Let’s be real here, and talk about this issue in relationship to how you go about being “inclusive” shall we.?
Campea was on his own show, talking about this new Lucasfilm hire and the new show. He said: “I can already hear the manbabies crying ‘why is it female-centric, there’s an agenda' .. let’s just put that to bed and not tough on this again, shall we? They’ve already got three other series that are all male lead, that means right now, that means that if this comes out and it’s only four shows, that’s 75% that are male lead and they got one that’s going to happen to be a female lead one, deal with it. And just move on, can we move on?
I don't know who Campea is (don't explain it, I can Google) or why he merits the one-name treatment and obsessiveness from you like he's as well known as Madonna or Cher, but what he said above is spot-on. And yet, even knowing that, you perfectly encapsulated everything he criticized.
Nice, right? You guys are probably telling me the same thing. Except, when he did that show, he had a female cohost on his show with him by the name of Erin Cummings. She said: “I really, really loathe the descriptor of female-lead. .. and here is why: I love the idea of a predominantly female cast, I think it’s fantastic. But my problem is.. Why are you only releasing the fact that it is female-centric show, oh and they are going to be doing some kung-fu, whatever, like WHY SAY THAT, like could you read me the headline again, except, take out “female centric” and just pit “male centric” “ She goes on (after Campea refuses to actually go back and read the headline in that way. “These other shows that you talk about that are predominantly male driven, nobody says “we have this upcoming series, no one is going to tell you anything about it, but it’s going to be predominantly men.. And that’s exactly what this is saying and for me, yes, I want to see shows with MORE women - obviously - but you don’t have to say that is the selling point. Tell me a little bit about the story - make me fall in love with the story because ultimately, because if the show does fail, then it looks like the show failed because it was female-centric, not because of a million other factors it could have failed by - and also, when the first news of it is ‘female-centric’ I know that there is a lot of people - NOT JUST MEN - also some women, who are like .. all right I’m not interested in that, I’m tuning that out.”
You know why they don't usually make announcements about "male-centric" shows coming out? Because male-centric shows are by far the majority of shows, so it's not noteworthy in any way to point that out.
So let me get this straight. I assume that you are all Star Wars fans.. being in this thread., and a new show announcement has you all psyched.. yet the only thing you know about the show is the the type of genitalia that the main characters (and maybe the target audience) will have. I thought SW fans would be interested in the story. The context. How it fits into the Star Wars universe. Is it before the original films? Is it after the sequels? Is it a "what if" elseworlds show? Is it an alternate time line? Would Star Wars even do that? Yet nope you guys are just interested because it's a show and it will have FEMALES IN IT and.. wait for it--- they will slap that STAR WARS logo on it.
They obviously don't want to release the story details yet, so they're releasing some production info instead. Pretty standard stuff.
Genitalia and gender are two separate things, and you are weirdly obsessed with the gender of the people making and acting in Star Wars.
I wasn't interested or even aware of this series before, but I am more interested now that they've mentioned it will be made by the co-creator and showrunner of the outstanding
Russian Doll (you wouldn't like it).
And the real bottom line is that, while I might not be able to prove it. it is certainly in line with what KK would do. She is rich AF, and entitled AF, and every damn interview she ever does is about how she wants to insert her agenda into Star Wars.. and it might be just my belief.. yet there is more evidence that it is true than there will be any evidence that a Rian Johnson trilogy will ever happen even though MOST of the people here believed (or still believe) that will happen.
Look at Wrinkle in Time.. a movie made to show the greatness of diversity. Not only did it set diversity back because it was universally considered a crappy film.. but it's now infamous because it actually divided the audience.. and wanted to thrive on dividing the audience, rather than uniting them. Brie Larson (about 40 year old white men: "This movie wasn't made for you."
Fine.. but Star Wars, the greatest franchise in all of entertainment.. was made for EVERYONE. It was birthed from a need to put aside all that cynicism and unease this country wore like a badge of honor in the 70s, and it united us as culture in ways Lucas or the studio never could have imagined because it was a solid story.. regardless of the races or genders involved.. it was a human story told on a grand scale.
And I love it here.. I really love it how instead of arguing with me, everyone is just like "FSM, you hate women. Everything you've ever posted indicates that you hate women".. when that is a strawman.. absolutely no argument because.. you don't actually feel like arguing with the real me. Again.. maybe I am crazy to think that KK (or someone in her circle) or Headlund (or someone in her circle) leaked the story. It is quite a jump to make. Yet i'm very cynical of everything that Lucasfilm says and does after there have been more ditched announcements and failed projects in Disney's tenure as owners of Lucasfilm than there have been successful ones.. and I know myself.. a lover of Star Wars..
I'm sorry, did you just negatively single out Kathleen Kennedy for being rich as if that was some kind of unique trait in this franchise?
So, just to recap, with absolutely no proof, you blamed Kathleen Kennedy for this, roped in Brie Larson and
A Wrinkle in Time because you're still crying about that two years later, and bitched about Rian Johnson again for no reason? Just throw in the Ghostbusters-remake and it'll be like your broken record of Grossest Hits. You need to move on with your life.
Well first of all.. like I've said.. people have dissed me personally.. they have said I hated women. They were wrong and they still are. And it had me fuming for many months.
Awww, boo hoo. Think about how people have felt with you shitting all over this forum for the past two years, derailing threads, poisoning the well in others, beating a dead horse on your same agenda over and over again despite hating agendas so much. You've driven people away from this forum but all you care about is you.
Secondly, the whole point of a forum is that not everyone has to agree.. otherwise there would not be a discussion at all. And it seems so easy for people to throw personal insults at me.. yet.. you know I've been a SW fan literally all of my life. And I care about it enough that I'll argue as long as needed
You know, there's some great
Clone Wars episodes going on right now, why not focus on that instead of whining about the same damn thing you've been whining about for years? Everyone knows where you stand. You're not informing us of anything new or interesting. You're just clogging the toilet with more shit.
