Yes, I accept Maz as clearly female. My complaint is the lack of other females in important roles as well as missing obvious opportunities such as using Leia for anything other than mothering at Han about their son.
Accept the power of "and" - I like to think my standards have improved and you're certainly within rights to grouch at me for being unreasonable.
Finally, I don't disagree with Fin's story and its relevance. My complaint is that the first time they introduce a main black character they engage with that. It's like giving the only gay character AIDS, or when I made lots of enemies in the Babylon 5 fandom by pointing out that JMS had made the (only) black lead character a drug addict. When your token character gets saddled with the canonical story of the group they are supposed to represent it feels like... well, tokenism. Or at a minimum insensitivity. I would rather have seen the character given a chance to develop his own story before (or instead of) being what felt like the sole symbol of our past.
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Date: 2015-12-29 04:27 am (UTC)Yes, I accept Maz as clearly female. My complaint is the lack of other females in important roles as well as missing obvious opportunities such as using Leia for anything other than mothering at Han about their son.
Accept the power of "and" - I like to think my standards have improved and you're certainly within rights to grouch at me for being unreasonable.
Finally, I don't disagree with Fin's story and its relevance. My complaint is that the first time they introduce a main black character they engage with that. It's like giving the only gay character AIDS, or when I made lots of enemies in the Babylon 5 fandom by pointing out that JMS had made the (only) black lead character a drug addict. When your token character gets saddled with the canonical story of the group they are supposed to represent it feels like... well, tokenism. Or at a minimum insensitivity. I would rather have seen the character given a chance to develop his own story before (or instead of) being what felt like the sole symbol of our past.