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Same

JOHN’S FACE SAYS IT ALL

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Love

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Ben Solo was never really gone.

TFA

“Your son is gone...”

- “You’re wrong. My son is alive.”

TLJ

“I held out hope for so long, but now I know. My son is gone.”

- “No one is ever really gone.”

TROS

“Here I am!” - probably

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And the way Kylo “comes back” like he’s running to her. ✨❤️

Whomever you’re waiting for on Jakku… they’re never coming back. But there’s someone who still could.

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No gloves. Why haven’t we seen Hux?

http://starkillabasic.tumblr.com/post/171577477701/if-this-isnt-the-best-description-of-genhux-i

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💔🤟🏽

Whomever you’re waiting for on Jakku… they’re never coming back. But there’s someone who still could.

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JJAbrams: I want them to hug but not like gross but artistic and so symbolic.

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Rey’s lightsaber practice and the showdown on Crait; or, that time that Luke recognized that Rey was using Ben’s fighting style

I don’t have the patience or fortitude for a long meta, but I watched TLJ again today (the first time since the last time I saw it in the cinema), and something occurred to me that seems really obvious but that I hadn’t noticed before and that I haven’t seen others mention (apologies if I have missed meta that talk about this). It’s the scene on Ahch-To when Rey is practicing with the lightsaber. Luke is watching her practice, and he gets this look on his face.

I’d noticed it before and hadn’t thought much of it, but this time it struck me that he probably recognizes her fighting style, because it’s Ben’s. We’re all familiar with this idea - that during their showdown on Starkiller Base Rey dipped into Kylo’s mind and borrowed his fighting knowledge - and I think this reaction from Luke is further proof of this.

I went looking for parallel examples of Ben’s lightsaber technique to back this up, and I found it in an interesting place: his showdown with Luke on Crait. (My gifs are a little slow, but I think that’s okay since it makes their movements a bit easier to see.)

First, Rey opens her practice by holding her lightsaber straight ahead.

So does Ben.

Then she moves into some backhand swings.

So does Ben. (Note that Luke anticipates his move - Luke trained him, so presumably he knows what he’s going to do.) 

Rey follows up the backhand swings with a bunch of two-handed swingy chops. She’s pretty intense. (It’s after this that Luke makes the face in the gif up top.) (And check out her face, she’s all GRRRR, I love it.) 

Ben: SWING CHOP CHOP (two hands!)

Finally, Rey gets a little too into it and slices through the stone outcropping.

And what is it that Ben does? Uh huh.

So I started this wanting to prove that Luke recognizes Ben’s fighting style in Rey, and I think that is definitely the case, but at the same time I think I’ve also shown that Rey’s lightsaber practice is a foreshadowing of the showdown between Luke and Ben on Crait. If that isn’t very cool, I don’t know what is. 

I really, really, really love this movie.

(If there are other analyses along these lines please tag me on them, because I haven’t seen them but I don’t read a lot of meta. Oversights are my own and are accidental.)

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Don’t be afraid. I feel it too.

Read it and weep antis!!! Read it and weep!!

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No way is he dude. Neverrrrrr 💔

Anyway kylo has been in every vision rey has ever had.

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1.

2.

Well duh.

#From being told your nothing # to seeing someone knows who you are.

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“So, no. This is something else.”

Hmmm. How strange.

Strange. Strange? Wait a sec...

“...with understanding and love, but with something else, too. It was... a knowledge vast, deep, and strange, but also comforting.”

Interesting play on words...

Another messy post. Will edit later!

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I’m THAT kind of reylo shipper that…

Doesn’t think that when kylo picked her up when he put her to sleep is romantic

The interrogation scene was not sexual tension to me but you do

Her beating his ass was pure golden

“Your nothing, but not to me” isn’t romantic but just a fact that she isn’t from a famous family, well as we know of.

REY IS NOT OBLIGATED TO SAVE HIM, HOMEBOY GOTTA DO IT HIMSELF BUT SHE CAN BE HIS MOTIVATOR

I have no problem with other ships and I thrive to respect other people’s point of view

I don’t wanna shove reylo down others throats unless asked to lol

Id rather have adult conversations with antis and people who don’t ship reylo instead of arguing and reposting their post and talking about them if I want to say something to you I’ll tag you or message you trust and believe.

I KNOW AND HAVE SEEN SOME VERY IGNORANT AND RUDE REYLO SHIPPERS WHO I HAVE BLOCKED BECAUSE I DON’T DEAL WITH THAT KIND OF MESS OR STUPIDITY…

KMT to me isn’t a reylo and neither is Mark but Rian is our King

I hate that reylos always want to compare reylo to something else that really doesn’t make any sense and constantly ask the cast about reylo (Hint: P&P, beauty and the beast)

I think finnrey is amazing and it’s actually the shippers who annoy me but I’ve meet some pretty chill ones

JOHN BOYEGA IS MY BABY AND I WILL PROTECT HIM AT ALL COST DON’T PLAY WITH ME!!!!

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And we’re back in the forest with the story we really care about, the focus of the story which is Rey and Ren. – J.J. Abrams

Pick your fighter  ໒( ♥ ◡ ♥ )७

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“We have everything we need.” i.e Rey

wait a sec...

Luke places his hand (and Han’s dice) on Leia’s. She realises. After Luke’s, “No one is ever really gone.” Smiles.

Then...

Han’s dice. Familiar connection. Rey.

And then...

Leia places her hand on Rey’s as Luke had done on hers. Giving her hope. Smiles.

On top of all that:

So basically, what I’m saying is that Rey will fix what’s broken in Kylo. This is Luke Skywalkers plan. He saw them in the hutt together. He knows about their connection. He shared it with Leia and that’s why Leia could smile again. Because there was hope for Kylo. I’m rushing this post because I might lose my train of thought. Lol but I will edit it to be clearer. :’)

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See? Smiley Rey is a facade. Just as Baddie Kylo is a facade.