Disney STAR WARS: "They're RACISTS Now?!!"

[@lionface1364]

I started being a racist when they killed off Han. I then became a race hater when they made Luke look like a broken old man. Now Im the most racist black guy on the planet after hearing they are going to make three more movies surrounded around Rey.

[@JLP627]

Sorry, but these Virtue signalers are the real sexist and racists who just keep beating us down.

[@thepsychicspoon5984]

You know that Harrison Ford wanted to be killed off, right? Ford never really cared for Han, he liked Indiana Jones far better.

[@lionface1364]

@@thepsychicspoon5984 Didn't know that. Interesting. Still doesn't change my opinion on the writing for the last three Disney Star wars films. And since I don't like any of them(and Asoka..).....technically I'm still a racist. Lmao

[@HerculesBallsInc]

@@thepsychicspoon5984 Now if it were me running the sequels, I would have simply re-cast Han. Ford wanted out, it's been decades, there's no better time to do it. The way they used him was a farce anyway.

[@JLP627]

@thepsychicspoon5984 They still could've written him better than a dead-beat loser dad that never evolved and killed him off. In an interview, JJ said they needed more weight, so they decided to kill off Han in the first sequel trilogy. That says a lot about how confident he was with the story and how much preplanning they had moving forward.

[@20680]

First rule, you never end a star wars movie with a kid holding a broom.

[@Magneticlaw]

But that was the best scene of the movie, because it heralded the credit roll.

[@stevedenis8292]

It was your fathers broom ,an elegant cleaning tool from a more civilized time. Your father wanted you to have it when you were old enough .

[@jasoncox9883]

​@@stevedenis8292It's not as clumsy or random as a leaf blower

[@HerculesBallsInc]

@@jasoncox9883 You, sir, win one Internet.

[@treystephens6166]

It doesn’t matter anymore ‼️ thanks to Disney it won’t matter by the year 2053‼️ $4 Billion would not help me sleep at night‼️

[@nightwishfan1991]

All this does is confirm that Ahsoka was a massive failure. If the series was a hit they wouldn't have to resort to years old fan attacks and that already discredited Rewriting Ripley article.

[@catherine8470]

I like animated ahsoka and Rebels and later years of the clone wars. Live action Star Wars has not been very good, especially Kenobi and Ahsoka. Stiff acting with sh1tty direction.

[@nightwishfan1991]

@@catherine8470 I loved Clone Wars and Rebels too. Which is why when I see clips from the Ahsoka show I don't recognize any of these characters. Kenobi I sadly watched and I believe that show took 5 years off of my life because of how bad it was.

[@ronsmith8424]

Finn could have been the most interesting character as he had a real hero’s journey to become a Jedi and why he didn’t go with Rey to find Luke is still a mystery to all of us. He was crushing on Rey and just discovered this amazing power he didn’t know he had BUT he didn’t go ? Why ? Racism ! There was plenty of room on the Millenium Falcon and he could have made TLJ more interesting as a go-between Rey and Luke. He also could’ve stayed on the island while Rey went back to fight Kylo Ren. Setting him up to be useful and important in the final movie. Po was under used too as he was the fighter pilot hero adventurer people wanted Luke to be or Han Solo could’ve been after the end of the war. Not having the 3 original main characters in one movie when they had the chance was a huge opportunity missed. Over the years it will be interesting to see how the fans love grows or diminishes for Disney Star Wars

[@Darth_Lex]

​@@catherine8470Me, too. Ahsoka was my new favorite. The cartoon shows were really good. Unfortunately, the live action actors and actresses were completely flat. No of them have ever played a lead character, and it shows.

[@byronrush9802]

​@@ronsmith8424yeah then deny he doesn't have force powers only to confirm it in a Lego movie Christmas special, The premise we were given for the commercial of the first movie was that Finn was going to be a Jedi we were lied too, this would have been the first trilogy following two new Jedi at the same time who didn't have any bloodline heritage connection to the main characters or villains they screwed the pooch on that one

[@stue2298]

When Finn said he was in sanitation I thought that was a euphemism for his squad coming in after the main assault and sanitizing (killing civilians) the area of resistance, since it a Disney film. But it wasn't a euphemism, Disney KK and JJ really went with the racist stereotype of Finn being a black janitor.

[@GladDestronger]

Yeah, despite the fact Disney is ranting & raving about "fighting the terrible racism". Effing hypocrites is what they are.

[@khatdubell]

hey, hey, hey. He wasn't just a janitor, he was a _space_ janitor.

[@edwardp7725]

I thought the same thing until reading this very comment. Really shows you who is projecting here, wow. I just thought they were being clever.

[@treystephens6166]

In 2005 the 🇺🇸 Government hired Mercenaries to Sweep Up the uh Un-Desirables. Believe IT or Not‼️

[@treystephens6166]

@@khatdubellI’m a Space Dishwasher ‼️

[@GhostlyChairSniffer]

This ends when we all stop caring in general. When a new star wars show stops and 50k people watch and there's no one left watching to call a racist.

[@killgriffinnow]

It’s worse than that: now nobody will care about the word “racist” because it’s been overused so dishonestly. We’re entering a “Hyper real Tower of Babel” world, where all words have lost their original meaning.

[@jeff-hh9mc]

It ends when people call out the professional victim trash.

[@GhostlyChairSniffer]

@jeff-hh9mc When Star Wars becomes Duke Nukem itll be over because no one will care enough to even see their cries.

[@aaronaguilar4004]

It's pretty much there now. Disney keeps artificially inflating its popularity.

[@jeff-hh9mc]

@@GhostlyChairSniffer Star Wars becomes duke nukem not getting that one.

[@sbarnes7240]

Disney just don't understand that they've reached the end, they've killed marvel and theyve killed star wars, they've even killed all their own animated legacy with their crappy live action remakes

[@HumanPerson_final]

And at this point, I've been called a racist for so many nonsense reasons that it really is meaningless to me. Ironic, the rise in "racism" coincides with the sharp rise in wokism.

[@Scripture-Man]

Star Trek RIP

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Exactly. The hype is gone.

[@acarter4173]

John Boyega's character was reduced to a Dudley Dickerson slapstick prop.

[@majorgrubert5887]

RAY!

[@calebhayden4124]

The fact he was just black Kyle katarn, hint he's force sensitive, and then never use him to do anything. Smh

[@Bullfrog-pk6pl]

I would care if John Boyega wasn't such a woke joke, BLM supporting racist pos.

[@harbl99]

And they did it _after_ Kurt Russell made _Soldier_ . They literally had the storyboard for 'brainwashed supersoldier escapes his environment, learns to be free, chooses to be a hero' laid out for them, and they still whiffed the shot.

[@TimeWaster_Elite]

To make room for… wait for it… wait for it… WAIT FOR IT… … a white female Kathleen Kennedy stand-in. Imagine my shock.

[@kirby7294]

I was talking about how bad Ahsoka is with my sister and she asked me "Are they calling haters sexist" and I said, oddly enough, no. Which I thought was strange for a disney product to not accuse its critics of being homophobic/transphobic/racist/sexist/misogynistic/privileged/etc. It seems it was only a matter of time...

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

You have a sister. Hitler had a sister. Coincidence? I think NOT

[@kirby7294]

@@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher you got me there.

[@NeroLeMorte]

​@@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacherXD

[@gaijinhakase1575]

“You know who else had a sister??” “Don’t say Hitl-“ “Adolf. Hitler.” - a la Jeremy Jamm 😂

[@OpticalResonator]

Don't worry, Disney still didn't.

[@STB-jh7od]

I'm shocked shocked, well not that shocked. As a 15 year US Army veteran, janitorial work is large part of what soldiers do. So Finn being assigned that, then being reassigned to going back to being a grunt, is most realistic part of that movie.😂

[@ThatsMrPencilneck2U]

I failed to qualify with the floor buffer.

[@EvilExcalibur]

People always looked at me funny when I volunteered to clean the bathroom but nobody ever thought that it's the one chore that the cadre will never interrupt.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

electric or the old lump of iron @@ThatsMrPencilneck2U

[@clottadams5028]

Except there's droids for everything, except cleaning.

[@STB-jh7od]

@clottadams5028 that's even more realistic for military. Spend billions on a weapon system, but few thousands on a robot that cleans when we have troops to do it, NAH. Stormtroopers need more range time, NAH, make them clean.

[@richardvickers8117]

Finn is a far more interesting character than Rey, but Rey is KKs self insert so whatcha gonna do?

[@dickybird6916]

Oh thats 100%. Boyega was robbed. Finn would have been a much better lead character and had a potential story arch that wasn't Reys boring "mystery box" boringly predictable crap.

[@don.keebles]

Disney turned his character into Jar Jar Finn.

[@richardvickers8117]

Yep. Finn could answer should have led while they sloooowly brought Rey along. Or just left her out.

[@Herandro_just_Herandro]

I'm not going to lie, in TFA I really thought Finn would become a Jedi on the next movie because Kylo Ren sensed something inside him and because Finn was able to fight Kylo Ren for a brief moment. It seems Disney had different plans, starting by hiding John Boyega on the Chinese poster. Who are the racists again? At least Lando Calrissian was responsible for destroying the freaking Death Star in Return of The Jedi.

[@tonyng9]

The only thing that would have made sense narratively was for Rey to turn to the dark side and Finn to become a Jedi, and Finn ends up pulling Rey back. They also chickened out and didn't want to make an interracial romance with a black man and a white woman.

[@timmyb7734]

There is a reason why Disney made all those racist cartoons about the Japanese during WW2 but you would hardly see any anti-German cartoons like Warner Bros were doing with Bugs and Adolf... There is a reason, Walt was American and a fan of those crazy Germans all those American companies poured money into during "The German Miracle". That history that America tried really hard to suppress around the world for 50 years...

[@little_dandelion]

I question now every time someone mentions that Chinese poster, after I did my research on the Little Mermaid poster and found out it's a nontroversy. I can't go back in time to check which were the official posters, main posters and other promo material in Mainland China for releases before Little Mermaid. What can be found today is that the very same picture of downsized John Boyega has been used in the USA market and European market for DVDs and 3D, which fits with what is written on the Chinese poster in question (there's that 3D mention on it). But there is also a Chinese version of the poster with regular sized John Boyega. Plus claims from residents in China contradict the accusations from Westerners, reporting the main poster being actually the same picture as the US version. It's just you say VS they say, I can't take into account anyone's claim without proof. So the USA and Europeans have been just as racist as the Chinese. Or nobody is. I did also the same type of search concerning the controversial Black Panther poster. Again, the clues point to a possible nothing burger. The actual poster that spurred the US outcry was Taiwanese (that's what made me realize there's a difference in maketing between Mainland China, Taiwan, and HongKong). I don't know which main poster was used in Mainland China. Again, comments from residents in China contradict the accusations from Westerners. There are existing promo materials in Chinese featuring clearly the faces of the cast, so I concluded they didn't hide their ethnicity. And China was the second biggest box office behind the USA. Also, that picture of Black Panther with the mask was used in promo material in the USA, Europe and other Asian countries.

[@captainz9]

I wouldn't gave minded Finn being "trained" (encouraged) by Luke or Leah into having/improving force skills and becoming a back Jedi... Heck it would've been a vast improvement over Mary Sue Rey being able to do everything better than even Luke without any learning/effort at all.

[@evandromiyake1071]

Just imagine what we've lost? Finn not a dumb comedy relief, but a hardcore, no nonsense soldier, just shooting and fighting like a beast

[@sonoftheredfox]

Finn's two lightsaber fights in Force Awakens were better than anything they did with Rey. You could tell he was putting everything into the moves. He went toe to toe with Kylo and got a hit in as well! So much wasted potential with his character.

[@toastyanon8902]

A tortured fighter, trying desperately not to kill his former comrades, fighting to free his brainwashed brothers across 3 films…

[@sillypuppy5940]

Getting a story would have helped

[@HerculesBallsInc]

From the 'Force Awakens' I thought the plot SHOULD have gone that Finn is the only stormtrooper to awaken because he had THE FORCE. And Rey was going to be his techie companion who thought she was the main character but manages to find satisfaction in instead making him look good. Han would have been her father figure that she totally connected to in absence of a real father. I almost wrote it up as a book.

[@treystephens6166]

It’s Time To Let Go ‼️ of Everything We FEAR To Lose‼️

[@seanbaugh3239]

*"If you didn't like Ahsoka, you ain't black."* - Joe Biden 😂 *NUFF SAID"™️*

[@JLP627]

Imagine if they had made a storm trooper a Jedi? Would've been quite a storyline.

[@treystephens6166]

Imagine if George Lucas didn’t sell LUCASFILM, Ltd to Disney … instead he kept it or sold it to Universal Studios, or Paramount or Toho or You or Me …

[@JLP627]

@@treystephens6166 I wouldn't have the resources to pay him 😅

[@treystephens6166]

@@JLP627 he could have given it to me and I’d have paid him over $10 Billion by now‼️

[@seasonedbeefs]

​@@treystephens6166given to me I would have probably sold out to the highest bidder TBF.

[@treystephens6166]

@@seasonedbeefs no, anyone but Disney ‼️

[@patrickmcgavin2245]

When I saw the trailer. I thought we were going to get a star wars movie about a storm trooper who decided to rise up and fight the first order. The trilogy would end with him being a Jedi. He wound up being a janitor and a lap dog. Fin was literally following Rey around across three movies. And got nothing for his troubles.

[@wesss9353]

Black guy chasing after a white girl...

[@RenlangRen]

Making Finn simp for Rey was stunningly insulting.

[@defeqel6537]

@@wesss9353 a tale as old as time

[@nichi403]

The fact that if you have filoni-ian tubes, you no longer die from a lightsaber stab to the gut. Disney Lucasfilm just doesn't understand Star Wars and has cheapened everything we love about it.

[@stoopidpursun8140]

If only Qui-Gon had yelled "I identify as a woman!" right before Darth Maul impaled him he would have been fine.

[@kalesmart1]

Well they've shattered the immersion since the force awakens came out so anything afterwards is flavourless because it has no internal guidelines for story, lore, logic etc Now it isn't flavourless it actually tastes terrible lol

[@Scripture-Man]

If you didn't like this stunning female-empowering movie then you, madam, must be a SEXIST!

[@DeetotheDubs]

Disney bought a golden goose and poisoned its food. Star Wars had an established fanbase and name recognition and all they had to do was write good stories in that universe. It's a shame this franchise, as well as Indy and the MCU, mattered less than The Message that just *had* to be pumped out in every aspect of entertainment.

[@paul.9828]

Disney has the Reverse Midas Touch, turning beloved golden IP's into dirt that nobody wants. Star Wars, Marvel, Indiana Jones, Willow.

[@kidwajagstang]

Actually, all they really needed to do was take the established extended universe and make them into screen plays and then just film them!! They already had a BUNCH of content already written and already largely accepted by the fan base!! Instead, we were shown the biggest demonstration of incompetence possible by a person claiming to be intelligent and superior to the vast majority.

[@knottyeti]

Honestly, they probably didn't even have to be very good stories, just acceptably not bad for star wars fans to lap up new content. Even with awful characters like Jar Jar creating a lot of complaints everyone still wanted more. It takes some real effort to turn hard-core fans away from a franchise that they've loved for decades.

[@cairsahrstjoseph996]

@TheSmilingAmerican Too late 😁

[@paul.9828]

@@knottyeti The Disney Trilogy managed to do what I never imagined possible. It made The Phantom Menace look good in comparison. I would rather have Jar Jar than what Disney did to Luke and Han's characters.

[@THEDEVIOUSDEATHTROOPER]

The cry of racism is there one and only response to criticism isn’t it.

[@kittybrowneye3163]

Don't forget the patriarchy

[@deadli-us]

And misogyny

[@wolfbane7497]

And homophobia

[@GladDestronger]

All of Hollywood uses it too. It's their go-to excuse when things fail. Not because of terrible acting, unlikable characters, bad/lazy writing, playing the toxic fan/racist card, but because of the audience is effing terrible people.

[@Magneticlaw]

Because successful businesses have increased their sales and profits, like, never by using the tactic of insulting and bullying potential customers.

[@jw1415]

A stormtrooper becoming a jedi is an awesome concept. Rey should've fell to the darkside, and Finn defeats her. But, making good stories is not the priority now.

[@EliSkylander]

Oh, I would have watched that, actually.

[@justinwhite2725]

That would have been bad for China.

[@jw1415]

@@justinwhite2725 Unfortunately, do to their racism, yes...Which is ironic because their are "black" Chinese ethnicity who live in certain mountain regions. Disney has been catering to all the wrong powers...smh

[@Scripture-Man]

Rey is an evil character so I assumed she was always on the "dark side".

[@thepsychicspoon5984]

Disney execs: Your all racist Also Disney execs: Makes a black stormtrooper into a comedy clown background character.

[@defeqel6537]

and censors said character, as well as the lesbians, in China, etc.

[@och70]

Finn could have been one of the coolest characters in the garbage sequel trilogy, might have even saved it from being complete garbage. That first lightsaber battle with Kylo Ren showed the wasted potential. Instead, they turned Finn into a simping joke who just ran around yelling "Rey!" for three movies.

[@steelshanks1265]

Look... I hate the Yuuzhan Vong, and hate that Jacen Solo fell to the Dark Side, but... The Old EU is the True Canon. That is how Star Wars continued, that is the story of Han, Leia, Lukes, Lando's, and Chewie's futures. Han and Leia are flying around with the Falcon with their Granddaughter... Luke is training Jedi, including his own son Ben... Chewie is a Legendary Wookiee warrior, that could only be defeated by dropping an entire Moon on him... Lando saved the galaxy with his series of war droids, etc. etc. These stories are 1,000 times greater than the terrible, dumpster-fire garbage, fan fiction that Disney wrote... Feck You Disney... Long live the EU, the True Canon.

[@joeyservo]

By hate the Yuuzhan Vong, do you mean you hate the NJO arc? Because although it's been years....MANY YEARS since I've read an EU novel, I do remember there were some really standout books amongst that arc, with some impressive writing. The older EU had some obvious standouts, Thrawn Trilogy, X-Wing etc...but there was also a lot of hot garbage in there as well.

[@SapperRJMorgan]

Amen brother. One of my favorite series of books was the Thrawn series. Many of my friends list off great books that made up the EU. Sad what Disney has done.

[@steelshanks1265]

@@joeyservo Hate the entire race and idea of the Vong. Hate the Extragalactic angle, the whole thing... And then the Vong showing up here and there afterwards too.

[@steelshanks1265]

@@SapperRJMorgan Agreed. Thrawn Series of Novels and Comics from Dark Horse is the REAL Thrawn. Not the moron that appears in Disney shyte... He's a Clown by comparison.

[@ultraviolet540]

Jaina Solo is amazing tho

[@Kylorin235]

Oh lord, I didnt watch their show, I did a racism again.

[@davidjacobs8558]

don't forget James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself.

[@ChrisPierce-y1r]

I never got past the 1st sequel I walked out of the theater

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

As soon as han solo got killed, I left too.

[@peteypiranalover]

I kept trying to piece the pieces together for the 1st 2 movies thinking this seems like a mess but maybe i am missing things then the creators attacked the fanbase and lost good will. I went to Rise of Skywlker sick from worry as a eulogy.

[@LavaCaptain-yf6iu]

I’m still so mad all these years later that they essentially wasted Finn’s past as a stormtrooper for a Janitor Joke and a Trash Compactor Joke

[@redjirachi1]

Legitimate criticism in a Nerdrotic video? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[@chaddesrosiers1107]

Gary speaking the truth. "Your Audience" is not a thing. There can be only one.

[@johnwashburn6118]

I can explain the janitor thing...In the Navy we had janitorial maintenance responsibilities, but also we were expected to participate in General Quarters combat duties.

[@kittybrowneye3163]

Ghost pooping is not janitorial and sword fighting isn't really combat 😂😉

[@stue2298]

The progressives hate stereotypes and the black janitor is a racist stereotype. Finn wasn't enlisted in the Imperial Navy he was a Stormtrooper, they would have kept their living quarters clean and tidy, but wouldn't be doing janitorial duties around the ship or base.

[@raymathews1474]

You beat me to it. If you've got soldiers or sailors to keep busy, there's an endless list of things to have them clean - and clean again!

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

I was hoping to find this

[@dependablepaul]

Yep, till I made MM3, I likely spent as much time dusting, sweeping and swabbing p-ways and berthing compartments as I did standing watch in Main Control and Aux 1.

[@jasondouglas152]

Don't forget the fat phobia over Porkins

[@Spiritsofthepoorhouse]

My nephew was 9 when Force Awakens released. He was so hyped and all about Kylo Ren. The moment Kylo took his helmet off, the look on my nephews face was so puzzled like “who’s this clown”?!?! Anyway, he turned away from SW at that point and never looked back.

[@jonathanbaker4361]

Yeah I gotta admit, nothing against Adam Driver as a person. I am an eye sore myself, but dude looks... odd... to say the least. The patented Kylo Ren millennial tantrum he threw didn't help. But that was bad writing.

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Yeah that totally happened.😂

[@emilynolan187]

Adam Driver is a good actor, but there's nothing menacing or intimidating about him. The way kylo ren is written he just seems like an annoying whiny emo kid

[@Spiritsofthepoorhouse]

I’m not knocking Adam Driver at all. He’s a great actor. I just didn’t realize it until I watched a different movie that he was in.

[@npenick66]

I saw all the Lucas Star Wars movies in the theater's opening week. I went to New Hope in New Orleans on opening week. I saw the Empire Strikes Back on opening day in Athens Greece, my brother and I snuck away from our parents on vacation just to see Star Wars. I waited over 4 hours in line in the hot Southern California sun to see Return of the Jedi on opening day when I was in high school. Took my oldest son to each of the prequels on opening day, let him skip school for a guys day. We were very into Star Wars. Took my son to Force Awakens opening week, neither of us have bothered watching any new SW since. No new movies, no TV, no Mouse+. At least we still have the George Lucas films when we need a fix. And we get some laughs over it from channels like this.

[@7slavok]

The problem isn't just that Disney doesn't care about Star Wars, it's that they don't even understand it. In an interview, George Lucas talked about how after the original trilogy came out, a lot of movies tried to imitate it by making movies in space because to them, that's what Star Wars was. Disney Star Wars has space ships, droids, light sabers, jedi, and even some of the original actors, but they ended up with nothing more than a hollow shell of what Star Wars is. The most important scene in A New Hope wasn't Luke blowing up the Death Star, or learning to trust in the Force, it was him looking out over the twin sunset on Tattooine, saying nothing, letting the scenery and the orchestra do the work. It was a story about a boy who wanted adventure. It was a story about a hero going on a journey, and you can no more write a Star Wars story without understanding the Hero's Journey than you can wrtie a Lord of the Rings show without understanding good and evil.

[@dependablepaul]

I walked out about half way thru "The Force Awakens". Rey and the storyline jumped the shark for me. Haven't watched any Disney/Star Wars related since, I'm not Charlie Brown to have the football yanked away again.

[@_nebulousthoughts]

Give Rogue One and Andor a go. They're both great. The rest are meh at best.

[@alexgillis9446]

Something was lost between my kids and I during the viewing of TFA. My kids never spoke of star wars again after that movie. It was such a shitty movie i never went to the other two.

[@TheNuclearGeek]

I am so sick of being called racist while there NEVER seems to be a single mention of just how ACTUALLY racist DISNEY was/is! I said it then and I'll say it now, Finn was EASILY my favorite character and the one whose arc I looked forward to seeing the most in the movies going forward. Yet WE'RE the racist ones, somehow, when DISNEY chose to literally minimize his character on the poster AND in the story simply because he was black and China HATES black people, but Disney loves their racist money. They did Finn dirty, they did John Boyega dirty, and it disgusts me to time and time again see their racism get a pass because they virtue signal in some other way.

[@wesss9353]

Song of the South

[@_nebulousthoughts]

Yep. In Australia we had a comedian caller racist about indigenous people and the woke came after him using the term "punching down" implying that the indigenous are lower. These people call people racist but can't see their own racism.

[@kalesmart1]

There was a 2 week period where I saw absolutely loads of sexist comments about rey as a lead but it completely disappeared afterwards and never seen any legit sexism since, I will never know if it was legitimate or an opp run by disney, I think everyone's attention went to the lore/ finn afterwards but it's always made me think I imagined it. I just can't remember if it was for the trailer comments or for the actual movie release though.

[@TheNuclearGeek]

@@_nebulousthoughtsOh the "anti-racists" are the biggest racists around. In all their virtue signaling, they're doing the most racist thing you can - assume that race is weaker/stupider/etc.

[@TheNuclearGeek]

@@kalesmart1 Well part of the problem is it's completely subjective what someone considers "racist" or "sexist". Calling her a "Mary Sue" is sexist to a lot of people, but it's a completely accurate description of her. Some people consider ANY criticism, legitimate or otherwise, sexist/racist which just insanity, but commonplace. Situational equality.

[@KentheDeer]

Disney's treatment of Star Wars makes me sad...

[@dustint2482]

Jar jar, stepping in the poopy is like the globe falling out of Orson Welles hand in citizen, Kane compared to anything that Disney has done.

[@tw1st3ds0ul9]

As long as you have someone else to blame for your failures, you never have to improve yourself.

[@tonyv6815]

What's good about this guy is that apparently he goes by the term "the geek of color" so you can basically just dismiss what he says outright

[@Joemantler]

The problem wasnt that they killed Han. It's that they assassinated his character first.

[@codyw1]

And had him go out like a pussy. They could have killed him as a hero making a heroic sacrifice to save his wife and kids and Luke. Not murdered off like a twat.

[@brockdavid]

Haha! I think we should start making our own ‘War of Star’, and be more lore accurate and just change the names of technology from lightsabers to laser swords, and from Darth to Mal (Bad), and just post fan made films for future Fans. Star Trek has a fan base that has done something similar, and it looks pretty decent.

[@brockdavid]

Oh, and Dash Rendar was the greatest ever. That outfit looked cool.

[@Crimson522]

You can call it "Astra Arma"

[@Azrael__]

Literally one of the top complaints about the sequel trilogy is that people wanted MORE Finn and that they failed him as a character 🤦

[@neilprice513]

The Empire Strikes back has been taught, in a University script writing course, in how to write a sequel movie. While in the same course The Last Jedi is taught on how to NEVER write a sequel film. Disney Star Wars is almost always written poorly, solely relying on tropes and "twists" for their plots. Instead of interesting characters and an engaging story

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

really?

[@neilprice513]

@@lupaswolfshead9971 This is a story from around 2019 where seminars/courses in several universities taught by screenwriter Kamran Pasha

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

cool that's really interesting to know thanks👍👍@@neilprice513

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

Yes when Finn removed his helmet and he was not a clone, I had the exact same reaction, oh this is interesting, and they made him a janitor. Why couldn't he be the air vent technician, any other job maintenance job, except a shit handler. I found that to be racist, because a janitor staff is never given a gun or body armor or be on that planet with the bad guy, because he should be on the ship unplugging toilets.

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

every soldier is a janitor irl

[@MrS-pe6sd]

Don’t these people ever get sick of blaming all their failures on sexism and racism? How exhausting

[@chasehedges6775]

Yeah, it’s gotta be a exhausting and tiring for these guys.

[@mastakrafsta]

The pain of Finn not becoming a Jedi will forever hurt my soul

[@kalesmart1]

Sometimes a story can be better if they go for a different idea not obvious to the audience, however the alternative has to actually be even better to work. This was why the last jedi was such a disaster, some ideas would have been great if they were executed better but they ruined any narrative structure for the trilogy lol

[@mastakrafsta]

@@kalesmart1 in my opinion nothing was better or could have been better then that. That idea is what sold me in the first place. I stop in and watch the OG teaser/trailer every couple of years just to refuel my dreams of what could have been.

[@wylde_hunter]

'GEEKS OF COLOR' makes no sense as true geeks don't give a $hit about color, but do care about character

[@Danthrax2324]

There are no "janitors" in Star Wars. Droids do all that stuff.

[@joshgamingvlogs5203]

Big difference between starwars fans and Disney starwars fans

[@pickmeasinner]

"The franchise isn't bad, racism blah blah blah " Disney is over lol. They cannot read the room

[@aaronaguilar4004]

Yeah i saw A Force Awakens and realized its no longer Star Wars and never returned since then.

[@willd1mindmind639]

These people seem to forget that "blaxpoitation" films featuring mostly black casts were big back in the 70s along with Hong Kong action films, again with all Asian or mostly Asian casts. This mentality is simply a continuation of the corporate Hollywood mentality of white executives trying to make themselves seem important because of "diversity quotas", except when it comes to their own jobs. Having these other groups of people in movies isn't new or groundbreaking and in the past diverse actors in various roles were not advertised as the most important reason to see the movie. Nobody called out Yaphet Kotto as "the first black man in a space movie about Aliens". Nobody called out the black actor in THX 1138 as the "first black actor in a futuristic dystopian sci fi movie". Yet these roles exist and these things were done long ago. Hollywood simply is preserving the privilege of these white executives to control the industry and make bad decisions while making millions of dollars for themselves by pretending that they care about diversity. You don't need to lecture people about diversity, just hire people of all types and it will come naturally and most importantly give them the power to create without corporate interference.

[@ericbrown8627]

All roads lead to the sequels, RIP Star Wars 2012.

[@CostantiFamily]

Disney Star Wars movies got off to a great start with Rogue One and then everything else is Nurgle infected feculence.

[@durpydurp7853]

Disney needs to sell starwars

[@evandg13ify]

Not white supremacists, we're "sci-fi supremacists"

[@peteypiranalover]

As far as Obiwan goes Reva or some other female dark side adjacent character could have been a sidekick character and Obiwan could have interected with Female characters in Mos Eisley. There could have been female main characters that dont cause plot issues

[@jesseleblanc8445]

Does Disney not remember making fin as small as possible on the posters for promotion?

[@mkb4560]

I actually thought Finn was going to be the Jedi and was disappointed that he wasn't

[@HavenParadisePlays]

I love how Xray Girl finds the time to explain her feelings

[@christophertaylor9100]

Right, I never refer to my friends as my "blonde friend" or my "left-handed" friend. They're just my friend. And nobody cared about the black stormtrooper being black, they thought he was an interesting character who went nowhere

[@lescorlett4133]

I stopped watching Star Wars as soon as I realised Daisy Ridley had as much range as a plank of wood.

[@majorgrubert5887]

The “haldol” procedure… the odds are a million to one… let’s do that! 😂

[@TheReal_Animale]

That’s rich coming from the same company who’s totally fine kowtowing to the Chinese market erasing black actors from their movieposters.

[@SteveBarraco]

Brilliant comment: The OG fans just walked away and didn’t say a word. We did. Couldn’t bear to see our childhood sacrificed on the altar of Disneys identity politics so we turned our backs quietly and walked away. Problem is, they didn’t realize how many of us there is.

[@blitzdough]

That's the kind of customer I am. If I have a terrible experience, I don't cause a scene.... I just go away and don't come back.

[@UncensoredScion]

one of the scariest things I've ever seen is how quickly something can be memory holed and even the people who push back against it have forgotten it entirely. In the build up to Force Awakens there was promotional art, a revealed title crawl and endless amounts of promo footing with voice overs by Arbroo. And in none of it was the words "episode 7" mentioned, none of it was given that until after the title crawl was released and all they had was "the Force Awakens" people then demanded to know wtf and they added the Episode 7 quickly before release. But with all that and the idea of not having a roadmap for the story by JooJoo, the message originally was clear here. His plan was to do a modern version of Flash Gordon, to have the films not really have a proper thruline just like each week you'd get the major cliffhangers with Gordon and have nothing be as deadly after it the week following. And no one looks back and remembers the stuff.

[@paulloughlin3732]

I'm one of those fans that just walked away, I will never return. I want to watch some Star Wars, I've got Episodes I to VI.

[@OolalaFive]

Why do they keep doing this drama queen, guilt trip style of damage control? It never gets more people to watch their crap.

[@justinlong5892]

because they are narcissists. They are broken pieces of human garbage.

[@AspiePilo82]

They put a very dark sweaty black guy at the opening scene of the trailer of Episode 7. Dude pops out at close up like "look at mee, Black storm trooper in your FACE, are you racist??.

[@nemesisnick66]

such thought provoking and insightful commentary from xray girl

[@rcdune7132]

The way Gary describes Star Wars fans and Disney fans is absolutely perfect!!💯💯

[@sagethegreat4680]

I like how they want to blame racism for Disney star wars and it was Disney that gave the Ron Jeremy sized shaft in the films to finn

[@hatuletoh]

I'd watch just the Jar-Jar Binks parts of the TPM a thousand times before I'd watch another minute of disney star wars.

[@StefunnyStrange]

I’m a black nerd and a KZbinr but don’t do many long form videos..Or short form for that matter because I actually stopped making videos once my page blew up because I’m weird.. but I wish I could give my take on one of your lives because it really pisses me off when people chalk these opinions up to racist fans. This comment is kinda unrelated to Star Wars/Ahsoka and more about race-swapping but Hollywood’s need to shove black actors into roles to pander to audiences, putting them into places or settings that make NO LOGICAL sense needs to stop. Like midevil settings as queens and s**t, for instance. Or in shows like Rings of Power. When did we ever ask for this? These days, black people have to be starring in every damn story. If you are going to try to convince me that a mixed population resides in a specific setting, like in Rings of Power or The Witcher, then you need to also explain why most people aren’t mixed race and how these races came to be in this small part of the world. If you make a show in 2023 in the middle of broadway, and I don’t see ANY black people, then yeah, I’m gonna feel like you’re a little bit racist and will call bulls**t. Because black people SHOULD be there and you ERASED them. But that’s not what’s happening now in Hollywood. The difference between garbage like ROP and a show like House of the Dragon is that HOTD changed the Velaryons to black actors FOR THE STORY not for the actors! It literally made sense because according to the show-runners, they weren’t from Westeros anyway and it was a way for the audience to distinguish between the Targaryens and Velaryons because they LOOK THE SAME (for the most part), most having violet eyes and silver hair in the books. There are so many characters who resemble each other so it made sense to cast black actors. It improves the story on screen, works for TV audiences, and makes the translation from book to screen smoother. This is why I read the reason for race-swaps before I watch a movie or show. If they mention diversity again and again, it’s usually a good indication that the movie or show will BLOW. Because good creators want to talk about the interesting story, not about all the people of color they casted. I hate everything about what they did to Amazon Fake LOTR and The Witcher when it comes to inserting black people. I was distracted because as a black woman, I don’t know what the hell is happening or how a mixed population came about in middle earth without actually mixing. Who is mixing with who and why isn’t everyone just mixed like in the Dominican Republic? Shouldn’t it look more like the DR if race isn’t a concern? People should be mixing like crazy then, right? Is there Jim Crow in middle earth or something? Unless Races just keep to themselves … which they don’t. Y’all put black people all in Tolkien’s sh*t! That man probably rolling around in his grave right now. LMAO. Just stop please! SOME may argue that these shows are about magic and fantasy so you can’t judge them the same. “It’s just fiction!!” Okay, fine. Then WHY didn’t they put BLACK PEOPLE and Latinos in Mulan?! That’s a fictional story too and it involves magic or chi. Could it be because that would not have made any F*****G SENSE?! And also because you knew China would have your a** for that! 😂 And if you’re going to scream racism then you need to explain why shows like HOTD do great and are loved by audiences. Explain it. Explain why these same racist nerds love Lando in Star Wars or black people in Star Trek. They ignore shows like that because it doesn’t fit their argument. Why weren’t these same “racist” nerds complaining about Lando or Mace Windu? Why weren’t they complaining about the women taking up the screen like Princess Leia. Where was the outrage back then if this is simply about racist nerds?! Black people are literally in all the s**t that they love. There are only a few cases where race swapping works and in those cases, it was to improve the story. Like Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. It’s not because a black Nick Fury is more badass but a SAM JACKSON Nick Fury is more badass. It improved the character. But in 99% of the cases, they do it to send a message not to make these stories more entertaining. This video inspires me to make long form video reviews because we need more voices from black nerds like me who hate this s**t just as much (if not more).

[@brettbeyer73]

It doesn't make sense to put a janitor in Storm Trooper armor, either. What is it protecting him from?

[@TheRealMichaelH]

This a good example of why I don't read Bounding Into Comics anymore. Many - too many - of their articles simply regurgitate random nonsense they found on Twitter. It's the laziest form of journalism, regardless of the intent to mock and discredit. They say "Look at what this person posted!". I say "Who is that person and why should I care?". But of course, because Gary needs to fill time and get that sweet superchat money, we're subjected to these halting, broken readings of those same articles.

[@slipvskorn]

Finn was such an interesting character and I was genuinely interested in a rogue stormtrooper but disney destroyed all that potential in order to avoid having a black main character so they could get all the chinese cinema views. What a waste!!!

[@RenlangRen]

Finn had the most potential of the new characters, but Disney just turned him into a simping comic relief.

[@nexusbrill]

I also find it terribly sad that we have entire KZbin channels devoted to how much everyone hates everything of the last 20 years instead of being able to enjoy good films from the last 20 years. There just haven’t been many.

[@AverageJoe483]

Everyone thought Finn was the main character going into force awakens and it made TONS of money . This argument is getting old .

[@gregsmith7949]

No matter how many times you try to emphasize "It's the bad writing, Stupid!" to these people, they're oblivious because they have no idea what good or bad writing is. It's like trying to describe the color purple to someone who's been blind since birth.

[@vocalysemusicworks]

Boyega should have been on the journey of a Jedi. Stormtrooper to Jedi, what a legendary story it could have been!

[@gajogrande]

Finn had huge potential in that first movie. The fans didn’t make his whole character silly, or removed him from the movie posters.

[@areopagitican7403]

It was wrong to call them colored people but it is okay to call them people of color. What's the difference?

[@nerychristian]

I like pink

[@johnduquette7023]

"It puts their personhood before their skin color" or some other hair-splitting BS.

[@lionface1364]

There is no rule book since its being made up as people run out of excused for Disney STAR Wars bad righting (I prefer to be called the Chocolate Soul Caramel Kid" but that's just me.....lmao

[@MC-wn9to]

The difference is who thinks they have control over the words being said

[@RenlangRen]

Don’t worry, fifty years from now the common vocabulary you use today will be considered immoral and your grandchildren will mock you and disparage you behind your back.

[@freakshowfilmfestival3591]

Lady Ghostbusters is to blame for this fan blaming trend. "You didn't like Charlie's Angels, Oceans 8, or that 355 movie(whatever it was called)." Or really? Because we liked the other Charlie's Angels stuff. 🙄

[@DrCheeks]

100% the idea of a stormtrooper defecting was a super interesting concept, I was intrigued by it. Also that opening scene where Kylo Ren freezes that laser and then massacres everyone brought a new intensity (I thought) to the Star Wars world.. Alas, that was the peak and to the trough we were sped🙄

[@x-buttongaming5764]

I still got Stargate man, they never got to that

[@dookie_12]

Ahsoka simps are weird

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

Director X and his ilk make points that are not only demonstrably untrue, but moot altogether. Because if the shows were good, people would watch them, no matter what any _mind-controlling online grifter_ had to say about it. Not one person anywhere is saying "Greg said not to watch this show and I do everything Greg tells me like a good little boy".

[@FreeKittensLA]

Episode II is my fave prequel

[@theunknowncommenter725]

It's a pretty good film. I've grown to appreciate it more as I've gotten older.

[@MJT409]

What about when they reduced Jon’s character on the posters in some countries?

[@SeanWickett]

I enjoy every frame of The Star Wars Holiday Special more than I do TLJ.

[@tjhodge201]

Loved the character Fin they wasted him in Force Awakens...when he fought Kylo Ren with Lukes light saber thought he would become a jedi in follow up movies. But they screwed it up could have made him related to Mace Windu that was kidnapped because he didnt know his family. Would been sweet had he picked up the Purple Light saber.😊

[@richardstrand2130]

They are just doing this now for clicks for ad revenue.

[@PuppySubotic]

What’s funny is most people I know actually really liked Finn but felt he wasn’t utilized. They felt the same way about Captain Phasma and Snoke. Rey had a cool design and I was invested in her right up until the part where she completely mind flipped Kilo Ren who was suppose to be so powerful that Luke Skywalker decided he needed to be killed. I watched all three movies and kept getting more and more disappointed. The whole thing felt like bad fan fiction. I’m a white supremacist I guess.

[@CaptainStraw]

There is always hope as long as the actors and George Lucas are still around. You can easily redconn all of disneys crap out

[@michealfritz9727]

I wouldn’t put much faith in GL. His decision making has been shot since roughly the late 1980s. Remember, he actually sold his creation to Disney. It doesn’t get much worse than that.

[@CaptainStraw]

It’s not faith. It’s respect. Nobody knows Star Wars more than it’s creator

[@michealfritz9727]

@@CaptainStraw I think GLs instincts are gone. I wouldn’t trust his decisions anymore. What is needed is an old school creative that understands SW to make some bold moves to bring it back to relevance. GL is done.

[@H1Guard]

No no NO NO NO! Darth Vader cannot have even a hint that Padme's babies are alive, that anybody of any note is anywhere near Tatooine, and only a bare suspicion that Obi-Wan is alive because he hasn't been reported dead. Vader cannot have the faintest hint that Senator Organa's adopted girl is Padme's baby. Nor can any other being of any note have that hint. She us a COMPLETE UNKNOWN from that angle, not revealed until ESB. The Obi-Wan show was an opportunity to develop an ENTIRELY NEW PLOT. A plot that has nothing to do with the galactic scale struggle. A plot that might develop Obi-Wan as a character. Instead we got absolute crap. If the plot is little Leia running from kidnappers (because the Senator is the target), find a girl to play Leia who can run. They couldn't even do that??? They can't do PoCs right, they can't do wahmins right, they can't even do kids right. There is no end to their incompetence.

[@deadli-us]

To be fair, “black people” like to keep changing the rules on what they prefer to be called. First it was “colored people,” then it was “African-American,” now it’s “black people” or “people of color” and each time they change the rules, they immediately make the old term “racist.” I’m tired of playing their stupid, racist game.

[@lionface1364]

As a black person and son of West African Immigrants I've always called myself African-American and never changed up so don't speak for me. As for "They" ...(lol) a segment of the black population doesn't speak for the rest of us....let alone the Star wars fans who have been loving this universe since the first time we heard " May the force be with you.." At the end of the day no matter what color you are....don't let access media get you fall for this obvious race bait/diversion from the obvious fact that Disney star wars is garbage.

[@Bullfrog-pk6pl]

I'm just growing weary of black people in no small part due to the fact that you have to be constantly wary around them. And if anyone wants to call me racist over that stance I will just tell them that little 5 year old Cannon Hinnant's parents wish they had been "racist" as well. Self-preservation is not racist.

[@s13zenki]

@@Bullfrog-pk6plI can tell you’ve never been around black people mate.

[@lionface1364]

@@s13zenki maybe he's had one too many close encounters with "the dark side" of the force....lmao

[@edwardt7364]

We never called ourselves colored that was a United States government thing. And POC is an academic term to mean everyone that’s not European, has not nothing to do with black people

[@ericmichels6158]

Don't care if the next disney star wars movie makes me sh*t gold, I'm not going to watch it.

[@user-ec6wy7fj3g]

Finn was our first looked inside the life of a storm trooper. We didn't care about his race. Just wanted to know his backstory. Rey could have been the lost daughter of Luke. Could have created a back story. Finn family rescued Rey from an accident that was cause by Luke's nephew. Luke assume his daughter and wife die in the explosion. But it was all a plan to turn his heart dark. Luke snapped and became John Wick for a while. He almost killed an innocent child and the guilt drove him to the island. Meanwhile His wife was being held captive. Luke's wife can see into future. That's why she give Rey to Finn's mother that night.

[@beaujohnson2021]

I'm just a mechanic in a small mountain town. I don't consume any Disney content. However, it's pretty entertaining to watch you guys perform the autopsies of dead franchises. 🍿