I hate this word ‘femme coded’ or ‘female coded’. I’ve seen them used regarding Anakin and Kylo, neither of whom are feminine, coded or otherwise. Both are masculine, both exhibit toxic masculinity. But because they cry and are shown to have emotions, they’re ‘feminine’. As for Bella, I think it’s redundant to say that her character is anti feminist as hale… if you claim otherwise, you’re a dumbass. I mean, Smeyer literally wrote an entire novel on pro-life and that you should carry a baby even if it kills you.
Somehow white cis men (who happen to be fascist war criminals) are targets of misogyny who need to be supported when actual female characters are… right there…? Elsewhere it’s been said Valkyrie, an actual female character, isn’t good representation for women because she’s “male-coded” (baaaarf). These people don’t understand what coding even means and are misusing it to justify the fact that they can only empathize with white men.
Leia slapping Poe is so unprofessional, inappropriate, and hypocritical. As I detailed before in a previous attempted viewing, Leia fucking SIGNED OFF on the plan to destroy the dreadnought, barring some dumbfuck technical limitation that prevented her from overruling Poe and contacting the bombers directly to pull out. This attack is on her as the superior officer who had every chance to call off the mission and have Poe hauled to the brig for disobeying a direct order.
Not only is it shitty as hell for her to lay hands on an officer, she’s blaming him for the cost of an attack that she allowed to go through and that just makes her look like an irresponsible, incompetent ninny. This isn’t Carrie’s fault, obviously, it’s Johnson’s and also Kennedy’s for leaving the movie and Leia’s character in the hands of a man who doesn’t have any concept of logic or the basic workings of society.
Also like why are the stakes so boring? Why is the might of the First Order, which evidently gives zero fucks about losing an entire planetary superweapon, so focused on this one tiny fleet? Don’t these fucksticks have a galaxy to rule or something? And the vehicle they give us for this incomprehensible situation is a movie-length low-speed chase? I’m so excited, I’m snoring.
Leia flying through space is… not as bad as I feared, but mostly my thought is, so what. This is Star Wars. I’m supposed to be excited that a character, particularly a known Force sensitive, is able to move things with her mind? Especially when it’s going to be a prelude to putting her in a coma for most of the movie?
Just eat the obvious prop porg, Chewie. I don’t give a shit anymore.
@thehungryvortigaunt Snoke can’t threaten your family anymore if you kill them all…
For extra laugh points, Snoke was ALREADY DEAD when Kyle wanted to go down to Crait and slaughter all the remaining Resistance members including his mother.
Nothing in particular (that I know of), I needed another “Finn” to round out the banner and it was what came to mind. But lord, was I getting sick of being asked “I thought this was about Adventure Time!” and “Is this about Finn Wolfh/ard?” on my posts.
Oh thank goodness because if any country could stan Finn you’d think it would be Finland, the Land of Finn
Finn’s true origin is that he is the Prince of Finland.
Have you forgotten about Finland and Swiss? 😂😂
If this is a Hetalia reference you’d better keep it to yourself
What’s Hetalia? 😂 heterosexual Italia? 😝 I was talking about the Chinese bootleg where Finn is called Finland and Rey is called Swiss 😄
Oh! I remember now. Finland and Swiss are in love and Italia is heterosexual XDDD
You’re not making progress against racism if you’re still making a fuss about a character’s race. True progress is making race IRRELEVENT.
In theory, sure, but in reality “colorblindness” allows racism to flourish. It erases and supports systemic racism. Colorblindness is believing Black poverty is the result of laziness and “not caring,” that all children have access to the same education and opportunities, that black incarceration rates are fair, and if the police brutalize or kill a Black person it must have been justified. Colorblindness supports all white institutions, neighborhoods, schools and businesses, because the minute a Black person is accepted, it’s “racist,” because obviously they were accepted due to preferential treatment.
Colorblindness has poisoned white Americans with the idea that they’re exceptional, not beneficiaries of the privilege that comes from actively keeping others down.
Fandom “colorblindness” operates in the same way, telling people, especially people of color, that talking about race is racist, that noticing a prioritization of whiteness is racist.
It’s not progress at all.
I used to think this way bc personally I’ve always loved characters of all races and didn’t notice any pattern in my thinking … however … I still do subconsciously connect a person’s race to certain attributes, even if I don’t want to and fight against it. I am not colourblind. And fandom as a whole absolutely is not. We have not reached the stage of colourblindness. I’d say in no society on earth. And pretending that we have is just pretending that there is no problem. Thus it helps hide racism. Saying that we are and should be colourblind is trying to reach a stage in human interaction without any work… saying “that’s just how it is now!” but it isn’t … getting to subconsciously judge characters and people due to their race is a pattern in our brains that we have to constantly fight, it doesn’t just magically not exist bc we don’t want it to exist. I had to learn that too… and the massive issues that exist bc of racism do not magically exist bc of something else that we can later blame on the character or worse… in real life … the person who suffers from racism!!
“True progress is denying racism is a problem and shutting down discussions of it for my own comfort!”
Erik Killmonger is so fucking extra. Did he have to let the woman in the museum tell him about artifacts? No. Did he have to ask her about the Wakandan one? No. Did he have to correct her? No. Did he have to explain to her he was taking it? No. Why he did it? Because he is
I love it when people try to claim representation in fiction is being taken “too far” to the point where it’s no believable. They’re like:
“What’s next, a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum?” Hi, my name is Rachel, also known as Rachna, and I’m a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum.
“What’s next, a transgender Latino man with chronic pain?” What, you mean my former colleague, Marco?
“What’s next, a Black Jewish lesbian?” Bitch, I know I three Black Jewish lesbians, WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING POINT?
The point is they’re all boring cunts that no one that isn’t a spastic could ever get on with.
People who mistake ticking diversity boxes as having a personality 😴
inherent traits don’t make someone interesting
What they don’t get is that it’s not that these characters exist but when what’s in the spotlight of Spider-Man isn’t his powers or that he’s a hero or the struggles he goes through trying to be a hero and a normal person but its the fact that he’s a gay poc why is he Spider-Man at that point? Theres representation then there’s shoehorning
The sarcastic examples I see usually have someone in five minority groups, and “chronic pain” is never included. Like, for example, “mixed-race Turkish-Pakistani transgender immigrant lesbian”.
Also, Miles Morales is Afro-Latino, and his suit was ripped in battle once. One girl on not-Youtube gushed about having a black superhero, and he got upset at it.
Strange thing is, fans have less problems with Miles Morales or She-Hulk or Deadpool (pansexual) than they do with, say, Riri Williams, or Thorette, or America Chavez. They want characters who are minorities, not Minority Characters™.
Arrow fans, for example, had little problem with an extended plotline involving one of the main characters’ bisexuality (and her girlfriend is now a recurring character), but get sick of the subplots about Curtis Holt’s relationship.
“What’s next? An engaging character one cares about who has a recognizable personality beyond their surface physical characteristics or lifestyle choices? It’s political correctness gone mad!”
Black women comprise 7% of the US population. Lesbians comprise 4%. Jews are 1.5%. My main issue with the OP isn’t her stupid fucking politics, but moreover, where the fuck does this person live where she not only knows of a person who fits into those three demographics, she knows GODDAMN THREE OF THEM?!
Imagine being this angry that somebody knows three Black Jewish lesbians.
What, people are generated by probability now? Like if you’re a Black Jewish lesbian you have like a 0.0042% chance of existing or something, so knowing three of them is cheating or something?
“If only Solo and Qi’ra had a fraction of that chemistry. For a film that is constantly nudging us in the ribs with allusions to the original “Star Wars” trilogy, it does “Solo” few favors to bring to mind the incendiary interplay between Ford and Carrie Fisher that gave those films so many of their standout moments. Clarke and Ehrenreich have little such spark, although that seems less the fault of the actors than the unimaginative relationship they’re given to work with.“
“Where it loses its way is with Emilia Clarke’s Qi’ra. She is Solo’s childhood sweetheart and we start the story with them being torn apart. Han’s ultimate mission is to reconnect with her outside the Empire’s reach. Thankfully that is not the through line, but their relationship really does not work. Qi’ra switches between good and bad with no gray area in between. You never understand her decisions. SOLO is about the relationships between the characters, but no one besides Han and Chewbacca are consistent. By never settling down and building the other relationships, we never really care.”
“Emilia Clarke’s Qi’ra is a complete enigma of a character, who spends the entire film as good girl heroine until the very end when the film decides it needs to explain why she isn’t with Han when we meet him in A New Hope. The ending of the relationship makes no sense, and there’s absolutely no build up to it.”
“Unfortunately, the other new characters don’t really much of an impression. While it’s nice that the movie just jumps to a love story between Han and Qi’ra rather than going through the motions of a romance, the relationship never convinces because it lacks definition. We can tell that Han and Qi’ra are close, but the only thing that seems to link them is their past rather than any mutual affection or characteristic. They’re in love because the film says they’re in love. A similar issue afflicts Beckett, who is a waste of Harrelson’s talent as he’s relegated to simply playing a tired old crook who’s still looking for that one big score.”
“Han and Qi’ra’s romance plays out like a sappy Nicholas Sparks novel for most of their scenes together, until the abrupt inevitable parting (as we know Han is single when we meet him in A New Hope) which comes out of nowhere and is given no satisfactory explanation.“
“Han and Qi’ra spend every scene either telling each other how much in love they are or making out, as if to overcompensate for their utter lack of chemistry. One longs for the sparks between Ford’s Han and Fisher’s Leia.”
“Much of Solo concerns its namesake figuring out how to tell actual good guys from the bad ones. This theme is driven home in the film’s worst passages of dialogue, most of them between Solo and Qi’Ra, who ominously assures him she’s not the same girl he once knew.”
“Emilia Clarke is never sympathetic nor femme fatale enough to really work as Han’s would-be flame Qi’ra. The movie flirts with the idea of her being a darker character (“a survivor”) but it never fully commits to that arc, making for a frustrating and disappointing resolution to her and Han’s storyline.”
“Alden and Emilia kiss far more times than Ford and Fisher ever did in all three Star Wars movies and even get a surprisingly explicit implied sexual scene between them for the normally PG Star Wars. It’s as though the writers are trying to force to the audience that they’re the hotter couple. It fails miserably, as they have the chemistry of a wet cloth and a match.”
“What’s left is swagger and a smile but not a whole lot of soul (the unemotive Clarke is no help, meaning the romance suffers from a fatal lack of chemistry).”
“The romantic subplot is the least interesting thing in Howard’s film.”
“And we’re not talking about Clarke as Qi’Ra, who sadly turns out to be the film’s weakest link; as a romantic pairing, she and Ehrenreich sadly just don’t pop.”
“But the film’s third act, when we see how Han and Qi’ra part (or are torn apart), as we know they must, never justifies the decision to tell this particular story, beyond adding another new character to the Star Wars mythos. And, really, that goes for many of the new characters in the film, including Woody Harrelson’s Tobias Beckett and L3, a droid voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. They’re there to fulfill story functions, not really to become characters in their own right.”
Me, remembering Kasdan trashing Han and Leia and saying Han was never attracted to Leia and how he hated how they turned out in ESB and disliked them as a couple:
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