BrianL
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- Jul 24, 2013
It's never a matter of the introduction of a female character when it's organic. The trouble with modern day Disney is that, as I find myself pointing out more and more lately when it comes to their decisions, is that they are more interested in making a "right" movie rather than a "good" movie. I almost get the feeling that they sit there with an unnecessarily long checklist ensuring that they manage to check off every box. Stop pandering to the masses when the masses aren't demanding to be pandered to.
Well, I think that's fair in some cases, though Rey was pretty organic. They decided to change up the formula, by making the Jedi type the female. That seems like something that just makes sense. Lucas was already going to have a female hero AND villain in his version.
Certainly it is fair to take issue with the execution of the sequels - it's just that calling Rey a "Mary Sue" is just such a hackneyed and trite argument and doesn't really hold true anyway. It's just a bash for the sake of bashing.
Yeah, the corproate checklists can be annoying - but sometimes it works fine and sometimes it doesn't. It's just like anything else really. It's all in the execution.
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