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REBELCAPTAIN MAY THE FOURTH CELEBRATION | Day 1: Trust/Mirror

but tony wanted to tell a “universal story” against “apolitical totalitarians” that can easily be misconstrued by the right. and they don’t want us to make the connection between a child in a galaxy far far away throwing rocks at tanks with a child in gaza throwing rocks at tanks.

Little colouring practice against burnout

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Rebelcaptain May the 4th celebration

Thinking about how much that meant to me when I saw it at age 20, in ways I couldn't even explain until a few months later, when for the first time in my lifetime, believing women became a thing people talked about.

Thinking about a man getting the job to make a prequel for this movie years down the line, and setting out to make the show progressive and political. Thinking about that man not seeing a problem in taking Cassian's deliberately, desperately blind following of rules until this woman away from the story. Thinking about how this likely wasn't a malicious choice. How, to the male show writers, this scene was just a bunch of people talking in a hangar, this was just the lead-up to a cooler more interesting action sequence. Thinking about how clearly, something about the way Cassian was so deferential for most of the movie, deferential in the same way towards his powerful male commanding officer and towards this woman he didn't know but chose to believe and follow into hell, rankled with these writers. Not enough so they'd criticise it outright, maybe not even enough that they noticed it bothered them. But enough to change it.

Dude, she just saw the last member of her family killed by people that were supposed to be on her side. Maybe she's experiencing some pain and loss, too. Also, are you saying that Jyn can't express her anger at Cassian, the man that came to Eadu to kill her father, because he misses Bix?

But at its core Jyn was kind, caring, and - as her father said in the novelization - had "the (same) insistent sense of righteousness (as her mother)". She was raised by loving parents and she loved them just as deeply, and that included Saw.

People like to downplay this by also saying that it's not logical how fast she changed her whole stance from not wanting to have anything to do with the Rebellion to become one of the bravest, most daring Rebels after witnessing Galen's death and I'm just here like. Some of y'all never feel that kind of love and it shows.

The Eadu confrontation scene is one of my favorite scenes because no one was fully right or wrong in that argument. These were two good people who became distrustful as well as disillusioned by the circumstances around them - but once they got past that, their true selves shone out.

If anything, they were human characters having human reactions to the situations they're facing, be it grief, anger, and eventually, hopeful.