And that is reflecting something genuinely problematic tbh, that the Starkid crew was pretty damn white (Darren Criss being hapa notwithstanding) and Devin Lytle was more in their inner circle than Sango Tajima was so Sango got the bit part
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Devin Lytle points out the irony that Sango's improvised delivery of "BITCH I AIN'T CHO CHANG" is amazingly funny and is what makes the whole joke work but people remember Lytle's reveal as the "real Cho Chang" much more clearly, because she's the Starkid token hot girl
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Which is a bunch of problematic stuff all wrapped up in a little ball, yes (like Lytle saying that her earlier roles with them really were just her being the hot girl and it took them a while to find a comedic voice for her)
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Anyway it's also ironic on the level that Sango Tajima is a really accomplished stage actress and probably also had a much smaller part in AVPM because she was busy with real stuff Devin Lytle probably feels weird about this whole leapfrog nature of becoming "Internet famous"
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Like Darren Criss has made comments about how much he personally enjoys that "Team Starkid" got this massive following as Internet celebrities when the actual UMich Theatre Department kind of saw them as weird losers
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Like that's the joke with Tyler Brunsman, who wasn't really a core part of their crew because he was an actual star student and Broadway triple threat That's the whole joke of having him play Cedric Diggory
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So they can kill him off and then do the big singing and dancing Act 1 finale with him lying motionless as a corpse the whole time Then bring him back as Fudge as Act 2, only to once more kill him and have a big dance number with his motionless corpse
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AVPM was really only intended as a college show to start with and a lot of the stuff in it is in-jokes even the cast themselves no longer remember the full context of
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But a LOT of the casting was intentionally "ironic" casting, like for the audience "Oh God they made Devin be Cho Chang because she plays the hot girl in ALL their shows, Sango was never even really gonna be in it" was, itself, the joke
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They came out and explicitly apologized for that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides
yeah, it's not my favorite Joe Walker character but after watching ME AND MY DICK none of that stuff really phased me
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To be fair to Me and My Dick it is one of the very few examples from that era of explicit girldick representation
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