but Trance and Rev. If I can decide on those two, I will put together a picspam and challenge andromeda_fans to come up with their own casting. Or if somebody you somebody beats me to it, throw my ideas over there as part of the challenge.

I'd hate for Dylan & Rommie to lose their humor entirely -- Harper & Rommie snarking at each other was some of the show's best moments -- but Dylan & Rommie more often playing straight man to Harper & Beka's snark gets a thumbs up from me. And definitely lose Dylan's cheesier or more inappropriate humor from the later seasons.

[_snitchbitch]

I don't think Rommie & Dylan would lose their humour entirely... more that they would learn to have a sense of humour along the way. I would totally get Rommie bickering with Harper straight away, and maybe it taking her a while to realise how much she likes it :)

And yes - Dylan losing his cheese is a must. I mean, what sort of line is "bring it!". Seriously, dude... I'm surprised the entire (maru)crew didn't groan and slap their faces each time he said it. It might have worked back when the happy!cheerful!Commonwealth was around, but with the new order.

I'd love to see some scenes between Dylan & Rommie with them learning to cope with the changes. That would be good, too.

I'd also like to see the Vedran empire not being as "good" as Dylan says it is. I mean, it was an Empire, right? What if it wasn't as perfect as Dylan remembers?

[chicafrom3]

Somehow, the line "Harper, I had no idea you were such a ~cunning linguist" would have to be included.

I'd love to see some scenes between Dylan & Rommie with them learning to cope with the changes. That would be good, too.

That's definitely on my wishlist; more hitting on the culture clash. More Dylan, Rommie being shocked by things that the Maru crew & Tyr take for granted as being part of life, more assuming cultural or societal bases that are no longer true, more "We really can't go back, can we? :|"

I have always felt that the original Commonwealth and the Vedran Empire weren't as perfect as Dylan makes them out to be. (Like, the only flashback to that time that we get that I remember is of a black ops team assassinating the leader of a government, there was a lot of dark stuff going on there.)

I love the idea proposed on the thread of showing the Commonwealth pre-Fall more extensively, whether through a longer period before Dylan & the Andromeda get trapped in the black hole or through flashbacks throughout the first season.

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Oh man....I could very easily fall in love with Enver Gjokaj as the new Harper or even as the new Andromeda....BUT when it comes to gender flipping, I'd be more into maybe making Dylan a chick and gender flipping Tyr and Beka over Rommie and Harper....I love my techies to be guys....And I'd KILL to see Gina Torres as a female Tyr.

ALTHOUGH, I have always found gender flipping an interesting concept...since I always shipped Harper/Trance, I'd be interested in seeing a genderflip there or hell, same sex it, just to spice it up. *shifty eyes*

And agreeing with what was said at exisle, give the show a REAL budget this time and don't get all holier than thou and have the "Kevin Sorbo" take over...that ruined the show.

Gah....This gives me such ideas!

[chicafrom3]

The more I think about it, the more the idea of genderflipping the entire crew appeals to me. Seriously, so much potential there. How it would change Beka and Dylan's competing for command, Tyr's striving to prove genetically perfect to gain a mate, Harper's experience on Earth, Rommie's military career and exploration of humanity...SO MANY IDEAS. OMG.

Also, HELLS YES to the budget and the no-actors-as-execs caveat, those should be REQUIRED.

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In a none flipping aspect....I think that Fran Kranz would be an AWESOME Harper.

The more I think about it, the more the idea of genderflipping the entire crew appeals to me. Seriously, so much potential there. How it would change Beka and Dylan's competing for command, Tyr's striving to prove genetically perfect to gain a mate, Harper's experience on Earth, Rommie's military career and exploration of humanity...SO MANY IDEAS. OMG.

^^Oh man....thinking what would happen to a female Harper on earth really makes me cringe. But I'd love the idea of a female Harper....no clue who would play her.....being with a male Trance...told you, I'm a shipper. And could you imagine a female Harper making the avatar for male Andromeda...although the name would have to change...Andromeda's a chick...maybe Apollo or something else greeky. I seriously would KILL to see Gina Torres as the female Tyr...that just screams of awesome, especially with all the sexual tension between her and Male!Beka...whose name would also have to change. SO MANY NAME

[chicafrom3]

Fran would be a fantastic Harper.

Figuring out appropriate names may be the hardest part of this! ...Particularly for Andromeda. Because it has to be both a good name-for-a-person (and preferably one nickname-able so the humanoid avatar can be called something different from the main AI) and also a good name-for-a-warship.

...although Trance and Rev's names could stay the same, so that's something! (If we got far enough, so could Doyle's, for that matter.)