#star wars: the last jedi

[itspileofgoodthings]

low-key wish it was 2017 and I’d just come out of seeing the Last Jedi and was levitating with the sheer excitement of seeing the throne room scene for the first time

#reylo #star wars: the last jedi #i’m so sad

[allthefights]

#Oscar Isaac #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #swedit #tljedit

[disneyerastarwars]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | Dir. by: Rian Johnson

#my giffs #star wars #swedit #tljedit #starwarsedit #star wars: the last jedi #sequel trilogy #starwarsfilms #userallison #usernym #userauden #useramby #userkitkaat #userashlee #usermaguire #userfilm #cinematv #by jessica #*

[ultimateanna]

Star Wars - Rose Tico and Fathier

#star wars #the last jedi #star wars: the last jedi #rose tico #fathier star wars #star wars fathier #fathier #ファジアー #ultimate anna

[midnighthangintree]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Timestamp Roulette for @ben--solos

#jessica1.2kevent #my giffs #swedit #star wars: the last jedi #tljedit #starwarsedit #thelastjediedit #starwarsfilms #filmedit #fyeahmovies #sw #usertay #useramby #tuserashlee #jessielynnposts

[bluntblade]

Remembered the John Ford scene in The Fablemans and wondered where the horizon was in-frame during Luke and Kylo's confrontation (alas, Ford didn't cover "when the horizon erupts out of the middle into the top of one corner, but on balance I think it comes under "it's interesting"). And now I'm thinking about how here, Luke is surrounded by clear blue sky and soft golden light (it even harmonises with the lightsaber). Meanwhile, Kylo hasn't just placed himself up against a wall; the cliff face's texture surrounds him with visual noise. It feels rough and kind of chaotic, and it means that his blade sticks out like a big angry burn. Harmony against raging dissonance.

I just really love it when Star Wars goes large on visual storytelling and also looks terrific.

#The Last Jedi #Pro TLJ #pro the last jedi #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #Rian Johnson #Steve Yedlin

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Unused Sith Shuttle Concept Art by Rodolfo Dammaggio

#Star Wars #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #Sith Shuttle #Concept Art #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Spaceship #Rodolfo Dammaggio

[ao3feed--kylux]

Some Kind Of Stranger

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/q1Ackxf

by Glass_Oceans

After barely surviving the battle on Exegol, Hux has lived as a fugitive for years, giving false name and doing whatever it takes just to survive. Now, though, it seems his luck has finally run out...

Words: 1466, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Armitage Hux, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Minor Characters

Relationships: Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Additional Tags: Post Rise of Skywalker, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Minor Character Death, Some Light Stabbing, suffocation, Fugitive Hux, Memory Loss, Old Injuries

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/q1Ackxf

#star wars: the force awakens #star wars: the last jedi #kylux #kylo ren #general hux #fanfic

[punster-2319]

#polls #2017 in film #star wars: the last jedi #beauty and the beast #the fate of the furious #despicable me 3 #jumanji: welcome to the jungle #spider man: homecoming #wolf warrior 2 #guardians of the galaxy vol. 2 #thor: ragnarok #wonder woman

[jedi-valjean]

No because Rian Johnson really shot himself in the foot by moving Kylo's scar. Yes on one level it doesn't matter but on another it doesn't make sense (if she'd hit him there, wouldn't he be blind in that eye?) and on ANOTHER level keeping the scar where it was would have actually STRENGTHENED the themes Rian was exploring with Kylo of his conflicted loyalties because having it be across the bridge of his nose and down his jawline splits his face in half diagonally (if he wanted to fudge the scar, he could have made it more diagonal and had it start on the opposite side of his forehead instead of in the middle) and on ANOTHER level that scar runs where Han touched his face before he died

#star wars #star wars sequels #star wars sequel trilogy #star wars st #kylo ren #ben solo #the force awakens #the last jedi #tfa #tlj #star wars episode vii: the force awakens #star wars episode viii: the last jedi #star wars: the force awakens #star wars: the last jedi

[artist-issues]

Thinking about how people call TLJ Luke Skywalker a "character assasination" again.

I’m going to try to keep my response to this short and sweet. Basically everyone wants to dump on Rian Johnson’s explanation of Luke Skywalker hiding on Ahch-To and almost killing his nephew once a long time ago. They think Luke Skywalker, strong and heroic at the end of A New Hope, would never do such things. “He’d never give up on Ben! He’d never leave Leia and Han and the galaxy to defend themselves!”

Okay but think for one second. Think in step with the Original Trilogy.

The best characters are believable. Luke is believable because he has multiple levels to who he is. Yes, when met in the OT, he is hopeful and adventurous, and he sees the good in others. Old recluse Ben Kenobi, irritating but lovable smuggler Han, treacherous father Vader, you name it. If it breathes, Luke seems willing to believe it has good in it. But Luke is more than just your standard Hopeful, Forgiving Hero. He is also prideful. LET ME FINISH: - Luke is told by Yoda that he cannot be trained because he is too young, but Luke insists that he can. - Luke is told not to go confront Vader until he is ready, but he goes anyway because he believes he is the only one who can save his friends.

He is told not to go to his father, because it is too late for Vader to be saved, but he goes anyway. It turns out all right in the end; Luke goes, in his pride believing he can resist the Dark Side and the Emperor. He almost turns to the Dark Side, believing he can stop his sister’s endangerment and the death of the Rebellion. He is goaded into fighting Vader, and almost kills his own father. But then he chooses to have mercy and be a Jedi, instead. If not for Anakin’s return to the Light, even that decision would have gotten him killed. But like I said, it turned out okay and Luke was remembered as the hero who kept up belief in the Light.

So let’s say you’re Rian Johnson, and the character everyone believes is a super powerful god of hope and heroism has, for some reason, been sitting on an island while his nephew kills his best friend and almost kills his sister and destroys everything Luke worked for. You have to explain that.

You have to keep Luke in-character. So what part of Luke Skywalker,  in the OT source material, might have grown in the lifetime since we saw him last? What would the Sacred Original Trilogy Luke do if he had a family member who, leaning into the dark side, might be revealed to someday destroy everyone he loved?

Wasn’t there a moment where Young, Sacred Original Trilogy Luke Skywalker almost killed a family member under the same circumstances? Oh yeah. When he had Vader at his mercy at the end of Return of the Jedi. So it looks like, sometimes, it IS in-character for Luke Skywalker to have “a briefest moment of pure instinct,” and “I thought I could stop it,” and then “it passed.”

Okay, so maybe Luke threatening his nephew in a moment of fear and weakness can be said to be in-character. But what about after that? What about, in the consequences of that, Luke deciding not to make up for it but instead go into hiding? That’s super out-of-character, right? I mean, who would do that? Who would fail to save the Galaxy from a new darkness after driving his apprentice to that darkness, then choose to isolate himself and seek answers about where he went wrong by studying ancient Jedi artifacts?

Oh. Ben Kenobi. Who failed to prevent or defeat the darkness in his apprentice, and so decided to isolate himself and study the Force with his Master’s ghost. Ben Kenobi, who was one of Luke Skywalker’s only two role models in the Force did that same thing. Of course, Ben Kenobi was guarding Luke all the time, so he wasn’t totally abandoning the galaxy. But maybe, when Luke ran from his failure, he thought he was going to find some sort of answer to the problem. Some sort of insight to where he went wrong, so he could go back and save Ben. Only to find, on the island, that the only insight he could reach was the utter hubris of the Jedi Order he used to idolize. Then he starts internalizing that hubris, projecting it onto himself, coupled with the crippling added weight of having failed the only family he has…and he truly believes that the world is better off without him.

Okay, but who would, after failure, begin a young woman’s training and then leave her to go fight the danger you’ve been avoiding, all alone? When you know she might be killed?

Oh. Master Yoda. Who started an ill-advised apprentice’s training in Empire Strikes Back, and then when that apprentice stubbornly flew off to confront his nemesis, warned against it and ultimately stayed behind. Master Yoda, Luke Skywalker’s other only role model in the Force who did the same thing. Now, luckily, Yoda corrected this. Yoda finished Luke’s training, and gave him advice on his destiny, then passed into the Force. And when Luke was getting ready to leave Rey to her fate, it wasn’t until Yoda reappeared on Ahch-To that Luke returned to hoping. He realized that, yes, Rey was going to fail to turn Ben Solo the same way he failed to prevent Ben Solo from turning to the Dark Side. But thanks to Yoda, he also realized that that didn’t mean she needed to do what he did and isolate herself, or close herself off from the Force. She needed to learn from the failure and grow beyond it. That is what Luke is doing in the final Act of TLJ. He is proving to Rey, through a dying connection to the Force, that she can focus on and have peace in her purpose.

That IS in-character for Luke. Maybe, if Ben Solo hadn’t been Force sensitive and Snoke hadn’t turned him to the Dark Side from afar during training, Luke would have had a different in-character development between OT and ST. Maybe, if some galactic threat that had no direct, dark-side connection to his family had appeared, he would’ve kept fighting and become an even stronger beacon for hope in others and perseverance. But that’s not what happened. It’s a little tragic, but then, the story isn’t about him any longer.

The story is about Rey. And Rey needed to learn that “her place in all this” wasn’t important.

(Which is paralleled beautifully by Luke choosing to give himself up literally, and thematically, for her to go on. He was choosing to pass into the Force BECAUSE he didn't need to be the one in the spotlight, saving the galaxy, with everything rising on him, anymore. Ever since the cave at Dagobah, Luke's whole problem is that, we'll-intentioned as he is, saving the galaxy and helping his friends, he thinks too much of himself as the instrument of change, for good or evil. He thinks too much of himself.)

Rey didn’t need to be the answer to Kylo Ren’s problem, and she didn’t need to find out that her parents gave her meaning. It was just finding a purpose in helping others, passing on the Jedi growth to new generations, that mattered. That's what Luke's whole role is in this movie. He learns that in hiding away on an island, he was still acting out of hubris; like if he joined the galaxy again and came out of hiding, he'd cause more problems just by being a living legend. But in this movie he essentially learns from Yoda "it ain't that serious." Just pass on your strengths and your weaknesses because it ain't all about you.

Which is hard for people to understand, because Star Wars fans love Luke Skywalker. He's Luke Skywalker. But this isn't Part 4 of the Sacred Original Trilogy. It's a BRAND NEW trilogy, FOLLOWING Luke's story, but not HIS story any more. If this were the new "Luke Skywalker" tv show, and we opened on our main hero running from his problems, then yeah, we could have a legitimate offense. But that's not what this is. Context is the only way out of the plastic bags Luke fans seem to be suffocating under.

And also, it’s actually kind of great, the way Luke passed on. It echoes the OT, but in a better way. In the OT, Ben Kenobi dies by choosing to deactivate his light saber after deliberately engaging Vader, a “lost cause,” when he knew there was a young hero who could carry on the mission after he was gone. Luke deliberately engages Ben Solo, but NOT as a "lost cause." In fact, by being a Force projection, Luke NEVER gives Kylo Ren the option to "strike him down in anger." He won't be the instrument of Ben Solo choosing more darkness. And he even says to Leia, "nobody's ever really gone." Where Ben Kenobi sacrificed himself so that Luke could defeat his fallen apprentice in the future, Luke sacrifices himself so that Rey could live on and SAVE his fallen apprentice.

If that's not Luke Skywalker, tell me what is.

And it goes perfectly with the best theme in the film, "We won by not killing what we hate; saving what we love."

So yeah. Explain to me how that was a character assassination? Explain to me how that did anything other than make TLJ a better movie and strengthen the main characters?

#The last Jedi #TLJ #Star Wars: the last Jedi #the last Jedi hate #Star Wars discourse #Star Wars #luke skywalker #se #SW #Mark hamill #rian Johnson #Star wars hate #Star Wars fans

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Mondo Poster by Rory Kurtz

#Star Wars #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #Mondo #Sci-Fi #Praetorian Guard #Kylo Ren #Rey Skywalker #Rey #Rory Kurtz

[gmaybe666]

my intrusive thoughts vs me

#hjkjdjjnfjsskjfdksljfdkskl #favourite part of the film so far #the last jedi #general hux #armitage hux #Star Wars meme #star wars #star wars: the last jedi

[ultimateanna]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Ben Solo/Kylo Ren (Adam Driver)

For me, the character Kylo Ren is the only one who kept the sequels of Star Wars, thanks to the acting of Adam Driver.

#star wars #the last jedi #star wars: the last jedi #star wars the last jedi #movie #ben solo #kylo ren #adam driver #star wars rey #rey star wars #rey palpatine #rey skywalker #daisy ridley

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Kelly Marie Tran!

#Kelly Marie Tran #celeb birthdays #actress #fashion photography #red carpet fashion #pretty dresses #Elizabeth Olsen #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #BB8 #Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

[bluntblade]

I like to think the pilot of that AT-M6 was trying to psych himself up with the growly stomp.

Like, imagine the conflicted stress. You're already running point on the advance (hastily put together from the mess that Resistance ramming attack made of the flagship, I mean what in void's name happened there? Shaken doesn't begin to cover it) and sure, he's just one guy and your walker is built around an enormous bloody gun, and there are a bunch of others anyway, but this is the man that the top brass have been after for years and he's just standing there like the FUCK is that, and now the Supreme Leader's gone very quiet and you don't like that either-

OK, breathe. Come on, soldier. Deep breath in, out. Yeah, we've got this. Got that big bloody cannon, right? Let's do the stomp. That always feels good. Yeah...

#The Last Jedi #Star Wars: The Last Jedi #AT-M6