Hux: Supreme Leader dont get distracted *get thrown into a wall*
Kylo: *goes down to fight fake Luke which leads to the resistance getting away*
Hux:đđȘđȘ
JJ never said Snoke was never important, you just thought he was. Lukeâs purpose on Ahch-to was always to die quietly. JJ never hinted that Rey was a Skywalker, you made that up. Balance of the Force has always meant equal light and dark. Finn was always a side character. Star Warsâ humor was always this goofy. Poe was always a reckless hothead. Rey is unselfish to a fault, not someone who spent years looking out for herself and not trusting people. Reyâs parents are buried on Jakku. Luke was always a stickler for the orthodox Jedi ways, but Yoda didnât care about them. Star Wars was repetitive, borrowing too much from itself, and something needed to break the mold and do something different. No, Iâm not âgaslightingâ you, youâre just remembering things incorrectly through the lens of your unrealistic expectations.
This would be an idea for Reyâs ship. One of the things about the Millenium Falcon is that both Luke and Leia, and the audience if successful, are supposed to find it shoddy and ugly. Of course, decades later, the Millenium Falcon has become a favorite, and is cheered for when it comes on screen. With Reyâs ship, the expectations would be lowered again.
Her scavenger aesthetic I made in her concept art carries over to this. Itâs intentionally made to look like a sandcrawler, which in legends were created thousands of years ago to be sturdy but cheap mining equipment, and this would be a smaller version. However, Rey has repurposed it into her own, making it airtight and outfitting it with life-support systems. The treads have been made retractable for hyperspeed, and she fitted an inflatable raft and side cannon for sticky situations.
Also, she made a figurehead in the style of General Grievous, who, in the years since the Clone Wars, has gained a legacy as a scavenger lord so good at finding parts, he could repair himself over and over again. (Moth)
Palpatine: [dials up Commander Cody]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
Palpatine:Â [dials up Commander Bacara]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
Palpatine:Â [dials up Commander Bly]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
Palpatine:Â [dials up Captain Jag]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
Palpatine:Â [dials up Commander Neyo]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
[several holo-calls later]
Palpatine:Â [dials up Commander Gree]
Palpatine: The time has come. Execute Order 66.
Commander Kevin:Â Sir, wouldnât it be more prudent to send a group text and contact the troopers all at once?
1. Make popcorn. Not just regular popcorn. I mean like distractingly good, buttery salty heaven, maybe pour some queso on it if you love that stuff (I know I do.) Make a gigantic batch and keep a big bowl handy.
2. Optional: find the absolute best ice cream milkshake recipe and whip up a glass. Just one, though, and make sure itâs really good.
3. Get a bowl of pretzels and throw some caramel M&Ms in there.
4. Eat all the food and donât watch TLJ.
Iâm just kidding, but you could do that. Thatâd be a really good idea.
4. Make your couch as comfortable as possible, unless you can watch in bed. Pillows, blanketsâ just surround yourself with it. Make sure you donât have to move too much to reach your food.
5. Procrastinate starting the movie until itâs very late. Thereâs a purpose behind this step.
6. When you start the movie, keep your phone nearby with the ringer turned all the way up. Maybe you want to live tweet this? I feel like thatâd be a good idea.
7. When the movie starts, immediately go to work on your milkshake. You want to finish it before you get to Ahch-to.
8. Donât think about the plot. Just donât. Focus on the tiny stuff. âOh. Imperial veteran. Cool. Oh. Gold robe. Cool. Oh. Yoda. Cool.â
9. When Poe makes his prank call, make a call of your own. Call your mom or something. Talk about anything but Star Wars.
10. When the green milk scene comes up, just close your eyes. You donât want to see that while youâre eating.
11. Depending on how comfortable your couch is, you should be falling asleep around Canto Bight. This is the idea.
12. If not, make sure you have lots of popcorn.
13. How much have you been tweeting? Tweet more. Your followers should have to suffer through this too.
14. If you make it to Snokeâs death, pause the movie. Congratulate yourself. Order a pizza.
15. Just to procrastinate a bit longer, donât start the movie again until the pizzaâs arrived.
16. Start the movie again. You should be extremely tired right now. Now would be a good time to fall asleep.
17. If you donât fall asleep, you deserve an award. Congratulations, you made it through the worst Star Wars film ever and you kinda liked it. Not the movie, you still hate it, but that popcorn was really good.
18. Sleep in tomorrow.
People who say the First Order isn’t that bad because they’re a lot like the USA are so close to getting it.
As far as I care, the poor Ben did nothing wrong uwu crowd don’t actually like Kylo Ren–they like the fanon version of him in their heads, Kylo in leather pants if you will.
Iâve been seeing a lot of people talk about a time skip for Episode IX, and interestingly enough, both sides keep settling on 6-8 months.
Personally, I hope not.
The ST already feels like weekend at Bernieâs, and itâs not longer feeling like the epic episodic stories, and more like Johnsonâs episode of the BB âThe Flyâ. Glorified filler.
The OT had 4 years pass during it.
The PT had 13 years pass during it.
Even anthology movies like R1 and Solo had a long passage of time.
Narratively speaking, a longer time skip, a few years for example, leaves Lucasfilm more room for stories between the jump, world building, and development for the ST characters, and building up both factions in the War.
Leia building up her army for the New Republic and gather allies for the Resistance, and Benny Boy consolidating his position as leader due to power vacuum undoubtably caused by Snokeâs death.
The only other option I could think for a short time skip would be if IX is a 2nd part movie or if IX is the Attack of the Clones of this mess of a ST and Star Wars will turn into and bulging movie is covering the 2nd galactic civil war.
Otherwise, the ST is gonna span only a couple months and be known as just the shittiest year ever.
I think a long time skip can work with the guerilla warfare aspect that Oscar discussed. Leia has outright said in the latest Poe Dameron comic that the Resistance is down to a dozen people on the Millennium Falcon. The Resistance was never that big in the first place, nothing like the Rebellion at its peak, and was, letâs be real, functionally wiped out in TLJ. They donât just need to rebuild, they need to build from scratch a force that has a snowballâs chance in hell against the First Order. Thatâs not going to be easy work, and we may be watching in IX at least the tail end of their efforts to build an anti-FO coalition. That would make for some really fun between-movies material too in the mode of The Clone Wars.
Also, Kyloâs trauma from his uncle considering killing him for .1 second makes him a soft boy who canât be held accountable for any of his heinous actions, while Finnâs lifetime of trauma makes him a scary obsessed stalker who should stay far away from Rey in any romantic sense.
Not to mention, Kyloâs trauma doesnât exist. The whole reason Luke considered killing him was because âSnoke had already turned his heartâ. And Kylo proved him right by fighting after Luke lowered his weapon. Kylo had been planning to betray Luke well before Luke became suspicious. When Kylo turned and saw Lukeâs lightsaber ignited, he didnât get scared. He got caught.
Meanwhile, Rey âIâm not giving you anythingâ-âget out of my headâ-âmurderous snakeâ-âdonât do this. Donât go this wayâ of Jakku isnât being harmed by Kylo Ren just because the writers went a little overboard on making her special.
And simultaneously, Rey âyou canât go. I wonât let you.â-âdonât go.â-âyou came back for meâ-let me just lay here in the snow and die with my man-âwe will see each other againâ-âthank you my friendâ-âif you see Finn before I doâ of Jakku is afraid of, and being stalked by Finn. đ
I donât blame Kylo for fighting Luke or bringing down the hut on him regardless of his evilness or intention, because when Luke brought down his saber it could still be seen as him trying to strike Kylo. (Because the greatest living Jedi Master somehow doesnât know how to turn off his lightsaber? Sounds fake, but letâs roll with it.) I would not have blamed Kylo for killing Luke, either. But Kyloâs slaughtering other the students who did nothing to him is clearly nowhere in the region of justifiable and shows long planning and premeditation.
So youâre right, absolutely, that he was caught before a premeditated attack, but I donât put it past him to be still be traumatized by the encounter and what he did in the aftermath. There is zero conflict between him being a mass murderer and being heavily traumatized, since perpetrator trauma is a known phenomenon (link) and suffering does not ennoble a person.
Yes on all your other points. Jason Fry himself, though I have a ton of problems with him, has explicitly debunked the reylow fiction that he said Finn needs to overcome his affection for Rey. And can you believe that reylows say Rey was trying to let go of Finn during their hug and Finn wouldnât let her đ So what was Rey holding her hand out to Finn, hugging Finn first, collapsing on top of an unconscious Finn, and kissing his foreheadâdid he Force pull her or some shit? Ooh wait, did they just confirm Force-sensitive Finn?
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