• qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    913·
    9 months ago

    You know? That is not bad at all. Not bad at all. Why not? Why not the parallel universe version? Maybe they could use the chance to fix the dumpster fire the prequels were as well and perhaps even go along with Darth Jar-Jar.

    • LemmySoloHer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      9 months ago

      My (new) hope is that in the parallel universe version they didn’t do the special edition re-releases and kept in the original Mos Eisley Cantina scene.

      Remember friends, Hana shot first!

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        “But the audiences, the opinion panels, the surveys”

        It was a Starwars movie, it was a guaranteed success at the box. The viewers can handle a little disappointment for a better story.

        I could handle a non sensical character for a long stretch if at the peak of my rage that character became a such pivotal one, with a twist so unexpected and deep applied to it, it forced me to go back and review the entire story with new eyes.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    9 months ago

    Where’s his mankini? I don’t remember Leia walking around topless.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Indeed! We’re not even walking over the same ground backwards, just dipping our toes into a few places where it’s convenient

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    2815·
    9 months ago

    I’m not sure whether whoever made this is aware that the skimpy outfit wasn’t something Leia chose to wear, this was. Now I don’t mind canon-bending Jabba the Hutt into being gay or bi but “equality is when slave outfit” nah I’ll pass.

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      In the movie universe it was a creepy evil guy who made her wear the slave outfit, and doesn’t make sense to get mad at a fictional character. In real life the people making the movie decide what outfits people wear, and we’re allowed to have opinions about that.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        If we carry this to the meta level: The same people also decided that Leia kills Jabba in that very outfit and generally break a ton of damsel in distress tropes. Now you could say “But Ellen Ripley is just as if not even more badass, why not do that”, well, then you wouldn’t be messaging that getting demeaned by your captors doesn’t change anything about your capacity to badass, that the outfit, or Jabba’s general grossness, does not need to have power over your mind, just as horror doesn’t have power over Ripley’s mind. And you can’t just turn Star Wars into body horror so it has to have different hero characteristics.

        I see nothing wrong with that message.

        The same thing gender-swapped, though? Wouldn’t have the same impact as men typically get sexualised differently. It’s certainly been done in a sense, though, e.g. in Pulp Fiction.