It was an interview on the Chinese entertainment site Mtime (source), excerpted and translated by @kellymarietran (link). Reylows are predictably saying it’s fake, but @diversehighfantasy has discussed why that’s unlikely (link). I personally like the idea that antis are a powerful international conspiracy that infiltrated a major entertainment site, but instead I’ll have to settle for the less-exciting likelihood that the interview is legit. Mark, when asked about it, said he did not recall the specific interview but that it sounded like something he and Daisy might have said (source*), so it sounds like they’ve had similar conversations before.
* For extra entertainment read the desperate reylow shipper comments below Mark’s tweet 😂
Another thing I love about these comments by Mark and Daisy is that the two of them, Mark especially, are laughing at the idea of Kylo being just misunderstood and “missing his dad.” They dismissed not just the pairing but the woobification behind it.
The entire (small) thread following the tweet is made of win, too:
Never apologize for being right, Danna.
Update: It got better. They snapped.
Some may not agree with the last tweet in this thread (I personally do), but the rest is spot on honestly.
Omg we got an anti in the house 😂 Always refreshing to see pushback for these horrible apologetics. And ftr I agree with the final one too and wrote an analysis where I read the Rey and Kylo scenes much as Danna did, that Kyle was trying to do to Rey what Snoke did to him. Pablo Hidalgo of the Story Group has also said that being manipulated doesn’t absolve Kyle of responsibility. Many reylows, and many antis tbh, refuse to see that nuance.
From his review, my sense is more that he thinks that the fans who disliked it were nostalgic and not ready to move on from the comfort of the old. He said right in the review that it’s fine to not like the movie (how generous of him!), so I doubt he thinks they’re all white dudes or alt-right or whatever.
If he did say that about TLJ detractors elsewhere, that’s hilariously ironic because in the review he talks about his young son loving the movie and identifying with the broom boy at the end–and is likely unaware that a number of Black children, for instance, were upset by the treatment of Finn in the movie.
@ewokkey He explicitly said this wasn’t what he meant though?
Don’t like his opinions, don’t like his books, fine. There’s no need to put words in his mouth. He talked about a specific toxic subset of TLJ haters, not all people who dislike TLJ.
I’m no fan of Wendig as a writer or commentator, and I think he’s entirely oblivious to the reasons fans of color might dislike TLJ even as he pays lip service to such fans and such reasons existing. He’s evidently one of those white dudes who thinks it’s Amazing Representation if women and characters of color show up on screen and breathe.
That said, he didn’t say everyone who dislikes TLJ is a woman-hater and racist. He does pay more attention to the dipshit haters, partly I imagine because it serves his biases as someone who loves the movie (and has more book deals to get out of the franchise), and in large part because those guys are rather attention-grabbing, you gotta admit.
Concept: Donald Trump Twitter parody account that sounds like an actual president’s twitter account with normal tweets that a normal president would make.
As pointed to me by @polkadottedeyes, this is already a thing and it’s bizarre and uncanny as fuck.
I am deeply unsettled.
Deeply unsettling, but this also feels so refreshing, God I want a normal president,
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