@GeneralXIV wrote:
And yes, the lesbian kiss felt a little like a consolation prize - I say that as a lesbian :P It would have been great to see Poe and Finn together on screen, just as it would have been nice to see Elsa with a girlfriend in Frozen II. Disney keep having opportunities to include gay characters in a way which would be so good but they aren't using them and it's frustrating :P
Or they could try to make a film without overt virtue signalling, and people could stop making people just because they’re not obviously straight, when there’s no reason to bring their sexuality into it at all.
Everyone was celebrating at the end of TROS but in the whole group, there was only one kiss, and it was between two women? That’s not writing a good scene. A good scene would have had lots of people kissing (though not all at once - that would be weird). Having only one kiss is them saying “look at us - we’re progressive so we put lesbians in”.
Same goes for Poe and Finn - no reason to think they’re gay, and no reason to make them gay, or straight, or anything. Their sexualities, whatever they are, are irrelevant. Why can’t they just be friends? Sex doesn’t have to come into it. Both have interactions with women that could hint at interest in women too, but that’s still a case of “who cares?”
