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Long, long, long article dissecting the heart of TLJ and fandom's response
The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars
Money quote: [The reaction of the most hardcore of fans] to The Last Jedi proved exactly why it needed to be made.
It also reminded me of a tweet I saw by someone who asked whether people could take Vice Admiral Holdo seriously [what with having purple hair and wearing a 'prom dress']. And there were plenty of people in the comments talking about Leia's hair & clothes and how the other admiral was a fish etc. But what I thought was that it's not really about that person (who wrote the tweet). It's about the next generation and trying to deprogram them from the Straight White Male Authority Figure template.
The kids of today will remember Holdo as one of the great heroes of the Resistance, purple hair and all. And hopefully the world they grow up in will reflect it.
Money quote: [The reaction of the most hardcore of fans] to The Last Jedi proved exactly why it needed to be made.
It also reminded me of a tweet I saw by someone who asked whether people could take Vice Admiral Holdo seriously [what with having purple hair and wearing a 'prom dress']. And there were plenty of people in the comments talking about Leia's hair & clothes and how the other admiral was a fish etc. But what I thought was that it's not really about that person (who wrote the tweet). It's about the next generation and trying to deprogram them from the Straight White Male Authority Figure template.
The kids of today will remember Holdo as one of the great heroes of the Resistance, purple hair and all. And hopefully the world they grow up in will reflect it.
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Wasn't it just? I couldn't stop reading.
Put like this, Poe is lucky that Leia just shot him in the chest and not the balls.
It's one of the things I love the most, how that film takes scenarios we are familiar with and just... switch everything around. If it had been Leia in charge, obviously we would have known Poe was in the wrong. But the trope of 'Wrong headed person gets put in charge, doesn't listen to Young Bright Sparks and they then go on to save the day' is *so* familiar that to see it upended clearly upset a LOT of people. :D
*GESTURES*
MRAs ARE THE ENEMY!
ties in with one of my favourite C.S. Lewis quotes:
I love that quote too! <333 So accurate.
Illustrated both by Kylo and by Luke.
Mmmm. I want to go back and re-read it all.