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THE RINGS OF POWER 1.05 "Partings" || 2.08 "Shadow and Flame" (requested by anonymous)

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Corrupted Galadriel stealing all of Sauron’s wolves is my favourite subject to draw

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dont be afraid

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she is the reason why i am loyal to all pink haired characters without question

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'Old times'

May the 4th Be With You!

Thank you so much for your coffees!

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Part 27

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Sometimes I get the impression that people in the fandom believe that Finn becoming/being a Jedi would fix everything about his character arc. It’s an idea that’s treated like a healing balm that could soothe the irritation that his bungled arc elicits. Part of me understands the desire to buy in to that belief, but the rest of me knows that the problems with Finn’s character are far from skin-deep.

He doesn’t necessarily need to be force sensitive or be the main Jedi to be a great character. To me, the concept a rebel stormtrooper is more unique on its own than any of the Jedi we’ve seen. As we witnessed with TROS, Finn being revealed to be force sensitive felt like an attempt to appease certain fans, but diminished some of his more compelling moments in the process. All this to say, the issues with Finn’s arc didn’t start with TLJ and go beyond force sensitivity.

He very much doesn't need to be and, in fact, making him Force sensitive does a huge disservice to his character and is actively counter-productive.

And as I also get into in that post, pretty much everything his stans complain about in his arc and blame on TLJ are factors of what TFA establishes.

TLJ is the only film which lets Finn be his own person and treats him as the protagonist of his own plot. It is both comic and depressing that so many of his fans heap abuse on Rian for being the only writer to actually treat their fave like a SW hero and one of three pillars of a narrative trio rather than a sidekick.

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Part 22/Scene VII

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First encounter

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Heyy! i just saw your comment on other post. Do you happen to have the mortal instruments fanfiction of ron and ginny? Im here for the lore

I'm so sad that scribd sucks now. How am I supposed to share this thing forever without needing to constantly re-upload it?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dy6ue5eh3h9um2ck1by9p/mortal_instruments.txt?rlkey=7hmo1klolr2z9f5ccgf28py15&st=ptvyuhyd&dl=0

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Breaking News: The Acolyte has been canceled.

DLF: OH NAUR!!! The reylos are watching and are hornier than eva! Gotta shut this down ASAP!

Me: Wow, I didn’t see that one coming! 🙃😒

Yeah, who could have possibly foreseen this totally unexpected turn of events etc. etc.

This, among so many others, is the reason you don't give them another chance. They have been very clear about what audience they value and what their priorities are. Even if they do hire people who are actually interested in storytelling, the corporation is just going to fuck those people and their stories over because they don't care about the integrity of the franchise or building something long term. They want instant record profit with minimum commitment and to constantly placate the FM manchildren. That's it.

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Part 18 of Scene VII

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I was reading some old Reylo posts and came across a user on here saying that even if Rian Johnson had directed TROS, it still would've been bad, because of interference from higher ups (Rey Skywalker was a consistent theme across the two scripts - but imo, I think that might've just been because they were collectively mad she wasn't a Skywalker lol).

If this isn't an annoying and tiresome question, what do you think? It's hard to speculate but I do find it a bit fun, because there's always been that 'what if' for me that if Rian had done it, maybe it wouldn't have been awful... I guess the implication here is that, was TROS always going to be bad?

I'm ruminating on it a bit because it seems like Disney has kind of segmented the SW fanbases across their shows - Prequel stuff, worldbuilding stuff, OT stuff, and now the romance/Force storyline stuff. All of these combined elements is what made SW so potent, what made something like Reylo so powerful, but it's what makes it a hard brand to sell.

What we heard was that Kennedy asked Rian to do it, but he said he needed more time to write the script and Iger/DLF was unwilling to move the release date. I'm not sure how verified that ever was, but it's the most depressing fucking thing imaginable if true. The same short-term only, immediate profit and your quarterly bonus over the integrity of the company and the franchise which has been destroying Disney as a studio over the last decade or so.

I do think the most blame for tros must ultimately rest with Iger, but it's not like that absolves JJerio from responsibility for how bad it actually is.

I have answered this exact question before, and speculated on related stuff a few times, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find that post for you.

To me, if we learnt anything from DotF being a thing, it's that there was never anyone at the wheel, plotgate was totally true, and the directors were allowed to do whatever they wanted. If Rian had been making the third film from the start, I don't think they would have tried to impose any major story beats on him. The reason it became such a shitshow was The Book of Henry came out and they realised Colin's script was totally unacceptable way too late.

And once the can of meddling was open and you're back to JJ 'no thoughts, head empty' Abrams as a workman director, the suits were basically writing epIX with Terrio's incest fever dreams as connective tissue. They kept elements from Colin's version because they were trying to save time and use as much of the work which had already been done as possible. There was no commitment to any of those ideas, it's just incompetence and with no direction or ideas of their own, they were making a reddit checklist to try to please the whiners rather than writing any actual story.

Like, none of this would have happened if Rian were involved, because Rian would have written an actual story.

SW is mythology and very few people working at DLF seem to have ever understood that or have any idea what it means. Disney has segmented it because that's what they know, they want to have different product to sell to different demographics to maximise saturation and profit. That's their business model. They don't understand the foundation, the Saga itself, and its universal appeal, they seem content to let that stay dead and focus on compartmentalising and pandering to smaller, separate audiences.

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"The world stopped for a moment when we touched."

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and this is actually how tros ends! wow trilogy finished what a happy ending