15th July 2010, 9:38 AM
Switching genders is a "huge change"? Uh... no, not it's not. It's a small change that has a positive impact on the show, but "huge change"... no way. That makes no sense.
Really? Gender-swapping isn't a big deal? There is so little difference between a man and a woman, that if you swap them, you won't see a big change? Changing a long-established character's gender won't at all alter the entire chemistry of the character? It won't drastically alter the relationships between said character, and every other character? So if 1970's man Starbuck romanced a woman, and then 2000's Starbuck is a woman, dating a woman, that isn't a drastic choice? The sheer scale of the social and topical issues that flow into the show now (this annoying trend of having head-strong testy women in dominant roles in every movie and TV show now) isn't a big change? If they relaunched Star Wars and made Darth Vader a woman, it wouldn't be a big change? If we elected a woman president in 2012, you wouldn't at all be impressed, right? Because it's not a big change?
Really? Gender-swapping isn't a big deal? There is so little difference between a man and a woman, that if you swap them, you won't see a big change? Changing a long-established character's gender won't at all alter the entire chemistry of the character? It won't drastically alter the relationships between said character, and every other character? So if 1970's man Starbuck romanced a woman, and then 2000's Starbuck is a woman, dating a woman, that isn't a drastic choice? The sheer scale of the social and topical issues that flow into the show now (this annoying trend of having head-strong testy women in dominant roles in every movie and TV show now) isn't a big change? If they relaunched Star Wars and made Darth Vader a woman, it wouldn't be a big change? If we elected a woman president in 2012, you wouldn't at all be impressed, right? Because it's not a big change?
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