Star Wars was one of the few movie franchises which did not need to embrace the current obsession with race and sex.
It was already culturally diverse - it always was. It already had strong female characters and leaders. Movie icons as such.
TLJ pushes all that into trashy social media correctness and in many ways undid all the good work that Lucas had achieved in diversity in tentpole fantasy movie making. He created characters that were well rounded and part of the storyline - not cardboard facades- cut-outs shoe-horned into a script.
Leia, Lando, Mon Mothma, James E-Jones - The Empire was fascist white supremism. The bad guy.
Disney or Kennedy - who knows which or both - have pushed it into ridiculous territory now.
RO: Female lead.
TFA: Female lead with secondary character a black actor.
TLJ: Female lead, with 2 of the other main characters strong women - all the men were faulted-weak or untrustworthy.
Watch those scenes with Poe and Leia and Holdo- it’s like they counted the number of men and women in each scene- that’s counter productive to equality or diversity. For gods sake don’t become the thing you want to fight.
Write good female characters -use ethnic diversity in a natural way that fits the story.
And now we have a female droid in Solo - who “fights for droid rights”
