#the millennium trilogy

[placesgoneby]

is lisbeth salander a manic pixie dream girl? discuss.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: X-Wing (2nd Ed) - Hotshots and Aces II Reinforcements Pack Cover Art

[jessequinnfirstofhername]

@chucksax you inspired me 😉

[darth-memes]

[rocrown]

One reason the books in the Millennium series following the original trilogy don’t work for me is because I don’t feel like David Lagercrantz hates misogynists and fascists enough.

He very well may really hate them but it doesn’t come through in his writing the way it did with Larsson.

Stieg Larsson’s loathing was so explicit and so immense that I knew more than anything he really really despised misogynists and fascists. And the sequels lack that. They get bogged down in techno thriller and lame Marvel references and making Lisbeth a more palatable heroine, which misses the point for me.

Lisbeth is rage manifest: against a misogynistic and fascist society, its systems and institutions. She does the work she wants. She follows a rigid moral code of her own. She dresses how she wants. Goes where she wants. Associates with who she wants. Fucks who she wants. And if people don’t like that she dresses like a goth, hangs out with communists, is bisexual, is an abrasive unfriendly unsmiling woman, and punishes those who deserve it, well that’s too bad. She is rebellion against misogynistic conventions and expectations. She exists despite the fascists in her own government. And she hates them all. She is a storm Larsson set loose on his fictional but very real enemies. She is the embodiment of his hatred, made manifest to destroy and seek retribution in fiction in ways women like her rarely get to in real life.

I don’t get that from the other books. They’re too interested in the cyber aspects and too plot focused. They’re conventional thrillers and that’s where they fail. I didn’t want a conventional thriller with the characters from the Millennium trilogy because they lacks the soul. The beating heart of Millennium. It’s about justice—a righteous and furious justice, a kind of wish fulfilment in which women best their abusers and defy misogyny, and our heroes defeat fascists within their neoliberal governments.

Lagercrantz likely did what was asked of him. He wrote a thriller continuing the stories of these characters. You can’t fault him for that especially with the rising popularity of the series. He met the brief. It’s broader and the rougher edges filed off. In that way they were successful. But in doing so they lacked the character and tone of the originals. You could hear Larsson screaming Fuck You to misogynists and fascists on every page, just as abrasive and blunt as Lisbeth. That’s missing. And it’s a shame.

[tls123]

i can't kill myself because what if david fincher rooney mara and daniel craig finally make the other two millennium trilogy movies?

[paxmur]

How that scene should have gone

[archivistofnerddom]

Omega is joining the Rebellion as a pilot.

There is a very real possibility that she will cross paths with both Luke and Han — and oh boy!

Can you imagine her challenging these two to flying competitions? Even better, can you imagine her getting her hands on either (or both) Luke’s X-Wing or the Millennium Falcon? Yeah. That’s a series of Star Wars shorts I’d watch.

I can’t tell if Han would be terrified of her or outright despise her, but Chewbacca would definitely love her. She’s figuring out how to do stuff with the Falcon that Han didn’t know was possible. (Would she figure out how to improve the Falcon over Han’s vehement protests? Depends on how much time she has on her hands.)

Luke would probably be awestruck and mildly in love at seeing the stunts she’s can pull in an X-Wing. That boy had hillbilly/redneck tendencies on Tatooine, so you know he’d vibe with her Batch (and ARC Trooper) chaos. He’d ask her to teach him how to do that with an X-Wing (up to and possibly including one of her signature moves, the Tech Turn).

[king-k-ripple]

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[queen-daya]

Han Solo -> Smiling

[short-wooloo]

My thoughts on the announcement of a new SW film about Rey and rebuilding the Jedi Order

First off...

VINDICAAAAAATIOOOOOOON!

Turns out all of those click bait YouTube videos about how the sequels would be erased/rebooted/retconned out were lying out of their asses and just saying what people wanted to hear because youtube's algorithm favors negativity

In any case, here are the things I want to see in the movie

Bisexual Rey, let her being the successor to Obi-Wan's Bi energy

Rose, see above

Millennium Falcon in Jedi colors, I want to see the old girl refurbished and given a new coat of paint with the Jedi emblem, and Chewbacca is in this movie as the Jedi chauffeur

speaking of returning characters, R2 and 3P0, gotta have em, no arguments allowed,

Ghost Luke, get Mark Hamill back as Luke in the spirit guide role

(also have something where Luke acknowledges/approves of Rey taking on the Skywalker name so people will shut up about that)

Acknowledge Finn as a Jedi in some way, I know John Boyega is rightfully done with the franchise over how he was treated, so how about instead we get so mention of him in the film, a passing mention of "Master Finn" or "Finn is off on a mission with his Padawan"

X-Wings, Jedi edition, I love Jedi starfighters, so I want Rey and the new Jedi to have their own model of X-Wing, built and designed for Jedi pilots

Return of that classic Jedi fashion style, specifically in Rey's case I want her to have robes like Ep I Obi-Wan

Jedi babies, show me the Younglings

Jedi Momma Rey

given that the official description for the movie involves Rey defending the rebuilding Jedi Order, I expect to see Rey protecting the younglings

similar note, but there's something I hope for the plot, Rey is obviously the main character, but maybe there's a pack of Jedi Padawans as the supporting characters

and for my most left-field, "unlikely to happen but god it would be amazing" thing I want to happen...

Old Master Reva

have Reva return, now in her 80s, as a Jedi Master and advisor to Rey, maybe she can be the Creche-Master watching over the younglings

[slyandthefamilybook]

sorry dawg she's mine now

[wookieefan]

Revenge of the Sith is the best Star Wars movie.

ME

[grigori77]

PLEASE reblog this one as far and wide as you can, I wanna hear from everybody I can about this one, it's particularly near and dear to my heart ...

[darth-memes]

HAPPY MAY THE 4TH!!!!

[rptv-starwars]

Lando Calrissian and Nien Nunb