It Hasn't Been Confirmed By LF Yet, But I'm Still Quaking

Idk if I’m taking it the wrong way but it bugs me how in the Prequels, Anakin’s love for his mother Shmi and his wife Padme are framed as his weakness and that his emotions are what drove him to the Dark Side when it was all just natural. They took little Anakin away from his mom and then shamed him for missing her and told him to “man up”, when he was concerned for her the Jedi told him to stop caring but he didn’t and he was right: his mom had been in danger. But his tears when she died are not him being sad that she died, but that he is “falling to the Dark Side”. As if grieving wasn’t appropriate and instead a sign of evilness.

And when pregnant Padme was dying in his dreams, Anakin wasn’t taken seriously by Yoda and told to just stop caring because “death is natural”. And what did we get? Padme did die in the end. There is a reason that he was trying to keep his love to her a secret and eventually turned to Palpatine: Because no one listened to him when he was expressing concern and emotions for his family members. Palpatine seemed to be the only one to care about his feelings and the only one to give him actual advice, but Anakin his still framed as the bad guy for listening to his feelings, especially his feelings towards women, as they are essentially “corrupting his pure mind and true self”. And I don’t care that this was some kind of shitty, self-fulfilling prophecy.

Luke is told similar stuff in the Originals: that he should shut off his emotions because they are “leading him to the Dark Side” or that he should “stop loving Leia” because the other (bad) men could see this as a weakness. Yet Yoda and the other Jedi are still framed as wise and right, while Anakin and Luke are supposed to come off as bratty and impulsive. Not to mention that fear alone doesn’t lead to hatred because experiencing fear is very much needed in a human’s life to prevent them from dangers. Especially fearing for your loved ones is not, as the Jedi put it, something bad that will turn you evil.

But still, it is shown that Luke being concerned and having intense emotions is what makes him fail his training and therefore something he should stop, to be “better”. But in the end, Luke successfully brings Vader back to the Light because he was thinking of him as a father in an emotional way and this is how he managed to reach out to that last spark of Anakin that was left in Vader.

Both Anakin and Luke are actually at their best when they are trying to save their friends and family, they are determined and compassionate, not evil, because they are right.

In the Sequels though, Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren is actually framed as good for staying to his true self and emotions in the end and his love for his parents and Rey is not something that corrupts him, but what brings him back to the Light in the end. (In addition, I wanted to mention that I firmly believe that Kylo Ren is a character who is coded as mentally ill). The good relationships with women in his life is what fuels his good side, not the other way around, like in the Prequels. Same with Luke at the end TLJ on Crait, where he is fueled by giving his sister hope.

 Especially in TFA, Kylo is constantly seen trying to put on an emotionless face and to deny his true feelings (”[Han] means nothing to me.”), which result in fits of rage because it is actually damaging him to mask his true self. We have seen Kylo/Ben at the end of TROS: the tantrum-throwing bad guy isn’t who he really is. He isn’t taken seriously by someone either, until Rey comes by and offers him support, what gives him hope and a reason to change. And regarding Kylo being a “crybaby who should man-up” - this is a dangerous thing to say as well. Kylo isn’t actually crying in the moments when he’s evil, but in the moments where he is allowing himself to feel his real emotions.

Take a look at the confrontation between him and Han in TFA for example: When Han approaches Kylo on the bridge, he is trying to talk him out of thinking that the “mighty Kylo Ren” whom Snoke apparantly values and teaches so well, is an illusion and that he didn’t destroy his son. Kylo still tries to be in his role until his true self breaks out: he starts crying and admits his true feelings (”I’m being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain!”). And we see that he actually is torn apart and thinking of going back to the Light side. But when he decides not to and commit the horrible act of killing his father instead, he stops crying and puts on an emotionless face,shutting off his true feelings once again, right in the moment where his father forgivingly strokes his cheek one last time.

And what happens? Kylo trying to cut off the bond with his father and telling himself to not feel a thing about the murder only results in backfiring, causing even more pain and confusion for Kylo and throwing him into an even bigger identity crisis. And he realizes that he cannot kill his mother and feels ashamed for what he has done to her life in TROS, believing that she will hate him, even if he comes back. He knew how bad his crimes were in the end.

But when he is vulnerable to Rey, actually crying out of compassion for her, he has a goal in life again: killing Snoke and starting a new order with Rey by his side. Not quite what is needed, but it is the next step in being himself again and valuing his actual wants again. No matter how much I hated how they trated the character in TROS, I will always cherish those 3 minutes of Ben Solo we got at the end.

At the end, Kylo/Ben was cherished for his true emotions and giving in to them, to his love and concern and having compassion and not to suppress his feelings because he was told that this was right. He wasn’t weak for crying, he was weak for thinking he shouldn’t.

Because this is actually a beautiful message that boys should keep in mind.

Telling boys and young men to be emotionless, to be careful with bonding with other people and staying to their true emotions on the other hand, is not a good message.

Also, for more information on this topic, watch “The Case Against The Jedi Order” by Pop Culture Detective on YouTube.

Thanks for coming to my pep talk

One thing I am both grateful for and…. really upset over is that for like 10 minutes, we get Ben Solo as free as he’s ever been. And just from the like, 3 clips I’ve seen, the difference in his physicality, his expressions and his energy is so completely opposite from Kylo’s… I just want to applaud Adam for giving us that. Kylo’s every movement looked so… restrained and stiff in comparison? Like he was holding in everything that he is, putting it all away. And he looked so pained most of the time. Tried to stay as stoic as he possibly could. Seething.  But Ben? Fuckin’ wild XD. The determination, the confidence, the sass, the absolute badassery… Always grateful that we got to see that. But upset that that’s all we got… Just when we started seeing who he really is, they ripped him away. But what we did get was fucking beautiful. As this tweet so elegantly put it:

Everybody say “Thank You Adam Driver”, Who brought his A-game even in this mess.

“Rey: “People keep telling me they know me. No one does.” Kylo: “But I do.””

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The Rise of Skywalker Final Trailer

OMG WHAT IF THEY’RE ACTUALLY HAVING A HEART TO HEART CONVERSATION HERE

so that was a lie

“I saw something, too.” 

The Droid, Where Is It?

If you are a Reylo and you are afraid of what may happen in EPIX, NEVER EVER forget this:

“Then they should have no problem retrieving the droid. Unharmed.

I want that map. For your sake, I suggest you get it”.  

“Forget the droid. We have what we need”.

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy  sounds

*I am a creature in a mask, fear me*

*I’ am not a creature in a mask*

“don’t be afraid i feel it too”

The map, where is it.     WHERE   IS   IT    

*Not extracting the map*

*Not extracting the map*

*Not extracting the map*

*Not extracting the map*

*Not extracting the map*

*Not extracting the map*

*Still not extracting the map*

*nope…*

*Definitely not extracting the map* 

Not only the prisoner escaped, a stormtrooper helped him to escape, a Tie Fighter  was stolen and the destruction of the base is quite important.

Reaction -Calm and clear :“The one from the village. FN-2187″.

The girl (who is collaborating with the resistance for the first time in her life , is not even a soldier,and is still in the base  ) escaped. Reaction:

“She’s just beginning to test her powers. The longer it takes to find her, the more dangerous she becomes”. “Put every hangar on lock-down. She’s going to try to steal a ship”

“ The longer it takes the more dangerous she becomes”

The longer it takes…

“  the more dangerous she becomes”

dangerous

“The longer it takes”…

“The longer it takes”…

“The longer it takes”…

  she’s completely cornered…   Just stop her right?

I guess when he sees her again he will be furious…

right?

*Runs towards her completely unarmed*

Furious?Mad?: Not -even -a -little

Let’s not forget Rey last name:“I’m not giving you anything”

And Rey last name: “I ship Myself to him”

And Rey last name: “I don’t know what personal space is”

“No. The Supreme leader is wise”.

You know what? You don’t need your grandfather’s lightsaber right now.You have your own red  lightsaber in your waist…

Just grab it and fight..

Except that you don’t want to fight, right?

You just want her to stay with you

Okay this time, he’s really furious…

You should inform your army that she’s running away…

Boy…

You should inform your army that she’s running away…

she’s running away… inform your army

No?Okey… 

Do you still have doubts about what will happen in IX?

In my boys I trust, always …

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) dir. JJ Abrams

channeling Rikkard Ambrose huh

The Report (2019), dir. Scott Z. Burns

Disney is the most POWERFUL company in the world. Do you REALLY think they would let people like JediPaxis and JW giving the plot away like that without making them disappear? The ONLY script that got leaked have been John Boyega’s one. And it was bought by Disney before anyone could see it. They are extremely secret about their movies and they know EVERYTHING that’s happening in their company. Literally. Everything. So you can conclude that the leaks are not real. Remember too that Disney is famous for their Fairytales. Star Wars IS a fairytale. That’s confirmed by J.J. and for their happy endings. So guys, breathe, relax, Ben’s not going to die. Or at least he is going to be healed by Rey. Reylo is and will always be a thing. We are going to have more Reylo scenes in TROS than TLJ and TFA reunited! Think about all the marketing stuff about Reylo though. Did you see this with the previous films? No. Because there was only a little Reylo in the film. DID YOU SEE THAT EVERY MARKETING TV SPOT THING THAT WE HAVE IS REYLO. Even Sheev ships them. So relax, everything’s going to be fine.

May the force be with you. Always.