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FIREFLY: Racebending Recast
(or, if the crew of Serenity reflected the Asian-dominant culture of its ‘verse)

Malcolm Reynolds…..Daniel Dae Kim
Zoe Alleyne Washburne…..Grace Park
Wash Washburne…..John Cho
Kaylee Frye…..T.V. Carpio
Jayne Cobb…..Dante Basco
Simon Tam…..Takeshi Kaneshiro
River Tam…..Zhang Ziyi
Inara Serra…..Gong Li
Shepherd Book…..Chow Yun-Fat

okay I’m like a week late but holy shit, you guys. Just seeing this made me feel so many emotions. WHY NOT. WHY THE FUCK NOT.

YES. THIS IS PERFECT.

FUCK YES. Though I refuse to call this race-bending, as this is the actual race the cast of Serenity and Firefly should have had. 

ZOE AND WASH ARE PERFECT I AM SO SAD THIS ISN’T REAL OMG OMG GRACE PARK IS A BEAUTIFUL GODDESS

UM YES THIS IS WHAT I AM SAYING

IF YOU ARE OF THE LOGIC THAT “YOU’RE NOT WHITE IF YOU’RE PART ASIAN” (and believe me, I’ve heard that a lot)

THEN THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY THAT FIREFLY SHOULD HAVE SUCH A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE UNIVERSE

MOTHERFUCKERS THIS SHIT WOULD BE RIDIC.

The only problems I have with this fancast:

• Some of these people aren’t Chinese. I know it seems like a small thing, but for example, as much as Dante Basco is a lovable rogue, he’s not Chinese. If we’re going “All Chinese” against “(almost) All White” then we should go “All Chinese.” 
• Inara as a Chinese woman brings up some pretty disgusting stereotypes regarding East-Asian women in general, and if Inara was the same character, same dialogue etc. etc. etc. but East-Asian it would feel very heavy-handed.
• All these women are skinny and pale and fit into what is a very Euro-Centric idea of what’s attractive in a way that isn’t necessary.
• I will never like River Tam as a character.

I mean, honestly, if we’re going with Chinese mix, I was a little iffy about Dante Basco.But also I would be super cool with Asian mixed race characters, or even characters that didn’t have ANY white in them, just were POC mixes. I think that would probs be more accurate than “ALL WHITE” or “ALL CHINESE” to be honest.

And I mean, the idea of “companions” to me sort of reeked of Joss Whedon attempting to create western/sci-fi geishas. 

I don’t have a problem with Asian mix per-se, but I think that it really needs more nuance, the world-building we got was “Chinese people got into space first and then disappeared except for their language and culture and customs, then normal people moved in and that’s where the universe is at now” and if we’re willing to say that China got into space first, and actively blocked Euro emmigration to the colonies, and it was only later on that White people were allowed to join the colonies and by that point things like overarching spacer culture etc. had been established… Then we can really build an interesting universe out of Firefly because I do think the universe would need to be revamped if they wanted to create something which is actually representative multiculturally and not just where it stands at the moment which is appropriation and superficial emulation.

I wish I could say anything Whedon does surprises me now but honestly I feel like he gets a pass for being a geek who made it into the industry and Buffy.