Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Trope Talk: Strong Female Characters" video.

  1. "People draw inspiration from other stories instead of from people they know in real life" When Mark Hamill was unsure how to play Luke, he just based his acting on an impression of George Lucas. Word is, Rey was not so much an author-insert as a producer-insert -- she was Kathleen Kennedy's avatar, and she was to have no flaws whatsoever.
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  2. Kasumi dies??? So Ranma goes really dark at some point?
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  3. "Archetypes are a lazy way to create characters" -- Eh, not really. The fewer dimensions a character has, they're less a character study (because the story is exploring that particular character) than they are a tool for the author to explore something else through. Ivan's strongly-drawn atheistic intellectualism and Dmitri's strongly-drawn material pleasure-seeking could be considered one-dimensional if you look at them in isolation, but when you combine them with Alyosha's spiritualism and seeking nature, they become a way to externalize Dostoevsky's internal debates about the nature of religion and faith. Is an animator going to stop using the x-axis because it's one-dimensional, or is that animator going to use the x, y, and z axes, to make all his creations come to life and explore vast worlds?
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  4. Was Rey ever annoyingly whiny? Did her Obi-Wan equivalent have to fish her out of lethal trouble ... twice? (RIP Max von Sydow. You deserved so much better.) Did she ever get tagged in the rear end by a mini-blaster shot from of a drone? In short, did the story treat her with anything other than kid gloves?
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