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i regret to inform anyone who will listen that i am working on what will probably be an at LEAST hour long video essay about the star wars sequels oTL

#you see i won't call it a trilogy because 7 never got a proper sequel #and i'll prove it no less! IN THIS ESSAY!!!#it's gonna take a LONG time to work on this don't expect me dropping a release date for it any time soon #i am legit reading PHYSICAL sources for this i am very normal about this topic

Have you seen The Lost Boys musical? Do you have any thoughts on it?

Didn't know one came out lmao, I haven't rly been in the loop w/ a lot of things. I'm going to assume it's ass but I'm open to being proven wrong lol I would prefer that it be good

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solarprominence

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

we can't move forward until we go back; we have to retcon 8 and 9 and let JJ do all three

#star wars #star wars the force awakens #i'm not even remotely kidding #finn waking up from his coma and 8 -9 being a fever dream #is less stupid than 'somehow palpatine returned' and that made it into a star wars film #i promise you that people will forgive 'it was all a dream' twist if it means we get a cohesive trilogy #and we can finally move forward with canon

don't get me started on how 8 immediately destroyed kylo ren's iconic silhouette and made it look too similar to vader's very "brand integrity" forward of you, disney lol

#he was a WITCH-KNIGHT with a DOG MUZZLE in 7 and then they immediately changed it to Vader's samurai/knight motif #oh you like how “subversive” 8 was?#was it subversive when they turned a new character into darth vader?#they even made him a tie pilot out of fucking nowhere because vader was #i still CANNOT BELIEVE rian MOVED kylo's iconic facial scar because he wanted it to look like Anakin's instead #i WILL go on about how bad 8 fucked the entire future of Star Wars canon #the essays ARE coming

hux rly go my scarab'd his dad huh

also between hux and kylo it's hux who's more likely to try to murder Snoke lmao like, he orchestrated his father's murder orchestrated the murder of the only person who had definitive proof that that Hux and Phasma killed Brendol put himself into the highest position in The First Order so that none of the officers who abused him would ever have power over him again fucking SNARLED IN SNOKE'S FACE when Snoke silenced him while he was speaking, and we can infer that Hux knows that Snoke doesn't feel the need to bother correcting his defiant behavior because he sees Hux as incapable of posing any threat to him they all see him as weak and he uses that to his advantage; he rose all the way from victim to General all without never having lifted a single finger himself i mean they've said it before in the extended canon; Armitage Hux is not someone to be underestimated

ok lololol i told myself i'd put these essays together before posting critiques of critiques but this was so stupid i just have to post lol i saw a tweet where someone posted a response to JJ Abrams being quoted as saying he'd wished Hux's character got to be explored more onscreen, and this person replied saying JJ's an idiot because "Hux was poised to try to overthrow Kylo by the end of 8 and JJ didn't even try to follow through on that at all" ...That is not Hux's character lmao!!!!! That is not in character for Hux to do! It is not in character for Kylo to want to be the Supreme Leader! Kylo has no right to run The First Order! He has no authority over Hux or The First Order without Snoke! Snoke was funding The First Order, The First Order could not exist without Snoke's money. Kylo Ren was absconded at 15 and lived under Snoke's thumb all that time until now... Kylo Ren doesn't have any fucking money. Kylo Ren's whole world revolves around Snoke, he was groomed by him while still inside his mother's womb. Kylo Ren spends every scene we see him share with Snoke trying his best to please and impress Snoke because Snoke is the most important person in the world to Kylo, he even venerates Snoke to others when Snoke is not present, he fights with Hux over who can impress Snoke more because both of them see Snoke as a surrogate father figure in their own ways. Hux snarls at Snoke even though he is powerless against him, Kylo Ren never shows active defiance of Snoke, like even when he does defy him ie. when he refused to allow Hux to destroy BB-8 because Kylo wanted to bring the map to Snoke to impress him over focusing on stopping the enemy from finding Luke; Kylo isn't defying Snoke because he disagrees with him. When Hux disagrees with Snoke you SEE. IT. ON. HIS. FACE. and he knows Snoke can see it too, and he's fully aware that the only reason he doesn't get punished for acts of insubordination like that is because Snoke is in no way shape or form threatened by Hux whatsoever because he's physically meek and cannot use the force. And like, I'm sorry, but I really do think that JJ and Domhnall were developing one of the most fascinating Star Wars characters to ever exist and I just DO NOT THINK that a character that is heavily implied to be a csa survivor(also I think the very FIRST representation of MALE sexual abuse survivors in Star Wars??? PLEASE inform me if I'm wrong!) that went through absolutely unimaginable abuse at the hands of his father, other adults, and peers, was meant to be portrayed being placed back into a position where he is being abused by an authority and for comedic effect no fucking less. I really do think that there was more to Hux and the politics 7 set up that we just never got to see because of 8. I do not think Hux was ever going to fight Kylo Ren for the position of Supreme Leader and I do not think Kylo would have had any interest in overthrowing Snoke that early into the story to begin with.

#star wars #star wars the force awakens #armitage hux #general hux #¯\_(ツ)_/¯#i rly wish i could just not give a shit about this but 7 genuinely means so much to me and it was so important to me that it's still just a #important to me now and i think it always will be #that film made me feel so seen and got me to work through enough of my issues with my dad to have some kind of #positive relationship with him before he died #because i knew it would fucking haunt me to realize that a relationship with my father was something i needed to at least TRY #BEFORE he passed away #and i did good enough i think #i will always wish it was better but at least i tried and i can have comfort in knowing that

Disney, if you're listening The simplest way you can fix the Star Wars sequels is to release the next sequel film as episode 8 and have it start with Finn waking up from his coma at the end of 7. 8 and 9 as we saw them were just a horrible fever dream that Finn had. Anything that happens in the new versions of 8 and 9 that is similar to anything that happens in the old versions can be explained as prophetic influence from the force. Keep TFA canon, give the new versions of 8 and 9 new titles, and just remove TLJ and TROS from canon. I know people usually do not like that trope but I CAN ASURE YOU this will be a rare instance where it works to the story's benefit. Your welcome.

#disney #star wars #star wars the force awakens #jj abrams #it would be COOL to be compensated in some way but I genuinely just want 7 to have proper sequels that I genuinely DO NOT CARE!!!#i know it's an insane pipedream anyone of any import even sees this but I just have to put it out there somewhere lmaoooo #couldn't hurt to try #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been seeing so many dogshit takes online about the Star Wars sequels and people doing the most insane historical revision to blame JJ for all the serious canon-breaking issues that were introduced to the plotline in 8 that I planned on returning to social media JUST to post long ass essays bitching about Star Wars and WHAT are the odds that THE day I decide to come back to social media Tumblr rolls out this dumbass update lmao. Here's hoping Tumblr staff reverse this update or I might be forced to post on twitter 🤮 UPDATE: >:)c

#star wars #star wars the force awakens #a few of these essays are so long and require so much visual aids and clips that I might as well make them videos #so we'll see how that goes