Ahhh... I agree with you on being flexible enough to utlise actors strengths and new ideas and would agree that 'limiting' an overall arc to what was planned 5 years ago, is short sighted, BUT I think overall plots and ideas should be planned. Its not an easy thing, I agree, but a good sci fi should have an end goal in mind, milestones to reach it and make allowances for excellent actors and innovative ideas. :)
On the translator thing, we can agree to disagree. I personally don't think a universal translator is the best option, and that something more akin to a crash course in a common basic or mind dump of common basic is better.
Third... I concur. As fun as River was to watch her beating up Reavers, and how scary 6 was beating up soldiers, I agree, give us better or more realistic female warriors. Hell, give us a world where there is no gender, and men and women's roles are so interchangeable your preconceptions around those roles are automatically challenged :)
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Date: 2011-04-21 03:33 pm (UTC)Ahhh... I agree with you on being flexible enough to utlise actors strengths and new ideas and would agree that 'limiting' an overall arc to what was planned 5 years ago, is short sighted, BUT I think overall plots and ideas should be planned. Its not an easy thing, I agree, but a good sci fi should have an end goal in mind, milestones to reach it and make allowances for excellent actors and innovative ideas. :)
On the translator thing, we can agree to disagree. I personally don't think a universal translator is the best option, and that something more akin to a crash course in a common basic or mind dump of common basic is better.
Third... I concur. As fun as River was to watch her beating up Reavers, and how scary 6 was beating up soldiers, I agree, give us better or more realistic female warriors. Hell, give us a world where there is no gender, and men and women's roles are so interchangeable your preconceptions around those roles are automatically challenged :)