The thing that struck me most about this crazy reaction from Amandla is that she’s defending the queering of Star Wars when none of the complaints I’ve seen even mention it. I’m not aware of a single queer element. I’m sure there must be some, but over a score of reviews in, no one has mentioned a single complaint about this. Weird, that she doesn’t think addressing all the actual complaints as worthwhile, even when addressing the complaints.
BTW, compare this to complaints of old. There have been tens or hundreds of thousands of critical takes on film over the last century, and not until Disney did anyone think it appropriate nor pragmatic to send an actor, a director, a producer, etc. out to defend whatever critics were complaining about. Just crazy.
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BTW, compare this to complaints of old. There have been tens or hundreds of thousands of critical takes on film over the last century, and not until Disney did anyone think it appropriate nor pragmatic to send an actor, a director, a producer, etc. out to defend whatever critics were complaining about. Just crazy.