So I see you're disappointed abt the Heathers reboot, too? :(
1) the last 5-10 years have just been remake after remake of cult classics because originality in hollywood is fucking dead and they just want to make money off of millennial nostalgia now that we have money to spend on the same sht we watched as kids but ~diversified~
2) it’s honestly DISGUSTING how the cry for representation is being turned into something people think they can just slap onto any series. there’s no point to it! colorblindness is just not a thing! when you change any trait to a character that involves them going from an oppressive position in life to an oppressed one, it changes the story! it changes the character and what that character is supposed to mean!!! sometimes it works well because those changes highlight themes that already existed in the source material. sometimes it works BETTER than the source material because of that! like making spiderman black and how that INSTANTLY brought up themes of police brutality and antiblackness and gentrification with absolutely no effort at all because it was tasteful and it was palatable to the audience, especially to the audience it was representing
3) YOU CAN’T REMAKE HEATHERS IN A MODERN ERA ANYWAY BECAUSE IT WOULDN’T WORK. i was talking to a friend about it yesterday but i think the reason why they changed JD’s action of pulling a gun out at school in the movie to just having a fight scene with the bullies is because the idea of that being allowed in school without him getting immediately expelled for it is so out of line that the audience would have instantly been taken out of the story. the movie came out before columbine, and it was so heavily affected BY its existance because JD wore a trenchcoat. idk about yall but you were pretty much not even allowed to wear a trenchcoat in my high school. now, i didn’t bother watching the longer trailer that i heard apparently exists maybe so i don’t actually know if this new heathers is.. taking place? in? like, 2017? but if it is, man.. schools don’t work like that anymore.
4) heathers as a story only works if they’re all conventionally attractive white people. listen, the musical fills up diversity where it can, and it does it smartly. idk if mcnamara is written to specially be a nonwhite role but i’ve only ever seen it being played by nonwhite people. which is cool! it’s not distracting and honestly it makes sense. considering what happens to her, considering her suicide attempt which does disappropriately affect poc, considering she becomes the next outcast in a line of outcasts because they’re all so SO quick to turn on her, it makes sense!! IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE if they’re all minorities. especially if the heathers are made up of all minorities while veronica is still, presumably, a conventionally attractive cis white girl (who honestly looks like she should be playing chandler, but okay). what is that saying??? oh no this poor white girl is being bullied by evil minorities what MONSTERS, let’s just KILL THEM ALL
5) because even tho duke and mcnamara don’t actually get killed, they’re meant to? they’re ALL targets. and to make ALL the targets stand out so much as minorities, where, in the trailer, it also looks like it’s pretty much an all white school ANYway IS GROSS
6) listen. listen. the whole thing with kurt and ram is gross. ‘haha it’s the 80′s and we’re homophobic so let’s mock them by claiming they were gay! HA!’ it was gross. they did not make it any better in the musical. but, like. i heard they’re actually making them queer in the remake? honestly i’m praying that’s not true because :) you’re going :) to shoot :) to death :) two teenaged gay boys are you Fucking Kidding Me
7) ... wait now that i’m thinking about it, isn’t one of the heathers supposed to be a lesbian too like IS THAT... chandler??? :) you mean the first person who gets murdered are you fucking kidding me
8) duke is just gonna be another catty character to add to the collection of catty white queer characters in popular tv and i’m tired
9) just let heathers die like you got lucky with the musical man just leave it be just. just stop remaking. shit. stop. stop touching it. please. heathers isn’t even objectively that good lmfao like JUST, CMON, IM BEGGING HERE,
10) i have not heard of literally one(!) thing about the new JD but just know that i’m sure i’m gonna hate what they did to my Babie
