Looking at how Rose character was handled in TROS to please those people that hated on her, including these that sent Kelly Marie Tran death threats I was thinking about offending those f*ckers a stitch more:
Why not cut the Fin Rose romance from 8 and retcon Paige from being Rose sister to being her wife and turn their amulet into some sort of wedding ring.jaw drops Why make Rose lesbian?
I’m of the Taika Waititi camp, that if it doesn’t serve the story, a scene hinting at sexual orientation is just useless. If we’re trying to normalize things, we should treat those characters as people. I never had to see who Luke wanted to sleep with, to follow his story.
I just don’t know how you could pull that off, without a lot of work.
Fair enough, it wouldn’t serve the story in any way, but nonetheless I would like to see a LGBTQ character in SW especially after they promoted TROS for doing it.
In terms of editing I would simply cut every moment Rose mentions her sister or try to replace sister with something like ?wife?, ?spouse? or ?partner?.(I am no native speaker, I don’t know exactly which one is appropriate, could somebody please help me out?
And then I would cut the kiss and the “not fighting what…” line.
It’s a bit of an uphill battle, just to offend some people who probably wouldn’t see the cut anyway. I would love to see a gay Star Wars character…but I want there to be more substance to that character, besides their orientation. The Mandalorian would still be a good show, if the protagonist ended up gay, because there’s more to them than that. It’s just a problem I see with Disney at times, where the political statement is more important than the story.
I agree that building a character around queerness is stereotypical and that it isn’t worth it, if my single goal was to offend these people, but because Rose has seemingly died in-between 8&9, I think this is a golden opportunity. During the holidays I will toy around with the ideas, if it works out well, perfect, if it doesn’t, who cares?