Black lesbians so that the film doesn’t grossly whitewash jazz and the actual struggles black musicians went through 🙂
Consider: La La Land with black lesbians played by actresses who can actually sing and dance so instead of being a lack luster imitation of the golden age musical it is the sparkling revival of the genre with modern sensibilities.
I thought I’d make this a separate post from why I think Rey Nobody is terrible cause this needs it’s own post as well.
Rey being a Skywalker, doesn’t make TLJ better. It doesn’t make the ST make sense, and it doesn’t erase the shortcomings of TFA for not delivering on it.
Reysky just patches up one plothole, but doesn’t erase the terrible, sexist, and racist writing of TLJ or the fact that TFA did a bait and switch and left Rey in a Mystery box for 4 years.
The argument that Reysky makes everything better, is wrong. It doesn’t fix what has happened. It would have made more sense if done from the beginning, but in no one way, shape, or form should it be thought as the cure to bad writing. Reysky is putting a band-aid on what went wrong in the ST so far.
Beyond that, I’ve seen some people use the Reysky theory the same way Reylows do to erase Finn as other protagonist of the ST. The most important characters of Star Wars isn’t just the Skywalkers. Han and Leia were just as important as Luke, Obi-Wan is just as important as Anakin, and Finn is just as important as Rey.
Rey shouldn’t be defined by what she is, a nobody random or a Skywalker, rather Rey should be defined but who she is as person, her actions, her struggles, her personality, and her motivations. Nothing less will make her a good character. Slapping a theme or last name on her won’t make her a compelling character. It won’t make anyone of the ST characters.Â
“The Might Skywalker Blood” is a terrible, terrible misconception on what makes a character good and if that’s the only reason you want Rey to be a Skywalker? You’re wrong.
The only thing I want from the ST, is good writing and compelling. I don’t care if the ST was set in the unknown regions of space and Rey, Finn, and Poe were all just randos and the OT only had small cameos. Just write them well.Â
I’m hoping Rey will stay a Random for these reasons, actually. If ReySky happened the blood worship in the fandom would be unbearable.
Heterosexual: Fuck that.
Homosexual: Fuck this.
Bisexual: Fuck you and also you.
Pansexual: Fuck everything.
Demisexual: Fuck you in particular.
Asexual: Fuck no.