After Disney bought out Star Wars, their writers have gone to great lengt to eliminated Straight White Guys from respectable roles, never mind heroic ones. Look at The Last Jedi: never mind white men, what *men* at all were portrayed as someone to look up to? There were the bad guys, there was DJ who turned out to be a bad guy, there was Luke who turned into some weird mutant lame version of Luke, there was Finn who was an utterly useless coward, there was Poe who existed for no other reason that to be berated by the womenfolk. Other than Ezra and Kanan in “Rebels,” white guys have been written out of the script for Star Wars except as villains and saps.
So then a new Star Wars video game was announced… Jedi: Fallen Order. Video games aren’t my schtick anymore, much less Star Wars games, so I watched the trailer initially with only vague interest. As I watched it it occurred to me that I don’t know what kind of game this’ll be, but it looks like the sort of thing that would make a decent Star Wars movie along the lines of Rogue One. Give it a $80 million budget and set some enthusiastic director and cast of inexpensive unknowns loose on it, and way you go.
The problem (?) is, the main character triggers the SJWs. Guess why.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s protagonist is such a wasted opportunity
The game is not yet out, so the author here is not upset about a “wasted opportunity” in terms of game play, or capabilities or storyline. No, the author here is upset that the protagonist is the wrong race and sex.
And…
Some Fans Upset Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Protagonist is a White Guy
Think about that for a second. Imagine this being a valid concern were the race and sex any other race and sex than “white guy.”
Last time I cared enough to play a Star Wars game was going on 15, maybe 20 years ago, when I played a starfighter game based on Phantom Menace. In that sort of game, you see a *ship* not a protagonist, so your protagonist could have been a transexual pansexual furry cybernetic Hutt for all that you could tell.