Branching off of this wonderful, wonderful post, coz I just caught sight of the Solo poster on the way home.
Where is my Leia Organa origin story? Can you honestly tell me no one would be interested as fuck in that? How did Bail raise her? Did he watch her growing up outsmarting every single tutor and blowing everyone else out of the water and his heart clench in the memory of Padmé Amidala? You can’t tell me Leia never wondered about her birth parents. How much did Bail tell her? How much did he choose to reveal? How much of her history informed her future?
And more importantly, how much would it mean for girls to see this path to emulate, knowing her future? It is, of course, entirely possible that Leia was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to women throughout her upbringing, but it takes a village to raise a child, and I don’t think Leia would be the sort of girl to ignore the absence of women around her. If we must include that shoddy excuse for a sequel, at least give me Leia’s relationship with Holdo. And as someone who pursued Obi-Wan so relentlessly during IV, I imagine she would reach out to even rumours of a Jedi. And because we’re in the Star Wars verse- there is absolutely no excuse for not having any diversity. Give me women of all shapes and sizes, creeds and cultures, religions and races. Hell, give me aliens. There should definitely be aliens, considering how she became a senator- how else was she going to learn about foreign culture? Certainly not by just reading out of a book.
Give me life upon Themyscira, give me my Amazons movie. Bloody hell, on that note, give me my Xena movie. Give me my Black Widow movie. Give me more women to learn from, to look up to, to aspire to be, to adore, to love, to appreciate, to laugh at, to hate.
When it hits you that Shuri took that claw necklace without knowing her brother is alive, didn’t say shit about it when her mother said Nakia should take the herb.
Marvel’s Black Panther: “UN Meet and Greet” Exclusive Deleted Scene (X)
They really, really should have included this in the movie. It’s such an important, precious show of development that has been taking place between these characters. From the man who arrogantly asked “Does she speak English?” and got cold stares and hissed answers for it to this, to Everett making the effort to learn their language and the others, while grinning at his slip-up, genuinely appreciating the effort and thanking him for it.
They learned to respect each other, heck, probably even like each other, and this whole scene would have shown this so perfectly.
(Also, who wants to bet with me that Shuri taught him the phrase and got it wrong on purpose?)
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