Gina Carano is No Longer Cara Dune... Fortunately

What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!

Yeah why marginalize the half of the population that gets its rocks off marginalizing the other half?
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!

Princess Leia, Rey, and Jyn say hi. Also Bo and Ahsoka existed a long time before Cara Dune did.
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!

It's not your Star Wars, buddy. It's for everyone.
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!
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My favorite thing about this ridiculous post? Ahsoka Tano has been around since 2008. Bo Katan since 2012. :lmao:
 
She was good. I honestly didn't mind her one bit. I may not be a politics kind of guy but who cares. I choose to not pay attention to what that actor/actress's views when it comes to politics.

My fave scenes were of her, Bo, Fennec and Koska raiding Gideon's cruiser. :) Such a cool action sequence.
 
She was good. I honestly didn't mind her one bit. I may not be a politics kind of guy but who cares. I choose to not pay attention to what that actor/actress's views when it comes to politics.

My fave scenes were of her, Bo, Fennec and Koska raiding Gideon's cruiser. :) Such a cool action sequence.
What do politics have to do with basic human decency? Do you consider not being a racist, politics or a basic moral requirement? It's amazing how often people decide they need to chip in they don't care if someone is a bigot, when they could be talking to someone directly affected by the spread of such bigotry.

She's an absolutely terrible actress to go along with being a terrible person. If Mel Gibson I almost get it. He actually has a ton of talent. But Carano? Awful. Oh, and that scene was blah.
 
There are definitely actors who I'd consider pretty bad as people who I watch because they're still enjoyable. Like the Mission Impossible movies starring that guy who profits off a cult. Carano though doesn't even have that going for her. I thought she was actually pretty decent in the last two episodes of season 1, but I feel like season 2 forgot an important lesson: she can't act. At all. Those last two episodes of season 1 at least leaned into what she's not awful at: standing there and pretending her gun is shooting things. Season 2 comes along and tries to get her to act again, and it's awful. The scene with the pilot in The Rescue and with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee in The Siege are just flat out bad as far as I'm concerned.

As the show has more interesting characters played by better actors in its stable, she just feels like a time sink at this point and brings down scenes rather than adding to them. The actor being terrible outside of her role doesn't help, but even divorced from that the show would be better off without her in my eyes. That just soldifies it in my book.
 
Im not saying she's the best there is about the show. Could they have gotten someone else to play cara dune? Like yeah...Someone with better talent. *shrugs* Honestly shes somewhat good but okay in my book. I'd take Bo and Koska over her any day. I know a talented actress when I see one. Gina just isn't that kind of actress.
 
Im not saying she's the best there is about the show. Could they have gotten someone else to play cara dune? Like yeah...Someone with better talent. *shrugs* Honestly shes somewhat good but okay in my book. I'd take Bo and Koska over her any day. I know a talented actress when I see one. Gina just isn't that kind of actress.
So you went from she's good to she's "somewhat good but okay". If we keep on pointing out how awful she is at acting I wonder if next time we can get you to:

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She was good. I honestly didn't mind her one bit. I may not be a politics kind of guy but who cares. I choose to not pay attention to what that actor/actress's views when it comes to politics.

My fave scenes were of her, Bo, Fennec and Koska raiding Gideon's cruiser. :) Such a cool action sequence.
Not to beat a dead horse but that's you do a female centric scene. Mando is doing a stealth job while the women are doing the heavy lifting, yet there's no cringey focus on it looking for a pat on the back.
 
Gina's acting is not good. However, this is also the same franchise that features Hayden and Natalie Portman doing...not their best work (to say the least), and in much more pivotal roles.

I wish she'd stay the hell of Twitter though. Truthfully I don't care what her political views are as she's merely playing a fictional character, but she knows she is being provocative. You shouldn't be posting political memes at that level of success. It just makes you look ignorant.
 
Gina's acting is not good. However, this is also the same franchise that features Hayden and Natalie Portman doing...not their best work (to say the least), and in much more pivotal roles.

I wish she'd stay the hell of Twitter though. Truthfully I don't care what her political views are as she's merely playing a fictional character, but she knows she is being provocative. You shouldn't be posting political memes at that level of success. It just makes you look ignorant.

Don't worry. She's moved over to Parler. The twitter for Nazis.
 
I think Gina is fine. They could replace her as she’s not some iconic actor doing a fantastic job. She is average and decent.

I mean I would much rather see more of Tim Olyphant and Katee Sackhoff by far.
 
Yeah the more the show goes on and the more they introduce more compelling characters, the less we need Cara Dune. Katee Sackhoff and Ming Na acted circles around her in the finale. Gina was fine but the more you surround her with genuinely good actors, the more glaring her weaknesses become. So if they wrote her out of the show, it wouldn’t matter much.

And yeah, if people aren’t bothered by her transphobic tweets or her Covid-denying and pro-fascism tweets (or are able to just ignore them) and can just enjoy the show, that is their right. But I don’t think it’s fair to ask members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, or just people who don’t want to die of COVID to just set aside their dislike of her when she supports things that directly threaten our lives AND has been incredibly vocal about that support. Like Sithborg said, the moment you join Parler, you basically confirm your status as a garbage person.

The most ironic thing though is that she plays a rebel on this show who adamantly hates the space Nazis. I guess she’s a better actor than we give her credit for lol.

Well I’m gay and I don’t want to die of COVID, but I can set aside her Twitter/Parler opinions while watching the show.

People’s personal mileage just varies.
 
Well I’m gay and I don’t want to die of COVID, but I can set aside her Twitter/Parler opinions while watching the show.

People’s personal mileage just varies.

Yeah I’m sorry if that sounded like I was attacking anyone who is able to put aside her personal shortcomings and is enjoying the show (I’ve been trying to do this as well). I just meant that it’s totally understandable if people can’t look past her ****. And anyone telling people to just shut up about her racism and transphobia and enjoy the show is really speaking from a place of privilege.
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!

Wait so you're saying that Lucas having Anakin Skywalker quote George W. Bush or naming Nute Gunray after Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan (not to mention the whole fascist allegory of the entire series) wasn't political? Just wondering.
 
What’s with this thread title...why marginalize over half the population...Gina was the best thing that happened for female empowerment in Star Wars. And now we have Bo Katan, Ahsoka Tano and evening Fennec. Keep politics out of my Star Wars!

Well, that is what happens when you pretty much know nothing about star wars and just ride the wave.
"Keep politics out of my *insert franchise" is such a boring and cowardly whiny nonsense.

Basic decency is not "politics", but i can see how people want to hide behind this "Its all political nowadays" crap so they think people dont notice how they support stuff like transphobia etc openly.

Yeah, the more characters they add, the less interesting Cara Dune becomes. Bo Katan and Cobb Vanth were much cooler sidekicks for Mando.

That too yeah.
Maybe its because Carano isnt that strong of an actor, but her character feels very empty the more characters they bring in that show more potential.

Neither one made me "cringe".

Yeah, didnt really see the cringe in either.
But i guess i got used to what might be considered cringe when you get your 12345346436 big manly dude does cool stuff that totally doesnt come of as cringeworthy scene over the past dozens of years.
If you watch enough action movies, you get quite used to scenes that are forced to look cool but really arent.
 

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