You read my mind, anon, because I’m working on a meta about how the old Jedi model is flawed and they really do need to be replaced by something better. Basically I think the whole idea of relying on inborn Force talent has failed repeatedly, and that morality and trustworthiness should be foremost considerations. That’s what my Force-Sensitive Five post was about, too, a new model of Force instruction and a replacement for the Jedi. You people really need to stay out of my draft folder…
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Episode VII features a fight between Rey and Kylo Ren that starts with Rey using the force to pull the Skywalker lightsaber away from Kylo Ren and an unconscious Finn. What if Episode IX features a fight between Finn and Kylo Ren that starts with Finn using the force to pull the Skywalker lightsaber away from Kylo Ren and an unconscious Rey?
That would be a nice parallel! Whatever the form, I want Kylo Ren and Finn’s villain-hero foil grudge match to be epic.
Hi! I wanted to quickly thank you for your post on TLJ politics/what RJ did with the POC and female characters that where already in place but he just didn’t care enough about. This movie felt icky and wrong from the moment I watched but I really couldn’t put words to that feeling. So thank you for putting that post out there! I feel like I can now have a normal conversation about the movie and why it felt wrong to me, bc you worded it very well. So thanks again!
Awww thank you so much for telling me! I’m glad my posts helped others put words to their own frustrations. It’s always good to know we’re not alone.
Hux slapping Finn make me sick. Finn just woke from his coma some days ago then he was zapped twice and slapped
But, you know, Kylo cutting him across the spine was nbd while Kylo’s own booboo on the face needs tender loving attention. Finn being hurt over and over again was funnyyyyy why aren’t you laughing how dare you not laugh??
Boba Fett is feeling down. An old man walks up to him and comments on his Mandalorian armor. The conversation turns to Mandalore and Boba expresses his disgust for Satine. The old man is weirdly defensive. After their talk, the old man walks away and Boba can’t shake the feeling that there’s something oddly familiar about him… If only the old man wasn’t wearing his hood.
Should have STABBED HIM IN THE GUT
Sometimes I randomly remember that Rian Johnson wanted Finn to go into a fancy casino with his tux on backward and I want to scratch his face off.
He wanted badly to make Finn the laughingstock, huh? No wonder, since Finn makes Johnson’s crush Kylo look so bad.
They’re archivist from varying backgrounds- Amara a child born in the Void whose parents crash landed into the city, Tia her friend (and love interest) a girl raised in the Ports of said city, Udana the child of an ailing temple and Amni, a non-verbal Autistic girl who communicates through signed Sumerian cuneiforms and with the help of a strangely intelligent cat…
OMG they’re all girls? I love that! And they all sound so varied and interesting! This is a Sumer-based space civilization, then?
Why are your anons freaking out about John Boyega inviting a colleague and friend and his wife to a concert?
Because fandom is a terrible terrible place and John’s detractors were spreading rumors about him falling out with the other cast members.
So after planning it all out, I’ve run into a rather embarrassing problem with my story: I have no idea where to start. I’m going to have a lot of flashbacks, but I don’t at which point to begin the story. I feel if I begin too early the readers will go, “Um, this is Attack of the Clones,” but that’s where Boba’s story begins. It feels natural to start there. Still- do I begin at Kamino or Geonosis? How do I exposit backstory naturally? TFW when if you could just get the beginning worked out…
Another change I made is that Jango gets impaled instead of
decapitated, so there’s a scar on the front and back of his armor where
Boba repaired it when he took it as his own.
The question of when to start the story is crucial and difficult, so there’s no need to be embarrassed at all! Start too soon and the story loses pace. Start too late and the necessary exposition isn’t there. In your case there’s the additional complication of this being a serial-numbers-filed-off story where some points may be too familiar to readers. I really sympathize, personally, because I went back and forth SO many times on the
timeline before I settled on a starting point (for the current draft, that is–it may change yet again). I must have like 7-8
completely different starting scene drafts lying around.
The general rule is to start as late as possible, that is the sweet spot where the action begins in earnest but there is stil enough information for the story and characters to make sense. So my instinct leans more toward “Geonosis” than “Kamino,” perhaps somewhere in between. A little before the Battle of Geonosis might be one place to try starting, establishing what normal is for Boba and Jango and what the stakes are before everything goes to hell.
The scarred armor is a very evocative visual, I think. It’s a good idea to keep making these changes as part of filing off the serial numbers.
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