I saw "MSHEU" in the titles of the current tide of nerd rage videos, guessed it was something monumentally stupid and looked it up

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These reactionary dorks are ruining hating on shitty entertainment slop

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I wonder what the "WOMEN!??? rage-cry" chuds think of Mara Jade btw, she was pretty Mara Suey kelly and there's probably a sizable overlap between those nerds and the nerds who hate Disney for making that part of the franchise non-canon.

    • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      Prior to reading the Thrawn Trilogy I was one of those "wow she's so cool" types from just hearing about her backstory on forums. But as soon as I read the books I disliked Mara since I feel like she's two cool characters combined into one far less cool character. Specifically I think the Pirate and Emperor's Hand bits feel weird together. It's pretty telling that when people describe her they tend to entirely focus on the Emperor's Hand-turned-Luke gf stuff and ignore the entire pirate plotline. So I think she'd be a stronger character if she was just one of the two. Preferably the pirate gf because I think Luke dating a pirate is very funny.

      (Also doesn't help that I read them when TFA was new. So seeing all the "Rey is a Mary Sue" criticisms coming from accounts I had previously seen praise Mara was giving me whiplash since Mara is far worse on that front. Although I wouldn't criticise her for that since I hate using the term due to the sexist connotations)

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      But Mara Jade hot

      Also, didn't she start out as a Dark Side character that got defeated and redeemed by Luke before becoming his wife? They probably prefer that sort of story

      • daisy
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        11 months ago

        If my memory is right, she actually wasn't highly trained in the Force by the Emperor - deliberately so, so that she wouldn't be a threat to him. She was trained just enough to improve her intuition and long-range telepathy to be a more effective agent. She sort of had a toe dipped into the dark side, rather than full-scale immersion.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          She was still the hot action babe that fell in love with the audience insert which is what Star Wars fans in the 90s responded to