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I have just recently started listening to the audiobook versions (currently at the third) and the absence of any female characters is extremely jarring. The fir
by yoz-y 9y ago
I have just recently started listening to the audiobook versions (currently at the third) and the absence of any female characters is extremely jarring. The first book only has one and it is "somebody's unhappy wife, who promptly stops complaining when presented with a shiny jewel". Second book at least has one active character.
I agree that the adaptation will have to be adapted a lot in order to be shown today. I wouldn't even mind if they modified the society structure a bit (or a lot) in order to make the initial premise more believable.
- foobar1962 9y agoThe reboot of Battlestar Galactica had a female Starbuck and it worked. One of my fav series (I never saw the original).
- chrisweekly 9y ago+1, female Starbuck worked great
- chrisweekly 9y agoThat "which" (not "who") is kind of astonishingly misogynist -- effectively referring to the wife as "it" not "her"). Yikes.
- yoz-y 9y agoThank you for pointing it out, I've fixed it. English not being my native language and all.
- chrisweekly 9y agoOh! (I thought you were quoting from the Asimov text.)