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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9370318" data-attributes="member: 4534">In some ways I do think they handled it as best the could.  But I don't like being lied to and telling me there have always been women Custodes is a lie.  There weren't any women in the fiction because GW didn't sell women Custodes miniatures.  I'm not in the least bit upset by the introduction of female Custodes, and I wouldn't be upset at Space Marines either, as I'd welcome the opportunity to paint something a little different.  It's just disrespectful to tell such a bald faced lie with expectation that I just nod my head and pretend it's true.  Since The Simpsons has covered every subject, in 1997 there was an episode called "The Principal and the Pauper" where we learn the character Seymour Skinner, principal of Springfield Elementary, is actually a man named Armin Tamzarian.  We find this out when the real Seymour Skinner returns home after being forced to work in a Chinese sweatshop for two decades.  Of course by the end of the epsidoe everything resets and everyone in town goes on pretending Tamzarian is actually the real Skinner.  This is somewhat controversial episode with Harry Shearer, the voice of Skinner, saying, "Taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience."  I guess that's kind of where I can with canon.  Changing it can seem like its disrespectful to the audience.  I like Strange New Worlds quite a bit, but with what they're doing with the Gorn suddenly "Arena" from the original series makes a little less sense.  Kirk and company should have known exactly what they were dealing with from the moment they saw the enemy's ship.  But I have almost nothing invested in Greyhawk or even the Forgotten Realms.  I personally don't care about what changes are made to them.  So I guess it makes it easier for me to accept changes.</blockquote>

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