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gffa · 1 year

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Hi! I'm not sure how much help I'm going to be because my view of the sequel trilogy lives in kind of a nebulous space, where I really like the characters and I actually like a lot of the potential of the storyline, but I dislike TFA, greatly dislike TLJ, and was actually pretty okay with TROS all things considered. I don't want to dig too deep into the negativity of my feelings but they're basically - TFA was too much of a repainting of ANH for me, the initial shine of it was through its potential, but when that didn't pay off in the other movies, the shine came off TFA, too. - TLJ was set too close to TFA, Finn's character should have been tied into the Canto Bight plot (which was exhausting as it was), as a stolen child soldier he has the most reason to hate the rich, but absolutely nothing was done with him, Luke being on that island for that long was out of character for him, Rey's entire story became wrapped up in Kylo Ren, neither of those characters had nearly enough connections with others despite having very good reasons to, like why do we not spend more time on Luke & Kylo?? and it played at being subversive but it absolutely was not, it's all been done before (and I really hated the way Force abilities worked in the movie) and killing off your main villain in the second act was a baffling decision - TROS' biggest problem is that it should have been two movies instead of one, it was a series of trailers rather than a story with breathing room, and it suffered the most from the lack of planning + the main villain being killed off in the second movie But here's why I still like The Rise of Skywalker the best: The bones of what's there are a pretty good Star Wars story! Yes, Rey Palpatine came out of nowhere and was very silly, but if you can't handle silly, I don't know how you can make it as a Star Wars fan, it's such a silly franchise! I'm not afraid to love a scene I laugh out loud at--and, yeah, I laughed RIGHT OUT LOUD the first time Kylo dramatically said, "You're a Palpatine." I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes and let me tell you, I fucking LOVE that scene now. Or how the last words of any Skywalker, the last word Ben Solo/Kylo Ren ever says in the movies' franchise is, "Ow." I am laughing RIGHT NOW, please, p l e a s e, that is so on-brand, I can't handle it, it's too funny. But I also like the basic storyline because Rey's story in TROS is her struggling with her own inner darkness, that she feels there's something dark in her soul because she's Palpatine's granddaughter. The movie isn't saying that's true, but that Rey struggles with thinking it's true, and she has to wrestle with her dark side, just like every Jedi before her has as they're coming into their power. Anakin wrestled with his dark side and lost in Attack of the Clones and even worse in Revenge of the Sith. Luke wrestled with his dark side in the vision he sees of himself in Vader's helmet in the cave in ESB and in the climactic scene of ROTJ, where he nearly hacks his father's arm off in rage after his sister and friends are threatened. He has to claw his way back out of that. Ezra Bridger struggles with the dark side in Rebels as he comes into his power and he has to claw his way out of it as well. Rey has to struggle with her own lure towards the dark side as she comes into her power--she rips a ship apart in the sky because she was so determined that Chewie was hers, she was so angry at Kylo that Force lightning burst out of her. She's seeing Sith visions of herself on the wreckage of the Death Star. This is a theme that has been there since the very beginning, that Jedi have to struggle through a temptation to the dark, and her relation to Palpatine preys on that. That's kind of why I wound up loving Ben's scene with Han as well, because that was an entirely imagined scene, but it represents that the way the Force works, you have to dig yourself out of the hole you're in, that Ben using the memory of his father, the last moments of connection he had with his mother, to pull himself out of the dark, really worked for me. And I'm okay with his death, because this is Star Wars, people die before they should all the time. I even liked the political message of the final movie, yes, Rey vs Palpatine was the big Jedi vs Sith showdown, but the main galactic battle? Had people showing up. Just... people. One of the themes I've talked a lot about, especially because The Clone Wars kind of has it as a running theme is that the average galactic citizen doesn't do jack shit about the state of the galaxy they live in. The Rebellion had people starting to stand up, but it was an organized effort, it recruited people. TROS had just people showing up, that Leia and the Resistance had been trying to rally the cause, but ultimately it was the galactic public finally, finally saying, "We have to stand up and fight for ourselves, not depend on other people to do it." Was it ham-fisted and not nearly as polished as it should have been? Oh, no doubt. But the message. Just people showing up to fight against the First Order that was trying to bring back the Empire. That meant a lot to me. And I loved Luke's character here, that he admitted when he was wrong, and gave us that banger line that's spot on: "Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi." Yes. Yes. FUCKING YES. LUKE SKYWALKER AND JEDI PHILOSOPHY. MY HEART. Nailed it. Does this movie hang together as well as it should? Absolutely not. It needed a stronger writer, it needed more time than it got, and it needed better build-up. But the bones of what was there were actually pretty good and, man, any movie that has Daisy Ridley in that white outfit with the hood where she looked practically ethereal cannot be all bad, in my opinion.

#rey #the rise of skywalker #meta

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authortobenamedlater · 3 months

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E6! We’re getting toward the end now!

The good:

While it wasn’t exactly the John & Cortana reunion I’d hoped for, WE FINALLY GOT IT and it was still immensely satisfying. John is bloodied and bruised and when he sees Cortana he still SMILES and just looks so much more at ease. Like everything is going to be OK now because Cortana is back.

Cortana did, in fact, sell her digital soul to Parangosky in a way. We don’t know why, but my guess is to get Parangsoky/ONI to spare John. A sad look into how Cortana and John are both looked at as disposable once they’re no longer “useful.”

Pablo Schreiber continues to pull out all the stops. His Captain America elevator scene-style beat-down (his second of this season) on the ONI guards is glorious, as is his fight scene with Kai and his reunion with Cortana. Also, he’s oddly sexy in the black sweatshirt.

Oh yeah, and the way Cortana’s “I’m with the Arbiter” line gets John standing up and growling “the one who killed Vannak?” This is a WAY more personal rivalry than game Chief and Arbiter had and I’m all in on it. Thel led the fleet to Reach, but this Var ‘Gatanai fellow stuck a needler round in Vannak’s chest with John watching.

The scene where Var cuts down his fellow Sangheili instead of Makee reminds me of Kylo Ren turning his lightsaber on Snoke in TLJ. Makee has clearly fallen from grace in the Covenant, but I’m not seeing her joining up with the humans either. At least not entirely. We do see her telling John the Covenant will use the Halo to annihilate mankind in the trailer for next week.

The bad:

I can’t think of anything really bad about this episode? Except that Vannak and Jacob are still dead.

Questions/neutral/speculations:

These Spartan-IIIs are definitely not the IIIs of the main canon, in fact they seem more like IVs. I don’t think they’re even augmented yet. It’s been only a month or so since Reach and Talia is already there training. That’s not enough time to have a bunch of major surgeries and procedures and recover. My guess is they are waiting to see who will wash out before doing any augmentations.

If they’ve got a bunch of consenting adults to be IIIs, why did ONI take Kessler? They wouldn’t need to recruit children if they can do the same thing (somewhat) more ethically on adults. Unless they took Kessler for reasons entirely unrelated to making more Spartans.

I still want to know why Cortana struck a deal with Parangosky. I’m really starting to think that opening scene was not much to do with untangling John and Cortana and more to do with Parangosky/ONI getting Cortana to do their bidding.

Will Kai see the end of the season? The show has taken John’s team from him one by one. It doesn’t make sense to pull her to train the IIIs and then kill her. Who would take her place? Are they going to kill all the IIIs? Again, why? We just met them and they’re supposed to be the next generation of Spartans “in [the Master Chief’s] image.” Not missing the Genesis allusion there, Ackerson.

In next week’s trailer Parangosky says she is willing to sacrifice all the Spartan-IIIs. Maybe they will all die. This show does love to ride the ragged edge.

What is the “mistake” Miranda found in her mother’s research?

Are Var, Makee, John, and Cortana all going to go rogue together?

But, Kai IS in the Kurt role and he doesn’t see the end of Ghosts of Onyx. Shoulda worn the Mjolnir, buddy. Maybe Kai will learn that lesson.

Kate Kennedy would do a 10/10 job delivering the “Die? Didn’t you know? Spartans never die” line. I really hope I don’t have to hear it.

#halo #halo tv show #halo spoilers

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virtie333 · 1 month

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11 (Damerey)& 24(Can you answer for both Poe and Rey?)

Thank you for the asks!

11. What's your favourite piece of fanart for [ship]?

Always my favorite, though several of her Damerey are almost as amazing.

I also love this...

And of course Tripple B!

I fell in love with this one shortly after finding it on-line (uncredited), only to find and befriend the artist through Discord. Now I am proud to share it with credit! (Did you really expect me to choose just one?)

24. What's your favourite thing about [character]?

Rey: The thing I love most about Rey is that she has remained a truly good person, despite the way she grew up and had to live on Jakku. There are still some 'fans' out there saying the trilogy would have been 'better' if Rey had become the evil she saw herself as in TROS, but I am so very grateful the writers stayed true to the character they introduced in TFA.

Poe: I guess I can say kind of the same thing about him, though his upbringing wasn't quite as stark as hers. He has always been surrounded by good people to look up to, so his kindness and positivity is something I'm sure he's always had. Even his behavior in TLJ was due to him trying to do the right thing for the people he cared about.

And that, ladies and germs, is why I ship Damerey.

Okay, I'm going to bed. But if I have more asks in the morning, I won't be upset!

#ask box #fandom ask game #jewelsrulz #fan art

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cosmic-kaden · 9 days

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I was tagged by @deathnot-e Hey thanks~!!! Appreciate you! :D

Favorite color: Orange, Purple, yellow, (and now Red .////.)

Last song I listened to: Hands Of time by Hellberg... for no apparent shut up >////> /lh LOL

The last film I watched: The Last Jedi~! for no apparent un-fucking-hinged husband scenes hehehehe I did watch TROS with my bestie and The simpsons movie last night but when I got home I was like TLJ NAOW~!! \O/

Currently reading: The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost I am only one chapter in but it....pffft....peaked my interest.. [gets tomatoes thrown at me]

Currently craving: Are we talking food or fictional character? :3c if its food I could really go for some damn Miso Soup! mmmmmm If we're talking characters......I don't wanna talk about it >///> lol

Currently watching: .......megalopolis trailers on repeat... mainly the first one where its just...h e shush! sldkfjdsl

Coffee or tea: Yes ._. I love coffee AND tea! There is no one or the other here the answer is simply "yes" <3

I'm tagging: @heatobrienswife || @mauls-waifu || @little-miss-selfships || @dragonsmooch || @juugahusband || @mahitosoulmate (No pressure to do this and ignore if you've already been tagged!! dslkfjdslf)

#games;;#THANKS FOR TAGGING ME FRIEND!

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shrinkthisviolet · 2 months

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☕️ While The Last Jedi was objectively terrible, they definitely made things worse by trying to retcon things in its' sequel. Either stick to your guns or don't make such drastic decisions in the first damn place.

Oh absolutely. TLJ is very flawed as a movie, but if TROS had stuck with that direction, I could at least respect the vision. But Lucasfilm was clearly so insecure by the negative reaction (gee, I wonder why that happened, geniuses 💀) that they overcorrected.

They changed Luke to be closer to how he should’ve been as a mentor...this is incoherent given that there's no reason for him acting as callous as he did last movie, and also no reason for him suddenly changing again. Luke has never been a mercurial character, so why is he now??

They wrote Rose out completely. I just...*sighs* I've heard she was more prominent in early versions of the story (this video shows some concept art from one of the official books that talks about some of the early story ideas), and as the plot changed, so did her presence...but it's very telling that her plotline got cut.

Same for Finn, by the way—apparently he and Rose shared a plotline initially. And now, he's reduced to comic relief. Well, at least they're keeping him consistent with TLJ, which also didn't care about him 💀

And of course...Poe. Who could forget what they did to Poe. Making a Latino character a Spice Runner (spice being drugs in Star Wars) is...a choice. Also...wow, he had a girlfriend before? Wowww

(I'm not gonna get in the weeds about conspiracies but uh...Oscar Isaac's words about Disney not liking him and John Boyega playing up the Finnpoe flirting do come to mind.)

They even retconned Rey! Now, granted, I didn't love the idea of her not being related to anyone (it makes the payoffs in TFA feel cheap—they were very clearly setting her up as a Skywalker/Solo even as early as the trailers), but I had at least gotten used to it by the time TROS released. But then they made it worse! For no reason!

And Kylo *sighs* TLJ firmly shut the door on Rey/Kylo, a choice i was cheering about...and then TROS decided to have Kylo die for Rey*...and then they kiss??

I just...*sighs* at least if they'd made them cousins or siblings, alluded to them having a past where they loved each other and knew each other so well, I could understand why Rey would feel any affection towards him (not romance ofc—that angle was a bad idea with the movies being as they are, especially given that time he tortured her and they never even talked about it later). But as it stands?? Nope. They even try to retcon this as a "gratitude kiss" in the novelization. I just can't even.

*clumsily paralleling him to Vader, but this fails because Rey and Kylo's relationship is not nearly as strong as Vader and Luke's was, especially since Kylo literally rejected her offer of redemption last time and also she closed the door on him! And also, Kylo has never had compelling/interesting motivations for turning to the Dark Side, nor did he ever have the gravitas Vader did. It's all just...ugh

The Palpatine stuff...well, we all know that's terrible. It's not like they even needed to bring him back, even after killing Snoke (DOTF had him present as holograms, with Kylo as the Final Boss)...but hey, if they wanted to redeem Kylo, they needed a big bad to contrast him with. But the whole thing was a giant mess from start to finish. You can even see in some scenes how tired the actors are. And I don’t blame them…watching the movie itself was exhausting.

send me “☕️” and a topic, and I’ll talk about it!

#anti tlj #tea ask game #spilling the tea ask game

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o0-snowdrop-0o · 1 year

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Yesterday i saw this in our local bookstore, and I couldn't believe my (teary) eyes....also translated to hungarian?!

I cannot express how proud I am...

That I also had the fortune to be part of this amazing, uniqe fandom form the very beginning...even if we had and have disagreements, I love you all...this fandom, this pair were the reason my english skills improved.

Oh, dear...I will never forget when we screamed at once from around the world after seeig the TLJ trailer...when Disney Lucasfilm chosed a reylo artist and promoted her art at the premiere...

So many talents and kind hearted people!

❤

#reylo

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marinersubmariner · 1 year

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Reyyyyyy

TL;DR I can’t believe Star Wars made me sad about getting new Star Wars

Even though I’m no different from everybody else wanting Star Wars to break free of the endless prequels/callbacks/rehashed time periods that it’s mired in, the truly unfortunate thing about TROS is that it was so painful and left me perpetually trying to repair and reconcile it in my imagination with a litany of demented headcanons that now anything moving beyond that time period is... also going to be painful. Continuation will only make it more real and irreversible. They’re not going to focus on the things that have become so important to me to fix, because the official story is something that they can’t and won’t acknowledge as being broken. There is a fundamental, irreparable disconnect in what, to them, is the canon and what, to me, is a mistake.

I wish I could say they can’t hurt me anymore, but they can. They can hurt me even worse now because I’m still bleeding out in a ditch from the last time.

I really do try to focus on things I like (and there is a lot of silly and bad Star Wars that I like!) and not get bogged down by bitterness and negativity, so it really bums me out that it’s so hard to feel excited about this. Over the past few years it has been increasingly depressing to dwell on a special interest without new content as fandom activity diminishes by the day. Nothing compares to the excitement of not knowing what will happen next, seeing a new trailer, anticipating New Stuff. But on the other hand the dormancy feels... safe? Relaxed? I mean, there’s no time pressure of current events or new things on the way, I know all the material I have to work with, and beyond that I can just make up whatever shit I want! I may be sad but I’m free! WELL NOT ANYMORE.

As with all overused buzzwords I really hate fandom’s use of the word “feral” these days, but annoyingly that’s the best word for this type of thing. I used to be a domesticated canon fan, but canon ended and I was released into the wild and forced to fend for myself, and now if canon ever tries to adopt me again I’m going to be hissing and biting and clawing and refusing to eat whatever they try to feed me because I developed my own way to survive. :(

I think a big part of why some people hated TLJ so much is that they were committed to the headcanons they invented after TFA and they had a very specific idea of what they wanted to happen. Being super invested in your own fanfic ideas kills your ability to let other people tell the story. And while of course everyone has thoughts about where a story might go, I wasn’t so invested after TFA that there were things I NEEDED to see. By the time TLJ rolled around I only abstractly cared about what happened next and my interest was entirely as a gen fan. So I loved TLJ! Just being along for the ride is so fun! It’s chill! Head empty!

Even pre-TROS, while my investment skyrocketed after TLJ and I had a specific wishlist, I didn’t have an unreasonable wishlist (I THOUGHT). I didn’t game it out with detailed theories or reading fanfic or anything, it just seemed like there were pretty obvious things they needed to do to wrap things up in a satisfying way. So the disappointment came into play, but more in the sense of “uh this does not align with some very basic expectations that had been set by the previous 8 movies.”

After TROS is where it got ugly, and I suddenly CARED about SHIPPING because they made me like it and ruined it AT THE SAME TIME so my need to fix it became so strong that there’s now a whole separate fanon ecosystem that has taken up residence in my brain. They left us high and dry with an inert ending and no hope, the door slammed shut on any interesting new path for the future. Of course fans are gonna try to circumvent that any way they can.

So now that they’ve confirmed new post-sequel material is coming... haha I’m in danger. It’s so scary. I’m sweating. I’m panicking. They’re never gonna do what I want because what I want is crazy. I am guaranteed disappointment from every angle, on all fronts, no matter which way it comes from it is coming for me. Even if they DID do exactly what I want (they won’t), that would still be disappointing because reality never lives up to expectations. It’s a no-win scenario.

I can’t be a breezy gen fan anymore. I have an agenda. The fun is over. I’m too attached to the infinite possibilities of my imaginary scenarios and I don’t want them to be obliterated by grim reality. I’m gonna lose it. I’ve already lost it. TROS + pandemic times broke me so completely that there’s no going back. I’m done for.

Even setting aside [DEAD CHARACTER] factors, the most basic metric is that it’s going to be hard for me to accept any new story with Rey when I still can’t hear or read “Rey Skywalker” without cringing out of my body. There’s no way around it, they’re not gonna undo it, they really saddled us with that embarrassment for the rest of time, tainting everything that follows. All future story has to be built on an unstable foundation because there are things in TROS that truly can’t be undone (“we knew you were a Palpatine the whole time lol”). And I’m especially wary now that the franchise seems pretty dedicated to getting worse as it expands. TROS felt like such a betrayal, and so much of the live-action tv output since then has been mediocre to bad, I’ve lost the trust I had in 2019.

I have so many issues with just the suggestion of Rey alone rebuilding the Jedi, because the thing I actually wanted out of the sequels was Rey, Finn, and Ben as the founders of a new Jedi Order—which, you know, obviously didn’t happen. Of course we don’t know anything at this point (like if this movie will even really get made at all) so there’s no way of knowing if other characters will return (Rose Rose Rose Rose), but even throwing it out there as “yeah just Rey by herself! only Rey! alone, like she was always meant to be!” is maddening. I will be shocked if John Boyega ever comes back to play Finn since he seems pretty definitively done with it, and even on the off chance that Ben gets acknowledged he’ll still be dead, and it all makes me so sad that there was such an enormous opportunity of having this next generation established in their own trilogy actually become a team and usher in a new era together and instead it’s just. Rey, alone.

And the fact that NOW they’re like “oh right maybe we should’ve done something with the whole Jedi thing when we were wrapping up the saga”… oh my god. Yeah no shit!!!!!

I guess I still have a while longer to desperately cling to my deluded hope that they’ll do something good that I want. There’s a bunch of dyad cosmic weirdness just sitting there undefined and unexplored, FOR EXAMPLE, and if nothing else I have gotten soooo good at clowning. I’m going to clown until it’s absolutely not possible to clown anymore, and even then I’ll probably still clown.

For now I have to try and ensconce myself in the tiniest bubble of my positivity that I love Rey! And I’m so excited to see her! And for her to get NEW OUTFITS and NEW HAIRSTYLES!!! And USE HER OWN LIGHTSABER!!!!

(and she bangs a ghost.)

haha who said that

#star wars #rey #reylo #sw meta #cringefail loser whining about space wizards: year 4

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moosegbt · 7 months

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could you please make a post on your star wars vhs as well?

Absolutely, it’s gonna be a longer one since I’m making box art and editing all 10 non-VHS movies:

- Episode VII TFA

- Episode VIII TLJ

- Episode IX TRoS

- The Clone Wars (2008)

- Rogue One

- Solo

- The Holiday Special

- Kenobi (the Patterson cut)

I’m actually already finished with the Holiday Special box art and edit! It was already in 4:3, so no need to pan and scan. All I needed was to add proper credits and trailers at the beginning. I’ll make a separate dedicated post to this at a later point.

I have not yet spoke to Kai Patterson (the creator of the Kenobi Patterson Cut), but for those who don’t know he edited all of Kenobi into one, extremely well paced, movie. I personally loved the show how it was, but the Patterson cut is phenomenal and it really shows that it should have remained a movie as initially intended.

Here is a link with more information about the Patterson cut: https://www.kaipattersonfilms.com/kenobi

The reason I am not doing the Caravan of Courage or the Battle for Endor is because shockingly they already had a VHS release. They are the only two tapes missing from my real Star Wars VHS set.

I would also love to make a VHS box set of Mando and the Clone Wars. Star Trek Insurrection has a cool metallic tape sleeve, so ideally I would want to use that for Mando (but that’s probably super hard to come by).

I think it would be really funny to sell a “complete Star Wars VHS box set” on eBay, just for the buyer to get overwhelmed with shock when they realize How complete it really is.

#star wars #vhs aesthetic #vhs tapes #vhs #star wars prequels #star wars sequel trilogy #the mandolarian #MoosePost

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gpoust37 · 2 years

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story… 6 years later. Well, like, 3 years since I watched it leading up to TROS. But you get it.

In the past 6 years, my opinion on the movie has mostly stayed the same. I like it overall, love the third act, and get triggered when people say it’s the best Disney or overall Star Wars. That remains true today, but I think I am a little more positive on it and can safely say I put it as my 3rd favorite of the Disney era behind TLJ and TFA. For a bit there, I considered Solo being better. but having seen that a couple months ago and seeing Rogue today, Rogue One is definitely better. Still enjoy Solo a good bit though.

Back to Rogue One, overall, it’s good. But that first hour has just never sat the best with me. I never found Jyn to be that intriguing at first. It starts to pick up for me when she is seeing her father’s message. The stuff leading up to that is a bit lacking for me. They present her as this apathetic loner who is just out for herself. But on Jedha, she saves that little girl during the fight, risking her life in the process. Which, I guess could just show that the whole loner thing was just a mask. But I always felt that such an action should have taken place after she heard her father’s message. That should be the catalyst (hahaha get it? Like the name of the prequel book. I’m so clever, clearly) that wakes her up from her apathy and desire to do what’s right at all costs. Based on trailer footage, they seemed to have cut some moment of her being a bit more sassy and potentially cynical. I’m basing this off the “I rebel” line that’s not in the film. Although there is no indication her saving the girl was added later in the process, regardless I feel it makes her arc less interesting if she was that heroic already. Feels like they wanted to make sure she was likable enough rather than give us the story that seems to be there. Her actions after the message all flow better to me. I just ignore her saving a child and her story feels more interesting to me. Not a massive problem but it’s always stuck out as something that lessens the movie for me. I do think we needed a scene of young Jyn and Galen bonding. Something that shows their bond beyond having a nickname. Something that would make sense with Jyn feeling abandoned but still ultimately missing him. Even just a quick scene of him teaching her something on the farm that can show their dynamic. A hug goodbye and a nickname just doesn’t cut it for me. Something to add depth to her seeing him for the first time after all those years.

Cassian falls sort of flat to me. While they do show he will murder even allies, it’s clear he does so because he believes it is the best thing for the rebellion. He does what he feels he must. I never took it as he was some bad dude or anything. Desperate times and all that. So, when he goes with Jyn to Scariff, it just feels like he is still doing what he thinks is right and best for the rebellion. He is willing to do whatever it takes. There is talk of him doing these things due to orders… but he kills the guys at the start by his own choice. He kills one of Saw’s rebels to cause chaos to save Jyn. He disobeys his order to kill Galen. He disobeys the council and goes to Scariff. Seems like he is his own person after all. I do like the scene after Eadu where he says he’s been in the fight since he was 6. It showed there was a story there, we just don’t really get it in the movie at all. I think we needed a bit more for him here but at least the show will give us far more. The sneak peek for Andor was good. I am now hyped to see the show. It said there is a 3 episode premiere on 9/21. Not sure if the three episode thing was announced already. Maybe it was? Anyway, while I like a rebel who will do anything to complete the mission, I wanted something more there and it just wasn’t there.

So with the two leads not doing much for me, particularly in the first hour, that’s a big downer for me, not ruining the movie or anything though. Just lowers the movie for me.

Saw’s portrayal is… odd, if you’ve seen his Clone Wars and Rebels stuff. Though, tbf, the Rebels stuff comes after Rogue One. While the monster clearly broke his mind, the Saw we know from before this would never just give up and wait to die. He would survive and keep fighting. In another version of the film, he would have gone with them and been a role model for Cassian as someone who does anything to complete the mission. But then he goes too far and shows Cassian there has to be a line that they won’t cross. Just feels like a missed opportunity there. Instead he dies because they didn’t know what to do with him? He also could have been another witness to the message and back up Jyn. But nah, just die already.

There are some other things that irk me and kind of take me out of the movie. The blue milk in that opening scene. The movie is filled with Star Wars things we know, I’m not against blue milk. But it’s the fact that it is front and center that just strikes me as odd. The placement just makes me give it a side eye. Just feels silly. Then there is the moment with Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan. It’s completely pointless. It only serves to have the audience go, “I know who they are!” I hate it. There are so many other things in the movie that make sense to be there based on context. X-wings? Of course. At-St’s? Makes sense. Tarkin? That fits with what we know. Vader? Of course he’d be involved in this stuff. And so on. There is no need to force references in when there are so many that just naturally comes with the time it takes place and the major players involved. The ones that feel forced stick out like a sore thumb.

Then there are just really odd decisions on how things are presented or added on. Like, when Bail steps up during the first meeting at the rebel base and they play the force theme and he says nothing and does nothing of note. I think he has like a line of dialog there? It’s so weird to give him that emphasis for nothing. The 3PO and R2 scene. I hate it. I know it’s only like 10 seconds, but again it just sticks out to me. Contextually they would be there as the ship they are on is present as we see when it break away from Raddus’s ship. But they serve no purpose. Just another “I know them” moment. I don’t like it.

I’m sorry, but Baze is completely useless and should have been cut to give a little more time to the other characters. He’s just along for the ride. His death is the most pointless. His only purpose at the end is to mourn Chirrut. He finds his faith again only to be killed in his next scene. I think it would have made way more sense for him to be the lone survivor. Living on to continue the fight with his renewed faith. But they committed to killing them all no matter what, I guess. Bodhi gets the transmission to Raddus. K2 buys Jyn and Cassian time. Chirrut flips the master switch allowing Bodhi to make that transmission. Jyn and Cassian do what it takes to transmit the plans, knowing they are trapped there to ultimately die. Baze was there because???? Feels like the easiest cut in the world.

Those are probably always going to be my biggest issues with the film. I think everything else works for me. The performances are good despite the material at times. The visuals are fantastic! I probably under appreciate the music. I found the Tarkin CGI convincing. The Leia face felt off to me, although, I swear what I saw today looked like an updated pass at the CGI of her face. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case but I haven’t seen anyone else Point it out, so maybe I’m just crazy. It’s so brief it doesn’t ruin anything even if I find it off. I enjoyed Vader here, even the corny choking on your aspirations bit. Raddus is awesome and I loved the hammerhead maneuver. Chirrut and Bodhi work for me. Krennic is decent. The third act is near perfect. Best space battle in all of Star Wars. It leans hard into the wars of Star Wars and works beautifully.

All this to say, I’ll always consider this a good Star Wars movie. But best of Disney or overall? Eh. You’re getting an upset stare from me for that kind of comment. It’s a solid 6th place after episodes 4-8.

I’ve prattled on enough. Sorry for the essay.

TL/DR: This movie is good with some problems but still good. Excited for Andor now.

Okay, one final thought: I think they should have made Jyn and Cassian become a romantic dynamic. People going through something so important together and overcoming obstacles and saving each other’s lives and such would likely draw you to the other person. It is cliche to hook up your two main leads, in this case, I think it would have made sense and stayed true to the original trilogy. It would have been reminiscent of the Luke/Leia and Leia/Han dynamics. Maybe they shied away from it because they knew Rey/Kylo was happening and they didn’t want to have yet another couple dynamic as leads? Feels a lot better than Reylo’s kiss and ending that just kind of dives off a cliff into silly. I dunno. I just think romance and love is apart of Star Wars and it would have made sense here a lot more than in the sequel trilogy and added a little more depth to their characters.

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blue-mint-winter · 2 years

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Media: not many people are watching Andor

Me: well, it’s not a surprise after Book of Boba and Kenobi, people were disappointed two times in a row by Star Wars. It’s a similar situation to Solo flopping when it came out a few months after TLJ, most people still had a nasty hungover after that catastrophe.

I bet if Andor was released after Mandalorian, it would be a completely different situation.

Personally, I was checked out after Kenobi, I really wasn’t planning to watch any more SW shows. I was convinced to give Andor a chance by the trailer and some reviews about how it’s a spy drama, that just interested me.

A lot of people watch SW shows because they just like SW (not because they like spy dramas). So if previous series weren’t well-received by them, they just checked out. Or some saw the first ep of Andor and got discouraged because of how slow it was. I almost gave up on it too, that’s how much that first episode sucked for me.

I can only wonder what this will mean for the future of SW. Will there be s2 of Andor? Will next series have smaller/bigger viewership? Will something change in the strategy of Lucasfilm? Is there any point to be a SW fan anymore?

I was in a bookstore this week and saw a new book by Claudia Gray. I think it could have been something from the High Republic? I’m not sure because I didn’t even have a desire to take it off the shelf and read the description. The apathy is real and a bit sad. It’s so hard to find joy in these new SW stories these days. :(

#sw #my thoughts #venting #anti discanon

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piepeloe · 2 years

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Obi-Wan Kenobi S1 and potential S2

I was never one of those people dreading the show, thinking it was going to suck. I was however...apprehensive? I didn't really want to get my hopes up, because I know for myself that doesn't end well.

Then when the trailers came out and they started doing press, I did get a bit more worried because I disliked two very basic things about the premise:

Obi-Wan being broken and having lost his faith, 10 years into his exile

Skywalkers, especially Vader playing a large role.

But I figured I could be mad about it and let it ruin my fun, or go with it and see where it lead.

While I'm still not entirely sold on him being that low for that long. I did like the execution. He was never angry and bitter like Luke in TLJ, he was still gentle: sneaking meat for his eopie, buying Luke a toy. He was more sad and resigned. The portrayal of depression was recognizable and accurate enough, having experienced it myself, and I know you can't really put a deadline on healing, especially since he had no support at all. Plus, we got to see him become himself again, which was a treat.

The Skywalkers have a 9 movie saga, so I don't know why they keep popping up everywhere else (except I do). Young Leia convinced me there. We hadn't gotten to see her and Obi-Wan together yet. The last ep convinced me that yeah, we needed some Vader too, though I'm not sure we needed him this much. But then, would that fight have been as good without the build-up?

That said, I do hope there is a season 2, for exactly the same reasons.

Next time we'd start with an Obi-Wan who has his mojo back. I always want to spend time with him.

I know people will want to see yet another confrontation with Vader if there's a 2nd season, but we've had that closure. And an adventure with Leia, and acknowledgement Obi-Wan doesn't have to spend 24/7 watching the Lars family.

So maybe he could go meet up with that fledgling Rebellion/Jedi Path? Or Ahsoka, or clone troopers, or just be a space pirate with Hondo? Or save some Jedi temple or artifacts? I feel like now we've dealt with the stories that were necessary, if there's a S2, it could be something just to hang out with a favorite character.

I'm not sure there will be a S2, but I am pretty sure we'll see these characters again in live-action, and soon. I'd be happy with that too.

#obi-wan kenobi #obi wan kenobi series #spoilers #obi wan kenobi spoilers

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onewomancitadel · 1 year

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Per my last post, it's not something everyone has to do by any means, but finding the full articles that quotes are pulled from (and that get passed around), especially predicated upon outrage, is actually really good practice. There are some cases where what I've found is not quite as bad as portrayed, or is worse in other ways.

This is true for novels and poetry that get posted online! This is true for Word of God! The context of what something is said in actually matters a lot. Or, say, something like leaks of a movie - the context of a leak can transform what the scene is (or equally the type of leak - the leaks surrounding TLJ were from behind-the-scenes and the artbook, and I think a few other worldbuilding secondary materials, which potentially made some of it sound a bit weird. Many speculated that Rey and Kylo were fighting on Ach-To, which they, of course... were not LOL).

I've even had this happen on this very here blog. I had asks relating to me that the animated adaptation of The Indecisive King nullified major Knightfall elements (these were Knightfall fans and not trolls), which obviously concerned me. Upon watching, I was very confused, because I did not find this to be the case at all. Similarly I had those trying to relate to me elements from a Volume 9 teaser, which at first made me very confused, and then when I watched a bit I realised the speculation was very, very weird.

So how things are communicated to you matter as well lol. It's part of why I avoid trailers, honestly.

Is it a lot of effort? I mean, not really. I websearched the text in the provided Tweet of the previous post and it was one of the top results. It took me maybe a handful of minutes to rage-read the article, and writing out my post was just extra work. I identified what I felt to be the throughline of the article and the character of the source, which is ironic because these qualities are fundamentally lacking in that Dune article, and it was pretty smooth sailing from there.

But without that, just looking things up to see what's really being said is good practice! Getting to the heart of things matters, especially in the time of media spectacle and outrage, and the dilution of artistic engagement.

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princesssarcastia · 5 years

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Let the past die? I think not

Almost a year ago, I posted a little plot bunny about Rey, Luke, and Force visions. It was hella weird and kinda stream-of-consciousness style, which I don’t usually like? I heard that line from Kylo Ren, “Let the past die; kill it, if you have to,” in the trailer for Last Jedi and basically thought wow, fuck you, and then wrote a story specifically about the force also saying fuck you kylo ren, the past will never die.

And then that little plot bunny grew legs! This time with more original thought from me. So, in honor of the new trailer, part two of force visions: in which Rey thinks about Luke, figures out what she wants, and gets a teacher...sort of. Some spoilers in the tags.

Rey is used to being alone; she’d been alone all her life before BB-8 came to Jakku. That doesn’t mean loneliness doesn’t ache inside of her, make her long for companionship, comradery, to be part of a larger whole. A family.

The only time it ever eased was when she had been with Finn–or Poe, in the brief time between Starkiller and here. Finding Luke had given her hope she could ease it again, with someone else like her. Echoes make their way to her through hernotherother, telling her the feeling isn’t wrong, just misplaced.

She knows Luke is at peace here; not happy, no, but the quiet solitude soothes his restless mind. Her presence does not. It reminds him of burning, the New Jedi temple is burning, bodies scattered across the floors– the clone troopers advance through the temple, slaughtering the sick and the weak and the young, the only ones who remain, while their commander marches to the tallest spire and finds–

The memoryvision cuts across her mind, shattering what little peace she’d earned in trying to meditate. It keeps happening: flashes of the past being drawn out of the deepest reaches of her memory, memory that isn’t hers yet is, because everything is hers, now.

Sometimes it’s her own words, or Luke’s. Her thoughts; his thoughts. Once she touched the R2-D2’s dome and the resulting wash of memoryvisionlovelosspainis enough to bring her to her knees. Every time it happens, they settle into her mind, and it feels right, like fixing the wiring on her speeder; like pulling parts from the starship wreck in the desert. Finding something worthy of keeping in the devastation of the past.

She just wishes she weren’t drowning in the emotions tied to them.

Rey seethes and grows to hate Kylo Ren more every day she stays here. For Finn, who still hasn’t woken up (she’ll know when she wakes up; and this certainty in herself shakes and amazes her), and for the damaged man who is supposed to be her teacher.

There are memoryvisions in her head of a boy, one who was born from pain and darkness and love and lived with his heart filled with the lattermost. He loved his father despite all that he’d done; he loved his sister from the moment he met her; he loved the galaxy, he loved his students; he loved Ben, his nephew. It was the last that had broken him, in a way that pulled at her mind until–

the fumes from the magma river swirl thickly through the air, but this isn’t what he’s choking on. Darkness lies burning on the shore, and his soul is tearing itself apart. You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you. Even then, though, the Temple hung ruined in his mind, and so he turned away; he was not feeling merciful–

Kylo Ren betrayed someone who loved him so deeply in pursuit of a false idol, of power, and once again the galaxy was thrown is darkness because of it. Luke, the last Jedi in existence, allowed his grief to swallow him up and fled into exile like his masters before him. He allowed his fear to smother him and refused to teach her any more.

Sometimes, she could do what she had done on Starkiller Base: close her eyes, allow the call of the Force to wind through her, and open them again armed with knowledge and skills she hadn’t had before. But it wasn’t enough. She needed a teacher. A real one, not the corruption Kylo Ren offered or the hesitant half-truths that were all Luke could give her.

The more frustrated she became, the more the center of the island called to her. An ancient Jedi temple’s ruins lay at its core, uncorrupted by anything but time. Still sacred and hallowed.

Luke turns away from her, speaking of his own fear and despair at her power. It isn’t the first time, but for a brief moment Rey’s chest tightens and her fists clench and it’s hard to breathe. This isn’t what she wanted.

So, she closes her eyes for a moment, reaching out with the Force (one of the only things Luke was willing to teach her) for what she does want. She isn’t exactly sure what that is, but–

The ruins call to her, waves of tranquility and history and power; come, come and see; find what you seek.

Rey opens her eyes and starts towards them, leaving Luke standing in her wake.

Scavenging wreck after wreck in the desert left Rey with a keen sense of space. The old Star Destroyers were huge, gaping maws under the hot sun, easy to get lost in if you couldn’t sense their borders, how big they were on the inside. But the cavern she was in now…

Rey had watched this island appear in the viewport of the Falcon; she’s been training here for weeks. She should know this place by now, know its edges and size. And yet it seems–impossible. Too big for the rock that contains it.

Sunlight filters in from above, a hole she hasn’t found from the other side yet. Looking around here makes shivers ripple through her shoulders, makes something inside of her always been there then I was there has been an awakeningawake hum contentedly.

Strands of a massive stone carving stream from the center of the far wall of this place, like waves of solar energy from a sun. Something about the pattern is captivating, hypnotic. Tranquility in disorder, or– harmony. Harmony from chaos.

There is no clear path to the stone plateau, so Rey makes her own. Her fingers find holds in the rock, and where there are none the Force nudges her, surrounds usguides her. Power leaks into her limbs, letting her push further than should be possible, with more strength and balance than she knows she has, to the next hold.

When she finally reaches it, the sunlight has changed. Everything in the chamber glows with it, and her breathing echoes across and then back to her.

A collection of flimsiplast lies just off-center, bound together in a way that Rey knows is ancient. She crouches down next to it, her hand reaching out to brush against the symbol on the cover. Golden, with lines so intrinsically familiar to her it aches, feels like the comradery and family she seeks.

The Balance, the Force whispers to her with her own voice, and Rey closes her eyes. Her legs settle comfortably underneath her of their own accord, until she’s kneeling in front of the symbol, her other hand resting on her thigh.

Breathe, Just…Breathe. Luke’s voice, another memoryvision that fills her with regret because this beautifully kind man used to be a teacher, filled with patience and guidance the galaxy sorely needs, but now lacks.

She takes his advice, even if it wasn’t meant for her. In, out. In…out…. i n . . .

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞

Her eyes drift open, and she finds herself bathed in the light of a fire, instead of a sun. Rey breathes, and feels hernotherother pulse through her veins in the place of her lifeblood, slowing any panic she might have felt. A strange figure sits across from her. Rey breathes and knows them. Not their face or their name, but their self. Light personified. Ferocious. Burning. Loving. Sorrowful. Powerful.

Curiosity breaks through her calm where panic couldn’t. “Are you a Jedi?”

The being smiles at her, compassion with a predator’s teeth. “I am no Jedi, young one.”

Her words ring out like a canticle in the Force, and Rey waits for another vision of things long past to overtake her. When nothing happens, her curiosity grows, swirling around with the peace the Force is providing her with, balanced.

“Then what are you? A teacher?” She looks more closely. The woman’s montrals let her tower over Rey, even sitting as they are. Her hands rest on her own thighs, mirroring Rey’s position exactly.

“Sometimes. Sometimes not,” the woman says, and Rey feels exasperation mix with her curiosity. She sees the other woman’s smile take on an edge of humor, and suddenly there is a vision in her mind, except– no. Not a vision, shoved into her head by the Force, but memories shared with her, offered for her to take or leave.

The kindness of it makes her beam, and she takes it gladly; Yoda is amused beside her, and she lets herself be amused, too, instead of embarrassed, and holds her lightsaber up to the younglings. This weapon is your life; don’t lose it–

Rage, terrible and powerful revenge is not the Jedi wayovertakes her. Her ‘sabers lash out in a whirlwind of death, and bodies fall to the ground just moments after their heads–

She stands, darkness before her: I am no Jedi.

“Ahsoka,” Rey murmurs. Daughter, the Force murmurs back.

Ahsoka grins at her, age crinkling her eyes. “Rey.”

They sit there for a moment, each studying the other closely. Rey notices her lightsabers hanging from her belt, feeling them thrum in tune with the teacherwarriorwolf. “Can you help me?” She asks.

Ahsoka shifts until her legs are crossed in front of her and rests her hands on her knees, and Rey finds herself mirroring her position now. “Perhaps. That depends on what you want.”

The warm light from the fire flickers, pulsing at Rey and reflecting in her eyes. “I need someone to show me my place, in all of this.” She gestures around them; not to the cavern, but to the Force.

Ahsoka exhales a laugh. “I know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for, but…” She angles her head to the side. “That all depends on you. Your place is your choice, just as everyone else’s place is theirs.”

Unbidden, Kylo Ren appears in her mind’s eye, running through Han with his lightsaber. Rey’s hands tighten into fists and now fury joins the other emotions, altering the harmony within her without erasing it. Ahsoka’s face smooths out, as if she sees what Rey is remembering. She probably is, now that Rey thinks about it.

No elaboration comes, pulling more exasperation out of her, but instead of voicing it Rey seeks the answer on her own.

First, she reaches out into the Force, but its answer is the same as Ahsoka’s: blank, uncompromising potential. She pushes harder, looking for threads of the future, threads she has seen Jedi manipulate in her visions, but the Force pushes back, gently. No, it whispers. You. You decide.

Sighing, she searches the memories inside her, the ones that are hers, but not hers, and seeks the answer. Nothing comes forth, though; just pain, and suffering, and hope. Faintly, she rememberseesknows the weight of destiny on the shoulders of a little boy, placed there by those who should have known better, driving him down a path he did not choose himself.

Rey takes the hint and releases the memoryvisions for a moment, taking a look around the chamber once more. She recalls the feelings it evoked in her, that it still draws out of her. A sense of purpose, of belonging.

This place is ancient for a thousand generations. So many had come here before her, leaving their own marks on the harmony within the temple, not unlike the harmony of emotions inside of her. So many Jedi.

Does she want to be a Jedi? Rey tilts her head to the side, letting her eyes slide out of focus. Maybe. Purpose– to guard the galaxy, promote peace and harmony, even teach others like her when the time came. Belonging– the memories in her head that weren’t things that she’d lived, but from all those who had come before her, who had lived and bled and learned and died. She could belong with them.

But then– Finn. Poe. The General. All those things could be found outside of the Jedi. She could have purpose and belonging with her friends; her family, really. The Force could be found outside the Jedi as well; Maz knew it, and Luke…and this woman before her. Not a Jedi. Fighting like one, meditating like one, but unbound by the shackles of millennia of tradition.

Rey–beyond all the other things–is curious. She wants to know. Kylo Ren shoved himself in her face, you need a teacher, and so she closed her eyes and opened herself up to the Force and called, teach me. And it did. It taught her; she learned.

Could she– could that be her purpose? To learn the ways of the Force?

And do what with them, something whispers. Learning is nothing without the will to use it; you will not be content to sit in this temple and learn forever, child.

The resistance base flashes through her mind: intent and will personified. All of them, working together to defeat the First Order. But that’s not…

She takes in another deep breath, closing her eyes as she does. Purpose can’t simply be opposition. A lifetime waiting amidst the burning hot sands of Jakku gave her experience with people who were defined by their hate of the planet, the people, themselves; those were the ones who didn’t last long. You need more than hate if you want to survive.

Luke, broken; the galaxy, shattered without a government, without hope; the Force, so long asleep there was no one left to wield it. the balance, her own voice tells her again, more intently. What balance, she thinks to herself, and it all shiftsand suddenly the universe is screaming; or, suddenly she can hear it.

LightLeia help me Obi-wan Kenobiand Poe and Finn, burning bright.

DarknessKylo Ren and his twisted seduced by the dark side of the Forceobsession with the past. With his master.

“The balance,” Rey says, out loud, and words come full circle. “I want to fix it.”

Ahsoka leans forward, montrals dangerously close to the flames between them. “Are you certain?”

“Yes.” Rey can feel it, now: the galaxy, the Force, is out of balance, and screaming with the pain of it. “I want to restore balance to the Force.”

Daughterteacherwolflight tilts her head back for a moment and laughs. “Well, then.” The wheel turns, she doesn’t say, but Rey can hear it all the same.

other parts to follow! questions, comments, compliments, concerns welcome.

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