The Mandalorian (TV series)

My feelings about her firing aside, from a story perspective this is basically the perfect time to ditch her character. We are between seasons, and she wasn't a regular anyway so her appearances were sporadic this season. In addition, she really didn't have any unfinished character arcs. Thinking of all the recurring characters on tv shows that have disappeared because the actor moved on, she can never be mentioned again and the story can essentially move on without a beat missed.
 
So, again, she wasn't fired. She was a guest actor, not part of the main full-season cast -- because there is no main full-season cast beyond Pedro, his stand-ins/suit-stuffers, and Grogu's puppeteering team. It's a separate employment category. See: Whoopi Goldberg and Diana Muldaur in season 2 of Star Trek: TNG -- they were never part of the before-the-break main title credits, despite being in nearly every episode of the season. And even through Guinan was in the majority of episodes for the rest of the series, her credit always came after the break, in the episode's credits with the other guest stars. Gina was in three episodes in season 1 and four in season 2. Less than half, and the same number as Giancarlo Esposito. She's not "part of the series cast". All this means, professionally, is that the showrunners won't look for ways to write her character back into the story. Not that they need to find a way to write her out.

As for that character... There's going to be an in-universe break between this season and the next. We don't know how long yet. We just know that the action is not going to resume moments later, on the bridge of Gideon's cruiser. "Boba" and Fennec have already made their way back to Tatooine, per the post-credits scene. I expect the action will likely resume with Din and Bo and some of her crew trying to figure out WTF to do about Mandalore and the darksaber. There's no immediate need for Cara to be in the story at all. Grogu's in good hands. Gideon's captured. She can go back to being the constable of Navarro and never be seen again in the filmic canon. As far as Cara Dune merch... Lucasfilm can sell as much merch as they want. The actor's likeness in context of the character is trademarked property of LFL. See Carrie Fisher's favorite crack about owing George a nickel every time she looked in a mirror.

Pedro's single tweet that the whataboutists are bringing up was much more contextually apropos -- he just screwed up in using a picture that was not what he was tweeting about. Many are guilty of not checking sources. Mistake and context, though, It is not an equivalent faux pas to Gina's months' worth of content and refusals to back off or apologize when requested/advised to do so. And bringing up James Gunn is silly. That should never have been a thing, but he was specifically targeted. He told someone to sit down and shut up, so a decade old tweet he made trolling a sex predator while working at Troma got dredged up and blasted all over the internet. It was shocking and offensive and that was the point. His job at Troma was to be shocking and offensive. That's pretty much Troma's mission statement. Juvenile? Sure. Relevant to his personal beliefs and later career? Not remotely.
 
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Glad I was able to snag a Black Series 6 inch Cara Dune figure for cheap to go with my Mandalorian. I immediately looked around after hearing about this and the figure is either outrageously overpriced or out of stock completely.
 
Moving away from the political discussion, I was honestly deeply surprised when S1 aired and people were gushing over her character and performance. Like, really? Her character was a flat, Sarah Conner from Dark Fate stereotypical “badass female” character with not really anything beyond that. And her performance was really only serviceable at its best and cringey at its worst to me. Just bad all around. But I guess she struck a chord in enough people that they kept her around for more episodes.

Her acting was pretty friggin putrid. But I'll say that she was a nice change of pace for women like myself. "Representation" is thrown out quite a bit nowadays, but this was one of those times I finally felt like a character actually kind of looked like me in body weight and stature. These past two years, I've been working hard to put on muscle at the gym (whilst still being "big boned" since birth...) as well and was about to show it off with her costume. (In retrospect, I'm super ok with not doing that, I can move on and be proud of my body in other ways. It was just an outlet to be proud in costume.)

She was a tank, which we rarely see as a female. And yet, she was still feminine, without being sex-ified.

Some people will be able to separate that from the actor; I'm not one of those people. But I move on fast.

Fennec and Bo-Katan are just as amazing, and honestly I'd now love to see more of Koska Reeves.
 
I think what was cool about her character was the concept. A "drop trooper" evokes something like the 101st or 82nd Airborne: someone who jumps right into the thick of the fray and has to be a badass just to survive. Her being Alderaanian was interesting, too, because it was a planet devoted to peace, and here's someone who wanted revenge on the Empire. We haven't encountered any Alderaanians after the destruction of the planet outside of her, and I think it's a really interesting character note. I mean, you could do a whole series just on a unit of Alderaanian Rebel/New Republic soldiers and it'd be interesting just for the subject matter.

And, as CelticRuins notes above, she didn't display in the traditional modes for women on screen. She wasn't a "femme fatale," she wasn't an ingénue. She was, as said, a tank. A brick. Someone who holds the breach, spitting blaster fire. That was cool. I think that has as much to do with her physicality and the character concept itself as with her acting. She could've been better as an actor, but I don't think it mattered a ton.

Regardless, it's all moot now.
 
Her acting was pretty friggin putrid. But I'll say that she was a nice change of pace for women like myself. "Representation" is thrown out quite a bit nowadays, but this was one of those times I finally felt like a character actually kind of looked like me in body weight and stature. These past two years, I've been working hard to put on muscle at the gym (whilst still being "big boned" since birth...) as well and was about to show it off with her costume. (In retrospect, I'm super ok with not doing that, I can move on and be proud of my body in other ways. It was just an outlet to be proud in costume.)

She was a tank, which we rarely see as a female. And yet, she was still feminine, without being sex-ified.

Some people will be able to separate that from the actor; I'm not one of those people. But I move on fast.

Fennec and Bo-Katan are just as amazing, and honestly I'd now love to see more of Koska Reeves.
Personally, I see no reason why you shouldn't continue your Cara costume just Disney "fired" Gina. If you liked her character before then you should like her still regardless of what your feelings about Gina might be, or the public's for that matter. If there's one thing the twitterati and members of the cancel culture absolutely suck at is separating a character from the actor that plays them. Don't feed into that idiotic mindset by changing your mind on doing a Cara Dune costume, if you still like the character then go ahead and do it, wear it out to cons and let the haters be damned. Remember, it's a Cara Dune costume, not a Gina Carano costume
 
The whole Story has a taste of it's own. As a German I have zero tolerance dir what she was tweeting and would call her stupid.

But it was disney. And disney is a complete inacceptable company starting with it's founder and going all the way to insulting Fans as sexists and racists for not liking the pile of **** the ST is. If they want to put the finger on someone they should start at their own door.

Some user here hit the point with Twitter and all the people there being insulted by everything. This is Part of the Problem, too
 
This getting way too much attention. Really she's a b-level actress (more of martial artist than anything) who had the look they were after and got a lucky break. She has gotten so much more press for posting what she did than she would've had she "behaved herself." If anything this is going to boost her career in the long run, not end it. She knew exactly what she was doing and what would happen. The best way to keep people who you think have nothing good to say at bay is to ignore them and move on to something else.
 
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disgusting attack on an awesome character, finally a woman who really does look like she can kick your butt, then they get rid of her, Lucas sucks, Solo shot first the prequels and sequels all suck and its because of him, I thought he went away but now hes back to ruin Star Wars again?
 
I did like her character and hoped it could grow more....but now thats not an option. At this point, we can all hope that the show at least continues being good and fun to watch. And this new movie thing that she has now landed, hopefully it works out for her.
 
So, it's a liiiitle more complicated than that. You can't get fired for saying LITERALLY anything. The National Labor Relations Act, for example, restricts certain employers from firing employees who engage in action that basically takes the form of "picketing" (or "virtual picketing" in an online context). Sometimes companies' social media policies end up not being in compliance with the NLRA because they go too far into regulating employee speech to the point where they'd prohibit employees from (for example) organizing and demanding better working conditions.

But there's plenty they can regulate. Like, they can have a general "morality" clause, and they can discipline you for (for example) violating your contractual terms about confidentiality (e.g. posting internal documents online).

Anyway, none of that stuff falls within the first amendment specifically. The first amendment (specifically the free speech clause) pertains to government control of your speech. Broadly speaking, it doesn't apply in the private sphere.

I mean yes employers can’t go police state but I was more surprised at how free employers were to release employees based on such opinions.

Actually, reading more into the law I’m honestly more scared about the morality clause since it can be really vague and give the employer the right to terminate for “causing public backlash”. Given how easy it is to rile up Twitter and get things “trending,” it really is not a place to step into. Daisy Ridley is a smart actress and honestly can’t wait to see what big project she will be in next (hopefully something unrelated to Star Wars).
 
Yeah, I mean, I can see a benefit to maintaining a fan-forward social media presence. But I can also see where just...opting out entirely makes sense (at least in any public sense -- you could still do your own private page with just your real-life buddies).
 
We need to get this thread back on track.
It’s time to complain that the episodes are too short and it relies too heavily on referencing the past.
Or column B if you prefer: Favreau and Filoni are the second coming and are leading a coup to overthrow Kennedy and her terrible Star Wars oversight.

pick your poison
 
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