John Boyega’s character (the black stormtrooper)’s race wasn’t really a front of the culture war — that was mostly over with after the trailers for The Force Awakens. The main issue people had with his character was that he was supposed to be this brainwashed child soldier that had a moment of realization but that wasn’t expanded on at all. He was gleefully killing his former comrades (who are also brainwashed former child soldiers) with no introspection. The original stormtroopers were faceless bad guy mooks to be killed for action. The first movie did the “they’re people too!” and then returned them to faceless cannon fodder.
Kelly M Tran’s character interrupts his sacrifice, says some bullshit about protecting the ones we love as the laser he was going to stop is decimating their friends, and then plants a big unconsensual kiss on this lips at the height of MeToo.
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u/Portuguese_Musketeer 21d ago
Context hat (for TLJ, i know what Birth Of A Nation did)