Tag: rey

What if Rey sees Finn fighting the First Order in her force vision and that’s why she decides to go back like how Luke reacted after witnissing Han and Leia in danger in The Empire Strikes Back? I’m not saying Finn needs Rey’s protection-he can handle himself very well. By showing how much Rey cares about Finn in this way the movie can avoid the racist trope that you are afraid might happen.

porgsitter:

instathotjohnboyega:

OHHHHHH yeah i want to see it!!!

This is the thing I want to see. Not in terms of her saving him like a damsel in distress (he didn’t save her this way either) but her being SO concerned for him when she realizes he’s in danger, that she leaves Ahch-To to help him. And so just like he ran into the belly of the FO for her, she will run into the belly of the FO for him. And they will both join forces when they meet and fight their way out together with Rose. (and potentially Luke, who might decide to follow Rey unlike Yoda who was chilling)

And the parallel to TESB would make it even better.

(also this would be a realistic reason for Rey to somehow end up in Snoke’s throne room… she gets caught while on the destroyer…. and I think it’s even possible that they somehow lure her there bc Kylo knows how much Finn means to her….. *cough*)

And remember, Luke didn’t turn out to be the rescuer he thought he would be. It was he who ended up needing Han, Leia, and Lando’s help. Similarly, it doesn’t look like Rey’s confrontation with Snoke went all in her favor if the bruises and the cuts of her being tortured are any indication.

eprayers:

Poe and Rey at first is a lot of Rey saying something v #weird and Poe just smiling and being like “Yeah! Haha 😀” like Someone complains about the food in the mess and Rey is like “I had to eat (like some weird sand burrowing bug) and it wasn’t as bad as this” and she’s like licking her plate and everyone’s like uhh.. and Poe’s like “there’s apparently these huge slugs on this planet that live deep in the ground near lakes but when it rains they crawl up to the mud and you can see them just beneath the surface Finn told me they create pockets to get water to their nests and eat dying tree roots” and Rey like wants to go catch one immediately to see one

“Finn was never demoted. he was meant to be secondary.” did they watch tfa? Or read anything about it? It doesn’t take a Ph.D in movie analysis to understand that finn was set up to be the male protagonist of the series. JJ told John he was the star of the st. English may not be my native language but It’s not hard to understand that he was never meant to be secondary. Rian is just a shitty director that is a space naz*s apologist with no respect for luke. (mark hamill said so).

Finn is the male lead of the sequel trilogy. That’s what the first movie set up. His protagonist’s arc in The Force Awakens was even clearer than Rey’s and the two had interlocking and contrasting character arcs, something that seems poised to
continue in The Last Jedi.

There is no world in which Finn is a
secondary character other than the one where someone slept through his
appearances or simply refused to believe the evidence from their own senses. Yet I’ve seen Re/los and Kylostans compare him to fucking Qui-Gon Jinn or Jar Jar Binks.

But yeah, these people “love Finn.” Sure, as long as he stays in his place, which to them is that of a lovable and funny sidekick or Rey’s sassy gay friend. Fuck them.

The Economics of Storytelling

rose-griffes:

You’re rebooting a billion-dollar film franchise with new young leads and you’ve convinced the older cast members to return. You create a leading woman character and include a ~mystery~ about what her family origins are. 

Who have you secretly written for her father?

A. Iconic character from the original franchise; also the ‘MacGuffin’ of of your new film. He meets your leading woman at the end in a wordless, emotionally charged moment.

B. Iconic character from the original franchise; he spends time with your leading woman and, in spite of his gruff  exterior, cares about her well-being enough to offer her a chance to escape her difficult circumstances.

C. Iconic character from the original and sequel franchise; he died years before your leading woman was born, so either he’s not the father or you have to write some mumbo-jumbo to make him fit that role. There’s no reference to him in the film other than the first given name of the man who kills character B. 

D. IDK, just some random dude. 

B. Had so much rapport with her the two of them finished each other’s sentences, and shared the love of the ship that is all but synonymous with him. He was described as “the father [she] never had,” was perhaps “more grateful than anyone” that she was safe, was murdered before her eyes in a setup that would create incredible drama if he is her father.

C. Can only be her grandfather due to the dates, and the father or mother would be a character from an animated series which the vast majority of the audience have never seen and have no reason to care about.

On the choice of mothers you have:

A. A random lady who will have to be another absent/dead mother or be built up from the second movie onward on top of everything else that’s going on.

B. Iconic character from the original and sequel franchise; an indomitable, beloved heroine for decades both in-universe and in the real world who would have memorable mother-daughter interactions with the heroine and be the linchpin of a heartrending family drama.

C. Another random lady

D. Yet another random lady