read somewhere about how Jyn should have been alone on that beach in r1 since if they survived she would have stayed alone with the context of andor's ending and I just.... yeah.... that's essentially the root of one of my biggest issues with the show now.
the actors and creator etc have made it clear that andor would dump jyn for bix in two seconds and I genuinely hate it. Not because it's a ship of mine, but because Jyn's entireeeeee arc in her own movie was about her isolation and routine continual abandonment of those closest to her. Because of the cause or love. Lyra abandoned her because she essentially chose her husband's love over her daughter. Gererra chose the Partisans over her. Galen chose his work, the Empire. That's how she saw those losses.
So, yes. If you strip away the one character who finally beat that pattern, who routinely FOLLOWED her instead of leaving, then essentially Jyn is alone again. Narratively, it was clear her allegiance is to people, not organizations, even if she also believed in the cause. So Cassian's "welcome home" and everything else loses its meaning for Jyn in this new context. Not because of a ship, but because of Jyn's arc and what we know of her. But what makes it worse is we also know Cassian was *never* actually alone. He has a horde of people who will remember him and tell his story. He has always had people and he also simply has a complex for saving, going back for women in general. Kerri, Maarva, Bix, Kleya etc. So essentially his relationship with Jyn wasn't important in the grand scheme of things? That's just ~how~ he is.
Perhaps this should all give us comfort. Hope. And it would, maybe, if it didn't also further shine a light on the fact that Jyn died with no one who really knew her to tell her story. That Jyn - the second of only three women to be a main character in star wars from almost 50 years of star wars storytelling, and thus the misogynistic af fandom hates her - didn't actually find her home besides a military organization at all. (Which is strikingly familiar with Rey's story actually but I digress lol) And that if they survived, Cassian would leave her like everyone else has left her.
And that's supposedly good.
It undercuts the story in a way I can't reconcile.... So I guess I just... Won't.
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