Tag: rogue one

redrikki:

Some things to think about when writing Star Wars characters and their relationships with food.

Characters who have canonically experienced persistent childhood food insecurity: Rey, Ezra Bridger

Characters who have canonically experienced brief but intense childhood food insecurity: Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, Numa

Characters who have probably experienced some form of childhood food insecurity: Anakin Skywalker, Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso

People who have experienced some form of childhood food insecurity are more likely to suffer from long-term health and psychological complications. They’re more likely to be depressed, anxious, and start fights. Children who experienced persistent food insecurity are more likely to overeat, hoard, and generally be obsessed with food and eating. Even people who experienced relatively brief periods of food insecurity may hoard as well.

Characters who received regular but tightly regulated meals: Finn, clone troopers, First Order storm troopers

Children who’s diets are tightly regulated may also become obsessed with food, eating, and body weight. They may become anorexic or binge eat in an effort to take back control of their body and diet. They may be obsessed with maintaining a specific body weight. They probably get hungry like clockwork.

There’s an actual scene in Before the Awakening where Phasma tells one of Finn’s squadmates off for being over regulation weight and informs him he’s going to be prescribed exercise and diet. That’s the level of micromanagement they were under, and Finn was obviously subject to the same pressures.

In the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One, Jyn mentioned Hyperspace tracking as one of the things the Empire was working on, setting up its plot-relevant appearance in ep 8. Do you think Solo already set something up that will come back in ep IX, especially with Billy Dee Williams returning as Lando?

jewishcomeradebot:

lj-writes:

Huh, I’d missed that part! So the Empire never completed the technology but the FO did? Makes me wonder how they got their hands on the Empire’s scientists and/or data. I haven’t seen Solo, and most of the speculation about Lando’s return focuses on his role in the OT. It would be neat if something in Solo set that up.

It’s very easy to miss unless you’re looking for it or are detail obsessed. It’s when Cassian and Jyn looks for the Death Star schematics on Scarif. They read aloud a lot of topics being researched, Hyperspace tracking is one of them. So I’d hardly call it “setting it up” as everyone but the most obsessed of nerds were going to miss it.

By that standard yes Solo could be “setting up something” for EpIX in that any extremely tiny detail might have been name dropped and that it’ll become plot relevant. But again, just namedropping something doesn’t count as “setting up for something”. 

Setting up or something means laying actual ground work, if the majority of your audience is going to miss it then you haven’t done your job properly. The namedrop in RO of hyperspace tracking is an Easter egg, not a “setting up”.

So more likely than anything to do with Lando it could be about Enfys, her Cloud Riders or who the hell knows, maybe Maul gets another cameo.

And now that I think of it. Hyperspace tracking have been around since ANH. Vader and Tarkin tracked the Millennium Falcon through hyperspace when they jumped to Yavin. Obi-Wan did it to Jango Fett in AotC.

Hyperspace tracking in some form is as old as Star Wars and predates the Clone Wars. Rian yet again came up with nothing actually new yet is applauded for doing it.

That just makes the cast look foolish, insisting it couldn’t be done 😂

vague-humanoid:

dasakuryo:

birdtypeglitch:

dasakuryo:

If you continue to allow this war to be fought on the Empire’s terms, not yours, you’re going to lose.

It should be noted for those unfamiliar, that in this scene Saw Garrera is criticizing Mon Mothma for her refusal to allow the Rebellion to intentionally inflict civilian casualties.

And it should also be noted for those unfamiliar that Mon Mothma was part of the Republic Senate that refused to show full support to the Onderon rebels, whose cause was legitimate, refusing to send troops which invariably caused Steela Gerrera’s, Saw’s sister, death. 

It should also be noted she was part of the same Republic senate who turned a blind eye to the slavery in the Outer Rim because the Hutts controlled space routes used to ship resources to the Core, and they’d not jeopardize the Republic’s access to those resources.

It should also be noted, as per Rebel Rising, the Alliance (henceforth Mon Mothma included) refused to take direct action when the Empire colonised and enslaved worlds and people, because that would affect the morality of their cause in the eyes of the Senate. Interesting that the morality of people dying and being enslaved at the hands of the Empire wasn’t taken into account, but alas.

Oh, not to mention, despite having the resources and the means, the Alliance officials refused to take direct action and declare war on the Empire because that would get the rebels branded as terrorists, yet, Saw reminded the Alliance the Empire was already branding them terrorists as well as whomever chose to oppose their regime. Those people ensalved and killed by the Empire for standing their ground and fighting for their homes, with no aid from any one, were not those civilian casualties of the Alliance refusal to take action?

But yeah, let’s demonize the black character.

@lj-writes saw was criminally underused in rouge one.

Yup, the way they mishandled him was one of the weak points of the movie. I have written before about how Jyn’s arc and the story as a whole would have been much stronger if Saw were better utilized. And now this fandom just adds insult to injury by demonizing him while letting Mothma off scot-free smh.

leg-grestrade:

Finn Meta Week Day 1: Finn’s Family – Finn of Taris?

The above picture is of Senator Tynrra Pamlo, who represented the planet Taris in the Galactic Senate pre-Empire and was shown in Rogue One. The actress, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, has said that she was initially just going to be in the background of this scene, but her part was expanded to a minor speaking role.

I think this was deliberate. I do not think Senator Pamlo is Finn’s mother. But I do think that there may be a hint that Finn is from the planet Taris. Taris is described as being a planet in the Outer Rim whose prosperity soon led to overpopulation. Then when the trade routes proved no longer to be profitable, civil disorder and social unrest rose, the environment suffered, and it led to civil war. It’s also mentioned that there was a huge issue with classism, and that the society was very stratified, with the alien underclass being crushed under the heels of the wealthy human nobles at the top of the food chain. Jedi and Sith struggled for dominance there, but Taris ended up being abandoned by both groups, and unrest, rampant crime, poverty, and lawlessness reigned, even though it was able to retain some of its former glory during the Galactic War. 

It would have been easy for an organization like the First Order to swoop onto a shattered planet like Taris and scoop up children who were members of the lower strata. Maybe even the parents felt that the First Order was a better option than having their children stay on a world where there was no real future for them. While I’m not super-thrilled with some of the stereotypical “inner city” signalling of Taris, when I think about how Finn could have been stolen from his family, it makes sense to me that he would come from a world that was either broken by the First Order or was in such disarray itself that the snatching of children was relatively easy.

Finn’s desire to escape to the Outer Rim could be some ingrained memory that he has of his home planet or possibly the Force guiding him there. Taris has a lot to offer, but has been through hell and back. It would be interesting, if Finn really is from Taris, to see him return home and help rebuild.

@finnappreciation

That’s brilliant, that Finn was drawn to the Outer Rim for subconscious reasons–somewhere he felt safe for reasons he couldn’t explain and rationalized as getting away from the First Order, even though the Outer Rim could be pretty wild and lawless itself.