People Are Upset ‘The Last Jedi’ Isn’t Gayer

I haven’t seen ‘The Last Jedi’ yet.

I might eventually. I don’t particularly care one way or another. I’ve never really been in to Star Wars, or sci-fi in general.

Anyway… I know it’s REALLY important to a ton of people… I also know that they’ve been purposely trying to “diversify” their cast.

Weeeeell! It’s not DIVERSE ENOUGH.

Buzzfeed is butthurt that there aren’t more gays. WE NEED MORE GAYS.

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— BuzzFeed LGBT (@BuzzFeedLGBT) December 18, 2017

DEAR LORD.

Buzzfeed interviewed The Last Jedi writer and director Rian Johnson in the article above:

There is, however, one significant element of diversity that Johnson did not work into The Last Jedi — LGBT representation — and in an interview with BuzzFeed News, the filmmaker said that’s because the film is also missing a major element pivotal to the previous two Star Wars trilogies: a central romance.

“That just wasn’t a big part of it,” Johnson said, sitting in a giant conference room in Disney’s headquarters in Burbank, California. While The Force Awakens was built around the strong connection between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega), “They’re more like buddies,” said Johnson. “There’s a little hint of something, but there’s nothing in these movies that feels like the equivalent of Han and Leia in Empire. As I worked this story forward, there was nothing that seemed like it would reasonably turn into that.”

Johnson is keenly aware of fan enthusiasm for a romance between Finn and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and he was also familiar with internet chatter that a passage in one of the Star Wars novels suggests that Holdo may be bisexual. But he said that as he worked out the story arcs for the characters in this film — which revolve around the First Order’s relentless pursuit of what’s left of the Resistance’s fleet — there just wasn’t time to develop a strong romantic plotline, save for a brief kiss Rose gives Finn at the end of the film.

Fans want Finn to be GAY. HE MUST BE GAY! HE MUST!

Rian’s response: “Sexuality, in general, is not something that’s front of mind in any of these movies,” he said.

NO! WRONG! MORE. GAYS. NOW.

So of course, Rian eventually promises more gays:

But Johnson was quick to add, “I think [LBGT representation] is something that absolutely could have a place in this universe. I’m sure it will at some point.” It may come rather soon: Star Wars: Episode IX, due for release in 2019, is currently being written by Abrams and Chris Terrio, with Abrams set to direct — and Abrams has said he would “love” for LGBT characters to appear in Star Wars.

In the spirit of that kind of possibility, does Johnson see room for LBGT characters as prominent as Finn, Rose, and Holdo?

“I don’t see why there wouldn’t be,” he said. “The truth is I’m just starting to come up with the new trilogy, but it’s absolutely something that I think there could be a place for in this universe, as we see these movies reflect more and more the way the world actually looks like right now, today. You see that in gender representation, people of color. As we’re doing that, we’re doing that, period. I think [LGBT representation] is one element that we haven’t done yet that we need to do.”

So basically this conversation went a little something like this:

Why no gays?

Sexuality isn’t the point of these movies.

MORE GAYS NOW.

Ok, gays next time. Pinky swear.

GAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. How do people not see how freaking STUPID this is? If sexuality isn’t the point of these movies, why must it be MADE the point? Have SJWs stopped to consider that homosexual people are more than just homosexual, and may enjoy a movie without having to know who everyone sticks it to?

GAAASPPPPP.

This is ABSURD.