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Originally Posted by taosaur
Regarding TV Murphy, I'll go ahead and put out there that a factor in the rejection of the character and the series as a whole is that Murphy was no longer a white girl. I don't think it was as big a factor as in the backlash against the casting of certain characters in the Hunger Games movie, but when you take a character as sexualized as Murphy is (and however she's grown, she started as little more than a diminutive, blonde, gun-toting mama) and race-shift her, some people who were either identifying with or objectifying that character are going to have trouble processing.
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Originally Posted by forsooth
do not understand problem Murphy is beautiful woman
acts like usual Cop woman.
Cuban?
finally saw #12 episode so finished whole
series better than Supernatural which tired of
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The problem with taosaur's rejection of the TV show is, IMHO, one of unrealistic expectations, not of any actual poorness (is poorness even a word?!) of the TV show itself (though the show did have some serious faults).
When it was originally broadcast on SyFy I was a fan of the series and looked forward towards the next episode every week. I had no expectations other than I wanted it to entertain me, which it did. My lack of expectations was because I was unaware that there even was book series so I, of course, had never read any of them so had nothing to compare to the TV show.
Well, when the series was not renewed I was quite unhappy about the decision. So then I looked into this Jim Butcher guy who was named in the show's on-screen credits and found the book series. I bought them and voraciously read them all, finding that they were much better than the TV show that I'd liked so much that I'd gone looking for the books on which it had been based.
I'll guess that forsooth hasn't read the books either. If he does he's in for a treat. He'll have enjoyed both an entertaining TV show and the material that provided the impetus for its production. Lucky him...lucky me!
