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AlfredoTurkey said:
Wait.... please don't tell me the main character is a woman. I mean, I'm not sexist but, Star Wars has always revolved around a male protagonist (Luke/Anakin). It would really weird for me to watch one based on a woman.

Are you serious?

I mean, swap 'woman' for 'black' and 'sexist' for 'racist' in your post and imagine the shitstorm your post would cause.

I think it might be a bit distasteful to share such statements.



 

 

 

 

 

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haxxiy said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Wait.... please don't tell me the main character is a woman. I mean, I'm not sexist but, Star Wars has always revolved around a male protagonist (Luke/Anakin). It would really weird for me to watch one based on a woman.

Are you serious?

I mean, swap 'woman' for 'black' and 'sexist' for 'racist' in your post and imagine the shitstorm your post would cause.

I think it might be a bit distasteful to share such statements.


Regardless, messing with established tropes of a series is asking for trouble. Star wars was a series of movies that appealed to a certain audience. To try and be all avangarde about it to try and target new audiences or social fighters aprovals while forsaking the old one is asking for trouble. See how that went with Mortal Kombat. They forsake popular characters to make a generic and forced group of kids for new generations to find cool. 

I don't know what those audiences thought, but i find those things really forced. They ruin established series. I am thinking the same will happen with Star wars and that makes me sad.



FYI, the trailer should pop up at night.

Like in 7 hours or so.



haxxiy said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Wait.... please don't tell me the main character is a woman. I mean, I'm not sexist but, Star Wars has always revolved around a male protagonist (Luke/Anakin). It would really weird for me to watch one based on a woman.

Are you serious?

I mean, swap 'woman' for 'black' and 'sexist' for 'racist' in your post and imagine the shitstorm your post would cause.

I think it might be a bit distasteful to share such statements.


I know who I am so, I don't give two shits what I'm labeled. Society doesn't define me. I know I'm not a sexist, racist or bigiot and that's all that matters to me. 

As far as the question, it was genuine. I really want to know if they casted a female as the main character because if so, I just lost interest completely. I grew up watching Star Wars. I am old enough to actually remember playing with the original line of toys as a little kid. At this point, I just can't imagine the entire saga revolving around a woman. It's no different than Mario, Master Chief or Nathan Drake being a woman. Does that sound right to you? Would you enjoy something like that? Kind of... odd... isn't it? That's how I feel about this... if it turns out to be true.