Those aren't great examples, as Marvel clarified that Sam Jackson's counterpart in the MCU is actually Nick Fury Jr. and the Flash movie and its Batman comic tie-ins had the timeline with Billy Dee's Dent diverge before he turned into Tommy Lee Jones. That being said Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face, in that universe, probably still was supposed to look like Billy Dee before since those movies are still canon to Batman Forever even with the above.
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Roles get recast all the time in Hollywood (How else do you explain Dick York playing Darrin in one season of Bewitched and Dick Sargent playing him in the next?)
It's really best not to overthink these things.
Saavik went through massive reconstructive surgery.
As an Asian man myself the recasts make more sense if the ethnicity of the actors are the same, that's why I still don't consider SNW Kyle to be TOS Kyle.
Billy Dee Williams accepted the role of Harvey Dent knowing that he would eventually become Two-Face (the studio opted for Tommy Lee Jones instead in Batman Forever).
Billy Dee Williams' Two-Face is in a different multiverse universe than comic Two-Face (which themselves are divided into Earth 2, Earth 1, Prime Earth and New Earth). The problem wasn't casting him in the role, the problem was casting Tommy Lee Jones after him instead of bringing Williams back or hiring another black actor.
Yes, that is what I was referring to. Because TPTB currently consider TAS to be canon and in continuity with the prime universe of Star Trek.
See above. All the previous iterations of those characters were not in the same continuity as Jackson’s and Williams’s take on those characters.
The message you seem to be getting is that African Americans can’t play characters that were played by Caucasians before. That is not remotely the point being made.
Meh. I have as little problem with Robert April switching ethnicities in canonical Star Trek as I had with Felix Leiter changing ethnicities in the James Bond movies.
ETA: Neither did the guy who created the character.
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ETA: Neither did the guy who created the character.
‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’ Writer Welcomes New Robert April On ‘Strange New Worlds’
'Star Trek Encyclopedia' author Mike Okuda has also chimed in.
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I get your point and agree with you; however I do have to point out that Jeffrey Wright’s Leiter is from the rebooted Bond movies and not associated with the previous continuity.
Yep, that's basically what I'm trying to say and you articulated it better than I could.
Where's the uproar over T'Pau?Meh. I have as little problem with Robert April switching ethnicities in canonical Star Trek as I had with Felix Leiter changing ethnicities in the James Bond movies.
ETA: Neither did the guy who created the character.
‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’ Writer Welcomes New Robert April On ‘Strange New Worlds’
'Star Trek Encyclopedia' author Mike Okuda has also chimed in.
The woman who appeared in like two scenes as a hologram and no one noticed?
I thinks that's what @Dukhat was referring to.
It's a TV Show not a ground breaking paper on the effect of Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics on genetics.
I don't know. To put things in perspective:
April was white in exactly one episode of a Saturday morning cartoon that has drifted in and of "canon" over the decades, depending on who is in charge this week. And he wasn't even a regular on TAS. He was a one-shot guest-star.
Personally, that's not something I'm inclined to get too fundamentalist about. And I say that as somebody who wrote an entire novel about Diane Carey's version of April.
The animated version of April is basically a footnote at this point.
Oh, absolutely agreed. TAS has always had that funky distinction of 'is it official? Yes! Then no. Then only parts of it are. Then all of it is. Then we're not really sure...'
I personally am not inclined to treat TAS as any kind of 'proof' or holy writ for anything. And I am 100% fine with April being African-American. That being said, I think the post I originally wrote about the SNW characters being different from their TOS counterparts took an unintended segue that really strays away from my original point.
Fair enough.
Although I can't resist jumping onto the Batman discussion and pointing out that, back in my day, Julie Newmar turned into Eartha Kitt on the very same BATMAN series and I'm not sure anybody complained that this "violated canon" or came up with elaborate fan theories explaining that they were actually half-sisters or whatever.
Although I can't resist jumping onto the Batman discussion and pointing out that, back in my day, Julie Newmar turned into Eartha Kitt on the very same BATMAN series and I'm not sure anybody complained that this "violated canon" or came up with elaborate fan theories explaining that they were actually half-sisters or whatever.
Batman '66 resisted any attempts to take it seriously.
There's something to be said for not taking this stuff too literally.
See also the three different Marilyns on THE MUNSTERS.
I confess, as a kid, I never noticed when they switched Marilyns . . . because who cared about Marilyn? She wasn't even a monster or anything . . . .
See also the three different Marilyns on THE MUNSTERS.
I confess, as a kid, I never noticed when they switched Marilyns . . . because who cared about Marilyn? She wasn't even a monster or anything . . . .
I never said that. I would NEVER say that.
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