You might as well forget it. Many fans would rather ship Rey with the murderous man child Kylo Ren or no one rather than ship her with Finn. And many people would rather ship Finn with Poe, Rose or no one; rather than ship him with Rey.
Too many people are too bigoted to accept a biracial romance in which one half of the pair is white, in a STAR WARS movie.
"Many fans"? Out of curiosity, how did you compile this data, what qualifiers or conclusions were used? How about person of color with person of different color as opposed to just white/nonwhite? Hollywood, for decades, has acted as if only black and white exist and with no other shades getting mention. With one or two rather rare exceptions...
When you say "ship", why not just say you're referring to people having (not always) paid-bonded sexual relationships with as if they're just objects to be shipped?? Or why characters
must be about sexual relationships to begin with? T'Bonz pointed that one out too... or were you assuming the possibility but not saying it because, like you, we're all human and don't always include every possible point and then make assumptions, usually by accident?
Pavlov might be getting upset, as it's nice to know other people exist who watch shows for reasons
other than "Oooh, who's shaggin' who", "a woman can't be independent", and other oversimplified spoonfed tripe... (Pavlov would be happy with me at times too, no worries.)
But your post reminded me that I was one person who had brought up "Ren and Rey sitting in a tree", albeit some time ago, and certainly for reasons (other than skin color) that I assumed were fairly straightforward and simple. Perhaps not? The following response is based on an assumption so please forgive me if I am in error in my perception regarding the response:
I was discussing
plot twists, since TLJ was clearly subverting audience expectations for any number of issues and it is certainly much less often done where the bad guys winning the good guys over so it'd be a lot more interesting than replaying the same song 50 times in a row, since - in case people don't remember - everybody was rightfully griping about TFA being an obvious retread/remake played out "safe" as to not "scare away" audiences with scary unknown possibilities... Do you want to see the same thing over and over or do you want to see something unexpected? Having Rey go to the Dark Side would be as "not the same thing" as it possible gets. It's a much expanded saga now where no expectation is left, or I hope. Who knows if IX will be another by-the-numbers play-it-safe retread...
Maybe other people were chiming in and saying they wanted Rey and Ren to get together because they were white, and I've not sifted through every post between my earlier post and now, nor do I have the time and if they want everything to be white, why does that hurt you so badly and - more to a point - how is that our problem to fix? We don't even tell other parents' kids to behave in public... well, I don't and most people don't, so that assumption is why I'm suggesting you're the same as most people under 80.
If people really believe "Ren + Rey" must obviously have only one reason to get them together, not of plot interest but because of skin color-- if everything is just a matter of skin color to some people, doesn't that seem just a tad shallow?
And who needs skin color to be able to relate to a character? Aren't actions and motivations more interesting? I don't know, I'm only asking. But if skin color is the only thing that compels people to watch...
We're all part of the human race. Well, human species for which races exist under the category "species"... So here's a fun parallel: If cats don't care that the other cat they're looking at has gray fur instead of orange, then something else is going on. One can have a gray tabby cat look at two orange calico cats, and it ends up befriending one orange cat and not necessarily the other. Does that make the gray cat racist? Or the orange one that befriends the gray one - as in "self-internalizing" that psychologists often have a field day with? (And do people read into things too much? I might have since the people you were referring to may have openly said they wanted both to be white a few pages and posts ago and you may not have been referring to me clandestinely. But I was not one of those people, but read into your post too much and making an assumption that you were summarily including me. Which you may not have at the time. If that is the case then I was clearly in error to make an assumption and apologize for taking something so personally when it wasn't an issue to begin with.)
Another issue and I like this one: Have you done DNA tests on the
characters (not actors, there are obvious differences) to see if they're 20% this or 10% that or even 2% something else? Does it even matter? And should it even matter? Isn't that the point?
Let's see the numbers, ditto for LCD audiences since they bring in the most moolah and that's what Hollywood wants. And even then, it's still simple: Statistical data only show a snapshot in one point of time, it can't explain the underlying
why's and
how's and other reasoning that led to the numbers and what they purportedly suggest. Anyone can get a computer to process numbers. Computers cannot think. Neither can dogs. Humans can look at the same numbers and fathom a different result to computers and both human and machine can still be equally wrong. Of course, computers were invented by humans - imperfection cannot create perfection and not for philosophically paradoxical reasons.
