The Force Awakens // The Last Jedi

I don’t think Disney actually gets why everyone is so upset about Ben Solo. 

He was the first non-toxically masculine and emotionally vulnerable male character in a big movie franchise. He was a byronic hero and was a character that was written incorporating the female and queer audience. Also incorporated the men who were relentlessly ridiculed for having any amount of emotional intelligence and vulnerability growing up. He cried. He held the hand of his lover and told her that she wasn’t alone. He begged her for companionship. He was human and loving. He wasn’t a caricature “villain,” just a broken boy who was hiding behind a mask to protect himself. 

And then you kept the pew pew flyboy alive to satisfy the dudebros and killed off the actually complex and well-rounded male character. 

That is sickening. 

So…. do we all agree that this is the big turning point in the movie? And assuming this is all from the same scene, isn’t it interesting how he’s wearing the helmet in the artwork but not in the film footage? 

The Star Wars couples’s outfits in the movies with the first kiss. 

White and Black.

Idk if you want to be pulled into this so you don’t have to answer if you don’t want but I guess an interview with daisy came out where she said she can’t get behind reylo :( I know actors’ opinions don’t have any effect on the story but I’m confused bc she’s liked reylo art and stuff in the past?? And has said positive things about their dynamic?? It kinda sucks when an actor isn’t on board with your ship that involves their character. Idk I’m a bit confused, curious to hear what you think!

I have like half a dozen messages about this so this is the only one I’m going to answer. so I was super busy yesterday so all I had time to see was brief glimpses of everyone freaking out, and when I finally had time to watch the interview…it’s not even that bad???

she’s pretty clearly using her fake-serious, spoiler-dodgy tone–if you’ve watched enough of her interviews it’s easy to recognize it. she keeps interrupting herself and ends up kind of rambling, so it’s pretty clear she wasn’t prepared to be asked directly like that and probably wasn’t prepped what to say. and she clearly fell back on the devil’s advocate sort of vague non-answer they all do when they get asked stuff like this, and phrased parts of it as what other people think, not her (and honestly “do you know about reylo” is just straight up a pretty dumb question to ask someone who can’t say a single thing about the upcoming movie. like…what is she supposed to say that when she can’t say anything).

and what she did end up saying…she’s clearly talking about as of the end of TLJ, because that’s all the audience is aware of. to put herself in a frame of mind where she can answer projection-y questions like that, she can’t give her as-of-the-end-of-the-trilogy personal opinion, because that’s on lockdown. all she can do is dance around the question mark at the end of TLJ. and she also quickly and essentially unpromptedly veers into “but maybe there’s redemption” all on her own.

we’re going to be getting many, many rambly, vague, nonanswer answers on this press tour as all the actors desperately try to dodge any question thrown at them at all, so I highly suggest the fandom stop putting so much stock in interviews like this. (and yes, she has liked reylo art in the past and called it beautiful, and called it wonderful that Rey sees the glimmer of good in Kylo, and that he was nurturing Rey, etc. one interview doesn’t negate all of that, especially one that’s pre-movie when those other two things she said were post-movie when she could actually say something more substantial.)

THE WAY SHE LOOKS AT HIS LIPS ,, THEY WERE BOTH SO GENTLE BUT THEN SO HASTY LIKE OUCH MY HEART

DLF watching reylos figure out the original ending, discover sloppy editing, and collect evidence of reshoots all in the span of a week:

What girl? Rey. Rey of Jakku. The other half of your soul. inspo

a soulmate is a person that won’t complain about any of my music when i put my ipod on shuffle

So I have a new theory based on the information from @agirlacrossthegalaxy that the tie silencer have an invisible mode.

First of all, I do believe they are training. He is not shooting and is easy to see that if he comes close to hit her, there’s enough space to lay down and let the ship fly above her. Rey also turns her back to Kylo, once she know he is not going to shoot her. 

But, I don’t understand two things:

1: Why she ignites the lightsaber? It does make it look like she is going to attack.

2: Why would they practice a flip over a ship? It doesn’t sound very useful. I even thought that the exercise was “Feel it with your instincts, don’t use your eyes”, but then I saw the whole scene had different backgrounds, like they had been doing this many times, SO YES, they are training how to flip above ships. 

So now my theory is: Kylo ren was attacked first by palpatine’s army and he knows their attack is invisible, OR, they’re getting ready to battle in somewhere with really bad view (i like that one most). They are training this especifically attack technique.

Daisy talked on a interview about filming this scene! She said the sunlight was very blinding and it was winding a lot! Daisy said that she was focusing in not squeeze her eyes, cause she didn’t wanted it to look like she was sighting the ship!!! (HER WORDS, i’m not deducing it!)

(I searched all my computer and cell phone historic for the interview, so i could put it here, but I’ve and found NOTHING. I think they removed it!. If someone finds it, please, send me! It was after the panel in the SWCC)

At this scene, we can already see Kylo’s Tie-Silencer! 

It gets even more clear…

But her eyes keep wide open! She can’t focus the ship because she is not seeing it!

THEN, Kylo starts flying low! Now Rey can see the dust, and also the noise is louder! That’s how she knows it’s time to ignite the lightsaber!

Rey turns, getting ready. She won’t see the right time to turn, so she does it very early as a precaution. 

This right here. This is not looking, this is hearing! 

The noise gets very loud. Time to run! Light saber ON, because she is training how to ATTACK on this situation.

And finally, the flip! (enjoy this gif to see how easy she could lay on the floor if he was trying to hit her).

And this heavy breath at the beggining? She just tried to do it right before. She’s CATCHING her breath while he approachs once more, until she get it right.

(Tried my best with the english)