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TV Show Meme! Day 19!
Jul. 4th, 2010 08:02 pmTo celebrate Independence Day, my mom and I spent the morning watching British TV shows! We are hilariously inappropriate sometimes. Now we're watching The Rockford Files, which beats standing in the sun and barbequing or blowing ourselves up with fireworks hands down, in my opinion.
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
This is a weird prompt. I mean, I am not a casting expert. Sure, sometimes I watch a TV show and I think, "This show would be so much better if Gina Torres was the Doctor instead of Matt Smith." Sometimes I will recast a show with people who are not white, people who are not monogamous, people who are not thin, people who are openly not vanilla, people who are not straight, people who are not cisgendered, people who are not men.
I mean, give me almost any show, and there will be someone I want to recast, some way I'd make the characters different.
But that is what fanfic is for! Praise Viggo for fanfic, y'all. And fanvids. And fan art. And all other kinds of transformative work. Seriously. Not that fandom is perfect (by farrrrrrr, omg!) but a lot of times I find it way more satisfying than (or just exactly as satisfying as) the canon for a show.
Instead, I will do some characters who I think were perfectly cast:
- Battlestar Galactica: Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Farscape: Ben Browder and Claudia Black as John Crichton and Aeryn Sun
- Alias: Gina Torres as Anna Espinosa (ugh, worst screencap ever, I know!)
- Stargate Atlantis: Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
- Grey's Anatomy: Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang (terrible pictures, but I refuse to watch that show again, even to get a good screencap)
- The West Wing: Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner
- Due South: callum Keith Rennie and Paul Gross as Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser
I think I've probably only seen two things in my entire life that I've never quibbled with the casting for -- that CBC Anne of Green Gables miniseries
and Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight
, which is probably one of the worst and yet most enjoyable movies ever made.
( Other days )
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
This is a weird prompt. I mean, I am not a casting expert. Sure, sometimes I watch a TV show and I think, "This show would be so much better if Gina Torres was the Doctor instead of Matt Smith." Sometimes I will recast a show with people who are not white, people who are not monogamous, people who are not thin, people who are openly not vanilla, people who are not straight, people who are not cisgendered, people who are not men.
I mean, give me almost any show, and there will be someone I want to recast, some way I'd make the characters different.
But that is what fanfic is for! Praise Viggo for fanfic, y'all. And fanvids. And fan art. And all other kinds of transformative work. Seriously. Not that fandom is perfect (by farrrrrrr, omg!) but a lot of times I find it way more satisfying than (or just exactly as satisfying as) the canon for a show.
Instead, I will do some characters who I think were perfectly cast:
- Battlestar Galactica: Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Farscape: Ben Browder and Claudia Black as John Crichton and Aeryn Sun
- Alias: Gina Torres as Anna Espinosa (ugh, worst screencap ever, I know!)
- Stargate Atlantis: Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex
- Grey's Anatomy: Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang (terrible pictures, but I refuse to watch that show again, even to get a good screencap)
- The West Wing: Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner
- Due South: callum Keith Rennie and Paul Gross as Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser
I think I've probably only seen two things in my entire life that I've never quibbled with the casting for -- that CBC Anne of Green Gables miniseries
and Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight, which is probably one of the worst and yet most enjoyable movies ever made.( Other days )