| chakkra said: Okay, here's the thing, stories targeted to the female demographic (books, TV series, movies, etc) have always been told from a female perspective. Why? because most women relate more to a character from their perspective. There's nothing wrong with that, that is basic nature, everybody understands that. That's why you have never seen men complaining, calling women sexist for watching stories from their perspective, and demanding to have more "representation" in female-targeted stories. But somehow we got to a point in time where a group of people in charge looked at the things that men were watching and said "Wait a minute! why do men prefer stories told from their perspective? That's wrong!". And no, they have not simply been "including more people."
2) But now, they released a mini series with 9 episodes and there was ONE male Jedi in all 9 epidodes, ONE male Jedi in 9 episodes... then they released Tales of The Empire.. 2 arcs, 2 stories told from the female perspective.. then they released The Acolyte.. I don't even want to talk about that one. And all of that came after the THREE MAIN movies were told from a female perspective.
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And here's why I think these debates spend so much time going around in circles - is the problem that trying to appeal to women for these kinds of things is futile in the first place and inherently alienating to men, or is the problem that the attempts have been poorly executed and ended up appealing to no-one?
To use an analogy, Bruce Almighty was a movie that was designed to appeal to Christians first and foremost, but did so with a message - "real change is something that you need to make happen rather than wishing for some divine power to make it so" - that was applicable to people from all walks of life, and did so with an interesting concept about being God for a week, leading to the movie being a big hit. Then its sequel, Evan Almighty came along, made no attempt to appeal to non-Christian audiences and had a plot that was an uninspired rehash of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by way of The Santa Clause, and the result was a bomb.
So, it's clearly possible to appeal to a certain section of an audience first and foremost without alienating everyone else, even if it's an art that seems to have been lost by studios in recent years (and that applies equally to conservatives; we just don't hear about them as much because their attempts at film-making in recent years mostly seem to just consist of micro-budget God's Not Dead rip-offs that don't even make widespread theatrical release and are basically just two-hour rants about how those disgusting atheists and liberals are persecuting Christians and conservatives).
