RACEBENT BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

ihavechortles | telegantmess | madamethursday | astationaryjew | anedumacation:

[gif (described below) redacted for accessibility]

[Image: Gif of actor David Tennant in a movie hugging a picture while he sits on the floor sobbing.]

I actually think I’m crying

this is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life

I can’t even PROCESS how great the casting is

the best one by far is their suggestion for Faith Lehane: Naya. Rivera. 

Do you know how many lady boners I just had? The answer is INFINITY.

Naya Rivera as Faith.  Hot Cop as Spike.

Antonia Thomas.

They NEED to make Buffy again now, with these people.

Ugh some day I’m gonna get rich and finance the fuck out of this.

Now I kind of want to do this for myself and maybe racebend Angel or Firefly or anything else. Wonderful casting! 

If they ever remake BTVS, I hope they’ll do things like this. Especially since the entire show is set in Southern California and frankly, anyone who casts a nearly all white cast in California gets serious side eye from me. 

I went over the list and just kept saying yes, louder and louder, until my spouse wondered what the hell I was doing :)

Okay I like the look of most of these, but the suggestion for principal Wood suggests that this is also making non-white characters white. Which sort of bugs me but I guess I can see the rational—make all the white people nonwhite, put token white actors in the roles played by non-white folk.

It really bothers me, but it makes a sort of twisted sense.

That said, why the hell was that pattern not followed for Cordelia or Ms. Calendar? Charisma Carpenter is a WoC and while I’m not sure whether Robia LaMorte is, her character is canonically Rroma, so the seeming disregard of that in this…troubles me

Ditto to the above comment. I was very bothered here and there, having issues with the “switches”, but nevertheless I wouldn’t mind seeing most of these people in these roles. (You can’t convince me Selena Gomez could be in this show, sorry. And it doesn’t help that she looks ages younger than the rest of the picks. Because she is, of course.) A few others made me scratch my head too, but I wouldn’t mind seeing them give it a go. Heck, someone said Dichen was gonna be awful in Dollhouse because they were familiar with her, but after I watched one scene from her Australian soap and knowing what Joss can do with actors, I knew she’d be fine. And who was right? WHO WAS RIGHT? Being right about Dichen is the only time I have ever boasted in my life. Rightfully so, I say. :)