#when george constantly goes around saying things like sw is ultimately about redemption and loving people

[greyjedireylo]

With the debate over explicit Reylo and implicit Reylo (that will be explored in the comics and books) I think a lot of people (Reylos included) forget that if Reylo is confirmed outside of the movies it will be useless. Most of the GA does not read extra canon material or even knows about it, and I know that cause I was a GA member till October 2017. I thought SW was just movies and it wasn't till I got in the fandom that I learned about the extra stuff. Reylo needs to be explicit to work.

the thing is, romantic love is at the core of the entire Skywalker saga. in the prequel trilogy, romantic love that ended in tragedy is what kicked the entire story off. it’s what made the original trilogy possible, it’s the thing that literally gave birth to the heroes of that trilogy. and in the same way, romantic love was a defining part of the original trilogy as well, and it was that romantic love that literally gave birth to what drives the plot of the sequel trilogy.

without romantic love, Luke and Leia don’t exist, Ben does not exist, to drive the plot. the generations of family this saga is about don’t exist. and both of those great loves ultimately ended in tragedy, because they took place in the beginning or middle of the overall story.

the idea that this space opera, this fairy tale, which has always had romantic love as its very backbone, would conclude its epic, sweeping, happy ending with a little whimper on the romance front is just laughable to me. it’s a fucking SPACE OPERA. they’ve already spent two movies setting up THE most star-crossed of lovers on opposite sides of a war. they’re not going to backpedal on that, they’re not going to leave it up in the air or vague or for future comics barely anyone in the broad scheme of things reads. SW is a pop cultural juggernaut, a modern myth, something designed to be eminently rewatchable for decades upon decades, and the movies have to stand on their own feet as a complete story. there is no SW without romance--and this one gets to end happily because it’s the actual end of the story this time.