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I just found this folder full of TLJ promo pics I had saved back when I still believed this movie could be good and I briefly remembered that feeling. Oh wow, how glorious that was and how ruthlessly it was destroyed… 

Looking back at the pre-TLJ posts is quite a trip. I spent weeks after the release in shock that they could have treated Finn like that.

Can people understand how a differently-ambled person’s brain works and still not understand how someone with that disability works? Because he’s right about a lot of things, but this doesn’t feel right.

I think a lot of parents and authority figures understand why a neurodiverse person’s behavior manifests but still reject the behavior and see it as something to be corrected, even when it hurts no one and might actually be helpful for the neurodiverse person. Knowing is not necessarily accepting.

I think that anyone can be redeemed. Han chose redemption (the main reason I take issue with Han is his rather predatory pursuit of Leia); neither Boba Fett nor Kylo Ren has, up to this point. I’m not against the idea of a Boba Fett-based story, I just look askance at the idea that he’s more heroic than Kylo (this is not the same thing as “less villainous”; I can easily believe that he’s done much less harm than Kylo, but it doesn’t make him at all a good person).

Of course Boba is not a good person, I only said he had some of the elements of heroism where Kylo Ren didn’t. I find it funny, though, that you’re so pro-redemption for Kylo Ren and don’t even seem to want him to see the inside of a jail cell but are so adamant that Boba, who you admit did a great deal less harm, is not a good person.

And no, not everyone can be redeemed. Redemption means buying back and implies the payment of a just price. There is no price you can pay to make up for deliberately taking an innocent person’s life, however, much less billions of innocent lives. George Lucas himself said of Vader: “Anakin can’t be redeemed for all the pain and suffering he’s caused. He doesn’t right the wrongs, but he stops the horror.”

Forced diversity the idea is the idea that people of color are stealing roles from white people. Let’s not pretend that can’t or doesn’t happen– white people steal roles from people of color all the time, there’s absolutely no reason why it would never happen the other way around. But forced diversity also implies that white people somehow deserve those roles, and they don’t. The most talented person deserves the role, regardless of color (unless color is integral to the story of course.)

People who think people of color regularly and intentionally
steal roles from whites are racist. People who think directors favor
certain races over others aren’t necessarily racist, but they can be.
Same goes for other stuff too. For example, people who shout “the
Mexicans are stealing our jobs!” are racist, not just because of this,
but because they assume all illegal immigrants (and legal immigrants if
they’re especially racist) are Mexicans.

Yeah, the idea of forced diversity springs from the assumption that all roles, even ones of historical or fictional people of color, belong to white people by default and are “stolen” by actors of color. It’s white entitlement, plain and simple, just like the idea that immigrants are “stealing” jobs. It’s a deeply racist idea that demands nonwhite people justify their existence in any space that white people haven’t allowed them.

I have this Aspie thing where in an instant of stress— like when I’m about to drop something or when everyone is being too loud— where I blurt out the verbal equivalent of a keyboard smash— you know, ajdsfkgdhkfdsk. (I’ve been told it sounds like Hebrew.) Apparently my dad thinks it sounds like baby talk and that it’s a “bad” habit. He’s a doctor, he knows the science of the Aspie brain, but I still feel like he doesn’t get it.

Your dad sounds pretty ableist 😦 It’s not like your making these vocalizations hurts anyone? Your brain just works differently, that’s all.

Do you think Snoke was set up as a red herring, and he’s more like Jabba the Hutt or General Grievous, a scary-looking villain who dies in their first physical appearance in the movies to make room for the REAL villain? After Grievous died, Palpatine revealed himself to the Republic. After dealing with Jabba, Luke dealt with the bigger challenge, which was facing his own father. Now, after Snoke died, Kylo revealed himself to be the true villain of the ST. Or was he made into an loser by RJ?

If Snoke was always meant to be a red herring that would at least make the way he went more palatable. I don’t think Grievous or Jabba were set up to be more than they turned out to be, though, and that’s the difference between their deaths and Snoke’s. Grievous was a feared and flamboyant general of the Confederacy, and he delivered on that before he died. Jabba was a scary crime lord, and he delivered on that before he died. Snoke was a letdown because he was promised to be this giant mysterious threat and he just turned out to be space Hefner with lobster guards.

Opinion on “Chicken in the Pot” from Solo? Is it as good as other music in the Star Wars galaxy like Max Rebo’s band, the Cantina band, the Ewok’s victory theme etc.? Is there better music in-universe you recommend?

I find the faux-chanson style slightly off-putting, but then again the counterpoint of the deep and chirpy voices is cute. I think it’s my favorite piece of in-world music, though I also find it try-hard and derivative in style. I’ve never had strong opinions about Star Wars music, being more of a musical fan. Now imagine that, a SW musical!

Padmé Amidala dedicated her entire life to preserving peace and supporting the Republic and in the deleted scenes of Episode III, helped Bail Organa and Mon Mothma form the Rebellion. Leia Organa dedicated her life to the Rebellion and later created the Resistance. Do you think Poe Dameron or Kaydel Connix will form something new that will replace the Resistance? their entire lives to their cause and preserving freedom.

Well, all the talk in TLJ and the Poe Dameron comics was about bringing the Rebellion back, so I guess they’re trying for the Rebellion Redux. Oscar Isaac has described the Resistance/Rebellion as a guerilla force, though, so it won’t be like the old Rebellion at least in the beginning. Personally I think they should ally with whatever’s left of the New Republic military and call themselves the New Republic Armed Forces, since it’s not like the First Order is an established government the way the Empire was. I still find the idea of them having to be a Rebellion deeply odd when the FO had taken over, what, a week or two ago as of TLJ? The Resistance are at this point fighting against an illegitimate junta to restore the wrongly deposed New Republic, not fighting their own government.