Junior Journalist - Oh wow, here we go again — another “Why can’t women just stay in the kitchen castle and wait to be rescued?” manifesto disguised as a “pure storytelling critique.” Spare me. You’re not uncovering some ancient narrative wisdom; you’re speed-running the same tired misogyny% glitchless route that every internet incel forum has already done twice since breakfast. Let’s start with this whole “How hard is it to tell a simple damsel-in-distress story?”  thing. B

Senior Journalist - How hard is it to tell a simple damsel-in-distress story? And no, this is not about hating women or wanting women to be weak. If anything, that’s the modern mental programming. Always jumping to negative, sexist conclusions. Not everything is about hating women or wanting them to be inferior. It’s about telling the story correctly, which they failed to do in the first movie. In the first movie, Mario had to learn from Princess Peach how to be Super Mario .