Floria Tosca ([info]floriatosca) wrote,
@ 2009-04-29 23:30:00
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Why should alternate Europe have all the fun?
Something similar to steampunk (as in, retro-high-tech and Swashbuckling Adventure), but based off of Chinese technology and adventure fiction (wuxia novels?) could be very interesting. Given that a lot of the most famous Chinese inventions appeared pretty early and didn't happen as part of an Industrial Revolution in the modern European sense, it'd be more clockpunk than steampunk, but that's fun too.

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[info]nmccoy
2009-04-30 08:42 am UTC (link)
There's been a game in the works called Far West that mashes spaghetti western and wuxia together, that seems a bit in line with this in concept I think.

My mind wanders to Firefly as well.

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[info]pukingtoreador
2009-04-30 08:56 am UTC (link)
Yeah, let's have a setting full of Asians and all play non-Asian characters!

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[info]floriatosca
2009-04-30 09:01 am UTC (link)
Well, if you want that badly to play an Australian Aborigine ranger who got picked up by the AU version of the Chinese exploration fleet and took up life anew in Eurasia, I wouldn't stop you. Although it isn't very wuxiaish.

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[info]pukingtoreador
2009-04-30 09:04 am UTC (link)
I was making fun of Firefly.

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[info]floriatosca
2009-04-30 08:04 pm UTC (link)
I got that - I was just responding at the time of night when random tangents are funny. Sorry.

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[info]pukingtoreador
2009-04-30 09:05 pm UTC (link)
As you should be.:p

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Sure, I'll bite:
[info]nmccoy
2009-04-30 09:22 am UTC (link)
1. Given that in the setting, very little is remembered of Earth, what's to say that there's any distinct identity tied to a particular continent of a mostly-forgotten planet?

2. So, had you been doing the casting for Firefly, you'd have refused to hire Nathan Fillion on the basis that he "wasn't Asian enough"?

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Re: Sure, I'll bite:
[info]pukingtoreador
2009-04-30 09:36 am UTC (link)
1. I thought that half the universe was Asian in Firefly. If I was wrong in the assumption, feel free to correct me. However, I could like to point out there have been other instances in Whendon's writing where the cast is all white in California, without even a single background non-white in town.
2. I don't want to get into "I could do it better" arguments. I didn't write the show.

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[info]floriatosca
2009-04-30 09:02 am UTC (link)
More Far West than Firefly, although Chinese clockpunk spaceships are an interesting idea.

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