An Observation of Mainstream Reaction to SW7

[BigTL13Participant 89]

I’ve been floating around social media lately, and while Rey has been pushed to the extreme by feminists, There are two characters that more fans are liking. The first is Finn, who many long time Star Wars fans applaud, due to his character development over the film. I have to agree with this, Finn’s story is much more in depth than Rey’s, and he deserves a great deal of praise. It’s quite interesting to watch him experience war for the first time, get a reality check, both about what war is and what fighting for the First Order means. His story then examines him cutting his old ties and making new goals for his life. I would watch Episode 7 again purely to watch the story of Finn again, because it’s a story that I haven’t seen before or heard of from a film (I haven’t been that invested in war films though, so maybe I have missed something). The Second character who I’ve noticed got an amount of attention is a character who seems to have been named “TR-8R” by fans. He engages Finn in a one on one duel using an updated version of the electrostaff. I haven’t pinpointed the exact reason for his popularity, but it looks like his combat prowess, and absolute devotion to his cause seem to be a couple of the reasons. So all in all, the most popular characters are the character who has been developed to have his flaws explored and fleshed out in detail, and a badass character who at first glance is discarded as a small part, but has grown a cult following, while the main female, who is presented as extremely powerful, but lacks detail in her story is very much ignored. This demonstrates perfectly that Identity politics is not what makes a character, it is the actions, emotions, flaws and story of the character that come together to make them popular, or, in the case of “TR-8R”, a notable act that grabs the audience’s attention before the character is whisked away while the audience is still taking interest.

Get the Fuck Up, Brush yourself off, and stand against the current

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Rey is boring and many people don’t like how she just became so powerful all of a sudden without any training. Zero growth and 0 obstacles or internal conflict/weakness to overcome makes her story dull. Anakin was a child prodigy. Rey just out of the blue in her young adult years.

I suspect Finn is the son of Lando

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[RoyDalParticipant]

uchibenkei wrote:

Rey is boring and many people don’t like how she just became so powerful all of a sudden without any training. Zero growth and 0 obstacles or internal conflict/weakness to overcome makes her story dull.

This is true of most heroes, M & F. Marvel Comics heroes are a notable exception. In fact, heroes with human flaws are the stuff of Greek tragedy, but had fallen out of favor for some reason in the recent century or two.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[BigTL13Participant 89]

Agreed, Rey has no development, just leaps from beginner to pro with no explanation. I don’t think Finn is the son of Lando, maybe he represents Lando aiding the Empire in Episode 5 and then having a change of heart when he witnesses the Empire’s means. He says that he was recruited the same way as all Stormtroopers, taken from parents when he was too little to form memories, and trained almost from birth to be a soldier. Also, Captain Phasma baffles me, I’ve known for a while that in the original trilogy, female stormtroopers existed, but on a ratio of about 1 female to every 100 males (What was that noise? Oh, that must be the gasps of the feminists before they launch into telling me that’s sexist). But still, why would you demonstrate that a female stormtrooper could attain the rank of captain, but still have hundreds of males, seriously, if you make the statement that female stormtroopers can be coolheaded, and skilled enough to be captains, you better chuck some into the cannonfodder stormtroopers to back it up.

Get the Fuck Up, Brush yourself off, and stand against the current

[Cap285Participant 6007]

The cleverly cast the main characters. The movie is basically immune to criticism from the mainstream media, less you get labeled a misogynist, bigot, etc.

Now that the hype has died some, there are reviews on YouTube calling Rey for what she is and the movie for what it is.

Check the comments on YouTube, Disqus and anywhere else where Rey gets a negative comment. Said people are immediately attacked and shamed.

Fuck this planet.

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Doesn’t Disney pretty much own the mainstream media?

I’ve read a few articles tearing the movie up.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[BigTL13Participant 89]

Yes, Disney definitely controls Mainstream media, mostly through buying other companies. And Disney is full of cucks, thus, mainstream media is s~~~.

Get the Fuck Up, Brush yourself off, and stand against the current

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

uchibenkei wrote:

Rey is boring and many people don’t like how she just became so powerful all of a sudden without any training. Zero growth and 0 obstacles or internal conflict/weakness to overcome makes her story dull.

But of course. She’s just another vapid, characterless, zero dimensional “action girl” lead character just like all the other zero dimensional “action girl” leads that have been in far too many films of late. She isn’t the lead character because of any challenges or any character traits (or -gasp- character flaws) and achieves the plot not through any effort or real conflict or struggle, but merely because she’s “special”. And like all such characters lately (hunger games, divergent, etc.), the only reason she isn’t a Mary Sue is because she’s not an author self insert, but more of a vapid self absorbed female audience insert.

Note, I haven’t seen the new “Star Wars”, nor do I intend to, but I can’ already tell what’s what about it. Anyone who’s read Joseph Campbell knows why the original Star Wars worked. And why all this pablum for self absorbed little girls doesn’t.

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