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Tova:
That idea sounds a lot more like something a Star Wars Expanded Universe/Legends writer would come up with.
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Oct 2019, 01:54 ---No, Rey nicked em.
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:psyduck:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Oct 2019, 01:54 ---It's one of my favourite scenes. Fight me.
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Akima:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 26 Aug 2019, 14:14 ---All I know is that Dark Rey is hot af.
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Rey as Bene Gesserit? Is Disney admitting finally that Star Wars is a rip-off of Dune? :P
--- Quote from: Torlek on 28 Aug 2019, 22:41 ---At this point the fandom has so utterly sucked the joy from the main movies that I'm just ready for the SAGA to be over.
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This, pretty much, and not just the main movies. The misogynistic squealing from "fans" about a female lead in Rogue One was as bad as that over Rey in the trilogy movies, and it is really kind of off-putting. Oh well, at least they're not Browncoats... :P
Tova:
Extremely offputting. It's a difficult time to be a Star Wars fan.
(still sniggering at Case's post) :)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Akima on 31 Oct 2019, 20:25 ---This, pretty much, and not just the main movies. The misogynistic squealing from "fans" about a female lead in Rogue One was as bad as that over Rey in the trilogy movies, and it is really kind of off-putting. Oh well, at least they're not Browncoats... :P
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It's interesting that you should mention this.
I do recall when Rogue One came out that there was a lot of criticism about the (narratively justified, IMO) decision to wipe out the entire main cast in the last reel. However, complaints about Jyn's gender were a relative whisper and I can think of only one or two individual instances of that complaint during the run up to and after that movie.
Now, there is a huge furore about Rey but not so much because she's female but that she's a very badly written "Strong Woman" character (something even female writers sometimes complain about). The worst aspect is that she has been presented as a fully-fledged perfect heroine with no obvious explanation of where these skills come from. Proof of endemic sexism in the Star Wars fandom? Well, when you consider that Ashoka Tano, Leia Organia-Solo and Mara Jade-Skywalker (all women as well as empowered, intelligent and having chosen and succeeded in their own llife choices) consistently rank amongst the fandom's favourite characters, then I consider the argument for sexism as highly suspect.
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Oct 2019, 18:31 ---That idea sounds a lot more like something a Star Wars Expanded Universe/Legends writer would come up with.
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Don't talk about the Dark Empire graphic novels, please. I try to forget those ever happened.
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