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[–] Surp@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (25 children)

I always thought race swap gender swapping roles was a cash grab and a way to just make people fight. And it seems to work every time. I personally think it's a slap in the face to the genders and races that were swapped in. If new movies can't make new characters and stories with different races and sexes without seemingly purposefully causing controversy by replacing one race or sex with the other I'd take that as a low blow.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Fiona and Cake worked, but only because the show is not really about Fiona and Cake. Also, it meta-acknowledges the whole thing right away, that they've been shoehorned into a universe where they don't belong.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fiona and Cake already existed in the original adventure time show anyways.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Not really. They were intentionally framed as a gender swap fanfic written by Ice King, and only existed as throwaway episodes. They were a meta-joke on the whole thing.

When I heard of the new show I rolled my eyes and thought "of all the Adventure Time stories to tell they picked a dumb gender swap gag?"

But as mentioned it wasn't that at all and was actually well written.

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