I’m genuinely at a point where I could not give less of a fuck about canon. I did not enjoy TROS, and I don’t care what LFL say happens next because I know it’s not intended for me and it’s not going to make me happy.

And, honestly? This happens all the goddamn time with stories and franchises. Fuck, there are some endings that are so bad they all but ruin everything that came before them in their respective series (GOT? HIMYM?). You have two options at that point: you cut your losses and move on, or you tell canon to fuck off, take the broken pieces, and create the stories you want to see.

That’s where I am. The men at LFL and I fundamentally disagree, so I am taking the characters and the world they have given me, and I’m going to make them my own. Fuck the trio, fuck Ben Solo’s death, fuck whatever stories they think come next. I don’t have to engage with that, and I have no plans to do so.

It’s been real, Star Wars, but you’re going where I can’t follow. I’m forging my own path now, and I’m taking the house and kids. Hope we can make it work for Life Day sometime in the future.

Ben Solo desperately crashing through Kylo’s shell is the most sexy thing.

Seeing old tlj posts and realizing that Rian really was that bitch..like he really did that...I just- .... wow.. im so thankful he blessed the starwars-verse with his brilliance. They did not deserve him.

yeah he did !!! and I love him for it.

That’s not to say that artists can’t be brave within that framework. Expecting and accepting the bare minimum from blockbusters is short-sighted and pessimistic. It takes courage and cleverness to sneak originality under corporate overlords' noses, but it’s all the more exciting when studio product emerges with something unique to say. Singular voices and unexpected choices are significant in mainstream entertainment, because reaching large audiences fucking matters.

source: Pandering To Fans Never Produced Anything Great

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He has it nailed with what went wrong with TROS’s ending.  Here’s a quote:

“If Abrams and Terrio truly believed this was the most meaningful and narratively compelling way to end Rey’s story they should’ve put in the hard work and shown us why and how this particular outcome is what she wanted…

Needless to say, they didn’t do that. We have no sense of how Rey’s hopes and wants are fulfilled by the end of the film. Thus her arcs in both TFA and TLJ aren’t honored. A cheap attempt at a cyclical conclusion really doesn’t cut it.”

that feeling when kylo ren was more selfless and good than anyone who has ever criticized him, feels good, organic, righteous

THE EYES OF A  FRIGHTENED BOY

Probably it’s not really relevant, but I find quite interesting that when the first force connection happens you see Ben calling Luke by his name, for the first time. 

“You’ll bring Skywalker to me”

Finding Skywalker is his top mission. But he still isn’t aware of how close Luke might be…

This is what Kylo Ren wants, this is how Kylo Ren was created, he’s the Jedi Killer…HE NEEDS TO FIND SKYWALKER, that’s his mission, based on revenge and betrayal

But as soon as he starts to sense him, you can see his face changing and you can see how he probably had been thinking about that meeting before, but suddenly he’s not prepared……he’s scared 

After THAT night at the Jedi Temple, he never saw Luke again, he probably never sensed him again, he has vanished after all.

Kylo Ren was built upon that betrayal. Kylo Ren is the mask Ben Solo created to be stronger, to overcome the fear and the trauma of that night.

Suddenly he’s facing the reality of  the moment, sensing his uncle after long years. In that particular moment, all the masks he built break and he’s BEN SOLO, who remembers that night, who still thinks that his uncle betrayed him.

That’s why he calls him “LUKE” and it’s the first and last time we heard him calling him in that way; there’ s a certain familiarity in his voice, because Ben Solo is taken by surprise.

At the very end, he finds Skywalker, his mission is completed, he can destroy him and the Jedi order…or that’s what he likes to think. But when he slays Luke with all his rage, what he finds out instead is that EVEN REVENGE can’ t fill that void he has inside.

He’s so sure to have slayed him in half, he hesitates to look back, but when he does and he sees that Luke is still there, beyond his understanding, you can see those same wide frightened eyes. He’s  AFRAID, like he was that night, the trauma is still there.

That fear of failure, that fear of betrayal, is still there, it will always be in some places of his heart, until he will find a way to overcome what happened that night, until he will understand that he won’t win his inner war by killing what he hates, but by fighting for who and what he loves.

Rey and the future they saw together are the shifting point, why it’s still worthy to fight.

Anyway I was talking about how scared Ben is of that night even two years ago.

(Don’t look at the gifs lol we didn’t have hd yet, I should change them, uh cringe)

CONFRONTING FEAR IS THE DESTINY OF THE JEDI. YOUR DESTINY

"Star Wars is an optimistic, spiritual world, and more like a fairytale [...] Ever since I was a kid, all that matters to me is the love story [...] It’s the thing I had to find first. Sometimes, [the love story] is obvious, sometimes a bit more complicated."

"Without a doubt [there will be a love story], but I already know I want to approach this project in a different way because Star Wars, it’s a special world."

"What makes this story have a beating heart? We simply approached this narrative from the point of view that this is a story about a young man and a young woman, not with the idea that we can do anything we want."

— JJ Abrams

me, a woc: SAME (▰˘◡˘▰)

There’s a difference between “her sole responsibility in the narrative is to save the sad man” and “one of the parts of being a hero is that they inspire hope in the hopeless, and help those in need, whoever they might be.”

I see “in defense of reylos” and wonder what that is. Because here I’m thinking that the films are the only defense I’m ever gonna need.

“The Light and The Dark… as THEY face the greatest evil.” -JJ Abrams