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This is one of those days for me–I just keep finding stuff to talk about. Like this shot–it’s bothered me since I saw it in theatres. Could it look any more like a video game? Especially Luke; he kinda looks like he just came straight from the animated Clone Wars show. The mountains in the distance don’t look fully rendered, and they hoped the dust blowing away would keep us from noticing. Admittedly, I know nothing–this could very well be …
LyricalRiot asked if I’d seen Wayward Jedi’s recent video on Ben’s redemption. I started to reply as a comment, then decided the topic merited its own post. Yes, I did see it, and I was going to post about it, but I didn’t want you guys to get sick of me just parroting someone else’s thoughts. But since you asked… I agreed with the general points WJ made. I think he oversimplified the crimes that Ben’s committed as Kylo Ren, …
So… I don’t think anyone but Luke knew that Vader died redeemed. He told Leia, and presumably Han, after the fact, but I don’t think anyone else knew. So then how did Snoke and Rey know? A million guesses as to Snoke, but Rey… I can only assume Leia told her before Rey took off to find Luke. Hmm….
So I slowed the playback during the Crait scene to try to catch some of Ben’s facial expressions to help me figure out what he might be thinking. I paused it at the precise moment he saw the Falcon and half a second before he ordered it shot down. I thought he might look surprised to see the ship, but I did not expect…this. I had to share it with you guys. I think I’m dying inside. Damn it, Rey, …
Something that just occurred to me because I’m an idiot who doesn’t notice as many details as I like to think I do: Skywalkers. They who walk in the sky. Who do we know who walks in the sky? Gods. And WJ’s theory just became that much more compelling.
A man named Ray made these .gifs just for me cuz he’s a sweetie and my hero and he’s awesome. 😀 Here’s the original post for context in case you didn’t catch it a couple weeks ago. Feel free to share but please link back to this site and name the creator as Ray. Normal Pace: Slow mo: I got caught up on a bunch of stuff this week—including Season 2 of Jessica Jones and A Series of Unfortunate Events …
So this came out today: I can’t stop giggling. It looks like so much fun! I can already see all the shots of Driver that will be manipulated into Reylo art.
Thanks again, Monica, for pointing me in this guy’s direction. Dude’s a fricken genius. His review of TLJ was fascinating, and he just posted his commentary on the TLJ novel. I encourage anyone who’s interested in Reylo or the mythology of Star Wars as a whole to listen to it. I saw little to no Reylo in the novel, but he saw Reylo and Save Ben Solo everywhere. I don’t hate the book as much now after he took me …
Amy commented on my post about Rey’s piloting. I meant to just reply there, but it got longer and longer and finally I decided it would be better to make a post of it. So this was Amy’s comment: The little I’ve read on Rey’s background in the books and the part of TLJ book that talks about how Rey has access to Ben’s training…I hate what they’re doing to her character. I always believed it was the force that …
The lovely Monica Perle responded to my post recommending Vincent Vendetta’s Reylo videos on YouTube and recommended more videos by Wayward Jedi. I checked them out. This was my experience. Wayward Jedi: I believe Kylo Ren and Rey are Anakin and Padme reborn. Okay, I know Star Wars is supposed to be mythopoetic, but that’s taking it a bit far. *starts to think about all the Pinterest posts I’ve seen drawing parallels to the prequels but …