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This honestly makes me sad. 😞

The sequels aren't exactly my cup of tea, but I'm not going to put someone down because they like something different than I do.

In the end, whether you're a fan of the originals, the prequels, the sequels, the animated shows, the comics, the books, legends, canon...

We are all in this fandom because it's STAR WARS.

It has inspired us and struck a chord in our hearts and pulled us into this amazing world of spaceships and lightsabers, jedi and sith, rebels and empires, rouges and outlaws, strange creatures and fantastic aliens.

Please know that there are people in this fandom that aren't toxic.

Even though I'm not much for the sequels, I'm actually writing an alternate ending for "The Rise of Skywalker" because a friend talked about how she wished it ended differently, and it inspired me to write a different ending for her.

So, from one Star Wars fan to another, stay strong out there! There are nice people in this fandom.

Have an awesome day, and may the force be with you!

Sincerely,

Nocturnal-Nexu 🌌🐱

Rey had learned that the Force was not her instrument—that, in fact, it was the other way around. Just as Kylo was its instrument, despite his determination to bend it to his will. He would learn that one day, she sensed—the Force wasn’t finished with him.

- The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

Watched The Last Jedi and found this parallel!

Darth Vader vs Captain Phasma

Let me start by saying that I apologize for the coming post. I know a lot of people love the Star Wars sequel trilogy and characters, but I’m angry about this right now.

Disclaimer: This argument is based solely on the movies, NOT Resistance/comics/books/etc.!!

As a Star Wars fan, I am very disappointed in the sequel trilogy. There are many problems with it.

The fact that J.J. Abrams admitted that the trilogy would have been better if they had a plan

The three movies are not very cohesive in telling one story/there seems to be no one superior goal in mind to accomplish by the end of the trilogy

The characters development is nearly nonexistent and honestly pathetic

The characters had so much wasted potential

The amount of fan service was astounding and it still doesn’t make up for the other atrocities of this trilogy

The story wasn’t very compelling

Making money was the primary objective

There are many good things in the trilogy and things that I liked but overall it is my least favorite part of Star Wars. It makes me angry simply because its so repetitive and confusing.

Was Snoke a Sith Lord? If he was, why wasn’t it made clear to the audience in the movies he is supposed to be a major villain in? If he wasn’t, then bringing Palpatine back breaks the Sith Rule of Two. How did he rise to power? Who is he? Where was he throughout the franchise?

These are questions about one character, that anyone might have after just watching the movies.

Who formed the First Order and when? How did it become as powerful as the Empire? How was the New Republic reduced to almost nothing over a couple decades?

The storytelling is so incomplete. There are so many gaps and plot holes.

The antagonist across the trilogy is whiny, not very intimidating, has a poorly developed origin story, and questionable motives that are so vague that it is difficult to inderstand his reasoning and beliefs. In the end, he is redeemed only to die after some slight consideration and persuasion from the main protagonist. So he rethinks his entire life and trauma because a woman told him he could do better? That’s not how real disturbed people think…

The main villain of the third movie wasn’t even present (or even known to be alive) for the first two movies in the trilogy. The movie starts and all of the sudden “somehow…palpatine returned.” That’s it?? That’s the explanation? How did he survive? How did he get to Exegol? How did all of those star destroyers get on Exegol? The Empire was gone, his army was dismantled, few lotalists remained. Was he cloned? Because honestly, I’ve seen the movie several times and I’m still confused. It doesn’t make any sense.

Not only is Palpatine alive, but the main protagonist is his granddaughter. So much for ‘you don’t have to be somebody to be important, as long as you work hard, you can achieve anything.’ Now Rey has force abilities that she never had before (or that didn’t even exist in the franchise before this)?

Rey’s character is so tragic because she had so much potential and it was wasted. She was abandoned as a child and is forced to scavenge around dangerous wreckage to make a living supporting herself on one of the worst planets in the galaxy. Does she hold that against her parents? No, she hopes that her parents will come back for her. She gets anxious when she’s been gone for a while because she’s afraid they’ll finally come when she’s away. She never let herself become bitter or hateful. She was hopeful, innocent, and passionate. However, her character develops to make it her personal mission to take on the First Order and Kylo Ren if it’s the last thing she does and she’s plagued by stubbornness and self awareness of her power and strength as a Jedi.

This annoys me deeply. Her character never really progressed from this from TLJ to ROS either. It’s almost like its a different person from TFA Rey, despite TLJ immediately following TFA in the timeline.

I’d also like to point out that Poe’s character was also shit on by the writers, especially in ROS. For the first two and a half movies his entire character can be summed up as: I’m a hotshot flyboy; I want to fight no matter the consequences; I fly X-wings; I have an adorable droid that I am highly protective over. That’s it. And then, in ROS, suddenly its revealed that he was a former criminal and drug smuggler?? Poe? Poe Dameron?? What?

How about Finn’s character only being in the background to yell “REYYYY” whenever she puts herself in harms way (which is often). The amazing lightsaber duel against Kylo Ren? In which Finn held his own for a decently long time considering he had little to no training with a weapon of that kind against someone proficient in the ways of the dark side (which typically made force users more ruthless in their attacks)? Doesn’t matter. The hints of his force-sensitivity? What hints? Finn, a Jedi?? Hahaha, no.

Dont even get me started on Rose. Great backstory, sister sacrificed herself for the cause during a desperate hour and saved the day, but in doing so left her grieving sister behind. Beautiful. Rose was such a big part of TLJ’s plot and then she’s just kinda there for ROS...it’s sad. Not to mention the romance between Rose and Finn that was never developed??

You know what, all of the protagonists were done dirty, as well as their actors. It’s clear what Disney’s goal was: making money, and lots of it. How do we convince people to buy movie tickets/merchandise/toys/etc.?? Well, let’s cast some minority actors/actresses to make people think they’re going to be represented only for the white man‘s character to be the most developed by the end of the trilogy. Daisy Ridley (a woman), John Boyega (a Black man), Oscar Issac (a Latino man), and Kelly Marie Tran (an Asian woman) were cast as protagonists. And who got the most attention/praise/development? Adam Driver (a White man). Dont get me wrong, Adam Driver is a great actor and he did an amazing job with what he was given, but really?

Even the returning characters were poorly handled. Luke’s character development is controversial so I’ll stay away, but Han?? So they decided after ROTJ that Han was the type to leave his wife and son to travel with his best friend?? Uh ok

The sequel trilogy’s plot, if you can even say that, is so repetitive to the original trilogy it’s embarrassing. A force-sensitive main protagonist, whose parents abandoned them and left them to live on a desert planet to avoid the truth about their family heritage, met an old guy that was significant earlier in his life, went on a quest with him which effectively roped them into fighting the fascist dictatorship controlling the galaxy that they previously didn’t give a shit about, teamed up with an ex-imperial deserter along the way, was trained by a different old guy that was also significant earlier in his life but decided to exile himself and live in seclusion because some of his padawans were murdered by the Skywalker villain, learned the truth about their family and the darkness within their blood, became a great unofficial Jedi knight anyways, destroyed weapons capable of obliterating entire planets, and eventually defeated Palpatine by teaming up with the main Skywalker antagonist that sacrificed themselves to save the main protagonist’s life. Sound familiar?

It’s truly sad. If you look into George Lucas’ plan for the sequel trilogy before he sold Star Wars to Disney, you’ll find that it’s much better different from what we got and it is actually pretty similar to what The Mandalorian is trying to portray. (Maul was brought back from the dead to be the sequel trilogy’s big bad guy but we never got it)

It’s the same…

The master antagonist, the apprentice antagonist, the antagonist kiss-ass, and the main protagonist…

Someone needs to write a reylo 'breakfast club' au fast

If you have any reylo porn please send it to me before December 17

Honestly, as a Reylo shipper, I do get how it's toxic

I got so used to Fanon Kylo Ren/Ben Solo that I'm used to him actually learning how to be a good person and facing the consequences of his actions. There's a clearer depiction of his inner pain and conflict that made him so interesting to me.

If you're a casual viewer that doesn't read fanfic though, you don't get the same character development, you don't get that earned redemption. You get a cheap death and a forced kiss from two people who repeatedly tried to kill one another.

I fell in love with the potential of these characters and stayed in love with what wonderful artists and writers have done with them, not the actual canon.

send for  . . .

¹      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘ f o r c e  help us or we will DIE today . . . ‘ ‍      ‍      ‍   

²      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘ i don’t fear d e a t h , i fear dying for N O T H I N G  . ‘

³      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘ is it CHEESY to say how much i love you right now ? ‘

⁴      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘the jedi were LEGENDS , told to us as children to seed the      ‍      ‍      ‍         ‍      ‍      ‍ hope for the rebellion . now i’m not so sure . ‘

⁵      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘ you A R E a TRAITOR to the r e p u b  l i c  ! ‘      ‍      ‍      ‍   

⁶      ‍      ‍      ‍   ‘ im the BEST PILOT there is , can’t find anyone as good as me in      ‍      ‍      ‍         ‍      ‍      ‍   the outer rim . ‘

© : .thiccpoe / mine

Hilarious! We need more art like this l!

Uncomfortable Questions GUYS GUYS GUYS THE KID’S NAME IS……………. GRAY. Thank you so much intergalactic.beefcake (Instagram) for coming up with the name, and everyone on Instagram who gave me more options and voted!

(This comic was posted two weeks ago on Patreon! Thanks for your support)

I hate love triangles!!

Rey doesn’t love Finn and pitting her against Rose for the sake of drama is stupid.

Besides, Rey has the hots for a certain troubled young man named Ben Solo who goes by the name of Kylo Ren.

Reblog if your blog does not support pitting Rey and Rose against each other.

Turned 30 nearly two months ago, married nearly a year, no children as of yet but we do want a little DefCon or three or five, we have a cat that doesn’t always get along with his parents’ two cats but it’s gotten better since they first met and I’m unemployed.

I boarded the Reylo Ship sometime between TFA and RO. I didn’t see it but Reylos started pointing things out and I stopped and gave the Ship some thought and saw that their arguments were valid and boarded it and haven’t really looked back.

One of my sisters, I have seven, who I talk to on a regular basis doesn’t believe in Reylo and because she isn’t impressed with the new movies isn’t going to watch them without someone else, me possibly, pushing her to watch with them.

How many other’s of the Reylo fam are 30 or older with jobs, kids, ect??? Just curious to see if I’m a minority and also to meet some people who are around my age that share my love of this awesome ship! 

Yes, yes, yes!

In TLJ, the first scene between Kylo and Snoke emphasizes that Snoke only values Kylo for his heritage, not for who he is

The final scene between Kylo and Rey emphasizes that Kylo values Rey for who she is, not her heritage

Kylo may have said it in the most assbackwards Mr-Darcy-level-idiotic way possible, but don’t you dare tell me that was him trying to manipulate or abuse her. That boy has been told for years that he wouldn’t matter if not for his grandfather, and now, in front of his abuser’s dead body, he’s affirming that someone else matters to him in a way he never mattered to his abuser.

Reblog if you ship reylo and feel really good about it.

The moment when you realize that the novelization for TLJ begins with Luke fantasizing/dreaming about never leaving Tatooine isn’t him escaping reality for while but a hint that on some level he believes that by leaving Tatooine, joining the Rebellion and becoming a Jedi the galaxy is worst off for it. And then you realize that his words and actions to Rey reflect this.

Luke, for a time, truly believed that the galaxy would be better off under the rule of the Empire, for the Death Star to still exist, for the Rebellion to be dead or in tatters than for him to have left Tatooine with Obi-Wan and helped bring the Empire to its’ knees.

I don’t think many people are familiar with how the military works and I heard that the mock court martial either acquitted Poe or all charges or found him not guilty but I didn’t watch it and only read what the panel found.

I think too it boils down to ‘a hero should be right/in the right’ and people forget that the heroes aren’t always right and there were people that wanted Poe to be in the right without considering just how freaking stupid Poe was and that he got a lot of people killed all in the name of pride.

People wanted Holdo to somehow be villainess or something to give credence to Poe’s actions without stopping to see how his earlier and present behavior didn’t exactly instill confidence in his abilities to Holdo.

As I mentioned, he disobeyed a direct order from General Organa, heck he freaking hung up on her because he didn’t want to listen to her order his butt back to the ship because he wanted to destroy that Dreadnought and he didn’t care what it would take as long as it was destroyed and they could brag about it.

Sidenote: Cobalt Squadron, the bombers, had been under Vice Admiral Holdo’s command but she had offered their services to Leia so Poe ordered people that Holdo had been responsible to their deaths.

Someone, I can’t remember where exactly, suggested that Poe and the others that helped him mutiny, seeing that they seemed to be his age and younger, were raised on the stories of the Rebellion and how orders had been disobeyed and it had won them the day. The Rebellion was being disbanded after the discovery of the Death Star but a band of saboteurs decided that they were going to go to where the Death Star Plans were stored and steal them which in turn encouraged others to go and help and they ultimately succeeded in stealing the Death Star Plans and won their first major victory against the Empire, Poe who was the son of two Rebels was sure to have heard a watered down version of what happened at Scarif so why wouldn’t this be any different?

Either way Poe had proven to Holdo that she couldn’t fully trust him to obey any orders she gave him since everyone probably knew that he hung up on General Organa and if he was willing to disobey orders from superior officer he supposedly respected because he didn’t like the orders than he’s even less likely to obey orders he doesn’t like or agree with from an unfamiliar superior officer.

Then you have his insistence that she share her plan with him in unsecured locations in front of people while they’re being chased by the enemy that followed them through Hyperspace, which should be impossible.

People have argued that Holdo could have said the presence of a possible spy was why she wasn’t sharing her plan but she didn’t owe this disrespectful pilot anything no matter what people might say.

Poe doesn’t think things through. If he through he would have realized that he needed to put his pride aside and tell Admiral Holdo about how the First Order was tracking them and how they could stop it long enough to escape into Hyperspace instead of giving Finn, a First Order Deserter, and Rose, a mechanic, a mission to find a Code Breaker a former pirate told them about so they can slip aboard the Supremacy.

Holdo was right to freak out at Poe when she learned what he had done. He had compromised the Resistance on a ‘maybe’.

It seems that Poe was a victim of the Deadly Sin Pride. He had been right so many times before that surely he couldn’t be wrong about this or this.

Hoesntly I think he was a moron for having someone untrained in espionage to be a spy. Yes, no one would suspect a clumsy idiot like Kaz as a spy but Kaz wasn’t trained, as he says to Poe at one point, in the art of being a spy and spies need to know how to not jump to conclusions since that is dangerous and using his real name allows anyone to look him up, Captain Doza sure did, and learn that he used to be a New Republic pilot who, out of the blue, decided to settle on a refueling station in the middle of nowhere and become a mechanic, a terrible one at that, with hopes of one day becoming a racer. Anyone working for the First Order on the platform is going know or learn he’s probably a Resistance Spy and either get rid of him or keep an eye on him and report what they see Kaz doing to their superiors.

TL; DR Poe is a prideful moron that may or may not have learned his lesson..  

1/2 It’s really annoying that there are people that think Poe was right to go behind Adm Holdo’s back or that she was wrong to without information from him. Come on people! Poe ignored a direct command from General Organa and as a result lost the Resistance ALL their bombers and acts like a spoiled child when Leia rightfully demoted him and when Holdo rightfully refuses to bring him in on the plan. He asks in front of others when they’re somehow being tracked by the enemy.

2/2 “Poe didn’t tell Holdo HOW the FO was tracking them and that there was a way to stop it long enough for them to escape and continues to act childish when Holdo refuses to tell him the plan when he asks in front of potential spies. He even discusses the Resistance’s plan without knowing if there’s any unwanted ears listening in. If he had kept his mouth shut and trusted his commanding officer the Resistance would have escaped the FO without losing so many.”

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Poe’s lesson of the day was how to be a good subordinate and have respect for your commanding officer, even if you don’t know them or trust the way they operate, because if they give you certain orders, it’s for a reason. And that “heroic sacrifice” should be a very last resort, not just tossing soldiers to their probable deaths like it’s going out of style.

The Dameron/Amilyn storyline was pretty definitively explained right after TLJ was released. A group of Star Wars fans who are lawyers even put Poe on mock court-martial at SD Comic Con. If some people don’t understand or want to acknowledge the concept of chain of command, or don’t appreciate the subversion of the “rogue hotshot is always right” trope, or are just plain sexist, that’s on them.

A Friendly Reminder for Star Wars Fans

GleTake a deep breath and then let it out.

Speculation in of itself isn’t bad but you can’t allow your preconceived notions or desires to give you tunnel vision.

When people heard that Domhnall Gleeson had been cast there was a lot of speculation that he was going to be playing Ben Skywalker despite the fact that Disney and LucasFilm both said that the Legends weren’t Canon and weren’t going to be used but it didn’t stop the rumors/speculation that Gleeson was playing Luke’s son even when it came out that Gleeson was playing a character named “General Hux’ it didn’t fully shut down the speculation just shifted it to “is ‘Hux’ his Mother’s surname name and if so why does he have her surname and not his father’s?” and “Why is he a soldier instead of a Jedi?” I think the speculation/rumors that he was Luke’s son died with the reveals that he was helping lead the bad guys and his Father was a former Imperial.

People speculated on who Finn was and some might remember or be aware that before the release of TFA someone was selling something on Amazon featuring Finn and gave him the last name “Calrissian” despite there being no proof or anything in the promotional material. The more reasonable speculation for a long time was that Finn is Force Sensitive or would be a Jedi because he was shown with a lightsaber in a lot of the promotional material and the jury, last I knew, is still out on whether or not Finn is Force Sensitive and if he is he is and if he’s not than he’s not; I’m not going to cry over it since you don’t need the Force to be a good person or a good hero in Star Wars.

Rey, there was and still is so much speculation about her origins that I’m not completely sure where to begin other than she was anyone from Leia and Han’s daughter to Luke’s daughter to a clone to a reincarnated Anakin Skywalker to being a descendant of Obi-Wan or a descendant of Palpatine. And speculation/rumors for why she was on Jakku ranged anywhere from victim of kidnapping, if she was a Solo or Skywalker, and dumped there or purposely placed there to keep her safe for one reason or another, usually because of the Second Jedi Purge if she was a Skywalker or Solo, to she was hidden there to keep her safe or if she was Luke’s than her mother dumped her there to get back at Luke for ‘reasons’ or her parents left her because she was ‘weird’ or someone was chasing them and they wanted to keep her safe etc. And then we learn in TLJ, FROM HER OWN MOUTH, that her parents were just the average scavengers on Jakku. But it hasn’t stopped the speculation that it was a lie.

Moving on to TLJ I don’t remember too much about FAMILIAL rumors except the the average “Rey’s going to be revealed as either Luke’s daughter or Leia and Han’s daughter”. BUT when LucasFilm shared the first line of the TLJ novelization and it contained the phrase “Luke dreamed about his wife” it seemed fans lost their minds and people seemed to hope that the novelization contained the proof that Rey’s parents were nobodies that sold her for money and are now dead was all a lie only to have those hopes dashed into billions of pieces as soon as they opened the book and it’s quickly revealed that the entire first chapter is all a fantasy dream where Luke never left Tatooine, married the girl he had a crush on, took over his uncle’s Moisture Farm and the Empire won.

Now we’ve reached Episode IX and the speculation about the new cast members. The moment fans saw that they were looking for a woman to play a character that seemed to fit the role of an assassin they immediately started to speculate that they were bringing Mara Jade into Canon, Disney did it with fan favorite Thrawn so they no doubt would be doing the same with Mara, and when the news hit that Keri Russell had been cast for a role the speculation grew a little stronger.

We will have to wait until promotional material is released or maybe until December 20th to learn exactly who Ms Russell is playing and whether or not she was hired for the above role or a different role. 

Please, don’t just assume that just because they’re looking for an actor/actress with certain skills or backrounds or have certain features/characteristics that they’re going to be playing so-and-so. It’s better to keep hopes and expectations low so you’re not disappointed too much if your favorite character doesn’t make the cut: it’s better to have no expectations and be surprised when they do show up than to get excited about the possibility of your favorite character appearing only for them to not appear.

I have wanted to say this for awhile and now I’m going to say it.

By saying that Rey’s parents sold her into slavery to protect her in TRoS they went from drunks/addicts looking for their next fix that did something morally reprehensible for their addiction on one level or another we could understand that they were sick and while being sick didn’t justify or make them selling their daughter into slavery any less horrific we have real world examples of people doing horrible things that they normally wouldn’t do to feed their addictions.

Now instead of being addicts with a terrible, yet sadly understandable, excuse they knowingly and willfully sell their daughter into slavery to “protect” her from Sidious and those searching for her; knowing full well that she would be starved, beaten and might meet an early death due to mistreatment. It’s just as morally reprehensible as before the retcon without the understanding that they were sick and their addictions were more important than their child.

Honestly I prefer the alcoholic/drug addicts parents to the supposed noble parents that sacrificed themselves for her.

If they wanted to make her parents noble they SHOULD have had her parents leave her with another couple and after some time the couple she had been left with sold her for money to feed their addictions.

There, you have noble parents yet don’t make them horrible parents by having them be the ones that sold her into slavery.

I am not justifying addicts behavior in any way; just saying that when you’re addicted you do things that you normally wouldn’t do to feed it.