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I guess I just felt like recording again! I talk about a couple more movies and a few of the Star Wars books I read. Then, after I was done, I had to add to it, because there were a couple of things about Star Wars that I’d wanted to discuss…so enjoy!
Movies Reviewed:
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide SquadBooks Reviewed:
Bloodline
Aftermath: Life DebtDirect Link: 20170215.mp3
I consider this a belated Valentines gift.
I love you too Robby.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
It may be blasphemy to say Iron Man 3 is no good but I blaspheme with you on that one. Didn’t enjoy that one too much at all. I haven’t seen Thor 2 yet so I can’t go with or against you on that one.
Haven’t seen either of the films you talked about here either. So what damn good am I?
I did watch Temple of Doom again for the first time this millennium so maybe I’m not TOTALLY useless.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
Oh yeah, and as for the mono-climate thing in Star Wars, how much of that really comes from the movies themselves? Is Dagobah called a “swamp planet” or Tatooine a “desert planet” or Scariff a “vacation destination planet”? I know Hoth is called an “ice world” or something in the crawl, but ice worlds make a certain amount of geophysical sense. I think ultimately it’s just a space opera trope to have these kinds of planets, so it got tacked onto Star Wars when George made it all up. Either way, in my head canon Dagobah and Tatooine have poles and stuff where the climate/ecosystem is different than the parts we see in the films. It’s just more fun that way.
As for Star Wars skewing toward gal heroes my math may be off but it seemed like at least half of the books you mentioned have dude protagonists. 100% of the cartoons have a dude protagonist. The 3 new Episodes have Rey of course, but then they’re preceded by 6 episodes of dudeness, and the standalones Rogue One and Han Solo are 1-1. The other standalone they were planning was Boba Fett, which you’d have to imagine was going to be kind of dude-ish.
So, yeah, you’re clearly a sexist pig and should be made to wear a slave Leia bikini and one of those pink women’s march hats for a week while you reconsider all of your life choices.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
I can surely feel the love, thanks, Bucho.
But seriously, I just feel like lately it’s felt sort of a reactive thing to me, like they realized that they needed more female protagonists as the lead. I don’t know, it was just something I realized while I was reading Ashoka, and then it was made even more apparent with Barnes and Noble putting out a poster for the last Aftermath book showing the two female leads for that book (Norra for the Rebels and Grand Admiral Sloane for the Empire). I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all – I’d read many of those books not caring one bit that the lead was a female.
It’s seemed to calm down quite a bit, but the amount of people that were calling Rey a Mary Sue and all that, some actually irritated that she was able to harness the Force so easily – there was a lot of that, and I just don’t get it. I don’t know if it’s a product of this “I want it all now” attitude from most people nowadays, but it’s almost like people don’t realize that this is a story being told episodically, so be patient – it’s going to be explained, and it’s gonna be awesome.
About the singular setting of most planets – I dunno, just seemed weird. I guess I’m just thinking about how diverse this planet is with all of its climates, and it seems weird that we don’t see differences in other planets. I think a lot of them are implied – Hoth is definitely chosen by the Rebels because it’s an ice planet and is super-inhospitable, it’s just an observation.
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