#{ & about } Bodhi Rook

[swan2swan]

I just remembered the time I bought a Bodhi Rook action figure from the Disney store and it rang up as "Rebel Extremist".

It was...certainly a way to phrase that.

[oatshow]

Y'all know that breaking news clip

[highwarlockkareena]

@eohachu tagged me for this game!

rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite!

tagging: @nandorthecloser @lan-xichens @khaotunqs @yuziyuanapologist @creepweirdo

[sesamestreep]

follow me like the moon (chapter 2)

When Bodhi turns it over to her with a thoughtful, “And how’s everything with you?”—well, Jyn rightfully panics. “Uh…there was a really hot guy at the diner the other day…well, night. The other morning. Whatever,” she offers, pathetically. After a year of working overnights, you’d think she'd know what to call it. “Really?” Bodhi asks, obviously intrigued. Because he’s the best, and even if her life is objectively less interesting than his, he still cares about how she’s doing. “Yep.” “And?” he presses. “What happened?” “Nothing happened,” Jyn says, trying not to scoff. “He was a customer. He came in, he ate, he left.” “Like the proverbial panda.” “What?” “The panda. From that joke? ‘Eats, shoots, and leaves?’” Bodhi explains. “Never mind. It’s just a dumb joke.”

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[in-tua-deep]

i have a star wars fic idea floating around my brain that is just a time travel fic centering around bodhi rook where part of the explanation for a suddenly-force-sensitive-bodhi is "the monster tore parts of me out and maybe that made more space for the force to fill in the gaps"

[hurricanek8art]

I do not know why Rogue One is trending. Clicked tag to find out.

Still do not know why Rogue One is trending but now have pain.

Was not prepared to be assaulted by feelings about Jyn or Cassian or any or them today. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[sydneyadmu]

a few days before cassian met tivik in the rings of kafrene, he had to rush from corulag after getting some ambiguous information from him

tivik is the one who went to jedha and got the info about bodhi, the death star and galen’s involvement. cassian already knew his name and the whole thing is called a puzzle. a puzzle that the rebel alliance was trying to finish for a while

the alliance was gathering intelligence on this topic for we don’t know how long (but these things take time), but some pieces were missing. they were found in the beginning of rogue one, with tivik, bodhi and jyn.

oh… and remember that I mentioned corulag? there’s someone who might have been the key to get the vital information about all this and was arrested in this same planet just months before

[izloveshorses]

something something bodhi rook 'i brought the message, i'm the pilot' delivering the message to saw gerrera and then bodhi rook's last act for the rebellion delivering a message to the fleet... is that anything

[therebelcaptain]

happy rogue one-niversary, gang!

so wild to think that this movie was released six years ago, but it’s safe to say that it changed my life (in the sense that it has made more and more unhinged over the years, diego really wasn’t kidding about it being a cult lmao)

here’s to many more years of being unhinged about this movie and its cast!

[discow1tch]

Rewatched Rogue One today for the first time since it came out and man. Riz Ahmed really is just so hot in that movie. Why couldn't the spin off show have been about him?

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

"DoNT fOrGEt tHe iMPEriAL PilOT"

How about you don't forget ur manners Mr rebel leader 🤬

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

I need a book centered solely on Jedha please please please please please

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

#the woobification of Bodhi Rook via @rapidashmascot​

ppl seem to do this thing in fandoms where theyll take a character whos inherently kind and trusting of people and then they make the fanon version of them ignorant or innocent to certain things by default and i dont like it

[poedamerum]

Bodhi Rook fucked that old man

[jeronandor]

John: I loved Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler. As we were looking for a character for Bodhi Rook, I made sure to throw his name in the hat. He did a few auditions for us. He kept cranking out different versions of Bodhi.

Gareth: Riz filmed himself. He was in New York. He did a little thing of, like, this is how Bodhi could be.

Riz: And then, obviously, the obsession starts where you start doing 50,000 takes of some things. You're left to your own devices. And then [Gareth] was like, “Great, we've got what we need” but I didn't stop there. I just carried on recording more takes and just emailing him. I was like “Screw it, I've got his email address now.”

Gareth: (Describing Riz's audition tapes) “He could be like this. Or he could be like this.'” I was like, “Okay, anyway, you've got the part.” And then we got another eight clips.

Director Gareth Edwards, Riz Ahmed, and co-producer John Swartz speaking about the audition process for Bodhi Rook in Rogue One (2016)

[antianakin]

My main problem with the idea of either non-Force sensitive people becoming Jedi or the whole "everyone is actually Force sensitive if you try hard enough" thing isn't that Force sensitivity is what makes the Jedi interesting, it's that this is what makes them JEDI.

There are TONS of characters in Star Wars who, if they were Force sensitive, would make excellent Jedi and I love quite a few of them. Just for a few quick examples off the top of my head: Bail and Breha Organa, Beru and Owen Lars, and Hera Syndulla (the Rebels version, not the Ahsoka show version). Sabine Wren, by the end of Rebels, would count on this list, as well (but not the Ahsoka show version). Jyn Erso and Bodhi Rook, especially by the end of Rogue One (Baze and Chirrut obviously would fit on this list, too, but they are already a part of their own religion that they might have chosen regardless of whether they were Force sensitive or not and I am choosing to respect that). Bix Calleen and Brasso from Andor. Greez from the Cal Kestis games maybe. And there's probably more that I am missing.

But the point I am making here is that none of these characters (bar Sabine in the Ahsoka show) are ever assumed to be Jedi. I don't think a SINGLE fan would ever try to argue with me that they ARE Jedi. And obviously it does not make any of them less interesting or enjoyable as characters to not be Jedi.

So if you're going to come at me with the accusation "How boring do you have to be to think the only reason the Jedi are interesting is because they're Force sensitive" then my rebuttal is this: Do you think all of the non-Jedi characters in Star Wars AREN'T interesting because they don't bear the title of Jedi? Does Sabine Wren suddenly become MORE interesting of a character when she's (theoretically) the exact same character, but now she gets to call herself a Jedi? Would Bodhi Rook or Brasso suddenly be more interesting characters if they called themselves Jedi but nothing else about them changed?

How boring do YOU have to be to think that the only interesting characters in Star Wars are those who call themselves Jedi? Personally, I really love that there are all of these characters out there with a bunch of different narrative paths open to them specifically because they AREN'T Jedi. Cassian Andor, Luthen Rael, Saw Gerrera, and Mon Mothma get to be REALLY intricate and morally ambiguous characters specifically because they are not Jedi at all. All the characters I listed above get to be these really lovely heroes for the little guy that showcase that you don't need to have cosmic powers and a laser sword and a fancy title to make a difference. There's a whole sort-of underlying side story within some of these stories about how the galaxy relied on the Jedi to solve all of their problems and how they're forced to step up and defend themselves for once after the Jedi are destroyed, leading to the introduction of all of these non-Force sensitive heroes, some more grey than others.

The Jedi are beacons of hope within the narrative, a model of selfless compassion to constantly strive towards. They are characters who consistently become their best selves through hard work and dedication. This is one of the MANY reasons I love them so much.

But I ALSO love that there are characters who AREN'T Jedi, characters who have no additional cosmic powers or knowledge, and have to figure out how to make the right choice instead of the easy choice ANYWAY, even when it's hard, even when it requires sacrifice. I love stories about the little people in the galaxy learning how to step up and emulate the Jedi when the Jedi are no longer there to be a bulwark between them and their own darkness. The beautiful tragedy of this entire side story lies in the galaxy learning the lessons the Jedi were trying so hard to teach them only after the Jedi themselves are gone due to the galaxy's selfishness. This is the bed the galaxy made for itself and now they have to lie in it. But they do! Eventually, person by person, they do.

And eventually, after many many years, just like their selfishness bore consequences, their selfless efforts also ultimately bring rewards in the form of the Jedi returning. And it's only once the Jedi and the people of the galaxy start fighting TOGETHER, the way they were always supposed to, that they're able to defeat the darkness. THAT'S the story. The Jedi and the people of the galaxy are in a symbiotic relationship with each other, a theme that doesn't work if you go for the concepts where everyone gets to be a Jedi. The Jedi are a specific group of people, they are the Force made manifest, they are beacons of hope, they are an ideal to work towards. This doesn't work with the "Jedi can also be people without Force sensitivity" or "everyone has Force sensitivity" concepts. It just doesn't.

So of course there are plenty of characters who aren't Force sensitive who follow Jedi philosophies or act in a way the Jedi would approve of. These people are the ones choosing to be in balance with the Jedi, which in turn is what brings balance to the entire galaxy.

If this interpretation of Star Wars and the Jedi comes off as boring to you, then, well, that sounds like a you problem and you're more than welcome to find a different corner of fandom to go spend time in and leave me to my corner.