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[โ€“] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate recasting characters, replacing narrators in the middle of an audiobook series, etc. It's super jarring, and it feels bad even if the replacement does a really good job.

There have been cases where it's been for the better, cases where someone died and there's no way around it, etc, and cases where I still kind of wish they didn't do it, but it works OK. But there should be an extremely strong preference to avoid doing so unless there's actually no alternative.

[โ€“] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

I disagree. Look at the time Justin Roiland was accused of false imprisonment, and they replaced Rick and Morty. It went great, the new Rick and Morty sound perfect. Now look at how Marvel dragged their feet on replacing Jonathan Majors and eventually decided to just ignore all their Kang foreshadowing and replace him with Dr Doom. It sucks, they should have just recast him.

Recasting allows newer and less well known actors to break into an entertainment industry dominated by sequels, adaptations, and franchises. They reduce the capital held by big time actors who are already far too rich. Recasting is good.