Discussion Star Wars VII shoul NOT have a female lead

No Darth Boba

 

Now I think you're just trolling for the fun of it.

 

Thats very sexistic view dude. If Star Wars was just for Boys, than there would be no female cosplayers and that would be very boring.

I think there was also a shortage of cool and beatifull Females in the OT. There was just Leia and nothing else...

I think TCW at the moment brings some balance to the force. Its Lucas way to appologize to the female audience for Padme

 

If, in fact, you are serious about what you wrote up there I'll have to say that it is wrong on way too many levels to list here.
Discriminatory, sexist, shortsighted, badly argumented, not fully thought through and downright dumb - just to name a few.

A strong female lead character would be a great thing, and in fact, it is something I'm hoping to see in the ST.

 

ONE word for you, ALIEN. LT. Ripley was an awesome lead female hero.

 

I personally prefer a male protagonist, but the reasoning of this OP is just.... Wow.

 

As a female this makes me facepalm

 

As a male, I may not be able to entirely relate to a female experience of life, but I'm rather certain I can relate to a female character on a human level sufficiently for me to care about what happens to her, and I'm quite sure that goes for most of us males. We have female lead characters in drama all the time: I recently loved Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, for instance. And frankly, after five seasons, and particularly after last week's episode, I'm quite comfortable with Ahsoka Tano as a female leading character whom I can follow in TCW without the slightest problem, whether the franchise is a boy's club or not. There haven't necessarily been female heroic leads that prominent in Star Wars before her, females as as prominent in the story as, say, Luke himself would be, but no one can convince me that there's no room for one simply because it's a boys' franchise, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

In any case, Razorblade, I'm quite convinced that for you, none of this is about the franchise or female characters; it's about you just jumping from thread to thread and yelling out your worthless ideas for stories. You just want to see your ridiculous Jedi-civil-war/Joker-style-anarchist/Han-as-mentor "plotline," or at least what part I could make out through your atrocious mangling of the language*. And the moment your ideas are called out as the bad fan fiction ideas they are, you just call people punks, like this is some kind of a Dirty Harry film, and try to pick fights. Hellhammer was right: if you're not a troll, you're becoming something awfully close to one. You're certainly behaving like a troll. And we don't need any more trolls here on this forum.

* And speaking of that, can we pitch in and get this man some capital letters? It's clear he's running short on those.

 

I don't think I care one way or the other, as long as the character is good

 

As a male, I want to apologize to all women who might read this thread's original post. I assure you, despite evidence to the contrary like the original post, the likes of which you must sadly encounter too often on the Internet, not all of us are retrograde, sexist trolls.

As for the issue the original poster brought up, his claim that males viewers will outnumber females ones 5-to-1 is pure BS. Every serious source I've seen indicates that Star Wars' fandom is about 50% female. It's high time all those ladies got to see a strong female lead character in the movies, particularly a really powerful female Jedi (this is my fondest wish for the ST, particularly if her name is Jaina Solo, which would be a nice nod to the EU). All the strongest Force-users we've seen in the movies have been males - Anakin, Mace Windu, Yoda, Sidious, Vader, Dooku, Maul, so a badass female Jedi who can go toe-to-toe against the mightiest Force-users in the galaxy would at least start to restore that particular balance.

 

And as a male i am joining you.

 

Seriously? I happen to like women, both in film and in real life. They're neat.

 

Got room for one more in there?

 

Sure, there is always place for one moar.

 

This kind of attitude is precisely why it should.

 

This chick begs to differ...

 

Yeah, I agree. Star Wars films are for boys! And boys dont like girls. I mean, what boy would want to see a hot chick running around in tight clothing yielding a lightsaber? That would be awful!!

*facepalm.


-C

 

You must live in a time bubble where it is always the 1950's-60's. Is your favorite show Leave it to Beaver as well?

 

Or he must be young enough to still think that girls give him the cooties.

 

This is nonsense The first two Terminator movies had a female lead, and the Alien movies do, and I always liked those when I was a young boy . The Hunger games books are also quite popular among boys.

 

One of the cool things about the OT is that the "damsel in distress" takes up arms with her rescuers, and is at least as tough and smart (probably smarter) to boot.

Bring on the female protagonists!

 

You might be right due to the poor wording of the title of the thread.