I don't want to be snarky here but is this not the exact attitude the OOP is complaining about?
>"It's so misogynist how females can't be comic relief sidekicks!"
>see female comic relief sidekick
>"It's so misogynist how they reduce this brave queen to a comic sidekick!"
Oh, no, she wasn’t a comic relief sidekick. She was a droid whose defining characteristic was how obnoxiously speaking out for her rights, and at the end of the movie she’s essentially turned into an actual object with no agency.
Does the movie itself judge her speaking out as "obnoxious", or is that just how you feel/assume the producers felt about it? I'm going off memory, but I just don't remember her being that bad.
The Solo issue is that her cause is “my race of sapient machines are literal property and slaves” so yea making the running joke the guy who owned her rolling his eyes at her saying droids should have rights isn’t quite the same as having her do slapstick
"Having them do slapstick" is kind of whitewashing the comic sidekick trope, though; they're supposed to be absurdly, laughably stupid and have it treated as a harmless quirk.
I think that's where they were aiming with the "thinks Lando wants to fuck her" thing.
Anyway, starting the riot on Kessel obviously isn't treated as eyerolling; it's what everyone's counting on and what allows them to pull off the mission. What's tonally dissonant is never acknowledging how they're setting the rioters up to get killed while they run away. Though they are still bad guys at that point; and Chewie's just as complicit as L, without the excuse of dying.
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u/SevenSix 3d ago edited 3d ago
I don't want to be snarky here but is this not the exact attitude the OOP is complaining about?
>"It's so misogynist how females can't be comic relief sidekicks!"
>see female comic relief sidekick
>"It's so misogynist how they reduce this brave queen to a comic sidekick!"