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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6132

It's an animated Disney TV series that will feature the kids of the original Famous Five.......except they'll be multicultural

they'll be armed with gadgets and a fake environmentalist appears too! I know the original characters would be too old fashioned these days so they've made the new ones more up to date......... but having the kids multicultural??? The pc lot have struck again!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Unbelievable isn't it? Here we go again with this pc lot...god forbid we showed five white kids in a film or series .....we might serious hurt all those other ethnic groups out there?

Its complete madness...the funny part is nowadays it seems better that we have some kind of split marriage or perhaps a woman with kids from different fathers than to show an all white cast...how times have changed

I'm saying theat because remember the famous five were all related...Julian Dick and Anne were brothers and sister while George was their cousin

I wonder does this mean a cat will be joining Timmy after all we don't want the feline community to be left out

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6132

Yeah it's ridiculous Luc........I know the kids watching it won't know much about the original books (if at all) so they won't think anything of it but the original version had white kids in it, so are they all supposed to have ethnic partners?! If it's an English series expect to see a Polish builder crop up in it somewhere!

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cat instead of a dog

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

Oh I forgot babe....is this the one where its set years later and its the kids of the original famous five that join and become another five? Well I suppose that does open it up to all colours religions or sexual preferences

I still think Julian was gay!!

hew maybe his partner will be the Polish builder Babe

Oh no Timmy has to be a dog but this time he'll be a mongrel just to show again that multicultural theme

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6132

I said it was about the kids of the original characters Luc

.......it's funny but they showed a clip of the new series on the news tonight!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

I know

I feel dumb now

they actually have a trailer for it on the BBC site too if you wanted to see it

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K · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

My heart sank when I read about this! I've still got some original versions of the Famous Five books- they have the drawings of everyone with short back and sides haircuts for the boys, dresses for Anne. Timmy has always been a mongrel as far as I remember- he's a lurcher or something in the original drawings.

I bet the Five will have American accents too :(
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

In the tv series K, which I admit all my information for the Famous Five comes from

, Timmy was some kind of sheep dog was he not?? Well he definitely looked like one of those dogs you would see on that show 'One Man and his Dog'

Though they do need to modernise it...I don't think some posh English kids with bowl haircuts, flowery dresses and dungarees thinking their torches are neat gadgets would really go down well here let alone in the States....in fact Americans would probably mistake them as the villains if they were to speak posh

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K · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject:

No, no, no

. The charm of the Famous Five is their old fashioned attitudes and appearance. Their stories are like period pieces. I got so annoyed at the PC brigade correcting all their speech and actions. The whole point of them is to show what life was like in the 40s and 50s.

You are right that Timmy was a collie dog in the TV series [which I thought was nonsense]. However....

And I quote [ahem ahem]:

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9547

It all depends K on where you want it popular and exactly how much success you want the film to have? You see in my opinion if they make the film your saying it may appeal to some here (I count myself as one of that some too) but to people in America and many younger generations here it will be a complete turn off. I also hate this PC brigade you see trying to alter things or behaviours but to be honest I'm not sure it applies here K? I don't think they are altering language in the famous Five for pc reasons but because they think the kids will come across as pretentious posh toffs and going by the old tv series...they were!!!

well apart from George perhaps

As for Disney..they have done a cartoon set years later about the kids of the famous five ...not the original five...so I suppose they can go a bit different
There is another series being done though isn't there?
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