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reyverie >>> nabenrrie

url change to honor the most iconic and well-dressed grandmother/grandson duo in the galaxy

#3 am impulsivity strikes again!#reyverie #my posts #nabenrrie

han calling ben “kid” and ben calling han “dad” will never stop breaking my heart

can’t get over how soft, tired yet boyish Ben looks here...

gif by @benandreykissed

#a prince #reylo #ben solo #my posts #reyverie

still upset that Rey did not use her own lightsaber for the entirety of TROS because JJ was too busy sucking Skywalker dick

#inappropriate use of a lightsaber #tros negativity #my posts #reyverie

what if Leia had recorded a hologram message for Ben in R2 to play for him for when he returns to the light in case she didn’t live to see him again...

#why am i making myself cry at 1 am #ben solo #leia organa #my posts #reyverie

the rise of kylo ren comic vs tros visual dictionary

#so what is the truth?#the rise of kylo ren #tros visual dictionary #my posts #reyverie

The Dead Speak! - Picking up my dead soul to review THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

From the moment the opening crawl read “The dead speak!”, I thought to myself — and to quote Han Solo: I’ve got a very bad feeling about this. The Rise of Skywalker begins like a car going from 0 to 100, with a hyper-space skipping scene that sets the tone for the rest of the film going forward. There was never a chance to just BREATHE. There was always something going on, probably to distract you from the fact that it’s a MUDDLED DISASTER WITH NO STORY. It was all HERE IS ACTION, HERE IS PILOTING, HERE IS LIGHTSABER, HERE IS PLANET, HERE IS SOMETHING FLOATING, HERE IS FORCE-FLYING, HERE IS FORCE-LIGHTNING.

There were no simple or quiet moments. The film abandons its characters and their dynamics and story. It was off-putting. Where did Poe’s world-weary curmudgeon attitude come from if not only to be a rip-off of Han Solo? Rey’s constant going off like an unattended cat when she feels something in the Force was the most redundant plot device. Finn had no reason to be there except to yell “Rey” every couple of minutes. Even the Force Bond device between Rey and Kylo was used copiously instead of in quiet intimate moments like those in TLJ. Every time they connected through the Force, it was for Kylo to repeat for the millionth time “join me” and for them to duke it out in quick saber spats that were more spectacle than significant and purposeful.

From the moment I heard whisperings of Palpatine being back in IX, I had only one reaction:

And I personally feel I was justified in feeling that way. What was the point of him being there other than to be a cartoonish, ‘I’m so evil, look at me!’ mustache-twirling villain in this movie? He was not even a formidable antagonist. And the reveal that Rey is Palpatine’s granddaughter squanders every bit of depth and nuance her character ever had. Rey had a reason to be angry. She was a person weathered by her terrible circumstances. Rey could never bring herself to leave Jakku. She could not bring herself to untie her three buns, lest her parents come back and fail to recognize her. She could not skip a day of carving the wall with tally marks that became more of a habit than a countdown. She could never face the truth; that in her parents’ eyes, she was nothing. That her parents never wanted her and that they were never coming back. That she is alone.

BUT this whole Palpatine fiasco retcons everything Rey grew to be in TLJ. It makes her growth in the end a fruitless journey because everything she accepted turned out to be false and she got what she wanted; to be somebody. In TFA, JJ Abrams himself put in that line “whoever you are waiting for on Jakku, they’re never coming back,” only for her to suddenly have had loving parents but, oh no!, they had to protect her from her evil poppa Palpatine because he’d try to corrupt her at Thanksgiving dinner!

Heroes are not born because of their rich bloodline. They are born as a result of their circumstances. They are burdened with power and abilities they never wanted or asked for. They are born because they choose to stand up and make a difference. They give a shit and do something about it.

Rey had no reason to join the fight. She had no reason to pick up that lightsaber. She had no reason to choose the light. She could go back to Jakku and let the world burn around her. The world has never been kind to her, why should she try to save it?

This was why Rey was such a perfect protagonist and hero to this story. She did pick up the lightsaber. She chose the light, even though she struggled with it. She tried, and she sometimes she failed. But her beliefs never faltered. That’s what makes a hero, a hero.

Let’s continue with the rest of the movie, shall we?

I don’t understand why Jannah and Zorri are even characters. Poe was always a supporting character, so why did they dedicate some of the exhaustive run-time to his Han Solo 2.0 spice runner storyline that served no purpose. Jannah is hardly given an introduction and the next time we see her, she’s already rubbing elbows with Finn. It was all rushed. How about focusing on the established characters and giving them motivation and purpose instead of abandoning them and giving me no reason to care for them.

Hux and Pryde were pointless and I fail to see why either were in the film. Hux could have had more to do like, I don’t know, be an antagonist to Kylo as Supreme Leader and stage a coup to oust him as Supreme Leader??? Way more interesting than that jarring throwaway spy reveal that was not handled with any finesse, being told to us instead of being SHOWED to us. A First Order led by Hux is a more formidable opponent to the Resistance than a First Order led by Kylo Ren. It would have been much more interesting to see Hux building up his own army within the ranks of the First Order and possibly sabotaging one of Kylo’s missions, seemingly leaving him for dead and bestowing himself with the title Supreme Leader.

Let me not even get started on the dagger and encrypted Sith message that I still do not understand or care to. All it led to was C-3PO’s futile line “taking one last look at my friends" , which the moment he mentioned R2-D2 had no space to backup his memory, YOU KNOW C-3PO’s memory would ultimately be restored by R2. Did I mention how much I hate Palpatine????!!!! Okay good, because now I can talk about how much I LOVE BEN SOLO AND WOULD DIE FOR HIM.

LEIA REACHING OUT TO HIM. THE MOMENT BETWEEN BEN AND THE MEMORY OF HIS FATHER. THE SHEDDING OF KYLO REN THE MOMENT HE FLINGS THAT SABER INTO THE OCEAN. THE CHAOTIC SOLO ENERGY RUNNING INTO AN EVIL PIT WITH NOTHING BUT A BLASTER. HIS “OW”. HIS SHRUG BEFORE DECKING ALL THE KNIGHTS OF REN WITH THE SKYWALKER SABER. SAVING REY’S LIFE. then he died, and I felt like Abraham H. Parnassus himself had crushed my spirit into the ground. Did Lucasfilm not have any sort of road map to this sequel trilogy? A story-board?? Anything vaguely resembling a plan for what these movies would entail and what purpose they would serve??? Where they start and where they would end up? Where was the creative control????

This movie was an unmitigated and convoluted disaster from the deepest depths of The Twilight Zone.