so...of course my original goal was to avoid spoilers at all costs and really go in cold like i (mostly) did with TFA, but instead of having a big twist spoiled for me by some dick in random Instagram comments, I went and gazed into the abyss that is StarWarsLeaks. initially i refused to believe anything i read because nothing added up and everyone clearly was pushing their preferred agenda, but one version seems to be corroborated, and that’s the one I’ll be speculating about under the cut:
how things are worded plays a major part in how feasible they sound. that’s why everyone laughed at the first “leaker” but took the one who backed him up seriously. and frankly, when you spell out the plot of ESB in the most basic and detached string of plot points, it sounds pretty fucking stupid. “luke gets his jedi traning from a two-foot-tall little green man. han gets frozen in a block of carbon and carried off by some random bounty hunter because this friend of his we just met sold him out to vader. oh yeah, and vader is really luke’s dad and cuts off his hand.”
i’ve seen people freaking about the concept of “Renperor,” about the fact that Kylo killing Snoke and assuming command makes him the Biggest Bad for IX and this spells NO REDEMPTION EVAR, but this also seems to me like the kind of binary thinking we’re supposed to be moving away from. like the idea is that Kylo is going to kick back on his new throne and attempt to be Sidious Jr. while wiping out anyone who poses a threat to his power, including Rey, the only other person with that kind of power. we KNOW their relationship is not that two dimensional. it’s about to become the axis on which this trilogy turns.
i’ve seen the word “balance” used to describe this film, but if it ends the way it’s alleged to end, it’s going to become the defining word for IX. by removing Snoke as the Big Bad and leaving only Kylo and Rey, two people who see each other’s potential for dark and light, and who each think they can pull the other to their side, we’re faced with a completely different kind of conflict from what we’re used to seeing. this is what people are reacting so badly to; the idea that good and evil aren’t such clearly drawn lines, and that there is nuance at play, a word that most people in this fandom are severely allergic to. from the naive tumblr antis who dismiss anything that’s less than perfectly morally pure as “toxic” and “abusive” to the shortsighted reddit fanboys who make horrible analogies to Dragonball Z and Harry Potter vs. Voldemort and reveal their own ignorance of the franchise they profess to love in the process.
i’ve never been especially married to my headcanons. i’ve already been down that road with the prequels, which first came out when i was in high school, and i’ve learned to accept them as they are in the years since. i’m still incredibly excited to see what Rian is giving us and now i’m mad curious how these spoilers, if true, are really going to play out. i can’t make an accurate assessment of anything without seeing it myself, more than once so i have a chance to catch as many details as possible. what i do know is that i really like what i’ve heard regarding Kylo Ren as a character from both Rian and Adam. for Kylo to strike down this galactic oppressor, who also happens to be oppressing him, because he wants to “end this” and then invites Rey to join him...well, we already saw Grandpa do this:
I am more powerful than the Chancellor, I... I can overthrow him! And together, you and I can rule the galaxy! We can make things the way we want them to be!
sure, he’ll get shot down just like Gramps did, but the difference is that we have another movie to resolve this, and with Snoke dead, the conflict shifts to the tug-of-war between Kylo and Rey, who each think the only way to resolution is to win the other over to their side? it’s not going to end with one of them dead. you don’t get balance that way.
so yeah...i’m still pretty fucking stoked to see where this all goes.
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