West Wing Gender Swap Picspam!

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Recently, lutamira and I got to chatting about Josh/Donna and how I logically should ship them because they are super-dysfunctional, and we all know how I'm a sucker for dysfunctional ships. And yet... I don't. And I think the reason why is that I like my dysfunction in nontraditional gender roles (*ahem* Spuffy), whereas The West Wing is basically reinforcing traditional gender roles by having the dude be an emotionally unavailable jerk who doesn't respect his (female, of course) assistant and takes her for granted.

Thus, gender swap! I'd kind of been mulling this one over for a while now (I have been wanting to do one after seeing all of penny_lane_42's fantabulous picspams), but that was the motivation I needed to actually put the damn thing together.

The West Wing
Gender Swap Casting



Mary McDonnell as President Jed Bartlet





Margaret Colin as Leo McGarry





Katee Sackhoff as Josh Lyman





Maggie Siff as Toby Ziegler





Neil Patrick Harris as C.J. Cregg





Amanda Peet as Sam Seaborn





Zachary Levi as Donna Moss





Katerina Graham as Charlie Young





Tim Matheson as Abbey Bartlet





Sabrina Lloyd as Will Bailey


 


John Mahoney as Dolores Landingham





John Noble as Debbie Fiderer





Matt Lauria as Zoey Bartlet





Matt Czuchry as Ainsley Hayes

Comments

[goldenusagi]

Yes please to NPH and Katerina Graham!

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NPH should be in everything ever. :)

Also, I need more NPH icons.

[pocochina]

clearly you knew how happy this would make me.

I was a little skeptical of NPH as CJ, and then I finished scrolling down to the pictures and....OMG THEIR FACES MATCH BAH. And Zachary Levi as Donna is the cutest thought I have thought all day.

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It might have crossed my mind, yeah. :)

As for NPH as CJ, I have two words for you: The Jackal. I would sell my parents on craigslist to see that happen.

[lutamira]

This is way way too fabulous! I LOVE Maggie Siff as Toby and Katee Sackhoff as Josh - I think I would ship Josh/Toby if those two were the ones playing out that antagonistic-but-closer-than-family dynamic. And if Mary McDonnell were President Bartlett, I might actually like the character... :)

This is full of so much win!

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No lie, those were the first ones I cast. :) Glad you liked!

[slaymesoftly]

LOL You were right. I hardly knew who any of them were. A couple I did, some had familiar faces if not names, but most were just... huh? who? :)

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Clearly you need to watch more TV. Or better TV. I can recommend some. :-P

[slaymesoftly]

LOL -

[(Anonymous)]

OMG this is brilliant, and I would totally watch this show. I especially love Amanda Peet as Sam, John Noble as Debbie, and John Mahoney as Delores.

- GingerWall

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Haha, clearly I've been watching too many Frasier reruns lately. I was kind of at a loss for older male actors, but then I remembered how Debbie's kind of a pothead and, well, Walter Bishop makes his own LSD, and it all came together. :)

[ever_neutral]

Aww, I love Josh/Donna, but I definitely see what you mean. In the first few years I liked them *because* of the weird boss/assistant tension, though I wasn't counting on that to last. I liked them better once Donna quit working for Josh, and Josh... woke up. I guess I'm fine with ships starting out in traditional gender roles, but being subverted by the end.

THE GENDER-SWAP:

OMGGGG MARY AS JED. POCO APPROVES, haha.

KATEE AS JOSH? YESYESYESYESYES

NPH AS CJ! NEVER would have imagined that, but why the hell not.

ZACH AS DONNA! PERFECT!

Great work, yo.

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I liked them better once Donna quit working for Josh, and Josh... woke up.

Yeah. I think for me it just went on too long, you know? Like if she'd quit in season 3 or something, I'd be happy with it, but the boss/assistant thing was just too entrenched at that point that I couldn't get past it.

Glad you liked my choices! The ones you listed were so easy, but others took me FOREVER.

[(Anonymous)]

I am suuuuuuuuuuuper late to this party, but I want every single little part of this. You had me at Laura Roslin.