FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON

[upupa_epops]

Old news: lj is dead. Everyone is crazy busy, or they have other reasons not to be here. No one has time to read those huge meta posts we used to write once upon a time. But maybe we can all find ten minutes to do this:

FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON!

Comments

[wheatear]

Any fandom, Rule 63 (switching the guys to girls and vice versa): how would this affect the characters, their relationships, and the way viewers react to them

[wheatear]

Im not sure if you're familiar with Community, but there's been some discussion of how the relationships'd be received if the characters' sexes were different:

http://community-anon.livejournal.com/4970.html?thread=21130602#t21130602

And general talk about fan-casting and what attributes would change and/or stay the same:

http://community-anon.livejournal.com/4970.html?thread=21132138#t21132138

[wheatear]

I'm not, but I'm sure there will be others who appreciate this! \o/

[ghanimasun]

Thank you for the links, anon!

[lynnenne]

Not really meta, but I recently read a great "alternative history" of Doctor Who with the roles of all 11 Doctors filled by women. You might find it interesting. http://www.scifind.com/features/the-other-11-doctors/

[wheatear]

I've seen that before and it is interesting, thanks for the link!

[naushika]

I would pay any amount of money to have Miranda Hart as the Doctor.

[chrryblssmninja]

here's something my online magazine editor wrote on the topic: The Movie Gender Switch projectManhunter and the TV show Hannibal so far.)

There was some meta somewhere on how Hannibal Lecter is a prime example of a particular type of male (not just sexual) attractiveness. He's a sophisticated, ambiguously European white male in the social and professional elite. His attractiveness might not be so much from his looks (depending on your view of the actor) as his aristocratic manners and intelligence combined with sensuality in his artistic/gastronomic/homicidal-passions. This is makes him dangerously trusted and alluring to those around him, and he abuses this pull for his own means, in contrast to the socially uncomfortable male empath Will Graham.
Now, after watching the Hammer Horror Carmilla adaptation The Vampire Lovers, I got the random idea of casting Ingrid Pitt as a genderbent Hannibal. She's tall, European (though not Lithuanian) and looks strong enough to execute the complicated murders and manipulations. In The Vampire

[chrryblssmninja]

aw man LJ ate my long discourse on genderbending batman characters, and it thinks I'm a spammer so I can't edit it!

but one point I wanted to bring up: genderbending Poison Ivy
Her attractiveness is a primary, not additional, factor in many of her plots. This is in contrast to male villains, who are ugly, scarred, or whose attractiveness supports other factors like power/prestige/etc. How to translate that to a genderbent Ivy?
Also, Ivy has fierce mama Earth Mother tendencies, and I can't think of a male equivalent for that at the moment.

I wish LJ didn't eat up what I had written before!

[inu_spockya]

could cast male Ivy as Jack of the Green, more or less, like the old Jethro Tull song, specifically. I could see that working very nicely; he'd be all up in polluters' faces, with, yann, hydrochloric acid or some such...

[chrryblssmninja]

that's a good idea to consider! Thanks.

[inu_spockya]

*doffs his hat* y'very welcome!! I am finding this entire thing *extremely* fun and interesting, woo hoo hoo!!

[waltzmatildah]

SPOILERS FOR SEASON TWO OF THE KILLING (but not of the 'Who Killed Rosie Larsen?' variety!)

In season two of The Killing the lead female character is committed and her child is removed from her custody. This set of events is put into motion by (some of) the people that she is investigating because she is getting too close to the truth and they need her to back off

[ghanimasun]

This was really interesting and gives me lots to think about!

[_kirsty]

Ooh, this thread is interesting even when I don't watch the shows

[cordelia_gray]

This isn't exactly meta, but I think it's interesting that the creators of Hannibal did something along these lines when casting their show: They took at least two major characters from the books, and changed their genders, I think to balance out the male/female numbers in the main cast. (Alan Bloom became Alana Bloom, and Fred Lounds became Freddie Lounds.) And I'm glad they did, because man, it would be nothing but dudes otherwise. I have noticed that Rule 63-type stories (usually switching Will, sometimes both Will and Hannibal) seem to be a really big thing in the Hannibal fandom, and I wonder if the gender-swapping in the show has any influence on that