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[grassangel]

Ooof, things have obvious er... gotten hot enough about The Watch casting that Rhianna Pratchett had to state she’s no longer personally involved (though Narrativia is)

and my thoughts are sort of generally in line with this post, which is that while I am glad that the casting is diverse and am cheering that the actors got the parts, I am very very much looking askance at the casting director and producers for the particular choices they made for which characters. Like yay for a non-binary actor, but why not a trans woman actress? And I do sincerely hope that Sybil casting is only one half of the character’s casting and they’re keeping the time travel/alternate universes bit so that this is only a young Sibyl. (Never mind that Carcer should be a mirror of Vimes, just like Lily is that of Esme.)

Anyway, I’ll just be here, examining the questions I was asked when the BBC fan panel did surveys about the series and moaning that while I’d only mentioned Angel Coulby because I wanted to mention at least one other name, she’d actually be quite good

eta: And apparently even dudes who play MPQ (so a generally decent bunch of middle-aged, mostly white men who aren’t terribly sexist/racist, but aren’t exactly the most ‘woke’), are going “Sybil should be fatter and older!” and being torn about the Cherry/Cheery casting. also, some are disappointed that apparently Carrot joins the Watch after Angua does (which, fair! I am too, cuz that just falls into tired old tropes of the dude being better at the thing the woman’s been doing longer than he has.)