Because Star Wars fans would lose their shit for making it look like Akbar was an evil character just letting people die. It doesn’t fit what they think he should do so it’s Disney ruining the character. You know that would happen.My main complaint is using Pink hair instead of Admiral Akbar to save the fleet.
Why kill an iconic character off screen and give a noble death to a nobody?
Thus the joke.
So what is this joke that you keep referring to while denying that she was asking about sex? Is the joke that it's supposed to be obvious to the audience that she wasn't talking about sex but if not for the ridiculousness of droid/human sex one might think that was what she was talking about?
If so then I'll ask again, what do you suppose she was referring to? And more importantly what did the droid understand her to be talking about (presumably they'd be the same thing but maybe not)? The droid just dismissed the idea of being in a relationship with Lando so that wouldn't have been what she meant when she said "Oh it works!".
The over-the-top, manic, ideologue robot wasn't capable of seeing things through a cloudy lens?
See there's a history in the SW universe of robots mimicking the weird personality traits of humans. (or actually BEING that, if we assume true sentience).
So C3PO is a fussy English butler in space.
Why'd they write him like that? For laughs.
Now if the fanboys of the day HATED C3PO for being the fussy gay robot, because he wasn't LITERAL enough? not SERIOUS enough?
I dunno.
They played the scene with 'How'd that work?' 'Oh it WORKS!!' for laughs. Just like they played 3PO back in the day.
What I'm trying to get across, is people are LOOKING for stuff to be outraged about.
There's so many examples of this it's getting tiresome. Look at the 'how could they do that?!!!!' about the space bombers. And ABSOLUTELY, it's ridiculous. However, they've NEVER been concerned with physics in SW. We've got R2D2 putting out flames on the X-wing and they're FLICKERING in the space wind. Where the fuck did the wind come from?
But because we weren't looking for shit to be outraged about, we just rolled with some small shit like that, and went along for the ride.
These new movies, which are FAAAAR superior to the 2nd trilogy, but almost nobody goes along for the ride. People pick out every little detail. And obsess over it. People record and post 30 minute diatribes about it on youtube.
I'd like to think even 19 year old me wouldn't have made a 30 minute video about the Ewoks, even though I couldn't stand them.
Anyway, let's quit trying to parse the thoughts of fictional robots. I'll continue to believe that it's just them doing what they've always done. Others will continue to believe that it's the thin edge of the gay robot/ brown person revolution.
Look whatever your thoughts are I think we can all agree that nobody wants to clean cum out of a robot.
I liked the space bombers and thought it was a pretty cool nod to War World II air battles. At least it was different and not the same old same old.Exactly. Honestly more Chewy as key part of the movie and less as comic relief. The stupid penguin chickens were the 2nd worst thing about the movie behind the space bombers.
I don't feel like digging up the topic for episode 9 (if there is one) so I'll just post it here.
They've added Keri Russell to the cast but there's no word yet on what her role will be other than its action oriented (not surprising since Keri kicked lots of ass on The Americans). Lots of people are jumping to the obvious conclusion that she will be Rey's mom because her and Daisy Ridley do share a resemblance.
I honestly don't understand the complaint about identity politics in this movie. God forbid we have a female lead in a movie. Oooooh scary.
You didn't see the identity politics bs when they had a random one-movie purple haired feminist become one of the main heroes of the film after her numerous refusals to explain to Poe/the crew her obtuse battle/escape plan?
Or the fact that basically every evil character was an evil white guy except for the female storm trooper leader
while women/minorities clearly dominated the leadership roles of the protagonists?
Chewy going vegetarian mode over those chicken penguins?
Rey being a skilled Jedi/near Jedi deserving of Luke Skywalker's attention despite having virtually zero training in it previously and her parents seemingly being random drunken nobodies?
The painfully forced relationship between Finn and Rose that made zero sense purely from a standpoint of how the characters were initially developed?
Yeah, no identity politics/SJW agenda in any of that... right.
Why does everyone assume Solo Jr. was telling the truth about Rey's parents???You didn't see the identity politics bs when they had a random one-movie purple haired feminist become one of the main heroes of the film after her numerous refusals to explain to Poe/the crew her obtuse battle/escape plan? Or the fact that basically every evil character was an evil white guy except for the female storm trooper leader, while women/minorities clearly dominated the leadership roles of the protagonists? Chewy going vegetarian mode over those chicken penguins? Rey being a skilled Jedi/near Jedi deserving of Luke Skywalker's attention despite having virtually zero training in it previously and her parents seemingly being random drunken nobodies? The painfully forced relationship between Finn and Rose that made zero sense purely from a standpoint of how the characters were initially developed?
Yeah, no identity politics/SJW agenda in any of that... right.
Good post.Why does everyone assume Solo Jr. was telling the truth about Rey's parents???
He was a sith telling Rey what he thought would turn her to his side/get her to join him. Why would he tell her the truth, if he really even knew it in the first place?
Luke had zero training and only had his heritage when Obi and then Yoda started training him. Luke was lied to about who is real parents were too for obvious reasons. I think we'll find out Rey's true heritage in IX.