Kenobi - Finale (Spoilers)
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Uh, my post got deleted. not sure how.
I will sum up: harvestmouse said that they cared about the race and gender of 3rd Sis because past actors were NOT Black women. But no one said "White men are bad, I'm going to cast 3rd Sis to further my Black supremacist political agenda." The "agenda" was, as harvest mouse admitted, solely something that their own mind told them was there.
But the only evidence is that
1. 3rdSis is a black woman
2. Previous heroes were not Black women.
But that's a catch 22. If you can't cast a Black woman unless previous heroes were Black women, then that means that Star Wars must always forbid the casting of Black women heroes since it didn't start out with Black women heroes. but then, of course, you still have a political agenda driving the casting of your actors: it's just a racist political agenda.
The second thing that Harvestmouse said that I want to react to was a quote about how 3rdSis was "meaner" than other characters and that it felt "forced" when the Grand Inquisitor turned out not to be dead after being stabbed with a lightsaber.
But this is a galaxy where Maul survived his spine, spleen, kidneys and intestines being chopped in half. A thrust from a lightsaber creates a through-and-through hole like a bullet wound, but cauterized, so you don't bleed out as fast (or at all). If doctors can save the life of a gunshot wound victim where the hole is through the gut (and they can), the idea that SW-tech level doctors can't save a victim of a cauterized through-and-through is pretty laughable.
As for 3rdSis being mean: that's her character. SHe's supposed to be that way because she's overwhelmed with hatred, enough hatred and anger to drive her on a decade-long quest to kill the 2nd most powerful person in the galaxy, and her plan is to sacrifice a hero to her own villain, knowing that hero will die, because she's mad he didn't do enough to protect her.
I don't think harvestmouse really understands the SW galaxy and its technology, or the character of 3rd Sis. There were not great things in Kenobi, but finding GI alive was obviously plausible given the fictional universe, and 3rd Sis was allowed to turn such driving anger and hatred into grief only after she saw it was completely impossible for her to overcome Vader. Once she gave up that quest as hopeless, she could finally give up the anger and hatred.
3rd Sis (including her race and her gender) isn't remotely problematic, unless you really think that SW should be whites only because the first movie was whites only.
I will sum up: harvestmouse said that they cared about the race and gender of 3rd Sis because past actors were NOT Black women. But no one said "White men are bad, I'm going to cast 3rd Sis to further my Black supremacist political agenda." The "agenda" was, as harvest mouse admitted, solely something that their own mind told them was there.
But the only evidence is that
1. 3rdSis is a black woman
2. Previous heroes were not Black women.
But that's a catch 22. If you can't cast a Black woman unless previous heroes were Black women, then that means that Star Wars must always forbid the casting of Black women heroes since it didn't start out with Black women heroes. but then, of course, you still have a political agenda driving the casting of your actors: it's just a racist political agenda.
The second thing that Harvestmouse said that I want to react to was a quote about how 3rdSis was "meaner" than other characters and that it felt "forced" when the Grand Inquisitor turned out not to be dead after being stabbed with a lightsaber.
But this is a galaxy where Maul survived his spine, spleen, kidneys and intestines being chopped in half. A thrust from a lightsaber creates a through-and-through hole like a bullet wound, but cauterized, so you don't bleed out as fast (or at all). If doctors can save the life of a gunshot wound victim where the hole is through the gut (and they can), the idea that SW-tech level doctors can't save a victim of a cauterized through-and-through is pretty laughable.
As for 3rdSis being mean: that's her character. SHe's supposed to be that way because she's overwhelmed with hatred, enough hatred and anger to drive her on a decade-long quest to kill the 2nd most powerful person in the galaxy, and her plan is to sacrifice a hero to her own villain, knowing that hero will die, because she's mad he didn't do enough to protect her.
I don't think harvestmouse really understands the SW galaxy and its technology, or the character of 3rd Sis. There were not great things in Kenobi, but finding GI alive was obviously plausible given the fictional universe, and 3rd Sis was allowed to turn such driving anger and hatred into grief only after she saw it was completely impossible for her to overcome Vader. Once she gave up that quest as hopeless, she could finally give up the anger and hatred.
3rd Sis (including her race and her gender) isn't remotely problematic, unless you really think that SW should be whites only because the first movie was whites only.
