Star Wars Had NO Strong Women?! George Lucas BACKHANDS Disney and Kathleen Kennedy?!
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- George Lucas says there were ALWAYS strong women in Star Wars, even if they wore dresses. Yes, this seems to be a jab at Kathleen "The Force is Female" Kennedy and the narrative that Star Wars was never for women and never included women. Geeky Sparkles is on fire in this video, so grab some popcorn.
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00:00 George Lucas expresses annoyance at ongoing debate about women in Star Wars, disagrees with Disney's handling of the franchise, and promotes campaign to reprint books and bring more content.
03:31 George Lucas criticizes Disney for their handling of Star Wars, suggesting that women have always been included as heroes in the franchise and are being portrayed with masculine traits.
06:58 George Lucas criticizes Disney for excluding strong female characters in Star Wars and pushing a false narrative, disrupting continuity and destroying the original trilogy's canon.
10:35 George Lucas criticizes Disney for sidelining Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, argues that gender and race should not determine character relatability, and addresses unnecessary changes to Po and Finn.
12:53 George Lucas criticizes Disney for lack of women in Star Wars, highlighting strong female characters in his franchises and the role of women in science fiction.
17:34 George Lucas criticizes Disney for lack of diversity in Star Wars and regrets selling the franchise to them.
21:28 George Lucas criticizes Disney for rewriting Star Wars narrative and poorly representing women, while also asserting his right to supersede the expanded universe.
25:23 George Lucas would have included more women in Star Wars, and the speaker encourages viewers to subscribe for more pop culture content.
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Video killed the Radio Sta!
Musk needs to buy Disney
DEIsney quite conveniently forgets none of us had a problem with pre-sequel trilogy Leia Organa, Bastila Shan, Mara Jade, Padme Amidala, Carasynthia Dune, Asaaj Ventriss, or for that matter, Fennec Shand, Ahsoka, Bo Katan Kryze, and Sabine Wren (well at least before they started f*ckin all those characters up and making them sh*t)
It's almost like we had good reason to criticize characters like Rey Palpatine, Rose Tico and Reva Sevander...
You know what i hear? "Wah men are treating us as equals and criticizing us the same way they do male creators that don't know wtf they are doing, oh the misogyny! We're women and therefore should be immune from criticism because we don't practice what we preach nor believe the lies we tell ourselves!"
Cry us a f*ckin river. Please. I could go for a swim.
Get rekt KK you adult child, git gud or gtfoh, (or barring that, fetch my coffee/make me a sandwich)
He’s such a hypocrite so he should just shut the fuck up now he out of touch does not know any thing now.
He put women and POCs in sci-fi movies…the best part is NO ONE told him to do it.
oh i am sure some1 did its hollywood were talking about
@@Steven9567 He went with unknowns, so literally no one did.
@@Steven9567 in the 70s and 80s?! Are you kidding me?! We’re talking about a much different Hollywood than today…lol😂
gotta love it when people deleted their comments after realizing they were wrong and you already replied to it.
He did the same in THX 1138. But somehow these idiots in Hollywood swear they are breaking ground somehow.
Star Wars has had strong, female characters since the first movie. Anyone who says otherwise is embarrassingly uninformed, lying, or a bigot.
And Disney Star Wars has a serious LACK of strong female characters in most of the movies.
disney is just a giant list of stupid idoits and all of lucasfilm are on it.
Disney wants you to believe their characters are strong. Which might be true from a power point of view. Given how often the universe just bends over backwards to favor them. Only that not very appealing character wise. For what they forget, is stats and power does not equal character. A person point of view on what to do with power. Like defending the weak or using it to force others to do their bidding, for the weak must bow their heads to the strong or be destroy. That is character. Not i'm perfect person with little to no emotions or can only be anger a majority of the time at everything, with powers that are just made upon the spot to get them out of any trouble they come across.
Disney idea of how to write female characters. Is the perfect case study of what not to do when writing characters. Be they male or female.
And Disney Star Wars has a serious LACK of strong female characters.....because their "strong female characters" like Rey or Rose Tico are all dogs*** characters that everyone hates 👎👎👎👎👎🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@tacticianAlexandra Leftwing extremist activists only understand subversion, deconstruction and assumed power. They are the enemy of all rational sane society.
See that's whats hypocritical about this all to me.
They want to claim that star wars was always "woke" and that it always catered to their political opinions.
But then they also want you to believe that star wars was a male dominated franchise for dude bros and that it needed some sort of fixing in the modern time.
That's just how you know these people have no idea what they are talking about. They don't care about the franchise they invade. they will take a glance. call it problematic. demand changes that cater to their ideology. Because it was never about it being "problematic", it was always about subverting the culture so they could push their propaganda, They know full well what they are doing and once they have done that, they will claim it was always this way in the first place.
Disney dares to disrespect the late Carrie Fisher?
Yes
No more than Rian Johnson did in 2017
Ikr - I can already picture the late Carrie Fisher giving Disney two giant middle fingers up from heaven for snubbing her and her character Princess Leia as a "strong woman" 😡😠🖕🖕😅
Disney does it all the time. They disrespect what came before, just so they can pretend them copy and pasting the same poorly written thing is more special than it really is. By making it out to be a big deal in some way. Like oh my god this is the first disney x.
Because Leah was a strong woman who married a strong man and have two beautiful children and you know what I can’t have that and it is so stupid and very disrespectful and modern feminism was eaten up by the woke crowd, so until these companies learn their lesson and get off of this crap, I will still keep happening
Feminism killed Star Wars. Period
Misandry and misogyny by Disney killed Star Wars.
I predicted this ten years ago.
Relax Star Wars is alive and stronger than ever. Not everything is a hit of course.
@@jonfreeman9682
Copium laced with denial is the new Ozempic in Hollywood?
@@LuigiTheMetal64Yeah, that’s what he said.
Princess Leia went to Jabba's palace alone, and fought on the frontlines of Endor. She faced down torture and fought in many skirmishes. How much more boss girl does she need to be to appease these people lmao.
Didn't you know wearing a metal bikini is a big fat undo button for anything else you might have done before?
Girl bosses are neither women, nor bosses. They're girls pretending the way a 5 year old does without knowing what a boss actually is or does. ACTUAL strong female characters were competent WOMEN. Not women pretending to be men. They were women first. Feminine women, fallible, fearful, but determined. They weren't over-powered, laughable caricatures.
@@samraines6966 and she was hetero. That's a big no no for these guys.
@@morokal Specially when they forget she disguised as Boushh and threatened Jabba with a Thermal Detonator, all on her own.
@@samraines6966because she was captured by gangsters who she later killed the leader of you mean?
People who say that women characters were not critical to Star Wars do NOT know what the H3ll they are talking about! As Geeky Sparkles said, Princess Leia, Queen Amidala, and Mon Mothma were important, intelligent, and powerful characters in the movies.
disney didn't read legends, they don't know about Lumiya or Mara Jade, hell i don't even think they know who darth Talon was
The queen and princess were literally the main characters equal to Luke and Han Solo. The problem was they didn't use pronouns, belittle the male counterparts and didn't blame climate change for everything. Sounds ridiculous but it's literally what they demand every character do.
Preach it my friend, I was thinking of the same 3 woman when i heard that. My thought though is whoever said that comment clearly has never seen a Star Wars movie or they would have seen all 3 of those woman leading people
It's because these activist/writers need to make themselves special and they do this by saying "I am the FIRST person EVAR to [ do X ]!" And if they have to rewrite history in order to make that claim, then so be it. They're already trying to change word definitions, why stop there?
I am confident many Disney writers don’t know the original trilogy. The ones that do know it don’t like it.
Princess Leia kills Jabba the Hut with her bare hands.
Disney: There's no strong women!
Padme: is elected Queen of Naboo at the age of 14, leads an entire resistance force to free her planet with the help of the Gungans, whom she had to appeal to them for aid which also lead to bringing peace between the people of Naboo and the Gungans after who knows how many years of tension existed between them.
Continued as the Senator representative of Naboo, who also been trying to keep the ideals of the Republic alive, even getting in the way of Palatine's plans in the Senate.
Oh, and she is one of the key figures that help creates the foundation for the Rebel Alliance.
Disney's Female characters: shallow characters who actually show themselves weaker by being the very thing they say they hate, but really idolize.
@@strategicperson95 Yea, but did Padme brainwash imperial soldiers by just telling them to go away? Did she easily beat Anakin and the Emperor in a sword fight? Clearly she was portrayed as weak.
Star Wars had NO strong women??? Princess Leah is literally the central most important political leader in the whole trilogy! The FIRST movie opens with people dying to protect her! Darth Vader blew up her entire home world to get her to talk, and she didn't! Obi-Wan Kenobi is so desperate to save her that his hobo ass trains a young farm boy to confront a fracking dark lord of the sith, who he forgets to tell is his father btw, just to rescue her! GTFOH! What they REALLY are saying is that they want ALL strong women to be non-white and Lesbians! Let's just put it out there like it is!
1000& agree with this. it ALLLL over media now. no matter waht medium your using. games tv shows and movies.
Don’t forget the Rebel Alliance was run by Mon Mothma too
Get this person a steak. Protect gnorley people. Gnorley hasn't been given over to the power of the dark side.
@@marybarnes6407Gone are the common days of imaginative, escapism from reality. Here comes narrative panderstoning.
*Leia
The Prequels tells the story of Anakin Skywalker's rise and his fall to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader
The Originals tells the story of Luke Skywalker becoming a Jedi and his parentage and redeeming his father
The Sequels tells the story of Disney pissing on all of that.
whilst sh*tting in their hands and throwing that at their diverse muticultural fanbase they erroneously label as straight white male alt right bigots...
I never liked the prequels because the fall to the dark side was too unreasonable. It starts out acceptable with "If you join the dark side, you can save your wife", then it becomes questionable at "Just kill a lot of children, and you might be able to save your wife." At this point the character moves away from a relateable person to someone who apparently was very extreme in thinking that no life matters except his wives life. Then it just got even worse at the end where they imply Anakin is so lost in his quest to save his wife, that he'd willing kill his wife to make sure nobody stops him from saving his wife. At that point it just became too ridiculous for me, because frankly Anakin no longer had any reason to even save his wife if he'd be willing to kill her to do so. And if that was true, he'd definitely not have reacted at the end of being told she was dead, because he'd just tell the Emperor "You are lying" then strike him down and we'd have no emperor left in the story.
You can't just make Anakin insane and sane at the same time. He'd either strongly refuse to accept any chances his wife is dead, or he'd have backed down and hugged his wife when she came for him.
In that sense I believe George screwed up in his writing and someone should have been brave enough to tell him "At least cut out the part where he meets Padme again, because that would bring him back out of his hatred and back to love".
I love Star Wars 1-6 and Revenge of the Sith is my favorite followed by Empire Strikes Back. Disney ruined Star Wars☹️
@@linusgustafsson2629tbf, Anakin was losing himself to the dark side (emotions were clouding his judgement). He had submitted himself as Darth Vader and carried out Palpitine's order.
Women ran the rebellion.
Exactly! Btw if you haven’t seen andor I highly recommend, mon mothma has a great arc in there
The funny thing is that the classic Empire was entirely human and entirely male. Even the classic books barely had any women in the Imperial military or civilian power structure. It was only after Disney got involved that the Empire started including a few women, while the Rebellion and Republic Jedi were inclusive of women and non-humans.
@willythemailboy2 That was a mayor point the rebellion was about in the expanded universe.
@@willythemailboy2 I don't think you read the books...
@@mrsleep0000 I read the Legends books, and women like Daala were so notable because they were so rare. The books written after Disney took over don't count, as I was discussing the pre-Disney classic Empire.
I guess now, they're going to call George Lucas a misogynist, if they aren't already...
George doesn't get to have an opinion after he supported Disney
My mother is an 80 year old Star Wars fan.. she loves Luke, Han, and Leia.
Disney Star Wars is a joke, a long overlapping never ending one...
And stopped being funny pretty quick.
@@AMPMASTER10It was funny? Guess I missed that
The irony of Disney destroying Luke, the embodiment of hope in Star Wars. But yeah, Obi-Wan was the wan that broke the camels back for me. They treated his character so bad.
Wished Uncle George never sold to Micky. Gena was perfect example of the fan loves female characters that are written well
Thank RetardedLogicMedia for the prequel hate bandwagon in the early years of YT.
And i wish he was not a hypocrite. He voted in favour of Iger, he has no right to complain!
@@Raximus3000 He's criticized Disney and Iger more, dude. Sit the fuck down.
Turning an entire studio with existing multi-million dollar franchises into a personal soapbox for your unresolved self esteem, boyfriend, and daddy issues hasn't worked out so well. R.I.P. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow.
Princess Leia, Mon Mothma, Queen Amidala, Kathleen Kennedy and her Acolytes are barking up the wrong tree
Crazy that they complaining that Luke blew up the death star, a weapon that just blew up an entire planet of innocent people. They are ridiculous to make that comparison
they saying anakin blew up the death star now not luke the stupidity of these idoits.
The Death Star Luke blew up was about to destroy a planet! The second Death Star was destroyed by Lando (a black man)
Heck the Death Star already blew up a planet. Making it clear it was a threat. With it about to do so again. making it clear the empire was more than ready and willingly to use this weapon. Not destroying it, would of lead to way more lost of life. Making the whole maybe Luke is not the good guy due to destroying it, a very questionable statement. For even disney used the Emperor as a villain in their movies. Who ruled the empire? The Emperor. So even going by their own bloody stuff. This makes no sense. For that weapon was under the control of the Emperor. He clearly would of used it to do more evil. The man who started a war throughout the galaxy, controlling both sides. Just so he could use it to grant himself more power and rule over it. How was Luke not the good guy and later Lando for that matter, for blowing up the death star?
Which also the people on the death star would be military. They should know their duties are dangerous, that it could lead to their death. They are in a dangerous profession, where death is common. They are making it sound like this is just every day normal people, trying to build a house or something.
And Wedge...Don't forget about Wedge..
@@Aeon2Flux no-one forgets Wedge.
You can't be a fan of something but then also want to change everything about it. That's like saying you like a restaurant's food but that they also need to change the menu.
"Yea your burgers are amazing, best burgers in the city. But have you considered pasta? I hear that people like pasta, plus there are tons of burger places, we need more Italian representation."
When those drama queens throw accusations at you, just respond with "And?"
It's like these people never saw the first movie. Leia was very obviously the brains of the trio, Luke and Han had NO plan after getting to her, everything went to shit pretty much immediately and her quick thinking got them out. People fail to realize that Leia is the original subversion of the "damsel in distress" trope, you expect her to be the delicate princess but one of her first actions after being rescued is to grab a blaster. The erasure of Leia's character by these clowns is downright infuriating.
That's exactly one of the points I've been making for awhile now. You go back to the 80s and 90s and we always had 'diverse' people in our media and women too. I am so sick of all this 'first female whatevers' and 'first gay whatevers' they try to use to push their BS awful writing on people. They put their crap out there and then try to say we're all a bunch of bigots who hate women and people of different colors in our movies.
What they mean is starwars has never had only the women being strong.
They cannot stand the fact that there are women in this world that want to stand beside a good man instead of in front of him
Problem with these activists is that they ignore characters that came before, even if they actually align with their beliefs.
They only care about the characters that THEY make getting that recognition. Can't have people talking about how progressive things were back then, it'd ruin their narrative.
They're not activists, Nelson Mandela was an activist. These twits are self aggrandizing virtue signaling babies, who would never go to prison or die for their cause. Otherwise you're spot on
They don't care about what came before. They only care about destroying it and building it in their image. they are cultural subverters. They want to destroy the franchise from within and turn it into a soapbox for their political ideology. thats what its all about.
That's what everyone's been saying for a decade now: these animals want to undo all the real progress that was accomplished in history, act like it never happened, create the same problems that were already conquered, take the role of knight in shinning armor with their fake ass virtues, "save the day," and take all the credit.
We understood back in the 1970’s that Princess Leia was a strong hero leading a rebellion when she was back talking to Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin and we didn’t need her to BE a manly woman because we understood that women were strong AS women.
Now those of us who were children in 1977 and who queued around the block to see the original Star Wars at the cinema are getting lectured by Zoomers who seem to think we were barbarians back then and who think they invented emancipation for women and ethnic groups?
Their anger that no one shows up is a gaslight. They simply want to destroy it and wreck everything because the products they produce have no love or dedication they are made to simply destroy it and let no one have it.
Amazing! Women must exclude all males from Star Wars in order to compete.
But DEI demands that females be played by men who identify as women. How's that work?
Feminists got played, and they are going to lose everything to men again. Meanwhile men will lose their entire identity in the process. Lose / lose.
Lol, feminists fought so hard for all that shit without realizing how it could impact them. Don't they realize they rank lowest on the woke hierarchy?
The guys don't care anymore.. They aren't going to say anything or watch it. It is just pure apathy for Star Wars.
I predicted this when the deal was made.
People swore “Disney knows how to do fantasy”…..
Look at where we are now…the brand is a disaster
I am a woman and girl friends and I LOVED Star Wars. It was the 80s - no one told us there was an issue so we just loved it and were giant fans.
Mon Mothma (Andor) is a perfect example of how well written a female character can be. Absolutely loved her character arc in season 1
It makes sense KK said that, remember there is no source material according to her and she is making it up as she goes along.
It was a big mistake trying to make Star Wars into a girl brand.
Without Leia, Luke wouldn't have found R2 and Han wouldn't have been hired to take him to Alderaan
Talking about KK and other being alienist! I remember the first time Princess Leia finds out that Hans Solo is dead, whos she first hug? The "perfect" girl she barely knows and not Chewie? Actually Leia completely ignores Chewie like his feelings or time with Hans didn't matter!
I always hated that. Rey barely knew Han for 24 hours, and after Han gets the Darth Maul treatment, Leia embraces Rey like she's been with her, Han, and Luke since A New Hope.
That movie really was total garbage.
Disney: You will accept our hate and like it!
Audience: Nah, we are going to watch you die.
Doesn't Princess Leah kill a stormtrooper in her first scene? Oh yeah, AND didn't she strangle Jabba the f ing HUTT! in Return of the Jedi? Just sayin'...
Aaaaand maybe k.k. has had a bug up her butt for 40 years, hates Lucas and Spielberg for working under them all those years, and is hell bent on destroying their legacy franchises. Or knows a lotta dirt on people.
Carrie used to bring that up as making up for wearing that costume which admittedly she didn’t like in general and I don’t blame her.
I'm a 45 year old woman wearing a playing card style Boba Fett tshirt. I'm not an SW fan? I saw Ep1 TPM in the movie theater 2x's. I've spent thousands of $ and € on SW merch. AND there are thousands of women like me! BS there are no female SW fans!
Did they think the Mara Jade fandom just appeared out of nowhere?
Leia went through torture with an Imperial torture bot and didn't crack. No force manipulation Vader did helped. Even when threatened with the destruction of Alderaan she didn't give up the location of the rebel base. You think any of the IRL women that are their self inserts could do any of that? The only woman in Star Wars that might be able to come up to that would have been Kara Dune.
That's why they fired her.
Me and one of my cousins as kids use to pretend we were Vader and Luke, Batman and Robin, Bo and Luke Duke, Evel Knievel. We didn't care the characters were not black because we liked the characters.
Thank you Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. I agree 👍
All they have to do to save Star Wars is hire a Bear to play a Jedi. Grizzle Grizzle
So Ewoks on steroids???
Those types of people hate canon, lore, and continuity because “assigned male at birth 🏳️⚧️” 😏👌
Or they just hate what they were not responsible for working on.
thats dave filoni in a nutshell.
I think it is worse that you are assigned age 0 at birth. Who says they are no reincarnations? Age should not be talked about until the child is 10 years old and get to choose their age on their own. (Logical error is on purpose)
Activists put propaganda over all.
Disney Star Wars is so inclusive that it demoted Leia.
This is the guy who just allowed his name to be used to back Iger. Don't care what he thinks anymore.
"Girl bosses" are not strong female characters. They're caricature tokens written by people who don't know what either strength or women are.
Exactly! Star Wars has already had strong female characters. Leia and Padme, for example.
There's more in the original EU.
Kennedy is clueless. Steven Spielberg must have really wanted her to leave Amblin.
Reminds me when Jennifer Lawrence claimed "Hunger Games" made her the 1st female lead in an action movie; as if there was no history of that until DEI came along.
Goldfish brains in human bodies. Not a good combo.
Didn’t she tell that to Signorney Weaver and Linda Hamilton in that interview?
@@RudesMom It's worse than that; it's rewriting history to make it fit the DEI narrative.
Want to talk about a badass woman??? Leia was able to kill Jabba the Hutt in a freaking METAL BIKINI!!!!
With the chain he was keeping her prisoner with, no less. If that kind of thing happened in a movie today there'd be a disappointing amount of people decrying it as feminist pandering because they've forgotten what a woman being a badarse looks like.
technically, it was the leash from the metal bikini.
Lucas, you had your chance to make change by backing Peltz over Iger, now your opinions are not relevant.
Lies. He made many huge mistakes, but he will always have some relevance.
It would have been better if he just made it public domain and let everyone do whatever the hell they wanted.
No. The process was rigged. Besides, his wife made the decision not him.
What we are hearing is a pissed lucas. He was ill and was probably kept in the dark.
She just told him and this is his response. He clearly doesn't think duhsney makes magic.
@Plus_Escapee
Facts!
His words don't mean a damn thing since he backed the knucklehead responsible for destroying what he created.
He had his chance.
He chose poorly.
Now he gets to see The Acolyte put the nail in the coffin of a once great franchise and universe.
He only has himself to blame.
When the Mouse turned Darth Sellout to evil, the good man that was George Lucas was destroyed.
I grew up wanting to BE Princess Leia. I loved her. She was a strong female role model. One of many in the 80’s.
I am so tired of this Bs. It is like people think history did not happen before they were born. SMH. And KK needs to go back to getting coffee.
14:04 - To also address the "no color" viewers they claim, there's literally a video of the Return of the Jedi premiere that features black audience members talking about how good the film was.
Call me every name in the book, as long as I don't have to watch Disney Star Wars.
Disney Star Wars isn’t Star Wars
Lucas once specifically stated that he wanted a princess in the story, but that she NOT be a typical damsel in distress. While Leia is brave and ballsy, she is still feminine. Also, she has flaws and vulnerabilities just like anyone else, which is why the character works. Making a character the BEST EVER and basically invincible goes against all the rules of good writing.
I'm actually happy they left Kyle Katarn alone because if he had made cannon, you know his character would've been stomped by '"strong female characters"
Add Jacen, Anakin and all the other decent characters already written. Despite the issues in EU lore, I at least had hope for it.
even galen marak aka starkiller theyd of nerfed him way worse than grevious just to make the women look better its the same crap sega pulled trashing there other charaters like tails and robotnik just to make sonic look better sonic forces was prime example of this lucasfilm is making the same error in star wars sega made in the sonic franchise.
Jen (after shooting down a Tie Bomber): "Oh, whenever I need to find you, you're always in some kind of trouble."
Kyle: "Jen! What a pleasant surprise!"
Jen: "What would you do without me, Kyle?"
Kyle: "I'd be a content old man."
Jen: "Somehow, I don't see "content" or an old man."
This was her introductory scene, by the way.
@@xanderpiz8770Jaina Solo was the leading war hero
Maybe Goerge is coming out of his Mickey Finn induced Coma and grew a pair??? we shall wait and see where it goes. Clownfish will show the way.
I can care less for Disney Star Wars. 👎
Not only did original Star Wars have strong women characters, it was literally saved by George's first wife. This shit narrative KK is trying to push does just as much damage to the women who worked behind the scenes.
Fun fact: Wendy Midner was one of Yoda's puppet builders, and met Brian Froud during production of Dark Crystal. And their baby is Toby in Labyrinth.
When I was a kid back in the 80s I use to go to a local model shop and get cool Japanese models (some Gundam some not) and I remember saying I had to get home that Friday night bc a Doctor Who marathon was on. The shop keeper asked who my favorite Doctor was and at the time it was Sylvester McCoy and the guy didn’t say I was wrong or how his favorite was better. Back in the 80s and 90s people were just happy to find someone else who liked he same shit as they did. And you could have the debate on who was better.
Now that non nerds have gotten into everything thing there is so much gatekeeping and vile shit thrown at old school nerds from the same people who use to make fun of us in school.
It’s so disgusting
its so stupid. litterally the 2 most powerfull important people where female. Mon Mothma who started it and Lea who finished it.
Not just leia, Ahsoka is a female Jedi from a non-human race trained by the chosen one of that time who actually got character development and involved in almost every medium and they say female characters were poorly used?
"Disney doesn't know how to make women come" Well said 🤣
So is this his Vader tossing the Emperor down a pit moment?
More like the Clone Troopers during order 66, shooting people in the back.
the kids fighting back at Anakin and winning.
"Master Lucas, our profits have plunged, what are we going to do?"
@@iratepirate3896 😂Can someone please make an AI impersonation of Iger saying this and then he flinches as George ignites the lightsabre! 😂🤣
The old expanded universe had a ton of female characters that were strong and good characters. I just ignore Disney Wars exist because most of it is total garbage and the things that were actually good were torpedoed in favor of their narrative. I'll stick to just reading the old expanded universe and continue ignoring Disney wars.
Mon Mothma is not given enough credit for being one of the most important persons in the whole rebel alliance.
Andor is giving her her place in the Sun and it is great
I feel like saying there aren't enough women in star wars, is like saying there Aren't enough women in saving private Ryan, or the thin red line. There was a time in the world when women didn't fight on the front line, so you wouldn't expect to see them in a movie about war. The fact that there was a woman fighting (Leia) makes this movie progressive, not misogynist.
The revolution is eternal
I was done with Disney Star Wars with The Last Jedi. The scene where the little Princess Leah gets dragged off to be tortured was the first time I felt rage for Disney for even conceiving of it. That BS that it was okay because it would be a strong woman that would torment a little girl was just offensive. Strong people don't torture children. Sure, Obi Won did save her, but Disney, a company that prides itself for family entertainment, introduced the idea of it. Sometimes, ideas can be just as bad as actions. Disney will never apologize for that.
Disney: Star Wars had no strong women before we came in and buy Lucasfilm!
Princess Leia, Queen Amidala: Are we a joke to you, Disney? 😠🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This pandering to the past before everything was said and done is just an excuse for them to REWRITE everything! From episode 1 to episode 6! Because they want full control of the narrative, to where something that didn’t exist in the original exist far back in the past and, in turn, will make them do the lazy work of rewriting everything to match up their agenda!
When I was a boy, I love playing as Eri or Fio from Metal Slug. They are just cute. I just love playing as cute characters. I never cared if they are female characters. The only people that do are just trained to only see themselves as the characters that are the same as them.
Talking about strengths and weaknesses, the Mother games did a great job where the male characters Ness and Lucas would have healing and status powers, and the female characters Paula and Kumatora would have offensive powers. It is a neat idea on its own.
Kevin Smith covered the whole Luke deathstar thing in clerks and oh my god it was hilarious
I was beginning to think Id imagined it
George Lucas didn't have this same energy Peltz was trying to fix Disney. He endorsed them, I could care less what he has to say now.
It's actually a real struggle to think of a more fleshed out, strong female character than Leia. It's absurd.
I love these people label everyone that doesn't like their star wars bigots and nazis. Meanwhile, "Oh the obvious sci fi nazis could be the good guys!"
When someone tells me that their favorite Star Wars characters are Robot B9 and Mr Spock, I tend to doubt that they're Star Wars fans.
Crazy enough, an actor in The Acolyte is saying "Anakin blew up a Death Star!" in a show, which means...
I have a feeling that Disney has set back Female Characters, in the American Movie Industry, back by several decades.
My mother, a black woman, from Louisiana, got me into Star Wars, 30 years ago. Women don't like Star Wars?
My argument against Lucas doing this now is that you, ClownfishTV, have been properly criticizing Disney before it was cool.
I mean the man made two female main characters who not only sat in a chair of high power but also physically fought in battles. Women were strong before crappy Disney SW and George actually did it right.
Millennial women act like women were never a thing in science fiction before unspecified current year. Well written, interesting, powerful female protagonists have been a thing in the genre literally forever.
Millennial women weren't typically into nerd things. The people in these positions are activist pretenders.
No reason and no proof to assume all millennial Gen women are like that
TH-cam is deleting a lot of comments lately.
William Shakespeare wrote strong female characters.
My ex argued to me that star wars was sexist, but she had never seen it.
Leia killing Jabba the Hutt by strangling him to death with the very chains he used to enslave her with will always be one of my favorite moments from the original trilogy.
I'm a woman and I've like Star wars. Since I was probably 8 years old, my dad introduced me to it because he liked it when he was a kid and he remembers seeing it in theaters whenever the first three came out
I'd say Willingly contributing to the construction of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, with the intent on turning said weapon against your opposition, kinda voids you from claiming "innocent bystander" status...
I think we need a new name. These things that are not "Star Wars" need to be called a "SWINO" movie (Star Wars In Name Only) so we can clearly understand the difference of Star Wars to this crap.
George's wife Marcia Lucas edited the first Movie. She's literally called the Mother of Star Wars.
And she won an Oscar for editing ANH but Lucas will never acknowledge her work after she cheated on him and left him for one of the designers of Skywalker ranch - Lucas also refuses to acknowledge Gary Kurtz (executive producer on ANH and ESB)
Mon Mothma doesn’t exist I guess as leader of the Rebellion. Leia was a spitfire too and top leader. No man ever questioned this or thought it was a problem.
The people running disney Star Wars have NO clue about it and trashing everything that George Lucas has made! If Acolyte introduces Sith characters which meant it not be seen or heard for a millennium it proves they don’t care at all. I’m not going to watch the new show if run by Darth Kennedy and her loyalists or her projects.
No strong female characters back then? WTF?
There's an old magazine scan that lists the confirmed canon by Lucasfilm....and in that was the EU books, lol.
That actor Fred up TWICE? TWICE he called Luke, Anakin.
South Park Streaming Wars was also about Disney: specifically Disney water parks recycle water in to the drinking water. Cast Members and Orlando Residents know this. It is just that no one had said it out loud.
Both Padme and Leia were like, some of the smartest, most important, and successful people in both Star Wars trilogies.
John Rambo was strong because he stood up to injustice. Joh Matrix was strong because he put his life on the line for someone he loved. Die Hard was strong because he didn't run and hide. These characters weren't strong because they could beat up men, they were strong through their actions. And there is the problem, these "writers" think that their strength came from their muscles and fists and that is how they write females. Men with boobs is the trope.
Then who the hell were Ventress? Ahsoka? Bastilla Shan? Meetra?
It's more of a justification than anything, the current "regime" cannot make "strong" and interesting characters. So they do the blame game.
The Farce is a better name for Kennedy's version
A lot of the problem is that films have to be almost three hours long now. It feeds mindless indulgence, creating ponderous and messy films. Marcia had to trim Star Wars down and make it work within that 90 minute limit and the film is far tighter for it.
From what I've seen about the original cut, it's like basically Lucas wanted the movie to be a shot-for-shot adaptation of the original screenplay (which is also basically what his book is).
It adds alot, and I mean ALOT of backplot for Luke and his group of friends that just does not exist in the movie (which means his "reunion" scene in the movie would actually make sense).
It's a great read, but the book would (and DOES) make for a terribly slow, boring movie.
That said, the Original Cut is still INCREDIBLY fasinating to look into. Even if just for the blasters smoking as they loudly fire blanks. There is an entire movie's worth of scenes they cut out.