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[crypto]

When counteragent said that she wished Supernatural had cast Chuck as a woman, my first thought was, why stop there? What if they'd cast Dean as a woman, Sam as a woman, Bobby as a woman, Castiel as a woman, Lucifer as a woman -- in short, an all-female cast?

Then I realized that what I was imagining was basically Supernatural as reimagined by the Takarazuka Revue. Here's a clip from a performance of Rose of Versailles:

Perfect, right?

So what shows (movies, books, comics, etc.) would you want to see with an all-female cast?

Comments

[laughingrat]

Hm, good question. peoriapeoriawhereart and omorka_fics and I just spent some time recently speculating on what "The Real Ghostbusters" would have been like if the characters had been female. It got pretty deep into class, race, education, personality, stuff like that too. Interesting speculation. We came out of it wondering if, had the characters been female, they would all actually have survived the kind of beating they'd get from society long enough to meet and go into business.

[crypto]

Interesting; I've never seen "The Real Ghostbusters", but I'm guessing that a lot of your speculation would apply to other shows as well.

[laughingrat]

Bound to! Are those bonobos? :)

[crypto]

I think they're chimpanzees in my icon, but bonobos would work too. ;)

[laughingrat]

Maybe even better, for fandom. Bonobo ladies are bad mofos. :-D

[lo_rez]

I'd really like a TSCC-verse in which John Connor was Joanna.

[crypto]

That would be really interesting; a mother-daughter dynamic with Sarah and Joanna could add a lot of complicated psychological layers, not to mention the relationship between Joanna and Cameron.

[karmageddon]

Great question! I've never seen Supernatural, but Star Trek is the first one that comes to mind for me, especially because of this:


The Three Amigos also occurred to me, but a lot of the jokes in that movie are about the guys being either stupid or spoiled, and a general audience might find that less sympathetic coming from women? A lot of people might think that from men it would be funny and from women it would annoying? Depressing, but that's my guess.

The Real Ghostbusters example is very interesting.

[karmageddon]

NOt sure how I lost my link:

http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/555204.html

[crypto]

Thanks! And I'm glad you left a separate comment, since the other ones went into my gmail spam folder for some reason.

[crypto]

A lot of people might think that from men it would be funny and from women it would annoying? Depressing, but that's my guess.

That's probably true, sadly. But the Star Trek concept would work really well, and I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a credible rationale for having an all-female crew.