I even watched that King Arthur movie that bombed several times just because I really like the persona he brings to the screen.

The only thing that I disagree with is to the extent that it effected this entry in the series. She was barely a part of the movie and most of her girl bossness happened off camera. For something be Woke, something has to actually happen. Even a turd has substance, just not the kind you want to bite into. 30 minutes of slow-mo grain harvesting, 10 minutes of redundant exposition dumps, 50 minutes of in comprehensible battles, and 5 minutes of What’s Her Face fighting just wasn’t enough to bother lowering the rate.

I marked Part 1 significantly lower, because at least she was a part of the story: a bad part of a horrible story, but a part of it nonetheless.

Even Superman who is ridiculously overpowered has the kryptonite.
The superstrenght itself is a challenge because imagine the consequences of angry young Superman punching an annoying schoolmate with full strenght…
Superheroes are specifically designed for boys as a metaphore for growing up because boys irl gain “superstrenght” during their puberty and they have to learn to use it wisely.
Real life superheroes are heroic, protective men with morals.
Real life supervillains are domestic abusers and rapists who use theit physical advantage to harm those who are weaker.

Modern Mary Sues have no kryptonite, they don´t need to learn anything and the whole world has to bend around them to grant their wishes. There is nothing to learn from them. They are not even funny in the over-the-top way, cheesy way. They are narcissists´ power fantasy.

The problem is that few female character stories ever evolve past this point.

Look at the evolution between Superman and Spider-Man. While Superman has no real consequences, no stakes, and never makes mistakes, Spider-Man does mess things up and has to learn as he goes. Look at how things went with his uncle.

Even Superman is bound by various codes that few female characters get.

Boys get the lessons of responsibility and the like because society expects them to grow up to be men, but princesses are never taught how to be queens in any sense of ruling capacity or the like.

As things go backwards and tomboys are just thought of as male rather than recognized as the full spectrum of what women can achieve, expect things to hold this level of stagnation.

We’d have to make at least one exemption for Pippi Longstocking. This beloved, red-haired Swedish girl lives in a beautiful mansion with her horse and her monkey, her mother is in heaven and her father is never home, she is fabulously wealthy sitting on a pile of gold pirate treasure but has no grasp of its value, she never goes to school, she routinely bests stupid criminals and vicious pirates with her super-strength and lives to brag about it, and she also repeatedly shames pompous adults. She does whatever she pleases and gets away with it. Danger and peril never seem to catch up with her.

Of course, Pippi Longstocking is a children’s wish fulfillment fantasy. Kids who read about her know that what she does can’t possibly happen. Even Pippi’s friends Tommy and Annika recognize that Pippi has a rather loose grasp on reality and ordinary kids who tried to do what she does would likely get seriously hurt or in big trouble with their parents. But they go along with her impossible adventures anyway because it’s fun and it’s more than they could have ever hoped for.

There is a subtle difference between a wish fulfillment fantasy heroine and a girlboss, however. Girlbosses are too mean, too shallow and too dull to be any fun.

There’s a decent number of otherwise abysmal shows and movies out there with some good soundtracks. Whether the music is good has no bearing on the rest of the movie.

Nevermind. We’re good.