crying males: “disney is destroying star wars with female leads”
“rogue one also has a female lead? ugh”
“great another mary sue”
me:
I don’t mind if Star Wars has a female lead, as the Star Wars franchise has always been home to strong female characters, I do care if she is another giant Mary Sue like Rey was. Rey was so Mary Sue that it became distracting to the movie. A character with no force training takes down a trained Sith Knight, she flies a freighter designed for two pilots with no help despite the fact she had never left the planet before, and she can also repair said ship with no problem because she had spent years salvaging parts off of a broken star destroyer? The only thing she didn’t do was have all of the male characters try to romance her at once and I thank the force for that small concession.
The only good new character in episode 7 was Finn. The rest of the characterization fell flat or was just used to make Rey ascend to Mary Suedom.
anakin built the worlds fastest pod racer and c3po when he was nine
the first time luke flew a spaceship he destroyed the fucking death star.
Kylo Ren: Not a Sith. Not fully trained. Also? Injured by a bowcaster that we’d seen could take out several stormtroopers at a time.
Rey: Literally spent all of her downtime flying a flight simulator to the point that it could no longer throw anything at her she couldn’t handle. For all kinds of ships. Nor did she solely scavenge star destroyers. She spent her entire life scavenging every imaginable wreck on Jakku, and her survival depended on her learning what ships had what parts and what was valuable. This, while competing with other scavengers, most of them working in teams.
Which meant she had to learn how to fight, or else she wouldn’t have gotten out of childhood.
Basically, Rey had way more in-canon reasoning to be as good as she was than Luke Skywalker did–who basically went from never flying much out of atmo to piloting an X-wing under combat conditions and rocking it… apparently just because of genetics and the Force. Who then went on, only half-trained, into a fight that even YODA thought he was going to die in, and survived, against a man literally birthed by the Force, trained as both a Jedi AND a Sith, with about 25 years of combat experience under his belt, whereas Luke had had a lightsaber for about 3 years. What a Mary Sue he was, huh?
Rey had more reason to be what she was than Anakin Skywalker, who accidentally wound up in a fighter and accidentally destroyed a droid ship. Anakin who was such a Mary Sue he was LITERALLY A VIRGIN BIRTH. How Mary Sue is THAT?
The creators, in short, HAD TO GIVE REASONS for every single thing Rey knew how to do, because of assholes like this person, who would take any special skill she had as proof that she was a “Mary Sue” just because she was a female character. No one bothered to give those reasons to Luke or Anakin. Because they’re the hero. OF COURSE they can do the impossible. But Rey? Jesus, what a Mary Sue.
Reblogged for excellent commentary.
(I’d thought the Rey-hating twerp up there was like sixteen, in which case I’d cut them some slack, but nope turns out they’re in their 40s.)
DESTROY THEM REY IS MOST REALISTIC NEW JEDI THUS FAR
“I don’t mind if…” I literally spent 38 damn years waiting for Rey, who both onscreen and in the tie-in books was given supporting evidence for every skill she HAS, and you, “Don’t mind.” Well I DO MIND. I mind that at 43 years of age, there are still benign ASSHOLES trying to gatekeep not just me, (I’ve been dealing with this shit for 38 years, too. I’ve got a callused soul about it,) but every damn girl and woman who finally feels like she’s got a door into Star Wars. And that’s not counting the actual direct, violent abuse we have been and are still being subjected to. I mind that you have the utter privilege to feel like you get to mind or not, like it MEANS something.
We do not exist BY YOUR LEAVE, we are not impossible, magical Mary Sues just because your experience of what we are capable of is so lacking that it boggles your mind that we might be able to do things at all.
every time I see dudes ranting about “all these women leads in Star Wars” I think of this. and laugh.
This is kind of long but holy shit I lost it at this ^ gif
@ ato they’re calling us the acronym because mycroft/mark gave us a shoutout in the episode with the line about all the best secret societies having acronyms 🙂
I don’t know when the antis started calling us The Acronym but I fucking love it
OUR NEW CODENAME
I had no idea! That’s pretty funny and I love it.
TJLC is actually an initialism. Acronyms can be pronounced; initialisms have to be spelled out because the can’t be pronounced or by tradition aren’t pronounced (i.e., EPA versus NASA).
So if the antis are calling us The Acronym, they are once again lazy in their analysis.
“Who hasn’t made it?” Zach asked. He could hear the murmur of voices and music in the next room, and excitement spiked through his gut like he was about to go on stage for the first time. He patted his pockets again to make sure the rings, envelope, and notecard with his vows hadn’t miraculously vanished during the drive.
Barbara looked down at the tablet in her hand. “Salada plus three,” she answered. “But they’ve texted to say they’re en route. The kids slowed them down.”
“Well, that happens. Chris and his family made it?”
Barbara smiled. “They’re in the Fern Room with Helen. She asked that I keep you and your family here and she’ll be joining you in a minute. Can I get you anything to drink while we wait? Water? Glass of wine?”
“Water please,” Margo said, taking Zach’s elbow again. “I need to be able to say my line nice and clearly.”
Zach squeezed his mom’s hand against his arm. Wine was tempting, but had a tendency to make him giddy when he was nervous. “Water for all of us, I think,”
Joe had slipped off to speak with the photographer and returned with Barbara, the waters, and a tray of flowers.
“Boutineers for the gentlemen,” Barbara said, “And this wrist corsage for you, Mrs. Quinto.”
Joe helped Zach pin his in place after fiddling with his own, and then they both helped with Nathan’s.
“Are we all straight?” Joe asked, turning to Margo.
“I wouldn’t be marrying Chris if I were straight,” Zach offered as he lined up for inspection.
“The flowers are straight,” Margo said with a twinkle in her eye. “I’m not going to speak for the rest.”
“I sort of resent them for it now,” Zach groused, looking down at his
jacket lapel as a small laugh escaped. Oh god, he was not going to
get nervous giggles. That didn’t happen to him anymore. Ever.
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