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darkphoenix181 posted...

Btw, ppl like Rebel who defend the ST under the guise of sexism are extremely disingenous, grossly so.

Fans loved Mara Jade. Did they ever get upset that Mara was a strong female lead? Nope.
Why not?
Mara didn't deliberately make Luke, Yoda, etc irrelevant and look like chumps.

Mara was a trained Jedi, a part of a legacy.

The Rey issue is she just comes out of nowhere, is more powerful than established characters without any good explanation why until the 3rd movie, and yet it is still a poor explanation.

Either they created her to be like "hey girls, in star wars a female is the greatest jedi of all! Buy our dolls!"

Or they were grossly imcompetent.

Either way could be true. Both are bad. And neither view redeems the character.

It is like Disney pretending captain Marvel is the first powerful female superhero... forgetting about black widow, scarlet witch etc.

Thanks goodness bw gets a movie finally

What are you talking about. They never pretended Captain Marvel was the first female superhero. First to get her own movie sure but that's it.

Oh and most fans don't even know the extended universe exists. And really it was never canon. You can hate Rey all you want but it won't change that the EU never mattered.

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