Ugh I have so many! But primarily animals. They all make me nervous on some level.
36. do you have any impulsive movements? (twitches, ticks, flapping etc.)
I don’t think so? The closest that comes is staring at people or things out of the corner of my eye with my head tilted. I don’t notice I’m doing it but it’s how I listen to people/things attentively.
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EXPAND! In which ways was the Poe/Finn friendship good for TFA but not so good for the plot in the long run? I've never seen this brought up before
~don’t shoot the messenger~
Disclaimer: I think TFA is a brilliant movie and i love it so much but it’s also very vanilla. It’s plain obvious that it was made with the very deliberate intent of pacifying the audience and make it happy so it would forget the prequels trauma and start buying tons of Star Wars merchandise again.
There are some… disturbances in the Force in TFA, the major of which is Kylo Ren (small wonder that after 2 years critics are hailing him as the most interesting character in the new trilogy). Despite superficially being the expected Vader stand-in, everything about Kylo, from Adam Driver’s casting to the weirdly sexual interrogation scene to the creepy “call to the light” to Han Solo’s murder, is meant to upset, disquiet, disorient and at some points even nauseate/horrify the audience… in direct contrast to how comfortable and reassuring and conflictless everything else is. The main characters are all lighthearted and funny, and it doesn’t take a lot of looking into it to fall in love with them (which doesn’t mean they aren’t complex, just that they’re very cleverly written to be immediately likable). Everything falls into place smoothly, effortlessly. Even the scenery is vanilla: there are no strange planets with grotesque or harsh or genuinely alien environments. just the classic sand/forest/snow triad.
This is also reflected in the main heroes. Finn, Rey and Poe are individually really strong characters who, on paper, should be electric together. Finn is a fugitive stormtrooper, groomed to be a brain-dead killing machine, who rebelled against his role and just wants to gtfo and never see the First Order again. Rey is an orphan who grew up alone on a desert planet, probably making all sorts of deals and moral compromises to survive, and has no affiliation with either the FO or the Resistance. Poe is a resistance soldier, son of resistance soldiers, hotheaded and snarky but fully devoted to the cause. it’s an excellent recipe for character conflict.
But JJ does his best to smooth out and neutralize all the potential conflict in the first 5 minutes of interactions between these people (which is why the whole concept of them as a trio makes me want to take a long nap). Finn and Poe trust each other almost immediately despite being actually on opposite sides of the war, and when they see each other again it’s like they’ve known each other for years. Finn and Rey bond almost immediately despite the horribly violent and deeply traumatizing, emotional development-arresting backgrounds they grew up in, and if there was a spark of conflict with Finn lying about being a Resistance fighter, JJ proceeds to resolve it quickly and 100% harmlessly and has Rey just… be okay with it. I remember Tumblr loving the shit out of this, and I definitely can see why—back then, seeing two characters who are able to look past a mutual misunderstanding instead of succumbing to the almighty narrative need for artificial tension looked very refreshing.
And it was! It worked perfectly in TFA. F|nnpoe in particular did its job, bringing these two people to work together as requested by the plot, making their escape together emotionally engaging without dragging the narrative with unnecessary interpersonal drama. Then Poe (initially meant to die in the crash) came back alive, and the narrative focuses on that just the right amount of time to give us a happy, heartfelt reunion between two people we already see as our heroes. But the fact that these characters have already sorted out their differences in the first movie isn’t necessarily a good thing for the whole trilogy in the long run. Especially since the non Force-related plot inherently needs something strong to compete with the Force-related one. (think of why HanLeia worked SO well in Empire despite them being separated from the “main” Force plot. They were the two people in the trio who kind of hated each other, so their interactions are full of spark, and they both develop because they change each other).
According to Rian, Poe and Finn weren’t workingin the same storyline, because Finn needed someone to challenge him and that someone couldn’t be Poe. Imho, it totally could have been Poe—like I said, there is an intrinsic potential for conflict between Poe and Finn, but for Poe to work in Rose’s place, Rian should have undone the state of blissful agreement Poe and Finn reached by the second half of TFA, which the audience would 100% interpret as a regression. (seriously, imagine how that would be received by tumblr, considering all the bitching and moaning re: Poe’s supposed misogyny/oocness/unlikeability and Finn’s supposed reverting to his pre tfa *selfishness*)
(it’s also because the tension Rian wanted to create for Finn needed to be also romantic, and Poe can’t be used in that sense because, well, Disney)
so I definitely can see why Rian decided that, in order to have these characters be challenged and grow without having to deconstruct and redefine their already established mutual bonds, they had to be separated and go on individual journeys that could leave them exposed, utterly out of their depth and unable to rely on the feedback loop that their friendship is, while also being forced to deal with not necessarily pleasant people (Kylo and Luke for Rey, Rose and DJ for Finn, Holdo for Poe). This worked exceptionally well for Rey (unsurprisingly, because as the main Force User she has to have a separate journey, and also because her dynamic with Kylo was brilliantly set up by TFA so we were already invested) and Poe (who got to develop beyond being just Finn’s sidekick, and actually grew a personality, lo and behold).
Finn, however, got the shortest end of the stick, because unlike Poe and Rey he was set on a seemingly extraneous journey with no legacy characters, no pre established TFA characters, in places that we didn’t already know from the previous films, in short: he interacted with nothing and no one the audience was already invested in. As much as I loved Rose, it was definitely something that made Finn’s storyline less engaging and effective.
ne stavo parlando con mio babbo che ha detto che mio nonno ci metteva sopra un filo di acquavite, e l'alcol uccideva le larve, così si mangiava senza doversi trovare vermetti vivi in bocca. I am so down for alcoholic casu marzu who wants to join???
darthrey replied to your post “dear not-nice anon, actually 80% of why i prefer using Kylo is because...”
omfg
full story, he’s two years old and his mother’s name is Princess Leia and the name was supposed to be temporary because i wasn’t supposed to keep him but i did and now it’s... kind of weird
