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Old 06-24-2013, 07:25 PM   #2112
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Cool ...rejection of the character and the series...

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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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...I never rejected the TV show--I watched it years before I picked up the books and found it decently entertaining, and definitely better than most SyFy productions (especially at that time).
Oh...Sorry, I guess I either misread or misinterpreted something in the first post?!?

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