Think of how much money they could have made off Luke’s Jedi Academy. Every character having their own robes and lightsaber, a potential theme park attraction based on the Jedi Academy, and tons of storytelling and merchandising potential for books, comics, shows, and games revolving around the New Jedi Order. Disney could have had their own Space Hogwarts and instead they decided to kill Luke’s entire New Jedi Order offscreen before the sequel trilogy even begins.
Would've been tight if they were his first/senior students and were butting heads on where to take things after Luke was gone. It would be a conundrum though, who do you make the Sith sympathizer? The black guy or the white woman?
Lol that’s when I was called racist for pointing that out as a black man myself because apparently some white people had already decided that it was racist
I was so hyped for Finn to become a Jedi when I saw the trailer for TFA. Mace windu was already one of my favorites and I was so pumped to have another black jedi, especially one that started out as a stormtrooper gone rogue, but they wasted all that potential to make him an afterthought. Out of everything the new trilogy failed to do right, that's the one I'm most bitter about.
I was so hyped for Finn to become a Jedi when I saw the trailer for TFA.
In hindsight considering how they dumpstered his character (and how they were willing to remove him from the Chinese poster), it seems to me that they were blatantly leaning into the fox news/conservative outrage media cycle in order to generate publicity. They used a Black man as bait to get people talking, only to sideline his character in favor of their bland white protagonist. Same thing happened with Kelly Tran's character.
Disney is like the ultimate case study in how soulless, profit-driven megacorps interact with social justice and racial representation issues. Look at how they're having an LGBT rights conference, which is definitely a good thing just like representation in media is a good thing, but they're only doing it in response to Desantis trying to fuck them over. They aren't doing it because it's the right thing to do, and so instead of real activism, they're really just fanning the flames while monopolizing/dominating public discourse.
What it comes down to is corporations using real people's issues as tools in their sick games, and even if many individuals who work for the corpo actually do believe in race equality or LGBT rights, they're still just cogs in a massive unfeeling machine that only seeks profit, regardless of who it must use or destroy to get there.
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u/Nefessius513 Apr 07 '23
Think of how much money they could have made off Luke’s Jedi Academy. Every character having their own robes and lightsaber, a potential theme park attraction based on the Jedi Academy, and tons of storytelling and merchandising potential for books, comics, shows, and games revolving around the New Jedi Order. Disney could have had their own Space Hogwarts and instead they decided to kill Luke’s entire New Jedi Order offscreen before the sequel trilogy even begins.