Posted on 02/14/2019 10:37:03 AM PST by longtermmemmory
Mary Sues dont have to earn anything. Everything has been given to them. Sounds like a leftist fantasy to me.
I was willing to give Rey a pass, as far as her being a MS, until Last Jedi came out. The reveal of her parents being nobody sealed it. At least in TFA there was the thought that she was of a powerful lineage and it could explain some of it. The flying (see Anakin and pod racing), the fighting (Ren was severally imjured) had at least the potential to be explained.
Last Jedi she did zip training and became a Ninja Master. No hardship. No carrying Yoda around a swamp. Just magically powerful.
Black Panther’s success was organic. It was not imposed. It had an actual general public fan base. It was a success despite the PR. If anything the paid PR staff was essentially doing a 21st century pr campaign of a 1970’s blacksploitation film. It was a planned one off movie, after the success, the character’s role was expanded in endgame and a sequel recently announced.
Captain Marvel (aka Captain Woke) is a pure SJW power play to exclude previous marvel characters so SJW Mary Sue (perfect characters) can push the propaganda war.
(see also commercials and tv that insults men and fathers)
If people just stay away the first weekend or just wait to see it free, or at home it will hurt those whose job was to make this dreck.
Pre Disney Marvel rebooted the Character several times. It was actually MS. Marvel. Disney I believe stuck the captain marvel moniker. The character never sold or had any substantive following (Guardians always had a bit of a following)
I would rather see Shazam.
They might as well put the Gillete commercial before the movie or put a sign in the theater that says men not welcome.
ah but she is rumored to give up all her super white privilege powers to a black woman! (/s)
Yes! He only did as well as he did on Bespin because pop was there to recruit.
And maybe it’s looking for something to complain about, but when General Women’s Studies’s brilliant plan reduced the Resistance to a literal handful and Finn was going to what could have been his death, it’s a little off-putting when Rey is grinning ear to ear because she’s manning a gun turret. Read the room, Rey.
And thus, the rise of what Richard C. Meyer calls the “Gordon Goodbrother” character—a soft, harmless, milquetoast black guy who can do no wrong, never gets angry, and is always there to lend a helping hand, gosh darn it.
>> It is also important to remember the movie PR machine is now out in full force with puff pieces pointing out how this is the first woman superhero lead in a movie. (wonder woman?).
Supergirl, 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXbvzOdj-Q
I watched a non ending hypefest regarding black panther. I saw the movie. Thought it sucked. Liked the Black Panther character in Marvels' "Civil War". He was fast, smart, ruthless and deadly.
In "Black Panther", most advanced nation on earth chooses it's leader by mortal combat? The lead was always getting upstaged by the Female Amazon Warrior?
All sorts of stuff wrong with it, but a massive Hollywood and New York network system hype campaign made it successful by putting out the message that not seeing it is racist or something.
If they had had to pay for the publicity they got for free, that lemon would have been a big money loser.
>>In “Empire Strikes Back” Luke was impatient, arrogant, and reckless and the only reason he survived his encounter with Darth Vader was because Vader was playing with him like a cat might toy with a mouse. And then only because of who Luke was. If he was some random dude he’d have been smoked in 5 seconds.
Didn’t Darth Vader want Luke to JOIN him? It wasn’t “simply” because they were related...
Darth Vader: There is no escape! Don’t make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You’ve only begun to discover your power! Join me, and I will complete your training! With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy.
Luke Skywalker: [angrily] I’ll never join you!
Vader: If only you knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Vader: No, I am your father.
Luke: [shocked] No. No! That’s not true! That’s impossible!
Vader: Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
Luke: NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOO!!!
There's nothing funnier than someone who goes to a super hero movie, then complains that their suspension of disbelief was ruined by one plot point thing. Well, maybe someone who talks about how the marketing campaign for a movie was obnoxious, then admits that they saw the movie, too.
There was a backlash after 'The Last Jedi'. The next movie was a Han Solo movie that, by all accounts, was actually pretty good. And featured a fan favorite character. But because the fans were so irritated with 'The Last Jedi' and the "piss off if you don't like it" reaction of the creators, they skipped Solo. Star Wars has been in crisis ever since, movies getting caneled, etc.
Well, I can't criticize women for not being able to prevent rape. However, if they get a great job afterwards from the alleged rapist and give speeches praising the alleged rapist a a great humanitarian and friend (as several did) and are photographed socializing with their alleged rapist then I think "maybe it wasn't rape after all, maybe they just want to use this current metoo situation to cleanse themselves of the stigma of using the casting couch to their benefit". Maybe. It's certainly a question, isn't it?
Before the Force was in everyone, Luke was the power
> The next movie was a Han Solo movie that, by all accounts, was actually pretty good.
It was stuffed with SJW garbage, by all reports. The failure of this movie started at the moment they announced Lando was “pansexual”, confirming the fears of everyone who was afraid that radical feminists and homosexuals had taken over and were turning it into Communist propaganda.
This was typical of what I heard about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUa90qh0VE
The young woman who wrote that Star Trek short story (with Mary Sue) in the early 1970s was prescient.
So fitting that it started with Star Trek fan fiction (a female fan, as I recall), since Wes-God (as I called him before I came across Mary/Marty Sue/Stu) was nauseatingly superiors to all the mere adults with actual training and experience.
Yes. Phase 4 - whatever they call it - is where I plan to exit.
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