lborgia88
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| quote: | Originally posted by PalyNerd
Maybe they could give Dr Nambu a female assistant scientist as a regular on the series... Id put my hand up for the job  |
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You think like Tatsunoko, Palynerd! They actually pretty much did just that, in the second half of Gatchaman II, with the character of Dr. Sylvie Pandora.
I remember being very surprised, way back when, when I first heard that the new BSG series was going to have a female Starbuck, thinking "What are they doing?" But, as much as I'd liked watching the original BSG as a kid, I didn't have a really strong connection to it and hadn't seen it since the late 70s, so I pretty much regarded the new BSG as just a completely different show that just happened to have some similar premises, and names -and that worked great for me.
When the Lord of the Rings movies were being filmed, I remember that rumors got out that they were planning to have the character of Arwen (one of the very few female characters) replace Glorfindel in the scene where he gives his horse to an ailing Frodo so that he can get to Rivendell quickly, and fans were mostly willing to tolerate that, but then it got out later that they were also planning to have her present at the Battle of Helms Deep in "The Two Towers," sword-fighting and everything. Fan outrage then against "Xena-Arwen" and this attempt to drastically change the story in order to manufacture a more prominent female character was such that the idea was dropped and the already-filmed footage of her there was never used!
So, when I heard that Imagi was planning to make a Gatchaman movie, a part of my mind thought "Oh dear, someone who controls the purse-strings but who knows little about the series itself is probably going to look at the script and say there aren't enough female characters..." (I mean, look what happened to the God Phoenix in Gatch F, after the toymaker Popy got their way regarding its design -sometimes the creators of a show have to cave to outside agendas).
I actually had a strong feeling, then, that Dr. Nambu might well get turned into a woman (if a gender switch was going to occur, he seemed the most likely candidate). Of course, as it turned out, Imagi kept him male but changed his race. Thanks to TJ, I did get a chance to watch some episodes of the homage-to-Gatchaman show, Jetman, at the Con in July and I laughed when I saw that its "Dr. Nambu" equivalent was a woman, and that its "Swallow" was too (actually, I laughed about a lot of things -the series is hysterically funny!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Djin_Sentai_Jetman
I don't think I could ever handle Ken or Joe being turned into female characters (or I'd sure need a LOT of persuading to watch a reimagined Gatchaman that did that) but I admit I could see it making some interesting changes if, say, Dr. Nambu, Jinpei or Ryu got gender-swapped -or Red Impulse (Thank you, Jason, for that interesting bit of info!)- or at least I'd be curious enough to watch without immediately descending into outrage. A female Swallow would probably get along differently with Jun, or even have an innocent crush on Joe. A female Owl piloting the God Phoenix, or a female Dr. Nambu could shift the dynamic in interesting ways too, in the hands of good writers.
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by lborgia88 on 04-09-2010 at 01:54.
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04-09-2010 01:53
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Springie
Her Royal Fluffiness...Swan of Swans...
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RE: We need a Girl's Club...
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| quote: | Originally posted by The Other Jason
| quote: | [i]IIRC, there was also some discussion of making Red Impulse female (i.e. Ken's mother, not his father) in the OAVs. That certainly would have been interesting!
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Hi all,
Hopefully I'm not repeating any information that has been posted before, but you very nearly got an all-female Red Impulse team back in 1998. Tatsunoko had planned out a new Gatchaman series where all the characters and their origins were twisted around. For the Red Impulse team they had the following description:
"Red Impulse - A five-member female team whose ages range from 10 - 18 years old. Like the Ninja Team, the Red Impulse team was created, trained and outfitted by Nambu and the ISO with the same types of technology. However, since the Ninja Team's defection from the ISO, the Red Impulse team has orders to track down and punish the Ninja Team. But there is one final fact unknown to Jun, and even to Nambu; the leader of the Red Impulse team is none other than Jun's long-lost younger sister!" |
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If it has been posted here, I didn't remember it! Wow! That sounds VERY interesting! I would have loved to have seen that play out!
Anyone interested in using that idea for a fanfic? I'd be happy to draw some pictures... 
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gatchamarie
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I know what you mean, Green, and I can completely understand! I do just the same ... it's just in one's character! When someone asks me if I'm alright, I immediately answer "I'm okay!" or "Everything is just fine!", even if in the worse cases. I do this just to shove people off, not out of disrespect, but because I don't like so much attention being put upon me, and because I would need quiet and time for myself in order to regain my composure! When I do try to open up, I end up acting somewhat awkward as it's against my nature to say that something is wrong with me!
But wait ... I'm not a Condor ... I mostly compare myself to the Eagle! Well, he's much like that type also, just perhaps a bit more open than the Condor, but not by much!! Perhaps I have some of both of their characteristics in me ... yay!!!
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lborgia88
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27-11-2010 14:13
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