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Originally posted by PASig:
That sounds like a winning strategy…blame the viewer for being too narrow minded and “hateful”.
Man, that's what they said at every turn when Disney was squeezing out the sequel trilogy.
Let's see this article.... Yep, it's all there. I'm not disappointed. Hit all the talking points just as squarely as Disney checked all the DEI checkboxes.
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It also might be the most diverse Star Wars story yet — and while that’s definitely a boon for marginalized fans[...]
Why? Why is it a boon to "marginalized fans?" I keep hearing "because people want to see themselves represented on screen," and that's fine, but they don't want to see themselves represented
poorly. I've heard several gay people speak up and say they'd rather see a film with no gay people than a film that has token gay characters that are only there to be gay and otherwise offer nothing to the story. What does it serve "marginalized fans" to have token and otherwise utterly meaningless and poor representation on screen, awkwardly shoe-horned into every last bit of media? I want to know.
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To them, The Acolyte’s “woke” agenda is something to be feared. It’s ruining Star Wars; it’s poisoning pop culture itself. It needs to be stopped by any means necessary.
We realize how ridiculous that all sounds, right?
Nope, sounds about right, actually.
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It’s not outright shocking to see something like The Acolyte marred by ___ist, _____istic, and even anti-_____ backlash.
/checks notes
Yep, it's right here in black and white. "Respond to every criticism, no matter how accurate and poignant by calling the person to made it an 'ist' or a 'phobe' or just hateful and acting in bad faith. Totally nullifies everything they say."
It's too dense, I'm going to have to just hit the high points
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vocal minority
learn their lesson
diverse casting and more nuanced storytelling
misogynistic microaggressions
weaponized by its haters
nuance
toxicity
entitlement
male fans
coexist
non-white, non-male
vocal minority
See, nobody hates this stuff because it's written by non-white, non-male "creatives," it's that these "creatives" happen to write shit that celebrates everyone who is non-white, non-male and write in white males here and there only as the bad guys. It's consistent, it's transparent, and oh, by the way - it happens to go along exclusively with dogshit storytelling. Every. Fucking. Time. If these were works that were lauded for their storytelling and also just happened to omit white guys as characters who weren't slimeballs, I think the criticism would exclusively be "can you stop making white guys look like assholes?" But it isn't. They stories these films and shows tell
suck, and they would still suck if you eliminated ALL the DEI nonsense. There's your litmus test. That quoted list above? It sure reads like they fucking hate white men. Just making an observation.
Take Kenobi, for instance, which I watched with my son last week. If you made Reva a white guy, and swapped out Luke for Leia, and made the female rebellion members that get highlighted white men, the show would still be dogshit precisely because it was very badly written, not because a black lady was the main bad guy who was secretly a misguided good guy or because there were "strong female characters." Those things are just the added garnish on top of a steaming plate of shit, and not the whole problem with the main dish. This show Acolyte? It follows the same recipe, and that's the problem.
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Originally posted by Jester814:
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Bad casting (Hayden was a complete joke, whining like a bitch the entire 3 films)
That wasn't bad casting. Hayden has been a fine, if not good, actor in almost everything else he's been in. It was horrifically bad writing and directing.
Star Wars Theory on YouTube put out a video talking about this once. He surmised that although Lucas is not a great director, and not the best writer for everything after the first film, that maybe Hayden's performance was more intentional than we want to believe. The guy ends up turning into the ultimate betrayer and a more visible villain than the emperor in many ways, and it makes sense that he was a really awkward person who didn't interface well with the world at large and those around him. He lacked a father figure, and while Kenobi looked at him as a little brother, to Anakin, Kenobi was the father figure he never had, whose approval he never actually got. I think that's probably accurate and absolves Hayden Christiansen a bit because if that's the direction he got, then he pulled it off reasonably well. But even at that, it's badly written and badly directed Lucas schlock, so it doesn't absolve him any.
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Carthago delenda est
I'm not saying this some kind of low-level victory but, it is telling that a brand, licensed to use Star Wars name & imagery, is showing the 'old star wars' characters and none of the news one are showing up.
