You can also talk about ideas you'd like to see someone take on, in the hopes of inspiring a writer looking for a topic.
A conversation I just had made me think about all the characters who were played by biracial or mixed race actors & actresses and who could have been coded as non-white by TPTB, but instead in later canon were confirmed, I guess is the term, as white. Shawn Spencer from Psych and Michael Scofield from Prison Break come immediately to mind, but there are endless others. I don't know if anyone had tackled this, but I would love if someone rewrote the backstory TPTB gave us and, for example, have Madeleine, Shawn's mother, be Chicana instead or both of his parents be Chican@/Latin@ and write Shawn Spencer as Chicano. How this backstory would make Shawn different and the same.
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A conversation I just had made me think about all the characters who were played by biracial or mixed race actors & actresses and who could have been coded as non-white by TPTB, but instead in later canon were confirmed, I guess is the term, as white. Shawn Spencer from Psych and Michael Scofield from Prison Break come immediately to mind, but there are endless others. I don't know if anyone had tackled this, but I would love if someone rewrote the backstory TPTB gave us and, for example, have Madeleine, Shawn's mother, be Chicana instead or both of his parents be Chican@/Latin@ and write Shawn Spencer as Chicano. How this backstory would make Shawn different and the same.