ForeverACharmedOne

After all, soulmates always end up together. – C.A.

is this not what happened?

stan two (2) love interests fainting after kissing their significant other

I’d Hold Every Second With You and Never Let It End

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This was how this scene went, right? None of this dying-and-becoming-one-with-the-force business, but with everybody’s two favorite star-crossed lovers staring into each other’s eyes, and very much alive?? Yeah sounds about right.

On a side note, Ben’s smile after they kissed killed me. What a way to go, though.

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You have that look in your eyes, from the forest. When you called me a monster.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Everyone sleeps on this bit of dialogue, but they are both trying to point out they love each other without saying it first. 

Also, for those that never figured it out from TLJ: Kylo Ren did not know Rey was on Crait until he saw her in the Force Bond. He expected her to be in Snoke’s shuttle and he never saw it. He has never tried to kill her, and even Luke knew that Kylo’s “I’ll destroy her!” was a completely lie. 

- Nikita Gill

The Last Jedi resolved the intrigue surrounding the heroine of this new sequel-trilogy, Rey, and her parentage with a gracefully simple, bold assertion: Rey is… just Rey. Not the daughter of some space aristocracy or legacy lineage, but a hero of her own making. […] That Rey’s parents were ordinary people meant anyone from anywhere could be born a hero; what determined a person’s place in the world was who they chose to be, rather than their last name. “Rey is our protagonist. And the truth is, in the story, the toughest possible thing for her to hear is, you know, you’re not gonna get the easy answer that you’re so-and-so’s daughter, this is your place,” [Rian] Johnson told me after The Last Jedi’s release. “You’re gonna have to stand on your own two feet and define yourself in this world.”

Instead of taking the baton from Last Jedi and running with it to new heights, The Rise of Skywalker retreats right back into the safety of nostalgia. […] It’s as if Abrams and Terrio scrambled for a loophole specifically to mollify the “fans” upset that this hero—worse, this girl—dared to wield such incredible abilities with only her own strength […] Bookending the saga Anakin began with the story of a girl from nowhere who sets right what he helped unbalance might have been resonant. But who cares for that when there’s another billion-dollar franchise to set up and potential spin-offs to tease?

— Melissa Leon, ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Erases the Power of Rey’s Story and Surrenders to Sexist Trolls