melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote 2017-11-30 03:09 am (UTC)

SOO MANY REVIEWS ABOUT HOW ANTICOLONIALIST IT WAS.

I mean, there was the "dramatic reveal" about how Asgard was built on a foundation of conquest and oppression? which, yes?

And there were some people talking about Valkyrie's character arc re: tropes about Indigenous women, and it is super-awesome that a part-Maori woman got the role and there Maori-ish elements in her character design. But if you gave that storyline to a white dude actor it's, like, basically the plot of a thousand war movies? It's really cool that a WOC got that kind of role, but there's nothing deeply anticolonialist about her character.

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