FentonCrackshell said:
lol "captain no reading". That's fun. Anyway, what's odd is that I've read the posts and you're probably the one I most agree with. Because I agree that creating new characters is the way to go. However, most people don't feel this way and just don't like diversity in general. Look at posters talking about how Star Wars is bad because of diversity. As if the cast being white is what made it good in the first place. Or they'd like TLJ more if Rey were white male and Fin weren't black. Such nonsense! What does dive either have to do with the poor fan reception of TLJ? No matter what there will always be negative reception to diversity. Nadine Ross was a new character in Uncharted and as soon as she was revealed people started griping about a black character. Even though her race plays no part in her story whatsoever. Just the fact that she's black set people off. So yeah, new character, new story, same bullsh!t.
Horizon: Zero Dawn gave us a female lead who isn't a man-hating feminist and p pole still whined. And people went nuts over the fact that game is full of diverse characters. All new characters, with none of them playing that us vs. them crap. The game even explains why there's such diversity in the world and people still called it forced. Fact is people will always have these notions when they feel their way of life is being threatened. 99% of gaming and film are lead by SWM and seeing a slight change pisses those people off. And I don't need the hero to look like me for me to root for him/her. Most of my favorite characters, actors, and athletes are white. But seeing others play the role some Ike's is refreshing. Except for black Johnny Storm. That was beyond idiotic! |
The gender and races of characters in the new Star Wars movies have nothing to do with them being poor as far as Star Wars movies go. Rey and Finn are original characters, so Disney can make them whatever gender or race they want. Black people existed in the original trilogy. Finn is not a revolutionary character in the Star Wars universe. Nor is a female main character. I am aware of the backlash against the Mary Sue nature of Rey, but that's a bigger issue than Rey being female. I do have an issue with both "The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi", but it goes way beyond race and gender of characters. My biggest issue with the "The Force Awakens" is that it was a total and unoriginal retread of Star Wars, and I got that feeling immediately while watching it in theater opening weekend. I don't need to see a shot for shot remake of Star Wars when I can just watch Star Wars. Case in point, this weekend there was a Star Wars marathon on the FX channel. I happened to miss the showing of the original Star Wars. Instead of watching "The Force Awakens", I went into the On Demand and qued up Star Wars instead. "The Last Jedi" has even more going against it, in that it just wasn't a very good movie. There were completely out of place jokey scenes that just because they worked in "Guardians of the Galaxy", Disney is trying to force them into everything. I'm talking about the kind of scenes that are hilarious in Seth McFarland's Family Guy Star Wars parodies or episodes of Robot Chicken, but have no business being in Star Wars. Also, the 2 films are completely incongruous. Every plotline JJ Abrams set up in TFA went nowhere or was reversed in TLJ. Worst of all was the treatment of Mark Hamill. They lied about how Luke would be used in the new trilogy to get him under contract. They showed him a script where he would be heavily involved in the plotline of TFA only to reduce him to a wordless pre-credits scene, and then completely subverted the essence of his character in TLJ. Those are my issues with the new Star Wars trilogy. I just want a good Star Wars movie, and TLJ was completely underwhelming on that front.
