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But there's no reason to translate names in the movie. You'd assume that if she's called Rose in the film that's her real name. If she's named after a flower then just call her that. It's not an actual rose, so that still wouldn't make sense.

I agree with your summary except that Rose Tico doesn't seem like a particularly Japanese sounding name to me but I'm no expert. I just played Shadowrun: Hong Kong and I would say it would fit HK maybe? I learned English names are somewhat common in HK accompanying a Chinese (Cantonese? Unsure what is appropriate distinction) family name, though Tico doesn't jump out to me as any suggestion towards any ethnicity in particular; I would guess Finnish or a latin root language if I absolutely had to. Wouldn't make sense for the Kamikaze analogue but I feel that aspect might have been reading too much into it. The rest though I agree with you sounds poorly visualized and nonsensical.

It's the consonant-vowel repeated pattern that resembles Japanese. Japanese is a syllabary, so it's always made up of consonant-vowel sections (other than n, which can float at the end). "ko" is a very common name-ending in Japanese, examples including Aiko, Akako, Akiko, or this one girl from an anime, nicknamed "Teko". Th point is, it's very close to the Japanese word structure, especially with a "ko" sound at the end, more than any other east Asian language, which she clearly resembles. There's also the fact that the bomber flown in the movie is directly based off a WWII bomber, even the name is near identical. So the director has an Asian person with an off-brand Japanese sounding last name commit a kamikaze attack in a bomber named after a real one from WWII. It's either deliberately what he had in mind, or he's dense as fuck. Just think - (1) Asian person (2) WWII Bomber (3) Suicide mission. You don't even need the name for this to already be sketchy.

As for the first names of her and her sister, Rose and Paige, are Rian Johnson's choices, basically because he is terrible at names. These do not fit the theme of the setting at all. Nobody in Star Wars should have names that reference things that exist on Earth. Why is she called Rose? Do they have roses in this galaxy?

If someone is completely mentally robust, it tends to take some pretty heavy duty trauma to make them actually mentally ill. People are fairly resilient.

Consider actual depression, other people try and cheer them up, etc, nothing works. It's not just about some circumstance that made you sad. You can have some pretty horrible stuff happen to you that makes you sad, but ... even then, those people don't generally get diagnosed with clinical depression as a result.

Found the bit btw.

It's especially stupid when you consider the weapon they have at the start of that movie: space bombs. How does space bombs even work? There's no up and down in space. Person releases the space bombs and they fall out. Anyone else notice a problem here. They have gravity-driven space bombs but no missiles.

Also, Jedi Books, paper ones bound with leather. Rian Johnson just doesn't get it.

I don't know if there's actually any hard data saying it's increased.

You can look at somewhere like India. In vast areas of India they live in conditions that are barely better than hundreds of years ago, so it's a good case study. About 200 million Indians estimated to have mental disorders:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30475-4/fulltext

I do agree I went too far but everything I said was about what you said and not you as a person.

There's also a lot of "they" in there, third person. I was talking about the attitude in general and not about you.

Let's face it, all culture is bullshit and saying that they are in some other dimension and shouldn't upset their listeners by having opinions about stuff - that attitude is every bit as bullshit as them having opinions about stuff.

^ This may have said your statement was bullshit, but it's prefaced with all culture is bullshit.

@Reelya
Generally, you'd be putting clingwrap over a container, though. You're still going to have to wash that container, so you might as well be throwing a tupperware lid in with it.

I was going off what delphonso wrote, that his wife uses cling-wrap instead of tupperware to avoid washing it. What you're saying is a valid scenario, but kind of tangential to what I was responding to.