I have a fic idea, but I don’t know if it’s possible to use an Anidala Force bond as a premise without sounding like a Reylo. (rktho)

I think there’s canonically some kind of bond there? They were a married couple, after all. Maybe not in like full intergalactic Skype sessions, but more in the sens of feelings and senses.

about that ask that pointed out that aliens in Canto Bight looked so caucasian, that was one of my complaints on this movie. So many varied groups of aliens already available, in so many shapes, forms, and colors. And RJ decided to use none and instead went for that bland as f*ck palette.

Yeah they’re so visually monotonous I was confused by my how repetitive my own screenshots looked. The number of women with white/very pale hair, the clothes being mostly black, white, or grey, and the repetition of design elements like lace make what should have been a visually vibrant scene colorless and bland. But then again this is the director who thought an all-red throne room scene was a brilliant choice, so a strong sense of color and visual dynamism just isn’t his strength I guess.

I would read your (hypothetical, I know) Finn book! I would definitely pay for it.

Awww thank you so much ❤️

Did the medical droids really have to put on Vader’s cape before the surgery was finished? He needs the helmet to breathe, but sure, roll him over and fit a fracking cape around his neck first. Everything about Vader is Extra and it’s the funniest thing

You don’t understand, this is Anakin Skywalker we’re talking about! Being extra is a medical necessity!

Canto Bight. If everything was blurry and you didn’t know the creatures weren’t humans, they’d look Caucasian. Pretty much all of them are literally that color.

Huh.

I think you’re right! I hadn’t thought about that.

But the support staff still has to be brown lmaoooo

Watching ROTS and the humor in the opening is everything TLJ should have been.

Yeah, it actually feels like SW, you know? You can feel the comaraderie between the characters and the humor depends on laughing with the audience, not at them.

Plenty of human representation in the ST but a lot of alien erasure. Not one alien species from the other trilogies except previously established characters like Chewie, Ackbar, and Nien Nunb. Only knockoffs like those dumb one-mouthed Ithorians. Obviously human representation is more important but it bugs me that TLJ did nothing to fix this and just made all the Canto Bight aliens white, non-legacy species.

There are white aliens? *scratches head* But yeah, it’s one of the many ways TLJ failed to enrich and continue the lore.

Ah, that’s what you meant. It’s not quite my main criticism, although I honestly don’t think it needed to be made; however, I appreciate that it being made was basically inevitable. But if I’d had the choice, I would have focused on the New Republic and what made it worth fighting for, and probably not included Imperial resurgency until at least the second movie.

Yeah, that would probably have been the better tack. There’s so little “world” in the ST, idk why it’s even worth saving.

Would you be inclined to critique the concept of being against the sequel trilogy as a whole? I mean, I certainly appreciate that it added wider representation… but that appears to be the only good thing it’s done, to me.

I mean obviously people can like or dislike whatever they want to, but if your issue with the ST is that it was made in the first place then I wouldn’t think you were a good faith commentator on the good and bad of the new movies.

So I’m far from done with this, but I’ve compiled a page of links to my meta-analytical posts (link). It’s accessible from the top menu in the desktop theme. I also put the page link in the description, but I don’t think it works on mobile. I did a word count and I’ve written over 25,000 words of Finn-centric meta alone, wow. I could write a book about him lmao.