Destiny is Juliette! , why Simone in CGI version?

[poetic.Al]

Why did "Destiny's" character name change? - Hey.. A lover of both the original and new shows, a serious big time question, hope you can help me with, because it’s been nipping away inside my head for years and i cant seem to get an answersurely someone has the knowledge?!!?

Why is my original heroine Destiny in the original series Real name: Juliette Pontoin
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blonde
Height: 5ft 3ins
Weight: 122lbs

hjave it changed in the CGI version to :
SIMONE GIRAUDOUX
AGE 29
BORN IN SILION VALLEY USA
AND NOW 5’9” AND 112 LBS and various other aspects also

CONFUSED!!

An answer would let me stop tossin n turning and using moisturiser by the bottle full, cause its giving me premature wrinkles continually thinking Why?? extremely interested

Trust you can help me??

Your friend forever if you can fulfill my Destiny!

poetic.Al

[Marion]

I don't think anybody knows why any of the original characters changed... I just know that I wish they hadn't.

[Sage]

Same here
Apparently Gerry Anderson wasn't too keen on OCS Destiny's accent, so maybe he wanted to avoid that in the new series by making her a diffrent nationality [easier to get decent American accents than French ones]. So then it made sense to change a few other aspects too.
Or maybe it was some kind of copyright issue, regarding the original. I don't know, just speculating.

[Captain Indigo]

There were two lots of piffle spouted when the new characters were rolled out.

One was that there was a copyright issue, as Sage said, and they weren't able to use the original names of the characters. This strikes me as a little odd, since Scarlet, Blue and White all managed to keep hold of their names.

The second was that they didn't want to confuse the fan base by having the two sets of characters have the same names! I think we would have coped, somehow - after all, we've come up with some names of our own for some of the characters, haven't we?

[gojohnniegogo]

Hmmm, it wouldn't have made a different to Colonel White though, seen as his name is not official, and never spoken in the series. Did TV21C come up with it though? Plus they added a 'Sir' to his name

[Skybase Girl]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the name change was partly to do with the programme's sponsors and partly to reflect the new production team. Some of the characters were named after the CGI personnel, I believe.

Maybe Destiny's appearance and nationality change was G A's attempt to give the series a more modern edge. At least she still has the French heritage, but not, thankfully, the accent !

[poetic.Al]

My thanks to you All that answered, my Q ... Still don't really know but interesting all the same. I'm kinda liking Sybase Girl theory tho'.

just gotta live with it for now..,.Thanks peeps!!!
poetic.Al

[Matt Crowther]

Simone is kind of a nice name but perhaps not one suited to a woman from America. That's not to be xenophobic but it sounds French...European rather than someone from Sillion Valley (is it Silicon Valley?) Just a note.

[Sage]

SIMONE
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: see-MON
French feminine form of SIMON. A famous bearer was Simone de Beauvoir, a French feminist and philosopher.
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search ... perator=or

So yes indeed it is a French name, nothing wrong with saying that.
America as country is such a melting pot of cultures, so a name like doesn't seem that remarkable. There isn't really such thing as an 'American' name anyway.

I kind of forget people don't know/care as much about names as I do.

[Serena Lewis]

Her parents were French, Phillippe and Emanuelle, but she was raised in Silicon Valley. It would make sense to carry on the French 'theme', I guess...
My first name is Greek, and I have no Greek blood in me. That said, my surname is Irish, and I am a bit Irish...

xx

[Matt Crowther]

SIMONE
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French
Pronounced: see-MON
French feminine form of SIMON. A famous bearer was Simone de Beauvoir, a French feminist and philosopher.
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search ... perator=or

So yes indeed it is a French name, nothing wrong with saying that.
America as country is such a melting pot of cultures, so a name like doesn't seem that remarkable. There isn't really such thing as an 'American' name anyway.

I kind of forget people don't know/care as much about names as I do.

It's smashing stuff all the same. Though you're right that there is no American name as it is a melting pot. I did after all find that there is a town called Moscow near Washington State in the atlas...

[chrisbishop]

A-HEM!

I'm from 'America', from a vast province in Canada called Quebec...

And here, 80-more percent of the people have a name of French origins...

More to the point, many Canadians throughout Canada are of French origins, and therefore bear a French name. I don't know the percentage, mind you, and it's certainly less than in Quebec, but French, like English, were one of the two 'founding people' of Canada.

Oh, and there's lots of French names on the East Coast. too.. down down to a 'little land' called Louisiana which was, quite a long time ago, originally own by France and eventually sold to the United States.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an 'American' name . There's all manners of origins for names in North America! French is but one of them.

[Marion]

Matt Said:

I did after all find that there is a town called Moscow near Washington State in the atlas...

There is a town called Moscow in Ayrshire - if I'm not mistaken.
And my daughter goes to school with a girl called Simone, and she's not - and we're not - in the tiniest bit French. There are a lot of 'English' names that originated in France - or at least from Norman-French - my own is said to be amongst them

[Mary]

Simone is kind of a nice name but perhaps not one suited to a woman from America. That's not to be xenophobic but it sounds French...European rather than someone from Sillion Valley (is it Silicon Valley?) Just a note.

Many, many Americans I know have "French" sounding names, such as Michelle, Nicole, Danielle, Gabrielle and so on. It was a very popular trend of names a few years ago and though not at the top of the "baby names" list nowadays, they are still popular.

You know, just because a name "sounds" like a certain ethnicity in an ethnically-diverse country doesn't mean it is. For example, I notice the name Anthony (with or without the H) is widely used as an English boy's name. Over here it's unusual to name a child Anthony if at least one of his parents doesn't have Italian blood. Not unheard of, mind you, you just don't hear it that often. But in your country it's much more accepted.

[Matt Crowther]

Many, many Americans I know have "French" sounding names, such as Michelle, Nicole, Danielle, Gabrielle and so on. It was a very popular trend of names a few years ago and though not at the top of the "baby names" list nowadays, they are still popular.

You know, just because a name "sounds" like a certain ethnicity in an ethnically-diverse country doesn't mean it is. For example, I notice the name Anthony (with or without the H) is widely used as an English boy's name. Over here it's unusual to name a child Anthony if at least one of his parents doesn't have Italian blood. Not unheard of, mind you, you just don't hear it that often. But in your country it's much more accepted.

I sense that I've opened a floodgate that I had not intended. I did not intend posts to come barraging back about ethnicity and all this jazz. I will do what some of my countrymen do and retreat back into my shell. I'll know best when not to mention the origins of Simone(!).