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the show was sold out. The only reason people cared about this was because Tom Hollands name was attached to it. Theater/Broadway fans don't care about looks or being glammed up as much as movie goers do.
[QUOTE=godisawesome;6786038]The Last Jedi [B]didn’t[/B] try to do anything different regarding the same old family drama and Chosen One/Destiny narrative - it just did [I]exactly that[/I] for Luke and Kylo, but in a self-obsessed hipster way, and you can tell because it tried to punish Finn for being the male lead in TFA, and shooed Rey off stage as soon as it declare her unrelated, and made he entire film be about how only the saddest, most self centered Skywalker boys could impact the Galaxy.
That whole “TLJ was trying something different!” argument is a mix of some minimal truth and a lot of bullshit - it’s just Cynical Classic Star Wars For White Boys. Otherwise, people who liked Rey and Finn would have actually liked the movie. TLJ fans pretty much uniformly either loved Reylo or didn’t give a **** about what was happening to Rey and ignored her: TROS was pandering to LFL’s own Kylo obsession, which was why they fired Trevorrow for *not* giving Kylo an incongruous redemption-into-hero story, rather than any kind of reaction from the audience.
Also, “Reminder”: the FinnPoe fans never harassed John Boyega in a racist manner, never endorsed an inherently toxic relationship with inherent sexist undertones, and never had enough pull at LFL to impact anything, while Reylo fans *in* LFL successfully moved against Boyega in a racist manner. “Yuri fangirls” don’t have nearly the track record of “Fix the Bad Boy” writers for getting up to ugly shenanigans.
Although, that brings up another factoid here: LFL’s officially sanctioned Reylo stuff was made by fan[B]boys[/B], not fangirls.
...which explains why Finn and Rey get screwed so hard and why Kylo’s even more broken and dysfunctional as a lead character in TLJ and TROS than a “Fix the Bad Boy” fangirls would write it - Kylo fanboys don’t think he needs to get fixed, and want to see themselves and their teenage angst in him rather than treat him as a romance option.
Arguably, LFL was maybe even *more* racist and sexist towards Rey and Finn because it was dudes pushing Kylo rather than women - at least stuff like Twilight makes a (Bad) stab at making the male love interest sympathetic, while LFL just declared “The Neo Nazi School Shooter Mind Rapist is the most sympathetic character!”[/QUOTE]
The key being here for Kylo and Luke, the Last Jedi was an FU to the people who wanted it to just be about family feuds. Neither Kylo and Luke got closure from the conflict. The big climatic reveal was that Rey was a nobody and her power wasn't just hereditary. It turned the narrative of the conflict focusing on individuals/families to it being about forces bigger than all of them and their family history.
But of course people complained about that then turned around and complained about Rey being a Palpatine then getting paired with a Skywalker(Kylo). That was disney's way of saying here's the family drama/destined bloodlines plot point you people wanted so bad.
It's fine to dislike TLJ but to ignore it was trying to do something different then getting angry at the results of it backtracking and pandering to fans is being disingenous.
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A look at islamophobia in the UK post 10/7.
Rumors are circulating again about Keke Palmer being considered to play Rogue. I'm torn on this because I'd love for it to happen and think she'd be perfect! But I also don't want her to suffer the harassment she's sure to receive smh
[QUOTE=80sbaby;6796276]Rumors are circulating again about Keke Palmer being considered to play Rogue. I'm torn on this because I'd love for it to happen and think she'd be perfect! But I also don't want her to suffer the harassment she's sure to receive smh[/QUOTE]
Her and Gambit fit the most with being race bent but the fury of comic fans losing their eye candy Rogue would be intense.
[QUOTE=80sbaby;6796276]Rumors are circulating again about Keke Palmer being considered to play Rogue. I'm torn on this because I'd love for it to happen and think she'd be perfect! But I also don't want her to suffer the harassment she's sure to receive smh[/QUOTE]
Keke Palmer doing a Southern accent...though I guess Illinois is from the South...?
While I am certain that Keke would do a great job, wouldn't racebending Rogue make her a Jezebel stereotype? Unless they want to tone down the flirting/"Ah have ta' make out with people to copy their powahs" thing too, It's disney, so they might. Do these people not know that there are other black female mutants besides Storm? Monet is right there, she's just bougie.
[QUOTE=MindofShadow;6796319]Her and Gambit fit the most with being race bent but the fury of comic fans losing their eye candy Rogue would be intense.[/QUOTE]
As far as I'm concerned, Keke Palmer IS eye candy!
[QUOTE=Overhazard;6796342]While I am certain that Keke would do a great job, wouldn't racebending Rogue make her a Jezebel stereotype? Unless they want to tone down the flirting/"Ah have ta' make out with people to copy their powahs" thing too, It's disney, so they might. Do these people not know that there are other black female mutants besides Storm? Monet is right there, she's just bougie.[/QUOTE]
While I agree they could use more of the actual POC mutants, that won't really fly with the start of a live action team. They'll want to start with the most recognizable names. And it's not like if they sub Rogue for Monet, the same "anti-woke" people won't be calling her a diversity hire.
[QUOTE=Malvolio;6796372]As far as I'm concerned, Keke Palmer IS eye candy![/QUOTE]
She definitely is but to a certain demographic, she'd be called "unattractive."
[QUOTE=80sbaby;6796532]She definitely is but to a certain demographic, she'd be called "unattractive."[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they've been doing this with Zendaya and Halle Bailey.
How anyone with working eyes can call these ladies ugly is beyond me.
Those guys bigotry is affecting their sexuality.
As for the Rogue rumor, I don't think there's any reason to race-bend Rogue at all.
There are a few black female mutants to choose from if Marvel want to go that route.
M, Threnody (that's a character we haven't seen in a while), Frenzy, Oya, Cecilia Reyes, Shard, Bling, and Storm are all there.
(That being said, after listing them, it just struck me that there aren't actually that many black mutants overall).
EDIT: Is Blink black?