#Rey

[artist-issues]

I just NEED everyone to agree with me that Rey's parents are nobody. We should all agree about that. We should collectively, as an audience, say, "clearly the best idea was to have Kylo Ren be a dynastic heir to the major legends of the Force who wants to throw off his family's shadow, while his rival is nobody from nowhere who wants to belong--so we're going to stick with that."

And then, what should have happened is, Rey can finish her story by being able to say, "My parents might have abandoned me, but that doesn't mean I'm worthless." And eventually Kylo Ren can say, "My family might have been powerful, but I don't have to be," and all those other things that they can bounce off of each other as great foils.

It can keep being a good story about accepting past failures and choosing to grow beyond them.

Let's just all collectively ignore Rey Skypatine because of how silly that was. I mean. If they can just ignore the setups in the previous movie, we can ignore their choices in the conclusion. Right?? Right? Tell me I'm right

[darklinaforever]

The fact that even Rumi & Jinu are controversial with some ?!

It talks about the age gap, and how Jinu is a bad person who doesn't deserve to come back in the sequels, etc.

That we just fell in love with her pretty face.

Glad to see that the concept of enemies to lovers is still difficult to understand for a majority of the population ! 😂😭

I feel like we're on a Reylo 2.0 level of criticisms...

[checoleclerc]

Random Rey Skywalker moments: 256/?

[stealingpotatoes]

Me and my friend had some fun trying to rewrite the sequel trilogy a while ago and I think the best idea we had was Luke dies and Han and Rey get stranded on some nowhere planet where he has to haphazardly attempt to teach her years of jedi training in like a week entirely by reading out of Luke’s notes (somehow even worse than Luke’s extremely DIY training in the OT).

This isn’t at all based on the ‘Han has the force’ theory it’s literally just crabby atheist old man Han Solo and his dead best friend’s religious texts that are totally useless to him vs the world.

i LOVE that, disney needs to get you two rewriting the sequels STAT

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[matt0044]

I think Ruby is good as is BUT…

…I do feel a reoccurring element could’ve been a search for her folks behind the Doctor’s back. Like she’s trying to figure out who she is and, after the singing goblins open her mind to the wider universe, she often seeks for leads on each trip.

What if she was a Space Baby smuggled away? What if she can from a different time and her mother was a fellow time traveler?

Maybe twist the knife by having Ruby be fooled into thinking Susan Triad was her mother only for it to be Sutekh luring her and the Doctor into his trap.

In the end, she’s still a normal human but it would have that Rey From Nowhere element RTD nearly had without changing much.

[afterblossom]

Them

[darklinaforever]

Other difference ! It's only the beginning for the story of Jinu & Rumi... 🤭

This is why I said ship so good they pull reylo move

How similar Jinu and Ben in almost end of the movie

Bad guy / lead ✅

Jinu gives soul / Ben gives life ✅

Their body DISAPPEARED ✅

dead ✅

I think we traumatized

one BIG DIFFERENCE

NO KISS!!!!!!!

[dalekofchaos]

The Sequel Trilogy's lack of politics and why it ultimately hurt the trilogy

I think the real reason why I don't like the Sequel Trilogy is that it has nothing to do with what legacy character was done dirty, wasted potential or just nostalgia porn.

Why I really don't like the Sequels it says nothing and is just Disney corporate churned bullshit

With the Original Trilogy, it was Lucas radicalized against Nixon/Watergate, and the Vietnam War

The Prequel Trilogy. The Bush Administration, Iraq War, Patriot Act and "The War on Terror"

The Sequels had the perfect politically charged trilogy handed to them on a silver fucking platter and all they did was rewrite the beats of the Original Trilogy and ignore the very clear fucking evil going on in the world.

You can argue that JJ Abrams wanted it to be about the Neo-Nazis in Argentina and the Rebels being forced to reunite against them after all this time until the cows come home all you want, that theme ultimately fell flat as time went on.

You didn't need the Dark Side. You didn't need Palpatine. You needed a bunch of pathetic men who longed for the "good old days" of Imperial rule that never fucking was and being indoctrinated and radicalized by a cult of personality. The horrors of fascism and someone so weak twisting the minds of foolish and weak men is more scary than the dark side could ever hope to be and instead, they chose to rip off the Empire vs Rebels and brought Palpatine back...

See also this video.

The closest they came to a politically charged message in the Sequels was Finn and the Stormtroopers probable Rebellion, but they never pulled the trigger and acted like Finn's defection never mattered and continuously treated the Stormtroopers like disposable cannon fodder.

Hell, you can argue Rose, Paige and being victims of war was a close political message that wanted to fucking say something, but once again that was discarded. We didn't even see Rose and Paige's sisterly bond or get a single word out of Paige's mouth. The fact that they cared more about space horses and not freeing the slaves of Canto Bight says a lot about Disney's priorities.

I would've even tolerated all the bullshit lack of politics in the Sequels if they delivered on Queer Resistance aka Finnpoe but of course we can't even have that.

The message they delivered with Rey was ALMOST good. That anyone can be important and rise up and become a Jedi, but then they just HAD to ruin it by making her a Palpaskywalker.

And The First Order. Snoke being Palpatine's Clone ruined any credibility. Kylo Ren being redeemable killed any ounce of credibility of The First Order. You could've ran with the Neo-Nazi theme with Hux as the main villain, but of fucking course they pulled the "I'm a spy" bullshit. and of course they just HAD TO bring back Palpatine because JJ Abrams doesn't have a creative cell in his entire brain.

Snoke should have been based off of Trump. He did not need to be a Sith Clone and Palpatine sure as fuck didn't need to be brought back just so Rey can defeat him. Kylo Ren should've been EVERY isolated white man who has been radicalized by Trump and embraces the ideal version he saw in Vader that never was(also he doesn't get redeemed, if he's to be redeemed it's because he realizes he's a terrible person and helps the heroes end the regime and faces consequences, not "oh he's good now because of love and dies suddenly" you don't redeem and romanticize fascism) Hux should've been a precursor for Musk. Related to high ranking Nazi and son to a monster. "Intelligent" highly good with technology but is an ineffectual idiot and everyone mocks him.(I know at the time he wasn't as big, but we all saw through his bullshit) Phasma should've been every conservative woman radicalized by this bullshit.

Or alternatively. It didn't need to be an evil Empire. It's an ally that the New Republic helped create. Victims of the Empire almost wiped out by the Empire. Lets say The Ghormans or the Bothans. They became the monsters they despised. They became a terrorist state and the New Republic is out there in the senate and doing their PR. "They have a right to defend themselves" They are religious zealots, like the Jedi on crack. They believe the system they are trying to conquer is theirs by birthright. And the perceived enemies, ARE the rebels and our "heroes" are fighting the Rebels and it's only near the second half of the trilogy where they open their eyes

I do hope Andor inspired the Rey trilogy to be more political, be bold to take risks and have an actual spine, but I'm not holding my breath.

[limeshade]

Ben.

5 YEARS OF CANON REYLO Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Released December 19th, 2019

[heartssofkyber]

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI 2017 | dir. Rian Johnson

[diviedrawn]

Happy May 4th!!

[shehungthemoon]

HELLO this is BADGE ART?! I'd want to go just for these!

[ellemisc]

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

[marinersubmariner]

I don't want to kill you.

[stealingpotatoes]

Ok but if Rey also had psychometry (idk if it’s canonical or not but that’s how I explain her tfa vision) does that mean she also gets a Nightsister???

oo yeah idk if she rlly does have it, but for the sake of the bit:

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