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What makes it better is that Steven's actually a life-long Star Wars fan since the original film came out. He basically devoted a segment of his show a few years ago to explaining how Kylo Ren's cross guard light sabre could work
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Good. I'm glad there's a lot of active pushback on this toxic-ass bullshit.The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2018-06-18 05:11pm Just for laughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpG1iC737c
What makes it better is that Steven's actually a life-long Star Wars fan since the original film came out. He basically devoted a segment of his show a few years ago to explaining how Kylo Ren's cross guard light sabre could work
That's what I consider them myself.
I completely agree with you.Solauren wrote: ↑2018-06-24 08:02am I honestly have no idea why people are picking on the actress, and not screaming at Disney for the direction of the movie.
Ms. Tran was hired to do a job. She did her job.
Scream at the writers and director for making the character crap to begin with, not the actress for doing her job.
Very well put! I loathe TLJ, but that's not the fault of the actors or actresses who were hired to do a job. I think Rose is one of the worst characters in SW (if not the worst), but people attacking Kelly Marie Tran on social media are just sick.Solauren wrote: ↑2018-06-24 08:02am I honestly have no idea why people are picking on the actress, and not screaming at Disney for the direction of the movie.
Ms. Tran was hired to do a job. She did her job.
Scream at the writers and director for making the character crap to begin with, not the actress for doing her job.
I'm sure she's under multiple NDAs, but they couldn't just impose one on her post facto that would force her off of Instagram. It's a non-disclosure agreement; those have to be agreed to by both parties and would typically be a condition of hiring before she worked on the movie, not negotiated months after the film's release.tezunegari wrote: ↑2018-06-24 06:02amOf course, there's also the theory that she has received an NDA from Disney for some reason (to distract from the Solo debacle is a favorite explanation).
Too many people are unable to distinguish between an actor and the role he or she plays.Solauren wrote: ↑2018-06-24 08:02am I honestly have no idea why people are picking on the actress, and not screaming at Disney for the direction of the movie.
Ms. Tran was hired to do a job. She did her job.
Scream at the writers and director for making the character crap to begin with, not the actress for doing her job.
I don't know, though the timing seems to suggest a connection. But responding to "First major Asian actress in a Star Wars film is subjected to racist trolling" with "Well, we don't KNOW that's why she left" seems to me to be somewhat missing the point, to put it charitably. To put it less charitably, it looks like you trying to provide cover for racists/misogynists.tezunegari wrote: ↑2018-06-24 06:02am Has there actually ever been an official announcement why she left social media?
As far as I know, her publicist hasn't answered questions by media outlets.
I've heard that the "she left because of toxic fans" story got started by an unaffiliated twitter account or other questionable sources.
Of course, there's also the theory that she has received an NDA from Disney for some reason (to distract from the Solo debacle is a favorite explanation).
Then why did you bother to bring them up in the first place? Just to obfuscate the issue?
Whether or not the trolling was the reason Tran left doesn't change the fact that it occurred, and it sucks. Yes, the facts are important, but its a parody video for fuck's sake. And its interesting that your first impulse on replying to this thread was apparently to try to downplay the racism and misogyny, imply that the people calling it out are dishonest, and post conspiracy theories.But none of the publications going with the "toxic fans explanation" ever give an official source like Miss Trans publicist or Disneys PR department.
Neither do the once with the "alternative explanations".
IIRC the most cited source is a Twitter account called "Star Wars Facts" that started the original news avalanche.