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you know what’s interesting? is that the reylos are the only people that completely skewer other, morally good characters that they view as threats in their fic (finn, poe after tlj). in the years since tfa i have never come across a finnpoe fic that skewers rey or rose, a finnrey fic that skewers poe or rose, etc. it’s literally just the reylos that take it there.

Surprise! They’re small-minded assholes who feel threatened by potential romantic rivals to their ship.

idk if you can call poe hypothetically being force sensitive a bait and switch re: finn when the stuff about him growing up around a force sensitive tree pre-dates even tfa? rey would be the only bait and switch character because of the tfa marketing and because jj explicitly said that’s what he was doing. that being said, if poe is force sensitive i’m pretty sure it’s not going to be announced or a storyline or anything, he’s going to already have been and continue to be with no comment.

I mean Finn was advertised with the lightsaber as you pointed out, which seems really baity to me. It’s not just Rey and Poe either, fucking Holdo got confirmed as FS and not Finn? That’s some nonsense.

Re: Han’s Force abilities… something to do with flying, which is why he’s so good? And sensing when comrades are in danger— only he blames it on Chewie making him feel guilty. Also, extreme foot dexterity and enhanced aiming abilities, as per the original 1983 theory.

I think there’s a strong case for that, and I’ve always loved the idea of Force-sensitive Han. I mean dude made a shot and got the kill while he was blind??

Ok like the idea that everyone has tiny Force powers that are so small they don’t recognize them— WHY WASN’T THAT IN THE LAST JEDI INSTEAD OF WHAT WE GOT? Your meta is so much better. Imagine what powers Han would have. (Remember when there was a theory that he could use the Force?)

This would mean that everyone can benefit from learning about the Force, too, honing their innate and learned abilities that are all expressions of the living Force. It would be a democratization of not only Force powers but also of Force learning. TLJ wasted most of its runtime going over the same ground TFA covered, then teased the idea of Force democratization near the very end only to leave the actual process to–what? Episode IX, which has its hands full wrapping up not only this trilogy but ALL THREE trilogies? Some between-movie media tie-in most of the moviegoing audience will never see? Both options kinda suck, damn you Roundhead Johnson.

Re: Rebel Rising and the lack of continuity in SW canon, that book doesn’t fit with Rogue One very well. The ending overlaps with the beginning of R1 and it’s completely different. It must reflect the original opening that was reshot because the lines and feelings of the characters are completely different from the finished film. Jyn is very different too. She is a far cry from the child soldier who was Saw’s best. She never kills even once. SW needs a department dedicated to continuity. 1/2

TFA novelizations had scenes that were very different from the
film too, like Rey agreeing to sell BB8, turning him off, and
negotiating a price before changing her mind or Finn being shown and
talked about as an elite soldier. It’s definitely a problem but I guess
it’s better than the old EU where Zahn was petty enough to shit talk
other creators and use his books to retcon or cast shade on anything he
didn’t like. He still changed key things the last Thrawn but he’s no
longer influential. 2/2

Department dedicated to continuity…. like a STORY GROUP?

Also holy lack of professional courtesy, Batman! The old EU sounds wild.

Isn’t a Force-user without any peace, by definition, in dire peril from the dark side? I think that Kylo would have to find peace of some sort in order to achieve redemption at all. And regarding the Padme thing… the point of Padme’s character is finding ways to make peace, and her trying to assassinate Anakin would be both OOC and not in the spirit of the movies, in which love redeems and vengeance is a path to the dark side, and where Padme was right in the end about there being good in him.

If he needs to find peace from people patting his ass and telling him it wasn’t his fault, then fuck his peace. That sounds, again, suspiciously like a threat that the people he hurt need to swallow down their pain and anger and endlessly accommodate him to avoid a greater threat, whether from the First Order or Kylo Ren’s own darkness. It’s his own damned responsibility to find peace, not the people he tortured and tried to murder.

The same goes for Padmé: There is no peace without justice, and if she was seeking “peace” by literally getting in bed with a mass murderer at the expense of justice for murdered children, then her idea of peace is not peace but appeasement.

I also never said the stabbing attempt would be a positive thing, I specifically said it was suicide and too little, too late. It would be an expression of despair born out of Anakin’s crimes and guilt for her own silence, not a positive development. At least it would show an awareness that she had made a terrible mistake, not a doubling down on the same make-nice avoidance of accountability that had worked so spectacularly (as in, not at all) before.

One thing that always bothered me was Padme begging Anakin to leave with her on Mustafar. At this point she knew he’d massacred children as well as sand people. It just seemed incredibly selfish of her to feel that she and Anakin could live somewhere home free where Anakin didn’t have to answer for his crimes.

I agree, she was engaging in magical thinking and being irresponsible. She had already married his ass knowing he had massacred Sand People, including children by his own admission. I mean, what did she think was going to happen? The mass murderer, in possession of his full freedom and power with the aid of her silence, committed mass murder again. I am shocked, shocked!

I wish they’d gone along with an earlier idea of having Padmé try to stab him on Mustafar. It would have been at least as much a suicide as an attempt to kill him, and he could have given her a mortal wound in his rage. They could perform emergency C-section to save the twins while Vader breaks the fuck down over what he did, and her death would have made some sense while her character could at least have tried to set things right if in a too little, too late sense.

I think that’s what the anon is saying. That people who, for example, say Poe/Rey is nonsense because JJ wouldn’t put the lead female with a character who was going to be killed off in the first movie should not rely on that reasoning because JJ expanded Poe’s role on his own account. Which, I guess *shrug* We’ll see what happens in episode IX.

Exactly. I still think doomerey is ridiculous, but not because of an earlier version of the script where Poe was going to die. It’s because they hadn’t even met for two movies and the third movie isn’t going to have anything near enough time to develop a believable romance. It’s also really racist tbh because the idea dismisses Finn’s two movies worth of bonding with Rey with a pat on the head. Excuse me? I have some taste, thank you, and there’s no way I’m going to accept a canon ship based on “hi” and a rushed last-minute romance when Rey crying on Finn’s chest about to die with him on a doomed planet was RIGHT THERE. Not every movie has to have a romance but if there is going to be one I demand some basic quality, not to mention respect for my intelligence as a viewer.