AAAAARGH RAGE. So much rage. And as to your point about "let's make the brown man a sexist"--- oh, wow, I yelled about this with Finn, among other dubious aspects of his characterization, over at my journal a while back.
And I didn't catch what you rightly spotted about Leia and Holdo being out of uniform in TLJ, and how that's not how Leia usually rolls. (In the "behind the scenes" spirit, though, I seem to remember that after the prequels Carrie Fisher had kvetched about how Natalie Portman got all the pretty clothes and she never did, and I seem to remember seeing somewhere that Rian Johnson had specifically wanted to do something about that for her, which makes Leia's costumes suck a bit less if true, but I have no sources and the latter part, about Johnson's intent, might have been fannish speculation.)
But. Argh. So much argh. Especially when, from my point of view, they already had Finn as a character with some flaws to overcome and they could have given John Boyega a more serious arc to play, and let Poe just be awesome and clueful.
And also, I love Holdo, I completely ship her with Leia, and this whole background business just makes me rage right along with you.
Also, ALSO, given all the ranting a certain subset of fanboys did around "too much icky girliness" in this movie, the fact that the stereotypes were alive and well in the creative process just makes my head go all desky. (I mean, FFS, the end of the movie gives us the most standard possible little white boy future protagonist, with the little boy with the broom on Canto Bight. What more did they want?) (Also bonus: apparently the little black boy on Canto Bight is Force-clairvoyant, how else would he have known about the battle on Crait to be able to retell it to the other two? And the little white boy uses the Force to grab a broom. The only one of the three we don't see using the Force is the little probably-white girl. It's been lovely but I have to scream now.)
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Date: 2019-06-30 10:09 pm (UTC)And I didn't catch what you rightly spotted about Leia and Holdo being out of uniform in TLJ, and how that's not how Leia usually rolls. (In the "behind the scenes" spirit, though, I seem to remember that after the prequels Carrie Fisher had kvetched about how Natalie Portman got all the pretty clothes and she never did, and I seem to remember seeing somewhere that Rian Johnson had specifically wanted to do something about that for her, which makes Leia's costumes suck a bit less if true, but I have no sources and the latter part, about Johnson's intent, might have been fannish speculation.)
But. Argh. So much argh. Especially when, from my point of view, they already had Finn as a character with some flaws to overcome and they could have given John Boyega a more serious arc to play, and let Poe just be awesome and clueful.
And also, I love Holdo, I completely ship her with Leia, and this whole background business just makes me rage right along with you.
Also, ALSO, given all the ranting a certain subset of fanboys did around "too much icky girliness" in this movie, the fact that the stereotypes were alive and well in the creative process just makes my head go all desky. (I mean, FFS, the end of the movie gives us the most standard possible little white boy future protagonist, with the little boy with the broom on Canto Bight. What more did they want?) (Also bonus: apparently the little black boy on Canto Bight is Force-clairvoyant, how else would he have known about the battle on Crait to be able to retell it to the other two? And the little white boy uses the Force to grab a broom. The only one of the three we don't see using the Force is the little probably-white girl. It's been lovely but I have to scream now.)