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Originally Posted by nik-
That's just it. Be inclusive, it's a great standard to push for, but it better not be the totality of the merits of your product. If your story is trash, it's trash, no matter how many women directors or minorities were in the movie.
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Sci-fi has always been a relatively inclusive genre. The inclusion has to grow organically from the plot though. There are so many example of great sci-fi heroins already: Ripley, Sara Connor, Dana Scully, Starbuck, Leia, etc...So it's not that hard to pull off in a believable way.
I actually think that Rey would have been a great addition to that list, had they handled it correctly. She should have been defeated in TFA by Kylo (who has far more training at that point), and himself comes from a powerful bloodline. The next movie should have focused on her learning to be a force use and then some kind of conclusion. It was also a prime opportunity to explore feminist issues by painting Kylo as a misogynist. In the first few films, the Empire was always a stand-in for fascist and supremacist ideology. They could have continued to explore that in a modern day context, without significantly disturbing the existing canon.
A clumsy handling of things and a wasted opportunity all around.