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This is the Resistance arriving at Pasaana. 

So we now have 100% confirmation that it is definitely Vader’s mask on the stand that Kylo/Rey smash. 

We can see this shot of Kylo is from the same “relics” room within his ship (the white interior, the diamond windows). 

(Previous trailer footage).

It’s interesting however, that in the new “End” footage, Rey has her saddle bag and her staff slung on her shoulder. Where as in the previous footage of her and Kylo fighting and/or destroying the mask, she’s not wearing her bag, her staff is leaning against the wall in between them (along with Chewie’s stuff), and she has also produced a dagger. 

Also, WHAT IS THIS that I spy in the corner?? I’m sure its not, but it reminds me of this double saber 😂:

I adore this shot. 🥰The ANGST. Why is Kylo just standing there?? The Falcon looks like its about to fly off, but I think its just getting into the side-on position so the ramp lines up right for Rey’s jump. (Also, I know this is just a FO hanger, but it looks so ethereal, like Rey is on the threshold of a realm.)

And here we can see the Stormtroopers have been knocked over in the hanger, but Kylo is holding his ground (with the Force probs), and looks to be making his way toward Rey as she leaps away. 

This is literally THE moment captured by Empire Magazine’s image. 

And I assume this EW image takes place beforehand, because the Troopers are still standing, lol. (He’s such a sad boy UGH 🥺).

Kylo is still there, tryna make his way to her. 😭

And this is interesting because the trajectory of her jump looks like she is 100% not going to make it (but hey, the prequel Jedi could leap around like frogs so maybe she will). And what is REALLY interesting, is there’s definitely something coming from the bottom of the screen. So maybe this’ll be that film trope (Aladdin’s magical carpet etc) where it looks like Rey is going to fall, but then something scoops in and saves her. 

This shot is also very beautiful, and feels very TFA. The snow and fire coming together, the Reylo elements: Rey = water, Kylo = fire. And since it’s snowing and stony, this has to be Kijimi [see the Vanity Fair image below of Zorri in the “snow-dusted world Kijimi”, even the lamps match]. It does look like the FO has been through Kijimi and caused havoc, since the street seems to be in disarray, and that could just be items that have fall over on the steps, but to me it looks like dead/injured bodies. 

The person at the top of the stairs with a blaster could be a Resistance member in a beige uniform, or they could be a local on the planet. Either way the possible two bodies on the steps look like they’re dressed in a similar colour.

We can see the FO Troopers being deployed on Kijimi in this EW image. 

And we finish with a panned out view from what we got in the previous trailer footage. This time we can see Palpatine’s throne dwarfing Rey. More trademark blue Palps lighting too. From the previous trailer:

This is not Kylo Ren… this is Ben Solo. That is a look of a man in love, who watches his girlfriend haul ass off the dock and he’s so in love, he lets her go but god damn we all know he gonna chase after her later.

YES YES YES. 

I think I wrote about this once. Basically, Luke’s caving in to his darkest (but still motivated by good faith and love) instincts—and then cutting himself from the Force for 6 years and finally atoning for it—makes total sense for his character and completes his arc in a way his bland surrendering to violence briefly while fighting Vader in ROTJ didn’t. Remember that in an alternate ending of the original trilogy, Luke was supposed to fall to the dark side and take Vader’s place?

It’s also similar in that both Anakin’s and Luke’s darkest moments were in fact self fulfilling prophecies. Anakin’s fear of losing Padmé led to him choosing the dark side to become more powerful to protect her, but only resulted in her death, in typical greek tragedy style. And Luke’s fear that dark!Ben would kill the ones he loved was in fact the trigger that created the monster he feared Ben would become. They’re both responsible of the darkness they created in their tragic/heroic attempts to thwart destiny. Fear is really the path to the dark side.

ETA: can’t find where I talked about this but here’s a similar discussion from other bloggers!

Saw this amazing image again today and it reminded me of a romance novel cover.

Rey: “No one understands me”

Ben: “I do.”

【PLEASE REBLOG AND SPREAD OUT TO THE WORLD】

Hong Kong police = Terrorist.

This is the truth of what happened in Hong Kong last night.

To you who is reading this right now,

We, Hongkongers just experienced a terrorist attack planned and executed by our Hong Kong Police Force. At about 10pm today, our police force rushed into our railway system in Prince Edward station, got in to the carriage and indifferently beat up all the people in it regardless they are protesters or simply passengers. They ignored the weapon guidelines and fired tear gas indoor in the carriage which is in fact lethal. Also, they beat up innocent people causing them seriously wounded. Some passengers kneeled before them asking them to stop but the response they got were beaten ever harder. Meanwhile, the police haven’t arrested the passengers after they got beaten up, showing that the only purpose of their brutality was to sort their anger to violence but not dispersing the crowd.

Not only that, they refused to let first aider enter gated station with wounded inside even the first aider was begging and promising to ditch all his gears. He even pleaded that the police could beat him up after he has saved the people inside. The police still wouldn’t let the first aid team in.

We, Hongkongers are experiencing a humanitarian crisis and we hope that people all over the world can help us in anyways you can think of. Thank you and we will stay strong.

Hongkongers