I wanted to add in some senior citizen characters, although they would probably only show up in books and comics. Alternate Sequel Extended Universe?

Left to Right:

In making my latest video, I got awfully sad about how the new canon left Barriss. I’d love there to be some kind of way to bring her closer to her old EU counterpart. Perhaps she was possessed by the Son of Mortis, who corrupted her through the Jedi Temple (a cop-out, but still better than Ventress’s “my childhood sucked” motive or the canonical “Jedi are too violent to not be bombed” motive). In her imprisonment, the Son sought out new targets, but she never plead for her freedom, haunted by her actions. However, decades later, when Luke was helping liberate Coruscant’s underworld, he sensed her anguish. Needing experienced Jedi for his new praexum, and feeling compassion for her suffering, Luke asked Barriss to join him as chief medical officer. Though she’s still mournful for her actions, in her free time she studies ancient Force artifacts, hoping to find out more about the Celestial beings manipulating things beyond the senses.

For Kes Dameron, a peaceful life of nearly 30 years of peace was bliss. He became a skilled farmer, and happily raised his son in honor of his wife. Yavin IV is still relatively unpopulated, but the Mandalorian traders nearby still come visit his farm to get food, and Poe visits every week. Poe cautions his father against letting the Mandalorians know how close he was tied to the Republic, which makes Kes laugh, as he’s been open with them about it for years. I tried to give him a tattered version of Shara’s jacket, and an older, still handsome face that’s found peace in a peaceless galaxy.

The Jedi Younglings arc in The Clone Wars sets up these adorable little twelve year olds and then nothing… nothing in Rebels, or books, or comics, says they survive Order 66, or even that they died. My headcanon was that Hondo knew about the Order and was able to save them. He offered them positions in his gang, but they just wanted a place to be safe. Hondo took them to Florrum, safely out of the gaze of the Empire. When Katooni turned eighteen, Hondo offered her a job again. She accepted on one condition: half of the jobs she took needed to be helping people. Hondo begrudgingly accepted, and she quickly rose to second-in-command, with Hondo giving her his old jacket and hat as gifts. In between then and the new trilogy, Hondo died, and Katooni took over the gang, as well as repurposing Hondo’s old staff.

Wicket settled down after the war, save a few skirmishes in forest environments as favors to Leia, and training New Republic forces in geurilla tactics. He married Kneesaa, who became chief of the Bright Tree Village tribe, and had a child (that showed up in the last drawing). He’s got a wheelchair, which I think, at least to my knowledge, would be new to Star Wars. There’ve been a few floating chairs, but the wheels specifically would require accessibility in the New Republic, which I think could make for interesting stories.

themandalorianwolf:

It’s okay to still believe in Force User Finn and Rey Skywalker

People never had a problem with Leia being a Skywalker because she wasn’t the lead, she didn’t recognize her as one, and she never held a lightsaber in the movies. That’s not case with Rey.

People never had a problem when Mace Windu being a black Jedi because he was a supporting character, he was in the background, and he wasn’t one of the new faces of Star Wars.

Finn being a force user wasn’t some affirmative action, social justice warrior, escapist crack Theory. It was literally just watching Finn go through the traditional hero’s journey, only with a modern theme and TFA doesn’t imply it, doesn’t hint at it, but it freaking screams in your ear while dangling Finn holding a lightsaber that this dude is a force user. Being a force user doesn’t erase his 20 years of enslavement as a forced Stormtrooper or his deflection. The Force doesn’t have a color or gender it belongs to everyone, no matter what Karen or Brett say. The Force has been used by Lazy muppet people and literal fascist murders, nothing is exclusive about the force. It wouldn’t ruin Finn’s character at all and the arguments against it are bias.

Rey being a Skywalker wasn’t about some blood purity, keeping it all traditional, Mary Sue self insert bs. It’s literally just drawing the logical conclusion as to why this random woman keeps getting shoved into the middle of this one family and keeps being involved with mysteriously vague scenes that connect her mysterious part further to this family‘s past. The Skywalkers are literally born from slaves and farmers, and this powerful legacy stuff is made up bulk shit. The Skywalkers are literally only know for being a slaves, farmers, hermits, and a fascist. Rey being a Skywalker isn’t a gift or a curse, it’s just giving her a family that loves her but she was taken away from.

And nobody is saying these things have to happen, but the general argument everyone uses is just that they don’t like it, so not only shouldn’t it not happen, but it shouldn’t be brought up, regardless of heavy foreshadowing.

ReySky and ForceFinn isn’t a fetish kink like Reylow, it’s not a Doomrey stupid ass theory cause of a greeting, and it’s not those Snoke is Mace Windu dank theories that have no validation.

Both beliefs of ForceFinn and ReySky were grounded in a positive mind set and were equally progressive. Did some bad apples take it too far? Yes, but every part of the SW fandom has a bad apple.

Some people would just like to think TFA wasn’t a giant red hearing that meant nothing at all but to be Johnson’s subversion target. We already had character arcs repeated and now people want to make the movie completely pointless to pay attention to? If I wanted to watch confusing garbage, I’d watch Looper or Age of Ultron.

Why have so many scenes that mean nothing to the film or the future of the movies? With how much was really riding on TFA, am I really supposed to believe JJ just chose his two leads to entire character arcs didn’t mention?

Why is Maz asking about Rey, when Finn is the ex Stormtrooper acting suspicious? It’s scenes like this that ignore Finn to focus on Rey’s no last name given mysterious past that make me question why even bother with so much secrecy?

Why do Snoke and Kylo feel an Awakening in the force if only Fin has been the one showing all the signs, and Rey is just living her normal life? It’s scenes like this that focus on Finn’s connection to the force over Rey’s that make me question why even put all that in there in there?

I’m tired of people ignoring Finn and making him out to be nothing, even though TFA screams that he is something. It’s just about letting him have an ability he was hinted to have since TFA.

I’m tired of peoole saying Rey being related to Luke is some terrible thing. It’s just about giving Rey a family she was hinted to have since TFA.

If people can’t understand how Finn not being Force sensitive undercuts them, if people don’t understand how Rey not being a Skywalker undercuts, then that’s their problem.

Do they have to be those things? No. But many people would like to know that TFA wasn’t a complete lack of time.

These situations remind of the current Finnrey situation.

It’s like if something looks different to how people want it, Black Protagonist Jedi, Woman protagonist Skywalker, interracial relationship between the leads, the public and media will do whatever it takes to erase it and underplay it, but also make everyone turn against because of bad examples that don’t represent something that could have, and very well might still be, something incredibly progressive and positive.

tinsibag:

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lethal-cuddles:

tinsibag:

What gets me about Reylo is that it’s basically a self-insert ship. Reylos are attracted, en masse, to white boy Kylo Ren and wanna hop on his dick, which makes Rey – the attractive female lead – the catalyst of their thirst. That has to be the explanation for this shit:

What about the expression on Rey’s face indicates that she finds her captor at all attractive? Without context: she looks like she’s trying to get away from a nasty, stank-breath dude with no understanding of personal space. With context: he is torturing her for information. She is CRYING.

Reylos DO NOT care about Rey, they only care about Kylo Ren and his dead “Ben Solo” identity – which is another attempt at making him out to be attractive (in this case: redeemable, kind at heart, selfless) when canon evidence presents otherwise.

Additionally, while it’s obvious how a relationship with Rey would benefit Kylo (she would “make him a better man”), what could “Ben” give her that someone else couldn’t? Admiration and unconditional love? (If someone who murdered their own father in cold blood is even capable of such a thing). There’s Finn, standing right there, clinging to her like she’s his lifeline:

Without context, it can be understood that they care for each other deeply. With context, we see Rey embracing a boy, now a man, whom she adores and who, in turn, adores her. A relationship between Finn and Rey would be one of mutual respect; we’ve already seen how they build each other up and support one another. What’s important here is that neither Rey nor Finn would have to change.

What I’m saying is: Finnrey is an actual relationship. Reylo is wish-fulfillment.

“Reylos don’t care about Rey”

Bullshit.

You’re full of shit OP. You are absolutely full of shit.

Let’s also not forget to mention Rey spends the first half of TFA desperately trying to set up personal space boundaries with Finn. Anything can be interpreted any way.

Is this the same first half where Kylo tortures Rey, or did you just ignore that part? See, you Reylos don’t even understand her character at all! Rey grew up without any friends whatsoever and Finn, whom she canonically “adores”, was the first person to try and connect with her in a meaningful way. Considering her childhood on Jakku, of COURSE she set up barriers at first. By the end of it, she was kissing Finn on the forehead and taking HIS hand. That’s literally what TFA is about: Rey learning to love and trust people. That is NOT up to “interpretation” – that is canon.

It honestly terrifies me that reylows can look at rey looking scared, angry, discouraged, sad, even outright CRYING IN PAIN from Kylo’s treatment and still sexualize her reaction. Nothing says “I care about you” like “I find your misery and humiliation sexy.”

Also did that absolute weapon seriously compare Finn taking Rey’s hand in an emergency to Kylo abducting and torturing her wtf is wrong with these people

maylovelies:

People always forget that Shmi started the Skywalker line. People always forget that Anakin carried Shmi in his heart until he died, that her death was the reason he turned to the dark side. People always forget that Leia’s resilience and strength is also from Shmi, and that Luke’s kindness and ever hopeful outlook on life is Shmi’s blood running through his veins. When people think of Leia and Luke, they never think of them as descendants of Shmi. The fandom never credits Shmi Skywalker as being a strong female character. No one ever makes comics or fics of Shmi’s ghost watching over the Skywalker twins.

The fandom just forgets about Shmi, forgets that she is the mother of the most powerful line in current canon. We forget that she is one of the most strongest female characters in the saga. To raise a son in slavery, to make sure he is healthy and care for, and to give him away so he could have a better life is strength. And to essentially be forgotten by the Republic,to be forgotten by the literal queen/Senator she gave aid and shelter to and who eventually marries her son-who had the resources to save her, and to receive no aid in return, yet still stay strong in the face of torture just to see her son one last time, takes strength.

We see her in Anakin, Luke and Leia yet, there is hardly ever mention. There is hardly ever recognition for her connection to them in the fandom. Well, guess it’s time to make my own Shmi content since the fans pretend she doesn’t exist.

Like for real, the skywalker line was started by a slave woman who gave all she had to help her son, and her granddaughter became a senator and her grandson became the head of the new jedi order. That is big and none of that would have happened without Shmi.

Do you like Harry Potter? What hogwarts houses do you think Finn and Rey would be in and what their lives would be like in the wizarding world? Also you can sort other star wars characters if you want unless you had this type of ask before sorry.

themandalorianwolf:

lj-writes:

Oh yeah, I used to be in the fandom back in the day. It was my first fandom and the first time I shared any fiction I wrote with strangers, in fact. I lost interest around Books 5-6 but read all the books and the saw movies up to GoF.

I answered a SW/Hogwarts ask before so enjoy (link)! I haven’t gotten a full Hogwarts AU ask, though. Here’s what I think:

Potterverse Rey would be a street child surviving on her wits and giving her meager earnings from panhandling and dumpster diving to a gang boss in exchange for protection, before she’s picked up by groundskeeper Chewbacca at 11 years of age. Does the wizarding world have any kind of child welfare system, I wonder? The magical authorities know all the children born with magic but won’t lift a finger to help them until they reach 11? Or was Harry’s case an anomaly due to his need to stay with his blood family? Also what happens to children like Rey who aren’t sitting on a vault of Gringott’s gold?

Finn’s background has no analogue in the HP verse unless we’re talking about an alternate world where Voldemort won at least a partial victory and was able to raise an army of child soldiers. Then the letter from Hogwarts comes and, desperate to escape his circumstances, he runs away from Voldyland to attend the still-defiant Hogwarts. This changes the universe too radically, though, so let’s tone it down to Finn being born to the House of Black and abandoning his pureblood supremacist beliefs after meeting Rey and Poe and the others. Basically Sirius and Regulus in one, I guess, but with a much happier ending.

Sorted into Ravenclaw, Rey is unable to believe the stability and plenty she experiences at Hogwarts and thrives despite having recurring issues including hoarding food. She excels at Charms and Muggle Studies, and has nowhere to go during holidays and summers so she stays and helps Chewie with the grounds. Mr. Solo, the Quidditch coach who was a star Chaser when he was younger, is impressed at her broom maintenance and riding skills and she becomes one of the Chasers on the Ravenclaw team. She dislikes the team’s dictatorial captain and Keeper Armitage Hux, however. There’s also something really sinister about their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Snoke.

Finn meanwhile shocks everyone when he is sorted into Gryffindor, and his aunt Phasma sends him a Howler about it. He finds it hard to make friends in his House but one of the Prefects, Poe Dameron, is kind to him. Finn also becomes friends with Rey after they along with Poe’s cat BeeBee escape giant spiders with crazy broom antics. Finn struggles with the beliefs he was raised in but comes increasingly to see these ideas were wrong, which further strains his relationship with his family. With things increasingly unbearable at home, he spends more and more holidays at Hogwarts with Rey. They are both invited to the Dameron home some summers and Christmases, where they have great fun on the farm. Finn takes over as Seeker after Poe’s graduation and finds himself constantly butting heads with Slytherin prefect and Seeker Ben Organa, son of the Minister of Magic and nephew of Headmaster Skywalker.

Through their time spent poking around the grounds Finn and Rey gather clues about a Death Eater group being run in Hogwarts, though they are not sure who the leader is. When they go to Master Skywalker with their suspicions the Headmaster connects the dots himself and attempts to use Legilimency on his nephew to learn the truth. Ben brings down the Slytherin dungeon on Skywalker and gathers his Death Eaters to attack the students and burn down Hogwarts. Finn and Rey along with the other students fight back, however, with Finn and Rey using Anakin Skywalker’s wand against Ben. Together they repel the attack with minimum loss of life–among which was, shockingly, Ben’s own father Mr. Solo. Ben Organa flees from Hogwarts along with the Death Eater students including Hux. Master Skywalker also disappears, some say to track down Ben, others say out of shame. Leia Organa loses her job as Minister of Magic due to the scandal and becomes the new Headmistress. Even as they grieve their losses the students and faculty know they have a bigger fight looming ahead…

Love it

And Finn could be raised by the Death Eaters and trained to be one. They had always been in the background, like a secret cult following. So it’s possible.

It’s ironic though because Snoke and Voldy look alike already 😂

Who’s this world’s version of Snape?

That works! Finn could use his extensive knowledge of the DE as they gather clues about a DE gang on campus and he suffers from undeserved shame at how he was brought up, something Rey and Poe help him through.

Finn and Rey both have understandable issues with authority that lead them not to go to the adults in their lives when they see danger, but Mr. Solo and Chewie are exceptions. They are left horribly traumatized when Solo is murdered before their eyes by his own son. 😦

I thought of Snoke as the Quirrell figure who was revealed to be the Big Bad after the first year and leaves. The discovery of Ben’s DE gang would be a multiyear arc, so if we keep the “curse” on the DADA position there would be a succession of teachers. Maybe Ben could even be the DADA teacher in the year he is discovered (around Year 4?), having taken the posting right after graduation like the elite wizard he is. Then Poe, also a recent graduate, is the next DADA teacher, and is captured by the DE before he apparently dies in a broom crash during his escape. He makes a triumphant return in the next book.

I guess Holdo is Snape, the asshole authority figure who dies heroically, but with the aesthetics and condescension of Umbridge 😂

This is a somewhat unfortunate juxtaposition but Rose could be the Cho Chang figure, the upperclass girl who briefly dates Finn. I’d like to see Finn have a crush on her, too, and for it not to be so one-sided on Rose’s part. Rey is Finn’s amused but supportive wingwoman, and it isn’t until over a year after Finn and Rose’s breakup that she realizes her own feelings for Finn.

Rey also dates other people including fellow Ravenclaw Chaser Jessika Pava, but they break up after Jessika realizes she’s in love with Rose. It makes things awkward on the Quidditch field for a while and brings back Rey’s abandonment issues, but she works things through with the help of her friends and becomes stronger friends and teammates with Jessika than ever. Later, when Rose and Jessika get together and Finn and Rey get together. they go on ironic but fun double dates.

Instead of Cedric Diggory we could have Paige as the sacrificial figure, except she gets a bit more agency in her death. She can be be one of the people to die during Ben’s attack on the school, holding off the DEs so the Ravenclaw dorm can evacuate.

TLJ almost reads like an experiment in cynical trolling, a parody of
heavy-handedly didactic storytelling that gets hailed as a progressive
triumph while actually damaging and discrediting the whole idea of
diverse and feminist stories. It’s like RJ wanted to see how much he
could get away with as long as he adhered to progressive talking points–women are powerful! War profiteering is bad! Animal rights!!! The answer turns out to be: he could get away with a lot. So much that critics love how
“subversive” his movie is and his detractors are automatically named
sexists and racists.

I think this is one reason that
conservative and leftist/minority moviegoers are actually in agreement
over this film being bad. I’ll leave out the alt
right trolls who actually do hate the fact that women and nonwhite
people are on screen, whose existence can’t account for the TFA-TLJ
reaction gap anyway.

On the one hand, the right hand that is, TLJ exactly matches the right wing strawman of what
progressive storytelling is: A terribly told didactic story that
substitutes sloganeering for an organic unfolding of characters and events. In fact, TLJ is an interesting case of actual diversity quotas and tokenism, in that the
writer/director was contractually obligated to take on major nonwhite
characters that he clearly did not care much about (other than perhaps his own
character Rose whom he also managed to mangle). Remember when RJ joked about putting Finn in a coma through the whole movie? Or when he said he didn’t send Poe and Finn to Canto Bight together because their dialogue would be indistinguishable? The many times he said he could have written some interesting and emotionally resonant scene for Finn but just… didn’t want to do it? There’s a palpable interest gap compared to the way he talks about, say, Kylo Ren and Rey, and the results are
predictably awful for Poe’s and Finn’s arcs. To many conservatives this is the dystopian future of
forced progressivism in media, where talking points replace stories and female and nonwhite characters are half-hearted tokens and/or political mouthpieces.

Many on the opposite side of
the political spectrum hate TLJ as well, but for them it’s because they
know TLJ is almost a malicious parody of the kind of progressive and
representative story they want. TLJ discredits the entire idea of diverse and equal media by playing so neatly into right-wing strawmen, as outlined above. It’s
not just TLJ in itself that has this effect, either, but also the
surreal audience and critical response protecting it from criticism by
labeling even reasonable detractors as toxic bigots.

Adding insult to injury, TLJ isn’t even truly progressive. Finn’s injury is downplayed and laughed at, violence against him is played as comedic and endearing, Poe is turned into a hothead who must be lectured to, slapped, and shot by white women who know better, and Rey is made into a naïve, foolishly trusting girl who forgives and forgets heinous crimes that took place just days ago. Those oh-so-empowering female characters by and large have no stories of their own other than to teach and improve the men in their vicinity. The actual focus of the movie is a mass-murdering white male fascist. Lip service is given to progressive values, yet they have no meaningful impact on the story and the whole thing feels like the shallow pandering it is. War profiteering is bad, except it doesn’t really matter because Finn is going to give his life for an organization that we established feeds into war profits! Animal rights now, except the animals will probably be rounded up or die in the wild thanks to Rose’s PETA-level stunt! Oh, child laborers? Who cares.

The Last Jedi is not progressive storytelling, nor is it even regressive in an honest way. Rather it discredits the idea of progressiveness in media by being a bad, bumbling version of it that plays into conservative fears. This effect is amplified because far too many members of the audience either won’t say the emperor has no clothes or have convinced themselves that he is, in fact, magnificently dressed. TLJ is almost a social experiment, and I would not be surprised if it was intended as such.

(None of this is to say you can’t enjoy the movie or were wrong to like it, of course. This post is about the politics of TLJ and the lie of its supposed progressiveness. I respect different tastes and it’s fine to like problematic things. What I can’t stand is intellectual dishonesty.)

Do you like Harry Potter? What hogwarts houses do you think Finn and Rey would be in and what their lives would be like in the wizarding world? Also you can sort other star wars characters if you want unless you had this type of ask before sorry.

themandalorianwolf:

lj-writes:

Oh yeah, I used to be in the fandom back in the day. It was my first fandom and the first time I shared any fiction I wrote with strangers, in fact. I lost interest around Books 5-6 but read all the books and the saw movies up to GoF.

I answered a SW/Hogwarts ask before so enjoy (link)! I haven’t gotten a full Hogwarts AU ask, though. Here’s what I think:

Potterverse Rey would be a street child surviving on her wits and giving her meager earnings from panhandling and dumpster diving to a gang boss in exchange for protection, before she’s picked up by groundskeeper Chewbacca at 11 years of age. Does the wizarding world have any kind of child welfare system, I wonder? The magical authorities know all the children born with magic but won’t lift a finger to help them until they reach 11? Or was Harry’s case an anomaly due to his need to stay with his blood family? Also what happens to children like Rey who aren’t sitting on a vault of Gringott’s gold?

Finn’s background has no analogue in the HP verse unless we’re talking about an alternate world where Voldemort won at least a partial victory and was able to raise an army of child soldiers. Then the letter from Hogwarts comes and, desperate to escape his circumstances, he runs away from Voldyland to attend the still-defiant Hogwarts. This changes the universe too radically, though, so let’s tone it down to Finn being born to the House of Black and abandoning his pureblood supremacist beliefs after meeting Rey and Poe and the others. Basically Sirius and Regulus in one, I guess, but with a much happier ending.

Sorted into Ravenclaw, Rey is unable to believe the stability and plenty she experiences at Hogwarts and thrives despite having recurring issues including hoarding food. She excels at Charms and Muggle Studies, and has nowhere to go during holidays and summers so she stays and helps Chewie with the grounds. Mr. Solo, the Quidditch coach who was a star Chaser when he was younger, is impressed at her broom maintenance and riding skills and she becomes one of the Chasers on the Ravenclaw team. She dislikes the team’s dictatorial captain and Keeper Armitage Hux, however. There’s also something really sinister about their Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Snoke.

Finn meanwhile shocks everyone when he is sorted into Gryffindor, and his aunt Phasma sends him a Howler about it. He finds it hard to make friends in his House but one of the Prefects, Poe Dameron, is kind to him. Finn also becomes friends with Rey after they along with Poe’s cat BeeBee escape giant spiders with crazy broom antics. Finn struggles with the beliefs he was raised in but comes increasingly to see these ideas were wrong, which further strains his relationship with his family. With things increasingly unbearable at home, he spends more and more holidays at Hogwarts with Rey. They are both invited to the Dameron home some summers and Christmases, where they have great fun on the farm. Finn takes over as Seeker after Poe’s graduation and finds himself constantly butting heads with Slytherin prefect and Seeker Ben Organa, son of the Minister of Magic and nephew of Headmaster Skywalker.

Through their time spent poking around the grounds Finn and Rey gather clues about a Death Eater group being run in Hogwarts, though they are not sure who the leader is. When they go to Master Skywalker with their suspicions the Headmaster connects the dots himself and attempts to use Legilimency on his nephew to learn the truth. Ben brings down the Slytherin dungeon on Skywalker and gathers his Death Eaters to attack the students and burn down Hogwarts. Finn and Rey along with the other students fight back, however, with Finn and Rey using Anakin Skywalker’s wand against Ben. Together they repel the attack with minimum loss of life–among which was, shockingly, Ben’s own father Mr. Solo. Ben Organa flees from Hogwarts along with the Death Eater students including Hux. Master Skywalker also disappears, some say to track down Ben, others say out of shame. Leia Organa loses her job as Minister of Magic due to the scandal and becomes the new Headmistress. Even as they grieve their losses the students and faculty know they have a bigger fight looming ahead…

Love it

And Finn could be raised by the Death Eaters and trained to be one. They had always been in the background, like a secret cult following. So it’s possible.

It’s ironic though because Snoke and Voldy look alike already 😂

Who’s this world’s version of Snape?

That would work! His knowledge of the DE is invaluable in gathering clues about the DE gang on campus, and he also deals with undeserved internalized shame at how he was brought up. Much like Harry, both Finn and Rey would have issues with authority that lead them not to trust adults. Mr. Solo and Chewie are exceptions, but then Solo is murdered at his own son’s hands before their eyes, traumatizing them.

I think of Snoke as the Quirrell figure who turns out to be the Big Bad and leaves after the first year, while uncovering the DEs on campus is a multiyear arc. If we keep the “curse” on the DADA position there would be a succession of teachers like in the books.

Holdo is Snape, I guess, the asshole authority figure who turns out to have been good and dies heroically, but in my head she’s more Umbridge. 😂 She distrusts Finn due to his background and gives Poe a particularly hard time.

This is an unfortunate juxtaposition but Rose could be the Cho Chang figure, an upperclass girl Finn dates before they break up. I’d like for Finn to have a crush on Rose too and for them to be mutually attracted to each other instead of its being so one sided on Rose’s part.

I honestly don’t factor in Rey’s actions in TLJ when it comes to her relationship with Finn because to me TLJ isn’t canon

themandalorianwolf:

lj-writes:

I tag the Disney Star Wars posts ‘sequel duology’ for a reason. While I think Rey’s actions are explicable if you squint hard (link, link), the execution should have been a lot better and clearer.

This more than likely the approach JJ will take to IX. Take what he likes out of TLJ, like Rose, and TLJ will be the Star Wars Christmas Special of our generation.

That reminds me, Jim Butcher (Dresden Files, Codex Alera) in a Reddit Q&A ranked TLJ below the Christmas Special 😂 (source)

themandalorianwolf:

A Finn Origin theory

Captain…Commander…Trooper. All titles Rex had held in his lifetime.

But never father.

After the battle of Endor, after fighting alongside Solo, Organa, Skywalker, Calrissian, Bey, and Dameron, and watching them all have families, Rex was starting to think that Cut Lawquane was right. Maybe Rex wanted more than just battle.

timd would pass, and Rez would find a good woman, an old friend of Bey’s. She was kind, smart, a soldier like him. Well, not a Clone of a legendary bounty hunter, but damn was she good with a blaster. Eventually the two of them settled down and had twins, a boy and girl.

Everyone from the Damerons to even Ahsoka gave their congratulations. Ahsoka even mentioned that his children could be force sensitive. Imagine that? Clone Trooper Commander Rex, father of Jedi! Kenobi and Skywalker must have been grinning like idiots from the other side.

Unfortunately Rex knew he wouldn’t be able to watch his children grow up due to his accelerated aging. It was something he made peace with long ago and when the time came, Commander Rex had no regrets. He was remembered a hero, and mourned by many.

Kes and Shara offered Rex’s wife to stay with them for awhile to keep her and the kids company, which she accepted of course. Though Shara never came home after picking up the Trooper’s family.

Shara Bey’s ship had been attacked in the Outer Rim while she was on her way back to Yavin 4. Many thought it was raiders, but in reality it had been the First Order.

The twins had been the only survivors of the attack. Both were indoctrinated into the Stormtrooper program, but both were separated and their relation to never be revealed to the children as to avoid conflicting loyalties.

The girl would grow up to eventually gain the rank of Captain at the brink of the Cold War Between the First Order and New Republic. As Captain she was able to name herself. She chose the name Caro.

The boy on the other hand would grow up to become one of the best Stormtroopers in the entire First Order…and their greatest enemy. The boy deflected and joined the Resistance, and he took on the name Finn.

Finn had accepted long ago that he’d never find him family, but after the infiltration of the Supremacy, BB-8 shows Finn his military file from his Stormtrooper days. He had a sister and she was alive!

But he had no idea how he’d find her.

Since joining the Resistance, Finn had dealt with the silent confliction of fighting Stormtrooper. As a soldier, he never hesitated in battles with troopers, because it was them or him, but it all was catching up to him…it was eating away at him. Finn wanted to liberate them, give them the same option he was given.

So against mass protest from Rose, Poe, and especially a worried sick Rey, Finn decided he would go undercover once more in the First Order and not only find and convince his sister to rebel, but he would start a damn uprising. The Stormtroopers would not be the faceless casualties of this war.

He’d save his sister Captain Caro, and all the Stormtroopers, or die trying. Isn’t that what a real good Trooper does? They never leave a soldier behind. At least, that’s what the old holotapes about Clone Trooper Rex said. Finn always admired him and the other clones. Something about them felt… familiar.

Bryan Young, writer of StarWars site, tweeted “TLJ is a gorgeous masterpiece” “I think Hux played for laughs is the right thing in this day and age, the same way Chaplin emasculated Hitler in the Great Dictator.” he is really trying to compare….. the Great Dictator to Rian’s script?

thelastjedicritical:

lj-writes:

I know Charlie Chaplin. You, Rian Johnson, are not Charlie Chaplin.

So now we can randomly put what people consider are N*zi parodies in movies that we otherwise consider serious, let this character still have a serious position and let him slap a black man who’s in his knees bc then suddenly he’s not a parody anymore, huh? This is what RJ and also TLJ stans don’t get: this isn’t a parody, this movie is meant to take itself and its universe seriously to a certain degree. If you do half serious and half weird meta commentary on society you end up with this garbage. But then I’d also like to know how playing most things related to Finn for laughs fits into this? Should we at this day and age ridicule black men?