NakedMoleRat
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No wonder Chewie spent all of his time with Han.
Star Wars The Acolyte (tv series)
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CopperRevan
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"Malla...i'll be in the Han cave(Millennium Falcon) if you need me"
"but...but...
"No need to wait up for me either"
NakedMoleRat
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I’m feeling kind of Itchy and Lumpy!
well that's one way to get fired.
jkno
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In this case I'm waiting for a soap opera/tenenovela Star Wars too, a lot of women would join the Star Wars franchise this way...
NakedMoleRat
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Because Rey wasn’t the lead for the sequels and Jin wasn’t the lead in Rogue One?
Were they supposed to retcon Solo into a woman too?
Were they supposed to retcon Solo into a woman too?
kalkamel
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Reminds of that meme where the interviewer would ask the applicant: have you ever seen Star Wars? The applicant answers "What's Star Wars?" The interviewer replies "You're hired!"
Darth Lars
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A meme based in reality.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge had gone into her audition as a droid in Solo not knowing what a "droid" was.
NakedMoleRat
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Actually,… I think she’s spared herself a lot of controversy and heartache.
Wolfsburg
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As long as they do a good job and are well directed, I don’t actually care if an actor likes Star Wars or has even seen it.
Beyond that, I just never have understood this weird narrative being pushed by KK and Co. that SW was lacking in strong female characters. Princess Leia was famously a strong, independent female and was intentionally written not to merely be a helpless damsel in distress. Hell, a woman was the leader of the Rebel Alliance! This was decades ago when all that wasn’t terribly common. Of course Ripley and Sarah Connor came along not too long after.
Then we had Mara Jade in the Heir to the Empire trilogy that came during the “dark time” of the series and even in the PT, Padme was a leader of her people and an active senator after.
Regardless, strong women in SW is nothing new and the franchise has always been progressive in that regard, imo (bikini Leia notwithstanding). This revisionist notion that this is something that urgently needed to be addressed and rectified is dishonest and ridiculous.
Beyond that, I just never have understood this weird narrative being pushed by KK and Co. that SW was lacking in strong female characters. Princess Leia was famously a strong, independent female and was intentionally written not to merely be a helpless damsel in distress. Hell, a woman was the leader of the Rebel Alliance! This was decades ago when all that wasn’t terribly common. Of course Ripley and Sarah Connor came along not too long after.
Then we had Mara Jade in the Heir to the Empire trilogy that came during the “dark time” of the series and even in the PT, Padme was a leader of her people and an active senator after.
Regardless, strong women in SW is nothing new and the franchise has always been progressive in that regard, imo (bikini Leia notwithstanding). This revisionist notion that this is something that urgently needed to be addressed and rectified is dishonest and ridiculous.
Joek3rr
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Lol. Just lol. Not counting Leia and Padmé, we've had nigh onto 15 years of retcon...I mean Ahsoka.
Darth Lars
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Yes, always. Leia in the gold bikini was not anti-progressive. For a hero to earn her victory, she'd have to face adversity and overcome it. Her adversity was that she was found out, captured and forced by the sleazy bad guy to wear that bikini. But, as the princess she was, she refused to be humiliated, instead keeping a regal poise throughout the ordeal. And in the end, she (not Luke, not Han, not Lando) killed her captor.
That the bikini has become so sexualised is unfortunate, as it blinds people to how awesome Leia was in that part of the movie.
****, they will promote her for saying that.
3 years ago I would have agreed, but after this years list of what some would call woke duds and the losses they have taken....I don't know. This brings the wrong kind of bad press I think. Not the Hogwarts Legacy type of bad press that ends up being awesome.
joberg
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Human Nature...while I can appreciate a strong and capable woman, I can also appreciate her femininity at the same time
robstyle
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Of all the SW shows in the pipeline this one checks off every agena box. From what I've seen firsthand and told by others in and around it, Disney went above and beyond doubling down on this one. If anything will break the camels back, and we're talking post obi wan and Bubba fett, this should be it.
I find if funny that when most of us will accept a great character no matter what race or gender, that Lucasfilm/Disney is intent on trying to apparently split the fans by gender. Just make a good movie, you don't need any of this "Force is female!" or fighting the patriarchy BS. Just make a good movie and write good stories. There's a reason Mara Jade (followed closely by Jaina Solo) was consistently voted favorite EU character by fans. It's not because she's a woman, it's because she's a bad*ss character!
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