I was wondering, how did you find Lupita’s Korean pronunciation in Black Panther? My dad said she was pretty impressive for a non native speaker but I read elsewhere that some Koreans said she was barely intelligible?

I watched the movie twice in theaters and I thought she did fine? We lionize foreigners all the time for speaking truly terrible Korean in media, idk why she should be held to a higher standard. I could understand her, and more to the point of that scene she was ADORABLE. Her “ayyiiiing ❤️” slayed me and she could have been speaking any language, I would have done anything she asked. My actual face watching her:

johnnyclash87:

themandalorianwolf:

johnnyclash87:

So this is why Mandalorian Finn makes most sense to me and is my favorite Finn theory.

First it makes sense that the First Order would use Mandalorians for their Stormtroopers. Mandalorians are infamous as warriors throughout the Galaxy and even the predecessors of the Stormtroopers were cloned from a Mandalorian. They even went to war against the Jedi which ain’t exactly small potatoes. And they were a pain in the ass for the Empire too.

Secondly with Mandaloriansspread out across the Galaxy, it still keeps things open for Finn to be from another planet like Jehda. I mean both Luke and Liea are ethnically Naboo but grew up on different planets.

Also it opens the possibility that Finn is a descendant of the only Mandalorian Jedi, Tarre Viszla. Which means he could lead a Stormtrooper rebellion and unite the Mandalorians to join the Resistance. And we’ve already established how bad that would be for the First Order.

But you know what’s even more terrifying than a Mandalorian? A Force Sensitive Mandalorian. What’s even more terrifying than that? A Force Sensitive Mandalorian that was enslaved and trained to be an elite soldier and now wants nothing more than to protect the people he loves.

Love the Mandalorian Finn theories!

And while Tarre Viszla was the first Mandalorian to join the Jedi Order, there had been Jedi who deflected from the Jedi Order to join the Mandalorians against the Republic!

Oh! I did not know that! That is cool!

OP did you just casually combine my two favorite Finn parentage theories, Mandalorian Finn and Jedhan Finn?! Given how steeped Jedha is in Force lore, Mando Finn who is also a Jedhan would have a direct pipeline to both the military and Force sides of the story. *dies of excitement*

*Reanimates* And yes, the FO should fear the Mandos and Republic (or Republic-adjacent, who the hell knows at this point) uniting. The Mandalorians and Republic worlds would crush the FO if they can work past their historical animosity, and if there’s one thing that could make Mandos work as one with the Republic it would be rage at the discovery that slavers have been stealing their children.

I saw a painfully accurate satire article that said, “US Poll Reports 80% of Evangelicals Would Vote Lucifer If He Ran Republican”.

diversehighfantasy:

lj-writes:

I mean didn’t they already?

It’s true (the other 20% includes the Black evangelicals – the Black Republicans like my late g-grandpop who committed to voting Republican till death because of Abraham Lincoln (right or wrong) have passed on, so the new Black Republicans are self made millionaires who look down on other Black people and, like, Kanye).

However, it’s not simply being a Republican that got Trump elected, it was white supremacy (which is not solely a Republican thing, it’s a racially isolated white thing).

Don’t believe it? Scandals like adultery and sexual harassment used to kill political careers. Even divorce used to be be a career killer, even for Dems.

So how did a twice divorced, pussy grabbing, ablesist, white nationalist man become president?

White supremacy, period. The white evangelicals (with some exceptions, to be fair), can accept things like adultery, sexual harassment, etc, as long as the platform is about making America white again, bringing back white factory/mining jobs, building a wall, and imprisoning Black citizens. Point blank. That’s why Trump won.

If a full on Socialist said white people and white people only would be gauranteed a living wage regardless of education, you better believe they would win. It’s easier to get away with blatant white supremacy when it’s dressed up as a meritocracy.

themandalorianwolf:

I think the best plot and story for Episode IX would be for the First Order to be going through a civil war due to the power vacuum that was created after the death of Snoke.

A compelling and interesting conflict would be that while the resistance is trying to build a new army, the F0, with significant more forces due to now being the dominant power, is struggling to stay unified because of the imperials who don’t want to follow Hux and Kylo. Both characters are equally hated by imperials and troopers, though for different reasons, and one of the things keeping the FO unified was Hux and Kylo’s melted sugar daddy, but now that he’s dead there is nothing stopping I Civil War because of power struggles.

In the final issue the Poe Dameron comic we see just how against the Imperials are with the idea of Hux being the leader, and they don’t even factor in Kylo as an option. The FO was never an organization united, and I think if JJ Abrams wants to connect this trilogy when it is so disconnected, A great story elements would be showing the realistic consequences of Snoke’s death.

We saw the Republic at war in the prequels, we saw the Sith empire fight the Jedi in the old republic, and we saw galactic civil war in the OT, but we have never seen imperials fight imperials. At least not on the big screen: I think I could be an interesting story for IX.

I’d love this, but what would Hux’s role be? We saw what happened when he stood up to KR, so it seems unlikely he’d be in open revolt. If we see the Assholes of Ren in IX they’ll likely be acting as enforcers to crush not only Hux but any kind of dissent. Under these circumstances I think slowly mounting discontent with Ren’s incompetence and dictatorial style is likelier, with the Stormtroopers hardest hit at the bottom of the military rung. This pressure could culminate in factional war and possibly a Stormtrooper uprising the moment the Supreme Asshat shows weakness. Let soldiers go hungry and fail to convince them there’s any point to their deaths, and they’ll decide you’re the enemy.

I finally put my finger on what kept bothering me about Finn: he’s way too emotionally healthy. He acts like an ordinary Imperial citizen who joined the Stormtrooper Corps out of patriotism, but then defected when things got too bad; he does not act like a brainwashed child soldier who was taught only love of and obedience to the First Order virtually from birth. Heck, escapees from ordinary IRL cults are more emotionally scarred than Finn. How does he even have the intellectual and moral

context to conceive of resisting the First Order as a good
thing? At minimum, he should be wracked with guilt and constantly
questioning himself as to whether he should go back, and probably he
should have to be dragged along by Rey/Han at some point. This shit is
very hard to escape, and I kind of think Finn’s narrative trivializes
it.

You took all this time to get to the critique of Finn’s character as “unrealistic” that I called out months ago (link), congratulations! Not only are you perpetuating stigma against real-life child soldiers by painting them all with the same brush as naïve and frightening killing machines, you’re also disregarding the way people actually live in and react to totalitarian regimes. Even in a place as tightly controlled as North Korea, which was one of the inspirations for the First Order, most people know the regime’s bullshit is exactly that, bullshit. They are smart and often cynical as hell. If anything I would say they’re often less susceptible to propaganda than people from purportedly democratic countries like the U.S. and Japan, because they know they can’t trust the people in power and they have to survive on their own. I’m not sure how to tell North Korean defectors that their psychological profiles are entirely unrealistic and they shouldn’t exist. Would you like me to pass on that message to them?

Doctor Who is doing an episode on the American Civil Rights movement. This wouldn’t be a bad idea if they weren’t shooting it in SOUTH AFRICA, where white people are facing literal oppression. That is incredibly tone deaf. They could have chosen to film in Britain, they could have chosen to film in Canada, they SHOULD have chosen to film in Britain, but no, they chose the worst possible location to film an episode where white people are oppressive antagonists.

Misandry exists, and it hurts women. If you need to tear down
men for women to be strong, then you don’t think women are strong to
begin with. But the BBC would rather turn a beloved character (William
Hartnell’s First Doctor) into a sexist dinosaur for giggles. Utterly
disrespectful to the character and the actor, may he rest in peace.
Also, misandry ABOUNDED in The Last Jedi, especially towards the
characters of color, and it weakened characters like Holdo, Rey, Rose,
and FRAKKING LEIA.

I don’t understand why you don’t take misandry seriously if it’s
not against characters of color. Which I have no doubt will be the case
with the new Doctor Who, since the BBC has taken to literally firing
white men to fill diversity quotas. Like, can’t they just not have
quotas? Imagine having a quota that mandated fewer Black women. People
would be up in arms about that.

I’ve already pointed out why the assertion that white South Africans are oppressed is a load of hogwash (link, link). And naw, misogyny hurts women. What you call misandry serves several different purposes, all of which is to the detriment of women and are forms of misogyny. There are the jokes and caricatures to uphold traditional gender roles, such as the cartoonishly inept dads who can’t take care of their kids or keep the household running. Oopsie, it turns out men can’t be trusted with the home or kids and women should take care of all that after all! There are the Straw Misogynists who simplify sexism down to a few buzzwords and easily-defeatable villains, obscuring the cultural and institutional problems with sexism.

And yes, tearing down male characters so that female characters have to fix their shit is sexist, but it’s not sexist against male characters because no one takes these examples to mean men are inherently incapable or helpless. Media does not exist in a vacuum and there are millions of other pieces of rhetoric, fictional and real, that validate men as being strong and capable.

You’re right in that men don’t have to be torn down for women to be strong, that’s bad storytelling. But the problem isn’t “misandry,” it’s the fact that these kinds of distortions are seen as necessary in the first place. The problem is also racism when racist tropes are used to tear down male characters of color–and that was the problem with TLJ, not “misandry” against Finn and Poe.

Mislabeling the above, which are properly problems of misogyny and racism, to misandry and reverse racism is dishonest and misdiagnoses the entire problem. It’s a tactic of false equivalence, not coming to terms with oppression as it exists in our world.