But then wouldn’t Alive have already had the female representation? It was pure girl vs girl action
100% Beast Wars. Barney the Dinosaur Megatron (Yeeesssss…) is a fan-favorite that just got a Masterpiece collectible. The spider-lady you enjoyed is Blackarachnia. If you need any more help remembering stuff or getting back into the TF community, just PM me. I know a great message boards for all this stuff.
Representation is not just featuring women in one short and calling it good, your phrasing makes it sound like “Well they already made a short with two girls fighting in it, what more could you want?!” lol- that’s sorta…Simplistic, to say the least?
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or just trolling, so like - Unless they’d already made another animated short about another asian woman who also was a fighter pilot fighting Ominics, there’s no way you could look at any of the other animated shorts that happen to have women in them and say it is similar to Hana’s short. I’m not sure why I needed to write that out, to be honest.
True that. True that.
I overall enjoyed it and as a previous comment stated. Kudos to Blizzard on picking up that part of East Asian culture. What you see in the game is D.va. Not Hana Song herself. It’s nice that they actually showed the actual Hana in the short, not her being her D.va persona.
The reason I think people are upset about it is due to the fact that Reinhardt’s short set the bar extremely high. It pulled out so much emotion and you got to see that Reinhardt isn’t always that very excited guy that will be smiling all the time. He actually has a dark past filled with regret. Anyways, as I stated I enjoyed it. But I can understand why others wouldn’t. I am also a D.va main which possibly may show some bias. Reinhardt’s short as I stated set the bar really high and it’s going to take something amazing to top it. Unfortunately, D.va’s short wasn’t that. But it’s good in it’s own way.
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Hero wasn’t emotional at all lmao. It was, dare I say, mundane
Like, of course 76 would save a little girl. Lol
I’m so bored of it being fine to bash D.Va because she was formerly one-dimensional and it’s just hip for some reason. Like, she’s not my waifu but the character compels me way more than boringass Mei
I do feel like Rein’s short just hit it out of the park, and it was going to be a really hard act to follow. Mei’s short was also really, really good - they have made some objectively amazing and emotional shorts. But that doesn’t mean every short is going to be that good, and the Soldier short is honestly just as predictable, boring, and one note as you could say Shooting Star is. Both are about B+ material. That is not BAD, it’s not AWESOME, but it’s not BAD, and it’s definitely not worth screaming at the company about like spoiled entitled children.
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At least it’s not as bad as the Star Wars fandom is treating Disney.
I feel so bad for Kelly Marie Tran and I still think the Finn/Rose arc was shoehorned in. She doesn’t deserve it
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Don’t even start with that whiny fanboy crap. Wah wah, there were wimminz in my star wars, let’s make a literal kickstarter to protest the wimminz taking over what I feel entitled to despite having no inherent right to it in any wayyyy…
Okay, sorry, I’m TRYING TO BE NICER but you guys make it hard…
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A little. Rose isn’t a bad character, but she was definitely misused.
Oh totally agree - She’s getting so much abuse just for existing in the series, and then on top of it the writers start freaking out about it being ‘too gay’ (and yet somehow they’re catering too much to the Left? how does that compute?) and shoehorn in this crappy subplot that makes no sense, like - ugh, what a mess.
No no no, you have me completely mistaken.
My point was that if it was female representation you’re looking for, there’s already a short that has it. In that case, why would it make you particularly like Shooting Star? What exactly does Shooting Star have to offer over the other shorts?
Rose (and Finn and Rey) get flak for being diverse as if diversity is why the sequels aren’t as good. Star Wars has historically bad writing. They bash the sequels for diversity when the problem truly is that the writing is mediocre as usual.
I relate to d.va way more than widowmaker
And yet the Prequels are somehow starting to get a pass because they’ve officially entered “nostalgic” age.
A looooooot of people are also angry that Luke got killed off. I think that’s the core of the anger, not the diversity.
I think the prequels are good everyone can fight me
I’m not ‘looking for female representation’, gonna stop you there. I’m saying that while we have seen mecha pilots fighting robots and many elements of this story before, it is not something we’ve seen done to death with women. We haven’t seen much of ANYTHING done to death with women, that’s kind of the point. You can’t just say ‘Well this ONE example exists,’ because when you look to the male version there are literally hundreds if not thousands.
Like - You’re basically sitting there with a bucket full of apples, and asking why someone with an apple slice would ever deign to want more of your apples, I don’t know how else to explain it.
Like it’s not a checklist
Anyways I’m also kind of bored of alive partially just because of the knowledge that it spawned that abusive widowtracer ship
How about from this point we stop mentioning sex gender. Woman or girl?
As a matter of fact utilize their names and don’t say men boy of otherwise.
There done equal. Now can we critique the short dor what it is please? As a story not some platform for politics?
I was a lot happier with Luke’s death than Han’s, I mean - in the book series Han dies saving Chewie’s son, in the movies he’s an IDIOT who walks up to his PSYCHO SON and just lets himself get killed. It’s supposed to be climactic and I get that but I felt like it betrayed his character. Luke at least did something SUPER BADASS and it felt like he was choosing his death, it was so awesome and had so much power and final agency to it, it felt so fitting for how big his character was to the series.
I think a lot of the rage comes from there being so many more women and Rey being the new character, but people don’t want to admit that. There’s so much evidence that anything featuring women in it gets so much automatic flack and backlash - Ghostbusters, Mad Max, etc. that it’s just too obvious not to see the pattern to me.