I will not get into every aspect of your post because in my opinion it's just a hateful mess.IvanTheTerrible wrote: But that is a HUGE reason to get emotional. We don't need a Shiggins. We need a Higgins. Higgins is supposed to be an older British guy, not a butt-kicking chick. You mentioned earlier that the new show is not trying to be PC and that the old show was PC too. No clue what you mean by that. The old show had 4 dudes and that was fine. But in the new one you can't have 4 dudes anymore. Gotta throw in a chick into the mix, otherwise it's a sexist show, hence why it's PC. And of course Magnum is played by a Hispanic actor. Non-PC you say? Seriously??? They did the same with the new Five-0 - why was Kono not a guy like on the old show??? Again, because 4 guys working together on a team without a girl in the mix is politically incorrect. So they throw in a scrawny chick into the mix who can kick butt with the best of them and take down 2 or 3 guys twice her size! So yes people do take issue with crap like that.
I'm against all remakes period. Create original shows and don't bother with remakes. But if you're going to do a remake you better do it right and be faithful to the original show and the original characters. Changing sexes and races is NOT an option!
But as you have quoted me about the pc-ness:
To me pc-ness is mostly about mindset, words and actions and not about casting 2 men + 2 women =pc, but I may be wrong. I am European.
To me pc'ness is not to use sexually abusive pejorative language and actions but all this starts in the minds of people.
On the giving and receiving end btw.
Example can be sexually charged remarks, jokes, "slimey flirting" and so on. Slapping women's butts or similar would be an extreme example for lack of pc-ness or unvountarily commenting on their bodies.
In that sense, the old series is much better than many series from that time and the new series still is. That was my message and not the casting choices, whatever motives are behind it.
I was just discussing the topic with a friend: If they'd been casting an older man (probably from the UK) for Higgins, firstly the mainly young audiences may have been bored or annoyed by it and the stereotypes and secondly all the old fans would have complained, that the new actor (whoever he was) was just a cheap copy of the "Real Higgins". So a new male Higgins could have only lost.
Instead they kind of wiped the HDD and made Higgins completely different by still putting nods to the old fans. Brilliant move in my opinion.
And please allow me one remark - and I must be very careful about my wording:
As you criticize the "new" casting choices for being overly pc-motivated - have you ever thought about, why one of the main actors of the old series was african-american? I am sure that the decision to go with Mosley was also in parts a pc-decision of that time. So, there is not much of a difference back then compared to today.