L.J.: You can tell the really bad arguments from the fact that they get mad at you for quoting their own words 😂

After a couple of years we got some shit about the criminal
underworld but that was solely because of The Power of Harrison Ford and
The Myth of Boba Fett. It took nearly a decade before anything *but*
the Jedi and the Force got any serious development. That is why it was
and is important for Finn to have the Force. Otherwise he would always
have been left at the wayside.

L.J.: You’re mixing up two different things here, the content of the SW movies themselves and fandom’s reaction. You seem to be saying JJ could somehow have raised Finn’s profile in fandom by making him a Jedi. I highly doubt that, though. The likelier scenario is that, If Finn had been confirmed a Jedi in the first first movie, there would have been a huge rush in fandom to devalue the entire idea of the Jedi and Force-users. There is no way JJ can single-handedly make fandom less racist, sad to say.

Interesting how you praise JJ for what you claim is his
brilliant attempt at subverting Star Wars while completely ignoring that
the so-called attempt, if that is what it really is, would *never* work
with a Black character. Shifting the focus from the Jedi and the Force
to something else is not something that can be done with a Black
character. After John was cast I knew that it was Jedi or bust. It was a
relief to see him with the lightsaber and I cried as the ‘sike!’ pull
at the end.

L.J.: I have on multiple occasions, even in my responses to your asks, said that JJ could have done better at being more sensitive to the racial dynamics at play with a Black character and also said the bait-and-switch was terrible. But hey, why read my actual words when you can go off in your own head about whatever the fuck you think I said?

That was when I knew that this trilogy would never be good for
Black fans. Concerning “well obviously Finn’s story does have places to
go but you don’t think those are important”. You’re once again in your
usual dishonest way, putting words in my mouth. What I *said* was that
JJ didn’t leave a *clear* way forward for Finn’s story. Rey got a
specific goal, Finn did not. And you’re delusional if you think
otherwise.

L.J.: Finn was left with a choice after the end of TFA, whether to stay and fight or leave the fight. It looks like you’re the one who’s too busy being disappointed about the fact that he wasn’t confirmed a Force user in TFA to give any value to his story in that movie. The disappointment is valid and many fans, especially Black fans, share it. But to say that was the only valuable direction his story could go seems a stretch.

Could you maybe stop talking about and treating JJ like he’s as
green as Rian? He’s seen his stuff turned into something he clearly
didn’t plan times enough that he should have realized what might happen
to Finn if he didn’t give him a clear path ahead. He didn’t start
yesterday. He’s been in the business for decades. He knows the game. So I
am going to blame him for not setting more things in stone for Finn,
because he damn well knows how much the guy who comes after can change
everything.

L.J.: I mean that’s totally your prerogative, I’m not on some JJ defense squad 😂 What did you expect, that I’d fight a duel for his honor or something? I have openly criticized many aspects of what JJ did with TFA, so I’m not sure what you’re expecting with that. By all means, blame JJ all you like. He deserves it.

I could also add that you all should really stop pretending that
JJ doesn’t have a long line of racist and Antiblack writing and casting
in his past, very recent past even. I don’t know why you all suddenly
decided he was woke. Especially after Star Trek and the whitewashing of
both Khan and Uhura for a start. But because the man manages to
sometimes step over a bar that’s lying on the fucking ground, he’s
somehow woke and fantastic.

L.J.: I’ll take “things I never said” for $100, Alex. I mean I even said, REPEATEDLY, that everyone should be prepared for the possibility that Finn would be treated badly in IX, so you’re being a raging asshole in my inbox because…?

But have fun stanning a racist, Antiblack guy, I’ll look forward
to you two making hypocrites of yourself defending IX after being as
sanctimonious as you have about people who defend TLJ in the face of all
criticism. Since I know you will be putting words in my mouth again
here, you’re that dishonest in your replies, I hate TLJ and all that it
did, but you’re both hypocritical in your defense of TFA while being
angry about TLJ.

I know you will because you can’t handle a critique of TFA and
all the huge fuck ups JJ made there. He doesn’t know how to write a
Black character and never did. Whatever though, you’re clearly intent on
not hearing what I’m saying, that this whole mess started with JJ and
your continuing support of him is not helping at all. You’re willfully
blinding yourself to what JJ did in TFA and how much the story discards
Finn at the end of it.
       
   

Okay I’ll shut up then. Thanks for the silencing. As for waiting
and seeing, that’s what everyone told me after TFA and how it ended.
Look where that went. People told me the same thing with JJ’s Star Trek
movies and that didn’t go any better did it? So no, I’m not going to
wait and see. But I will shut up on tumblr. For good. You all got what
you wanted.

L.J.: Again, you’re missing or just wilfully ignoring the parts where @themandalorianwolf and I, among others, repeatedly panned what JJ did in TFA. I can tell that there’s no talking to you, though, since you’re so dead-set against anyone anticipating IX at all and equate any pushback or disagreement with “silencing” lmao.

Again, your disappointment is valid and so is your resignation that IX won’t be good for Finn. But you’re being illogical to the point of devaluing what is good about Finn’s story, and I can’t imagine that’s any more fun for you than arguing with you is for me. if your goal is to disengage from SW and IX then I think hanging around my blog is the wrong way to go about it.