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Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part VI, 2022

Dearest Father, Franz Kafka, 1919

there’s a really interesting phenomenon going on that I've seen mostly on twitter in which people are pretending The Last Jedi and the other Sequel movies is and was always good, actually.

it seems to me as if there's a new consensus that the people who did and still do dislike that movie are those mad about Rey being a woman, Finn being a black man, etc, and while I'm a thousand-percent sure that's true, that some people hate that movie for stupid and bigoted reasons, it doesn't change the fact that The Last Jedi (and truly, the entire Sequel Trilogy) is just flat-out a bad movie.

All three of those films suffer hugely because all three are fundamentally different at a ground level. They are inherently disconnected in a way that a trilogy should not be, leaping from idea to idea that the next film inevitably squanders. There is no consistent storyline other than 'First Empire Bad'; there is barely any buildup to to the reveal of Palpatine, Kylo Ren as a character flip-flops between tortured badboy to Maybe Redemption Arc and back. It's not because he's conflicted, it's because everything is simply inconsistent.

Finn and Poe are done huge disgraces by the end of it all, Kylo Ren having been deemed more important and heroic than they are, and The Love Story is just terrible. The end of The Last Jedi sees Kylo Ren successfully assassinate Snoke, which is a pretty cool fucking thing to happen, but Rise of Skywalker squanders the aftermath of that idea with the rushed redemption.

These are movies that feel like each one was supposed to have its own subsequent trilogy; put together, they're a mess.

Leia's worst online PR scandal is when a political opponent tried to say something mean about her kids so she pointed out that his no longer talked to him, in a space tweet that stayed up for 25 minutes and was screen-shotted 14 million times from across the galaxy. Luke and Lando's worst online PR scandal was the time they both joined the same mlm scheme for 3 months and had to issue a joint apology . Han has never had an online PR scandal because despite the fact that his handle is @/therealhansolo he has three followers and his only other social media is spfacebook which he uses exclusively to get into parent shaming fights with Isolder, Wedge's worst online PR scandal is when a major holo news channel posts an article that referred to him as "an lgbtq ally" and he space qrts it with "I am not" without specifying that he is not because he is bisexual and then turned his phone off for 14 hours.

You know this could easily be Han Solo.

old ben in ep 4 just rolling his eyes at han solo’s skepticism because han’s like “i don’t need that nonsense some people are just good at that shit” and ben’s like. king that’s called being force sensitive. like he just rolls his eyes at him bc the force sensitivity is literally just radiating off of him.

reylos crying on twitter because Adam Driver explicitly confirmed that Bendemption was never originally in the plans for Kylo....this is justice for the last 8 years, actually

"they were just going to let the last Skywalker die as a Dark Sider???" well he wouldn't have BEEN the last Skywalker if Rian had actually followed through with the clearly foreshadowed revelation that Rey was one and let Finn be the nobody Jedi from nowhere as he was supposed to be

I just.

Eight years of arguing with Reylo stans about how Kylo's trajectory was to show us the long fall of someone continually choosing the Dark even as his father (who he explicitly acknowledged that he still loved!) and other people in his life repeatedly offered him the same choice Luke gave to Vader in ROTJ.

Eight years of noting that the point of Kylo, for JJ Abrams, was that you can be raised with love, support, and stability and still CHOOSE to make bad choices and continue to do so even when offered alternatives.

Eight years of pointing out that Finn and Kylo were deliberate character foils in TFA! Eight years of saying that Finn was supposed to show that goodness can come from anywhere, even a stormtrooper raised as a child soldier with no one to turn to, while Kylo was supposed to show that evil can come from anywhere, even a beloved Rebel's child with a stable childhood with lots of support figures.

Eight years of trying to get through to them that Finn and Kylo were supposed to represent the two choices Rey had as the sequel trilogy's Skywalker: to follow Finn's choices (Luke's choices) and stay in the Light, or follow Ben's choices (Anakin's choices) and surrender to the Dark.

Eight years has led to this moment of Adam Driver casually going "evolving into Ben Solo…that was never part of it" and “Rian took it into a different direction” in an interview on a random Tuesday night. I feel the vindication in this Chili's tonight and it is SWEET

OSCAR ISAAC as POE DAMERON Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

the first conversation between vader and leia in anh is So funny like it implies a lot about the previous times they’ve met

#‘you weren’t on any mercy mission this time!’ she really got one over on him before huh. hes not happy!

Not only has Darth Vader been repeatedly thwarted by a teenage girl, he considers her nothing less than a serious and worthy adversary. Darth Vader leaned in. 

very funny that obi-wan and anakin are brothers, anakin and ahsoka are siblings, but obi-wan is definitely not ahsoka’s brother. he’s her uncle at best

finding out Anakin was 23 years old when he became Vader was so crazy to me. he should've been at the club

ezra bridger was missing for 2024 long, agonizing days. and now he's been found.

“Not even the younglings survived…”