#star wars: tros

[ellemisc]

and this is actually how tros ends! wow trilogy finished what a happy ending

[starwarsfilms]

OSCAR ISAAC STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER  2019 | dir. J.J. Abrams 

[spectordameron]

#if you live long enough, you can see the same exasperation in different people

[inquisitor-apologist]

I think all Star Wars exists on a spectrum of too much to too little Lucas-ness. Aotc has way too much, tros has absolutely none, rots novelization is perfect amount etc

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[irrationalgame]

Hux is relatable ngl

[maingh0st]

i know i'm not the first to say this, but the acolyte's cancellation has confirmed how tired i am of disney's decision-making when it comes to their content. i know nostalgia is the easiest way to a big payout, but we can only take so many spinoffs before the universe starts to feel too small. but then fresh content—content that's building on the canon by looking to old star wars lore while asking new questions—fizzles out.

it's the sequel trilogy all over again. we're promised something new, something that actually expands the canon rather than just recycling it, even bringing in concepts from legends, and then the rug is ripped out from underneath us & we're punished for ever caring about any of it. silly babygirl! palpatine was always the big bad (don't worry about the fact that this is thematically nonsense and not foreshadowed in any way), and rey isn't a nobody ("your parents sold you because they loved you"), and this isn't a story about how the force transcends human categories and dynasties (represented by a grey jedi force dyad between a legacy skywalker and a nobody orphan from a backwater planet, fulfilling not only balance between light and dark but also transcending the old to become something new). silly idiot!!! rey's a palpatine by birth and a skywalker by self-adoption and god forbid she create her own identity outside of these names our fans recognize. watch as she stands alone on a sand planet that has no personal significance to her, ending her arc almost exactly as she began. but look!! two suns! neat

i don't even know if fanservice is the right word. at a certain point, it just starts to feel like they're quaking in their boots at the thought of doing anything new. i had my gripes with some of the choices in the acolyte, but at least it was unique. it explored a new era and asked questions that star wars has only ever flirted with. like: what happens to the children who are uprooted from their homes at such a young age, yet can't find their place in the jedi order? how does one survive in a supposedly honorable system that nevertheless relies on the repression of some of humanity's most fundamental emotions? is it possible that an organization dictating exactly how one ought to interact with the very life force of the universe... could perhaps be faulty and shortsighted? what happens when the ways of that order clash with other cultures and worldviews? (spoilers: space colonialism). and that's not even to mention the ideas they play with re: the force itself (vergences! plagueis! force witches!)

i know not everyone loved the show, but a lot of people really did care about it. a lot of people, like me, were excited to see these new questions being raised. but forget it—the disney gods have decreed that it didn't hit some magical threshold of streaming hours or reach a "broad enough" audience in the two months it's been out. but don't worry guys. turn your brains off and tune in for the next spinoff 2 chewy 2 bacca

[vickysomething]

As a woman and as a fangirl, watching the Star Wars franchise feels like being invited, then disinvited to a party.

The Last Jedi : "Welcome to Star Wars !"

The Rise of Skywalker : "We're sorry to inform you that most of the previous storylines have been canceled, this movie is for dudes."

The Acolyte Season 1 : "Welcome to Star Wars !"

The Acolyte Season 2 : "We're sorry to inform you that the entire show has been canceled, please leave."

[artphotographyofmen]

Poe Dameron by Kevin Wada

[frog-cultist]

I know damn well hux’s cat has murdered multiple people, how? Nobody wants to know.

[khryptid]

Kylo Ren would’ve gotten his shit rocked had he been dropped into prequel era Star Wars

[stagbeetleboy]

Where’s your crown, king nothing?

[starwarsfilms]

You're the best fighter we have. We need you. Out there, not here.

OSCAR ISAAC as POE DAMERON & DAISY RIDLEY as REY SKYWALKER in STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019)

[spectordameron]

Oscar Isaac is a really handsome, young, sexy guy. Why not put that forward? And Poe runs into an old love interest. So we gave him a little — I don't want to say cleavage, but his [v-neck collar is] a little further down. I wanted him to feel more of swashbuckler. The scarf, the shirt and his leather pants — this time his pants are made out of leather — and his high knee boots, when we tried it on him, he looked very dashing and I think it actually changed the way he moved. He really liked the change and he had a little swagger in his step once he started wearing those leather pants and the open shirt and the scarf. It was very cool. I was thinking about Gene Kelly when I was dressing him for some reason. —  Michael Kaplan on Poe's costume in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

[daisyridleyedits]

"We did one without [a kiss]. Hilariously, Adam had to wrap and literally got up from that scene, which was so emotional and everything, and was like, 'Bye guys! I'm going to New York.' I feel like we all— it felt earned. And what was interesting again is intentionality. My feeling in that moment was it was a goodbye. So that felt earned. Because you can call a kiss a thousand things, but I felt it was a goodbye. And that whole scene felt so emotional. I felt I was saying goodbye to the job. And then, actually, we had to pick-up something that was missed. So on my very, very last day — and we were doing various pick-ups and stuff — I had to literally sit and look when the camera was coming away from me, and I guess I was looking at him [Ben]. J.J. [Abrams] was like, 'you good?' Literally, immediately started crying my eyes out because it really felt like goodbye."

—Daisy Ridley on her last scene with Adam Driver in The Rise of Skywalker

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