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mace-windu-appreciationweek:

Mace Windu: We’re here to arrest you.

Palpatine: *murders the other three Jedi there*

Palpatine: *literally using a DEADLY force move against Mace Windu*

Mace Windu: *defending himself, because if he stops for even a MOMENT he will be killed by the lightening he’s redirecting*

Mace: Anakin this man, who is literally actively trying to kill me in such a way if I stop this defensive stance I will die, is too dangerous to live. He is currently ACTIVELY trying to kill me, right now.

Anakin: This isn’t the Jedi way.

Anakin stans and people who hate Mace for no reason: SEE Mace is BAD and WRONG, him insisting that a man who just murdered three of his fellows and is STILL actively attempting to murder him as the scene takes place means it’s just like Anakin beheading a disarmed and non-resisting Dooku. MACE IS BAD!!!1!

Isn’t xilizhra that person who implied Fandoms hate People of Color was sexist because they said they don’t trust in white women? That person probably is a racist troll

Then they can include me in that designation because don’t trust white women either. I’m friends and colleagues with individual white women, but by default my defenses are up when it comes to them as a group. The majority of them will choose white supremacy and white privilege over solidarity with women of color, as they have proven election after election.

Rian when I said I wanted Poe to have as big a role as Finn I didn’t mean make Finn’s role smaller you lazy balloon

#Mood on Finn’s role being smaller. That said, I don’t think there’s a need for Poe’s role to be as big as Finn’s. Finn is the male lead, after all, while Poe is a major supporting character. Poe in TFA was meant to be a mature and competent hero, and I have argued that he was taken out of the story specifically so Finn and Rey couldn’t avoid the problems and challenges in TFA (link). Some people took that meta as my saying Poe should have been the real hero, but it’s actually the opposite–what I meant was that Poe was taken out of the way so the main heroes, Finn and Rey, could be challenged and grow as characters.

This was Rian Johnson’s fundamental misunderstanding of the character dynamics in TLJ. He thought they had to be a co-equal trio who all had lessons to learn, so he changed Poe’s character to artificially create conflict. Even more frustrating, it wasn’t about Poe’s actual issue as seen in TFA and the comics, which was his eagerness to put only himself on the line and not watch anyone else be sacrificed.

But I guess RJ couldn’t relate to a humble and self-sacrificial hero and can  only understand self-aggrandizing gloryhounds. That’s a shame because I wanted a movie about the characters I fell in love with in TFA, not RJ’s personal issues as an overgrown man-child.

Do you think it would have been better if, instead of having to share Kylo, Finn could be set up more specifically against Phasma, with her having a larger role? Then we could have a one-for-one pattern of the Resistance main trio against the First Order main trio (with Poe set up against Hux, naturally). You could do something interesting with Phasma having no loyalty to the First Order either, but without any moral reasons behind that.

It’s an interesting idea and I think that’s how Johnson was trying to go (minus giving Phasma or Hux any meaty role), but I think that also has the risk of splitting the plot in three. Ultimately I think it’s more satisfying to have a central Big Bad so that the plot coheres into one, especially in movies for theatrical release.