- “Star Wars fans only want one thing: Vader”
- “I will not condone a course of pointless fan films that will lead us to more nostalgia madness !”
This just goes to show how diverse the Star Wars fandom is and how impossible it is to satisfy everybody.
I forget who said it, but if ANH was released today, it would be crucified by today’s culture.
They’d be calling Luke a Mary Sue
No, because Luke is a dude, and we only make that complaint about chicks.
Only about chicks… and only when the character is a Mary-Sue, meaning badly written and ridiculously over the top (Luke in ANH is perfectly written). You don’t hear/read that about Casey or Athena in Tomorrowland or Joy in Inside Out. On the other hand, Erso is no Mary-Sue: she doesn’t do anything at all for 2 hours but when she does it seems “normal”, like the other characters, not out of character (the writing is still quite terrible though).
Jyn is equally as driven and physically capable as Rey, and for perfectly established reasons (in both cases). When she started scaling the floppy disc haven, I thought “why is she so conveniently gymnastic”, and then my mind immediately went to “oh yeah, having to fend for yourself in the wild for years on end does that to you.” Once again, neither Jyn nor Rey were chilling for nineteen years on a moisture farm, bitching and moaning about not getting to pick up power converters with their buddies.