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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9588232">To [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER]'s point, I liked Finn and Rose (I thought Kelly Marie Tran was great in that role and I think Boyega got royally screwed out of a character that had solid potential). I thought that was one of the better things in that movie. But a lot of people didn't like the Last Jedi for a wide variety of reasons. And plenty of people didn't like those characters or their love story, for a variety of reasons. But I think plenty of people complained about them that weren't racist. I've defended those characters enough in conversations against people who didn't like them to understand a lot of it has nothing to do with race (and sure there are racists out there, and Disney chickened out on the global market and didn't do the obvious love story they should have gotten because they knew it wouldn't play well in some places, which is a real same because I think there is still a lot of hostility towards interracial couples in the world). I'm in an interracial marriage myself and have certainly encountered it enough to know it still exists). I think there were a few different criticisms going on around them though. Some people simply didn't like the character of rose (which I disagree with but that is fair), some thought they simply didn't have chemistry, some thought they were trying to check off too may boxes (which I don't think is a racist criticism but I can see how someone would read it as such: still I think the core criticism is more about it feeling artificial) and some people were genuinely reacting to it because they were racist or disliked having an interracial couple for some reason. I thought Rose was a very charming character and I thought she worked well paired up with Finn. What really pissed me off about his character arc was they just kind of relegated him to the side by the third film (and Rose got completely jettisoned which I thought was unfortunate) as it would have been perfectly feasible having her with Finn during the movie and that would have worked better. I think part of the issue is we've started using things like Star Wars, and for some reason things like Rose and Finn in particular, to read into peoples beliefs and politics. And companies exploit this to drive conversation</blockquote>

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