This thread lays out in detail just how much Kylo Ren and to an extent the First Order were sanitized in TLJ. It’s ridiculous the lengths to which RJ/LF went to minimize Ren and the FO’s evil, and distorted the characters and story to fit that revisionism. (Heads up, there’s a lot of discussions of reylow and the possibility of canon reylow in the thread, though people are overwhelmingly against it.)
Image transcript: A translated tweet by user hanSolo_spoilers_off (@qwerrewq727) reading, “I’m so sorry I lost your lightsaber Rey… please make do with this in the meantime (many tears)”
Under the text is a picture of a Rey figurine holding an elaborate Chinese-style glaive
Ultimately, The Last Jedi is about Rey and Kylo Ren as well as the titular last Jedi, Luke Skywalker. Finn, who lacks Force abilities despite some nifty lightsaber skills, isn’t as essential to the core storyline, which might be why some criticism of The Last Jedi focused on his seemingly ancillary mission to Canto Bight. The cut scenes wouldn’t have suddenly made Star Wars into “The Finn Funtime Adventure Hour,” but he would have been a bigger deal, at least.
“Finn doesn’t need the Force,” they said. “He’s just as important and heroic without it,” they said.
Hey, remember Jackie Chan has his own animated series??
With him making cameos in the intro
He was an archaeologist who suddenly became a secret agent of some sorts and started to kick ass to save the world from chinese evil things like demons and shit and that british guy with the weird face
It was packed with kung-fu action, magic and crack stuff
And at the end of the chapter he would answer to kid’s questions; he’s such a nice guy
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i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls
Never don’t reblog this. There are so many people who have such bad anxiety about phone calls. This can save so many lives
Also helpful if someone is in a situation they may not feel like talking out loud about their problems is a viable option (for instance if they live with a douchecanoe who would mock them for seeking help)
this is super duper incredibly important for d/Deaf, HoH, and non-verbal people
When you read a review in comic form that has nothing good to say about TLJ, is critical of the treatment of Finn and Poe, points out the numerous continuity and plot holes, thinks Kylo Ren’s shirtless scene was terrible forced humor and sees nothing sexual about it whatsoever, and is blistering about just how incoherent Rose’s character was:
[Zera] Yacob is also more enlightened than his Enlightenment peers when it comes to slavery. In chapter five, he argues against the idea that one can ‘go and buy a man as if he were an animal’.That is because all humans are created equal and with the capacity to reason. Hence, he also puts forward a universal argument against discrimination based on reason.
[Anton] Amo was not the only African to achieve success in 18th-century Europe. At the same time, Abraham Petrovich Gannibal (1696-1781), also kidnapped from sub-Saharan Africa, became the general of Peter the Great of Russia. Gannibal’s great-grandson became Russia’s national poet, Alexander Pushkin. And the French author Alexandre Dumas (1802-70) was the grandson of an enslaved African woman, Louise-Céssette Dumas, and son of a black aristocratic general born on Haiti.
An entertaining read about the preemptions of and contributions to the Enlightenment by Ethiopean and Ghanaian-German philosophers Zera Yacob and Anton Amo.
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