re: Lucasfilm internal war! Kennedy vs Favreau... who you got?

Faverau is actually a good story teller.

He crushed Ironman 1 + Chef + Elf

Created the Mandalorian + a popular cooking show

His disappointment with Disney MCU direction and meddling was a plotline in Chef in regards to what happened with Ironman 2

Disney then gave him the reins to 2 live action remakes of their classic animated division and both did well

What the frick has Kennedy ever done in creative? Force is female? Mary Poppins? Luke beta B? Love v Hate?

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Kennedy has failed again and again and again and in my opinion has been pretty much an abject disaster. She needs to go.

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I would argue that the cultural phenomenon around The Mandolorian/The Child shows that it is still very relevant. They can have immense success if the right people are in charge.

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Agree to disagree. The Child/Baby Yoda went viral because of his cuteness, not because the show was a cultural moment. I'd argue the vast majority of the females posting chicky nuggy baby yoda memes didn't watch one episode.

Star Wars relies on a rabid fanbase, and that fanbase was majorly alienated by the treatment of the OT characters in the ST. There is no repairing that. Marvel has taken over as the dominant cultural franchise.

Favreau is so money and he doesn't even know it.

Anyone who says Kennedy should be banned from this website forever.

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Give it to Dave Filoni

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I'd argue the vast majority of the females posting chicky nuggy baby yoda memes didn't watch one episode.

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Completely disagree. Baby Yoda memes in and of themselves have zero context and the likelihood of being cute because of chicky nuggies is likely less than 50% on their own. The women you speak of likely watched the show as the bf/husband/etc was likely watching the show and they had a passing interest in it after seeing baby Yoda. Keeping in mind the articles written on why baby Yoda was such a phenomenon,i.e. he resonated with many because of his child-like qualities.

Strong female characters and protagonists are all over anime, even if they are often sexualized.
Bulma in DBZ is an inventor and scientist who builds a time-machine and the dragon radar
Kagomae in Inuyasha is the narrator and routinely the brains and heart of the group, while Songo has agency and a fully fleshed out character and personality as well.
Relena in Gundam Wing is a principal character who isn’t just a love interest for Hero, but also is the show’s conscience and moral compass as a politician pushing to end the war.

All of these characters are relatable, human, emotional, passionate, skilled, and flawed with fully fleshed out backstories, plots centered around them, and full agency. Feminists in Hollywood don’t understand how to do this because they see their characters as having to be all things to all people “for the movement”. If their character isn’t showing little girls that women can be perfect at everything, then they think it’s a failure. They think showing any weakness or flaw in a female character is somehow stating that all women are weak and inferior or that the weakness of one character is something to stereotype in all women. Or, they need to create a character that is exactly like a man, but not a man, because otherwise she’d be somehow less than. Thus, they create characters that are boring, unrealistic, and unrelatable, and it makes for bad movies and worse story-telling. Then, Hollywood being Hollywood, interprets that to mean that audiences aren’t ready for female heroes!!!

".... being against her or her series is.....mean..."

fricking women, man.