If you're not into Star Wars, haven't seen Kenobi, don't care to see it, probably shouldn't bother reading on. Also, spoiler alert applies.
So the new Kenobi series dropped on Disney (yes, I still have Disney+, no, I don't care if you dropped it). There's a new character, Reva, that seems to have caused great controversy in the Star Wars fandom. It seems Disney isn't allowed to cast a Black person without people crying "woke!"
Don't get me wrong. I hate woke as much as anyone. I started the original Insane Social Justice thread. I've been very vocal about wokeness creeping into all the major social institutions. But C'mon, man. This ain't that. There's nothing "woke" about Reva's character. She's a decent actor, I think better than Rupert Friend, who plays the Grand Inquisitor. Granted, he has a tougher job because he has to convince us that he is the same Grand Inquisitor that was featured in SW Rebels. And to the point, he doesn't.
She's a villain. She's supposed to do evil things. She's supposed to be hated. So go ahead and hate her character. But c'mon. All this hate towards the actor herself?
All these idiot videos showing up in my youtube feed are WAY more annyoying than Reva's character. She's actually getting racist slurs in comments. N-word, and whatnot.
My only complaint about Reva has more to do with consistency with the star wars universe, particularly, unexpectedly, she put a light saber through the Grand Inquisitor's gut. If he dies, I'm probably done with the series. Because, c'mon. At least be consistent with the show you wrote just a few years ago. The Grand Inquisitor died in rebels at the hands of Ezra and Kanan, which occurs ~5 years after the events in Kenobi. That would be a huge retcon and most sane star wars fan (as sane as a star wars fan can be) are quite certain that the GI will live. And probably be quite pissed that Reva opened him up like that. I digress.
It's fine to pick apart actual woke ********. Like Episode 8's completely irrelevant woke trip to the casino that turned out not to have any impact on the plot at all. This? Not woke. Not every "diverse" actor is an invocation of wokeness. Reva is supposed to be hated. The actress who plays her is just doing her job. And if you hate her character, good, you're supposed to. She DID her job then.
So the new Kenobi series dropped on Disney (yes, I still have Disney+, no, I don't care if you dropped it). There's a new character, Reva, that seems to have caused great controversy in the Star Wars fandom. It seems Disney isn't allowed to cast a Black person without people crying "woke!"
Don't get me wrong. I hate woke as much as anyone. I started the original Insane Social Justice thread. I've been very vocal about wokeness creeping into all the major social institutions. But C'mon, man. This ain't that. There's nothing "woke" about Reva's character. She's a decent actor, I think better than Rupert Friend, who plays the Grand Inquisitor. Granted, he has a tougher job because he has to convince us that he is the same Grand Inquisitor that was featured in SW Rebels. And to the point, he doesn't.
She's a villain. She's supposed to do evil things. She's supposed to be hated. So go ahead and hate her character. But c'mon. All this hate towards the actor herself?
All these idiot videos showing up in my youtube feed are WAY more annyoying than Reva's character. She's actually getting racist slurs in comments. N-word, and whatnot. My only complaint about Reva has more to do with consistency with the star wars universe, particularly, unexpectedly, she put a light saber through the Grand Inquisitor's gut. If he dies, I'm probably done with the series. Because, c'mon. At least be consistent with the show you wrote just a few years ago. The Grand Inquisitor died in rebels at the hands of Ezra and Kanan, which occurs ~5 years after the events in Kenobi. That would be a huge retcon and most sane star wars fan (as sane as a star wars fan can be) are quite certain that the GI will live. And probably be quite pissed that Reva opened him up like that. I digress.
It's fine to pick apart actual woke ********. Like Episode 8's completely irrelevant woke trip to the casino that turned out not to have any impact on the plot at all. This? Not woke. Not every "diverse" actor is an invocation of wokeness. Reva is supposed to be hated. The actress who plays her is just doing her job. And if you hate her character, good, you're supposed to. She DID her job then.
