TRU FAX, THIS. (*also not biased in the slightest*) But especially Holmes - he's got the height and the high brow and the melting brown eyes and umm, yes, please?
And yeah, there are some fantastic m-f platonic relationships among supporting cast in various shows (oh my yes Sam + Fi are at least 75% of Burn Notice's charm :D) but not main chars. The only show that might've bucked this that I can think of was the old Doctor Who - but the age differences there were pretty extreme even if the actors weren't, and also New Who thoroughly destroyed that wall anyway, so...
I share your guilty weakness (oh, Jane Eyre, you were embedded in my fangirl soul at too young an age to ever be excised <3) so know what you mean - but this, this is one of those unfortunate situations where genderswapping the role actually runs a huge risk of making it even less progressive than the original, yes that's it, exactly.
I really wish they'd have gone all the way and genderswapped 'em both...so much potential for awesome there that it actually would've been difficult to screw it up. But this...it's going to take some amazing writing to handle this properly, and I'm not sure they're up for it...
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Date: 2012-03-02 09:58 am (UTC)TRU FAX, THIS. (*also not biased in the slightest*) But especially Holmes - he's got the height and the high brow
and the melting brown eyesand umm, yes, please?And yeah, there are some fantastic m-f platonic relationships among supporting cast in various shows (oh my yes Sam + Fi are at least 75% of Burn Notice's charm :D) but not main chars. The only show that might've bucked this that I can think of was the old Doctor Who - but the age differences there were pretty extreme even if the actors weren't, and also New Who thoroughly destroyed that wall anyway, so...
I share your guilty weakness (oh, Jane Eyre, you were embedded in my fangirl soul at too young an age to ever be excised <3) so know what you mean - but this, this is one of those unfortunate situations where genderswapping the role actually runs a huge risk of making it even less progressive than the original, yes that's it, exactly.
I really wish they'd have gone all the way and genderswapped 'em both...so much potential for awesome there that it actually would've been difficult to screw it up. But this...it's going to take some amazing writing to handle this properly, and I'm not sure they're up for it...