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as far as Social Justice is concerned.
For those who want to see more black main characters in sci-fi films, there's Finn, the black guy who isn't a fucking bitch out turncoat the way Lando Calrissian turned on Han Solo. And he dinged up the main villain with a lightsaber in a fight he should have died 5 seconds into, but didn't.
Anti-war people will love how Finn lined up with his fellow troops to massacre a village of civilians, but never opened fire. The whole damned thing made him sick to his stomach and led to his defection.
For those looking for women main characters who pass the sexy lamp tests, Rey is an absolute slam dunk. Feminists will dig her, and especially the GRRL POWAHHH crowd will fucking orgasm at the sight of her mind-tricking a stormtrooper with zero Force training and then literally physically overpowering and then beating the main villain Kylo Ren like a fucking rug. But she also wasn't a Mary Sue.
Men's rights activists will love the fact that she didn't emasculate Finn for not being on her level. In fact she had his back 9,000 percent. That part after they got done waxing the asses of some TIE Fighters in the Millennium Falcon was some shit you gotta see again, and again, and again. Then when Finn wanted to make a run for the dark corners of the galaxy and abandon everyone, she had his back again, begging him to stay. Rey is not the kind of woman to abandon men - or droids - in distress. In a way she's the ultimate class of feminist character - depending on your definition of feminism.
If you are a shitlord who's got it in for women, well there's Stormtrooper Captain Phasma. The over-hyped 6'3" actress from Game of Thrones never took off her mask, was a domineering bully who actually helped drive Finn into quitting his job as an evil mook, and when Rey, Finn and the gang captured her, she pulled off the most cowardly move that has ever been seen in science fiction: at gunpoint, she turned off the shields protecting the new Death Star 3.0. Yup, it fell to a woman authority figure to fail to take one for the team to protect her pseudo-empire's greatest asset, and sentence millions of her fellow compatriots to death. (Personally I'd like to whack JJ Abrams on the nose with a newspaper for how he did Phasma.)
If you are a shitlord who's got it in for men, well there's Kylo Ren. Nuff said.
Oh, and if you're Hispanic, there's Poe, the badass X-Wing pilot who racked up kills like he was the Red Baron. There are female X-Wing pilots and an Asian dude who is a commander working with General Leia. The Asian dude was played by someone who was in the "Lost" TV series. There was even a new Porkins, and he didn't seem to die.
What Star Wars didn't have anything for was white men. The main white male villain was a tantrum throwing idiot who killed the other major white male character. Star Wars also didn't have anything for racists. Homophobes might breathe a sigh of relief, though, as there were no gay characters. Yet.
Star Wars pulled off a feat of sci-fi diversity that in my opinion will set a new standard. And it's the only movie I liked as much as Mad Max Fury Road. I'm headed out to go see it again today. Ciao!
For those who want to see more black main characters in sci-fi films, there's Finn, the black guy who isn't a fucking bitch out turncoat the way Lando Calrissian turned on Han Solo. And he dinged up the main villain with a lightsaber in a fight he should have died 5 seconds into, but didn't.
Anti-war people will love how Finn lined up with his fellow troops to massacre a village of civilians, but never opened fire. The whole damned thing made him sick to his stomach and led to his defection.
For those looking for women main characters who pass the sexy lamp tests, Rey is an absolute slam dunk. Feminists will dig her, and especially the GRRL POWAHHH crowd will fucking orgasm at the sight of her mind-tricking a stormtrooper with zero Force training and then literally physically overpowering and then beating the main villain Kylo Ren like a fucking rug. But she also wasn't a Mary Sue.
Men's rights activists will love the fact that she didn't emasculate Finn for not being on her level. In fact she had his back 9,000 percent. That part after they got done waxing the asses of some TIE Fighters in the Millennium Falcon was some shit you gotta see again, and again, and again. Then when Finn wanted to make a run for the dark corners of the galaxy and abandon everyone, she had his back again, begging him to stay. Rey is not the kind of woman to abandon men - or droids - in distress. In a way she's the ultimate class of feminist character - depending on your definition of feminism.
If you are a shitlord who's got it in for women, well there's Stormtrooper Captain Phasma. The over-hyped 6'3" actress from Game of Thrones never took off her mask, was a domineering bully who actually helped drive Finn into quitting his job as an evil mook, and when Rey, Finn and the gang captured her, she pulled off the most cowardly move that has ever been seen in science fiction: at gunpoint, she turned off the shields protecting the new Death Star 3.0. Yup, it fell to a woman authority figure to fail to take one for the team to protect her pseudo-empire's greatest asset, and sentence millions of her fellow compatriots to death. (Personally I'd like to whack JJ Abrams on the nose with a newspaper for how he did Phasma.)
If you are a shitlord who's got it in for men, well there's Kylo Ren. Nuff said.
Oh, and if you're Hispanic, there's Poe, the badass X-Wing pilot who racked up kills like he was the Red Baron. There are female X-Wing pilots and an Asian dude who is a commander working with General Leia. The Asian dude was played by someone who was in the "Lost" TV series. There was even a new Porkins, and he didn't seem to die.
What Star Wars didn't have anything for was white men. The main white male villain was a tantrum throwing idiot who killed the other major white male character. Star Wars also didn't have anything for racists. Homophobes might breathe a sigh of relief, though, as there were no gay characters. Yet.
Star Wars pulled off a feat of sci-fi diversity that in my opinion will set a new standard. And it's the only movie I liked as much as Mad Max Fury Road. I'm headed out to go see it again today. Ciao!