Gina Carano is No Longer Cara Dune... Fortunately

[flickchick85]

I knew you two would find something to bond over eventually. Twas only a matter of time.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yes. For anything.

I told you watching the Detour and that awful Jurassic World sequel would pay off.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I knew you two would find something bond over eventually. Twas only a matter of time.

Bonding with Snow over attractive women is easier then bonding with @Spider-Fan over his dislike of the Steelers.

 

[Drizzle]

I know I may watch the Mando a bit too much, but Cara isn't a nothing character. She's arguably the third most prominent character on the show so far, behind only the Mando and the Child. She's been in 7 episodes, both season finales, and has a connection with both Din and the Child. They were pretty clearly building up that Din/Cara ship. Din turns to her when he needs help. They also connected her directly to Alderaan and the New Republic.

I was never crazy about the character and I am very happy she is gone, but I do think there is a level of ignoring her prominence on the show here.

She was definitely a prominent character that had a purpose in the show, it's just really hard to care about said character when Carano brought absolutely nothing to the table other than looking tough. Which of course, could have been easily overlooked had Carano not been volatile as all hell on social media but I know I'm preaching to the choir on that one.

 

[Sawyer]

Yes... the bullying... right.

 

[samsnee]

Yea bullied into a prominent role and possibly a spin-off.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yes... the bullying... right.

I look forward to the breadtube breakdowns of this "interview".

 

[TheVileOne]

Disney bullying Carano: "Please stop tweeting offensive things! We want to give you your own show!"

 

[Schlosser85]

Yes... the bullying... right.

Being fired for being a PR nightmare that is causing negative publicity for one of your employer's most popular shows and persisting after multiple chances and warnings is not being "bullied".

For priding themselves on supposedly being the tough guys/girls fighting back against the liberal snowflakes, right-wingers sure like to whine and play victim.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Being fired for being a PR nightmare that is causing negative publicity for one of your employer's most popular shows and persisting after multiple chances and warnings is not being "bullied".

For priding themselves on supposedly being the tough guys/girls fighting back against the liberal snowflakes, right-wingers sure like to whine and play victim.

Projection is a hell of a drug.

 

[Detective Conan]

The full Gina Carano interview with Ben Shiparo got posted today and...it’s really nothing but Gina Carano doing what conservatives always do when they get called out on doing something wrong, which is play the victim card. The persecution complex is strong with this one. It’s just over an hour of her justifying posting covid-19 misinformation and mendacious election fraud articles, etc. Its kind of sad to watch.

Ben Shiparo, as always, comes across as an insufferably smug dweeb in the interview. I won’t post the interview here even though it has no objectionable content like strong language, violence, and nudity because it’s really not worth watching. There’s some little tidbits of info relating to the lead-up of firing - like the Lucasfilm or Disney people letting her know that they were paying attention to the #fireGinaCarano hashtag trending on twitter hours before she would eventually be fired but it’s a overall boring and skippable interview.

Can’t wait to never bother to watch whatever nutty right-wing movie she does with Shiparo.

 

[Mysteryman]

Any chance that this interview will cause Disney to reverse their decision and recast the role?

 

[Iceman]

Disney bullying Carano: "Please stop tweeting offensive things! We want to give you your own show!"

Haha. I wanted the Dune character written out, but one possible plus side of having her in would be if the character became massive if played by someone better and the show spawned a huge future that Carano could be missing out on, while being comforted by Proud Boys.

 

[TheVileOne]

Any chance that this interview will cause Disney to reverse their decision and recast the role?

 

[writer0327]

Any chance that this interview will cause Disney to reverse their decision and recast the role?

Doubtful but you never know. My guess is Disney never brings Gina up again or does anything with Cara Dune the character. Its smarter to avoid this situation altogether.

 

[writer0327]

To me, one of the more interesting takeaways from that interview was her comment about the media trainer that came over to her house, my guess is to whip her into social media shape. The media trainer said Gina's problem was she offered a logical answer to their emotional response and they don't want logic, they want emotion (or something along those lines). The idea of a media trainer telling her to respond to emotion with emotion is social media in a nutshell, and I guess Gina didn't understand that. Arguments on social media aren't logical. People on social media aren't there for logic, to paraphrase Chris Rock, they're there for distance and irritation.

 

[TheVileOne]

Or you could just not post such volatile BS altogether. Just a suggestion.

 

[writer0327]

Or you could just not post such volatile BS altogether. Just a suggestion.

More to the point that social media is *not* the arena to have these kind of conversations in the first place, because even if your intents are geniune, its taking place in an emotional bubble that oftentimes lacks common sense, logic, or reason.

 

[Sithborg]

Yes... the bullying... right.

I mean, I can see how it would feel that way. We know they cracked down on Boyega for stuff, which granted was more "appropriate image" kind of stuff vs, you know, bigotry.

I do not know what the hell I clicked on youtube for the Ben Shapiro video to pop up, but never have I hit "do not recomend this channel" so hard....

 

[DarthSkywalker]

To me, one of the more interesting takeaways from that interview was her comment about the media trainer that came over to her house, my guess is to whip her into social media shape. The media trainer said Gina's problem was she offered a logical answer to their emotional response and they don't want logic, they want emotion (or something along those lines). The idea of a media trainer telling her to respond to emotion with emotion is social media in a nutshell, and I guess Gina didn't understand that. Arguments on social media aren't logical. People on social media aren't there for logic, to paraphrase Chris Rock, they're there for distance and irritation.

It's interesting that you think Carano either understood the media trainer or is telling the truth.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

More to the point that social media is *not* the arena to have these kind of conversations in the first place, because even if your intents are geniune, its taking place in an emotional bubble that oftentimes lacks common sense, logic, or reason.

Plenty of adults do it all the time. They usually don't start with bigotry.

 

[writer0327]

Plenty of adults do it all the time. They usually don't start with bigotry.

Social media isn't real life, its full of racists and trolls and rarely reflects real life conversations. Most of the folks wouldn't speak the way they do if there were a high likelihood they could meet up with those individuals face to face.

 

[writer0327]

It's interesting that you think Carano either understood the media trainer or is telling the truth.

I don't see a reason for her to lie. Plus the story makes sense and it fits with the character she has displayed for her entire career. But believe what you will.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Social media isn't real life, its full of racists and trolls and rarely reflects real life conversations. Most of the folks wouldn't speak the way they do if there were a high likelihood they could meet up with those individuals face to face.

You do realize you just made the argument for why social media is the way to talk to other people right? Because they actually show up, mask off, and thus aren't lying about who they are?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I don't see a reason for her to lie. Plus the story makes sense and it fits with the character she has displayed for her entire career. But believe what you will.