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[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!

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[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.

Though I suppose the Battlestar Galactica reboot did this as well, changing Starbuck and Boomer to women, and I don't think the fandom was anywhere near as interested in genderswap stuff.

ETA: I think we'll see more of this, as we try to find ways to retell older stories and make them palatable for modern audiences. I think for a long time, and even still to a surprisingly large degree, it was assumed that a default character was male, and that no character would be female unless there was some specific reason for it. Approaching gender equity in casting is a long, slow process, and we're just getting started on it.

[cordelia_gray]

Sorry for the double post, LJ is being weird today.

[inu_spockya]

I really enjoyed the whole female Starbuck/Boomer thing -- which intrigues me, cos in my main fandom, K/S, genderbent Kirk and spock usually leave me dead cold, unless they are shown as truly horrified and barely able to cope. Someone here on lj did a fantastic series where Spock got genderbent on a landing party, wierd alien tech things, and he came pretty much unglued for a while, really angry and having a hard time coping in any way -- which I must admit, I can so so empathize with. it is such an important part of how we view ourselves, I often think far too many genderbent stories (inflicted, rather than born-that-way) gloss over it way too easily. I don't guess it would be any easier for a female content with her gender to find herself switched, either. especially once people started to treat her differently, or him differently...

nifty thoughts, this discussion is SOOOO shiny!! and this icon, in honour of the subject under discussion -- not my making, but I adore it!