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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Could one issue be that professional writers, on average, give female leads worse scripts to work with? Not always intentionally.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreMale

I feel like this is a pattern in Star Wars. Not just with Rey, but Ahsoka and The Acolyte too.


As for why this is a tragedy, I would cite the A/B examples of AC: Odyssey and Cyberpunk 2077 where, given the literally identical gender neutral writing, the women VAs utterly nail their scripts.

I wonder what’d happen if TV got the same treatment.

[–] ProfessorHoover 8 points 1 week ago

Isn't that how Alien was written? Then Signourney Weaver blew them away. 

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