clairemation:

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Part 1 of my Star Wars fancomic, “Mementos.”
Takes place after Palpatine’s defeat and before Rey’s trip to Tatooine.

rose tico punches nazis!

(requested by @calamity-queen)

Carry Fisher wouldn’t have let her son die and that’s a fact

Warning: Spoilers

• “…Skywalker”
• Rey absolutely destroying Palpatine with those twin lightsabers
• the voices that spoke her name- chills, I tell you, chills
• “In the event I don’t make it back, I want you to know you’ve been a real friend, R2. My best one, in fact.”
• HAN FREAKING SOLO
• Rey handing Ben the lightsaber
• C-3PO and his inability to shut up the entire time
  
• the way everything about Kylo Ren changed once he became Ben (props to Adam Driver, damn)
• “They’re not a Navy. They’re just…people.”
  
• THE FLASHBACK! Young Luke and Leia!
• Chewie’s reaction to Leia’s death cries
• the dude to the right of me that clapped when they kissed and the dude to the left of me that clapped when he died
• “Dad…” “…I know.”
  
• Sith Rey like Empire Strikes Back all over again
  
• can I stress again how much I loved C-3PO
• Luke’s x-wing! Rising up from the water! I loved it!
• the adorable relationship between Rey, Finn, and Poe that we deserved
• Jedi Leia, oh my god
• “Never underestimate a droid.”
• LANDO CALRISSIAN, long overdue 
• Poe flirting was really something else
• “Everything is on fire. Yes, all of it. On fire.”
  
• gotta have those Ewoks
• Rey looking at the Tatooine suns and ending the saga  p e r f e c t l y
  

okay but the real question is who went and fucked palpatine’s shriveled ass in order to produce c h i l d

if C-3PO fucking dies, im gonna flip my shit

redrascal1:

Okay, I know I go on…and on….but I still just can’t believe that Disney:

Killed off the last Skywalker

Made the heroine a Palpatine

As more articulate posters than myself have said, they could have ended the Skywalker Saga in a myriad ways….yet they chose…that.

Why? After almost three years of picking apart their decision I still am baffled by their final choice. Stand back as a non SW fan…if you can….and look at it.

We have a villain whose creator described him as Galactic Satan. And a heroic family who are human, who make mistakes, but are still at the end of the day admirable, courageous and loving. And those three qualities saved the galaxy.

What can be more inspiring than that?

Yet Disney, once the most heartwarming family orientated company of all, whose films were fairytales with happy endings, have completely trashed that once so uplifting, ‘feel good’ story ….and completely erased its legacy family….while giving Galactic Satan an heir. An heir who ends up taking everything from said legacy family - including their name - and Disney order us to accept this..antichrist…as our Glorious Heroine.

Along the way she’s turned into the most cold, unfeeling, and arrogant heroine I’ve seen in a long time. And we are expected not to just accept her without question….but applaud her. 

I can’t. I’m sorry, but I don’t know this version of Rey. And frankly I think she is a shoddy example of what a woman should aspire to be.

As there doesn’t seem to be any really feasible explanations for Disney’s actions, I’ve had to come to these conclusions.

They did this because for some bizarre, twisted reason, women are not supposed to have boyfriends.

They did this to placate the reylo haters. Because the ‘reylo kiss’….if anything is an insult to our ship. It looks for all the world as if Rey has literally sucked Ben’s life Force out, and her utter disregard for his sacrifice, only cements this. If her grandaddy was Galactic Satan then Rey is a Succubus.

They did this because Terrio had waited years to put his Luke/Leia fanfic on screen.

But most of all….they did this because Kylo Ren turned out to be more popular than their woke heroes. He was the best written, most complex character. He was played by an actor who has twice been nominated for an Oscar. And the Oscar nominated director of The Last Jedi, the best of the three films in the ST, saw his potential and went with it….leading to the most critically acclaimed of all the sequels. 

The stupid, moronic idiots at DLF re hired a director known for his inability to ‘finish what he started’ and listened to the likes of the toxic harpies on the JCF: ‘Rey doesn’t need a boyfriend, Kylo is a space Nazi’….yada yada yada ….and the result is the worst SW film ever...even eclipsing The Phantom Menace; because the latter didn’t thoroughly and unequivocally ruin the entire Skywalker Saga like TROS has. TPM didn’t erase the point of the Skwalker Saga, wipe out the entire bloodline, make every character’s sacrifice completely pointless, turn SW into a depressing and dreary farce….and most of all….give the victory to the villain.

Even worse….they told a twisted fairytale where ‘good’ is represented by virginity and the broken, abused ‘villain’ can only be redeemed by dying and is then replaced by his own family by the virgin….his family who ‘celebrate’ his death with huge grins bestowed upon his replacement. 

And, as a postcript it’s shown that said abuse victim feels so worthless he’s glad to die to save Lady Virgo Intactica. Star Wars has gone from a space fairytale to a  horror story of how being heroic means keeping your knees together, and that suicide is the only option for an abuse victim.

If I had kids the last thing I’d want is for them to see this film….let alone read the frankly disturbing novelisations, both adult and junior, that have been written about it.

@redrascal1

And I don’t know how we could be so naive as to believe that this trilogy would have a happy ending.

Come the second instalment, the main couple still didn’t have a love theme. Instead we had heard the ouverture of Romeo and Juliet in the first. These couples never end well. You can believe me, I was born in the city where R & J is set.

The sequels had to introduce new characters, pave the way for all the new SW stories the studios have in mind, and also wrap up the prequels and the classic trilogy. Three movies are not nearly enough to put a definitive “The End” under a story.

Do you honestly believe that we have seen the last of this?

The Disney studios would have to be stupid not to see how popular the characters of Ben and Rey as depicted in The Last Jedi were. Fans would jump at seeing them living adventures together.

The people we have to thank for the Episode IX disaster are not the studios but the TLJ haters, and you of all people know that very well. The film split the fanbase in two, respectively made it all to clear to see (thanks social media) that while many fans like the multilayered, fantastical approach of the saga, others can’t see below the surface of the action movie tropes. For what it’s worth, The Rise of Skywalker has assuaged the fans who stormed at the studios saying that they “destroyed their childhood”. Episode IX is superficial, stupid and fake, but it looks cool, so it did the job. The storm is calming down. I don’t know how anyone could be satisfied with this ending, but it seems the TLJ haters are, at least a lot of them.

The studios will not retcon the sequels. The Rise of Skywalker is part of canon, but so is The Last Jedi. Who doesn’t like one of them doesn’t need to watch them ever again.

But are you telling me that The Last Jedi made no impact?

I myself have never written so many meta’s and fanfiction in my life than after watching it. And I am not even a professional writer.

Have a look at this.

Encantofeatures the character of Bruno, the “black sheep of the family” who is not talked about but is the key figure. Except for the ears, he looks a lot like Ben.

Lokishows a redemption arc with a couple at its heart. The central fighting scene reminds suspiciously of TLJ’s throne room scene.

Moon Knight is the story of a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder, who has two names, two lives, a huge but dangerous power and must learn to reconciliate them. The character is being played by Oscar Isaac, who portrayed Poe Dameron in the sequels.

Then there was the anime Belle(2021), which was a huge success. Are you telling me it was not inspired by the characters of Ben and Rey? Just look at the visuals.

The Mandalorian is very beloved by the fans. There also was a separation between two characters who belong together, but the two found each other again by now.

Rian Johnson is writing his own trilogy. There are enough threads from the sequel trilogy that were not finished. The studios are also developing new Star Warsstories.

I don’t know why you keep harping on TRoS like it was the end of the world, or the end of Star Wars. It wasn’t.

Please, there are so many other things,Star Wars or not,to love. Take a look at those, not at the one bad apple that had to be baked because so many fans are superficial.

Also, please stop saying that Ben committed suicide. He wasn’t tired of being alive. You see that from his expressions. He gave Rey his life force because he didn’t know what it would cost him. It’s meant as a noble sacrifice, not as an act of total despair. A man in despair does not smile like this.

Please, I can see that you’re depressed, but it’s no reason to project your depression on both a story and a film studio that have so much to offer than this one atrocious movie. (Which I, by the way, certainly will never watch again.)

Life is too short to be upset about a movie that’s in the past, and which was never written to hurt you personally anyway. There is so much more to see and to love in the world. Please, stop flagellating yourself. It’s not worth it.

Have a nice day.

redrascal1:

I’ve been looking back at the entire ST….what was its purpose?

This is a question a lot of folk are asking, I honestly thought it was basically the torch being passed to the next generation. But…nope.

It was to quietly get rid of the Skywalkers….and replace them. With Rey.

I’ve harped on about this over and over…but the bee still buzzes in the bonnet. If you remove TLJ, TFA and TROS are The Rey Story. Okay, so she was all along meant to be the main protagonist. But…why then, was it called the SkywalkerSaga if it was about….someone else?

I didn’t bother with any supplementary material post TROS, unless it featured Ben, but I’ve read comments by those who did, and the way they hammered home ‘Rey is our heroine’ was pretty obvious, putting it mildly. Han had apparently ‘found his heir’. Chewie had a ‘special bond’ with her. Leia was forever hugging her. Anakin’s sabre chose her.

Rey had Leia’s leadership skills, Luke’s Force powers, Han’s talent as a pilot, Chewie’s skills as a mechanic. 

Rey was the perfect heir.

But…shewasn’t a Skywalker.

Why not?

Why did they make the ONLY real Skywalker….the villain? Why not instead make Rey Leia, Han or Luke’s daughter, a long lost child waiting to be discovered. 

Why such contempt for the legacy family? 

I honestly can’t understand it. Did they think they could do better? Because if the Trio are the best they could do, obviously not.

I would like meanwhile, to say thank you to Rian Johnson. Who, I am absolutely certain, tried very hard to save Ben Solo. 

Thank you for at least trying, Rian. From a disillusioned Skywalker and former SW fan.

There are few things more frustrating than love bombing, both with storytelling and in real life.

I wrote a long entry about The Mandalorian a few months ago where I lamented that the entire show seemed to me like a love bombing that went nowhere. The show lives from its dynamic between both protagonists. Then at the end of Season 2, they were parted. I heard children were crying at the scene.

They’re together now again, so there’s that. But I keep wondering why they had TLJ made in the first place, endearing us to the characters of the sequels and setting up a strong relationship between Ben and Rey, if they meant to take it nowhere.

During the classics, we were rooting for the trio, too. During the prequels we didn’t because we knew that the story would end badly. But Attack of the Clones set the stages for stories like The Clone Wars,The Bad Batch,The Book of Boba Fett.

Why did they make us love this story if there isn’t a follow-up? TRoS was a patch-up for the antis, not a follow-up.

I’m here, waiting for the promises of TLJ to be fulfilled. Rey is still far from being a heroine. Ben is officially dead but Anakin Skywalker, Boba Fett and Darth Maul also had been left for dead.

I’m here waiting.

redrascal1:

kylo-wouldnt-like-those-chips:

the-reylo-void:

The thing that gets me about this whole thing is that there’s actually a really good message about healing from abuse in the fact that Rey fails.

She can’t save Ben/Kylo from the damage that’s been done, in the same way that a loved one can’t heal the scars of abuse just by caring. The victim has to want and be ready to heal and go through that grief process.

And Kylo is categorically not ready. He’s still in the destructive stage of “I was hurt and I want the world to burn”. And so Rey was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT to leave him. It’s saying, in essence, “You are a toxic presence right now because you are processing what happened to you in an unhealthy way. I refuse to be a part of this. Call me when you’re ready to start towards a more constructive path and we can do it together, but until then, you’re on your own.”

The TLJ novelization indicates in the last Force bond scene that Rey looks at Kylo with neither compassion nor hatred, which supports the above idea. She doesn’t hate him. But she’s not feeling sorry for him anymore, either. It’s his turn to decide if he wants to heal or continue his destructive path. She sets a rock-solid boundary and keeps it.

And that’s a good fucking message that I wish we could talk about without turning it into gross victim-blaming and warmed-over anti talking points.

I hate so much how this point gets lost. People will say “I wanted to tell all the little girls on the audience that this isn’t okay, when the literal text of the movie has already done that!

Okay, can I just say now that I thoroughly respect these posters points of view…but I do disagree with them.

Kylo was mentally ill. Yes, he was an abuse victim, but was also coded as mentally ill, and tough love can work for some, but not others. I know, as I’m mentally ill. What might help one person….doesn’t another.

Secondly…Rey never said anything like this to Kylo…apart from a few tears and a whispered ‘don’t go this way Ben’ her reaction was…

To reach for a weapon.

Try and put yourself in Kylo’s place here…please. His uncle had tried to kill him, or at least that is what he believed. Now Rey, whom he loves, whom he killed his master for - reaches for a weapon. All that did was destroy his trust in her. It brought back memories of that awful night at the temple. And when he awoke…it was to find she had abandoned him, on a dying ship, to explain to Hux just exactly HOW someone had killed Snoke and his guards on Kylo’s watch.

She did not once stop to think what the consequences of her actions would be for him.

As for that final look on the Falcon….it was contempt. She looked at him with contempt. Not regret, or sorrow…just contempt. Rather than that showing she was willing to give him another chance if he changed his ways, all she showed was…

Contempt. 

This is why I started to dislike Rey at that moment. I didn’t see it as her trying to show Kylo ‘tough love’, just her dismissing him because he didn’t do what she went to him for…end the war. 

Luke to Leia in ROTJ when he told her he was going to Vader:

‘I can save him.’

Rey to Luke in TLJ:

‘He can end this war.’

I have often wondered if that was the reason he warned Rey that ‘things would not go as she expected.’

What all Reylo’s and Kylo Ren fans keep forgetting is that if Ben had chosen to “forgive” and go back to the Light Side etc., that would not have made his past undone. He was a war criminal, had been for years, and had killed his own father. Had he gone with Rey he would have been put to trial and probably executed. What was he supposed to do? “Oh hey mom, good to see you, sorry I killed dad?”

This was never meant to end well for Ben. He had chosen to join Snoke and chose to stay at the head of First Order in the first place because he was struggling for his own safety, not because he loved power and was angry and felt let down.

When Ben ran to save Rey in TRoS he knew he wouldn’t get out of there alive. He was determined to give everything to save her, including his own life. He no longer minded whether he would live or die, he was compassionate to the extreme. Luke was, too, when he faced Vader and the Emperor, but he was seen as a war hero. He had the chance to come back home.

The only “home” Ben could come back to was his dead father, and Han told him as much.

I don’t like that Ben had to die, no, but it was all clearly set up from the start. He never had a chance, and that’s his actual tragedy. Anakin had so much potential and still he had no chance to escape his fate, the only difference is that in his case we knew it from the start.

We live in a culture that worships the idea of love and wants to believe that “love will see it through”. There never was a way that Rey could have saved Ben from his fate, whether she loved him or not. “Love” does not mean that you can do anything and get away with it. Does no one think of the moral implications? How would that have looked? A ruthless killer gets his happy ending because he saved one girl? No, please.

The Skywalker saga is, always was, and remained ultimately a tragedy. All their power did not lead any of them to a happy end. It’s not satisfying but it’s fitting.

The only thing we fans can do now is wait for how the studios will develop the SW stories further. Anakin had two lives. There’s no reason why Ben shouldn’t.