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Briefly about Rose Tico and “Asian/Vietnamese women representation”

I feel a need to put this opinion of mine into words and spread it to this fuckin fandom because literally y’all are horrible.

I am not obligated to feel the need of having to like Rose Tico as a character in TLJ just because Kelly is American-Vietnamese.

Because, God, despite Kelly’s effort, Rose Tico in TLJ is a h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e character.

Let me get this straight: I am Asian. I am Vietnamese. Solid and proud. You do not know how pumped I was when I first knew there would be not only one, but t-w-o Asian females in TLJ,

Both of them are Vietnameses.

One of them is an actress whom I absolutely adore, Ngô Thanh Vân (or, Veronica Ngô). I literally count down everyday till I finally got to go see TLJ (my birthday!!! because in Europe it’s out on 13 Dec).

And God was I disappointed. Paige died a few minutes into the movie, and Rose was written horribly, terribly, annoyingly unbearable. I was so FUCKIN disappointed.

Because, if this is what you call a “representation”, please, take it away. I don’t want this. Either you do it properly, or you don’t.

I need a representation that is solid and make me feel excited whenever I see my people on screen; I want to come out of the theatre with excitement because Asian women!!!! Vietnamese women!!!!! Got treat well and great!!!! Not just some fuckin randomly insert as a shield called “representation” to prevent people to come after your horrid writing and your incapable of potrait and develop a character properly.

Rose Tico, or more specifically, casting Kelly Marie Tran, an American-Vietnamese as Rose Tico, is an act to caused conflicts about a poorly written character, so that the writer could hide under it to avoid criticism, like, “hey she’s a POC, an Asian, a Vietnamese, why are you disliking her, that’s your representation! Don’t you like being represented?”

Oh of course I love seeing my fellow Vietnameses on screen after seeing over and over again Hollywood’s idea of “Asians” is either Chineses or Japaneses.

But I do not want *this*. Seeing Rose Tico got hate and called “the new Jar Jar Bink” pains me, but even I couldn’t bring myself to like this character. There’s nothing about her in TLJ could make me go “wooooo I like her!!!” Nothing. She’s too…blank. And was written as an one-way and tasteless character.

So yes. I’d love a representation. But no. I am not obligated to love Rose Tico in TLJ because she’s my “representation.”

I, and my people, we want more, and we want better. We want an equal opportunity just as any other POC, to have an awesome, well-potrayed, well-written character to represent us.

So please, stop solving the idea of “one must support Rose Tico because she’s the Asian/Vietnamese character” down my throat.

I’m not talking about the real racist/sexist cases, I’m talking only about most of the blogs defending Rose Tico with the reason above.

And that’s an opinion coming from a female Vietnamese who loves SW a little bit too much.

Thank you for this. The way people use Kelly/Rose to shield RJ from criticism is super gross.

Thank you for reblogging to spread this opinion to as many as possible. I’m tired of seeing people accusing me for being racist for disliking the character of Rose Tico, like why would I do that? It’s even more exhausting seeing people using Kelly as a shield to prove that RJ is “not racist” because he casted a female POC in his so called movie.

Call me needy, but I’d like to see my people on screen properly, not as an excuse to anyone.

It’s so frustrating because as I understand it Vietnam has a long and proud history of women warriors like the Tru’ng sisters, and the Tico sisters would have been a lovely reflection of that. I was so excited about the resilience and tenderness of Vietnamese women being on full display in a galaxy far, far away. Instead we get Paige dying within minutes of appearing (Veronica was amazing with the little she was given and it breaks my heart that she could have done so much more) and Rose given a story that is both confusing and offensive. They had so much potential with these incredible actors, so much, and RJ pissed it away out of his ineptitude and intellectual laziness. This man is simply incapable of writing women and his men aren’t that great either.

In deed we have!!! Not to say Vân (Veronica) is literally the queen of action movie, her martial arts action scenes have always been aesthetically blessing and incredible, that man didn’t know what he’d missed!

Omg I only watched a small sample on YouTube but she is incredible–easily the most talented action star to grace Star Wars since Donnie Yen. If they’d actually utilized her and kept her kicking (literally) into Episode IX it would have been a huge help in the Chinese market, too. RIAN YOU INCOMPETENT ASS.