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Why Star Wars Fans are Freaking Out Over 15 Seconds of The Force Awakens Footage

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then 15 seconds of new Star Wars: The Force Awakens footage (or, really, about 3 seconds of new footage and 12 that we've already seen) is worth millions of voices crying out (but they won't be suddenly silenced). Here's the clip again, if you haven't already watched it 100 times:

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masso91123163d ago

Uugghh they HAD to mention that the protagonist is black... So what? Mace Windu was black, not a protagonist but an awesome character... What is important is that the characters are well written and acted! Not their race, sex or whatever -.-

steven83r3163d ago (Edited 3163d ago )

I agree and that'd be nice one day. But I am against making these old superheros that were always white now black, asian or hispanic. Especially if it's just to appease a group stirring the racist pot. Let's make new superheros and characters for the races left out of the comic books. Stan Lee isn't dead yet.

Tonykid3163d ago

how is being african american a major step forward for the franchise? Did people forget about Mace Windu, Lando or are the people who make these claim just started watching star wars because it cool now.

Lord_Sloth3163d ago

I can't see anybody complaining about it. I see people complaining about people complaining about it but I can't seem to find the protesters...

Stringerbell3162d ago (Edited 3162d ago )

I found one for you:

http://filmwatch.com/news/1...

To be fair though some people originally complaining were under the assumption that (time to get nerdy) all clone were still based off of Jango. Not knowing that -

a) The Jango prototype aka 'The Prime Clone' was eventually supplanted with other Prime Clones depending on the type of trooper specification.

b)During the Galactic Civil war roughly 1/3 of all troopers were from Jango's lineage. The rest being other clone variants and for the first time ever individual human recruits.

c) After the destruction of the second Death Star, clone lineages continued to dwindle / become non existent. Of course once upon a time there was an OG bad guy named Admiral Thrawn who tried to revive the clone troopers / The Empire but Disney wont let us talk about him anymore.

D) Finally When the Empire begaing to tranation to the remnant (time frame of Force Awakens) they were no longer xenophobic and outwardly encouraged the recruitment of women as well as non human troopers.

Long story short if you were to present all of this to someone and they still took issue with the casting based on race, well I give up.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Nes_Daze3163d ago

You can make any originally black character white, or make a whole cast white, but as soon as their is a black protagonist or a black fantastic four character "eww stop being racist". -_-

kingPoS3162d ago (Edited 3162d ago )

What about Nick Fury? Does that mean SLJ is so badass, Mavel offially used his likeness in cartoons comics & games?

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