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aimmyarrowshigh:
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One of the things that I love most about Kes and Shara is that their inclusion retroactively addresses the maleness and whiteness of the OT in the new extended canon? It can’t fix the movies, and it doesn’t change the legacy of the original movies insofar as their cultural impact and the 40 years of fandom that predate the introduction of the Damerons, but I like that their existence points to Lucasfilm being like, “Hey, we recognize that people other than white men would have, and should have, been there, and now here are some stories about Rebel Alliance heroes who aren’t white men.” I like that they’re a way to be like, “there is no reason to pretend that your masturbatory all-white all-male-except-Slave-Leia-(and-two-minutes-of-Mon-Mothma) vision of the Rebel Alliance isn’t racist and misogynistic; women/POC/WOC were literally there, in canon, as part of this group, period.”
Like, Kes and Shara aren’t even written as canon cannon fodder, even though that would have been an easy way for them to do it! They totally could have been like “Yeah, they were THERE, but they were red shirts who ended up desperately needing Luke and Han to save them and then they died.” Shara was Leia’s pilot. Kes led the ground assault on Endor. They were a big deal in the new SW universe, and there will be more characters like them in all of the eras of the story, and that makes me really happy.*
More Poes, more Finns, more Reys, more Sharas, more Keses, more Jessikas and Karés and Murans and Evaans and Bastians!!! So good!!! Fix that broken canon as best you can, Lucasfilm!!!
*I’d be happier if Shara hadn’t been fridged but whatever, maybe Poe’s logbook will tell us about that, too. I kiiind of bet she died of bloodburn?
aimmyarrowshigh:
Also:
One of the things that I love most about Kes and Shara is that their inclusion retroactively addresses the maleness and whiteness of the OT in the new extended canon? It can’t fix the movies, and it doesn’t change the legacy of the original movies insofar as their cultural impact and the 40 years of fandom that predate the introduction of the Damerons, but I like that their existence points to Lucasfilm being like, “Hey, we recognize that people other than white men would have, and should have, been there, and now here are some stories about Rebel Alliance heroes who aren’t white men.” I like that they’re a way to be like, “there is no reason to pretend that your masturbatory all-white all-male-except-Slave-Leia-(and-two-minutes-of-Mon-Mothma) vision of the Rebel Alliance isn’t racist and misogynistic; women/POC/WOC were literally there, in canon, as part of this group, period.”
Like, Kes and Shara aren’t even written as canon cannon fodder, even though that would have been an easy way for them to do it! They totally could have been like “Yeah, they were THERE, but they were red shirts who ended up desperately needing Luke and Han to save them and then they died.” Shara was Leia’s pilot. Kes led the ground assault on Endor. They were a big deal in the new SW universe, and there will be more characters like them in all of the eras of the story, and that makes me really happy.*
More Poes, more Finns, more Reys, more Sharas, more Keses, more Jessikas and Karés and Murans and Evaans and Bastians!!! So good!!! Fix that broken canon as best you can, Lucasfilm!!!
*I’d be happier if Shara hadn’t been fridged but whatever, maybe Poe’s logbook will tell us about that, too. I kiiind of bet she died of bloodburn?
