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hauntedfalcon · 5 years ago

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Happy Christmas, Star Wars Is Over

that was a thing I saw with my own two eyes

“we have to End the Saga! ... but also leave ourselves opportunities to make more money” you really clearly cannot have it both ways

there was... so much about that movie that I would have been able to tolerate... if the trio had been together the whole time

but the instant Rey left the group, it became a terrible movie where stupid things happened for no reason, and there was nothing good going on to balance that out

the trio interactions were, give or take one uppity Poe, everything I wanted

they were so good together

literally I yearned for two whole movies and I finally got what I wanted for a little while

anyway as for the rest of the movie, you know the trolley problem?

they had a couple options for tracks to follow after TFA and TLJ

and instead they just... steered the trolley off a cliff

what hit me hardest was the moments where Rey had the helmet on in Luke’s X-wing, and the moment where she sleds down into the Lars homestead

cute moments! recognizable moments! music cues that helped us recognize them

but the actual takeaway was that she had received absolutely no development since the first time we saw her put on an X-wing pilot’s helmet or sled down a sand hill

none of them did

when people kept asking her in TFA who she was, I never took that to mean “tell us your family name” or “which extremely powerful being gave you your powers” but what is your identity and how do you find it for yourself

which is a theme that could have been explored if they weren’t busy driving the fucking trolley off the cliff

what did any of it really mean? what’s the plan for the future? in thirty years does it all start over again when another Sith lord turns out to still be debatably alive?

also everybody saying “we have to do this or the General died for nothing” like by that point? she had already? died? for nothing???

she projected herself through space to distract her shitty son long enough for Rey to stab him! that was the point!!!

that was the death of her son that she foresaw at the end of her Jedi path! coming to terms with that and making it happen herself for the good of the galaxy could have been a thing!!!

all of these plot points are stupid, but there was a coherent way to connect them, and the movie just kept trying to contradict itself instead

disrespectful honestly

keeping her corpse under a sheet until Kyle faded away was extremely disrespectful

also not a fan of how they tried to build scenes around the scraps of extra Carrie Fisher footage they had to work with

I maintain Leia should have been the one to do the jump at the end of TLJ, and then we wouldn’t have had to deal with this bullshit

Rey should have been a Kenobi

Rey Should Have Been A Kenobi

but moreover, Rey Should Have Been Able to Forge Her Own Identity Independently of a Lineage

which would have done wonders for the trilogy and put her on equal footing with Finn’s character concept

if, let’s say, Palpatine was not a thing in this movie, and let’s say she ended up in Transport Tug of War with Kyle anyway, and she still accidentally Force-lightninged the ship and had to deal with that afterward?

that would have been interesting! grappling with your own capacity for doing evil is interesting! “you have a capacity for doing evil because of your wrinkly granddad” is NOT

imagine the conversation in the ship after the lightning where Finn says he gets it and Rey says he doesn’t, and Finn says yes, yes he does, because everyone has the capacity to cause harm regardless of the scale of it, but it’s the choosing that counts

imagine if these characters got to say things to each other that actually mattered to the plot

what a waste of Jodie Comer

why hire Jodie Comer and only put her onscreen for five seconds

that’s like hiring Thandie Newton and killing her off after twenty minutes, or hiring Ming-Na Wen and killing her off after one epis--oh wait

I was listening hard during the Every Jedi Talks At Once bit and it did my heart good to hear Qui-Gon again

no Chirrut Îmwe though. see? disrespectful

my beloved Finn

my beloved Finn is finally confirmed Force sensitive, and there is no time to build on that afterward

my beloved Finn meets more people who broke First Order conditioning and refused to fire on civilians, who escaped and lived free, and we get a thirty-second conversation about it and it’s never mentioned again

that should have been the A-plot

my beloved Finn held. Poe’s. hand. and it was clearly a thing they do regularly

my beloved Finn was so competent

my beloved Finn was a GENERAL

and that’s it. that’s all I’ll ever get of my beloved Finn

Lucasfilm is not going to mention him ever again

I am getting emotional now, back to things that made me angry

what the fuck are they trying to pull with Poe

a spice runner? a spice runner???

no nope no you’re not making him the Han of the sequel trilogy Abrams

and then the whiplash of him being given command and wishing he had Leia’s guidance again and getting guidance from Lando instead and immediately acting on it? there’s actual Poe! right there!

I don’t understand who it is they keep trying to convince us he is, but the real Poe always comes through in the end, thank you Oscar Isaac

the hug

the hug and the focus on Finn holding both of them and crying with relief

I sure did miss Rose

introducing just enough new characters for everyone to have a ~safe~ potential love interest was so transparent

there’ll be a comic book or a novel set decades down the line where some background character will be mentioned in passing as Finn and Jannah’s kid, and that will be that

that being said now that we have Jannah you can pry her from my cold dead hands

the fact that they didn’t even talk about why Lando left the fight???

the leaks I read were from an earlier cut of the movie where Lando told them he had a young child who was kidnapped by the First Order

he didn’t get to say anything about it this time??? it was implied to have been Jannah but they didn’t even get that much? they want us to believe he’s been hanging out on One Party Every Forty-Two Years Planet just because?????

hyperspace gets more and more watered down with every consecutive movie

it’s to the point where even the purrgils don’t seem that special anymore

the disposability of all the ships was almost as irritating as all the planet-hopping

ships, just like lightsabers, are entirely renewable resources, there is one around every corner

my “the Force is really just the ghosts of dead Jedi intervening for the living” theory is still going strong, especially now that Luke could lift his X-wing

Yoda had to do it in ESB because Yoda had more dead Jedi friends than Luke :)

I legit squealed “WEDGE” when he appeared for 1.9 seconds

afterwards my best friend was like “what’s a Wedge? was it that Mike Pence guy” and I lost it

Leia’s lightsaber was so pretty but I’m sad the blade wasn’t red in this canon

Disney hopes you enjoyed 1.5 seconds of lesbian representation in a Star Wars movie, now never ask for anything again

Dominic Monaghan was also there for some reason

I’m running out of things to say, everything else in this movie was too fucking stupid to even talk about

especially That

we’re not talking about That

at least we’ll always have The Mandalorian (pending any fuckery in the finale)

#Star Wars for ts #The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERS

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youkaitastic · 8 years ago

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TAGGED BY: @wolfram-von-friedhof Tagging: @chemiicalemotion ( aika or hideo!) / @shimotomaii (momoka? or nozu!) @downthechicagoriver (thomas?)

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━━ FULL NAME: Lars Ty Young! ━━ GENDER & SEXUALITY: Cis Male // Demisexual! ━━ ETHNICITY & SPECIES: Japanese/German/English! / Youkai! – Formally Human! ━━ BIRTHPLACE & BIRTHDATE: Brooklyn, NY USA! // October 20th!

━ GUILTY PLEASURES: Good Steak, Video Games, Teasing his Sister, Parkour, Pulling Pranks! Making Puns. Shapeshifting. SKATEBOARDING.

━ PHOBIAS: n /a ! although, after remembering certain things don’t touch his neck.

━ WHAT THEY WOULD BE FAMOUS / INFAMOUS FOR: He’s notorious for always getting into trouble, even if he didn’t try to directly do something.

━ WHAT HAVE THEY / WOULD THEY HAVE GOTTEN ARRESTED FOR: Trespassing, Breaking and Entering, Speeding, Fighting People. Accidentally stole a car, also accidentally vandalized a side of a building.

━ A CHARACTER YOU SHIP THEM WITH: @redhuntinghood // Peter Piper; he’s someone who’s really special to him.

━ CHARACTER MOST LIKELY TO MURDER THEM: Hiiro; that creepy ghost girl.

━ FAVORITE BOOK GENRE: Adventure/Fantasy!

━ LEAST FAVORITE BOOK CLICHE: He doesn’t read often enough, but he does hate when random subplots are developed and they never complete themselves.

━ TALENTS AND / OR POWERS: Due to being a youkai, Lars is able to shapeshift, pass through walls and levitate. He can also materialize into a transparent or tangible form. He’s also able to conjure a blade and after coming to terms a certain someone he’ll be able to utilize electricity and fire.

━ WHY SOMEONE MIGHT LOVE THEM: He’s generally a good person, friendly, and tries to bring people together. He’s very happy go lucky and usually prioritizes others happiness above his own. He’s also a little bit of a dare devil and usually put into unfortunate situations (which end up being quite comical). He also tries his best, despite the challenges that he faces up against. Because he wanted to be a hero, he’s kinda incorporated that into his character.

━ WHY SOMEONE MIGHT HATE THEM: He’s idealistic, also may seem a little high maintenance for some because of his hyperactive nature. He can be fairly loud, not realizing the amount of how loud that is. He also may seem naive to some, and may be regarded as childish. A little reckless and brusque too.

━ HOW THEY CHANGE: Wow okay, it’s been a long time since I thought about the development of Lars’s character. Like, okay, originally he was mainly supposed to be more of a supportive character. He was always there for his friends, and would’ve been written off as the comic relief type of character because of the ridiculous amount of messes he got himself into. He always wants people to smile, so he sometimes does things at his own expense to make others laugh and to cheer them up. I never imagined him to develop in the way he did – with his self conciousness . I didn’t expect to write such an elaborate story for him either, but here we are!

━ WHY YOU LOVE THEM: OHHH MY GOD I LOVE LARS SO MUCH? JUST. He’s been with me for so long and gone a lot with me too so I really appreciate his birth. Thank you for being born Lars, be happy, I’m sorry for all the angst I put you through. I’m really happy with his devlopment because he was originally so static, that it hurt and now he’s so multilayered I’m honestly so proud of him....! He wants to pull his weight and become a hero to others not as strong. He just wants to help everyone, and tries – despite all the challenges he’s pitted against. Ugrh. Love this boy.

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━━ FULL NAME: Inoue Hīro ( last, first) ━━ GENDER & SEXUALITY: Cis Male // Pansexual ━━ ETHNICITY & SPECIES: Japanese / Youkai, formally human. ━━ BIRTHPLACE & BIRTHDATE: Hokkaido, Japan |

━ GUILTY PLEASURES: Cherry Blossom Season, Drinking Shots of Sake, making weapons, listening to his sister sing.

━ PHOBIAS: Sharp blades make him jumpy, also anything pressed against his neck.

━ WHAT THEY WOULD BE FAMOUS / INFAMOUS FOR: Infamously pitting himself against the samurai.

━ WHAT HAVE THEY / WOULD THEY HAVE GOTTEN ARRESTED FOR: Breaking and entering, murder and pick pocketing.

━ A CHARACTER YOU SHIP THEM WITH: n/a!

━ CHARACTER MOST LIKELY TO MURDER THEM: the townsfolk; that other malicious spirit shaped like the little girl he spirited away.

━ FAVORITE BOOK GENRE: poetry!

━ LEAST FAVORITE BOOK CLICHE: When everything is a dream.

━ TALENTS AND / OR POWERS: After Hiiro turned youkai, he became a malicious spirit who would spirit people away. He mostly shapeshifted into a wolf, it was his go to transformation. Apparently wolves were regarded as holy things and could help lead travelers to good places. But he did the exact opposite. Tricked then ate them whole.

━ WHY SOMEONE MIGHT LOVE THEM: He’s kinda like a Robin Hood esque character, steal from the rich, give to the poor. He did what he thought was right, and valiantly tried to unravel some secrets that have been kept hush hush by the samurai and townsfolk.

━ WHY SOMEONE MIGHT HATE THEM: He’s set in the Old Fashioned ways, and he’s a grumpy older man. He also has a pessimistic view on life and isn’t very happy most of the time which can be draining to most people. He also has a bad habit at snapping and resorts to drinking alcohol to cope with his depression.

━ HOW THEY CHANGE: Honestly, Hiiro was supposed to be Lars’s past life, I had a lot of trouble of coming up something concrete for him. Especially when fitting it into the original premise that Lars and Hiiro were apart of. He’s changed so much over time, I was gonna originally have him as a thief killed for stealing but it’s changed a lot over time. There’s still a lot of backstory I gotta write for him but I like the direction of where he’s going and hopefully he can make an appearance here soon!

━ WHY YOU LOVE THEM: A heroic older brother who wanted the best for his family, gets duped and grows vengeful after death. Hecks up and realizes his mistakes later on. I also, love that he’s like a grumpy old man and is gonna act as Lars’s conscious to not do stupid stuff later!

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