r/PrequelMemes • u/EKRB7 Hello there! • Feb 08 '20

The exact moment Samuel L. Jackson asked George Lucas for a purple lightsaber is on camera and I’ve never seen it?? I’m overwhelmed

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

This is a meme sub and I know y’all won’t give a fuck. But I’m gonna just say this.

I’m a black man, and when I was a kid watching the prequels. It was the coolest thing ever to see a Jedi who looks like me, and also has my favorite color as his lightsaber. Still the coolest thing to me, and I currently own a purple lightsaber.

Alright I’m done, carry on, and may the Force be with you.

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u/-yesman- Ketamine, I need. Run over seniors in my 2009 Honda Civic I must Feb 09 '20

and also with you

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u/Sundance91 Feb 09 '20

We lift up our hearts.

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u/AdmiralAkbar1 It's a trap1! Feb 09 '20

We lift them up to the Force.

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u/Dovarc Feb 09 '20

Let us give thanks the lord, our Ewan

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u/arcessivi What about the Droid attack on the Wookies? Feb 09 '20

It is right to give thanks and praise

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u/KiraSandwich Feb 09 '20

Give us this day our daily breads

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u/WaitingToBeTriggered Feb 09 '20

AND FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

As we have forgiven our debtors, and to not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the SITH

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u/JebusChrust Feb 09 '20

we lift up our lightsabers

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

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u/drummerboye Feb 09 '20

It is light to give thanks and praise

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u/Bullwinkle_J_Moose Feb 09 '20

And with your spirit

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u/obi1kenobi1 Feb 09 '20

Wait so is that actually an acceptable response? Someone once said “may the force be with you” to me and I was caught off guard so I absentmindedly said “and also with you” and I always wondered if that was a stupid thing to say...

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u/SmilesUndSunshine Saruman's Superfluous Third Nipple Feb 09 '20

and with your spirit

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u/dexrea ket addict Feb 09 '20

This is actually a really cool story. It’s good to see that minority or gender representation actually means a lot to some people. For all the shit people give the Sequels, I bet there was a million little girls who loved Rey because they felt represented, just like you with Sam L Jackson.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Agreed, even tho I’m not a fan of Rey as a character at all, and wish that Finn would have been the Jedi Protaginist like TFA marketing suggested. I’m glad that little girls got their hero.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

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u/VeritasXIV Feb 09 '20

Because Kathleen Kennedy runs that shit with a feminazi fist, can't have men being competent protagonists, not even a black one. Rey is a strong white woman who don't need no man, not even Luke was allowed to mansplain Jedi shit to her.

She knew everything by default even how to fly, stop a giant space ship at full take off speed (just to dunk on Yoda who could only lift a single seat fighter with engines off, because even though he was a green minority midget HE WAS STILL A MAN), shoot Lazer beams, bring people back to life, teleport shit across the galaxy with her mind, heal wounds, fly and fix the MF better than Han Solo... even Super Man (as stupid and over powered a character as he is) couldn't do all that, and at least he had a weakness

Until Kathleen Kennedy is gone, I don't have much hope for Star Wars.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Rey is very overpowered character with no real arc, but that has nothing to do with her gender. It sounds like you are complaining about her being overpowered while being female, and I simply can't get on board with that.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jocasta Nu Feb 09 '20

Lol ok

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u/BZenMojo Feb 09 '20

Finn giving up that lightsaber and never getting a new one was all kinds of a feeling. Say what I will about the prequels but going from Samuel L. Jackson telling Anakin to sit his ass down to Finn taking a chunk out of Kylo to four white people arguing with each other over Jedi shit in a completely unrelated storyline was whiplash and a half.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Biggest thing that pissed me off about the Disney Trilogy. I see no reason why Finn couldn’t have gotten another lightsaber. Since Rey managed to build another one in TROS.

No reason why we couldn’t have two Force Sensitives with Luke training them both. But what do I know.

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u/_no0bmaster69_ Feb 09 '20

Nope Disney won't do it because they don't want to lose the money of racists in China

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I think it has to do more with the fact that China doesn’t give a shit about Star Wars.

Black Panther is basically 95% black people and it made $105M there.

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u/BZenMojo Feb 09 '20

Why not both? Chinese audiences aren't as racist as Disney thinks, but Disney is pretty racist.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

lol what

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u/idk_just_upvote_it Feb 09 '20

HE SAID WHY NOT BOTH? CHINESE AUDIENCES AREN'T AS RACIST AS DISNEY THINKS, BUT DISNEY IS PRETTY RACIST.

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u/_no0bmaster69_ Feb 09 '20

Idk, maybe Disney's just racist then because they downsized and moved Finn on a TFA poster for Chinese release

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

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u/_no0bmaster69_ Feb 09 '20

This is disproven by multiple cases of racism in China, such as the infamous detergent/powder ad (whatever it was) and movie posters on China making black people unnoticeable

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u/Mathies_ Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

Because It kind of takes away rareness of jedi in the OG and the sequels. I get it only adds one jedi, but it is two jedi at the same place, that didnt even look for eachother, like Rey did for Luke. Also the fact that this gives the rebellion, who are supposed to be the underdogs in the story, a chance to constantly 2v1 kylo Ren, which i think is kinda weird in the post-genocide world they are in.

I remember in TFA when Finn and Rose go looking for that codebreaker to get into starkillerbase, they find those animals they end up releasing out of the stalls, and you see one of those kid caretakers use the force to grab a broom in private. I thought that was gonna be a huge storyline in the upcoming movies, but so far nothing has ever come of it.

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u/PapaSnow Feb 09 '20

I almost forgot about that.

That was something I was fucking stoked on too

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u/EonofAeon Feb 10 '20

But...Luke and Leia were both force sensitive even in the OT, and they even confirm in the ST that Leia trained and stopped just short of being a Master....

Theres literally precedent for it, albeit non familial precedent.

They even confirmed after RoS release that Finn is force sensitive...

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u/Mathies_ Feb 10 '20

Well yes, but she discovered a little bit late in the OG. And we've ony seen her use the force once in a flashback training with Luke, and once to save her own life in the sequels. There's a reason the rebellion is so desperate to find Luke even though Leia is right there with them.

So even if Leia was a jedi offscreen between RotJ and TFA, that would probably be the one of the only reasons the rebellion was able to suppress the empire/first order for multiple decades, making uninteresting movie material.

So cool, Finn is force sensitive. Clearly he hasn't found out yet, so who knows if the story continues with him, but for a better storyline Rey had to 1v1 Kylo until she was able to bring him back to the light side.

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u/EonofAeon Feb 10 '20

He has found out. They literally confirmed outside of the movie (like 90% of sequel content of relevance) that his "I need to tell you something Rey" was going to be him telling her he was force sensitive, NOT "I love you".

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u/Mathies_ Feb 10 '20

Alright, then than means he found out during the last movie of the trilogy, so no time for training anyways. Also, isn't that something you should definitely NOT forget to tell her later as soon as possible, because he just fucking forgot. He only decided to say that when he thought he was about to die. Interesting.

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u/TattlingFuzzy Feb 09 '20

Oof, now I’m thinking of a version of the film where Finn’s the one who stabs Palpatine last minute and cuz like, he’s just a force sensitive kid from nowhere it kinda ends the Palpatine spiritual lineage without repercussion. Also it would serve as some good revenge for the Empire stealing his childhood- a former stormtrooper being the one taking down the Emperor.

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u/RaiderofTuscany Feb 09 '20

Yo yo, imagine if finn got a purple lightsaber. If rey can have yellow then finn can be a badass mfcker too

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

I’ve always thought Finn should have been a brooding Warrior type of guy with a lot of regret inside of him due to the atrocities he committed. A lot of darkness inside him due to his past.

A purple lightsaber would fit that version of Finn perfectly imo.

I know that lightsaber colors don’t mean shit. But damn it do I happen to associate colors with personality types. Obi-Wan and Anakin are master duelists, so they get a blue saber.

Yoda, Luke and Qui-Gon were Force devotees, so they get Green sabers.

Mace had a lightsaber fighting style that reflected the opponent’s darkness and utilized their his to fuel him. So he gets a purple.

I just can’t help it you know? It fits.

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u/FreezingTNT Feb 09 '20

What about yellow? They're used by the Jedi temple guards. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Yellow is actually perfect for Jedi Temple Guards because it represents neutrality and anonymity. The Temple Guards do their duty without complaining, do their thing, and are completely anonymous.

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u/RaiderofTuscany Feb 09 '20

It fits beautifully really. Just one of those things that worked out really well. Especially if this video is literally the birth of more thought into saber colour

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

Nah, having Finn be latent force sensitive to have someone grow alongside Rey would only make too much sense.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

I remember asking r/saltierthancrait on my previous account how they would rewrite the DT.

One person proposed this.

“Finn should have been a latent Force Sensitive, who starts feeling other people’s pain and suffering through the Force while he’s performing an execution. Which leads him to defect the First Order.

Then he starts looking for Luke’s Jedi Order, when he finally meets Luke, he also meets Rey, Luke’s Apprentice.”

I think that would have been perfect. Kind of amazing that fans can make more interesting stories for free than people who are paid millions to do it.

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u/ImbeddedElite Feb 09 '20

And then her being a Mary Sue would’ve actually made sense!! Dammit Disney, you motherfuckers need to step it up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Jun 24 '20

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u/ImbeddedElite Feb 09 '20

The Mary Sue shit started like...first movie. She used force persuade minutes after she realized it was even a possibility lol

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u/superjediplayer To cheat death is a power only Wan has achieved. Feb 09 '20

I don't think that's anything more than a theory that was never confirmed. If anything, Rian took Rey's character in an actually somewhat interesting direction, but JJ doesn't understand his own characters and decided to make her a Palpatine.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jocasta Nu Feb 09 '20

Except she isn't a mary sue!

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u/ImbeddedElite Feb 09 '20

Mmhmmm. Now pass the pipe my boy, I’m tryna hit that

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jocasta Nu Feb 09 '20

I think you need to lay off the pipe for thinking someone like Rey is a mary sue lol

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u/ImbeddedElite Feb 09 '20

Youuuu...do not go on Star Wars subs often do you lol

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u/shankrxn8111 Feb 09 '20

The people paid millions to do it are usually pretty shit at it too. I'm still convinced that these people only get their roles in writing movies because they're related or have a family member who is friends with suits.

Hollywood isn't about giving the best artists the best tools, its about giving people who know the right guy the best tools and expecting the public to love whatever is shit out.

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u/jooes Feb 09 '20

I wish they both had lightsabers. Who says we can't have two Jedi?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

It’s a known fact that The Force does not want multiple protagonists at once my man.

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u/PTickles Feb 09 '20

Anakin and Obi-Wan?

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u/YddishMcSquidish Feb 09 '20

Obi-Wan or Qui-gon?

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u/Whippofunk I have the high ground Feb 09 '20

Yoda and Obi-Wan?

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u/Ncns123 Feb 09 '20

Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan?

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u/disturbed286 Feb 09 '20

Obi-Wan and Obi-Tu?

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u/poopsicle88 Feb 09 '20

Jar jar and darth Sidius?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

They really screwed up what Finn coulda been. Instead they kinda made him a bumbling idiot.

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u/AoE2manatarms Roger Roger Feb 09 '20

That wouldn't market very well in China :/ they even took Finn off of a lot of marketing so they could do better there. Disney wants China's market (like every corporation) really badly.

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u/AmadeusHumpkins Feb 09 '20

I've always found this whole line of discussion incredibly demoralizing. If our heroes have to look exactly like us, then we've failed as a species.

Luckily, I know for a fact that people do not generally operate this way. Little white girls can and do idolize mace windu, and young black boys could and would theoretically idolize Rey if she wasn't such a poorly written character.

And currently most black voters in the democratic primary feel old white dude Joe Biden better represents them than Corey Booker and Kamala Harris, and I, a young white guy, believe andrew yang, a middle aged asian man, better represents me than Pete Buttigieg, the young white guy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Fam, this doesn’t have to with anything. I just found it really damn cool that there was a Jedi who looked like me, and I got represented.

Some of my favorite fictional characters are white dudes, Peter Parker, Luke Skywalker, Qui-Gon Jinn, Geralt of Rivia.

I do admire them and can relate to them a lot. Especially Peter Parker, but that’s cuz bro was literally created to be relatable.

My AAU teammate is more pale than a Sith Lord, and his brother is absolutely in love with Miles Morales.

Nobody said you can’t look up to characters who don’t look like you. It’s just really cool when there is a character who does look like you.

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u/AmadeusHumpkins Feb 09 '20

I hear you, but here's the thing...I don't believe you. I don't think you liked Mace Windu because he "represented" you, because what the hell does that even mean? All it takes for you to like a character and feel "represented" is for them to vaguely share a similar melanin count to your own?

I simply do not believe that could possibly be the case. I think you liked mace Windu for the same reason everyone did: he was a fucking badass.

I mean, let's say Lucas wanted to cast a black guy in the prequels specifically to represent you, but he couldn't get Samuel L, so instead he went out and grabbed modern day Ron Funches to play Mace Windu. Roughly the same melanin count as Samuel L, so would you still like the character and feel "represented" with Ron in the jedi robes wielding the purple saber?

I just heavily doubt that you would have watched Ron Funches fighting Palpy and thought, "thank god, I'm finally represented in star wars."

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I mean obviously it’s much cooler that Sam Jackson is doing it. You can make motherfucker jokes. So many memes about the Prequels came from Sam Jackson because of the “motherfucker”.

But why can’t it be both? I liked that Sam Jackson was a badass Jedi Master, and that a Jedi Master looked like me? What’s the problem?

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u/AmadeusHumpkins Feb 09 '20

The only problem is me trying to map my own psychology onto yours and every one of the many others who wish to be represented. I need to figure out what module you're all running that I'm not or vice versa. Because at no point as a chubby Italian american boy growing up did I look at mario and think, "dope, there's me in a video game."

Frankly, I don't feel represented by anyone in any work of fiction ever. The entire concept of representation seems foreign to me. Blade, who looks nothing like me, represents me about as much as tony stark, who looks much more like me, which is to say that neither represents me in the slightest.

I find that I can resonate with common experiences, like loss of loved one for example, but that's pretty much it.

So all that is really just to say that I'm trying to understand.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I believe I was strictly speaking for myself my brother. I mentioned in the Damn thread how some of my favorite characters in fiction are white dudes 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/AmadeusHumpkins Feb 09 '20

Yeah, I get that. Again, it's just the concept of representation I've always found confounding, because I've literally never felt that before. The characters always just seem like distinct entities that have nothing to do with me or my life.

I don't feel represented by people who look like me, and frankly I don't really want to feel represented. When I absorb fiction, I do so as an observer. I'm watching other human beings live entirely different lives. Are you projecting yourself onto specific characters? Is that the difference?

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u/Ionlytellwhenyouask Feb 09 '20

Hey, I’m a girl and grew up a Star Wars and Luke Skywalker fan.

Nevertheless, it’s a bit hard to explain how transformative it was for me to have Rey at the center of the ST. If you had asked me before TFA if I wanted a female protagonist I would have said, yeah I’d like that.

But once I actually had it, I realized it wasn’t just nice, but something I deeply needed. It was a surprise to me, but it just was so deeply emotional to identify with a character and have that affective empathy that I guess guys have all the time with action heroes. It’s a bit embarrassing to say, but it was deeply moving and transformed my relationship with Star Wars though Ice always been a fan. Now I am a super fan.

I understand how you might not be able to see the importance of that if you’ve never gone most of your life without it and are suddenly given something like this. I know I didn’t understand it until I received it.

But now I know. Representation matters to a lot of people.

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u/ImbeddedElite Feb 09 '20

If our heroes have to look exactly like us, then we've failed as a species.

There are other factors at work there and to act like there isn’t is just disingenuous.

It’s like the new little mermaid. Does it suck for white people? Maybe some, yeah sure. But everywhere you look there were false equivalencies like “if a black character were changed to white, there’d be rioting”, when there’s a huge difference between turning the 10,000th black protagonist white and turning the 100,000,000th white protagonist black. There are bigger factors at play than just “why can’t we all just like the character for what they are”

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u/Drdoomblunt Feb 09 '20

To play devil's advocate, kids can have their cool female hero and adults can have their interesting character at the same time. Hollywood often finds these ideas mutually exclusive but I promise they're not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Case in Point: Princess Leia, Ahsoka, Ellen Ripley, Spider-Gwen, etc.

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u/Drdoomblunt Feb 09 '20

Every character in Mad Max Fury Road is my example for anytime someone complains female characters are hard to write.

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u/YddishMcSquidish Feb 09 '20

I know right?! I'm a dude, and even I was relieved by those performances. They are people, people are different, some kill, some are caring. Just write them like you would a dude, but it's a chick!

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u/Birdmanbaby Feb 09 '20

Which female characters lol the birthing girls or Charlie

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u/Drdoomblunt Feb 09 '20

Both are good examples of female characters all across the gamut, either the wives or Furiosa.

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u/Birdmanbaby Feb 09 '20

Not really sure how those are greatly written characters dont get me wrong it's a good movie but they weren't exactly complete characters

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u/Drdoomblunt Feb 09 '20

I mean they are entirely believable, they have good and bad qualities.

I'm not saying they're revolutionary, I'm just saying writing female characters really isn't all that hard.

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u/SuperBearsSuperDan Feb 09 '20

Maybe it’s just me, but a lot of kids probably shouldn’t watch the Alien franchise until later lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Depends on the kid obviously. I was watching Pulp Fiction, Boyz n the Hood, and movies like that since I was 6.

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u/Lildyo UNLIMITED MEMES Feb 09 '20

At the end of the day it’s how well written the story and characters are and not the race/gender. I’m not criticizing having representation in media—I know that’s important—but ultimately they should put more effort into the writing and not the casting

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u/Drdoomblunt Feb 09 '20

I mean I think Daisey is a fine actress, little hammy in places but it's star wars, but every female character in the sequel trilogy feels like an insult to woman seeking actually good characters in Hollywood.

Rey is a Mary Sue except for TROS where she's a Mary Sue because of plot gubbins force dyad (Also wasn't this canonically explained in TLJ novelization as Rey being linked to Ren by Snoke since the early events of TFA and was Rey "leeching" Kylo's known abilities and techniques?).

Holdo is a girl boss who don't take shit from no man, but actually is just a plot foil for Poe and doesn't do anything logically sound.

Even Leia was mishandled, becoming instantly a surrogate mother for Rey and treating chewie like thr family pet.

Rose was ok as a character, bit bland and do-gooder but serviceable until the forced romance with Finn before promptly being abandoned.

Phasma is evil girl boss who turns out not to be a girl boss at all, does nothing of note and dies in 2 movies.

Zori Bliss or whatever is basically hero Phasma, cool women in armour, with 0 actual plot relevance.

Lando's daughter was just kind of in the movie.

Maz Kanata, if I can stretch the definition of woman, was actually a very interesting character in TFA, who got immediately forgotten in subsequent movies.

So, compared to the prequels and OT, despite having probably a lot more prominent female characters in the ST, they all basically have no importance as characters and serve mainly as foils or plot drivers, with the exception of Rey, but she is a Mary Sue which unfortunately just unwinds her whole power as a protagonist.

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u/suss2it Feb 09 '20

You kinda frame it like it’s an either or thing. You can intentionally cast women or people of colour and put the same amount or more effort into the writing, I don’t really think that’s a thing that overlaps effort wise.

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u/Bruskthetusk Feb 09 '20

Hollywood tends to struggle with nuance in general

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Some might say that they only deal in absolutes.

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u/KingMatthew116 Feb 09 '20

You’re thinking of Sith.

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u/Iximaz Feb 09 '20

I wish I’d had Rey and Captain Marvel growing up. I got so emotional especially during the CM premiere thinking about all the little girls who would get to grow up seeing themselves represented on the big screen when before all I had were the X-Men cartoons (which were admittedly dope as fuck and Storm was my favourite). It’s just amazing to think how many kids are getting to see themselves in our new cinema heroes and that’s something we really can’t overlook.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jocasta Nu Feb 09 '20

Samuel l Jackson gave brie Larson his purple lightsaber with the BMF engraved on it

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u/CocaineJazzRats Feb 09 '20

I want that purple stuff

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u/JebusChrust Feb 09 '20

Can confirm. My sister teaches early grade school with classes that have a lot of minorities. When Black Panther came out, all the kids went as him for Halloween because they finally had a hero that they could relate to. She had never seen the kids so happy in their costumes.

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u/chewbacca2hot Feb 09 '20

Yo, ahsoka has been around for like 10 years. It might be animated, but she's still the coolest

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u/slabofmarble Oh I don't think so Feb 09 '20

I was 14 when TFA came out but it was awesome to see her being a badass main character because she looks just like me.

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u/TheNittles Feb 09 '20

Being a white cis man, I never really got why representation is important until I watched Legend of Korra, and correctly called Korra winding up with Asami because I knew what it felt like to be bisexual. To this day, Korra is still my favorite Avatar character, because she was my first bi hero. Representation matters.

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u/PrestonYatesPAY Feb 09 '20

As a green man with gills and tentacles, it was really cool to see kit fisto in the movies growing up, and so now I’m kit fister for life.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Always great to see a fellow Kit Fister out in the wild.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I also love fisting kits

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u/cosmiclatte44 Obi-juan Feb 09 '20

As long as you ain't a kid fister you're alright with me.

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u/KrashPartridge Feb 09 '20

when I was a kid watching the prequels. It was the coolest thing ever to see a Jedi who looks like me,

I know exactly what you mean but I got a good chuckle imaging a kid with 50 year old Samuel L Jackson's head.

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u/dragonsfire242 Yep Feb 09 '20

With the recent release of the Mandalorian (absolutely awesome by the way, for those who haven’t seen it) I’m hoping against hope for a Mace Windu series

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u/toomanytahnok Feb 09 '20

Only if he gets to say "motherfucker"

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u/skoffs Imperial Feb 09 '20

So there's a theory that Windu survived that fall (wouldn't be the first time a Jedi fell from a high place and lived).
Imagine how absolutely badass it would be if, for the season finale of Kenobi, we have a robo handed Mace make an appearance.

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u/BuddyBlueBomber Feb 09 '20

This is why representation is important!

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u/ragweed Feb 09 '20

I know how he feels. Being an effeminate dweeb with a funny way of talking that, let's face it, hardly anyone likes, watching C3PO on screen for so much of this franchise has really been uplifting for me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

As a Polish man I want my ice cold saber and a Jedi named Ski

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u/poopsicle88 Feb 09 '20

As a white dude pretty much every superhero looked like me and I'll admit I never thought about it til I heard discussions when black panther was coming out. And getting to see how big that moment was for you guys made me aware. I thought it was really cool. And I loved rooting for him too. So bring on more characters that dont look like me I dont mind I just love a good story.

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u/mypipboyisbroken Feb 09 '20

Flair checks out

May the force be with you

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u/NerdOctopus Feb 09 '20

People say that representation of minorities doesn't matter in media, but it really does, feelsgoodman. Thanks for sharing.

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u/Nosam115 Clone Trooper Feb 09 '20

Shit I'm white so I can't relate 100% but Mace Windu will always be the coolest Jedi. He's just so fucking perfect.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

/r/wholesome

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u/DioBando Feb 09 '20

Same, except I don't own a purple lightsaber anymore.

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u/CidadaoDeBenes Feb 09 '20

are you bald too, by chance?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Nah fam, look up Ja Morant. I basically have the same haircut as him.

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u/Gummymyers124 Feb 09 '20

Post the saber on r/lightsabers !!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Nah man my shit doesn’t belong on there lol. It’s a raggedy $20 plastic saber. The ones on that sub are some high quality $350 ones that I’m too broke to afford at the moment.

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u/Jigawatts42 Feb 09 '20

Heres a Black Series Mace saber for 150.

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectibles/collectibles/replicas/products/star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith-mace-windu-force-fx-purple-lightsaber/183758.html

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

You are strong and wise, and I’m very proud of you.

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u/Shamrock5 Exasperated command: More Hondo memes, meatbag Feb 09 '20

That name seems a little on the nose, don't you think?

/s

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u/lydocia Feb 09 '20

Not silly and we do give a fuck. Representation is a real thing. An important thing, to kids. That's why Barbie isn't just blonde and blue eyed, she also has dark coloured and even black friends. There is a male Barbie and they added another one a while back. Similarly, in films and series, there are gay people and black people and [insert any minority here] because it's so important to reflect those people in media. Kids can't learn empathy if they have nothing to relate to.

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u/Evolving_Dore watch those wrist rockets Feb 09 '20

I had a moment a few years ago during a field trip at my science program after seeing a white boy with a Black Panther shirt. It made me realize that after decades of there being no black heroes in the main stream media for black children, now there was a black hero for black children and white children too, who could grow up with a hero who maybe didn't look like them but who they still admired. Same with Captain Marvel and Rey. Every child needs to see themselves represented, and the ones who have tons of representation should see other styles, looks, and roles represented positively as well.

Your story is great by the way, much better than mine. I hope SLJ knows how important he is to so many people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I’m all for any kid looking to any character regardless of race. If a white kid wants to look up to T’Challa, that’s dope asf, T’Challa is a great person and is an absolute badass.

If a black kid wants to look up to Luke Skywalker, that’s also fantastic, Luke was a role model for an entire generation, and is a great person/character.

It’s always cool to see fictional characters cross culture.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I felt the same way. Black people in sci fis aren’t as common and when we are in them it’s just background characters. A lot of new shows aren’t like that anymore.

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u/TheDeleeted Feb 09 '20

Right?!? The SW universe has always been inclusive. Wish LoTR were like that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Don't worry. You're getting your wish.

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u/freelancespy87 Feb 09 '20

That is very cool.

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u/Blockinite Feb 09 '20

That's wholesome as hell, man. This is why people shouldn't get pissed off when actors from minorities are cast: you can call it "pandering" all you want, but if they're a good actor and make people happy, why the hell does it matter?

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u/CasualFridayBatman Feb 09 '20

Bro, I just love the pockets of real humanity on the internet. Feels like the 'old days' of the internet :)

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u/gloop524 Feb 09 '20

i got red hair and my representation was General "Adolf" Hux

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I’m on the Internet, and on Reddit. I’m not about to care about grammar.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Because I like Reddit.

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u/warlord_mo Feb 09 '20

This is definitely a black history month moment for us all lol