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WOMEN OF THE MANDALORIAN: SEASON 2
cara dune: wow it’s so sad mayfeld is dead
mayfeld: um, guys? i’m literally standing right here
din: sometimes i can still hear his voice
cara: I have to follow the rules
mando: it involves the kid
cara:
Onion headlines, Mandalorian style!!
Non-performative inclusion and “The Mandalorian”
This post contains minor spoilers. Proceed with caution.
In the season two finale of “The Mandalorian” there is a scene near the beginning of the episode in which a strike team (minus Mando himself) storms onto an Imperial ship, blasts stormtroopers, etc. It’s an extended action sequence. Two of the characters are helmeted.
I was well into the scene before it hit me that all four of the characters on this strike team were women.
The fact that there was this all-female action team wasn’t new. I’ve seen that before. What was new about it was that this was the first time I’d seen a team of women that didn’t feel performative.
Remember that scene in “Avengers: Endgame”, the “she’s not alone” scene where All The Lady Characters Assembled, and you could tell the filmmakers were getting some kind of weird boner of “looooook at how many Strong Female Characters we have, let’s put them all together and have them be Strong Female Characters at the same time” and it felt super gross? That was performative.
I’ve heard and used that term before but I’m not sure I really grokked what it meant until I saw what its absence looked like, in “The Mandalorian.”
It didn’t feel performative because each of those characters had been part of the narrative in their own time over the previous two seasons, with their own agencies and backstories. They were characters in the story as it needed to be told, they weren’t Strong Female Characters introduced for the purpose of being that (in a sexy way, of course). There was never a sense of ticking off the “kickass lady character” boxes. When Cara Dune is introduced, or Fennec Shand, or Bo-Katan, there was never that subtext of “Okay here is our Lady Character, isn’t she such a great Lady Character, look look we’re Doing the Thing you want us to do with having Womens in our Boy Stuff.”
No. It was, here’s a Rebel soldier. Here’s an assassin. Here’s a Mandalorian exile. Here’s a Jedi. Here’s a magistrate. They have functions to perform and stories to tell in this narrative. Those functions and stories happen while these characters are women, not because they are women.
And it’s so, so subtle, the difference. It’s hard to put your finger on how it’s usually done wrong until you see it done right. It’s not just the writing although that’s a big part of it. It’s in how they were filmed, framed, shot, costumed, and lit. It’s in how they were directed, how the camera treated them - i.e. no differently than the male characters. None of these women were sexified, either. Not that they weren’t being portrayed by attractive women, but that wasn’t remotely played up or displayed in how they were styled, costumed, and made up.
Unfortunately now that we’ve all seen how non-performative inclusion of women into a narrative can be done right, everything else is going to seem that much more insufferable.
someone: grogu is in danger everyone: (ง'̀-‘́)ง
So there’s this moment, after Luke says “May the Force be with you.” that Din is watching Grogu leave, but there’s a focus on Cara Dune for a long moment as well. And maybe she’s saying goodbye to Grogu as well, that she’s the only one who gets a close-up because she’s the only one in the room that had much interaction with him other than Din. But I am 100% choosing to believe that the soft smile on her face is because she knows that’s Luke Skywalker. Cara was from Alderaan, she was a shock trooper for the Rebellion, there’s no way she didn’t at least know who Leia Organa was, that’s her princess, so it makes sense that she’d know who Luke and Han were as well, certainly enough to recognize him. I’m not sure if the galaxy knows that Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa were siblings at this point (though, of course, the public didn’t know that Darth Vader was Anakin Skywalker yet), but either way, that look on her face totally said to me, “Yeah, she knows that’s Luke Skywalker, she knows Grogu is going off to train with the most famous Jedi currently in the galaxy, the guy who blew up the Death Star, the guy who defeated Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, who is a close friend of her princess, the hero of the Rebellion that she served for so long.” CANON UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE: CARA TOTALLY RECOGNIZED HIM AND FILLED DIN IN ON WHO EXACTLY THAT WAS AFTERWARDS.
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They’re both probably watching their respective Mandalorians doing something dumb, and baby doesn’t want to be left out
Mando: So.
Mando: Just to review here.
Mando: I have no ship.
Mando: My son is gone.
Mando: And my creed is broken.
Mando: BUT THANK GOD I HAVE THIS STUPID SWORD I DIDN’T WANT THAT GIVES ME RULERSHIP OF A PLANET I HAVE NEVER EVEN SEEN AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF THIS RESPONSIBILITY IS TO RITUALLY GET MY ASS KICKED.
Everyone else on the bridge of the Imperial Cruiser: ………
Mando: LOVE THAT FOR ME.
The king of social distancing himself
Based on a post from @thesparkleslugs (x)
I would just like to call our attention to the following:
that is all, good to day to everyone
I had to.
The Child and his dad ❤️