Ben Saving Rey Not Only Strips Her Of Her Status As A Fairy Tale Heroine But Also Of Her Status As A

Ben saving Rey not only strips her of her status as a fairy tale heroine but also of her status as a SW heroine. It’s trash. SW heroes aren’t defined by killing the bad guy, they save what they love. There was no reason for Ben’s sacrifice but the fact that they wrote it that way recenters Ben as the hero carrying the spirit of SW, and by killing him off and christening Rey as the new Skywalker, LF says “Time for compassion is over, the heroes are just the pure good guys who kill the Big Bad”

I mean. Yeah. That’s exactly what it is and I think they did that on purpose.

That’s what I mean by ‘they did it to launch their SWCU’. SW doesn’t actually work as an infinite money machine full of loosely connected bland blockbusters and I think that has finally dawned on them. It’s in fact a very small world as it exists on the cinema screen, because it is entirely character-driven and the world exists solely to serve the emotional state of the characters. Lore, politics, alien cultures, daily life, all of that is glimpsed in the background but doesn’t matter in and of itself. The Force works however it needs to for the strongest character moment, to serve the story. What’s ironclad consistent are the themes and moral principles. The heart of SW is Luke throwing down his sword and refusing to fight when the fate of the whole galaxy is on the line for the sake of one dying villain who has done nothing to earn forgiveness; his faith is vindicated, he loves down the Empire, because love is stronger than violence. That is an idealism exceedingly rare in pop culture.

I was intimating in that previous post that they’re trying to keep what they think ‘sells’ while getting rid of what makes it difficult to produce. They don’t realise, I guess, that it wasn’t the name ‘Skywalker’ and wearing white in the desert that made us care about Luke’s journey. It wasn’t the iconography that endeared this story to us- it’s the reverse. They aren’t superheroes, they can’t pass a mantle. Disney want another MCU where continuity and character integrity and themes are all completely optional, the heroes can remain static, and they can keep pumping out new stuff with a new (cheap) cast without worrying about consistent storytelling. Nothing is super permanent or impactful, the audience has some illusion of choice without ever taking their business elsewhere. Unchallenging and never promising much of anything on a story-level because the films are self-contained. All sort of the same, crowd-pleasing action, witty banter, romance kept in its containment corner where dudebros won’t get mad about it, etc. Trappings, no need for substance.

It’s either that or it’s just cinematic Dadaism.

i love how certain dudebros have went from "the st is just a rehash of the ot!" to "ben had to die like vader bc he was so bad™ why would you want him to live?!" really amusing to me tbh 👌

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You were my brother Anakin! I loved you.

Let’s make the baby do the magic hand thing.