OMG…I just saw a screen grab of twitter thread that said Kyle saying “join me…please” to Rey is the ST’s equivalent to Han’s “I know” from ESB and
Like…how HOW can you compare the “I love you/I know” moment with a scene where Kylo yells at Rey, emotionally manipulates her and tells her she’s nothing??
I mean hello THIS:
Is the scene from the OT that Rey and Kylo scene is actually paralleling.
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…🤔
Doesn’t look like it, though that does lead to several interesting theories. For one thing it looks like we’re going to see actual guerrilla warfare on screen, only time we’ve got close to that was in Rogue One.
Another is that part of both campaigns is that a lot of it was finding allies, so instead of the ally finding taking place off screen we may get to see that too.
But you know, with all of this, it looks more and more like this is going to be a two parter. JJ simply has too much happening to be able to fit it into one movie, there seems to be more than enough plot for two in fact.
Yeah, for a Rebellion they had very little guerilla-ing going on in the movies. The main Rebellion seemed a well-funded military with multiple Senators in the leadership, and actual guerillas like Saw were called terrorists and extremists. It would be cool to see Episode IX show heroic characters being guerillas/partisans on a sustained basis, which was inevitable after the ending of TLJ. I kind of expected that part to be done during the time skip, but EpIX may be showing at least the tail end of that time period. Maybe the characters shown in the outdoors scene with Finn and Poe are representative of the allies the Resistance is gathering. It also raises the question of when Lando will make his appearance and what kind of resources he will bring to the table.
It seems really late in the game to announce a two-parter–Lionsgate announced it two years in advance for Mockingjay, and if LF is going to go that route it seems we would have heard something by now. But then again LF under Disney and KK has not been a terribly well run operation so nothing would surprise me at this point.
this is one photo of the Bodo League massacre, massive atrocities and war crimes committed by the Syngman Rhee regime backed by the US military. yes, the US military was involved in the execution of over 200,000 to 1.2 million innocent Korean civilians often peasants and farmers including women and children because they were falsely labeled “commies.”
please educate yourself and stop spreading misinformation and propaganda.
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This particular photograph has been sourced to massacres at Daejeon Prison, about two hours south of Seoul. The problem is, the Communist left and nationalist right were in control of the prison at different times during the war and they both committed massacres of prisoners. The Syngman Rhee regime did indeed murder around 5,000 prisoners between until mid-July of 1950 when they lost Daejeon to North Korea. The victims of these mass killings included the Bodo League prisoners, Jeju Islanders imprisoned during the post-independence massacres there, and members of the South Joson Labor Party.
After the South Korean forces were driven from Daejeon in a rout, the North Korean regime and their collaborators took over the prison and were in control of it from July 20 to September 29. They in turn filled up the prison with nationalists, police, and Korean and American POWs. When the North Koreans were in turn forced from the city, they massacred 3119 prisoners before they left.
The OP is right about the photograph in question and it is likely a photo of the massacre by North Korean Communists. Multiple Korean sources including a newspaper website agree with OP (link). Rhee’s nationalists transported their prisoners to the wilds where they buried them in secret, while the North Koreans, likely in a hurry due to the need to retreat, buried many of their victims in the prison fields. This photo looks more consistent with the latter event.
There’s plenty of photographic evidence of the right wing’s massacres of the prisoners at Daejeon, of course. Here’s a picture of one such mass shooting in progress:
There’s a lot more, of prisoners being transported in trucks, kneeling on the ground while awaiting their deaths, bodies in ditches etc. There’s a photo gallery of one major mass grave from this event being excavated in 2015 (link, see photo gallery).
So why don’t we accept both the left wing and right wing were evil murdering bastards and call it a day? The OP is right about the photo, and the nationalists as well as communists murdered civilians and prisoners en masse.
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…🤔
What if Rey doesn’t want to be a Jedi after the war?
Unlike Anakin, who was escaping a life of slavery, and Luke, who literally was escaping the Empire and life as a farmer, Rey only wanted her family and to be happy with her life. What if being a Jedi isn’t what Rey wants? Yes, she wanted to understand what the force was and she wants to end the war, but none of that actually has to do with her future or what she specifically wants for herself.
What if after the dust clears and the New Republic is stable again, Rey leaves the future of the Jedi in the hands of Finn, if he’s confirmed to be force sensitive finally, or maybe Luke, if he’s alive, or anyone force sensitive like Ahsoka or Ezra, if they’re alive. Long story short, what if Rey decides that being a Jedi, isn’t for her.
Maybe Rey decides that instead of becoming a warrior, she wants to help people in another way.
Maybe Rey works her ass off and manages to become a Senator for Jakku, and persuades the New Republic fo accept the Desert planet as part of it.
Rey knows what it’s like to live on a horrible Outer Rim World and fights to start getting these forgotten worlds the help they need. Regardless of if Rey is a Skywalker or a random, maybe she can finally find some peace and happiness outside of battle.
I like the idea of Rey going on to start the Jedi Order again, but I like the fact of Rey also getting to walk away from war for good if that’s what she wants.
Think back on how much suffering Anakin and Luke went through… maybe for once, Rey can be the Jedi who walks away, but not to the dark side, or because she was exiled, but just because for the first time ever, Rey wants to live her own life.
Maybe she’ll become Chancellor one day, or maybe she will just stay as senator, helping out the worlds that she can, and then retire one day and live out her years with her family and loved ones. I don’t know, It’s a thought.
This. Let Rey be defined by what SHE wants, not what others demand of her because of her power.
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