Is Latinx pronounced Lateenex or Lateenks?

The former, as far as I know (link).

FWIW “Poe” didn’t come from “Doe”! It’s the name of JJ Abrams’ daughter’s stuffed panda (Po) and “Dameron” is from Abrams’ assistant on TFA. :)

Ah! Good to know, thanks. Given his name I wil now claim Poe as Asian representation in addition to Latino representation. 😂 I will never ever claim Qui-Gon, though, ever since I learned his name is from the Chinese word qigong (which by the way is pronounced more like cheegong) I can’t say his name with a straight face.

The “Battle” of Crait, where the speeders don’t fire a single shot and think maybe just charging the enemy will work, except they change their minds and retreat. Wow. Such entertainment.

Finn sacrificing himself, causing the trilogy to lose a major
character halfway through the trilogy after he did absolutely nothing
useful since his coma: stupid. Finn surviving because Rose rammed her
speeder into him, knocking him out of the way, busting both their
speeders and critically injuring herself in the process, and also
suddenly maybe developing feelings for him: equally stupid. Gosh I hate
Rain Jacket as a writer

I wanted Rose to die in The Last Jedi. Not because I hated her
but because her dying to save Finn would give some kind of meaning to
the mess that was her arc. At least, it would have seemed more
meaningful to me in the theater, until I walked out and realized the
entire movie is pretty meaningless to begin with.

Either these are related asks from the same anon or a number of anons were feeling the TLJ hate at a similar time, so I decided to answer them all at once. Yeah, a lot of these choices were poorly thought out and underwhelming. I’m glad Rose lived and her arc could be seen as one of realizing she was wrong and that she shouldn’t have forced Finn into a cause to begin with. However, the writing was so muddled and her last line in particular fouled things up badly. It was a really badly written, confusing movie.

First Order stormtrooper: Noooooo… oooooooooooooooone… LIKES Kylo Ren– [immediately gets Force-slammed against the wall and gutted with lightsaber] [Kylo Ren bans Beauty and the Beast] [Resistance spies hear of this] [Rey reactivates Force bond JUST to sing the song at the top of her lungs while he’s trying to sleep]

The Uprising began with a song.

What would be a likely ending for IX? A funeral? A wedding? A party on Lando’s ship? An award ceremony on Yavin IV/Batuu? A humble toast to fallen friends? R2-D2 & C-3PO telling the Star Wars saga to a group of aliens (Maybe humans on Earth)?

I want a Finnrey wedding but that’s just me 😂 A celebration party would be nice!

is beauty and the beast literally the only story reylos know?

It’s the only Disney story that they can shoehorn (badly and painfully) into their assertion that abduction and mistreatment equal true lurve.

I’m salty that we got Grandpa Han kicking butt and Grandpa Chewie licking butt and Grandpa Luke sorta kicking butt and Grandma Leia commanding butt but no butt-owning from Grandpa R2 Save Everyone’s Butts Multiple Times Every Movie D2. Also we haven’t gotten Threepio running screaming from bad guys all trilogy. It’s like Revenge of the Sith up in here where he’s doing absolutely nothing.

There’s a reason I’m saying he’s past due for a memory wipe and probably a top-to-bottom cleaning after half a decade of inactivity. It’s cruelty not to give your droid proper maintenance!

I understand that but people seem to be afraid to even admit that Poe and Rey might find the other hot? Like that one person said can’t a pretty girl smile and be bashful? Well can’t a pretty girl who’s in love with someone else objectively appreciate male beauty? Maybe I’m not making sense. Anyway I love your blog and I loved the Force group meta you posted the other day.

I mean can you blame them? We have people saying right and left that Rey and Poe saying “Hi” was more romantic and sexual than Finn and Rey’s far more intimate interactions, and there are the fools who deliberately conflate finding someone attractive with True Love Forevah.

Also Lando should get at least a consideration in any Falcon ownership conversation. (Moth)

Sorry, sent that too early. I mean beyond your point, as Lando
was its previous legal owner, and the one who used it to blow up the
Death Star. (Moth)

Oh absolutely. My post was about legal rights so I didn’t deal much with Lando, but he obviously should get moral and personal consideration. He’s not going to want to give it to his old friend’s murderer either, obviously.

I’m actually legit shocked Reylows hadn’t done an AU of “The Sheik” yet.

God I hope they never discover it. The summary reads:

“A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an
adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in
the Saharan desert.“

Bog-standard boring bodice-ripper/abduction trope just like the fevered imaginations of Reylows with a healthy streak of racism and Islamophobia, in other words.