It’s truly a disturbing testament to our conditioning that Kylo manipulates and uses Rey for his own ends and a number of people come away thinking it’s prelude to a romance.

Don’t worry, concert night was part of John’s plot to get Oscar’s guard down!!!

I’d love that!

I would love that just in principle and it would be a perfect explanation for all these new white cast members. It would also explain their casting being confirmed a little after production started. Adam is still shooting for another project, so if they have a lot of scenes with him they wouldn’t need to be on set from Day 1.

That’s so nice of him! Getting out of the house outside of work is like gold to the parents of a young kid, particularly the primary caretaker.

I just realized I called him Mark instead of Matt in my earlier post 😂 They can both be doctors!

Make Finn Skywalker canon to make racists cry

And Boba didn’t get revenge on any of them lol. Ironically he has worked with Vader who was responsible for both Windu’s and Kenobi’s deaths, the enemy of my enemies is my friend and all?

Kylo as Cain also fits his strong streak of envy and jealousy. He had to be the best and the most powerful, and he feels entitled to what he wants to the extent he’d hurt and kill people over it. His striking Finn down after Finn fought him with Anakin’s lightsaber–akin to the divine blessing Kylo thought was his–is a very Cain and Abel image.

Cain also reads to me as a symbol of urbanization and civilization stemming from agriculture. His jealousy of and killing of Abel can be seen as a metaphor for sedentary agricultural groups’ resource rivalry and conflicts with nomadic/pastoral people. Despite God’s telling Cain that the soil would no longer bring him strength and he would become restless upon the earth, Cain doesn’t become a wanderer but rather builds a city. So it seems to me God’s curse, if curse it was, wasn’t so much about Cain having no fixed home as his becoming disconnected from the soil and nature by choosing the city and its civilization. God even grants him protection from being murdered in the form of seven-fold retribution–a legal protection in its ancient form, another hallmark of civilization.

That’s background for saying that Kylo and Finn could also represent two sides of the Force. The First Order that Kylo has taken over is extremely mechanized, rigidly hierarchical, and cruelly exploitative, that is “civilized” in the worst sense. (Quotes are used because the contention that class and hierarchy are the inevitable results of urban civilization is heavily contested. It is certainly a direction that civilizations can go and have gone, of course.) This hierarchy places Force users like Kylo at the very top where Snoke was before him.

Finn, on the other hand, rejected that hierarchy to flee into the proverbial “wilds” of the galaxy far far away, to the Outer Rim where the First Order would not find him. In this, Finn fills the Abel position but is the subject and not the object of the story: Instead of Cain rejecting what Abel stood for and killing him, Abel rejected what Cain stood for and was struck down for it. Where originally Cain changed the pastoralist Abel’s status quo, with Finn as Abel it’s Abel rebelling against the urbanite Cain/Kylo’s status quo.

In this frame Finn takes the Force back to the source, as it were. Where Kylo has become detached from the “soil” of the Force using layers of mechanism, slave labor, and oppression, Finn represents a return to the “soil” by first personally rejecting, and ultimately bringing down, those repressive constructs. Much as Finn is a reverse Abel in terms of being the protagonist that acts instead of the victim who is acted upon, he is a reverse Abel in ultimately triumphing. His blood cried out from the earth after he was so cruelly struck down like the original Abel, but the story didn’t stop there. He rose up again from the earth, and as Cain did in the original story he is the catalyst for a change in the status quo, ripping down Cain’s cities and denying Cain’s laws. Abel is coming back to fuck Cain’s shit up.