el_super
Well-Known Member
Agency and choice is the right message. Putting Jessica is an ugly jacket that looks like a fan made addition is not it.
She admits in the movie that she didn't have agency in her own right, when she mentions just being "drawn" that way. She did not get to choose how she was dressed. While the movie gave her time to break the constructs of her character design, the ride did not.
Or just take JR out of it completely. If the execs think she's a problem, just take her out and let the ride be the Car Toon Spin fun it is supposed to be, and don't recreate the ride or scenes to fit a silly new narrative over one "problem" character. It's not as if she was completely essential to the ride.
I don't see how both things can be true. She can't both be so inconsequential to the ride that she can easily be removed, and also now a problem that needs to be solved by removing her. I feel that removing her entirely from the ride would have sent exactly the same kind of message that people are now complaining about.