GONNA WATCH STAR WARS TODAY AND IM SO EXCITED IM GONNA cry bc I cannot wait to see these babies again. And gush over poe dameron and Bb8 again. My loves ;— ;
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“Dear Child. I see your eyes. You already know the truth. Whomever you’re waiting for on Jakku, they’re never coming back. But… there’s someone who still could. With your help.” (Maz Kanata - The Force Awakens Novelization)
“Ben, when we touched hands, I saw your future. Just the shape of it, but solid and clear. You will not bow before Snoke. You’ll turn. I’ll help you.”
“I saw something, too. Because of what I saw, I know when the moment comes, you’ll be the one to turn. You’ll stand with me.”
In the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Storybook, Finn aks: “Where is Rey?” Maz says “Rey is where she needs to be”.
And who is she with? Kylo Ren aka Ben Solo. Remember what Maz said “They are never coming back but there is someone that still could. With your help.” It is funny because after her visions she meets Kylo Ren.
But *spoiler alert* it might lead to the logical conclusion that both Rey and Kylo/Ben will be killed in Ep IX.
We know that the Skywalker family saga will end to that film.
We also know that Rey and Ben need each other, in so many ways (balance!).
Aaand we know by looking at Eps VII and VIII and how they remind us about A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, the last film will most likely mirror The Return of the Jedi where Vader/ Anakin dies redeemed.
If Rey and Ben have to die, I hope they die together.
Rey was going about it all wrong to bring Ben home.
Hear me out.
She left Ahch-To misguided. She left thinking that Ben Solo would be an adequate substitute when Luke refused to join the war. She saw him as the Great Jedi Hope that would be this magical bit that would turn the tide. It was no different than her childlike magical thinking that would bring her parents back.
Luke knew that wouldn’t be a good enough reason for Ben to return home or to win a war. He was right that it wasn’t going to end the way she thought.
Ben Solo is a terrified boy hard wired by trauma and rejection. He was a boy who woke to the greatest Jedi ever a hair’s breadth from killing him. In that moment he felt that his family had thrown him away. Deep down inside he’s no different than Rey, except he’s at a place in life where he can verbalize that feeling.
Ben is looking desperately for someone not to throw him away. And when it happens (and he feels like Rey did when he woke alone) he channels that hurt into rage. He replaces that longing for belonging with a longing for power. Because you can’t be hurt if you’re the one doing the hurting.
So Rey will never be able to guide Ben home if she’s looking for him as a weapon. A weapon is something he becomes when he is in his fight or flight mode. It’s how he becomes a ball of jagged glass that no one wants to touch. He’ll hurt you first just so that you can’t hurt him.
Rather Ben will follow her anywhere and fully once he no longer needs to hide as Shari and cutting weapon. He needs to know that he is safe, where he can be vulnerable and not be mocked like Snoke did to him for years. He needs to know that taking his glove off and reaching back won’t hurt. And he needs to know that when he wakes, someone will still be there.
Rey can find him. She can serve as his footlights home. But it can never be in the construct of being a weapon. Kylo is a weapon. She needs to lead the scared boy that still dreams that someone will love him without strings attached home. You can’t drag a scared creature out of the shadows. He will bite and snarl like a wounded animal he is.
Rather she needs to be patient and let him emerge from the shadows and encourage him on his journey.
Redemption (WILL CONTAIN STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!)
So normally, I’m the type of person to where if you’re a bad guy, and I don’t particularly like you, I don’t want anything to do with you and won’t pay you any mind. The majority of the time, I won’t even care about if the bad guy is redeemed (like it took A LOT for me to accept Draco, and I really only gave him a pass cuz of Scorpius and Drinny fics). So this is a whole new venture for me.
From the start of The Force Awakens, I never liked Kylo Ren. Despite him being gorgeous, I had no interest in him whatsoever. I found him a brat, I found him worse than Vader at times, unstable, a toddler always throwing temper tantrums, and I had made up my mind that I was always going to dislike Kylo Ren.
That was until I seen The Last Jedi…..
I think it started as he was talking to Snoke about him failing the mission of bringing Rey to Snoke. At first I had seen it as a failure, but in a way, I started to feel like maybe he really didn’t want to bring her to him at all. Especially when I remembered in the last movie he was talking to her about needing a teacher and that he would be the one to do it. I felt a tiny pull when Snoke called him a child (despite me calling him a child endless times myself lol).
When he and Rey had that first force bond thingy, I couldn’t help but see that he seemed almost guilty for what he had done. He did not like Rey calling him a monster. Seemed funny that he would speak on that and not the fact that she almost sliced the right side of his face off. He didn’t want to show it, but he was bothered badly by it, and in agreeing with her that he was indeed a monster, it made Rey take a second and think and see that he hated himself in that moment as much as she was hating him.
That second time they force spoke was what was starting to pull me to him. And not because his shirt was off, I promise lol. I found it surprising that he would open up to Rey like that about what went down with him and Luke. That part also made me a bit mad. It was like Luke didn’t give him a choice in the matter. He just assumed that the darkness would consume him fully and that he needed to be stopped. True, Luke changed his mind at the very last minute, but how tf was Kylo supposed to know that? What would you think if you woke up to a light saber looking as if it was about to come down onto you?
Third Force call is what sealed the deal for me.
Not only was she finding himself gravitating towards Rey and vice versa, he totally let his guard down even more by touching her with his gloveless hand. In him taking off his glove to feel her touch directly onto his skin, it showed him putting himself in a venerable position. He didn’t have to do that. He didn’t even have to come that close to her. But it was really showing that Ben was trying his best to take over and that with Rey’s help the light was pulling at him even more. Of course, Luke cockblocks it, and messes things up. So Rey goes to Kylo Ren herself.
That elevator scene?? THAT MOTHERFREAKING ELEVATOR SCENE?!? THE TENSION!! THE ANGST!! THE WANTING!! THE WAY BOTH OF THEM LOOKED AT EACH OTHER?!? OMMFG!! He just looked like he couldn’t believe she had came and was actually there with him knowing full well what it meant to be there and be exposed to Snoke . she didn’t even have that on her mind. All she cared about was him and trying to help him see that this life wasn’t what he wanted and that they could have something real.
With him effing killing Snoke for what he was doing to Rey and what he was trying to make him do to her, OMG!! AND THEN THEIR FIGHT SCENE WHERE THEY WERE IN SYNC WITH EACH OTHER AND MOVED WITH EACH OTHER?!? I LOST MY MIND!! I WAS CHEERING!! I WAS LIKE YES KYLO BEN (NOT A TYPO, HE WAS KYLO BEN RIGHT THERE LOL) YOU DEFEND YOUR HEART YOU HELP HER FIGHT YOU COME TO THE LIGHT YES OMG YOU TWO ARE GOING TO BE THE POSTER CHILDREN FOR THE RESISTANCE AND HAVE GORGEOUS JEDI BABIES!!
And then…..he played himself….
Like dude…..DUDE!! She was right there, she was waiting for you. She was ready to take you with her back to your mom and was ready to be with you and what do you do?? Let Kylo Ren come crawling back. But what had gotten me, was that he wanted her with him. Not to teach her anything, but to actually be with him. Be his equal. Rule however he was planning on ruling together.
In my head, I felt like things could actually go a certain way. He was saying forget all of the things like the Jedi, the Sith, the Order, the Resistance, like forget it all and they would start anew. I mean did it truly mean he was going to continue ruling with an iron fist? I strongly feel like Rey would have helped him see the light even further if she would have went with him. She would have motivated him to do better for himself and for the rest of the galaxy.
But….she left him…..and of course he goes back into Kylo Ren the baby and launches a tirade and goes after the Resistance.
That last force call I felt really bad for him. He looked like he was begging for her. Pleading for her to come to him. She looked both angry and disappointed in him and I think it hurt for him to see that. She also looked hurt too. She had fallen for him as much as he had her and she just wanted him to do right.
All in all, I strongly feel like the next movie is going to be where we see Kylo Ren battle with darkness and trying to redeem himself. I’m very much rooting for him, which is actually very odd for me, but I feel like I’ve connect ted with his character and I, just like Rey and Leia, want him to do good and to be a better person. Hopefully Disney will give us that and NOT KILL HIM!!
I have high hopes for Kylo Ben lol. With Rey’s help (because I don’t see her giving up on him), I think he is going to end up alright.
Its a movie for us. star wars used to be focused on the fanboys. the force awakens built off their nostalgia, but TLJ? kylo’s and rey’s relationship was clearly calculated to appeal a femaleaudience. i mean just look at this:
intimate hand holding:
shirtless kylo:
prince & snow white:
“join me. please”
we have truly come a long way from the days of slave bikini leia.
ultimately, episode IX might not be as female-oriented (I don’t really have high expectations of JJ, but that’s another story), but I’ll still always be grateful to rian johnson for this movie. he made TLJ with us in mind, and I’m so happy for that.
I still hold out hope for JJ to deliver to us because this go round, females made a huge impact in the box office, so it would be unwise of him to ignore that. I’m just hoping this means for shirtless Kylo
It’s true. TLJ is female gaze where old films were male.
