Les œuvres de Jules Verne

[Darunia]

The Lord of the Rings movies expanded the roles of several of the major female characters, the 2000s Battlestar Galactica series changed one (or more?) of the major characters from female to male to better balance the genders, etc... that's something that's often done now. Is it less accurate? Yes. If you're making a movie which is actually trying for real accuracy to the original story, don't do it. But if you're making a modern adaptation, I think it's a good idea... it compensates for the biases of the writers, hopefully without hurting the story. That, of course, depends on how good the adaptation is, which is a different issue.

I hate it when they do that. I refuse to watch the relaunch of Galactica... and I really liked the old one. You don't update and change things like that... not THAT drastically. Making huge changes (like gender) is the lowest, basest and most vile form of political correction. Race is another example... but I have deja vu all of a sudden because I know we've already been here before with this topic. It makes my blood boil. If you want a balanced fruity utopia with proportioned races and men/women in equality, make your own fruity gay leftist utopia show. Do NOT take some pre-existing franchise and alter it so that it's not longer what it was, but some hideous Frankenstein.