was it a mistake making this during the time of a democratic president?
maybe things like the story and casting would have been different in a republican era.
shareInteresting you mention the political party in power being a factor. I always assumed that the Last Jedi was made under the presumption that Hillary Clinton was going to be elected president in 2016, and Holdo was supposed to be an allegory/political statement for Hillary Clinton as President in an alternate 2017 when she would be serving her term.
shareYou make an even more interesting point as other media tv/movies seemed to promote a "female" leader, or female "leader", at or before the time... like as promoting propaganda for a particular point of view.
shareYeah, it did seem like in the mid 2010s there were quite a few examples of movies where they make a big deal about accepting the female character as the leader probably to condition audiences to have Hillary Clinton as the president which everyone thought would happen but ended up not happening. One that comes to mind is Incredibles 2, released in 2018 but probably in production since 2015 or 2016, and features a storyline about the characters having to accept the wife as the leader. Also infamously the 2016 Ghostbusters movie
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