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2016-01-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2016-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I'm going to enjoy not watching it.

Posted by gorb 2016-01-13 01:37|| 2016-01-13 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Why do they have to reinvent characters that were already taken? Doesn't anyone have enough imagination to cook up something new anymore?

Posted by gorb 2016-01-13 01:38|| 2016-01-13 01:38|| Front Page Top

#3 So they are looking for 'full African American or Latino' casts...

And that isn't racist at all...

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-01-13 02:41|| 2016-01-13 02:41|| Front Page Top

#4 are we being prepped for internationalism?

no borders, free movement of people

and the invasion of the third world?

Posted by anon1 2016-01-13 06:09|| 2016-01-13 06:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Along time ago I read a short story by a Russian author called "Thee Making of the Soviet Robinson" . The plot invovled an author trying to write a version of Robinson Crusoe for a children's magazine. The editors keep asking for more characters since he will need to be told what he must do. Life imitates art.

Posted by Pliny Glons2836 2016-01-13 08:21|| 2016-01-13 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Left: It's not cultural appropriation when we do it!

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-13 09:38|| 2016-01-13 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 They could just have easily written an entirely original series for such a character. But then, that's not the point of this exercise.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2016-01-13 10:49|| 2016-01-13 10:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Is the world crying out for a new version of Nancy Drew right now?

All I can think of is they probably had an ethnic girl detective show and changed the main characters name to get a few headlines and hope to get a leg up on ratings.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-01-13 10:57|| 2016-01-13 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Will she twerk when she solves a case?

Posted by regular joe 2016-01-13 10:59|| 2016-01-13 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 [sarc] Leave her alone! She's just a sweet TS "girl" of mixed non-Caucasian parentage trying make a living in a world of white privilege!
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My work is done.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-01-13 11:09|| 2016-01-13 11:09|| Front Page Top

#11 And I had the hots for Nancy, that blonde haired older woman, as a 10 year old.

Posted by anymouse 2016-01-13 23:44|| 2016-01-13 23:44|| Front Page Top

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