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CBS - The Equalizer (Season 5)

deadeye said:
Replacing male characters with female characters on reboots of shows in which the character was originally a man.


It's actually insulting to women when you think about it.


Meaning, instead of replacing men's roles with women............why not create roles that were specifically meant for women?


This is why the Ghostbusters reboot flopped.


Same thing with the Bad Boys series with Gabrielle Union............Ocean's 15 or whatever number it was.......and the last 3 Star Wars movies.


Just create shows centered around women.


Funny thing is, most women aren't even gonna be checking for this show.


Ironically, because most men aren't gonna be either.
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Star Wars has always meant to be a fiction centered around a female protagonist. In the early scripts written by George Lucas, StarKiller - the prototype hero for both Luke and Leia Skywalker as well as Ashoka, before being somewhat recycled in the 'Force Unleasher' video games series - was meant to be a girl before the producers convinced him to drop it because the fantasy and science-fiction genre were all catering predominantly to young white male audiences at the time.

Then when he wrote the early scripts for the New Trilogy around the late 2000s and early 2010s, the story focused around a duet composed of two powerful Force-sensitive young people: an orphan white girl unrelated to the Skywalkers bloodline (Rey) and a black boy (Finn) , both on a hero's path of self-discovery journey through the ways of the Jedi and fighting against a Cade Skywalker-like antagonist (Kylo Ren) . Then when J.J. Abrams took the production lead over the newly acquired Disney-owned franchise, he added a secret brown son to Luke Skywalker (Poe Dameron) with for intent to made of the Rey/Finn Padawan Jedi wannabe duet a Rey/Finn/Poe trio (with the usual love triangle/friendship duet trope that come with the trilogy: both male protagonists who hits on the girl, the ride-or-die buddyship between Poe and Finn that echoes the ones between Ani and Obi or Luke and Han, yada-yada-yada) for the New Trilogy, with Rey as the lead to echo the original Starkiller...

... then both Disney and Rian Johnson screwed it all because of commercial gender pandering and corporate racism. White Mary Sue power over consistent high-quality storytelling. Results?? Episode VII was okay-meh-déjà-vu-good-popcorn-flickr-tho, Episode VIII was polarizing in so many GOOD and WRONG ways, then Episode IX was basically Bob Iger's Cut: the original cut was way different and tried to fix up the damage that Rian Johnson made in the previous episode, with Poe who discovers his paternal heritage, Finn on the epic accomplishment of a Jedi Knight's journey then Rey Palpatine (and just Palpatine. She was intented to be Sith royalty/Nabooian aristocracy from the start, hence her name-- a pet name for the Latin name Regina "Queen") who sacrifies herself to save the Jedi legacy by giving her life-force to a dying, redeemed Ben Skywalker all Jesus/Neo style.

Both Peter Boyega, Oscar Isaac and even Mark Hamill are pissed off about the treatment that both Bob Iger and Rian Johnson did against the two former till this day. They Ray-Fisher-ed Boyega's British ass and they thought he would remain docile and quiet. Nope.
 
deadeye said:
Replacing male characters with female characters on reboots of shows in which the character was originally a man.


It's actually insulting to women when you think about it.


Meaning, instead of replacing men's roles with women............why not create roles that were specifically meant for women?


This is why the Ghostbusters reboot flopped.


Same thing with the Bad Boys series with Gabrielle Union............Ocean's 15 or whatever number it was.......and the last 3 Star Wars movies.


Just create shows centered around women.


Funny thing is, most women aren't even gonna be checking for this show.


Ironically, because most men aren't gonna be either.
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Besides, you're right.

Genderswapped reboots has never been popular, even among most women.

Hence why the Ghostbusters reboot flopped and that Sony unearthed the idea of an older film franchise trilogy back from the dead with the sequel/remake coming back soon.

That the Bad Boys expy gets cancelled.

And that even the current Thirteen Doctor Era starring Jodie Whittaker and the black actress in 'Doctor Who' that was aimed to cater on the MCU-brainwashed, tweet-lenght minded, easy plot-friendly, low-attention deficit addled American audiences and Wokes are dropping incredibly low in viewership (partly due to the episodes being boring or character-unwise too and the light effects being asisine) and that BBC is so hellbent to promote back the Russell T. Davies Era nostalgiania (Ninth & Tenth Doctors-- and niggas got a beef with the Ninth Doctor actor Chistopher Eccleston for sixteen years so it speaks volumes, Torchwood, Jack Harness...) lately.

People are not buying it.
 
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Marc123 said:
CBS makes some of the corniest shows
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They're just good at making corny-ass soap operas that lasts for centuries and caters to 25-to-80 years old sistas and middle aged to eldery playa brothers in spite having almost no substantially well-written black character besides Neil Winters (R.I.P. Christoff St. John) and a tendency to try make any black character a street hustler, a musclebound Tyler Perry-styled simp smashing that skinny Phyllis's ginger ass and willing to go to jail for her, a sassy woman (Drusilla) or a pregnant tranny way too sexy and womanly for having been a guy (Maya/Mayron) .

Yea, don't tell me any of your mommas and grannies aren't watching Victor Newman or Brook Logan on a daytime basis like churchgoing fidels.

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Queen Latifah is just not believable as an action star, period. It’s not about gender swapping or a black female lead for me, it’s about Queen Latifah in the role.

There are plenty of other Black women that could have pulled off this role. It’s like they want to keep the black pool of actors and actresses as small as possible by always feeding the same fish.
 
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TheNightKing said:
Queen Latifah is just not believable as an action star, period. It’s not about fender swapping or a black female lead for me, it’s about Queen Latifah in the role.

There are plenty of other Black women that could have pulled off this role. It’s like they want to keep the black pool of actors and actresses as small as possible by always feeding the same fish.
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How can you say shes not believable when you havent even seen it yet tho?

Who woulda thought Liam Neeson woulda made a good Jedi? Or be doing wild ass fight scenes in Taken before he did it?
Who woulda thought goofy ass Jim Carey woulda been a good dramatic actor?
Will Smith went from a rapper to a comedic actor to a full blown action star and dramatic actor?

let folks experiment with trying to expand their range and see if it works lol
 
Inori said:
How can you say shes not believable when you havent even seen it yet tho?

Who woulda thought Liam Neeson woulda made a good Jedi? Or be doing wild ass fight scenes in Taken before he did it?
Who woulda thought goofy ass Jim Carey woulda been a good dramatic actor?
Will Smith went from a rapper to a comedic actor to a full blown action star and dramatic actor?

let folks experiment with trying to expand their range and see if it works lol
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Bruh, look at this and re-evaluate your response.

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Inori said:
So we can suspend disbelief when it comes to old geriactric ass dudes (Bruce Willis, Arnold, Sylvester, Liam Neeson, Denzel) doing action movies and all sorts of unbelievable shit but we cant suspend it for Latifah?

Fuck outa here yall lol
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Die Hard 5 was a box office flop: no one bought the stretch in suspense of disbelief about a lame-ass cop and detective who went from being just good at slaughtering terrorists every single five or ten years and having near-superhuman durability, to now having Constantine levels of luck being capable outlive overtrained terrorists capable to make sweat Langley professional hitmans or going at Chernobyl without dying.
Whom to Red, he's a DC character: even street-level spies in their later days in these comics are nearing the level of Frank Miller's TDKR Batman. Amanda Waller is obese and old AF, but since the Rebirth Era has been launched, it has been implied she oens the same abilities than her much-thinner (hm, word of God implies she get tempted by fast food and let herself go) , younger and physically fit (not so) New 52 counterpart, who was leading the Task X team force on field! DC Comics don't care about the cons of human aging.

Scharzie's latest movies have been flops too and even his latest performance as the T-1000 - a cyborg-killer - has been implied to not be truly into its prime neither.

Liam Nesson is still in shape for his age.

Sly's characters are aging too since the 2010s: Rocky Balboa is no longer in shape in the Creed movies and even nearly died of cancer. Rambo is no longer into his primes and even that, the fact he can still beat shit into his 70s is simply because he's implied from the start to be a supersoldier (he's one in the original novel: not a Captain America level one but you get it) and spent decades living actively in various countries hostile to the type of men he belong to (rightly so) .

Denzel is never running like an young man in his latest action movies, which implies he's playing aging action heroes who play mostly on their wits and vast tactical insights, like does his version of the Equalizer.

And again... none of them are an obese middle aged woman who struggle to run a mere twenty feet away from a building:
TheNightKing said:
Bruh, look at this and re-evaluate your response.

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:smh:
 
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