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tlj spoilers so there’s a cut here. i saw the movie so i’m really gonna try not to talk about it out in the open because i know i’m shit at tagging but i’ll try, i’ll really try. just– apologies in advance if i fuck up.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ok #1 my Rey characterization in my fics is not… right but not wrong either
but my KYLO, holy shit, I swear I had him down verbatim, so I’m sort of pleased with myself.
#2-1000 OH MY GOD they gave my 155,000-word backstory Kes Dameron Superhero Origin Story to the Ticos. oh my god the Ticos are from a 35-years-later Xicul. As I was writing down the story of the Oaxctli I was like, this is too much, it’s over the top, but– NOPE there it is!
Kes has like a thousand adoptive kids from planets like that. oh my god i already wrote that. i already wrote that. that’s what yavin iv is. it’s all the refugees he could gather to himself. oh my god.
and #3 I– I literally know Rose Tico, I used to skate with a girl that had her face, her voice, her mannerisms, would absolutely have verbatim said “I want to punch this whole city in its face”– I was so deeply unnerved the whole time because fuck, I know that chick. Down to her teeny hands, oh my god she had teeny hands, I fucking know that chick. She’s both precious and terrifying. Those tiny hands would wreck your entire life.
She would absolutely call someone silly with her last conscious breath. (OK full disclosure I’m mashing up two former leaguemates into this memory, I’m sure I am, but it was so uncanny anyway I’m sticking to it.)
#4 BB-8 SAVES THE FUCKING DAY
Did you all know what was in that last, last chapter of the epilogue of Home out in the Wind that I just couldn’t get pushed out?
The revelation of what database BB-8 has downloaded into eir memory. Sure, ey’s got an old Rebellion data dump in there, but ey also, well, ey was on that FO shuttle for a while. Ey knows more stuff. I don’t think I can manage to bang that into shape but just know, it’s all in there, in that little spherical self.
WHEN EY BLOWS OFF EIR SHOOTER THING AFTER FLINGING THE TOKENS maybe best thing ever
except for the moment, the only thing I was spoiled for in this movie, when Poe gives BB a fucking belly rub in his excitement at seeing em again
#5 I loved Cranky Luke and also him being a tricksy asshole was pretty perfect, I thought.
oh also #6 IRONING SCENE OMG now we know how the FO maintains their uniforms.
I think the reason I loved this movie instead of hating it like some of my dash is that
#1 I’m just not that invested in Kylo, he’s face value for me, he’s what he says on the tin, I get it, I have no particular moral stance; he’s the antagonist, and of course he gets a lot of his cachet from the fact that of course he wasn’t born evil and isn’t a cardboard cutout, he has a complex backstory, great, the people I care about have a lot invested in him but I honestly don’t, one way or another, and I’m willing to watch his story go whichever way it goes, because I’m invested in the people he affects. I don’t Need Him To Be Punished and I have faith the narrative won’t Reward Him And Be A Bad Example For The Children. I think he’s a great antagonist and Driver plays him fucking brilliantly, and I loved his dynamic with ever-more-unhinged Hux (Gleeson is having a goddamn blast, isn’t he), and I loved his dynamic with Rey, which maybe was supposed to be sexual tension but when she was like “do you have a towel or something can you cover that shit up ugh” and then slammed the door in his face at the end fucking yes, I loved it. Misunderstandings with Luke, what a phenomenal supervillain origin story! It’s so good. I loved that.
and #2 I’m really willing to let Hollywood Heroes be Hollywood Heroes and it’s All Just Totally OK when people do fucking batshit-stupid things in battle because space battles never make fucking sense and they’re never realistic. Did any of that shit make sense with the goddamn bombers? No. Not at all. Was Poe an asshole? Yes, but within Hollywood boundaries. We fix that shit with fanfiction. It is never right in canon. That is not how it works. My personal supervillain origin story is that I spent my whole childhood with my combat-veteran father scoffing loudly as the soundtrack to every action sequence in every movie ever. That’s how it works. I’m not fussed. That is how Hollywood works. It’s like, kind of descended from Greek theater, where there’s formulas and you know this guy’s a Hero even if what he says doesn’t really… kind of… exactly… mean that… and there’s a chorus that does the strophe and the antistrophe and again, it’s not really about what the actual line is but how it makes you feel, so, I could give them that. I wasn’t delighted about it, but I consoled myself with Oscar’s story about Leia slapping him like thirty times to get the take. I’m not nuts about it at all. But it didn’t Rend My Soul the way it seems to have for a lot of other people. No, my Poe wouldn’t be such an asshole, but they should’ve fucking told him what the plan was you’re going to get people being crazy if you don’t, and anyway it made a good story and it’s Hollywood they always fuck that sort of thing up.
Also #3 LAURA DERN THAT WAS THE MOST INTENSE SPACE ACTION SEQUENCE EVER WITH THE SILENT KAMIKAZE THING OH MY FUCK
It was the best audience reaction. The screen went silent and the audience all went, softly, ohhhhh at the same time. It was fucking beautiful.
(This is the only part that made my dude mad though. He just came off a Twin Peaks relaunch bender, he is all about Laura Dern, and he was like, fuck, why did they kill her???? She could’ve replaced Carrie Fisher and we could’ve had it all! And, I mean. He’s not wrong.)
(#3A PAAAAAAAAIIIIIIGGGGGGE)
And #4 you could basically do anything you wanted in that movie once you had BB-8 save the day like fifty times, holy fuck, that whole thing. My heart. I love that fucking Beep, I sure do.
And like. To sum up. #5 I don’t really care that much about the fine details of what’s in canon. I’ve only seen TFA once. I wrote 155,000 words about Kes Dameron and Shara Bey before I actually bothered to read the tie-in comic that is the entirety of their canon representation. I need a rich source, and I got it. There’s a lot of meat there and I can get what I want from it.
So many women in cockpits, and people of color, and diverse people– I saw older people too, not just young people, not just Hollywood-pretty people– there were some aliens, too– there were whole worlds and rich visuals and all kinds of things. There were good story beats and great emotional moments and. And and and.
I don’t care what morals we were supposed to get from it. I don’t care if the villains were too villainy or not villainous enough.
I got my broad strokes. I’ll fill in what details I like.
I’m sorry, I just don’t really care that much, as long as my source material is broad enough and gives me the rough sketch of a world I want.
I probably have more but that’s plenty I think.
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tlj spoilers so there’s a cut here. i saw the movie so i’m really gonna try not to talk about it out in the open because i know i’m shit at tagging but i’ll try, i’ll really try. just– apologies in advance if i fuck up.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ok #1 my Rey characterization in my fics is not… right but not wrong either
but my KYLO, holy shit, I swear I had him down verbatim, so I’m sort of pleased with myself.
#2-1000 OH MY GOD they gave my 155,000-word backstory Kes Dameron Superhero Origin Story to the Ticos. oh my god the Ticos are from a 35-years-later Xicul. As I was writing down the story of the Oaxctli I was like, this is too much, it’s over the top, but– NOPE there it is!
Kes has like a thousand adoptive kids from planets like that. oh my god i already wrote that. i already wrote that. that’s what yavin iv is. it’s all the refugees he could gather to himself. oh my god.
and #3 I– I literally know Rose Tico, I used to skate with a girl that had her face, her voice, her mannerisms, would absolutely have verbatim said “I want to punch this whole city in its face”– I was so deeply unnerved the whole time because fuck, I know that chick. Down to her teeny hands, oh my god she had teeny hands, I fucking know that chick. She’s both precious and terrifying. Those tiny hands would wreck your entire life.
She would absolutely call someone silly with her last conscious breath. (OK full disclosure I’m mashing up two former leaguemates into this memory, I’m sure I am, but it was so uncanny anyway I’m sticking to it.)
#4 BB-8 SAVES THE FUCKING DAY
Did you all know what was in that last, last chapter of the epilogue of Home out in the Wind that I just couldn’t get pushed out?
The revelation of what database BB-8 has downloaded into eir memory. Sure, ey’s got an old Rebellion data dump in there, but ey also, well, ey was on that FO shuttle for a while. Ey knows more stuff. I don’t think I can manage to bang that into shape but just know, it’s all in there, in that little spherical self.
WHEN EY BLOWS OFF EIR SHOOTER THING AFTER FLINGING THE TOKENS maybe best thing ever
except for the moment, the only thing I was spoiled for in this movie, when Poe gives BB a fucking belly rub in his excitement at seeing em again
#5 I loved Cranky Luke and also him being a tricksy asshole was pretty perfect, I thought.
oh also #6 IRONING SCENE OMG now we know how the FO maintains their uniforms.
I think the reason I loved this movie instead of hating it like some of my dash is that
#1 I’m just not that invested in Kylo, he’s face value for me, he’s what he says on the tin, I get it, I have no particular moral stance; he’s the antagonist, and of course he gets a lot of his cachet from the fact that of course he wasn’t born evil and isn’t a cardboard cutout, he has a complex backstory, great, the people I care about have a lot invested in him but I honestly don’t, one way or another, and I’m willing to watch his story go whichever way it goes, because I’m invested in the people he affects. I don’t Need Him To Be Punished and I have faith the narrative won’t Reward Him And Be A Bad Example For The Children. I think he’s a great antagonist and Driver plays him fucking brilliantly, and I loved his dynamic with ever-more-unhinged Hux (Gleeson is having a goddamn blast, isn’t he), and I loved his dynamic with Rey, which maybe was supposed to be sexual tension but when she was like “do you have a towel or something can you cover that shit up ugh” and then slammed the door in his face at the end fucking yes, I loved it. Misunderstandings with Luke, what a phenomenal supervillain origin story! It’s so good. I loved that.
and #2 I’m really willing to let Hollywood Heroes be Hollywood Heroes and it’s All Just Totally OK when people do fucking batshit-stupid things in battle because space battles never make fucking sense and they’re never realistic. Did any of that shit make sense with the goddamn bombers? No. Not at all. Was Poe an asshole? Yes, but within Hollywood boundaries. We fix that shit with fanfiction. It is never right in canon. That is not how it works. My personal supervillain origin story is that I spent my whole childhood with my combat-veteran father scoffing loudly as the soundtrack to every action sequence in every movie ever. That’s how it works. I’m not fussed. That is how Hollywood works. It’s like, kind of descended from Greek theater, where there’s formulas and you know this guy’s a Hero even if what he says doesn’t really… kind of… exactly… mean that… and there’s a chorus that does the strophe and the antistrophe and again, it’s not really about what the actual line is but how it makes you feel, so, I could give them that. I wasn’t delighted about it, but I consoled myself with Oscar’s story about Leia slapping him like thirty times to get the take. I’m not nuts about it at all. But it didn’t Rend My Soul the way it seems to have for a lot of other people. No, my Poe wouldn’t be such an asshole, but they should’ve fucking told him what the plan was you’re going to get people being crazy if you don’t, and anyway it made a good story and it’s Hollywood they always fuck that sort of thing up.
Also #3 LAURA DERN THAT WAS THE MOST INTENSE SPACE ACTION SEQUENCE EVER WITH THE SILENT KAMIKAZE THING OH MY FUCK
It was the best audience reaction. The screen went silent and the audience all went, softly, ohhhhh at the same time. It was fucking beautiful.
(This is the only part that made my dude mad though. He just came off a Twin Peaks relaunch bender, he is all about Laura Dern, and he was like, fuck, why did they kill her???? She could’ve replaced Carrie Fisher and we could’ve had it all! And, I mean. He’s not wrong.)
(#3A PAAAAAAAAIIIIIIGGGGGGE)
And #4 you could basically do anything you wanted in that movie once you had BB-8 save the day like fifty times, holy fuck, that whole thing. My heart. I love that fucking Beep, I sure do.
And like. To sum up. #5 I don’t really care that much about the fine details of what’s in canon. I’ve only seen TFA once. I wrote 155,000 words about Kes Dameron and Shara Bey before I actually bothered to read the tie-in comic that is the entirety of their canon representation. I need a rich source, and I got it. There’s a lot of meat there and I can get what I want from it.
So many women in cockpits, and people of color, and diverse people– I saw older people too, not just young people, not just Hollywood-pretty people– there were some aliens, too– there were whole worlds and rich visuals and all kinds of things. There were good story beats and great emotional moments and. And and and.
I don’t care what morals we were supposed to get from it. I don’t care if the villains were too villainy or not villainous enough.
I got my broad strokes. I’ll fill in what details I like.
I’m sorry, I just don’t really care that much, as long as my source material is broad enough and gives me the rough sketch of a world I want.
I probably have more but that’s plenty I think.
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