RANGERS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC Rumored To Replace Cara Dune With STAR WARS REBELS' Hera Syndulla

@dracula - to be fair, she doesn't have much of a planet left

@TheCoonII - Who?

@Blergh - If modern American conservatives had to choose between a North Korea-esque command-state run by straight white "Christian" dudes or a totally free market pluralistic democracy that treats all races, religions, and genders as equally valid, the vast majority of them would choose the oppressive totalitarian state in a heartbeat. And increasingly they're not even hiding it anymore.

It was easy to be pro-free market when Ayn Rand was writing because fascistic white dudes (and their children and grandchildren) held a massive amount of wealth owing to the Gilded Age and industrialization where they profited off of the labor of the working poor. But now people get superwealthy by skimming off of middle-class commerce and finding ways to advertising to consumers with a little pocket change. It throws the whole calculus off because the superwealthy have to at least pretend to care about the populace as a whole, hence: vaguely liberal social politics.

The power of public opinion for these companies means that they have to mollify the poors in a way that Henry Ford and the Vanderbilts never had to. In a weird (and depressingly anticlimactic way), the masses have seized power... at least of the major outlets of pop-culture; petrochemical companies and agri-business and such still don't give a shit what people think.

@globaltravels - I think Filoni would’ve brought her in regardless at some point. Just, now he can bring her in sooner

@batman001 - *never was.

@MaddAddaM - You do realise that Gina Carano was acting in other films before The Mandalorian which makes her an actress. Just because you personally don't like Gina Carano doesn't mean that she wasn't an actress.

@batman001 - Steven Sodaburg literally had to dub every line of her dialogue in Haywire. She is technically an “actress”, yes. A technically poor actress without the training to add depth and pathos to her characters... or the ability to read dialogue with emotion. She’s got physical presence, no doubt, but basically no emotional intelligence to bring to her work. That’s bad acting, plain and simple. So when I say I want a real actress, I mean I want a trained performer capable of doing more than stunts and grunts.