The Introvert

Yeah, I just read this book by Jennifer Armentrout and I need to know where the fandom is at because this book is easily my new favorite and I can’t cope alone!!

This post will have SPOILERS!!! Please stop reading if you wish to keep things a surprise!

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Firstly let me start by saying I ABSOLUTELY HATE JJ ABRAMS NOW. Ben Solo deserved so much more. That was not a “hopeful” or “satisfying” ending by any means! Ben got redeemed, didn’t even get to say anything to Rey upon his redemption, and then died moments after kissing her. What kind of lazy script-writing is this?? Theyfollowed the same old “redemption equals death” narrative which is just a cop-out so they don’t have to write a happy ending for someone who actually struggled and turned their life around. The Skywalker saga came to an end by killing off all the Skywalkers. They all fought for each other, and continually tried to save each other and in the end it didn’t matter. All of them died. Nobody got to have that happy family life, and now it feels like every single Skywalker life was a complete waste of time. None of them lived happily ever after. They were dealt pain, manipulation, and grief. With Ben dying, we’re just supposed to accept this as the Skywalker legacy. They were all failures, the end!

Secondly, Finn. Don’t even get me started on Finn. He’s gotta weirdly have tabs on Rey at all times and you know he was probably about to tell her some BS thing like “I’ve always loved you.” And thank goodness he never got the words out because I would’ve cringed so hard. Finn has been weirdly infatuated with Rey since the moment he met her and I’ve always thought it was weird. I felt like TLJ fixed it a little but then he went back to being a creepy stalker. Also, he’s force-sensitive? Since when? That’s such a random thing to do in the last twenty minutes of the movie. JJ basically gave us a “oh, by the way, Finn is force-sensitive. Not that it matters because you’ll never see him become a Jedi.” What a random thing to throw in there.

Thirdly, Rey is off daydreaming in her own world for most of the movie and it made me so irritated. I gotta walk out in the dessert and destroy Ben’s ship, I gotta take a skimmer to the Death Star wreckage, I gotta go get the dagger, I gotta hop in Ben’s ship and fly my OP ass to Ach To to set Ben’s ship on fire because I’ve had a bad day! Every two seconds she’s doing something new that’s way too entirely OP, and where the heck did she learn this stuff from? Like, SERIOUSLY. Where did she learn these overpowered abilities!? Every Jedi before her actually had to TRAIN. We see her train with Leia, but let’s be honest, how much would Leia actually know? We know she didn’t train long with Luke. We see her use the force ONE TIME throughout six movies. But Rey is somehow just SOOOO powerful she can Force-heal, sense where random objects are, force-pull an entire ship back to the ground, Oh, and use EFFIN LIGHTNING. REY SKYWALKER? More like MaRey Suewalker.

Lastly, Adam Drivers acting is just way beyond anyone else’s in the movie. Not saying the others are necessarily bad. They’re bad because of the way their character is written. Ben Solo was a fan favorite because his story was so complex and he plays the conflicted soul SO well. You can tell from the first MOMENT he meets Rey he feels something. Something he continually wants to deny but can’t. Adam Driver made you FEEL that, and in the end his character got screwed over. Adam Driver is such a good actor that in the end scenes, he says enough with his emotions and facial expression but what was up with him having zero lines? He said absolutely nothing to Rey and still achieved great things. He looked distraught when he cradled Rey’s dead body. I can’t say the same when Rey watched Ben lay down and die while taking my shredded heart with him. Seriously! The man grinned so hard after that kiss and then died and a few scenes later, Rey is flying off with a smile on her face!!?? Like, excuse me?? The love of your life JUST DIED, WOMAN! CAN YOU PLEASE SHED A TEAR OR SOMETHING?!??

In conclusion, I hate JJ Abrams. The Skywalkers didn’t rise. Ben Solo died and Palpatine basically won be eliminating all of them and the message of the film is that none of them should’ve existed in the first place. Wow, what a powerful message. Rey just decides to take their name for no reason and ends up ALONE. In the DESSERT. With still nobody to belong to. What a heaping pile of hot trash. Congrats, JJ, you ruined every single Star Wars movie with your limited imagination and lazy script-writing.