Rose could have been fine if they didn’t write her character as basically a cop during the introduction, a Mary Sue that figures out the weakness of tech where the start of the conversation was “that tech is impossible” (plus the weakness itself is completely out of left field), spend half of their field trip whining instead of doing their kinda urgent mission, and then the biggest thing she does is prevents a sacrifice that might have actually redeemed the movie somewhat, in a way that would have been physically impossible, given the scene leading up to it (ordered to retreat, she obeys, Finn ignores it and speeds at top speed towards the thing they were retreating from, then she somehow intercepts him from the side and both walk away).
The people that harassed the actor that played her are massive pieces of shit and this by no means justifies their response, but Rose seems like a character designed to draw hate.
Rose isn’t really any worse than any other character, really. Lots of characters to criticise - why did Poe do 75% of the stuff he did? Just go and tell Holdo your plan and talk it out Poe! Everyone would have escaped and hidden on Crait if it wasn’t for his shit decision making.
But Rose (who is definitely by no means a Mary Sue…) and Holdo got so much hate. I wonder why! Oh, wait, I know, it’s misogyny!
Rose could have been fine if they didn’t write her character as basically a cop during the introduction, a Mary Sue that figures out the weakness of tech where the start of the conversation was “that tech is impossible” (plus the weakness itself is completely out of left field), spend half of their field trip whining instead of doing their kinda urgent mission, and then the biggest thing she does is prevents a sacrifice that might have actually redeemed the movie somewhat, in a way that would have been physically impossible, given the scene leading up to it (ordered to retreat, she obeys, Finn ignores it and speeds at top speed towards the thing they were retreating from, then she somehow intercepts him from the side and both walk away).
The people that harassed the actor that played her are massive pieces of shit and this by no means justifies their response, but Rose seems like a character designed to draw hate.
Rose isn’t really any worse than any other character, really. Lots of characters to criticise - why did Poe do 75% of the stuff he did? Just go and tell Holdo your plan and talk it out Poe! Everyone would have escaped and hidden on Crait if it wasn’t for his shit decision making.
But Rose (who is definitely by no means a Mary Sue…) and Holdo got so much hate. I wonder why! Oh, wait, I know, it’s misogyny!