Originally Posted by
godisawesome
And to be blunt, neither The Force Awakens nor Rogue One suffered from having female leads at all. And I’d even argue that “redoing” the OT with a female lead isn’t a bad idea... but let’s face it, after TLJ, the story was handicapped, because the film was simultaneously arguing that Rey shouldn’t be a Skywalker but that it should totally get a pass to pimp her out to a Neo-Nazi School Shooter because he was a Skywalker.
It’s just a small pet peeve of mine - The Star Wars Sequel trilogy was actually significantly healthier and more interesting when the undisputed lead characters were Rey and Finn, and woman and a black man.
It was the weird, spastic decision to prostitute the entire story for another broken white boy that screwed it over - though, to point this out, it was more that they were so damn lazy, presumptuous, and enamored with Kylo Ren and so damn apathetic and scared of Rey and Finn that caused the issue.
People complaining about Rey as a “Mary Sue” when TFA came out just had their panties in a knot over nothing. People who complained about Rey as a Mary Sue after TLJ came out were ignoring she got pimped out to Kylo... who’d usurped Finn’s spot... and who was having all the original characters dragged through the mud to try and make him sympathetic with.
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