With social media hostility poisoning global fandoms, might the face-to-face goodwill found at real-life gatherings like StarWarsCelebration be the antidote?
series, which is currently filming and will debut next year, featured glimpses of characters from theseries who will now make the transition, like the title character, into live action, building on the younger fandom who grew up with the animated shows.
One of these characters was Hera Syndulla, the green-hued alien fighter pilot, who was only seen in the teaser from behind, and the other is Sabine Wren, a graffiti artist revolutionary and Mandalorian—both pivotal inNatasha Liu Bordizzo,“I know how much Sabine means to a lot of people in this room. And watching, she has come to mean a hell of a lot to me too,” Bordizzo said. “I think you guys are going to be really excited about the journey she’s about to have.
With Sabine entering the “real” world, Ong felt like she suddenly meant more to others too. “Right after that panel, so many people were like, ‘Yeah, Sabine! Yeah, Sabine!’ Normally I just get, ‘Oh, cool costume.’ And then all of a sudden it was like, oooh…Ong believes characters like her make the fandom more accessible. “With Rey, with Sabine and Hera—all the female representation innow, it’s not just Princess Leia, although she was very strong. But she was kind of the only one.
Although she acknowledges that others can still be toxic online, she tries to avoid those conflicts. “No one I know personally is fighting online. I feel like the nerd community is usually pretty nice to each other. Sometimes they’re like, oh, are youa nerd?” she said. “I mean, I used to get that maybe 20 years ago: ‘You’re a girl, what are you dressed up for?’ But now I feel like I seeThat camaraderie was evident even in the way people at Celebration expressed disagreement.
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