Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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  1. Tuonela

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    Well, Rey is obviously going to be the mary sue of the trilogy because she is the central character. Is her being a female feminism? Probably not, they're just mixing things up.

    Yes, Finn and Poe made mistakes and one of them had the general, also a women, tell them off about being wrong. But they're still the central characters, the whole movie was about them making mistakes and learning from them to grow into the roles / people they have to be and to not rush in without thinking about it. Having a brief moment of glory by suiciding into a star destroyer isn't much compared to the fact the 3/4 of the trilogy main characters are male (Finn, Poe, Ben, Rey). Also at the end of the day Luke saves everyone, so personally I'm not really seeing that much of a feminist message aside from there being competent women in the storyline, but aside from Rey the storyline doesn't revolve around them.
     
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    The problem I have is that as a character I just do not find Rey that interesting. This is because she has zero character development. Starts off as a bad ass ends as a bad ass with no growth, no change in how she perceives the world, no internal obstacle to overcome. Its all just a quick mush of... being told something critical and it having zero to do with the actual plot half the time. which is one of the reasons why the story sucks.
     
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    Oh I wasn't defending the overall character / plot, just saying that I don't objectively seem it as overly feminist.
     
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    Um... did you forget that her parents are dead? Everyone knows that's shorthand for character development. :ohyou:
     
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    But she didn't really know her parents. So is it?
     
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    That means it must be extra tragic because it happened to a baby.
     
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    Is this why kids hate vegetables because the parents fed them horrible tasting vegetable baby food.
     
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    That is tragic. Vegetables are delicious.
     
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    J.J. Abrams should make a movie about it.
     
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    Doesn't look like there's one about healthy eating. Probably just as well though since making a salad would basically be VeggieTales: Saw.
     
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    So a movie about a chef making a salad...

    Chef starts to cut up vegetables..
    Stops and tilts head towards viewer
    Says with deadpan expression.
    “would you like a... chopped salad”
     
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    "Nah, I prefer tossed salad."
     
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    :wat::unamused:

    That will be a extra charge.
     
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    [​IMG]
    basically.
     
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    Hmmm. I think I had to do that in high school. Make a veggietales video of some story from the bible (what I went to a Catholic school) and I ended up putting a Z on all the vegetables. Because Zorro came along.
     
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    Was that the historical Zorro, or the biblical Zorro?
     
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    Dunno. He had a black mask and came and went like the wind.
     
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    Different mask... Still comes like the wind, though. :tentacle:[​IMG]
     
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    All he needs is a hat and a horse. Actually on second thought don't give that guy a horse.
     
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