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Angelus on 31 December 2017
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Azuren said:
Angelus said: 

This new Star Wars isn't feminist. If anything it's nihilistic in nature, proclaiming pretty much at every turn that nothing matters. This goes right down to the way it contradicts it's own themes, like self sacrifice, which is shown to be good one minute, and rejected the next. Nothing matters. It wants everything both ways, whenever it fucking suits it, and rejects the notion that there's any reason it shouldn't be able to do this.

To be fair, they did spend the first two movies killing and neutering all of the important men.

By "all the important men," I assume you mean Han and Luke mostly yes? Harrison Ford demanded to be killed off as a condition just for him to come back for a movie. Luke is someone that Rian Johnson sees as a relic to be killed off, so the new cast can take their "rightful" place as the heroes in the story. If it were up to him he probably would have left Leia dead too, but Disney was likely worried that killing two of the main heroes from the old trilogy would be too much and told him to save one for later.

And as for neutering....ya sure, but it's not like the women are making out any better. Leia? Despite her years of experience, she's a garbage general. Holdo? Withholds vital information which puts her whole crew at risk, and basically single handedly allows the whole BS plot to happen. Rose? For all she knows she dooms the entire remains of the resistance until Luke conveniently shows up. Phasma? Literally only there to remind people Disney is selling a comic story of her. I mean seriously...they are all shown to be completely useless.

Now, is there somebody at Disney who is telling the people at Lucasfilm to put more "girl power" in their movies? Probably. I'm sure they think it's a great way of advertising to different audiences, and expanding the fanbase. Even so however, it's not like there would be anything wrong with more great female characters if that's what resulted from this mandate, but that's not the case. If that has been their goal, it has been horribly executed, because all the women come off as incompetent losers, who are bad at their job. And for all the issues with Rey, the only non incompetent female of the bunch, there is absolutely nothing inherently female about her character. You could replace her with a guy and NOTHING about her character would change even one bit. She's completely interchangeable, so the fact that her character is female really isn't important to anyone but those who wanna talk themselves into it being important.

Last edited by Angelus - on 31 December 2017