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Originally Posted by temper11
That's what happened/is happening with the original characters we grew up with and it's been brilliant. What's the problem?
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They completely ruin Luke's character for no reason. It doesn't further Ray's character or anyone else's. And while ruining Luke's character they give no reason why Luke did anything he did in the film. (Perhaps if Snoke had a real back story or had "twisted events" it might make sense but as it stands now there's no reason for Luke's 180 on morality.)
Han, after maturing and becoming more of a selfless person for no reason changes and becomes a deadbeat-dad.
Even after TFA Finn (for reasons unknown) goes back to being a coward at the start of TLJ.
Poe goes from being Top Gun to an impulsive buffoon and honestly, treasonous.
There isn't a single male in this film that's redeemable.
On the other hand Leia is now Ms. Marvel, Mary Sue is Mary Sue, and we get PETA adds and Hippie nonsense during the climax of the film.
All the while glaring failures of logic like gravity in space, two characters 50 yards from an overwhelming force who never get shot at once, Ray somehow transports from Snoke's throne room to the Falcon WITH NO EXPLANATION, and for some reason Yoda acting like he did when he was trolling Luke in Empire.
And what's really frustrating is politics being forced into SW's and when it's noticed it's the fans that get blamed for projecting.
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Originally Posted by NYT
While writing “The Last Jedi,” the writer-director Rian Johnson moved to San Francisco, spending three months working closely with the story group to develop ideas for the film. Ms. Hart credits Mr. Johnson with the decision to introduce diverse characters for “The Last Jedi.” Of the new cast members, several are women, including Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran, the first Asian-American women to star in the saga.
“The characters that end up on screen are there because there is a groundswell of energy around this idea of creating a more honest reflection of the world around us,” Ms. Hart said, “and it’s coming from people all over the process. That feels miraculous, and really hopeful, not just for ‘Star Wars,’ but for movies in general.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/m...-universe.html
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So when criticism from a select group of fans at having a second female lead in a row, as Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story next month after Daisy Ridley starred as Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens started to hit, Kennedy paid it no mind.
"I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don't feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way [to those particular fans]," Kennedy told the New York Times in an interview focused around Jones. "I would never just seize on saying, 'Well, this is a franchise that's appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.'"
Indeed, the franchise's fandom has balanced out significantly on the gender line over the decades, with ReedPOP reporting their Star Wars Celebration conventions of the last several years have been attended by nearly perfect 50/50 splits of women to men. Felicity Jones, meanwhile, pointed out that just as women are expected to or desired by Hollywood to relate to male leads, she hopes the reverse can be done for Jyn.
"We wanted the audience to relate to Jyn as a person, whether you're a boy or a girl, a a man or a woman," Jones said in the same feature. "Like all of us, she's trying to work out what the hell to do."
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http://comicbook.com/starwars/2016/1...t-need-to-cat/