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It’s the closest relationship to a brother I’ve ever had. He’s just wicked. [John Boyega] likes to kiss my really large forehead.
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“The thing about Star Wars is that it let’s you tell a story that is relevant even thought it takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. No one wants to see something that doesn’t feel like it has relevance. So, obviously, everyone has to deconstruct and interpret things as they do. But, you know, Star Wars has always been a story about good versus evil, always been a story about fighting an oppressive regime, fighting for freedom. And my favorite thing about this one is that it’s about a group of friends, together on this adventure. Like, you get to see them on this crazy, thrilling adventure together and not split up. So, I’m excited about that.”
- J.J. Abrams to Variety at D23Expo
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“[T]he characterization of fans who critique the whiteness of fan spaces as ‘policing activists’ rather than people invested in communal pleasure is fundamental to how white supremacy maintains itself.”
I just saw a post from a reylo with like. A thousand or so notes saying that the interview with Daisy where she says she can’t get behind reylo is a fabrication by “antis” I’m genuinely concerned at this point
oh so they’ll believe crepegate but not actual words coming out of daisy’s mouth?
areubeingserved
Marry me!!!!!
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This interviewer repeating Reylos fandoms thoughts by basically saying: “The Rise of Skywalker has to be about Kylo Ren’s transition into Ben Solo and all about Ben Solo, because he is the only Skywalker right.”
Not in those exact words, but it is a question which implies some of the theories that Reylos have about the next movie title being about “Ben Solo” and that there can’t be any potential that it would be about any other theory. Besides this being a arc that surrounds Kylo Ren being redeemed into Ben Solo. And this being all about his so called Skywalker story.
JJ leaves it up in the air at least and won’t confirm those who want to believe that this story and arc is supposed to be all about Kylo Ren, while Rey is in the background, just as a tool for Kylo Ren to transition into Ben Solo.
He still leaves it open to the fact that he’ll focus on Rey and her story as an individual. Which includes her having importance outside of what she can do for Kylo Ren’s arc. And would indulge in just catering to the Reylo fandom, by just telling them that therre’s no possible way that Rey can be a Skywalker. Since they are some of the main ones invested in her not being one, for the agenda of seeing their ship ride off into the sunset.
JJ: “I guess in the Horowitz version of this thing, that could be good.”
Horowitz being the interviewer trying to tell him it it’s a FACT that Ben Solo is the only Skywalker.
“Keep going.”
*stares in ReySky, FinnSky, PoeSky, RoseSky, JannahSky…*
Does the interviewer not hear himself? Ben SOLO is the only SKYWALKER left?
Also did you see the way JJ is literally shaking his head in response to the question as he starts on his answer?
Jason Momoa on being cast as Aquaman
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Daisy and John mentioning ‘Peanut’ as their pet name for each other
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I don’t get why people think Finn both being a military leader and having the Force is somehow strange for Star Wars. After all, we have a rather outsized example of this already.
It’s not just the combination of Force and military abilities either, but also the characters’ story positions. Finn being the “war” part of the triad gives him the position Leia should have occupied in the OT, the character with ties to both the military and the Force who embodies what the war is about: The human face of the Empire’s atrocities, the survivor who chose to fight. Leia should have been the central figure of the war and not Han’s plus-one on what were essentially his plots and missions.
Done right Leia would have been more like Katniss in The Hunger Games, damaged and traumatized from her experiences, inspiring by her story and example. RO tried to shoehorn Jynn into Katniss’s Mockingjay role except it never worked because Jynn didn’t have the representative story. Obviously the Mockingjay figures were Cassian and the Jedhans (Bodhi, Chirrut, Baze), but yet again SW shied away from giving center stage to victims of wide-scale atrocities. It shied away again with Finn in TLJ.
This refusal to have central Mockingjay figures, I believe, reflects SW’s basic ambivalence as a franchise that is more comfortable with destined saviors than with exploited and destroyed peoples saving themselves. Maybe that comes of SW being a USAmerican franchise dealing with fascism, the contradiction of a country that is fundamentally fascistic and imperialistic trying to tell itself a story of being antifascist and anti-imperialist. America can’t face the full implication of truly upending its fascist underpinnings, in fiction as in reality. Instead the brutal form of fascism is replaced by the “soft” fascism of worshipping benign supermen.
Then along comes JJ Abrams, someone in a position to know the contradictions and falsity in the story America tells about itself. He shows the New Republic’s compromise with fascism destroying it morally as well as physically, a year ahead of the 2016 election. He shows how the worship of the Skywalkers as the chosen line gave us Kylo Ren. He gives us Finn, one of the First Order’s victims, as a strong and central figure.
Finn in IX could be the character that Leia could have been–the one who ties it all together, the military plot and the Force plot, the story of war with the story of spirituality and morality. He could be the character that embodies both the evil of the First Order and the determination, on a personal, visceral level, to fight it. He could be the character that brings audiences face to face with what it means when people who are considered expendable in the quest for greatness stand up and fight back. He could solve the Star Wars dilemma and finally break the vicious cycle of destruction the galaxy far, far away has become trapped in. I certainly hope so.
(Spun off from a discussion with @fuckyeahrebelfinn [link])
That speculation was not baseless at all, given that John was saying in July 2017 that Finn would be in “another form of training” alongside Leia (link). This is so wildly out of line with what we saw in TLJ that I have to wonder if John was led to believe TLJ was going to be a different movie altogether. Or maybe it’s the way his answer was edited and the “alongside General Leia” comment wasn’t meant to go together with the training comment at all. It’s still really weird and yeah, either way a big opportunity was lost to have Finn interact with and learn from Leia.
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Black Hollywood: ‘They’ve Gotta Have Us’
CANDICE PATTON on the importance of diversity and inclusivity in every part of a show at the #SeeHer Shethority Panel
That all came out of conversations about what would have happened if the Nazis all went to Argentina but then started working together again?’” Abrams said in the interview.
“What could be born of that? Could The First Order exist as a group that actually admired The Empire? Could the work of The Empire be seen as unfulfilled? And could Vader be a martyr? Could there be a need to see through what didn’t get done?
Interview with J.J. Abrams (source)
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In the battle against the evil First Order, Isaac thinks it’s easy to forget that the Resistance “are guerrilla fighters, adhering closer to something like the Revolutionary War fighters or even the guerrillas in Cuba with Che and Fidel and all these guys living in the mountains, coming down to do some attacks, and going back and trying to hide from the ‘empire’ of the United States. It’s that kind of ragged at this point.
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“It is a war movie,” Isaac says. “I mean, above and beyond, it is a movie about warriors.”
Shit, they're not getting a huge upgrade to manpower? HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING TO WIN otoh he did compare the Resistance to successful revolutionary movements...🤔
Driver on Ren
I didn’t find anything like what that anon is saying about Driver knowing how Kylo’s story ends up but I did find this interview where he legit says he does NOT see Kylo as evil and tbh, that troubles me a little. He killed his father. He killed innocent women and children, including young padawans. It would be like Ian McDiarmid saying he didn’t see Palpatine as evil. For Driver to seriously say that in an interview does make me uneasy about where Lucasfilm, which is filled with racists who were deepthroating Kylo Ren in the last movie, are going to take this character. Link:
L.J.: This link doesn’t work for me, but he has been quoted as saying something similar (link on Fox News site). OTOH he’s also stated this makes Kylo Ren even more dangerous and unpredictable. Driver is also the kind of “edgy” method actor who stays in character on set and turned down a chance to hang out with Mark Hamill in advance of TLJ (link), so I’m also fairly confident he was talking about getting into his character’s head.
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drubtwopointoh
This is why Mr. Fry will always have a seat at my table.
lora-lovegood
Amen.
obligatorysherlockblog
I was having a conversation about religion with this guy and he asked me what I would do if I got into heaven and had to sit next to God. I told him I wouldn’t take the seat.
